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Illinois Could Increase Lottery Sales by 10 Percent, or Up to $206 Million, by Making Tickets Available Online, ...
STAMFORD, Conn., April 17, 2008 -- Illinois state lottery sales could be increased as much as 10 percent - or $206 million based on 2007 sales of $2.062 billion - by making their lottery tickets available online, according to research conducted by eLottery Inc., the web-based retailer of governmental lottery tickets.
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Recent Original Stories
"As mentioned in part 1 , Java 6 has to please end-users but it must also appeal to developers in order to make those killer desktop applications. I think that many GUI developers will agree that the Swing API is very powerful and flexible.
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When the Internet spread to millions of users in the 1990s it was seen as an alternative media, though still primarily based on traditional media concepts.
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Now you can show your team pride 24/7 with Stardock’s new catalog of official NBA MyColors™ themes for your PC. MyColors™ changes your wallpaper, start menu, start bar, window borders and much more.
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African NGOs and the Internet Boom
During the past decade the number of non governmental organizations (NGOs) registered in Tanzania and around he world has increased dramatically. Funding of such organizations has risen too, along with the increased hands-on involvement donors want to have with regard to how their money is spent.
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Library’s cafe underwhelms
When the Free Library of Philadelphia announced five years ago that it would expand its imposing palazzo on the Parkway, it painted a tantalizing picture of a modern addition equipped with a sunlight-drenched reading room, hives of computer terminals, a cozy hangout for teens, free wireless access, and a Starbucks-style cafe.
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Horizon Software Selected as Food Service Technology Provider for Los Angeles Unified School District
Horizon Software International, LLC, a global leader in software, services and technologies for food service operations, announces today that it has been selected as the food service technology provider for the Los Angeles Unified School District. LAUSD is the second largest school district in the United States, servicing more than 1,000 schools and educational centers and nearly 700,000 total ...
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Microsoft's Shane Kim Speaks on Xbox 360, HD DVD Uses
Microsoft says HD DVD for Xbox 360 is still enjoyable...
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McCain site recipes really Food Network's
First Barack Obama lifted campaign rhetoric from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick; now it appears John McCain's Web site recipes really were the Food Network's.The Huffington Post reports the page featuring Cindy McCain's family recipes has been taken down. The campaign is blaming an intern for posting them without attribution, CNN and TMZ.com reported. Just one problem with that, the Post ...
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Newsflash: Grannies Need Linux
I completely realize I'm a geek. I've been using Linux far longer than it's been the "cool thing" to do. I've also been around the Windows world longer than Windows itself. And to nicely round off the playing field, for the better part of a decade, I've been supporting a network of Apple computers.
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Stonneware Announces LiveCD for its Virtualization Web Desktop
Stoneware announced LiveCD for webOS in their next release of webNetwork due in May of 2008. The release of LiveCD for webOS will allow organizations to turn their existing desktop hardware into a webOS thin client using a bootable CD, DVD, or USB drive based on Ubuntu's Linux distribution. Workstations booting from the LiveCD for webOS will load a read-only image of Ubuntu's Linux. The Linux ...
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How to Simplify Heterogeneous SOA: Service Virtualization
Many large SOA deployments faced two major challenges: how to promote service reuse and how to manage the complexity of a heterogeneous, distributed SOA that includes Java, .NET, and various legacy and packaged applications deployed across the enterprise. The solution was to implement service virtualization to make services portable and protocol independent. This session covered the different ...
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Imation Media Xpoter Gets Video to your Game Console
Iomega announced a new external hard drive solution today called the Media Xporter that is designed to be used with the Xbox 360 and PS3 game consoles. The drive is designed to make it easy to share video and photos on a big screen TV via the game consoles...
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Global campaign could eradicate child porn online: charity
A computer at an Internet cafe. The Internet Watch Foundation has said that the number of Internet websites hosting child pornography has fallen for the first time and a co-ordinated international response could eradicate them for good.
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Aspermont and Convera(R) Team for Major Expansion of Vertical Search Capability
Aspermont , Australia's leading print and Internet publisher to the mining, oil & gas and related sectors, and Convera Corporation , http://www.convera.com, a leading provider of vertical search services for publishers, announced today an aggressive program to build and deploy additional vertical search capability across Aspermont's entire portfolio.
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Quaero Search Project Ramps up Recruitment
Quaero, a European consortium developing new search engine technologies, is ramping up recruitment of researchers.
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Bond.Com Website Name Up For Auction From Sedo
If you have ever fancied having a piece of James Bond-style action, now is your chance - the web domain name Bond.com has been put up for sale.
SKY News |
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IBM's 1Q earnings jump 26 percent; company raises outlook
BOSTON - Shares of IBM Corp. surged to a six-year high after the technology company surprised analysts by reporting a 26 percent jump in quarterly earnings and boosting its full-year forecast.
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Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisons
Last week's discussions under my "purloined benchmark" title included this bit from ShadeTree: if you are comparing OS performance.... ... and you are not using the same hardware You cannot tell if the performance is related to the software or is merely a reflection...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Nov 2005 19:18 UTC
Linux desktops have always faced an uphill battle against Windows desktops. Now, OSDL is calling together architects from over two-dozen key desktop-oriented Linux projects to a Dec. 1-2 meeting at its headquarters to set strategic directions and standards, and find synergies amongst Desktop Linux organizations.
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1. Growth of the Hypervisor
The hypervisor is now found in more places, both exploited in the latest processor chips from Intel's Virtualization Technology vPro and AMD-V , and as a standard package with most of the popular Linux distributions, and soon for Solaris, too.
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Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer Graduate from Beta
Google Website Optimizer and Google Analytics (or Urchin) have both dropped the Beta label as both offerings from Google have graduated their initial ‘testing’ phases (umm… just how many business models are dependent on an analytics program in Beta testing).
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Son of myki
ANOTHER bungled government computer system seems to be the son of myki, the so-called smart card that was going to revolutionise transport ticketing.
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American Red Cross Disaster Services Featured in Rascal Flatts’ ‘Every Day’ Music Video
In a historical first for the organization, American Red Cross disaster relief services is prominently featured in a new Rascal Flatts music video, "Every Day" as one of several vignettes portraying everyday heroes responding to emergency situations. The video will debut on CMT, GAC, Yahoo Online, AOL, MSN and Clearchannel.com starting this week. In an instance of art imitating life this video ...
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Starcom Expands Agreement with TNS Media Research to Include Digital Audience Measurement on National Level
TNS media research, a division of TNS media providing internet, TV, and radio audience measurement worldwide, has announced that Starcom USA, one of the country's foremost media and communications agencies, has signed an agreement with TNS to utilize the DIRECTView service.
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