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Notable movers
NetApp was up $1.21, or 5.5 percent, to $23.15. The maker of data-storage computers for Oracle was boosted to "outperform" from "neutral" by Robert W.
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The Importance Of Being Linked
After examining his biggest traffic sources, Louis Gray has noticed that links from blogs simply aren’t that important any more. I agree with his conclusions, although I don’t think that the data set he uses really proves his point. The fact is, there are links and there are links. A fleeting reference to a blog [...]
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Fixed wireless player plans more UK WiMax
And European regulators push for auctions. The UK's largest fixed wireless access (FWA) provider, is moving its network to WiMax, and the EC has announced a decision that should increase the availability of WiMax spectrum in Europe.
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Fable 2 Live Arcade titles due in August News by
Microsoft has decided to release the Fable 2 Pub Games on Live Arcade this August.
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Liver donor's family, recipient unite online
PITTSBURGH — They were precocious toddlers, both blond-haired and blue-eyed, separated by a thousand miles between Miami and a small Kentucky town.
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'Idol'-style votes keep All-Star teams lopsided
It's not too late to stack the rosters even more in favor of the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs for next Tuesday's All-Star baseball game. One berth on each side is still up for grabs via an Internet vote that's under way. Anyone care to bet against the Cubs' Derrek Lee filling the NL spot and Boston's Mike Lowell grabbing a seat in the AL dugout? Heck, why not? A travesty of this magnitude ...
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posted by John Munsch on Mon 30th Dec 2002 19:05 UTC
Why do it? I am asked this question more often than I expected, even by existing Linux users who I expected to know as well as I the reasons for building a next-generation desktop Linux for the home user.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Sep 2006 15:56 UTC
A common heard question in the operating systems world is, 'if the alternatives to Windows are so much better, why aren't people en masse switching to them?'
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Sep 2006 17:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Is Browser Security getting better? That is tough to say but Firefox is definitely not leading the way . Despite all the hype, despite all the Myths, Firefox 1.x has a worse security record so far in 2006 than Internet Explorer 6.x."
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Recent Original Stories
"OpenSUSE has been driving innovation on the Linux desktop, and in today's serial we'll be discovering just what has been happening on the GNOME front.
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Microsoft appeals against EU's "unreasonable" judgement
Microsoft has opened its appeal against a European Union court fine of $1.4bn (Euros 899 million), and called for the ruling and fine to be annulled. It said the charge was "unreasonable" and "error prone".
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by Tom K (1.64) on Wed 23rd Nov 2005 19:00 UTC
And this, my friends, is why OSS projects like KDE/GNOME will never match Windows. If Microsoft can have a team of people working for two years on the *fonts* that will be in use in the new GUI, then OSS literally stands no chance of ever being ahead.
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Rwanda: GTZ Donates IT Equipment to Prosecutor General's Office
The German Technical Corporation (GTZ) has donated Information Technology equipment worth Frw50 million to the office of the Prosecutor General in Kimihurura. The equipment donated included 30 laptops, four printers, one projector, and accessories.
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Merriam-Webster adds 100 new words to dictionary; do you know them?
Take a break from all the gloom and doom about the subprime mortgage crisis, won't you? Get dirty bombs and noroviruses and nasty computer malware off your mind.
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Peoria police hope fugitives get caught in Web
The listing, which can be found on the city's Web site, displays their names, mug shots, physical descriptions and other information to track them down.
The Arizona Republic |
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Taiwan reaches for larger slice of notebooks
Taiwan's share of the growing notebook market continues is itself slowly rising, but systems makers on the island nation face challenges such as the transition to LED backlights and the need to expand their overseas markets.
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AI beats human poker champions
Humanity was dealt a decisive blow by a poker-playing artificial intelligence program called Polaris during the Man-Machine Poker Competition in Las Vegas.
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Microsoft and Icahn join forces
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc.'s board, saying yesterday that a successful shareholder rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its bid to buy Yahoo's Internet search engine or possibly the entire company.
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09:39 (BST), 08/07/2008 Rock Band Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS Harmonix and MTV Games announced today ...
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today additional Rush tracks will be available at the Rock Band™ Music Store catalog of downloadable content.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Convicted killer Reiser leads police to wife's body
Accompanied by heavily armed Oakland police, software programmer Hans Reiser on Monday led authorities to the body of his missing wife, buried in a shallow grave in the Oakland hills.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Wireless chip shipments on a roll, says analyst
Market research group Forward Concepts has delved further into the latest semiconductor shipments statistics from WSTS and suggests that despite anecdotal evidence of a slowdown in cellphone chip shipments, the figures argue differently.
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Classen retires from NXP
Theo Claasen, executive vice president responsible for business development at NXP, will retire from the company on July 31 while Hein van der Zeeuw, executive vice president, responsible for operations resigned on July 7 and will leave the company October 1.
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NXP reworks power-saving green ICs
The semiconductor industry can play a key role in improving power efficiencies, in reducing global energy consumption and in environmental sustainability. This can be done through the way it manufactures devices, how it disposes of end-of life equipment and, most importantly, how it designs components and equipment.
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Daily Mail loses staff information on stolen laptop
Angelica Mari, Computing , Tuesday 8 July 2008 at 09:39:00 Sensitive data included names, addresses and bank account details The owner of tabloid Daily Mail lost a laptop containing sensitive employee data including names, addresses and bank account information....
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Yahoo's board eyed for ouster
Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another multibillion-dollar deal.
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