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Geek Newsletter April 17, 2008 — Is Vista This Generation’s Windows ME?
XP is on it’s way out and Windows 7 is still a long way off. Yes, we have Vista and its first Service Pack but this product, and even the SP1 version, has been fraught with problems. As the post says, “For now, though, it’s a Microsoft world, so we need to play the game [...]
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Public Invited to Meet Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-123 crew
Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
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Net yourself some extra income online
Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs are turning to the internet to make money, writes Rosanna Spero
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EQAL Raises $5M
Los Angeles-based EQAL, the firm behind YouTube sensation lonelygirl15 and Internet drama KateModern, said Thursday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Spark Capital. Other investors in the firm included angels Conrad Riggs, Ron Conway, Marc Andreessen, and Georges Harik. According to EQAL, it will use the funding to launch new interactive shows and to build online ...
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Defense Says California Software Programmer Didn't Kill His Wife
The trial of a California computer programmer accused of murdering his estranged wife is wrapping up.
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NEW YORK , April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As children everywhere tap into the new digital playground through gaming, mobile devices and the Internet, educators, researchers, policymakers and high-tech industry leaders are joining forces to examine how these latest technologies are shaping the education of today's children.
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1: Not for the Impatient
Microsoft has released a bundle of security and stability updates for Windows Vista users. What follows is a long-overdue primer on this package of goodies from Redmond known as Service Pack 1. While some peoples' experience with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP may have left them feeling wary about installing this package, I haven't heard about SP1 causing any major problems for Vista users. Most ...
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Recycle laptops, scanners, radios, electronics Sunday
The Green Team of Park Presbyterian Church in Newark is planning an 'E-Waste & More Recycling Event' on April 20, from noon to 4 at the church's East Avenue parking lot.
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Wall Street treads water on earnings, data
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed on Thursday as disappointing earnings from Pfizer and cautious outlooks from eBay and United Technologies offset higher-than-expected results from
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Spam techniqes reach new levels of sophistication
Despite the proliferation of anti-spam solutions on the market, spam volume has reached epidemic proportions, writes Dan Hubbard, vice-president of security research at Websense.
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DoogleOnDuty Helps Businesses Overcome Major Shortcomings in Google's Pay-Per-Click Advertising System
New Tracking Tool Prevents Wasted "Clicks" from Draining PPC Budgets and Empowers Businesses to Optimize Every Ad Dollar (PRWeb Apr 17, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb865994.htm
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Van Houten discusses complementary nature of ST-NXP wireless deal
At present STMicroelectronics and NXP, the expectant parents of an as yet unborn and unnamed wireless joint venture, compete in the provision of chips to mobile handset makers. Frans van Houten, president and CEO of Dutch chip company NXP BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), discussed with EE Times the complementary nature of the two companies' wireless product offerings.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 12th Aug 2007 20:23 UTC
A few years ago, I was an avid QNX user. I used the non-commercial desktop version of this wonderfully clean and elegant pure-microkernel operating system for a long period of time, as a desktop operating system.
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Apple shipments outpace PC vendors
Within the business market for client computers, Apple last year tripled its market share to 4.2%, though its growth was limited, Gartner said.
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Blog: MTSU press bus victim of outfield ‘drive-by’ or tall tale?
MTSU baseball’s peculiar press bus at Reese Smith Field was the victim of an errant throw Wednesday night, and a DNJ laptop was in the line of fire.
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Recent Original Stories
Yankee Group's second annual Server Operating System Reliability survey polled 700 users from 27 countries worldwide.
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Hallmark fights e-cards with voicemail for Mom
Just in time for Mothers Day, card company releasing a line of recordable cards that allow the sender to save a 10-second message
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Public willing to shift security blame
Tom Young, Computing , Thursday 17 April 2008 at 00:00:00 Consumers have poor password practices but demand a strong security culture in businesses While almost nine out of ten (88 per cent) of consumers believe they are personally responsible for guarding against identity theft, almost half (47 per cent) are lax in their... > Read the full article ...
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Psychologist accused in child porn case
An Iowa City psychologist has been charged with possessing child pornography on his home computer.
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Microsoft Enables Real-Time Business Decisions with BizTalk RFID Mobile
Microsoft unveiled Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile - a lightweight platform for a variety of mobile devices, which simplifies the development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time business information. BizTalk RFID Mobile enables delivery of relevant information from mobile devices to core business processes. Microsoft made available a private beta with general availability ...
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Microsoft and EBSnet Collaborate on the .NET Micro Framework
Microsoft announced that the EBSnet Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack is included as a component of the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework 2.5. With TCP/IP, the .NET Micro Framework is delivering on the vision of helping to create new business opportunities for developers that build solutions for small network-enabled devices, by allowing them to communicate with the ...
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Introducing MaxxAthlete.com - The Internet's Most Complete Web Portal for Grassroots Sports
LOS ANGELES----MaxxAthlete, the leading digital media and event management company dedicated to serving the grassroots sports marketplace, today unveiled MaxxAthlete.com, the most comprehensive web resource for everything connected to youth sports.
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Using the Web Developer Toolbar for Search and Usability
One of my favorite plug-ins is the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar . Don't be fooled by the name. While it's specifically designed for Web developers, the toolbar has many options and features that are also useful to search marketers, usability consultants, and SEO analysts. The toolbar has far too many features to describe in a single article, but here are a few highlights. Use them to ...
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Red Hat: No Plans for Consumer OS Right Now
Linux giant Red Hat said Wednesday that the company has no plans to develop a consumer implementation "for the foreseeable future," claiming that the market is simply too competitive to justify the investment.
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Broadcast your music with Icecast
You can stream your music collection to the whole Internet from your favorite Linux distribution. Take some playlist files, add in the functionality of the Icecast server, and you have your own Web-based radio stream. Use it to listen to music remotely on your home machine, or tell your friends and become the next Internet radio phenomenon.
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