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BT in talks to buy Ribbit
BT is in talks to buy Silicon Valley internet-phone software developer Ribbit as it looks to create a one-number web-based communications platform to take on the likes of Google and Skype in the burgeoning online telecoms market. Ribbit, founded two years ago and based near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, claims to be "Silicon Valley's first phone company". It has created software ...
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Obituary: David Caminer
David Caminer, who has died aged 92, was one of the leaders of the postwar computer revolution. When the modern electronic computer was invented in the last years of the second world war, it was seen as a technology that could help in scientific and technical computations - the first American electronic computer, Eniac, was designed specifically to help the military with the calculation of the ...
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Sex, lies and emails: The assassin, the partner and a plot to poison a millionaire
It is a bizarre tale of a would-be assassin who turned out to be an Egyptian poker dealer in Las Vegas, a woman in an unhappy relationship with a tycoon and revelations of a fake marriage, sex clubs in Spain and a Jacobean-style poison plot. They were the ingredients of one of the most unusual murder trials ever heard by Ireland's central criminal court. The case reached its climax this week ...
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Sex, lies and emails: Irish court gripped by bizarre internet murder conspiracy
It is a bizarre tale of a would-be assassin who turned out to be an Egyptian poker dealer in Las Vegas, a woman in an unhappy relationship with a tycoon and revelations of a fake marriage, sex clubs in Spain and a Jacobean-style poison plot. They were the ingredients of one of the most unusual murder trials ever heard by Ireland's central criminal court. The case reached its climax this week ...
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Microsoft kills Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Microsoft has announced plans to kill off Windows for Workgroups (WFW) 3.11 just weeks after ending the sale of Windows XP to consumers.
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Apple opens iPhone 3G App Store
Apple has officially launched the iPhone 3G App Store to promote third-party applications which run natively on the iPhone and iPod Touch, a move it had originally opposed.
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iShould?
Apple's iPhone has finally landed on our shores -- but was it really worth the wait?
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Sonic Solutions plans movie downloads by September
Sonic Solutions will introduce a system that allows retailers and consumers to download movies from the Internet and make their own digital video discs by September, Chief Executive David Habiger said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 17:03 UTC, submitted by Carondelet
An observing poster at the Ubuntu forums unearthed what he says are screenshots of the upcoming Novell Linux Desktop 10. "I was snooping around for details about Novell Linux Desktop 10 and stumbled upon an internal Novell Desktop Design wiki.
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Britons increasingly shop around
LONDON (Reuters) - Shoppers are more footloose than ever before with the retailers they use, seeking out bargains in the economic downturn and enjoying greater choice, partly due to the Internet, a study showed on Friday.
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Linked by Adam S on Thu 10th Jul 2008 16:58 UTC
Gadgetzone.com has an interesting artcile on 20 things Windows 7 MUST include (their emphasis, not mine). They begin " Despite its enhanced security, improved CPU scheduler and excellent stability, it's still the flawed gem in many critics' eyes.
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Review: Hands on with the Apple iPhone 3G
Arriving just over seven months after its predecessor first landed in the UK, the latest version of what some tech fans have dubbed the Jesus phone, addresses some, but not all of the original's problems.
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Packed with power - small to giant computing devices from Acer
Packaging says it all with the latest line of desktops and notebooks from Acer Philippines.
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Service Channels
Cirrus Tech, leading provider of web hosting services, has announced the immediate availability of a new all-in-one dedicated server solution, featuring load balancing, firewall, and VPN capabilities.
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Service Channels
Leading provider of online security solutions, Comodo, offers a new Painless PCI compliance program.
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Age of Conan available to download News by
The game costs just under GBP 40, EUR 50 and USD 50. It comes with 32 days' free play time - that's two more than the boxed copy, "due to the time estimated for downloads".
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Microsoft has plans to cut Xbox 360 price News by
Apparently "sources familiar with the matter" reckon the US price of the 20GB console will drop from USD 349 to USD 299. Adverts are expected to show up in this Sunday's newspapers.
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News Microsoft to Cut XBox Price; Blu-ray Impact Possible The new price is expected to be $299.
Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2008) -- Microsoft will soon cut the price of its Xbox 360 Pro Model from $349 to $299, according to Reuters.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 1st Nov 2001 02:06 UTC
Rocklyte Systems is a New Zealand-based software engineering company and creators of the Athene operating system and Pandora Engine. Athene is an object based operating system that is being developed for use in PC's and embedded systems.
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You'll flip over a new, innovative Acrobat 9
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com Adobe Systems' Acrobat 9 Professional, recently released, is worth every penny of the $459 list price, especially if you work with documents, with forms or with data. In Washington, I believe, that's just about everyone, including most street vendors.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 24th Jun 2007 13:44 UTC
Federkiel writes : "People working with Apple computers are used to a very consistent user experience.
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Recent Original Stories
A recent post about Firefox and my general view of corporations and organizations has caused a bit of a stir. It even caught the attention of Asa Dotzler . He said "It's really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they†re actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight."
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Nigeria: Making ICT Accessible to Rural Farmers
The increasing use of the internet today has become associated with crime, pornography, advanced fee fraud (419) and other forms of unwholesome acts. It is so bad that children especially boys as young as 10 take delight in browsing porn sites.
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Britons increasingly shop around
Shoppers are more footloose than ever before with the retailers they use, seeking out bargains in the economic downturn and enjoying greater choice, partly due to the Internet, a study showed on Friday.
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Business
Perth-based company GoPC is turning heads in Silicon Valley, with its virtual personal computers attracting the interest of more than a few players in the IT industry.
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