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AT&T releases official iPhone 3G plans
AT&T has released some of its first official pricing for the iPhone 3G. Those new to AT&T, or simply eligible for an upgrade, can pay the lower $199 and $299 prices for 8 or 16GB phones; those who are technically too early to qualify for an upgrade must spend $399 or $499. In either case a two-year contract is required, along with an $18 upgrade ...
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Netscape Founder Joins Facebook Board
Marc Andreessen, the man who started Netscape all those years ago, has been named as the fourth member of the board at social networking site Facebook.
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IBM's PlayStation 3 Chips Help Repsol Find Deep Oil (Update1)
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Repsol YPF SA , Spain's largest oil company, is using chips that International Business Machines Corp. designed for video-game consoles to find oil in deep water as much as six times faster.
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Funcom Celebrates 7 Years of Anarchy Online
Funcom is proud to announce that Anarchy Online celebrates seven years in operation. The original sci-fi MMO has been a groundbreaking game ever since it launched, and it still stands as a massive pillar of the MMO genre. As the game moves into its eighth year it shows no signs of slowing down, with development continuing at full pace with an ever evolving virtual world.
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Virtual Worlds: And the Children Shall Lead
Virtual worlds, despite all the press attention of late, are still in the early stages of development. Virtual worlds came into existence several years before YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, but their adoption rates pale in comparison to these services. Only 7 percent of Internet gamers ages 13 and older visit a virtual world on a weekly basis, according to a recent Parks Associates survey.
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Avnet, Inc. Schedules Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Yearend 2008 Earnings Announcement
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) announced today that its fourth quarter and fiscal yearend 2008 earnings announcement is scheduled to be webcast live via the Internet at www.ir.avnet.com on Wednesday, August 6, 2008. Avnet will issue a press release outlining its financial results followed by an interactive webcast at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, 1:00 p.m. Central, 12:00 p.m. Mountain and 11:00 a.m. Pacific ...
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AdJug Partners with IP Intelligence Global Leader Digital Element to Deliver Pinpoint Geographic Advertising
Digital Element, the global leader in IP intelligence, today announced a technology partnership deal with AdJug Ltd, the online advertising marketplace where advertisers and publishers can buy and sell ads directly.
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StarVest Partners Leads Acquisition of IRON Solutions with $8.5 Million Investment
NEW YORK----Having established itself as a leading venture capital firm by investing early in leading Software-as-a-Service companies such as NetSuite , StarVest Partners announced today its expansion into the exploding "Data-as-a-Service" market by leading the acquisition of Fenton, MO-based IRON Solutions, LLC with an $8.5 million investment.
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HMV profit up on computer game sales
LONDON (Reuters) - HMV met forecasts with a 25 percent rise in annual profit, boosted by computer games where it said it was continuing to take market share, but its stock fell on mounting gloom over consumer spending.
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Government approves HP purchase of EDS
The required U.S. antitrust waiting period has ended in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s proposed $13.9 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) (HPQ) (GM)
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Keith Gessen Behaving Suspiciously Like He's Lost Control of the Internet [Keith Gessen]
The serious novelist's Tumblr, once full of angry literary rants, has become a repository for puppy pics and baby hedgehog photos. Not that we're complaining! [Keith Gessen]
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Pricester.com Positioning to Facilitate Growth
Pricester.com, Inc. (OTCBB:PRCC), an Internet marketing and technology company, announced a reorganization of the company to better suit recent and planned acquisitions, as well as the addition of new online product and service divisions.
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Mid-Tier Mobile Phone Segment to Feel the Squeeze, Says ABI Research
The most significant growth in wireless handset markets will occur at the top and bottom ends of the price and features range, as the smartphone and low-cost handset categories expand at the expense of the mid-range models commonly called "enhanced" phones. The enhanced phone sector is currently the largest in terms of shipments: 2007 saw 854 million units shipped. But it will be overtaken by ...
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Stock image libraries
Stock imagery can fill a hole in your design without making one in your budget. Graeme Aymer rounds up some of the biggest and most useful image libraries on the internet
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Bayreuth's Wagner festival will offer opera online
Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price - $77.
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Wagner opera to stream live online from German festival
BERLIN — Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price — $77.
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Bayreuth's Wagner Festival Will Offer Opera Online
Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price _ $77.
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Robot 'Skin,' Flexible Laptops And Electric Posters - A Bright Future For Plastics
With market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry, from 1.5 to 15.5 billion pounds by 2014, it is no wonder that scientists and governments alike are keen to advance research into "plastic electronics".
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8e6 Technologies Adds 165 New Education Customers in 2008
8e6 Technologies, the leader in Internet filtering and reporting for the K-12 market, today announced the company won 165 new K-12 education customers in the first two quarters of 2008. With the addition of Western Ohio Computer Organization and the State of Connecticut, among others, 8e6 Technologies now boasts nine state-wide contracts; 50 percent or more of the state Internet service provider ...
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Whitfield School Closes Books on First Year with Every Student Participating in Innovative 1:1 Linux ThinkPad ...
Lenovo today announced that Whitfield School, an independent school for grades 6-12 in St. Louis, MO., has successfully completed its first school year operating a 1:1 computing program (one computer for every student, grades 6-12) utilizing more than 600 Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks to power the school's innovative use of Linux.
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Airlines try to hedge against soaring fuel costs
The computer screen on Scott Topping's desk at Southwest Airlines flickered with row after row of dates and numbers, but they had nothing to do with arrivals and departures.
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Web site creator aims to boost island businesses
The creator of a new Web site designed to bolster the Commonwealth's business community is on Saipan this week to unveil it and encourage new members.
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Google and Yahoo search with Adobe
Ian Williams, vnunet.com , Tuesday 1 July 2008 at 14:53:00 Trio team up to improve dynamic content search Adobe is teaming up with Google and Yahoo to help improve search results for Flash-based dynamic web content and rich internet applications (RIAs)....
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Recent Original Stories
"After several months of silence, Microsoft last month finally revealed some concrete information about Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which I translated into my Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Revealed showcase.
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About that cellular interference...
So... maybe it is a real problem. Pedram Amini top picture on the right, noted researcher and reverse engineer, posted an article to the Tipping Point DVLabs blog on some interesting observations he made on cellular interference. From the article, Pedram comments on the discovery: "I had...
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