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Consumerised IT: the new battle between IT and the business
The march towards the consumerisation of the IT used by large organisations is appearing irresistible, writes Tom Rogerson, chief technology officer, financial services Europe, Computer Sciences Corporation.
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I'm sorry, what? The Internet alters my attention span? Huh?
The Internet might be rewiring us, shattering our attention spans into a hundred little shards.
Pioneer Press |
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Man arrested for running into burning house to retrieve computer
WINONA — A Winona homeowner faces charges after he allegedly ignored a firefighter's orders and ran back into his burning house.
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Banking Auction Site Shows Promise
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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Alchemy Plus Uses DataCore's SANmelody™ To Achieve Simplified SAN Virtual Storage Management For Hosted Environments
DataCore Software recently announced that Alchemy Plus, is using DataCore's SANmelody solution to provide a hosted server virtualization farm environment for small businesses under a "Pay as You Use" utility computing framework.
DataStorage-DataStorageConnection |
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Online Game To Take On The Pirates
NEW YORK As Facebook has blossomed into a hot Internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends - or at least, an unauthorized version of the word game that Scrabble's owners have tried to shut down.Now a video game maker will try to legitimize the activity.
The Lakeland Ledger |
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Microsoft warns users of coming update to Windows Update
Microsoft has announced it will upgrade Windows' update mechanism later this month, a warning that comes nearly a year after the company issued a similar upgrade without informing users. Last September, reports of Microsoft conducting a "stealth" update of its Windows Update (WU) service angered users and put the company on the defensive. "Beginning at the end of this month and ...
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Hardware Roundup: Tuesday Edition
The Asus Eee 701 generated a lot of buzz in the marketplace when it was first released and met the needs of those wanting a capable ultra-portable device. Whether there was pent up demand or possibly the new sub-compact created new demand is open for debate. However, the fact is many were not comfortable with switching to a Linux machine. Along comes the Atom processor from Intel and Asus ...
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Microsoft Supports Icahn
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. The development gives Icahn a huge carrot to dangle before Yahoo shareholders as...
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Robert Fox: Virtually combating real terror
Robert Fox: Long an instrument of Bin Laden and al-Qaida, the internet is now showing potential as a tool to fight terrorism
Guardian Unlimited |
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E.U. To Throw Illegal Fire Sharers Offline?
New proposals before the European Parliament could see persistent illegal file sharers banned from the Web, and have governments decide what software is allowable.
DesignTechnica |
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NXP sues to silence Oyster researchers
Report publication 'irresponsible' Chipmaker NXP, formerly Philips Semiconductors, is taking Dutch Radboud University to court on Thursday to prevent researchers publishing their controversial report on the Mifare Classic chip.…
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PartyGaming Sales Miss Forecast on Poker Competition (Update2)
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- PartyGaming Plc , owner of the PartyPoker.com Web site, said sales were ``slightly'' below its forecast in May and June because of competition from rivals that still accept bets from Americans.
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Viacom won't soon shed image as corporate bully
Google appears unbeatable when it comes to winning hearts and minds of Internet users. This could be lesson for other big media firms who consider challenging search giant on copyright issues.
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Icahn also fighting clock in Yahoo board challenge
Investor activist Carl Icahn gets an encouraging sign from Microsoft but has yet to outline his challenge for Yahoo's board of directors.
CNET |
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Recent Original Stories
During the last LLVM developers'meeting, several Apple engineers made some presentations about their work on different aspects of LLVM. One of them explains the work on "clang", a new C front-end, which will also support C++ and Objective C. Chris Lattner also discussed the use of LLVM in Leopard Open GL. Slides and videos available.
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EA to make Facebook Scrabble legit
As Facebook has blossomed into a hot Internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends — or at least, an unauthorized version of the word game that Hasbro Inc., which owns the game's North American rights, has tried to shut down.
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Social Networks at Work: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
We live in interesting times. According to Gartner Research VP Robert Anderson, if all the people on the MySpace virtual community banded together, they'd form the eighth largest country in the world. Never before in history could people create such large communities and communicate so readily as they can today, thanks to the social networking environment.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Krugle Extends Search-Driven Solutions to Maximize Real Cost Savings
Krugle, Inc., the code search company, today announced the immediate availability of the newest version of its search appliance for enterprise software teams. Krugle Enterprise 2.3 targets costly code maintenance issues by optimizing defect management across released projects and effectively coordinating organization-wide component development.
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Recent Original Stories
A recent IDC report showed Linux servers continuing to increase market share for x86 architecture with a second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, but the bigger news could be Microsoft's even bigger surge with Server 2003 . The software giant's Server 2003 showed modest gains in Q1, with IDC reporting that Microsoft Windows Server revenue was USD 4.8 billion in Q1. This number ...
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DreamWorks Opts for Intel over AMD
DreamWorks moves from AMD to Intel to supply chips and other technology for its animation operations....
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Linked by Smith Johnson on Thu 27th Sep 2007 15:22 UTC
There are lots of Europeans and Chinese people and Indians at Microsoft, I'm sure.
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Streamezzo announces Skinnable Application Suite for Developing
Universal Software Development Platform Plus New Pre-Built Skinnable Applications Drastically Reduce the Time and Cost to Develop Mobile Services
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Microsoft Crosses A Line
Until today I’ve largely been a big supporter of Microsoft’s efforts to acquire Yahoo. A couple of days before Microsoft placed its initial $44.6 billion bid for the company, I told Fox Business Channel that a Microsoft merger had to happen to save Yahoo (and I certainly wasn’t the first to say this, I just [...]
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Testing the Virtual Waters: The School of Second Life
Washington State University bookkeepers scratched their heads this spring when David Cillay submitted an invoice, for about $50, for an island. It was awhile before they learned he was buying land in Second Life, the online immersive virtual world where WSU has begun offering courses for students from across the globe.
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