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Microsoft`s Ballmer Opens Up to Partners
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer offers up a lively Q A for partners on issues ranging from Yahoo to open source software....
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Oct 2005 10:28 UTC
A few weeks ago an "unofficial" preview release of windows XP SP3 hit the web . Now, Microsoft has responded and warned users of this preview package.
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Mullinix, owner of DAPS Service and Repair Store in Mount Airy, was referring to his 35 years in the computer industry. And he plans to make his title of Mr. Geek even more official with plans to open a companion retail store, Mr. Geeks PC Store, on Aug. 4, in the back of his existing repair shop.
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iDeclare! New iPhone going on sale
Apple Inc. will start selling its new iPhone at 8 a.m. Friday nationwide and plans to activate U.S. customer accounts with AT&T Inc. within 15 minutes.
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iDeclare! New iPhone going on sale
Apple Inc. will start selling its new iPhone at 8 a.m. Friday nationwide and plans to activate U.S. customer accounts with AT&T Inc. within 15 minutes.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Microsoft to restart Yahoo talks
Microsoft says it would be willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo Inc, but only if a new Yahoo board is elected - a big boost for financier Carl Icahn's board slate.
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Colbert Bump--Firefox 3 Proves its Existence
"Many of us at Mozilla and within the Mozilla community were excited when Stephen Colbert gave Firefox 3 his 'Colbert Bump' on the day of Firefox 3's launch (a big thanks to Jonathan Zittrain). You can watch the video here.
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Cybercamp focuses on computers, not canoes
Cybercamp Academy sessions this summer at De Anza College will take a high-tech approach to the typical summer day camp experience.
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Justice Breyer a Victim in Data Breach
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's birthday and Social Security number were exposed on the Internet after an employee of Virginia investment firm Wagner Resource Group used an online file-sharing network at his office. The information was stored in the company's private files. The data breach began late last year and ended shortly after a reader of a blog on washingtonpost.com discovered the ...
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Internet a pharmaceutical candy store
Despite new efforts to regulate internet pharmacies, 85% of sites selling controlled drugs do not require a prescription, researchers reported.
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CEO: Microsoft needs to do more `cool' stuff (w/ video)
On a day when most of the buzz surrounded Friday's scheduled debut of Apple's new iPhone, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a crowd in Houston his company must do more "cool" stuff.
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Internet Bug Fix Spawns Backlash From Hackers
Security researchers are criticizing hacker Dan Kaminsky for keeping quiet about technical details of a critical DNS flaw.
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The9 Limited to Begin Close Beta Test of Audition 2 Soon
The9 Limited , a leading online game operator and developer in China, today announced that it will start the close beta test of Audition 2 very soon.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Oct 2007 16:55 UTC
This is the second article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [ part I ]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law , and more.
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Flickr users hit paydirt
Online photo-sharing site Flickr teams up with Getty Images to offer shutterbugs a chance to turn their hobby into a moneymaking endeavor.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Jun 2005 22:11 UTC
After News.com's Friday report that Apple is moving to Intel/x86, the respected publication Wall Street Journal and now NYTimes threw their reputation behind the rumor.
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posted by Owen Anderson on Thu 27th Nov 2003 05:25 UTC
" Code Reading: An Open Source Perspective ", by Diomidis Spinellis , is a new kind of book. It's a foray into a domain normally left untouched by Computer Science texts and exemplifies yet another positive contribution from the Open Source movement.
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Ninemsn moves to calm market fears over turmoil
PBL MEDIA and Microsoft have moved quickly to counter market concerns about the string of senior management departures at ninemsn.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Sep 2007 21:01 UTC
It does not happen every day that news related to computer technology - news we report on every day - makes its way to the headline news programs and newspapers here in my home country, The Netherlands.
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Apple Allowing Free Ad-Supported Apps on App Store
Medialets, a company that got off the ground June 1, is providing a mechanism for developers to include ads in their applications and make them free to iPhone users on the App Store.
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Gmail Collaborate With eBay and PayPal to Fight Phishing
Google has recently announced that it has succeeded in working with eBay and PayPal, also owned by eBay, to fight phishing by using authentication standards DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). According to Google, this is the main tool used by Gamil to keep spam out of its inboxes. However, Brad Taylor, Google's Software said in a blog post, that "these systems can only be ...
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posted by James Kahan on Tue 30th Mar 2004 19:14 UTC
Recently I was in the mood for a new laptop, but have been underwhelmed with the selection of wintel machines available and overwhelmed with the number of security patches for XP. I just needed a small, reliable system that worked.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Feb 2008 14:12
IBM's OS/2 has a great history as a workstation operating system, it was a major alternative OS in the '90s. At its peak time in the mid-'90s OS/2 had about 2 million users but the Windows NT and Windows 95 releases broke its further development.
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The SkyOS team has released a long-awaited update to its operating system. This new update brings full desktop compositing, various toolchain updates (everything is now compiled with GCC 4.1.1), new versions of various applications, 440 fixed bugs, and much more.
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Flickr users hit paydirt
Online photo-sharing site Flickr teams up with Getty Images to offer shutterbugs a chance to turn their hobby into a moneymaking endeavor.
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