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Open source social networking app thrives in China
The popular social networking site Facebook just announced a Chinese version, but similar Chinese-based Web sites such as Xiaonei and Hainei have been struggling there. However, since April, UCenter Home, an open source social network service based on PHP and MySQL, is pushing open social networking in China.
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Une plate-forme médiatique pour la JMJ
ROME, Mardì, 1er juillet 2008 (ZENIT.org) - C'est sous le slogan « Tout en un, tous pour Un » que vient de naître un projet original d'échanges de nouvelles permettant d'offrir, par le biais d'Internet, un service de communication unifié sur la Journée mondiale des jeunes de Sydney qui aura lieu du 15 au 20 juillet prochain.
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First Look: Optimism 'mood diary' software
Nearly everyone has felt happy or depressed at some point in their life. Naturally, most people want to relive their happy moments, while avoiding their depressing ones. In the past, trying to identify the causes of either has sometimes been trial and error, but with the help of the Optimism program for both Windows and Mac OS X, you can try to pin...
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Jackson Hole builds WiMax Service
Jackson Hole can now boast that it has something that most major cities wish that they had–a WiMax Network. According to Information Week, the WiMax service has gone online just two weeks after getting approval from the WiMax Forum to create a base station in the resort community. The company responsible for getting WiMax up and [...]
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Microsoft releases Remote Desktop Client 2 for Mac
Microsoft pulled Remote Desktop Client 2 for Mac out of beta and released the final product, adding a new user interface and several new features.
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Microsoft To Build Data Center In DM Area
An Iowa Department of Economic Development spokeswoman said Microsoft confirmed Tuesday its intentions to locate the center in the Des Moines area.
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Who decided that reading a novel for hours is better than surfing Web pages for hours? by Joe Essid and Laura Noges The end of the world (as anyone older than 40 would know) began in class with a question by one of the authors: “What if your generation is trying to medicate us, so we think like you?”
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Govt worker arrested in NY Internet sting
NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say an Iraq war veteran who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration has been arrested during an Internet sex sting.
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Keeping a landline number on your cell phone
Q: I want to get rid of my landline phone service and go all wireless, but I don't want to lose my home phone number. Can I transfer it to my cell phone? A: Probably. In a lot of cases, it's possible to transfer, or "port" in industry jargon, a landline...
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Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems
Associated Press - July 1, 2008 3:55 PM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-11 stores this year and stole some customer PIN codes.
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BTP Deploys New Converged Cisco Voice & Data Network for Peninsula Real Estate Office Launch
Business Technology Partners (BTP), Inc., a premier IT consulting firm, announced today that it has successfully integrated, designed and installed a fully converged Cisco voice and data network for Peninsula Real Estate LLC, a New York City-based real estate operating company located at 70 East 55th Street. BTP implemented and currently supports all systems, including Cisco Unified ...
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Missouri Governor Signs Cyberbullying Bill
Yesterday Missouri Governor Matt Blunt signed a bill expanding the definitions of harassment and aggravated stalking. It also upgrades the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony when the victim is a minor and the accused is an adult. Senate Bill 818 is in direct response to the public outcry last year when local authorities were unable to find a law with which to charge Lori Drew. Drew was ...
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Microsoft to build data center in Iowa
Iowa Department of Economic Development spokeswoman Stephanie Bjornson says the company confirmed Tuesday its intentions to locate the center in the Des Moines area.
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Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-11 stores this year and stole some customer PIN codes. Details are in recent court filings.
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UPDATE: Google-Yahoo Antitrust Questions May Put Ad Deal In Limbo
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are under pressure to have antitrust regulators promptly sign off on their proposed search-advertising pact, not least because of the potential for stricter enforcement under a new administration in Washington.
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The Day the World Changed
Twenty years ago, a network engineer named Hans-Werner Braun started an e-mail message to the users of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) fledgling NSFNET project with that sentence to announce that the network's main lines, or backbone, had been upgraded. Although they received little notice at the time, those simple words announced the birth of the modern Internet.
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Most city departments regain computer services
City business is .basically back to normal. close to a week after Lexington's main server crashed, severing network, e-mail and Internet access for most city employees. As of Monday morning, access to the network, e-mail and the Internet had been restored to every department except for public works, said Susan Straub, a government spokeswoman. Computer operations are .basically back ...
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Microsoft to build data center in Des Moines area
Associated Press - July 1, 2008 3:55 PM ET DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Microsoft Corp. plans to build a data center in central Iowa. Iowa Department of Economic Development spokeswoman...
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Keeping a landline number on your cell phone
Q: I want to get rid of my landline phone service and go all wireless, but I don't want to lose my home phone number. Can I transfer it to my cell phone?
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Google-Yahoo antitrust questions may put ad deal in limbo
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are under pressure to have antitrust regulators promptly sign off on their proposed search-advertising pact, not least because of the potential for stricter enforcement under a new administration in Washington.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Jan 2007 23:16 UTC
"While the eyes of the IT world have spent years squinting to see Microsoft's slowly unfolding vistas, the companies and individuals that drive open source have been steadily building a case for broader adoption of Linux-based operating systems . Two of the best all-around Linux distributions to emerge from this process are OpenSUSE 10.2 and Ubuntu 6.10, both of which bundle together the best of ...
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Free, Bollore in talks with Google over WiMax: paper
PARIS (Reuters) - French Internet service provider Free and Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports.
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Unisys loses share of TSA contract
Unisys Corp. is losing its job as builder and operator of e-mail, Internet and other communications systems at airports, seaports and other transportation hubs for the federal Transportation Security Administration.
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Government Computer News
Users of the portable document format should note that Adobe has released the Vu>version 9 of Acrobat , its flagship PDF editor. New to this edition is the ability to add interactive Flash animations, audio and business logic into PDF documents.
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Microsoft to build data center in Des Moines area
Microsoft Corp. plans to build a data center in central Iowa.
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