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Over a million Indian non-PC SBs to buy PCs
KOLKATA, INDIAL Over 40 percent of SBs (small businesses, or companies with up to 99 employees) in India have indicated plans to invest in computers for the first time in the next 12 months, opening up a huge opportunity for hardware, software and solution vendors.
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Apple Slashes $400 from SSD Drive in MacBook Air
Apple has reduced the Solid State Drive (SSD) option on the MacBook Air from US$999 to US$599 just in time for holiday shopping
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A barn like no other
According to a story circulating on the Internet, a New York man and his wife retire and are looking for a place to settle down- somewhere out in the country. They see an ad for a farm that's being sold for back taxes. It just so happens the farm is in Portugal- that's in western Europe between Spain and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Sarkozy not welcome
BEIJING, July 2: Nearly 90 per cent of Chinese respondents to an Online survey said they opposed French President Nicolas Sarkozy's attendance at the Beijing Olympics. The poll, conducted by Internet portal sina.com, was in response to Mr Sarkozy's threat to boycott the Games opening ceremonies.
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Unreal Tournament 3 360 Review
While not exactly fashionably late, more than six months after PC and PlayStation 3 releases Unreal Tournament has finally arrived on the Xbox 360. Problem is, 360 players lose UTIII 's most vaunted console feature: the ability to share user-created mods over the vast beast that is the Internet.
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Intel sees x86 everywhere in future
The chip giant expects its architecture will be in everything from tinydevices right up to supercomputers
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Ashes to flashes: Pyrotech's cremains will be 'last shot' of Indy fireworks
For 40 years, Meredith Smith brought the Fourth of July to the sky over the Northside of Indianapolis. He and his wife, Charlotte, did it as a community service. In February, he died at age 74. Tonight, a little bit...
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Fans raise $50,000 for Japanese band
To most bands, it sounds like a dream come true: $50,000 with no strings attached; the opportunity to record an album with one of the world's top engineers; and the freedom to make any kind of record you want, unhindered by interfering labels just waiting to drop you at the first sniff of commercial failure. Too good to be true? Apparently not, if German/Dutch music Web site Sellaband has ...
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NC Senate wants to OK online ticket scalping
RALEIGH (AP) — Concert and event tickets could be legally resold above face value on the Internet under a plan approved by state senators. Members un ...
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Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online
On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in the Google-Viacom lawsuit.
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News.com Daily Podcast: Should YouTube users worry about privacy?
How engineering is helping revive post-Katrina New Orleans; Google and Viacom battle over user privacy; and what Microsoft has to do with the Facebook and ConnectU legal battle.
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Woman stabbed in lobby of Port Royal motel
A Florida woman was stabbed Wednesday while working on a computer at a Port Royal motel.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Oct 2005 17:23 UTC
Tango is a project to create a new icon theme for all f.d.o-compatible DEs, using a standard style guide. Regarding the BetterDesktop, there are over 200 usability test videos in ogg and mpeg format.
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Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Dec 2007 06:34 UTC
"Many people are looking to Ubuntu to be something that it is not: A mass market ready operating system designed to work with the same level of compatibility as Microsoft Windows.
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Review: Dell's Vista Dock Pretty But Lifeless [Dell Dock]
I'm OCD about my desktop. I keep exactly six icons on it, tucked in the upper left hand corner. So Dell's OS X wannabe dock—actually made by Stardock and licensed to Dell, but let's not pretend it's...
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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton...
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Computer owners who use illegal file-sharing websites risk having their internet connections cut, one of Britain's ...
The commanding officer of a soldier from the Royal Scottish Regiment killed in Afghanistan at the weekend has spoken of the moment he learned of his corporal’s death.
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Do-it-yourself phone manufacturer declares its independence tomorrow
While many of us will be enjoying fireworks and barbeques tomorrow to help celebrate the Fourth of July, a Taiwan-based device manufacturer, Openmoko, plans to launch a new open source Linux handset that begs to be customized.
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YouTube Must Give Viacom Video User Logs
A federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips.
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7/03 :: Troop support
IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights drivers participate in first-of-its-kind online video game with U.S. troops in Kuwait.
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Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online
A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online. In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge's recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders Google to turn over YouTube user activity. This will include videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames as part of ...
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Recent Original Stories
Dell plans to announce a voluntary recall of 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries used within its laptops because the batteries could overheat, prompting a risk of fire. The batteries, manufactured by Sony, were found in 25 Dell laptops and eight Dell 'mobile workstation'-class notebook PCs.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 23rd Jan 2008 22:07 UTC
With Linux on the desktop going from a slow crawl to verging on an explosion, many have toiled with the question: How do we make this happen faster? A well-known Austin-based Linux Advocate thinks he has the answer .
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