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First Listen: Carbon/Silicon
Punk legends Mick Jones (the Clash) and Tony James (Generation X) offer a shambolic live take on ''Why Do Men Fight,'' from their CD The Last Post . James describes their songwriting process as ''incredibly easy, because we made the songs at first to give away on the Internet.
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New data reveal online video views are soaring
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 (12:07 a.m.) New data released Wednesday show online views of videos soared 66 percent in the U.S. in February from a year earlier, with TV networks grabbing just a pittance of those eyeballs.
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Comcast to skip today's FCC hearing
SAN FRANCISCO — When Comcast Corp. Internet subscriber Robb Topolski was prevented from sharing digital files of Tin Pin Alley-era music with other barbershop quartet enthusiasts, the computer engineer launched a personal investigation.
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The Virtualis Convention and Learning Center to Open Its Doors on April 23, 2008
Today, Corporate Planners Unlimited, Inc. announced a two-day educational online seminar, "Experience the Future Now," will mark the highly anticipated launch of its virtual mega convention center, Virtualis, on April 23-24, 2008 (9 a.m. -- 3 p.m. PT). Virtualis is the largest and most meticulously designed convention center in the computer-generated world of Second Life. Mirroring lavish ...
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Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Premium Support, Providing Customers with Fast, One-on-One Technical Assistance
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the availability of AWS Premium Support. AWS Customers who sign up for AWS Premium Support will receive personalized technical assistance from the Amazon Web Services team, whenever and as frequently as their business demands. The service offers support for operational issues or technical questions ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Our View: Download tax proposal hits a sour note
California, most other states and even, somewhat astonishingly, the federal government, have refrained so far from taxing digital downloads from the Internet. But there aren't many things as dangerous in Sacramento as a legislator searching for money.
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voice sentiment
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Looking to follow up on the success of its greeting cards that play music and sounds, Hallmark Cards Inc., is letting customers in on the act. On Monday, in time for Mother's Day, the nation's largest greeting card seller is releasing a line of recordable cards that allow the sender to save a 10-second message on a computer chip embedded in the card, followed by a 15-second ...
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Blockbuster Prepping Set-Top Movie Player
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/2008/04...blockbustercom/ "Unfortunately the details are sparse at this time, but Reuters reports that Blockbuster is getting set to launch a stand-alone set-top movie player, akin to Apple TV, in the next month that will stream/download video content via the Internet.
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Darwin's private papers get Internet launch
LONDON (Reuters) - The first draft of Charles Darwin's "On The Origin Of Species" is among a wealth of papers belonging to the intensely private man who changed science being published on the Internet on Thursday for the first time.
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Microsoft Connect Website Updated
Obviously, we’ve made some changes. We started by examining what we already had heard from you, then we looked at what we knew, asked further questions, built, tested and validated this update with users like you.
Addict 3D |
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MySpace launches India social networking website
SAN FRANCISCO--MySpace on Thursday officially launched in India, as the world's most popular social networking website strives to fend off fast-growing rival Facebook in the international arena.
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Hitachi to go solo on hard drive business turnaround
TOKYO--Japan's Hitachi Ltd has dropped plans to sell a stake in its troubled computer disk drive business and aims to turn the business around by going after market share and cutting costs, the head of the unit said on Thursday.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Marie McIntyre: Help-desk worker needs to find lots of tact, or a new job
Q As a help-desk employee, I take calls from all kinds of people having computer problems. Before this job, no one ever criticized my work. Lately, however, my manager has received numerous complaints about me.
Arizona Daily Star |
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IBM reaps big boost in earnings
IBM Corp. shook off the economic doldrums that vex the nation and said it did just fine during the first quarter.
Poughkeepsie Journal |
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Mainframes key surge
The impact of a "new model" of mainframe computer still leaves a significant footprint on the financial results of Big Blue, and a big one on the fiscal health of the mid-Hudson economy.
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Going Once is going, gone
Going Once, Carmichael's on- line auction and shipping business that also was a Sacramento nonprofit organization's shining commercial jewel, is no more. Junelle Hall-Morrison, an assistant manager at Going Once online auction business, inspects a stuffed warthog head brought in by Buck Mattox to be sold on eBay. The Carmichael business, which employed people with psychiatric ...
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Latest News Update News
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2008 (AFP) - MySpace on Thursday officially launched in India, as the world's most popular social networking website strives to fend off fast-growing rival Facebook in the international arena.
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Yahoo closer to Google ad outsourcing deal: report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) is looking to turn over Web search advertising to Google Inc (GOOG.O) following a successful test using Google's service to deliver ads alongside...
KPLC Lake Charles |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Sep 2007 15:10 UTC
The Ubuntu team has released the beta for Ubuntu 7.10 , Gutsy Gibbon. Highlights include GNOME 2.20, fancy desktop effects through Compiz Fusion, and more.
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S.Korea prosecutor indicts Samsung boss over tax
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean special prosecutor investigating alleged corruption at the Samsung Group on Thursday indicted Lee Kun-hee, the group's chief and one of the country's most...
KPLC Lake Charles |
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Web Customers Booted From Cyber Space
A St. Joseph business leaves its customers hanging. Nick Harding says his internet provider has left him out of touch with his family and the world. "I've had no internet service for a week," he said. "No e-mail service and I've been trying to find out where the company is at."
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Latin America scores badly in Internet ranking
Latin America's biggest problem may not be Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist leader Hugo Chávez nor other populists who are grabbing the headlines, but the region's stagnation in the global race for greater Internet connectivity and knowledge-based economic growth.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Jun 2007 22:44 UTC
As was to be expected, the Longhorn Reloaded team has been shut down by Microsoft . "It is with sad news that I have to inform you that today due to a cesit and decist letter we recived from Microsoft we are no longer able to provide you with a download link to Longhorn Reloaded.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Sep 2006 17:24 UTC
The launch of Microsoft's new Vista operating system has been a long time coming. Missing the important pre-Christmas slot earned the software company a lot of criticism from partners and customers but Microsoft has committed to shipping the OS in January.
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Yahoo closer to Google ad outsourcing deal: report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is looking to turn over Web search advertising to Google Inc following a successful test using Google's service to deliver ads alongside its Web search results, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
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