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Satellite View Of Cloud Tops Might Warn Of Storms
For three years, a new way to use data collected by NOAA weather satellites has been giving North Alabama short-term warnings of "pop-up" thunderstorms. This new computer program is now spreading to other parts of the U.S. and the world. Later this summer a version of the new weather program will begin forecasting storms throughout Central America, Southern Mexico and the Dominican Republic.
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AOL's Platform-A Study Finds Online Advertisers Influence Back-to-School Purchases
Most consumers will purchase back-to-school items in August and plan to spend between $100 to $500, according to survey findings released by Platform-A's ADlytics Strategic Insights Group. Platform-A, www.platform-a.com, is AOL's digital advertising business.
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Dashcourses International Announces Free Test Drive Series
Dashcourses International announces a FREE series of Test Drive Technology training sessions beginning with Test Drives on J2EE, IBM WebSphere, USB, PCI Express and InfiniBand. All Test Drives will be delivered online using Dashcourses' virtual hands-on classroom.
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US: Student faces 38-year jail term for 'cyber' cheating
If found guilty Khan, who has been charged with 69 counts including ID theft and larceny, could face a maximum 38-year sentence. Singh, who is charged with four counts, could go to prison for three years if found guilty.
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Microsoft Hopes to Counter Apple's Abuse With $300M Campaign, "Don't Blame Vista" Tool
Microsoft is fighting back against certain pesky unnamed competitors with ads and a creative app to pass the blame...
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Brain grows when older workers learn new tricks, study shows
Hamburg- When older workers learn new skills, their brain cells develop, German scientists said Wednesday after a study that used computer tomography to peer deep inside the brain. The study, in which people aged 50 to 67 were taught to juggle, dispr...
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Home Sweet Home for Mac OS X
Big Blue Bubble has announced that Home Sweet Home, a home-design game, is now available for Mac OS X. Home Sweet Home allows gamers to act as home designers. Users create rooms for clients with hundreds of unique pieces of furniture and accessories across dozens of homes, then direct build-teams to assemble it all under deadlines. Home Sweet Home ...
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JS8 Media releases AudioLobe 3
JS8 Media has released AudioLobe 3, an update to its audio-speed and pitch-processing software. AudioLobe allows users to alter the speed of audio playback without changing the pitch rate. Version 3.0 adds the ability to alter playback speed and pitch independently and to save audio and video files with altered speeds. The software also updates th...
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Windows XP SP3 automatic updates kick off tomorrow
AS ANNOUNCED previously by Microsoft, automatic updates for Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be launched Wednesday, July 10 2008, starting at 10:00 am Pacific Time.
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Surfing to a Higher Weight
Copyright © 2008 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved. WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- Teen girls who spend a lot of time on the Internet are more likely to see their weight creeping slowly up than adolescents who spend less time in front of the computer screen, new research shows.
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Wolfe man's jack
Six weeks of surfing the Internet ended for Skip Wolfe on Sunday night. He discovered some good news. The Dixon resident earned a pair of top 10 finishes in the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships held the past six months at a convention center in Albuquerque, N.M.
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Toshiba Satellite Pro U400-S1001X
The Toshiba Satellite Pro U400-S1001X is an inexpensive, lightweight laptop that can help lower small-business operating costs.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.
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Recent Original Stories
One benefit to open-source applications is they can run on any operating system you want. But getting open-source software developed for the Mac is -- depending on whom you ask -- slow as molasses or quick as lightning.
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Dealer Synergy Launches the First Ever Internet Sales 20 Group and Internet Director Immersion Program
Sean V. Bradley, CEO of Dealer Synergy, an international automotive training organization, has been active with Dealer 20 Groups sponsored by both NADA and NCM over the last few years.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 29th Jun 2006 01:33 UTC
Linux has one, last, chance to become the No1 OS in a particular consumer-oriented market (not counting servers): the mobile phone market. The open nature and yes, the hype around Linux has made lots of mobile-oriented companies to consider using Linux for their next-generation cellphones.
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Supreme Court justice a victim in data breach
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Supreme Court justice's birthday and Social Security number were exposed on the Internet after an employee of an investment firm in McLean, Virginia, used an online-file sharing network at his office.
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posted by David Adams on Mon 22nd Sep 1997 11:43 UTC
Ending Mac OS licensing has many Apple fanatics up in arms, but the Mac's days are numbered. Like it or not, the most compelling technologies in Apple's future are a modern operating system mated to cheap, easy to configure Network Computers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Jan 2007 20:56 UTC, submitted by John Mills
When Microsoft introduces its long-awaited Windows Vista operating system this month, it will have an unlikely partner to thank for making its flagship product safe and secure for millions of computer users across the world: the National Security Agency.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 19th Apr 2007 18:13 UTC
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce version 7.04 of the Ubuntu family of distributions (more info here and here ). Ubuntu 7.04 is also the basis for new 7.04 releases of Kubuntu ( screenshots ) and Edubuntu. Ubuntu 7.04 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers.
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Microsoft to Deliver SQL Server 2008 in August
SQL Server 2008 due in August and Steve Ballmer lays out Microsoft’s Software plus Services strategy at the Microsoft partner show....
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Applications available for reassessment of flood-damaged property in Whiteside
Social bookmarking allows users to save and categorise a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. This is different to using your own browser bookmarks which are available using the menus within your web browser.
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Port St. Lucie 4th-graders want to get out the vote for $10K top prize in contest
Port St. Lucie Elementary School students and fourth-grade teacher Teresa MacInnes have created a video that's posted on a retail closeout chain store's Web site, in hopes it will result in a cash prize for their school.
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Lottery blunder puts casino contract in doubt
Recent computer blunders in the Kansas Lottery Pick 3 game could cost international gaming giant Gtech a contract to run the games at the four state-owned casinos. The firm manages state lottery and casino data systems for gambling jurisdictions worldwide, including Kansas. In April, the firm was tentatively awarded the state's casino data systems contract. But Ed Van Petten, Lottery ...
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Xenocode Releases New Version of Virtual Application Studio
Xenocode, a next-generation virtualization company, today announces the availability of a major update to its flagship product, Xenocode Virtual Application Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1. Virtual Application Studio is a next-generation application virtualization environment that allows Windows, .NET and Java-based desktop applications to be deployed in standalone executables that run instantly ...
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