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Yahoo Is Inviting Partners to Build on Its Search Power
Yahoo wants to enlist a small army of search start-ups as allies in the hope that collectively they will be able to stop the Google juggernaut.
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Apple’s Latest Opens a Developers’ Playground
When Apple opens its online App Store for iPhone software, Steven P. Jobs will be making an attempt to dominate the next generation of computing as it moves toward Internet-connected mobile devices.
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Review: Wi-Fi radios bring the world home
NEW YORK (AP) — What are you going to listen to? Norway's 24-hour folk music channel Allttid Folkemusikk? The public hearings of the California Integrated Waste Management Board? Radio Banadir — the Most Trusted News in Somalia?
The Indiana Gazette |
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For iPhone, the ‘New’ Is Relative
Apple’s iPhone 3G, which will go on sale on Friday, comes with just a few new bells and whistles.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Henry S. Cason III, 63
Computer specialist Henry S. Cason III, a retired computer specialist and Vietnam veteran, died Sunday of renal failure at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The Belcamp resident was 63.
Baltimore Sun |
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Murrysville library offer gets lukewarm reception
At last week's council meeting, Export Mayor Bob Campagna said he had received an offer from the Murrysville Community Library to have a service outlet in the borough with an Internet connection that would be linked to other libraries in the Westmorel read more »
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Firaxis conquers new worlds
Second 'Civilization' comes to consoles It's probably safe to describe fans of the PC strategy game Civilization as cultlike. When a sequel was being designed in 2004, an online community of self-proclaimed "CivFanatics" drafted a 300-page "wish list" of things it wanted to see in the game and sent it to Hunt Valley-based Firaxis Games.
Baltimore Sun |
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Feb 2004 07:51 UTC
One of the features geeks really miss on OSX's Unix environment are the virtual screens. Apple tried to address this need with the introduction of the excellent Expose, but all things fair, Expose doesn't do the same thing.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Oct 2006 22:02 UTC
Microsoft, of all companies, continues to lead the way with free and loose licensing terms around server virtualization software and multi-core processors.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2006 12:44 UTC
"The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team released its year-end summary of computer vulnerabilities. While Windows is regarded as the most insecure operating system, the US-CERT found four times as many vulnerabilities specifically related to Unix and Linux.
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Can you count on those recipes from the Internet?
How reliable are Internet recipes? No more reliable than recipes that are not on the Internet -- and possibly a lot less. Would you try a recipe given to you by someone you had never met or heard of? Well, consider if that someone posted a recipe on an Internet site, Google would find it. Google does not ask questions such as ''Do you know how to cook?'' or even ''Do you exist?'' before it ...
Miami Herald |
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California state worker probed in ID security breach
A state worker recently married to a member of the Mexican Mafia who is in Corcoran State Prison for a gang murder is herself under investigation for downloading more than 5,000 names, addresses and Social Security numbers belonging to Department of Consumer Affairs staff, The Bee has learned.
The Sacramento Bee |
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EDUCATION: High gas prices fuel boom in online classes
Add college life to the lengthening list of American institutions changing swiftly because of spiking gasoline prices.
North County Times |
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MIKE WENDLAND: What makes the iPhone 3G hot and not so hot
Friday promises to be a dizzying day for Apple fans. There's the iPhone 3G, the release of hundreds of new programs that will work on both the new phones and the first-generation versions, too; and Apple's new MobileMe service, which replaces the mac.com e-mail, file sharing and online synchronization center.
Detroit Free Press |
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Patch on way for Net security flaw
Security researchers say they have discovered an enormous flaw that could let hackers steer most people using corporate computer networks...
Seattle Times |
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The Matrix
In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world.
East Bay Express |
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Who coined the phrase Web 2.0?
1. In which city would you find this cigarette stub? ( Please refer to the pic to the left ) a) London b) Paris c) Berlin 2. Which company coined the phrase Web 2.0?
rediff.com |
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Invasion or technology aid? Local residents react to their homes appearing on Web
Invasion or technology aid? Local residents react to their homes appearing on Web Thanks to a controversial feature that has been added to the popular Google Maps search engine, scaling a substantial height is no longer necessary to invoke the phrase, "I can see my house from here.
The Ukiah Daily Journal |
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Is Perverted Justice safe?
Perverted Justice’s Web site boasts that Bing Liang, also known as “chicago_naperville,” was the 277th Internet sexual predator whom the citizen group has helped convict since June 2004.
Northwest Herald |
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Wyoming County ends CAD contract
TUNKHANNOCK — Wyoming County commissioners approved Tuesday a letter that officially terminates a contract with a Montana company that was supposed to develop a computer-aided dispatch system for county 911 operations.
The Citizens' Voice |
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Largest NZ uni picks Google Apps
New Zealand's largest university, the University of Auckland, today revealed it would roll out Google's online email and office suite to its 50,000 students, staff and alumni.
ZDNet Australia |
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Gas prices drive away students
Colleges tie growth of online classes to fuel costs.
Long Beach Press-Telegram |
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Apple iPhone expansion runs risks
Apple Inc.'s iPhone has had a remarkable run over the past year, shaking up the stodgy design of cell phones and securing Apple a lucrative slice of the wireless business.
Courier-Post |
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New Jersey designer builds fortress for the computer age
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Jerry Lyons says bring on hurricane-force winds, smoke and gas, explosions, high pressure water, leaking water pipes or a disgruntled employee: His modular structures can take them.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 10th Jul 2008 01:47 UTC
Haha, 8Mhz, yeah I can remember those times. Today, even mobile phones have up to 600MHz!! I can remember that it wasn't long ago where Intel announced the 1Ghz-breakthrough for desktop computers! Now it won't be long until mobile phones run at 1GHz or more! This is just breathtaking.
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