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Bay Area News in Brief
SAN JOSE County schools name new superintendent It's official: Charles "Chuck" Weis is Santa Clara County's new superintendent of schools.
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Apple finally fixes $10k flaw
Famous hole bites dust. Apple has issued a security patch for its Safari web browser, fixing the flaw that earned one security researcher $10,000 at the CanSecWest security conference.
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Web contact beats human kind, kids say
A new survey of Canadian kids paints a stark picture of how fast -- and, some say, disturbingly -- the Internet is changing their social circles.
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Recent Original Stories
"Torvalds works full time overseeing the development of Linux which he created back in 1991 while at university in Helsinki. Usually media shy, the 36-year-old Finn invited Kristie Lu Stout and the Global Office team into his home for an insight into life at the helm of the operating system that is giving Microsoft some serious headaches."
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Recent Original Stories
Six months ago, architects from two dozen desktop-oriented Linux projects gathered in Portland to work together on creating the best possible Linux desktop.
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Risky business – remote workers visiting porn sites twice as often as colleagues back in the office
17/04/2008 Most office workers have long held the belief that their colleagues ‘on the road’ are visiting dodgy web sites using company laptops. New research released today by web security firm ScanSafe finally confirms this.
Online Recruitment |
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We're about to get "Comes With Music"... why not videos, games and apps too?
Nokia is due to launch its innovative "Comes With Music" service this year, which will let owners of selected smartphones legally download as much music as they want and keep it forever.
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Online navigation flies through the 'tag clouds'
Do you ever wish you could have someone tell you, based on your list of favorite books, what other books might be of interest to you? What about storing your Internet bookmarks online so that you can share them with people?
Eureka Times-Standard |
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Truphone Raises Pounds Sterling 16.5m ($32.7m) in Series B Round
Mobile internet network operator Truphone has raised Pounds Sterling 16.5m of Series B venture capital funding.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Doubts arise over Mac Clone's legitimacy
Just days after announcing plans to sell a $399 computer capable of running Mac OS X, a Miami company had already temporarily shuttered its online store while changing its physical address multiple times.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
New Delhi, Apr 17 Rupert Murdoch-run Global media conglomerate News Corporation today brought its social networking website MySpace to India -- a market already bustling with the presence of international giants like Google's Orkut and Indian billionaire Anil Ambani group's Bigadda.Com.
Chennai Online |
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360 sales double after price crash
'European leadership position strengthened,' says Microsoft
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Recent Original Stories
Hewlett-Packard, the world's Number 1 PC maker, will try selling pre-loaded Linux on PCs in several countries as it expands a test program - evaluating a market that some competitors have already entered - and moves its personal computer business into a new generation of form factors and functionality.
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Comcast Sets its Sights on Peer to Peer Apps
Comcast, one of the leading providers of broadband cable Internet access in the U.S, has your rights at heart. Of course, exactly what rights you have remains to be seen. But Comcast plans to let you know, just as soon as it's decided what they are.
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Windows vs. Linux--Plus, a Microsoft Wii?
Is Windows broken? Gartner says yes, and explains why . Many readers have other ideas, though, and not everyone is ready to jump ship to Linux. Give us your take on the situation .
Washington Post |
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Bills would restrict 'robocalls'
WASHINGTON - Call them robocalls, phone spam or "personalized educational artificial intelligence," as one political consultant said, defending them.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Samsung: DRAM price rise unlikely before end-May
The company sees continued difficulty in the DRAM memory chip market this year, and says if it does raise prices by June the increase will not be a significant one
ZDNet UK |
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General Motors to offer more cars with stereos that can connect to electronic devices
igh-tech features aren't just for high-priced cars anymore. General Motors plans this year to offer stereos on compact cars that let owners - often young people - plug mini hard drives full of songs into their dashboards.
The Plain Dealer |
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Book A Chauffeured Cadillac SRX 'Backstreet Boardroom'
New research out today reveals that the average British businessperson only manages to complete three hours and 50 minutes of constructive work each day with over half (51 per cent) of office time devoted to fielding unnecessary emails and phone calls.
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Apple fixes 'hack contest' flaw
Apple has issued a security patch for Safari , fixing the flaw that earned one security researcher $10,000 at the CanSecWest security conference. The flaw was exploited by Independent Security Evaluators Researcher Charlie Miller to gain access to a MacBook Air computer three weeks ago.
Macworld UK |
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Pdf Xpress Version 2 Software Development Kit (Sdk) Launched By Pegasus Imaging
Pegasus Imaging Corporation, the leading provider of document imaging technology, recently announced the release of the PDF Xpress v2 Software Development Kit (SDK), offering expanded capabilities to access and modify content within PDF documents.
Logistics |
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Kiva Systems Uses SolidWorks Software To Revolutionize The Warehouse With Robots
Kiva Systems Inc. is using SolidWorks 3D CAD software to revolutionize the concept of the warehouse with the company's breakthrough system of autonomous orange robots that speed around distribution centers deftly picking goods for shipping.
Logistics |
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Seeking More Smart Eyes
April 17, 2008: When the U.S. Congress recently held hearings on the situation in Iraq, they were told that one of the key elements in U.S. success was ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance).
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Dell expanding China presence via large retailers
DALLAS (AP) - 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.
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IBM Gains After Palmisano's Forecast Defies Slowdown (Update1)
April 17 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. rose 2.3 percent in late trading after saying 2008 profit will top its previous projections, signaling that the computer- services company will resist the U.S. economic slowdown.
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