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Police seize 210 stolen laptops
Police confiscated 210 suspected stolen laptops and their accessories from a business in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Friday.
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Recent Original Stories
"I do not consider Windows ready for the desktop. I found it difficult to use, buggy and lacking in security . I also found technical support lacking.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Jul 2006 19:19 UTC
PC-BSD 1.2 has been released . "PC-BSD software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD 1.2 for x86 based processors.
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Recent Original Stories
"OpenSUSE has been driving innovation on the Linux desktop, and in today's serial we'll be discovering just what has been happening on the GNOME front.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Sep 2006 15:15 UTC
Apparantly, it's damn lies statistics time again in the Apple world, boys and girls. A few days ago, Net Applications published OS market share figures which showed that the market share of the Mac OS remained largely flat over the past year.
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Police seize 210 stolen laptops
Police confiscated 210 suspected stolen laptops and their accessories from a business in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.
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PREVIEW-LG Display Q2 seen surging, but LCD outlook dimmer
South Korean flat screen maker LG Display Co Ltd (034220.KS) and two smaller Taiwanese rivals are set to post profits for the second quarter that more than trebled thanks to strong demand for TVs and tight supplies of PC panels.
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Brinkley: 'Affair shattered my world'
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A tearful Christie Brinkley testified at her divorce trial Thursday that she was devastated by her husband’s affair with a teenager and his attempts to find other paramours through pornographic Web sites.
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Deadhead who took top intelligence job
Alex Allan was appointed head of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) last November.
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A terror suspect said to have “direct links” with Osama bin Laden has been freed on bail after spending more than ...
Computer owners who use illegal file-sharing websites risk having their internet connections cut, one of Britain's leading service providers said yesterday.
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Cloud-based email will surge in "fundamental restructure"
Computing, Computing , Friday 4 July 2008 at 11:38:00 Storm approaching email market as clouds gather on SaaS provision The percentage of commercial mailboxes using a cloud-provisioned model will grow from the existing one per cent of enterprise seats to 20 per cent in 2012, says a report from...
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CBI says IT can help boost UK business
David Neal, IT Week , Friday 4 July 2008 at 11:56:00 The CBI finds that firms need help when it comes to changing their business practices A new report from the CBI details how IT can be used to boost UK competitiveness and innovation. The report, called UK Competitiveness: The Role of IT Services shows how...
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CBI: customer focus is driver for IT investment
Tom Young, Computing , Friday 4 July 2008 at 10:23:00 Sixty three per cent of respondents cited improved customer retention and satisfaction as main driver Customer focus is now the main reason businesses are developing their IT, according to a report by the CBI and Nominet....
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Google must surrender its users' personal information to Viacom
Janie Davies, Information World Review , Friday 4 July 2008 at 11:52:00 A US court has ruled that Google must provide Viacom with details of users who have watched YouTube videos Google has been ordered to disclose personal information, including viewing habits and internet addresses to Viacom, in the latest phase of the ongoing legal battle between the two companies.... ...
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Sex predators move onto games consoles
IN-GAME COMMS have brought a whole new layer of fun to many multi-player console games, but parents may be unaware that sexual predators, who have more commonly used traditional Internet chat sites to groom their victims, are moving onto games consoles.
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Vista haters petition Microsoft to keep XP
InfoWorld.com started a petition several months ago to let Microsoft know how widely Vista is disliked. As of last week, the petition had more than 210,000 signatures.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jan 2006 22:56 UTC
Open source experts have hit back at a study published by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team that said more vulnerabilities were found in Linux/Unix than in Windows in 2005, labelling the report misleading and confusing.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Aug 2005 15:01 UTC, submitted by Tudy
In a recent blog posting , Internet Explorer's lead program manager Chris Wilson revealed many of the technical improvements that Microsoft will add to IE 7.0 for its final release.
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Line Rider 2 - Independence day
Login or Register to rate! Need 3 votes! The courses which started to crop up on the internet not long after the original Line Rider gained popularity were immense. Hugely convoluted and highly precise, some truly beggared belief. Well, forget all that, and look at this. Immense.
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Ulster County Internet sting nabs Canadian at Niagara Falls
KINGSTON – A Canadian national, who arranged a meeting with a 14-year-old girl for a sexual encounter, is in custody, after an undercover Internet sting by the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit (ICAC).
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New entries for Japanese software chart Import News by
Over half of the titles in the Japanese software top 10 are new entries this week, according to Media Create data (translated by NeoGaf members).
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Microsoft to Buy Powerset
Microsoft is rumored to have agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine, Powerset.
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Online Journalism News
Rue89 , an online-only pro-am news site launched last year by a team of former Libération journalists, has received a Euro 1.1m (£871,200) development fund from investors.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Feb 2006 18:09 UTC
Ok, this one is just plain scary. "By combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found an exotic way of determining an answer to an algorithm - without ever running the algorithm . Using an optical-based quantum computer, a research team led by physicist Paul Kwiat has presented the first demonstration of ...
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