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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Sep 2005 17:23 UTC
The recent Blade.org announcement heralds that IBM and Intel are looking to standardize blade hardware designs, allowing blade systems from multiple vendors to work together. It's no surprise that Intel is interested in this -- its own ATX standard has been a massive success.
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META Keywords Don't Matter According to US Court
At Search Engine Land , Barry writes about how a US court has decided that META keywords don't matter -- they are "immaterial." The tip came from Eric Goldman's blog where he writes about a recent case that held a company responsible for including trademarked terms in their meta tags. In this case, because search engines don't use the actual META tags, there is no case. Jill Whalen says ...
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Broadcom Bows 10-Gig Transceiver
LAS VEGAS -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced a new 65 nanometer (nm) 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical layer (PHY) transceiver to support IEEE 802.3 10GBASE-T operation over 100 meters of Category 6A unshielded twisted pair (UTP) or Category 7 cables.
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Huddle syncs up with Facebook
Huddle.net, a website that lets teams up people share information online for projects, has debuted new features that let users integrate their Huddle work with other applications.
Netimperative |
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Zattoo offers major terrestrial channels live online
TV to PC platform Zattoo has extended its channel line up in the UK, showing all five UK terrestrial channels online via one media player for the first time ever.
Netimperative |
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One in three Brits banking online
One out of three UK Internet users banked online in January 2008, with Lloyds TSB the most popular brand, according to new research.
Netimperative |
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Steve Ballmer can't hear your 'Save XP' pleas
Last week we at InfoWorld almost broke out the champagne. At an event in Belgium on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company might reconsider its decision to stop selling Windows XP on June 30. An Associated Press report quoted him as saying: "If customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter."
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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Private eye sues Google over 'unwanted ads'
Lawyers acting for an American private detective claim hundreds of thousands of companies that signed up to advertise on Google might have been deceived into paying for adverts they did not want. The private detective has launched a legal action against the search engine, and his attorneys want the lawsuit to become a class action, which could cost the company millions of dollars if he is ...
Belfast Telegraph |
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Ubuntu on Windows: Wubi
Wubi, which installs Ubuntu on a Windows machine, is a good idea, but indifferently executed.
Datamation |
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Slow start for fast cash transfer
A banking scheme for one-day cash transfers over the phone or on the internet will have a slow start.
BBC News |
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Dell Evades Windows XP's June 30 Cutoff
By exercising so-called "downgrade rights" included with certain copies of Vista, Dell can preinstall Windows XP on its machines well into the future - but consumers still foot the bill for Vista.
DesignTechnica |
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Microsoft Profits Fall in the Fiscal Third Quarter
Microsoft profits fall 32 percent in the fiscal third quarter.
WJTV Jackson |
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Strippers can't compete with Internet
The number of strippers and strip clubs in Toronto is declining, with former dancers blaming the Internet for putting them out of work.
UPI |
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Google-Yahoo Deal Has 80 Percent of Search Ad Market, Must Deal With Regulators
Which is worse Google-Yahoo or Google-Microsoft; the question sounds silly, but its what regulators may have to decide...
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Payment fraud moves to Internet in Europe, says Commission
Despite recent efforts to clamp down on electronic payments fraud, the crime is still rife and is undermining citizens' confidence in buying and selling over the internet, the European Commission said Monday.
IT World |
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Meme brains discuss what makes lolcats funny
From photos of cats that look like Hitler to YouTube videos of sneezing pandas, from "Rickrolling" stunts to witty dinosaur comics, internet virals are now almost impossible to avoid.
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Opening Glance: most Internet software, services stocks rise
Internet software and services stocks mostly rose modestly Monday morning with the broader market as investors awaited any further news of possible negotiations between Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
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Russia's RBC Media Q1 sales up 46 pct to $46.2 mln
MOSCOW, April 28 - Russian media group RBC said on Monday its first-quarter sales rose by 46 percent to $46.2 million, driven by rapid expansion in Internet advertising and services.
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Maximizing Cost Efficiency with Embedded Computer Technology
The prognosis for the medical device market is healthy. But the expanding market attracts more and more competitors. The competition for business growth and better return on investment places unrelenting pressure on today's medical equipment OEMs.
Medical Device Link |
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BurnAgain FS enters public beta
Freeridecoding has opened a public beta for a new application, BurnAgain FS. Unlike some of the company's other programs, which operate entirely under a separate window, FS lets users change the data on a CD or DVD through Finder. It does this by mounting a disc as if it were a hard drive, in turn letting users add, edit and delete files multiple...
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Washington DC
WESTVILLE, Ind. ( Map ) - WESTVILLE, Ind. , April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless has activated two new cell sites in LaPorte County that expand network coverage, enabling more customers to use their wireless phones concurrently to make calls; send and receive email and text, picture and video messages; download games and ringtones; and browse the mobile Internet, while enjoying clearer ...
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Washington DC
LAS VEGAS , April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (Interop, Booth #1051) Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT ) today announced the addition of the PTP 500 Series of Wireless Ethernet Bridges to its portfolio of MOTOwi4(TM) Fixed Point-to-Point (PTP) solutions.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Western Digital's VelociRaptor primes data center charge
'We'll organic our way in' Number two hard drive supplier Western Digital, not currently an enterprise drive supplier, appears to be readying itself to ship 2.5-inch enterprise SAS drives.…
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 22:45 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Ext3 has become one of the most popular Linux filesystems. However, with hard drives sneaking up on a terabyte, concerns exist that ext3 won't be able to handle 21st-century storage requirements.
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Anti-trust/Competition
In a case closely-watched by the high technology community, this week the D.C. Circuit Court set aside the FTC’s landmark order against Rambus Incorporated, which had sought to limit royalties Rambus could charge for certain patented DRAM technology that had been incorporated into various industry standards.
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