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Comcast will work with Vonage on Internet traffic
Comcast Corp. said today it will collaborate with Holmdel-based Vonage Holdings Corp., the leading independent Internet phone service, to make sure that Internet calling will work well for its subscribers.
Asbury Park Press |
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Comcast to work with Vonage on Internet traffic
Comcast Corp. said Wednesday it will collaborate with Vonage Holdings Corp., the leading independent Internet phone service, to make sure that Internet calling will work well for its subscribers. Comcast, the country's largest cable company, is being...
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Bush to sign bill overhauling eavesdropping regs
President Bush said Wednesday he will soon sign a bill that overhauls the rules on secret government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped, calling it a "vital intelligence bill."
Tri-City Herald |
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Murdoch: No deals for News Corp. in Sun Valley
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch plans to forgo making deals at this year's Allen & Co. media retreat, dampening the five-day event renowned as an incubator for big-time media and Web combinations. "Not today, not this week," Murdoch told reporters Wednesday morning on his way to the annual retreat's opening breakfast. Murdoch built his media and entertainment empire through brash dealmaking ...
The State |
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Intel Ready with Centrino 2 Laptop Platform
After a delay, the new Intel Centrino 2 laptop platform will debut July 14 and will offer the latest Core 2 Duo notebook processors, enhanced graphics and wireless technology with vendors from Hewlett-Packard to Lenovo preparing new laptop models....
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MS Security Patch Blocks Net Access For ZoneAlarm Users
An anonymous reader writes "Users of Check Point ZoneAlarm security products, including the extremely popular, free-of-charge software firewall, have discovered that a Microsoft security update released on Tuesday has blocked their internet access. The firewall manufacturer is 'investigating the issue,' and so far the workaround seems to be to uninstall the recent DNS spoofing vulnerability fix ...
Slashdot |
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Italian lawyers use open source software to move online
Just a few years ago, getting complex legal assistance from a lawyer you never met in person would have been unthinkable. Today, however, many people carry on relationships online; why not conduct business with your lawyer online as well? One Italian firm already works this way, using open source software as much as it can.
NewsForge |
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Researchers Create Enhanced Light Sources For Lithography
A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry`s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices. So far, the semiconductor industry has been successful in its consistent efforts to reduce feature size on a chip. Smaller features mean denser packing of transistors, which leads to more powerful computers, more ...
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New Vimeo boss mocks Jakob Lodwick's pet wantrepreneur [Andrew Pile]
On Monday, we posted Muxtape founder Justin Ouellette's accidentally-emailed-to-the-Internet photo of a napkin on which he'd scribbled details of his investment deal with Jakob Lodwick. Lodwick, best... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag |
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Comcast to work with Vonage on Internet traffic
Comcast Corp. said Wednesday it will collaborate with Vonage Holdings Corp., the leading independent Internet phone service, to make sure that Internet calling will work well for its subscribers.
Centre Daily Times |
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How Google's Virtual World Will Change the Real One
Google launched a "beta" 3D virtual environment platform yesterday called Lively . The product has been compared to the virtual world "Second Life," but with a difference: Lively isn't one giant world, but individual "rooms" or size-limited "spaces" that can be embedded into Web pages or even FaceBook profiles.
IT Management |
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VDIworks Ties up with Microsoft
Management capabilities for Hyper-V strengthen Microsoft's position in the virtualization market, as VMware reels from its sudden change of leadership.
InternetNews.com |
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Sun, Intel Push Optimized Solaris
SAN FRANCISCO – Eighteen months after Sun Microsystems and Intel made peace and announced plans for Intel-based servers as well as working together on Intel-optimized software, the two companies held a briefing with reporters here Tuesday to update their progress and future direction.
IT Management |
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How Google's Virtual World Will Change the Real One
Google launched a "beta" 3D virtual environment platform yesterday called Lively . The product has been compared to the virtual world "Second Life," but with a difference: Lively isn't one giant world, but individual "rooms" or size-limited "spaces" that can be embedded into Web pages or even FaceBook profiles.
IT Management |
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KOREA: Ad boycott campaigners face summons
About 20 Internet users have been restricted from overseas travel following their postings calling for a boycott of companies running advertisements in conservative newspapers that were critical of candlelit vigils protesting the resumption of American beef imports.
AsiaMedia |
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Mobile Linux groups merge
— Jun. 26, 2008 — [Updated: Jun. 26, 2008] -- The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum announced that it will fold its standards-development activities and membership into the LiMo Foundation in July. The merge appears to bring British Telecom and Telecom Italia to LiMo, along with several key technology vendors.
Linux Devices |
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The ReadyBoard 820
Ampro has upgraded its ruggedized ReadyBoard 820 (pictured below), which first shipped in late 2006. The SBC features Intel's 1.4GHz Pentium M 738, which can be swapped out for a low-power Celeron M, says Ampro.
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At the outset of his presentation at the opening session of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs showed a slide of a stool with three legs to describe the company’s businesses: Macintosh, music and the iPhone.
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Senators Weigh Possible Rules for Advertising and Online Privacy
The Senate Commerce Committee began Wednesday to look at how online companies collect and use data about Internet users for advertising, and was told by several big Internet companies that it needs to pass a new law to enforce privacy standards for a range of online and offline activites.
New York Times |
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NJ GOP Club takes Obama-O.J. slogan off Web site
A local Republican Club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its Web site that read, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole."
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Online security still a prime concern for Americans, finds Mintel
New research from Mintel shows that Americans are increasingly worried about the safety of their identities and financial information online. In a recent consumer survey, Mintel found that two-thirds of adults (65%) are more concerned about online security now than they were five years ago. Over a quarter (28%) of respondents to Mintel's survey say they are "significantly" more concerned.
Centre Daily Times |
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Acer's Aspire One on sale in America, said to be shipping
Filed under: Laptops Acer played it safe early last month by telling Americans to expect its Aspire One "later this year," but just a month and change after UKers had the privilege of toying with one on video, here she comes. So far, we're seeing a couple of variations for sale here in the US, two of which include the $399.99 A110-1295 (8GB SSD) and the $422.99 A150-1006 (120GB ...
Engadget |
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Guidance Software to Announce Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results on Thursday, August 7, 2008
Guidance Software (NASDAQ:GUID), the world leader in digital investigations(TM), will report its financial results for the second quarter 2008 on Thursday, August 7, 2008 after market close.
Centre Daily Times |
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Google set to conquer virtual world
As if Google didn't have a strong enough hold on the planet, on Tuesday it has launched its own world - a virtual world, to be exact.
Express India |
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Control VM Sprawl Before It Controls You
While organizations and IT staff continue to see the many benefits of implementing virtualization, the challenge of controlling virtual infrastructures is quickly arising as a top management priority. Virtualization benefits are offset by issues such as security, administration, increased costs, compliance and configuration management. Managing Virtual Machine (VM) sprawl is of growing concern ...
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