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Plugged In: Worldwide PC sales thrive
When it comes to sales of PCs, computer makers may well be asking: What economic slowdown?
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The power of Paris
Grammy Award winner Tift Meritt went to France for a vacation. Instead, she wrote 'Another Country' Worn down a bit by work, singer Tift Merritt poured herself a glass of wine one night, sat at the computer and typed "Paris," "apartment" and "piano" into an Internet search engine.
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IBM's 1Q earnings jump 26 percent; company raises outlook
Shares of IBM Corp. surged to a six-year high after the technology company surprised analysts by reporting a 26 percent jump in quarterly earnings and boosting its full-year forecast.
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Recent Original Stories
Someone claims to have found Vista's release date by using a clever trick. "How do I know? Well, Microsoft EMEA has put up a website where you can guess the launch date for Windows Vista. After you submit a date, it plays a hint video.
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Microsoft to unveil wind-powered center
Microsoft's Boulder office expected to unveil a data center powered solely by wind power today. The data center houses information used to generate maps in Microsoft's Virtual Earth online mapping application.
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Dell narrows gap with HP on PCs
Dell Inc.'s personal- computer shipments rose the most in almost two years in the first quarter as a new retail strategy helped narrow the gap with market leader Hewlett-Packard Co.
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DALLAS , April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS ) today announced that it has successfully completed Phase I of the Government of Malta's Integrated Health Information System (IHIS), a program to attain the highest quality patient care for the citizens of Malta .
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Microsoft
While more and more game publishers are now offering their PC games via digital download, one major company that has been stingy in this regard has been Microsoft.
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For the record: Local stores show there's still a play for Hi-Fi in a Wi-Fi world
Independent record stores are dying. At least that's what appears to be happening as more and more of these bastions of cool near college campuses across the country take the needle off the record and close their doors.
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Upper-Crass Video: Maybe the Rich Aren't Different
At first the video looks like just another shaming-by-YouTube . A scorned wife (blond, British, bug-eyed), fearful of being evicted from her Manhattan pad by her estranged husband, decides to air her grievances online. She rants about their nonexistent sex life and her husband's family.
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MIKE WENDLAND: Online outreach
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States is generating the expected wall-to-wall traditional news media coverage. But in cyberspace, his every word, gesture, lecture and blessing is being uploaded, downloaded and posted through text, video, audio and blog slide shows. That's why he's been dubbed the Pope of the Internet Age.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Jul 2006 19:42 UTC
"Check out YouOS for 10 minutes, then imagine the same project on a billion-dollar budget. Now do you think the mythical Google PC that's allegedly being secretly developed in Silicon Valley - or in China or on a Ukrainian IRC channel - will become reality?
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DediPower to provide Favorit with co-location service
According to DediPower, Favorit is investing in the service because it plans to host an innovative blogging aggregation platform and therefore required a dedicated data centre that can offer security and connectivity for its IT infrastructure.
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3, 2, 1 & Web site lifts off on Saturday
We're having a big launch party for BandsOfTheBay.com, 7 p.m. Saturday at Red House in Walnut Creek. And we've finally figured out which bands are playing.
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Internet addresses run out in three years
MAJOR tech companies are warning that IP4 addresses are running out faster a well greased Cheetah on its way to a wildebeest convention.
The Inquirer |
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Danger for Microsoft
MICROSOFT has closed a $500 million deal to buy the mobile software platform maker Danger.
The Inquirer |
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Oakland County news briefs
Oakland County Commissioner Tim Burns, D-Clawson, plans to offer identity theft prevention tips to residents at the Austin Manor senior citizens high-rise today. Burns' talk was prompted by the theft of two computers in the building earlier this week, Clawson Police Chief Harry Anderson said Wednesday.
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Republican Congressmen miffed at Google
GOOGLE is in trouble with the US government for manipulating the US government spectrum auction.
The Inquirer |
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-04-17 07:55 GMT: KPN Mobile, BASE make joint bid for Belgacom unit Win
BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - KPN Mobile and BASE said they have made a joint bid for Belgacom S.A.'s internet services unit Win.
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Nerds on Call make house calls for computer ills
Soccer moms and elderly citizens are two different types of people. So it should not be a surprise that they have different computer concerns. Chris Chapin of Nerds on Call, right, gives eatery owner Antonio Pagano some bad news: His computer needs to go into the shop. Nerds on Call technician Chris Chapin climbs out of his company vehicle to make a service call at Mama Susanna's ...
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Home business rules get technology tuneup
Two years ago, when personal investment adviser Michael McTighe decided to start his own business, he considered renting an office but quickly decided it was too expensive. Michael McTighe relies on a cell phone, laptop and wireless Internet access to give financial advice. Technology is changing the home office. Personal investment adviser Michael McTighe works out of his ...
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Linked by Zachary McGrew on Thu 21st Sep 2006 18:14 UTC
There is a lot of noise about VoIP lately, especially because it can help you avoid a major part of your cellphone bill. The first VoIP handsets released were all USB-based, but now cordless, Bluetooth and WiFi handsets are springing one by one in the market.
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Is Hyper-V ready for the Windows desktop?
A few days ago, my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow offered some suggestions on how he would design Windows 7 for maximum backward compatibility. One of his key proposals involved using virtualization to solve application compatibility problems: What if Microsoft were to build a "Personal" Hyper-V...
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THQ
THQ exec Jack Sorenson is the latest senior industry figure to launch into the debate on the state of PC gaming, revealing that the publisher is shifting its focus from traditional retail products on the platform to exploit the "massive" potential of online.
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Dell expanding China presence via large retailers
Dell Inc. will expand its presence in China by selling desktop and notebook computers at Suning, the country's second-largest electronics chain, and doubling the number of Gome stores that carry Dell machines.Those moves, plus selling PCs through several smaller retailers in China, will put Dell products on the shelves of more than 12,000 stores worldwide.
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