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Neo Freerunner DBoard
Orders can be made for the $400 Neo FreeRunner on OpenMoko's website on July 4th, with shipments to customers commencing on July 7th, says OpenMoko. The company will demonstrate the new FreeRunner applications suite at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, on August 5-7, it said.
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Cistera Networks' Public Safety Solution Chosen for Statewide Deployment
PLANO, Texas, BUSINESS WIRE -- Cistera Networks(R) (OTCBB: CNWT) a leading provider of enterprise application platforms and engines for Internet Protocol (IP) Communications, today announced a sale to a state in the Midwest initially totaling $800,000, that was completed in cooperation with Gold Reseller Partner NETech, Inc. Cistera's Event Alerting and Notification and Quality Assurance and ...
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Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness
Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a pizza. A computer-like mechanism drives neuron expression for taste and smell.
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Sector Snap: most major Web stocks dip
Major Internet stocks mostly declined Wednesday, though Yahoo Inc. shares jumped as The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft Corp. has spoken with other media companies about working together in a deal that would essentially lead to Yahoo's breakup.
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Posterous: Minimalist Blogging
Posterous is such a simple microblogging platform, it almost makes Tumblr look overly complicated. The Y Combinator funded startup is a bit of a mix between a blogging and lifestreaming service, with a little dose of Twitter thrown in for good measure. To start using it, users only have to send an email to post AT posterous.com and, within a few minutes, posterous will respond with the ...
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Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom
Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services. If you've become interested in the paradigm changing model of communication popularized by Twitter but have been frustrated by Twitter's frequent down time or other ...
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Remote code execution flaw in VLC Media Player
Researchers at Secunia have found a "highly critical" vulnerability that puts users of the cross-platform VLC Media Player at risk of remote code execution attacks. The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.8.6h on Windows. Prior versions may also be affected. Â Â A patch is expected soon from...
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Researchers Identify Potential Drugs to Combat Bird Flu
As the specter of a worldwide outbreak of avian or "bird flu" lingers, health officials recognize that new drugs are desperately needed since some strains of the virus already have developed resistance to the current roster of anti-flu remedies.
Newswise |
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New ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager Provides Fast-Track to Virtualization
Setting up and managing Blade Servers in complex network environments is streamlined and simplified thanks to the introduction of ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Through the virtualization of physical network addresses within PRIMERGY Blade Servers, ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager (ServerView VIOM) removes an entire layer of complexity from current Blade Server ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Parallels Adds Secure64 DNS Option
July 2, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting software provider Parallels announced on Wednesday its Parallels Automation solution now integrates with Secure64 DNS, enabling service providers who use Parallels Automation to manage Secure64 servers within their data centers.
Web Host Industry Review |
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Microsoft to sell Office, OneCare for $70 a year
SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software.
The Pantagraph |
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eMachines Revs Desktop Line
eMachines introduced a new set of budget-priced desktops and a desktop-monitor combo on Wednesday.
PC Magazine |
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Intel, AMD Show Gains in Microprocessor Sales
Intel continued to gain share in microprocessor sales, while rival AMD took a step back. Compared to last year, however, AMD showed improvement.
PC Magazine |
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Google-Yahoo Deal Draws DOJ Probe
The Google and Yahoo search deal will be scrutinized by the DOJ. A formal investigation will explore the antitrust implications of Google and Yahoo's advertising arrangement while the Senate sets hearings on privacy and behavioral ad tracking....
eWeek |
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Does Your Browser Need an Expiration Date?
Over 600 million users are surfing the Web with a potentially unsafe browser, according to a Swiss study released this week. The solution? An "expiration date" for the software, the authors suggested.
PC Magazine |
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City of Los Angeles Presents Award of Appreciation to Electronic Recyclers International
Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation's leading recycler of e-waste, today announced that their Chief Compliance Officer and co-founder Aaron Blum has received an award of commendation from the City Of Los Angeles for contributions to the City's recycling efforts.
Centre Daily Times |
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Abacus Lands NASA Space Center Contract Worth Nearly $900 Million
The IT services company will provide support for all information management and communications services related to launch operations at the Kennedy Space Center.
InformationWeek |
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Top Political Issue Searches for Candidates include Health Care, Global Warming, Education and Immigration
The top searched political issues between both presidential candidates in Q2 2008 included Health care, Global warming, Education and Immigration according to Hitwise, the leader in online competitive intelligence. Other top issue searches included Abortion for Obama in Q2 2008 and Oil prices for McCain.
Centre Daily Times |
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Sony PlayStation Site Hacked With 'Scareware'
The site runs a script that pretends to do an online security scan of your computer and presents a bogus warning message that your PC is infected with malware, researchers said.
InformationWeek |
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New Game Plan For Xbox Pricing?
The Internet is abuzz with talk that Microsoft is poised to cut the price of its wildly popular Xbox 360 Pro console by $50, a strategic move that could grab more of a mainstream audience.
ChannelWeb |
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FAQ: Antitrust eyes on Yahoo-Google ad deal
Wondering about the repercussions of the Justice Department's scrutiny of Yahoo's search-advertising deal with Google? Here are some answers.
CNET |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Aug 2006 09:01 UTC
The ReactOS team has released ReactOS 0.3.0 . There's a massive changelog for this release. You can get 0.3.0 from the SourceForge page . "The ReactOS project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system.
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posted by Will Senn on Wed 13th Oct 2004 19:41 UTC
This is Marcel Gagné's third book with Addison-Wesley following, Linux System Administration: A User's Guide and Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!
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Linked by David Adams on Wed 17th Aug 2005 17:31 UTC
Security vendors have reported several new variants of the worm infecting PCs running Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system. Groups of virus writers are competing to cause the most damage, according to one security company, although the worm appears less severe than some first feared.
New Mobile Computing |
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Shaw: Computers enhance July 3 fireworks display
The quality of the annual City of Morris Fireworks Extravaganza, according to Jeff Shaw, was upgrade several years ago.
Morris Daily Herald |
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