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Global RDBMS market: Oracle - 44.3%, IBM - 21%, Microsoft - 15.8%
The worldwide relational database management systems market saw a 12.6% growth spike in 2007 to $18.8 bln compared to $16.7 bln in 2006, according to IDC. Oracle took the top spot, capturing 44.3% of the market with revenue growth of 13.3%. IBM came in second with a 21% share, also...
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Free Wireless Internet Available On Select TANK Buses
Keeping up with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce will soon be as easy as sipping morning coffee and getting a ride into work.
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Toshiba to launch Internet-enabled DVD player?
A new DVD logo released by the DVD Forum has added to the speculation surrounding Toshiba’s HD-enabled DVD player that is expected to become available later this year. The organization chaired by Toshiba approved the “DVD Download DL” logo during its most recent Steering Committee meeting.
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One live DVD, one ton of Linux games
LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an excellent means of sampling Linux games or setting up a home arcade, although a few of the games wouldn't run on my machine.
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John Q. Hammons Opens Embassy Suites(R) Omaha/La Vista - Hotel & Conference Center; Hotel Exceeds Preopening Sales Goals
Renowned hotelier Mr. John Q. Hammons today announced the opening of his seven-story, 257-suite Embassy Suites(R) Omaha/La Vista - Hotel & Conference Center (www.embassysuitesomahalavista.com) in La Vista, Neb. The all-suite hotel and adjacent conference center, representing 100,000 gross square feet of meeting space, is owned by Mr. Hammons and is managed by Springfield, Mo.-based John Q. ...
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Icahn: Blustery, Savvy Raider or Mediocre Investor?
News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Setting the Bar High at Airports Marvel Comics Reclaiming Its Superheroes Can Michael Dell Save Dell? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Few companies are willing to get down and dirty in a schoolyard brawl with Carl Icahn. Even when Icahn implied that Dick Parsons, then the chief executive of Time Warner, ...
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Mallrats are so nineties [Valleywag Calendar]
Dump your Orange Julius at the nearest Sears, The Churchill Club is hosting a panel on eCommerce. Adam Lashinsky, Senior Writer at Fortune, moderates bigwigs from Pay Pal, VeriSign, MyBuys, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
Fedora 9 KDE 4.0 features reviewed — May 14, 2008 — Red Hat Magazine has posted a detailed review of the KDE 4.0 implementation included in the Fedora 9 Linux distribution released earlier this week.
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Xandros quietly acquires Linspire
Linspire has been acquired by fellow Linux distro firm Xandros, a Xandros spokesperson confirmed today. The acquisition agreement was signed on June 19, unifying two firms that have attracted criticism from the Linux community by signing patent protection deals with Microsoft.
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Wi-Fi TV Adds New and Exclusive Internet TV Stations Today
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Wi-Fi TV Inc. (Pink Sheets:WIFT) today launches several new and exclusive Internet TV Stations. Thney can all be viewed by going to www.Wi-FiTV.com, click on Live TV, and make a selection from the Featured station dropdown box.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Hulu To Earn Up to $90M In First Year
....But It's Not A Success Story Yet! To the average user, Hulu.com , the free web site that offers high-quality streams of TV shows and movies in the U.S., looks like a runaway success: the selection of available content is more than decent, Hulu's Collections make browsing related videos easy, HD videos have been made available , embed codes are provided for re-posting the videos ...
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Family Blogger Struggles With Privacy Concerns, Posts Family Photos to Internet [Kids Today]
Yes it's fine to post a photo of your adorable child on Flickr, why not? The dangers are: a) perverts will get off on these photos, b) predators will, who knows, decide to kidnap your adorable child...
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Intel Opens New 45-nm Microprocessor Fab in Israel
Intel opened a new 45-nm chip manufacturing plant in Israel on Tuesday, which is expected to be used to manufacture Intel's most advanced microprocessors.
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Lenovo Launches First Consumer Desktop PC in U.S.
On Tuesday, Lenovo updated its K-Series IdeaCentre desktops with the launch of the new IdeaCentre K210 desktop PC, its first consumer PC in the U.S. in some time.
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Ancient Tribes and Modern Civilization Don't Mix
Arial photographs released in May by the Brazilian government of an "uncontacted" tribe deep in the Amazon have generated a sense of wonderment back here in civilization. Even today, in this age of computers and globalization, there still exists groups of humans living as their ancestors have lived, basically unchanged for thousands of years.
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Rhapsody In Bloom With Verizon, DRM Free Downloads
Rhapsody has paired with Verizon Wireless to offer DRM free MP3 music downloads.
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Violet Blue Purged from Boing Boing, Boing Boing Talks Back
Nothing rawks the blog world like a scandale. Here's one for the hour: Boing Boing has been removing posts written by, or in reference to, Violet Blue, a sex columnist for the SF Chronicle....
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AMD Debuts Three Quad-Core 'Phenom' Desktop Processors
The processors are billed as energy efficient and ideal for small and sleek PCs that can help cut down on energy consumption.
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Where's the Plus in Select Plus?
News Analysis. I hate it when Microsoft introduces volume-licensing changes. Maybe you do, too....
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Sea Dogs set down
TRENTON, N.J. — Trenton starter Eric Hacker (3-1) fired seven strong innings on one run, leading the Thunder (50-32) to a 6-1 Eastern League baseball victory over the Portland Sea Dogs (44-36) in the series opener on Monday night at Waterfront Park.
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Presidential Candidates And Their Tech Policies
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which US Presidential Candidate has the best tech policy? I went off to Google to answer that question. Here’s the searches I did: McCain tech policy Obama tech policy read more
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Intel: Developers Should Face up to Hundreds, Thousands of Cores
In his Intel blog on Monday, Anwar Ghuloum told developers he had some difficult news to deliver: developers should start to think about many, many more cores in the Intel CPUs -- perhaps thousands in the long term. Apple may be anticipating this with the new Grand Central technology in Snow Leopard
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Safari Hits New Market Share High in June
Apple's Safari Web browser has been gaining market share for the past two months, and is continuing to hit new highs. Safari managed to jump up from 6.25 percent of the browser market in May to 6.31 percent in June, according to data from Market Share
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Linux Player Xandros Grabs Storied Rival Linspire
The company formerly known as Lindows gets acquired as two Debian-based distributions become one.
InternetNews.com |
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Apple Store Coming To Lakeside
NEW ORLEANS -- Apple will soon give local iPod fans something to cheer about: a $1.9 million Apple store is coming to Lakeview. The store promises to sell all things Apple, from the popular iPods to computers and MacBooks.
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