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Intellectual Property
On the morning of June 12, 2008, Minister of Industry Jim Prentice tabled Bill C-61, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (the Bill). Revisions to the Copyright Act have been the focus of intensive discussions between stakeholders for a number of years and were originally scheduled to be tabled in December 2007, after the Conservative government declared a desire to improve the protection of ...
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Industry groups slams IBM recent purchase
Anti-trust concerns raised about mainframe monopoly. An industry group has hit out over IBM's latest acquisition, claiming that the purchase raised would damage the mainframe market.
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Recent Original Stories
In a blow to Microsoft , Belgium's government departments will be instructed to use an open file format for internal communications.
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Recent Original Stories
"InformationWeek recently interviewed Bill Hilf , Microsoft's leading light on open source issues. Since coming to Microsoft from IBM in 2003, Hilf has been inextricably involved with Microsoft's strategy for dealing with Linux.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 26th Jul 2006 08:38 UTC
In the Linux land 99% of the applications are open source. It is part of the nature of the GNU/Linux community ecosystem to endorse open software. But there are a few applications that are not open and as they fill up a niche, they are pretty popular. Come in and vote for your favorite.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 21st Mar 2006 22:52 UTC, submitted by Bob Stein
Microsoft has officially announced to ActiveWin (over a conference call) the release date of Windows Vista.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 23:50 UTC
CodingExperiments.com posted an interesting article by utilizing the Google Trends system to show the trends in the Linux ecosystem. While these trends don't mean "market share", they are interesting and pretty accurate in terms of what average users care about.
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Network to provide wide Web coverage
NEW YORK -- NBC will make more than 2,200 hours of competition from Beijing available online, giving Olympic junkies more action than ever before.
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Google employee details stolen in burglary
Employees of Google and other companies had their computer records stolen in a burglary of HR firm Colt Express Outsourcing Services
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Virgin warns 800 punters for file-sharing
"Important. If you don't read this, your broadband could be disconnected." The BPI has written to 800 Virgin Media customers warning them to stop sharing music files or risk losing their broadband connection.…
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Dial-up users don't want broadband
A PEW INTERNET and American Life Project survey claims that dial-up users are often that way because they don't like broadband.
The Inquirer |
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Money woes create a divide among Internet users
As online video and bandwidth-hogging sites and services, such as YouTube and iTunes, continue to grow in popularity, the divide between dial-up and high-speed Internet users is getting more pronounced. A new survey suggests that with high gas prices and the threat of a recession, more Americans are choosing to stick with dial-up because they can't justify the added cost of high-speed Internet ...
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100 other Osceola property owners affected by computer 'glitch,' appraiser says
State Rep. Frank Attkisson's property wasn't the only one undervalued by the Osceola County Property Appraiser's Office because of a "glitch."
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Tiny natural computer helps worms find food, avoid poison
Washington, July 3 : Scientists have identified the mechanism by which animals are propelled toward food, and compare it to "a tiny, specialised computer".
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Google sees red in child porn on 'lawless' Orkut
BRASILIA, BRAZIL: Internet search company Google signed an agreement with Brazilian public prosecutors on Wednesday to help combat child pornography on its social networking site Orkut, an accord that the company believes is the first of its kind internationally.
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Poll: Public cool to wivesof presidential candidates
WASHINGTON . The public hasn't taken to Michelle Obama yet, especially whites. And it's got a question about Cindy McCain: Who is she? People are divided over whether they like the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, with 30 percent seeing her favorably and 35 percent unfavorably, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Wednesday. They tilt ...
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Computer classes coming to library
The Venice Library, 300 S. Nokomis Ave., announces a new instructor in the computer lab. Dean Cochran, an IT consultant, has more than 30 years experience developing and managing information systems. . These classes are free and open to the public. Class space is limited; call 861-1340 to register.
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Computer program offers a glimpse of future fitness
When it comes to achieving fitness goals, seeing is believing. Thanks to a new computer program at Gold's Gym in Palm Springs, fitness enthusiasts can see the results of working out before they lift a barbell or step onto a treadmill.
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Accela Mobile Office Application Available For Use With The Field-Ready Rugged Toughbook U1 UMPC
Accela, Inc. recently announced the availability of Accela Wireless for the Panasonic Toughbook U1, the first rugged ultra mobile PC (UMPC) to integrate the new Intel Atom processor.
WirelessWorkforceOnline |
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HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
For 'flexible' OSes
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Clipping coupons cushions high costs
People of diverse backgrounds are looking in newspapers and online for savings. With her household budget tightening, Michelle Fox treats couponing like getting a part-time job to help make ends meet.
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The Secrets to Successful eBay Selling
(ARA) - Just a few short years ago, success in the retail world was measured solely on sales at brick-and-mortar stores. Now online sales make up a significant portion of the bottom line for most businesses.
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6 p.m. - MBA accepting applications for workplace readiness and computer skills training program
6 p.m. July 3 — The Micronesian Business Association is providing a workplace readiness and computer skills training program for people age 17 and older.
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Bill Morem: Charter cookie conundrum crumbles
or the most part, I tend not to gripe; I’m just not hard-wired that way. That isn’t to say I can’t enjoy a good gripe when I hear one, though. Take my friend Lionel, for example. When he read in The Tribune about Charter cable automatically downloading “cookies” into home computers for the purpose of learning computer-user buying habits, he became righteously miffed.
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Google Talk Comes to the iPhone…And It’s Kinda Useless
Fanfare: Google Talk is now available for the iPhone. It features a snazzy interface (is it possible to create a shoddy interface for the iPhone?) and almost everything you can do on the desktop client: create a quicklist of favorite users, search, and manage multiple conversations at the same time. There’s one problem, though, which [...]
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