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UPDATE: Services, Software Bolster IBM Profits
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- IBM Corp. posted a 26% rise in first-quarter profit, helped by gains in all major geographical regions, to become the second major high-tech company in two days to report strong results despite a weaker U.S. economy.
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Xbox 360 European Sales 'Double' Says Microsoft
Officials from Microsoft have suggested that European sales of the Xbox 360 have "more than doubled" since the price of each of the console models was lowered last month. On March 14th, the Arcade and Elite models saw prices fall by £40 ($80) to £159.99 ($322) and £259.99 ($524). The Premium model was also reduced in price by £50 ($100) to £199.99 ($403). This put all three versions of the ...
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Q& A: Ankama Discusses Dofus-Arena, Wakfu
Dofus is the most popular Flash-based MMORPG that you've never heard of: with 7 million registered players, comic books, and spin-off titles in development. Ankama Studios' Cédric Gérard and Frederic Brunet discuss the France-based company's current status and upcoming titles, including Dofus-Arena and Wakfu. When we last spoke to you, you were preparing for the 2006 IGF, where you won the ...
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BentUser has Part II of an in depth preview of Windows Vista, which includes a look at some more Vista features as well as some analysis of overall performance, including a numerical comparison with Windows XP. Also takes a look at the new error reporting/self healing features and the cross-computer syncing features.
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Microsoft this week completed its purchase of Sidekick smartphone-maker Danger, an acquisition announced by the companies in February.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Online media organizations pondered the prospects for Internet advertising growth during a panel discussion. The consensus: cautious optimism.
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VMware and Storage Virtualization - A Comprehensive Approach to Manage, Allocate, and Protect Virtual (VMware) Data
In light of explosive IT infrastructure growth and complexity, organizations increasingly adopted virtualization as a means of consolidating IT resources, simplifying management, and minimizing overhead. One of the most complex issues that faced VMware users trying to fully capitalize on virtualization was managing, allocating, and protecting virtual data as they would actual data. Chris ...
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Earnings: NYTCo Q1 Revs Slide 4.9 Percent; Earnings Drop; Online Up 11.6 Percent
A difficult quarter from NYTCo.. the newspaper publisher has announced Q1 revenue of $747.9, down 4.9 percent from $786.0 million in the year-ago period, and below the $752 million that analysts had been expecting. On a comparable basis, excluding various charges, the company earned $.04 per share, down significantly from $.17 per share in the year-ago period. The quarterly number includes an ...
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What Intel thinks about low-cost computing
In light of the recent AMD layoffs, Jordan Golson writes about one chief technology officer who has left the company on his own accord. “AMD's chief technology officer Phil Hester has resigned.
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Maingear Dash PC Review
Our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the affordable Gaming rig Maingear Dash. Quote from the review: "Good news, FPS addicts… There’s no need to worry if funds are tight, as custom computer builder Maingear has developed the ...
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Data Application offers US address verification.
Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset uses StrikeIron US Address Verification Web service to verify and update US postal addresses. By correcting extracted addresses and adding ZIP+4 information, application cleans customer data before it gets into CRM/ERP systems, databases, and RSS feeds. It is Java-based and can run from Windows or Linux as well, as connect to Oracle, MS SQL, ...
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Software on USB Drive improves clinical site monitoring.
IMPACT® MySites, supplied on portable USB drive, is clinical site management and monitoring software that lets users securely upload site visit information. Module supports online and off-line monitoring activities as well as collection of associated data during site visits by clinical monitors in field. Requiring no software installation, zero-footprint solution securely stores collected data ...
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Senator Proposes To Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
mytrip writes "Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) has proposed an ambitious plan, costing on the order of $1 billion, aimed at curtailing illegal activities via P2P networks. His plan involves utilizing new software to monitor peer-to-peer traffic on an ongoing basis. 'At an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about child exploitation on the Internet, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said he was under ...
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Google News Makes Quotes More Discoverable
The Google News Blog announced that they will now display quotes within articles, when they think your query and the content warrants it. For example, a search on Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt , returns a quote at the top of the Google News search page. Here is a screen capture: Click to continue reading...
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GooHoo Search Ads Outsourcing Deal Moves Forward
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the "initial test" of running Google ads on Yahoo search results had "positive results" and is thus moving forward. A range of blog posts offers speculation and cynicism about the story and what it may or may not represent for the potential MicroHoo deal. The original test was announced on April 9 and was slated to last "up to two weeks." Today is ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 24th Nov 2006 11:29 UTC, submitted by Kenasai
Consumers cannot run home versions of Windows Vista as virtual machines because virtualization is not mature enough for broad adoption, says Microsoft.
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Standard Microsystems fiscal 4Q profit rises
Semiconductor maker Standard Microsystems Corp. said Thursday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose as mobile and desktop PC revenue and industrial and other markets revenue increased.
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OCAU reviews the new Core 2 Duo line from Intel, and concludes: "Thanks to its new micro-architecture, Core 2 Duo is performing far better than the previous generation dual core Pentium D. An X6800, for example, is between 30% ~ to 40% faster than a Pentium D 955XE. Core 2 Duo is achieving performance in applications and games that has not been seen before with a dual core desktop CPU. In ...
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George Ou compares Microsoft Office 2007 to OpenOffice 2.2
in memory and CPU usage using the OOXML and ODF file formats. The conclusion according to Ou: "We can see that the OpenOffice.org ODF XML parser (while vastly improved) is still about 5 times slower than Microsoft's OOXML parser.
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Learn How Any Company Can Go Public and Get a Stock Symbol and Get a Free Report from Tiber Creek
Many people think that you need to be a large company like Google or Yahoo to go public or do an IPO Initial Public Offering. The truth is any business can become a public company. There are no asset or revenue requirements.
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SDKs support development of biometric web applications.
VeriFinger v6.0 for fingerprint recognition provides 1:1 verification and 1:many matching modes. Supporting up to 40 different scanners, it can be used with different programming languages and database engines. Featuring live face detection technology and multiple face template functionality, VeriLook v3.2 SDK has algorithm offering matching speeds of up to 100,000 faces/sec. Both incorporate ...
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Red Hat delivers its state of desktop Linux address: There's no money in targeting consumers
Red Hat outlined a good chunk of its desktop Linux plans in a blog post, but noted that it has no intention of delivering a traditional consumer product. In a blog post, Red Hat delivered what could be called a state of its desktop Linux plans and...
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Union Pacific Corporation Invites You to Join Its First Quarter Earnings Release Broadcast
In conjunction with Union Pacific Corporation's (NYSE: UNP) First Quarter 2008 Earnings Release, you are invited to listen to its presentation that will be broadcast live over the Internet or via teleconference on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Processor targets ultra low-power embedded applications.
Suited for safety-critical applications, Cortex(TM)-M3 consists of 3-stage pipelined central core surrounded by vectored interrupt controller, bus matrix, and set of debug and trace components. Wake-Up Interrupt controller allows almost instantaneous return to fully active mode from Ultra-Low-Leakage retention state and provides power management features. Physical IP memories feature byte-write ...
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