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Laptops sales rising in India
Laptop sales are rising in India, which now accounts for over 25 percent of the total personal computer (PC) market, an industry body said Tuesday.
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Web-Savvy Homeowners vs. Landmen
No need to beware of modern-day Daniel Plainviews. Thanks to the Internet, soccer moms and dairy farmers are now savvy negotiators when the energy companies come calling
Time Magazine |
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Woman charged with using Internet to target informant
A woman once arrested for drug activities is facing a felony charge for allegedly targeting the police informant on an Internet site.
The Chippewa Herald |
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Google Toughens Gmail Security With Remote Logout
If you use Google's Gmail and like to access your account from several locations -- work, office, your smartphone, Internet cafes, etc. -- you can now remotely check the status of that account from all your log-in locations. Google announced a new remote signout and monitoring feature designed to enhance security for those who use several computers or connected devices in the course of a day.
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ASUS looks to clear out Eee PC 900s with $100 rebate
Filed under: Laptops ASUS's newest, Atom-based 900 series Eee PCs may be fast approaching availability, but it looks like the company is still doing its best to get as many plain old Celeron-based Eee PC 900s out the door as possible, with it now offering up a $100 rebate on the already low-priced laptop. That brings the price down to $449, which is certainly a decent enough bargain ...
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We Like Our Video, Online and Off
A recent Neilsen survey found that Americans love the internet (and especially online video), but still spend plenty of time watching TV. The Times summarizes: The average American spent 127 hours of time with TV in May, up from 121 hours in May 2007; and 26 hours on the Internet, up from 24 hours last year. More than 282 million people watch television in a given month and nearly 162 ...
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Microsoft signs on for Icahn bid shift
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc.'s board, saying Monday 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 firm.
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Switzerland trip for computer study
Ten computer engineering and computer science students from Cal State Long Beach will travel to Switzerland as part of an American contingent participating in the Swiss Computer Science Summer Program.
Long Beach Press-Telegram |
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New bioinformatics software created
A team of U.S. undergraduate students says it has created a method using information about proteins to identify the location and function of specific genes.The group of University of California-San Diego students said the new area of bioinformatics is called comparative proteogenomics, combining the fields of comparative genomics and proteomics, which is the study of all of an organism's ...
Moldova.org |
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Retirement by the Numbers
Online calculators that aim to help you with retirement planning may lead you astray. We put three popular sites to the test.
WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance |
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Ex-Wife Testifies In Pasco Doctor's Child Porn Trial
TAMPA – A Port Richey pain doctor repeatedly visited the Internet to view and download photographs of children being sexually abused by adults, a federal prosecutor told a jury today.
The Tampa Tribune |
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Recent Original Stories
Gary Richmond at Freesoftware Magazine looks at Acer's Aspire One , the latest ultra portable laptop computer to feature GNU/Linux.
New Mobile Computing |
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Verni out as Corrigo CEO
He was brought in to grow a local software company to $1 billion. But after five months, Ron Verni decided flying back and forth between his Atlanta home and Wilsonville was just too much.
BizJournals |
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 8th Jul 2008 19:02 UTC
LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an excellent means of sampling Linux games or setting up a home arcade.
New Mobile Computing |
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Only U.S. Apple retail stores getting iPhone 3G
Despite reports Apple was pulling the devices from its stores in Canada over controversial rate plans, no Apple stores outside the U.S. will be selling iPhone 3Gs on Friday.
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OSNews Editor Profile
OSNews.com informs you about the latest news on a vast range of operating systems, from the well-known mainstream OSes, down to small embedded (but also very interesting technically) ones.
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posted by Chris Nabinger on Wed 14th Jan 2004 20:23 UTC
I'm a windows user by nature, I've been playing around with Linux for a little while, I'm no Expert in any way but I've used quite a few distro's. The first distro I ever stuck with for any amount of time Was Xandros 1.0, which a friend provided for me.
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posted by Adam S on Mon 26th Apr 2004 18:55 UTC
Linux is all about choice. Endless debates carry on each day, but a new company with a new distribution, Cobind , has a classic, but novel, approach: Do one thing, and do it well.
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Motion to Quash
After apparently learning of the subpoenas from Google, the Does—represented by Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen Litigation Group—moved to quash the subpoenas and to strike the request under the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure Sec. 425.16.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Nov 2006 15:09 UTC
Apple has updated its line of MacBook laptops , equipping them with Core 2 Duo processors.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Feb 2006 22:17 UTC, submitted by Jeremy
Roughly half of today's PCs won't be able to take advantage of the 'Aero Glass' compositor found within Microsoft's upcoming Vista software, due at the end of this year. The estimate was one of the conclusions cited in a report released late Thursday by Jon Peddie Research.
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Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 8th Jul 2008 14:25 UTC
The company plans to charge corporate customers a monthly subscription of $15 per user for a suite of "hosted" software, which includes e-mail, Web meeting, collaboration and messaging applications running on Microsoft's computers.
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PharMerica Corporation to Broadcast Second Quarter Results Conference Call Live on the Internet
LOUISVILLE, Ky.----PharMerica Corporation announced today that it will provide an online simulcast of its second quarter earnings conference call on Friday, August 8, 2008. The Company's results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008, will be released after the close of the market on Thursday, August 7, 2008.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Powering up microwave amplifiers for a wireless world
Four years ago, Europe trailed the rest of the world in microwave amplifier research and development. Now, however, European-designed transistors and amplifiers equal or outperform the competition worldwide. Today`s information-rich, wireless world depends on microwave amplifiers that operate efficiently and linearly at high power and high frequencies, so it is crucial that Europe is at the ...
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Notebooks drive personal computer sales
Server sales up 35 % at 1.22 lakh units
The Hindu |
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