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Leftist Students Square Off Against President in Iran
You might be surprised to learn that these Iranian university students call each other "comrade," hold up pictures of Che Guevara in rallies, use the hammer and sickle symbol on their blogs and look to Karl Marx as their philosophical role model.
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Legg: Icahn support up if ensures Yahoo price
Carl Icahn would have more support in his proxy battle against Yahoo Inc if he pledged not to sell the company for less than $33 a share, Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller said on Tuesday.
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Couch, Internet and cell phone potatoes Americans are watching more television than ever, in addition to spending more time on the Internet, a Nielsen report said Tuesday. Americans spent 127 hours and 15 minutes watching television in May, up 4 percent from...
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 29th Nov 2005 19:41 UTC
Geeks.com sent us for a review an external hard drive enclosure case, the " TVisto Series 3.5 " Multimedia HDD Enclosure" ( 2.5" series also available). But this is not just another hard drive enclosure, but also a multimedia jukebox. And it's running uCLinux, an embedded version of Linux.
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AccuScore: Cubs win battle of trades
So after two blockbuster trades rocked the National League Central, did the Cubs or Brewers come out in better shape? According to the computers at AccuScore, which ran thousands of game simulations with the new players, the Cubs increased their chances of winning the Division.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th May 2006 22:05 UTC
A group of software developers have created a program to make Microsoft Office work with files in the OpenDocument format , a move that would bridge currently incompatible desktop applications.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
Sony has finally bitten the bullet and issued a worldwide recall of all Sony-manufactured lithium-ion batteries used in notebook computers. Earlier in the day, Lenovo/IBM joined the ranks of Dell , Apple , and Toshiba in issuing a recall for all Sony batteries that ship with their notebooks.
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FCAT Notebook
First A: Ten years in making the grade
The Florida Times-Union |
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New Zealanders pitch tent in early queue for iPhone
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealanders eager to be the first in the world to buy Apple's new-generation iPhone have began queuing up in freezing temperatures, two days before its release, local media reported on Wednesday. ...
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POLICE REPORTS: July 8
RACINE Home burglarized Property with a collective estimated value of $6,450 was taken some time between 1:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. from a residence in the 3000 block of Southwood Drive. Among the missing items are laptop computers, cash, coin banks, an Ipod, a men’s ring and prescription drugs like Oxycodone.
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China Aims to Protect Olympic Content From Pirates
China arned Web sites and mobile content providers not to violate the state-owned broadcaster's rights to cover the Olympic...
PC World |
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How to best use Bluetooth technology in a small business
It seems that every new electronic device on the market claims to be Bluetooth enabled. But what exactly is Bluetooth? How can it make your business more efficient? And why is it called Bluetooth? Bluetooth is a wireless technology that uses short-range radio...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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DAILY DIGEST
DreamWorks switches chipsets from AMD to Intel DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., maker of the "Shrek" movies and "Kung Fu Panda," said Tuesday that it will switch from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. computer chips to Intel Corp.'s as it moves toward making all 3-D...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Senators likely to scrutinize NebuAd / Redwood City startup's ad tactics create privacy issues for legislators before ...
Executives from major Internet companies - Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. - are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee today, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Redwood City startup called NebuAd...
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NebuAd's "breakthrough opt-opt" approach: legal or no?
The Center for Democracy and Technology has raised serious questions about the legality of an invasive new tactic used by Internet advertising company NebuAd, which intercepts users' Internet traffic in order to build highly targeted behavioral advertising profiles. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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Industry balks at new Internet privacy legislation
BOSTON — Consumers would have the option of stopping Internet companies from tracking their Web site visits and searches under legislation proposed at a Statehouse hearing Tuesday by two SouthCoast legislators.
The Standard-Times |
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Hey, you guys! 'Electric Co.' in Newark
Reading, comprehension and overall literacy have long been concerns for Newark's schoolchildren. Television, video games, the internet and general disinterest in books are among the causes that have been blamed for low literacy rates among the city's youth.
The Star-Ledger |
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iPhone praise, concerns: WSJ, NYT, USA Today
The iPhone 3G's official launch on June 11th is just over two days away, and several industry heavyweights have already offered their opinions on Apple's next generation device, offering mostly praise, peppered with a few criticisms. Among the acclaimed technologists were Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, David Pogue of the New York Times, ...
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posted by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Jan 2004 08:19 UTC
Computer users around the world while might be using different applications to do their paying job (e.g. a proprietary chemistry or biology app, or a high-end astronomy app etc) they all use the same "basic" applications in their daily lives: email clients, web browsers, IM, calculators, media players, image viewers, system utilities etc. Now these applications come for free with the operating ...
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Can mydeco Democratize Design?
With names like Conran and Starck on board, the London Web site could change the world for interior decorators—and make a killing
BusinessWeek |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Oct 2005 09:00 UTC
Microsoft plans to discontinue the use of the SSLv2 (Secure Socket Layer) protocol in the coming Internet Explorer browser refresh.
New Mobile Computing |
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OSNews > Thread > "RE: True" by CPUGuy
With the imminent release of Windows Vista to consumers this month, Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has claimed Microsoft's latest desktop effort is over-hyped and not a revolutionary advancement.
New Mobile Computing |
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Google introduces a cartoonlike method for talking in chat rooms
Google's new online tool allows people to embody a cartoonish online avatar and have text-based conversations with other Internet users in virtual chat rooms.
International Herald Tribune |
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How to best use Bluetooth technology in a small business
It seems that every new electronic device on the market claims to be Bluetooth enabled. But what exactly is Bluetooth? How can it make your business more efficient? And why is it called Bluetooth? Bluetooth is a wireless technology that uses short-range radio...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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