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Airlines try to hedge against soaring fuel costs
DALLAS The computer screen on Scott Topping's desk at Southwest Airlines flickered with row after row of dates and numbers, but they had nothing to do with arrivals and departures.
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Killingly schools will feel impact of budget cuts
The high school freshmen won’t have laptop computers to take home this fall and there will be no additional staff hired.
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Microsoft rolls out red carpet for PC gaming's brightest stars
Windows gaming takes center stage, as Microsoft Corp. hosts the Games for Windows Presents: The Big Picture showcase event, highlighting some of the most eagerly anticipated Microsoft Games for Windows titles of 2008, while also announcing exciting new additions to the portfolio.
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OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Business name: RealEstateOpens.com Owner: Jay Budge Type of business: Real estate Internet marketing Number of employees: 3 Location:
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"With the Vista launch imminent, you may be wondering what version you should be buying. Thanks to the four primary versions available, this is no easy task.
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Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it.
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Ross named chair of broadband committee
Charlie Ross, president and CEO of the Garrett County Chamber of Commerce, was elected to a one-year term as chairman of the Maryland Broadband Coordination Board, beginning July 1.
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Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit
MIAMI -- The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.
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HIGHER EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: NCCC moves toward geo-technology
Niagara County Community College announced this week it will be offering advanced technological education in geospatial technology with new funding from the National Science Foundation.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Oct 2007 16:55 UTC
This is the second article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [ part I ]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law , and more.
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A 'LECTURE' THAT'LL KEEP YOU GLUED TO YOUR SEAT
review of new book by computer science professor called 'The Last Lecture'
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Terra gets Olympic Internet rights
By The Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Internet company Terra says it has been awarded Internet and mobile rights to transmit the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Latin America.
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President with which you could have a beer…
I think the next president must be an elite intellectual - my dream candidate is a dude in a wheelchair speaking through a computer, I will settle for a guy who edited the Harvard Law Review.
Jackson Free Press |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Jun 2007 22:14 UTC
OpenSUSE 10.3 alpha 5 has been released . "Linux 2.6.22 rc4; reduced size and cleaned up dependencies of some packages; glibc 2.6; Emacs 22.1; OpenOffice.Org 2.2.1 rc3; lots of package renames and splits to create smaller systems and allow a one CD installation; two one CD installation media: A GNOME CD and a KDE CD."
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got in touch with senior Novell executive
SLED 10 is finally here, and so begins Novell's effort to get it onto as many business computers as possible.
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OSNews.com informs you about the latest news on a vast range of operating systems, from the well-known mainstream OSes, down to small embedded (but also very interesting technically) ones.
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Twins feasting at the plate
Two months ago, the Twins were one of baseball's worst teams at scoring runs. And now they are one of the best. Twins 9, Indians 6: Casilla sparks comeback Tom Powers: Computer saves day for Slowey Twins report: Punto playing retro All-Star Game: Report says Mauer to start
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Online auctioning gives consumers the opportunity to beat interest rates offered by local branches
BOSTON -- MoneyAisle is a free new Web service that makes a bold claim: It says it will maximize the interest rates consumers can get on savings accounts, by running online auctions in which banks bid for consumers' business.
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Sparta-based clothier Justin Charles targets the man who has everything
SPARTA, Wis. — One morning in early June, in a cabin-themed conference room in a warehouse, a group of executives planned the launch of a new men’s fashion line. Seated around a speaker phone, three of Justin Charles’ five employees met with a Web site designer and an Internet marketing specialist.
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Online auctioning gives consumers the opportunity to beat interest rates offered by local branches
BOSTON -- MoneyAisle is a free new Web service that makes a bold claim: It says it will maximize the interest rates consumers can get on savings accounts, by running online auctions in which banks bid for consumers' business.
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Loved ones see vows online
John Roehsler took his wedding vows, exchanged rings with his bride - and turned to the webcam. "Whoever's watching ... we're sorry that you couldn't be here," the groom said. "But you are here, so that's great. The 21st century rocks." Roehsler and his bride, the former Neperthey Velasco, used a webcast to allow friends and family from roughly 10 states and a dozen countries to view their ...
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Your Computer As Your Singing Coach
Roland Piquepaille writes "Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato — the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice — could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer to rate vibrato quality, and has created an application based on ...
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POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Candidates wanted
Niagara County’s Conservative Party is looking for a few good candidates. Party Chairman Daniel Weiss announced this week plans to hold open interviews with county residents seeking the party’s endorsement for various offices that will be up for grabs in this year’s election.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Oct 2007 12:27 UTC, submitted by Sandro Hartley
"While the industry is distracted by the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and OpenOffice.org over document formats, the KDE project is quietly preparing the next generation of its own office suite , KOffice, for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. KOffice 2.0, to be released sometime in the first half of 2008, will be cross platform like many other applications in the KDE suite built with the Qt4 GUI ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Jun 2006 22:24 UTC, submitted by Philipp Esselbach
"The Fedora Project announces the first release of the Fedora Core 6 development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and ppc/ppc64 architectures, including Intel based Macintosh computers ." This test release includes KDE 3.5.3, GNOME 2.15, a new printing system, and much more.
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