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Jack Henry divests insurance outsourcing group
Jack Henry & Associates Inc., which sells computer systems to financial institutions, said Tuesday it is divesting its insurance agency outsourcing business to the division's management team and a private equity group.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Feb 2007 22:41 UTC, submitted by IdaAshley
"A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux performance. In this article, learn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses . You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example."
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Reuters Technology Summary
New iPhone to sell for $599-$699 without contract NEW YORK - U.S. consumers who want the new iPhone but cannot or do not want to sign up for a two-year contract with AT&T Inc will eventually be able to buy it for an extra $400. Apple Inc has said the new iPhone will go on sale July 11 at $199 for the model with 8 gigabytes of storage and $299 for the 16-gigabyte version. ...
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Yahoo shares fall to lowest level since January
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of Yahoo Inc. fell on Tuesday to their lowest level since late January, right before Microsoft Corp. attempted to buy the struggling Internet icon in an unsolicited offer that was later rejected.
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Alliance Aims To Welcome Macs into Enterprises
Five software companies announced Monday that they have created the Enterprise Desktop Alliance to help welcome Macs into Windows-based enterprises.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
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Microsoft buys linguistic Web search firm Powerset
By Eric Auchard
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Government Computer News
Statistically speaking, most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage, according to researchers from NetApp Inc. and the University of California. Evidently, we are too busy writing new data to go back over old data.
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McClatchy to Webcast Second Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call
The McClatchy Company announced today that its second quarter earnings conference call will be accessible live to the media and general public via Internet webcast and through listen-only, dial-in conference lines.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Swindled: Solid State Drives Don't Extend Battery Life, They Shorten It [Debunked]
Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom's Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their...
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First Quality Pictures of the Asus Eee All-In-One Monitor [Asus Eee Monitor]
We got a blurry look at the upcoming all-in-one version of the Asus Eee PC Monitor back in early June, but these new images over at Laptop Mag provide our first real glimpse at what users can expect....
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Lawsuit: Former DPS employee created elaborate scheme to pay cronies
Operating for years with little oversight, a department manager created his "own country" where he set up an impenetrable computer system and sidestepped accounting policies to issue more than $45 million in unauthorized contracts, according to a lawsuit filed by Detroit Public Schools.
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Bill Gates' excellent adventure ends in tears
LONDON — The scene: a tasteful, wooded corporate retreat north of Seattle. The time: one day last March. A large group — mainly chaps in their mid-40s — stand around. They seem to be in quite a state. Here's how one described the scene: "Steve Ballmer was sobbing. Minutes passed as he tried to regain his composure. But the audience of 130 of Microsoft's senior leaders waited patiently, many of ...
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Opening up domain names to end in any word and be created in any language will only create confusion, fraud, and ...
Last week ICANN approved a massive change to the Internet's address system. Companies, organizations and countries can now apply for domain names that end in pretty much anything. www.fastcompany.com could become www.fastcompany.magazine and www.parishilton.com could become www.parishilton.paris. Right now, domain names are restricted to about 20 suffixes -- .com (for companies), ...
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Bayreuth’s Wagner festival will offer opera online
Tue, Jul 1, 2008 (1:42 p.m.) 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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ResizeMe 1.0 photo-image editing utility ships
Austria's Dare to be Creative has released the first version of ResizeMe, an image editing utility. The program handles batch resizing tasks for photographers, and anyone else with similar requirements, such as graphic and web designers. Users can additionally rotate or flip images in groups, and adjust their scale to needed proportions. The soft...
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Spammers Return to Plain Text
Junk mail embedded in images plummets.
US News & World Report |
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Sector Wrap: most Chinese online gaming stocks dip
(AP:NEW YORK) Chinese online gaming stocks declined Tuesday, with Giant Interactive Group Inc. falling after the company said it will pay $51 million for a 25 percent stake in Chinese online social networking service company Five One Network Development Co.
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Sonnet s Award-Winning Fusion ?¢ F2 Now Offered With 1TB of Storage and Even Faster Performance
DMN Newswire--2008-7-1--Sonnet Technologies, a leader in providing local storage systems for professional users of Macintosh®, Windows®, and UNIX® systems in the film, video, and broadcast industries, today announced the 1TB version of its multiple-award-winning Fusion�
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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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Charging ahead on better car batteries
Front Range companies working to improve car batteries are intrigued with presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s $300 million offer last month to any developer whose battery leapfrogs the abilities of hybrid and electric cars.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Heidi Montag Debuts Another New Song
A week after her song "Fashion" hit the Internet, Hills star Heidi Montag has released another song. Listen to "One More Drink" above. (Read why beau Spencer Pratt apologized to Mary-Kate Olsen.) Check out Heidi & Spencer's 13 Cheesiest Moments. Tell Us: Do you like Heidi's latest song?
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Google, Yahoo Shine Searchlight on Adobe Flash
Adobe, Google and Yahoo have joined forces to add dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications to search results. The two search companies will use an optimized version of Adobe's Flash Player technology to improve their engines' abilities to index the Flash file format and scan information contained within the files.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Commuto: Community-Based Online Trading
Commuto puts an interesting spin on trading real world goods on the Internet. Clearly, it would be extremely hard for any start-up to be successful in this space when the likes of eBay and Craigslist having pretty much become synonymous with online trading already. Commuto, however, doesn't go head to head with these giants - instead, it focuses on local trades based on bartering. Trade ...
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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. Organizers hope the online screening will draw new fans to an annual event devoted entirely to the 10 mature stage works by Richard Wagner, where fans often wait seven years or more for the ...
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Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Waseda University opened a campus Tuesday in Second Life, an Internet-based virtual world operated by a U.S. company. The private Japanese university will use the virtual campus to promote joint studies with Princeton University of the United States, which has already opened a campus in Second Life.
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