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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Sep 2006 09:26 UTC
After Dell and Apple , Toshiba is now too issueing a massive recall of Sony-made laptop batteries . The batteries, used in Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops manufactured between March and May this year, could fail on the road because of problems with storing and transmitting power, Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Ohmori said.
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Microsoft revealed today that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista on its launch. The news will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X. Intel Macs only support booting via EFI.
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Internet addressing agency loses own address
The nonprofit agency in charge of the internet's addresses recently lost track of its own when an internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else.
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$150 oil can bring down the empire of US commercial real estate deepening the financial meltdown and depressing the ...
The $4.25 gas price is affecting many Americans like never before. The emergence of Internet as a marvelous business tool, the advancement in telecommunication and the traffic jams has made it necessary for the folks to telecommute.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Jul 2005 11:33 UTC
Microsoft is facing an uphill battle to push copies of Office 2003 on customers and its ISV partner ecosystem, ahead of next year's predicted launch of Office 12.
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Cops: High School Principal Posed As Girl Online
Authorities investigating what they believed was a child making graphic sexual remarks online say they found that the writer was instead a Los Angeles high school principal posing as a 12-year-old girl. Prosectuor Marc Beeart said Thursday that worry about the supposed girl making the statements led police to 60-year-old Randolph Cornfield, principal of Del Rey Continuation School.
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At 50, Corona Fire Department rookie learns the ropes
Tom Dobbs was working at Boeing in Long Beach as a tool designer and in computer simulations when he decided it was time for a change. That was in 2001, when Dobbs was 43.
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19th Century Samplers Snatched
Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution historical group in Rochester are scouring the internet for stolen goods. They hope to find two 19th century hand embroidered samplers. They were traditionally stitched on linen by young women to learn the art of needlework.
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HL:Canadians skirt the law to view American TV programs in the Web, study says@
MONTREAL _ Canadians are turning on, tuning in and watching traditional TV shows on the Internet often using underground ways to access American programming, says a new study.
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After yesterday's unconfirmed rumour about Ubuntu being pre-installed on Dell machines, it has now become official. In a joint statement released today, Dell and Canonical announced that Dell will now offer laptops and desktop computers pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux 7.04 . The computers will be sold via Dell's web site, said Canonical's director of operations Jane Silber.
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The editors of ResExcellence.com , a popular Macintosh website and longtime Mac enthusiasts, have switched to Linux . "I've been making my living as Mac-specific developer for several years now...
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Canadian-drawn Obama cartoon 'hijacked' to promote hatred
A Halifax newspaper's editorial cartoon showing Barack Obama on the lawn of the White House thinking, 'Well first off, that (White House) sign's gonna have to go' has been hijacked on the Internet to make a racial slur against the U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful.
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Researchers Use Supercomputer To Track Pathways In Myoglobin
Myoglobin is responsible for oxygen storage in cells. But how does oxygen travel through the solid protein wall to be anchored by an iron atom deep within the protein? Scientists have now provided a computational solution to the decades-old puzzle.
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Most dial-up users don't want to upgrade their connections
Filed under: Networking So here's a bit of brilliant statistics work for you: The Pew Internet & American Life research project has determined after endless polling and number crunching that 62 percent of American dial-up users have no interest in upgrading their connections to something a bit more peppy. In fact, only 14 percent of them would upgrade if they could. They cite high prices, ...
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Toronto Life Goes Back to the Future
Earlier this week, Toronto Life killed off their blogs . The move was a surprising one, especially since the magazine was one of the few local print outlets that had finally started to figure out how to create interesting and original content online that was separate from but complimentary to what could be found in print.
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"Freedom of choice is one of the great benefits of Open Source Software in general and Linux in particular. This freedom gives consumers the ability to select, without fear of litigation, what software they will use and how they will use or modify it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Jan 2007 20:11 UTC
"It seems Microsoft is putting IE8 development into gear . Participants of the Windows Server 'Longhorn' beta program on Microsoft Connect have just received an email notifying them that a new survey for Internet Explorer 8 has been published on the program site.
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EyeOS is a free, cross-platform personal content manager system based upon the style of a desktop operating system. The base package includes the whole operating system structure and ten apps: a calendar, file manager, text editor, internal messenger, browser and calculator.
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Jindal signs internet video bill into law
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law a bill that would make it illegal to post criminal activities on the web. Violent videos have become all too popular on the internet. Representative Barbara Norton of Shreveport authored the bill that would make it a crime to post fights and
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Aug 2006 18:37 UTC
By releasing its operating system more often and at a slightly higher cost, Apple Computer is better able to maximize its profitability in the OS field compared with its rival, Microsoft.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Apr 2006 18:34 UTC
"Red Hat's Fedora Core 5, which hit the Internet late last month, shines in the server and developer roles with which Linux has come to be identified.
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Boy drowns in Alipore park
A minor fire broke out at the outer Connaught Circle at around 4.55 pm on Friday. According to fire brigade officials, a fire broke out in a computer server at G-36 office room, near the Marina Hotel.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 1st Aug 2007 20:09 UTC
If you're a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple's OS X? InformwationWeek asked a Mac fan and a Linux advocate to lead a guided tour of each OS.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Jul 2007 20:21 UTC
Though we rely on them as a mainstay of modern computing, hard drives are really a mixed bag: part storage blessing and part performance albatross.
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Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube
The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.
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