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Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing
Floating around the internet last fall before emerging on a 7" in November, Fuck Buttons' "Bright Tomorrow" proved surprisingly resilient.
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Features and Case Studies
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. Firefox 3 aimed for 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its release, and smashed all expectations achieving more than 8 million downloads worldwide.
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Business-school test maker seeks Web cheaters
Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out. The exam’s publisher, the Graduate Management Admission Council, is tracking down users of Scoretop.com after winning a lawsuit to shut down the site and seize a computer hard drive containing payment information and user ...
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Mobile users may be 'vishing' for trouble
Welcome to the world of Vishing or voice phishing, wherein hackers are using a combination of voice over internet protocol, SMSs and the internet to fool and redirect users into dialling a phone number and collect critical information for financial gain. In Kolaskar's case, both mobile spam and vishing were used.
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Tapes 'n Tapes: Walk It Off
There's probably a fascinating scholarly paper, or at least a feel-good Oprah episode, to be mined about the four smart, quirky Minnesota boys in Tapes 'n Tapes and their internet-fueled success.
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Radiohead: The Best Of / The Best Of [Special Edition]
The week after Radiohead's OK Computer was released in the U.S., it debuted in the album charts at #21; bowing at #1 was the Prodigy's The Fat of the Land . In the U.S., the Prodigy were heralded as the bellwethers for electronica, while, in the face of this newly cobbled-together marketing schematic-- and exponentially rising sales of country and hip-hop-- Radiohead were charged by some with ...
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It Only Looks Like an iPhone
So many people are lining up to buy a new touch-screen wireless phone that the carrier selling it can't keep up with demand.
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Microsoft to Start Selling Office Programs By Subscription Later This Month
July 3, 2008 (Associated Press) 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.
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EYE ON LOCAL AREA STOCKS www.ToAcorn.com Thousand Oaks Acorn
CAMINOSOFT CORP. COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL CORP. Prices are updated weekly from the Internet Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. PST. For accuracy check prices with your stock broker.
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Samba 3.2 adds cluster support
The Samba project on Tuesday released a major update to the file and print components of the server software, adding clustered file system support, compatibility improvements and other changes.
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New media front and center in U.S. House race
Blog posts and guerrilla videos are hitting the Internet with increased frequency during this year's race for Alaska's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Upgrade one thing, downgrade three others
Buy a new printer, and watch its fancy new software befuddle your desktop. Switch to Vista, and - wham-o! - your iPod and PDA drivers go on strike. And God help you if you decide to encrypt your Wi-Fi signals.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Jul 2006 21:16 UTC
"Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system - so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux desktop distributions.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Feb 2007 20:29 UTC, submitted by Jennifer Logan
"What is it with the Windows Vista Firewall and its refusal to go away ? All our PCs are secured behind two firewalls: a hardware firewall and Microsoft ISA Server. The only traffic that gets in is the traffic that we want to get in.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Jul 2007 22:06 UTC
Dell is getting ready to launch systems with Ubuntu Linux, but is not yet releasing details of the final specifications. However, the company did say on Friday that as well as a consumer version of Ubuntu, it had plans to launch a small-business version 'in the future'.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 13th Nov 2005 22:38 UTC
The calendar turns over and Windows is now 20 years young. Although Redmond has plenty of changes slated for the upcoming Vista release, what would you wish for in Windows if you could wave a magic wand?
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Computers help with disabilities
Technology has affected nearly every facet of our lives. While technology could be blamed for some negative things, a positive aspect of technology is being seen every day in our schools and businesses.
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Ready to pay by the byte?
When most of us sit at our home computers to check e-mail, Google directions or download a movie, the last thing we think about is how much bandwidth we're consuming on the Internet.
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Overheating, slow market to affect Nvidia Q2 earnings
Nvidia says that a heat problem in with one of its mobile chips as well general market conditions and price cuts to match rival AMD will hurt its earnings for the second quarter, sending its shares tumbling down after-hours trading. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia said that the overheating problem with some of its chips for notebook co...
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Firefox breaks download record
The open-source Firefox web browser now holds the Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in a day. Mozilla Foundation said today that its recent 'Download Day' record attempt was successful.
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Study: Firefox users most secure on Internet
Mozilla Firefox users are most secure on the Internet, according to a new web study appeared in media reported on Thursday.
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Tackling software patents innovatively
The contentious issue of software patents is rearing its head again, both in India and globally. The Indian Patent Office, for instance, invited companies and institutions to comment on its Draft Manual 2008 - Patent Practice & Procedure (software patents included) this April.
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Microsoft "endorses" Linux?
Novell is trying to co-opt Microsoft into its marketing for Linux. Is this wise?
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Crunchyroll to Host Gatchaman Video Series Online
The Crunchyroll video-sharing website has announced that it will host the 1994-1995 three-volume video remake of the 1972-1974 Gatchaman science-fiction anime, starting this month.
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Roku serves up Netflix Player source code
Filed under: Home Entertainment Hope you're not too sleepy, you hacker you, 'cause we've got a juicy one coming your way. No sooner did we find that the Netflix Player would be streaming content from other players in the industry later this year than Roku opens up the source code vault. You heard right -- the GPL code has now been posted for the world to see, meaning that there's ...
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