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Next sales tax holiday begins Aug. 1
Tennessee’s third annual August Sales Tax Holiday, which gives back-to-school shoppers the opportunity to purchase certain clothing, school and art supplies, and computers free of Tennessee sales tax, will begin Aug. 1.
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EA to release Scrabble app for Facebook
Electronic Arts says that it will release a Scrabble application, a web program that Facebook members can plug into their profile pages.
Independent Online |
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Israeli rights activists post video on YouTube
Israeli police have arrested two Jewish settlers suspected of beating up a shackled Palestinian in an incident which was filmed and broadcast on the Internet, officials said.
Independent Online |
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Appeal to GMA: Give last Comelec post to IT expert or woman
Election watchdog groups are appealing to President Arroyo to appoint an information and technology (IT) expert or a woman to the last post left vacant in the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
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HP buys most chips
THE LOW PRICE OF CHIPS of late means OEM consumption is growing slower than OEM revenues, Gartner reckons.
The Inquirer |
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South Korea Internet users probed over boycott call
SEOUL--South Korean prosecutors have launched a probe into Internet users who tried to stop advertisers buying space in conservative newspapers during protests against US beef imports, an official said Tuesday.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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2014 plans are going for gold
IT will have everything from an internet cafe, health centre and bank to a laundry and handyman. It will even have a post office and pub.
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Man sentenced after luring 'girl' online
A Volusia County man was ordered Monday to serve six months in the Lake County Jail after admitting he drove to Clermont intending to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex while her mother was at work. John Trabulsi, 23, of Port Orange also pleaded no contest to using the Internet to lure a child. He was arrested Jan. 31 after he showed up for a sexual liaison he had unwittingly arranged with Lake ...
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First cybercrime case for 2008 filed at DoJ
MANILA, Philippines -- The first cybercrime case for this year was filed with the Department of Justice Task Force on Cybercrime. The cybercrime involves a former employee of a local manufacturing company accused of stealing company secrets, according to a copy of the complaint shown to INQUIRER.net.
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Library to dig in for 50,000-square-foot, $11.7M expansion
-Volusia County Council members will help break ground on the $11.7 million Deltona Regional Library expansion at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The library will double to 50,000 square feet and have a larger computer area, auditorium and children's section, plus an environmental center and amphitheater at Lyonia Preserve.
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The birth of the InfoWorld WorldBooks
Windows notebooks offered for sale in North America are stuck in evolutionary stasis.
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Ceryx to Provide Guidance in Navigating the new S+S landscape at the Microsoft Partner Conference 2008
Gus Harsfai, CEO and President of Ceryx Inc., will be part of the keynote presentation by Allison Watson at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston. Harsfai will articulate to a collection of thousands of Microsoft partners from around the world, how they can thrive in the new Software plus Services ecosystem.
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Branding Veteran Bill Larsen Joins SALT(R)
SALT Branding LLC, the firm that branded Windows Vista for Microsoft, VAULT energy soda for Coca-Cola and Expedition Everest for Disney , announced today that senior brand consultant Bill Larsen has joined the team to focus on global clients.
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Efficient Frontier Expands Operations in Asia
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----Efficient Frontier, the worldwide leader in providing Search Engine Marketing solutions to leading advertisers, today announced the appointment of Sammy Hsieh as General Manager of its Asia-Pacific business.
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Jacada Signs Material Contract with Nationwide Insurance
ATLANTA----Jacada Ltd. , a leading provider of unified desktop and process optimization solutions for customer service operations, today announced that it has signed a material agreement with Nationwide Insurance.
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D-Link Now Shipping 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure With Tool-Less Drive Installation and On-Board OLED Display
D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, is now shipping the 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure, a secure and powerful solution for storing and accessing documents across the network and over the Internet, offering tool-less drive installation, OLED display and Gigabit connectivity along with scalable features for easy expansion.
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In the past, I've installed ReactOS to show my students a Microsoft alternative. The performance was slow and there was not much to do. This latest revision offers more! For my review, I used the freeware VMWare Player since I was using the company server. I'm the only one who knows how to use it.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft has released a new build of Windows Vista to Vendors and Beta Testers. The build is 5259, and was compiled on November 17 2005. Screenshots of 5259 started appearing on forums yesterday (more here ). 5259 contains new versions of Media Center, Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player 11, but little new when it comes to GUI. Microsoft Antispyware has also been fully integrated in ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Sep 2005 12:00 UTC
In his latest column, , Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that Microsoft Vista is going to be so expensive that it's going to make users think hard about switching to Linux instead. "Desktop Linux is never going to have a better chance than it will in the next eighteen months," he says.
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Linked by Quentin Hartman on Tue 8th Jul 2008 04:23 UTC
A recent study released by Net Applications indicates that the market share of Windows among Internet-connected devices could drop below 90% as soon as the fourth quarter of this year. This seems to be the same report referred to earlier that showed Linux approaching a 1% use share.
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Linked by Quentin Hartman on Tue 8th Jul 2008 04:23 UTC
A recent study released by Net Applications indicates that the market share of Windows among Internet-connected devices could drop below 90% as soon as the fourth quarter of this year. This seems to be the same report referred to earlier that showed Linux approaching a 1% use share.
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Service Channels
Businesses must do more to ensure that the internet stays a level playing field.
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Service Channels
Google has posted a new feature to its Maps service which allows users to view the entire route of the Tour de France.
Web Host Directory |
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Pioneer promises 400GB optical discs
Pioneer has developed a 16-layer read-only optical disc which it claims can store 400GB of data. The per-layer capacity is 25GB, the same as that of a Blu-ray Disc, and the multilayer technology will also be applicable to multilayer recordable discs.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Jun 2003 23:59 UTC
Today we feature a 4-page interview with Nat Friedman , Co-Founder and Vice-President of Product Development at Ximian . We discuss a lot of interesting topics, ranging from Ximian's products, to Apple, to Linux on the desktop and much more.
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