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Blog: Becoming a Renaissance Man
Once again, it is time. For reasons incomprehensible to me, my friends, and even my enemies (you know who you are), the beneficent powers at Condé Nast Traveler magazine have decided to send me on another trip. The timing couldn't be be better, considering I've only just recovered from my last excursion.
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AMD Launches Business Class Computer Brand
AMD has launched its first computer brand, Business Class, with desktop systems designed specifically for businesses...and notebooks to follow later.
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Apple Speeds Up iMac CPUs, Graphics
Apple has updated its all-in-one desktop Macs with faster processors and revved up graphics, including options for a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo and Nvidia GeForce 8800 GS graphics.
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Sun Microsystems Names Mike Splain Executive Vice President of Microelectronics Group: Splain Brings More Than 25 ...
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that it has named Mike Splain executive vice president of the Microelectronics Group. Splain will report to CEO and president Jonathan Schwartz and joins the company's Executive Leadership Team. A Sun fellow, Splain is a 20-year Sun veteran with broad management and technical expertise across microelectronics and systems. In his added role ...
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Laptops Stolen at C.M.U.
There's just one week of classes left, and some university students are going without computers. Seven laptops were stolen from two residence halls at Central Michigan University over the weekend.
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"Who is your Hybrid" Is Becoming a Social Networking Question
A people watching bar game is quickly becoming an internet social networking anomaly. The website www.thehumanhybrid.com has the net asking the question "Who is your hybrid"? (PRWeb Apr 28, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb898364.htm
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Slow mail service hampers military voting
E-mail could speed process, but states are wary of using it. U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan can speak to their families by Web camera and fight insurgents using sophisticated electronic warfare. Yet when it comes to voting, most troops are stuck in the past.
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Microsoft Office Labs Looks to Make Office Better
Among Microsoft Office Labs' first wares are Search Command and Community Clips...
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Dell to continue Windows XP sales post June 30
Dell will not be honoring Microsoft’s decision to stop offering Windows XP as an operating system choice after June 30 this year. Instead, it will be using the Microsoft “downgrade” license scheme to ensure it can continue to offer the older OS. The downgrade license is available to users who buy a machine with either Vista [...]
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Honoring Earth Week, Angstrom Microsystems Corp.(TM) Is Hosting Its First Green Financial Forum
Angstrom Microsystems Corp., a green computing solutions company announces its first financial forum for the advancement of green data center technologies. Hosted on May 1 2008 at the Langham Hotel in Boston, Angstrom plans to discuss and demonstrate the viability of a variety of data center solutions showcasing its energy saving liquid cooling technology.
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Put More Fervor in Corporate Servers
Diskeeper Corporation will be at Interop showcasing its newly certified Diskeeper® 2008 Server for Microsoft Windows Server 2008. This is the most automated defragmenter ever built for IT Managers or Admins seeking performance and reliability gains on corporate servers.
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US puts India on watch list for IPR violations
The US government has put India on its 'Priority Watch List', along with nine other countries, saying that the country's failure to protect Intellectual Property Rights is putting health, safety and jobs of its citizens at risk.
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Rent to Own: Most Flexible Consumer Transaction in the Market Today
The rent to own industry continues to better explain the value of the rent to own transaction and it is paying off with more customers and business. Two consecutive marketing rent to own studies conducted by the Trenholm Research Group showed the general public knows very little about rent to own and what they do know is incorrect regarding rent to own appliances, furniture, computers, and ...
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Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists
fyoder writes "Within the world of One Laptop per Child, both the Negropontistas and the Benderites envision a future for Sugar where it runs on multiple platforms, but the latter don't want Windows (or closed source anything) as part of that future. OLPC's emphasis has always seemed to me to be on Sugar, with Linux simply being a smart technical choice for the underlying os. Yet what is ...
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Coldplay to release their new single free online
Coldplay will release their next single free over the internet and play two free concerts in London and New York, it was announced today.
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Microsoft adds mobile RFID support to BizTalk server
— Apr. 17, 2008 — Microsoft has added support for Windows Mobile-based RFID devices to its BizTalk BPM (business process management) server.
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Microsoft denies a link between IIS and SQL injection attacks
An apparent rash of SQL injection attacks on Web sites was reported by a Finnish security firm late last week, though a case of "guilt by implication" led to speculation that a privilege escalation vulnerability was the cause.
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Social Networks: Skimpy Coverage for Users' Private Parts
Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can. "I don't want to have to worry about all the different online scandals and problems," says Brown, an education major at St. Joseph College in Connecticut.
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Cyber-squatters target Mayoral hopefuls
Online opportunists are attempting to cash in on Londoners looking for information on the three main candidates in this week's Mayoral election. Cyber-squatters have registered dozens of key domain names relating to Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick.
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Earnings: Sohu Q1 Revs up 156 Percent; Stock Spikes
Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) last week, and now Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU), it's a good time to be a Chinese internet firm: the provider of search, games and mobile services reported Q1 revs of $84.8 million, a 156 percent increase from the year-ago quarter. Just on a sequential basis, revenue was up 30 percent. Net income of $21.6 million of $21.6 million ($.55 per share) more than tripled from a year ago. ...
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Verdict in Hans Reiser murder case -- and fate of Reiser4 -- imminent
The fate of the Reiser4 file system for Linux may well depend on a verdict rendered by a California jury this week. As an Alameda County jury continues to deliberate the fate of Hans Reiser, the designer of the Reiser File System for Linux who is accused of murdering...
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Old Bailey puts criminal cases online
Records of proceedings at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 have been put online today. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey has been developed by a group of universities including Sheffield, Hertfordshire and the Open University.
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Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization Uses Limehouse Software to Gather Public Feedback
MIAMI----The Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization has selected Limehouse Software, the global leader in collaboration, publishing and citizen engagement software, to help create its 2009 Unified Planning Work Program , a document that will outline the organization's activities for the upcoming year.
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Uganda: MTN Accuses Warid of Network Interruptions
MTN Uganda and Warid Telecom were recently involved in a dispute sparked by allegations of Warid's illegal use of MTN's WIMAX wireless internet network frequencies, which severely disrupted service to the company's customers.
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Red Hat CEO: Opportunity Lies in Emerging Markets
Red Hat will look primarily to emerging markets, not the United States, to expand service sales in the coming years, chief executive Jim Whitehurst said. Red Hat sells services that support open source software, or software whose underlying code is shared freely by professionals and amateurs worldwide.
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