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Michael Meyer documents old Beijing districts
In his two-room house in Beijing, Michael Meyer has no heat and no indoor plumbing - but he does have high-speed Internet. "They just threw the cable over the roof," says Meyer, 36, who watches A's games on his laptop. The Minnesota native has lived for the...
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posted by Kroc on Thu 24th Aug 2006 20:26 UTC
GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the original Mac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. It wasn't an OS written to run on a generic x86 chip on a moving hardware platform.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Aug 2006 18:13 UTC
Lenovo debuted its first Linux-based laptops at LinuxWorld in San Francisco on Tuesday, running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 provided through a partnership with Novell.
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Recent Original Stories
"With little fanfare, Microsoft just announced that the x64 version of Windows Vista will require all kernel-mode code to be digitally signed. This is very different than the current WHQL program, where the user ultimately decides how they want to handle unsigned drivers.
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Twitscoop Fixes Breaking News
Twitter's cool, no doubt, but what enhances its coolness are the applications developing in the periphery, all of which seem to extract from Twitter's deep reservoirs of cool and redistribute along the Internet. Recently, Twellow and Summize have surfaced. Before that it was TwittEarth, which lets you be a giant fly on the wall of the world. read more
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Expert: Cyberbullying On Rise Among Teens
A 2007 survey showed that online bullying is a major problem among teens and pre-teens.
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The New Ancestry.com Homepage
Members of the subscription genealogy Web site Ancestry.com are being greeted with a brand-new homepage when they log in for the first time since the change launched last week. According...
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VM Ware shares drop 26 percent after CEO replaced
Shares of Palo Alto-based VMware Inc. plunged 26 percent Tuesday after the software maker replaced co-founder and CEO Diane Greene and warned that revenue would fall short of prior estimates.
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Bill Would Let Internet Users Block Tracking
House and Senate members are discussing a bill that would allow consumers to prevent Internet search providers and search engines from tracking their online habits.
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Alltel Wireless to Promote ChaCha's Award Winning Mobile Answers Service
INDIANAPOLIS----ChaCha announced today that Alltel Wireless, America's largest network, has teamed with ChaCha, the groundbreaking mobile answers service.
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BodyTel to Launch GlucoTel System in August
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 8, 2008 -- BodyTel Scientific Inc. , a developer and manufacturer of wireless telemedical systems, announces today that it has finalized the mass production of all GlucoTel Starter Kit components including GlucoTel Blood Glucose Test Strips and is now preparing the kitting of its first market ready product.
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Microsoft fixes 8 flaws with 4 patches; none critical
Bulletins address flaws within Domain Name Service in Windows, Windows Explorer in Windows Vista, Outlook Web Access (OWA), and Microsoft SQL servers
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Microsoft Unveils New Services Suites, Pricing Details
The company additionally laid out plans to pay its partners 12% of first-year revenue and 6% of ongoing revenue from sales.
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Irrigation Systems Soak up Top Prizes in Software Contest
An irrigation automation system, developed by a team of Australian students, won Microsoft's Imagine Cup programming contest.
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IBM makes web accessibility for blind users a social effort
Users who are visually impaired are well aware that the web could use a lot of improvements when it comes to accessibility. IBM is hoping to change that, though, with its Social Accessibility Project that lets disabled users and volunteers work together to make the web more surf-able without having to change anyone's HTML code. Read More...
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Computer games industry dismisses Byron report recommendations
The computer games industry has attacked proposed changes to the way games are to be regulated. At a games industry conference today, senior figures said the move to have all games rated by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), would be "a step backwards".
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Want to stay up with your kids, then lrn 2 txt
Parents, get cell-phone savvy, and your relationship with your child could benefit. A recent Cingular wireless survey found 63 percent of parents who use text-messaging say it has improved communication with their kids.
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Computer games industry dismisses Byron report recommendations
Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve , Tuesday 8 July 2008 at 18:02:00 Game, set but no match The computer games industry has attacked proposed changes to the way games are to be regulated. At a games industry conference today, senior figures said the move to have all...
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VM Ware shares drop 26 percent after CEO replaced
Shares of Palo Alto-based VMware Inc. plunged 26 percent Tuesday after the software maker replaced co-founder and CEO Diane Greene and warned that revenue would fall short of prior estimates.
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VMware Suffers Meltdown
There's a little puddle on Wall Street where VMware, the virtualization leader and the most brilliant IPO since Google went public, used to be. EMC, VMware's parent company, announced mid-morning that VMware co-founder Diane Greene was out presumably because the company isn't going to make its full-year 2008 guidance of 50% growth over 2007 and it hasn't reported its second quarter yet. EMC said ...
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VMware Names Paul Maritz CEO
Business software maker VMware on Tuesday said president and chief executive Diana Greene is stepping down and will be immediately replaced by Paul Maritz, the former Microsoft marketing chief behind Windows 95.
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Dreamworks Picks Intel Chips to Power 3D Films
DreamWorks Animation plans to use chips from Intel Corp for the creation of 3-D movies, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Assisting both sides of a search
For some job hunters, newspaper want ads and Internet job boards like CareerBuilder.com are all that are needed for a job search.
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Acer Intros Small, Cheap Dual-Core Desktops
The Aspire X1200, a new small-form-factor PC series, is aimed at both the space-constrained and home-theater crowd.
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Microsoft expands its response to hosted software
Microsoft is strengthening its early-stage push to fend off competition by offering more Internet-based software, a change from its traditional...
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