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Google Makes Privacy Page One
Bowing to pressure from privacy groups - and potentially California law - Google has put a link to its privacy policy right on its home page.
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Recent Original Stories
I don't think s/he meant 'easy on the requirements' as GNOME and KDE have complicating dependencies(software requirements), but about requirements on resource(in another word, hardware requirements) I think some, if not all, Live CDs shouldn't require much resources to be used.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jul 2008 05:10 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
An opinion article at APCMag: "The focus of Snow Leopard is on core upgrades, not shiny new features. A bedrock focused update that delivers a streamlined, enhanced OS X. Stability. Efficiency. A "new generation of core technologies." All this is about raising the floor on the entire system.
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by Incommunicado (3.42) on Fri 17th Mar 2006 14:11 UTC
I cannot think of any way, this might hurt Apple. Instead it will serve them a boatload of money. I expect the Apple Store to be down today, due to all the people who would have not bought a Mac or waited unless this happened.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Oct 2005 15:45 UTC
Sources close to the joint efforts between Google and Sun say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base . Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans to promote and enhance the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite say it is far more likely that Sun and Google will find ways to promote both OpenOffice.org and Google Toolbar, ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Jun 2006 21:33 UTC
The popularity of Apple Computer's iPod digital music players is helping it sell more Macs, but so far it hasn't been enough to spark a rise in the company's share of the personal computer market.
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Weekly Poll Results – Is LTE the more likely delivery platform for mobile broadband?
The CommunicationsDirect latest poll results are in. The question posed was, ‘Is LTE the more likely delivery platform (vs. Wimax) for mobile broadband?’ 74% of our readers responded ‘yes’ -- LTE is the more likely delivery platform for mobile broadband, and the remaining 26% responded ‘no’,...
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Riding the Backchannel to Interactivity
It’s no coincidence that the two entities offering service providers their greatest chance at a competitive edge in years begin with the same prefix: Internet Protocol and interactivity. The prefix, inter-, has always been a part of telecom: interexchange, interLATA, interconnection. It’s good, hearty telephone...
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Upmarket retailer consolidates databases to integrate e-commerce
Angelica Mari, Computing , Friday 4 July 2008 at 16:37:00 Liberty ties up database information for stock management Department store Liberty of London will implement a multi-channel business system as part of an IT modernisation process. The new centralised database is aimed at consolidating information flow and streamlining...
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Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs
An anonymous reader writes "The Bavarian Parliament passed a law that allows Bavarian police to place 'Remote Forensic Software' (Google translation) on a suspect's computer as well as on the computers of a suspect's contacts. They may break into houses in secret to install the RFS if a remote installation is not possible; and while they are there a (physical) search is permitted too. The RFS ...
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Google Faces More Privacy Woes After YouTube Ruling (Update1)
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. , owner of the YouTube video-sharing Web site, may be exposed to heightened privacy complaints from Internet users after a U.S. judge ordered it to give Viacom Inc.
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YouTube ruling fans privacy fears
A U.S. judge's order to Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom has sparked an outcry from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Jan 2006 14:20 UTC
"The saga of Internet Explorer, the piece of software that once brought the Department of Justice to the brink of breaking up Microsoft, continues to eat away at the company.
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Linked by Christian Paratschek on Wed 16th Nov 2005 19:02 UTC
OpenDocument got a lot of publicity lately. StarOffice 8 and OpenOffice.org 2.0 finally arrived, and all the other makers of office suites (with the notable exception of Microsoft) have started implementing the new standard into their programs.
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Blog Watch
Our picks to click this week:
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Nov 2006 12:49 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Would you have believed at the end of last summer that Microsoft and Novell would partner over Linux, or that Oracle would create its own brand of Linux? Yeah, I wouldn't have believed it either, but here we are. So, what does it all mean?
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Teen pleads to misdemeanor in Internet photo case
Associated Press - July 4, 2008 12:35 PM ET CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A Cheyenne teenager accused of posting a nude photograph of a former girlfriend on the Internet pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor...
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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
NEW 10:15 a.m. NEW YORK -- 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.
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Recent Indonesian raids may yield intelligence bonanza
JAKARTA: Indonesian police have dealt another hammer blow to Southeast Asia’s most feared terror network with raids that yielded 10 suspects and a safe house full of bombs and computers, analysts said.
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Snow Leopard shows modest performance gains
At its current stage of development, the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard beta is not outperforming 10.5 Leopard by any wide stretches, as developers dive into the new OS with GeekBench. The Netherlands' Mac Zone writes that benchmarking numbers indicate that 10.6 performs better than 10.5, but only by a small margin. This hardly is conclusive of the fin...
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Michael Dell invests $100 million in Dell
Michael Dell has given his company a vote of confidence this week by investing another US$100 million buying shares. It is thought that Michael paid an average of US$22.07 a share and therefore landed himself an additional 4.5 million shares. That has increased his already majority stake in the company to 221 million shares or 12.4%, [...]
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YouTube user privacy at risk in Google-Viacom suit
CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss whether YouTube users' privacy will be threatened as a result of a US ruling that Google must turn over user data to Viacom
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Missing girl case looked outward, turns to home
At first, the case of missing Brooke Bennett appeared to be a story of an abduction by an Internet predator who befriended the 12-year-old Braintree girl through her MySpace page.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jun 2006 11:22 UTC, submitted by Dylan
The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.
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white papers
Unified Messaging holds a great deal of promise in terms of convenience. Imagine being able to click on an icon for a colleague on your computer screen, and then see a range of options for communicating with that individual. Are they in the office?
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