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Leak confirmed as next 15-inch MacBook Pro?
An apparent MacBook Pro case leak has been confirmed as legitimate, says AppleInsider. The aluminum shell is described as a prototype but one which is fundamentally similar to what will be used for the future 15-inch MacBook Pro and will mark a first significant redesign since the system's 2006 launch: the narrower but longer battery design will a...
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PC World Finds Apple Laptops Cheaper Than PC Laptops
If you want to compare apples to PCs, don't buy into the old hype that MacBooks and MacBook Pros cost more than a PC laptop, according to the Windows-oriented PC World magazine. The magazine compared Apple's MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air to similarly configured laptops from Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and found that Apple's offerings were the cheaper, with a caveat or two
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Congress studies how people track your online use
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 at 1:25 p.m. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Executives from major Internet players — Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. — are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc.
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IBM lays off 30 employees at RTP
The 30 were among 150 people whose jobs were eliminated nationally, said John Buscemi, director of communications for IBM North America.
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Recent Original Stories
South Africa native and current London resident Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd. and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, told DesktopLinux.com Friday in an interview that widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop - so long-awaited by many people.
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Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet
selil writes "A story popped up on the ChicagoBoyz Blog. It says 'Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who would like very much to reimpose the old, so-called, "Fairness Doctrine" that once censored conservative opinion on television and radio broadcasting, is scheming to impose rules barring any member of Congress from posting opinions on any internet site without first obtaining prior ...
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N. Vallejo center to expand
The North Vallejo Community Center, home to birthday parties, church meetings, karate lessons and computer classes, might expand into a base for community development in the Country Club Crest. The Vallejo Housing and Redevelopment Commission and the Greater Vallejo
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posted by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 9th Jul 2008 16:00
Today at our sister site New Mobile Computing : "Sharp revizes Zaurus Linux PDA", "Sony Releases a Lighter, Thinner Laptop", "Nokia confirms N-Gage hack, pursues pirates", "Verizon launches Samsung SPH-i600", "Nokia shows first GSM push-to-talk phone".
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 21st Mar 2005 11:22 UTC
2003 was the year with Gentoo written all over it in the Linux universe. Last year was Ubuntu's & MEPIS'. I believe that Arch Linux 's year is the current one. Read more for a comparison of Arch to existing distributions, and why we think it rocks and where we think it still requires some work.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Feb 2007 21:46 UTC
"For years, the lightweight Xfce has been a popular desktop environment for Linux distributions running on older hardware, thanks to its lower demand on resources as compared to KDE and GNOME; it's an ideal desktop for machines with less than 256MB of memory.
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Artificial intelligence takes home the pot at the poker table
Last weekend, the best man at the table was a machine. Polaris, the University of Alberta poker playing computer program, took on professional players in Las Vegas and came out on top. Like last year's challenge, when the program was edged out in the final match, the final result came down to the wire.
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Google Analytics under investigation by German privacy officials [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
My German sucks, so here are the basics: The Datenschutzbeauftragten — roughly "Data Protection Commisioners" — in Germany's Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein regions believe that Google... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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GetEducated.com Online Education Survey Ranks Top Best Consumer Buys in Online Engineering Graduate Schools and Master ...
GetEducated.com, LLC, America's consumer-oriented, online education research firm, has released the results of their national higher education survey of tuition costs at accredited, distance-learning engineering graduate school degree programs. The online education survey ranks and recommends 28 engineering schools as Consumer Best Buy Online Universities, offering brand name graduate degrees ...
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Google Launches Virtual World 'Lively'
Free service strikes chord similar to Second Life, Sony's Home.
1up.com |
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Aegis Mini Portable Drive Now in 160GB Capacity
Apricorn on Wednesday introduced a 160GB version of its Aegis Mini, an external pocket-sized portable hard disk drive with USB...
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Mininova Adds Remote BitTorrent Downloads [BitTorrent]
Popular BitTorrent tracker Mininova has unveiled a new bookmarking feature that makes it easy to start a BitTorrent download on your home computer from anywhere. The new feature works by creating a...
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Mobile Internet Not Enough For U.S. Cell Phone Users
The wish list includes longer battery life, larger screen size, more memory, and improved data input, a Nielsen survey found.
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Step Right Up! 2K Play Announces Carnival Games(TM) for Nintendo DS(TM) Now Available
NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- 2K Play, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced Carnival Games(TM) for Nintendo DS (TM) is now available at retailers throughout North America.
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Off the WALL-E
Pixar director surfs from sea to space... By Curt Holman When Pixar Animation Studios created Toy Story for Disney in 1994, film executives wondered whether an audience would sit still for 75 minutes to watch an entirely computer-animated film. Roughly 14 years later, executives cut from the same cloth wonder if audiences will sit still for cartoon features that aren't animated on computers. The ...
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Solar-powered asteroids make their own moons
Most asteroids with moonlets started off as solitary bodies that split in two while sunbathing, new computer simulations suggest
New Scientist |
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Obama faces online criticism for switch
CHICAGO, July 9 (UPI) -- Likely Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama is facing an online mutiny by disappointed supporters, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.
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Download these IBM resources today!
eKit: Web Application Security Discover how IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition can help you detect vulnerabilities in your Web applications.
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Trusting the Cloud: Timing and Adoption of Cloud Technologies
Cloud technologies offer many benefits over traditional IT systems, especially when managing the size and vastness of unstructured data and unpredictable growth in IT environments. But when does it make sense to adopt cloud technologies and migrate a set of your IT services to the cloud? The movement of information and services out of the data center and into the cloud can unleash fear in many ...
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Unisys to set up anti-crime system at Singapore bank
Computer-technology-services company Unisys Corp., Blue Bell, says that its Singapore subsidiary will implement an advanced financial crime surveillance system for Singapore-based DBS Bank that monitors transactions and analyzes potentially suspicious patterns in the banking network.
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Enterhost Partners with AJAX-driven SmarterTools
Enterhost, in order to provide business communication software for its dedicated server clients, has renewed its partnership with SmarterTools.
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