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Giambi falls short in All-Star voting
PITTSBURGH -- Jason Giambi's consolation prize is four days in Las Vegas. Despite the mustache-themed campaign to get Giambi to Tuesday's All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees first baseman yesterday lost out in the internet voting to select the final player on the AL roster.
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Bill targets ticket-grab software
When the 7,000 Carolina Panthers tickets available to the general public for each home game sell out fast, team officials can't help but suspect scalpers are using sophisticated computer software to gobble them up. Panthers director of ticket sales and operations Phil Youtsey said there's no hard evidence of hacking. “(But) it happens so quick that we sometimes wonder,” Youtsey said. A bill in ...
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LCD TVs blamed for global warming 11 Jul 2008, 1311 hrs IST,ANI
WASHINGTON: A recent study has found nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a chemical which is found in the LCD panels of several electronic devices, to have a global climate impact 17,000 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2).
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posted by Adam S on Wed 18th Jun 2008 22:50
Dusty-Computing is now open! A collaboration between TipMonkies.com , OSNews.com and Expert-Zone.com , Dusty-Computing aims to become the biggest archive of old and/or exotic computer systems (BeBox, NeXT, SPARC, SGI, Altos etc) on the Net. In order to achieve that goal, we need your help . Use our form to describe your hardware, its modifications, condition, software, how you acquired it, etc. ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 8th Jun 2007 03:44 UTC
"In " Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face ," we began our extensive assessment of Windows Vista with a focus on the changes to the graphical framework of Windows. We also talked about improvements to the general Windows API, the media foundation, and improvements in sound.
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The Internet voted ' the best thing since sliced bread'
Melbourne, July 11 : The results are in, and the World Wide Web has been declared as the 'best thing' to ever happen to us humans since the invention of the Rohwedder Bread Slicing machine that cut bread into perfect slices back in 1928.
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Recent Original Stories
South Africa native and current London resident Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd. and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, told DesktopLinux.com Friday in an interview that widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop - so long-awaited by many people.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Nov 2006 22:56 UTC
"Often cast as the peacemaker in free software disputes, Bruce Perens is on the warpath . When we caught up with him, he wasn't in a mood to be charitable to Novell.
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Fujitsu, Siemens in talks over future of their JV : Sources
Siemens AG and Fujitsu Ltd are in talks over the future of their Fujitsu Siemens Computers joint venture, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Sina, NetEase and Tencent clear Beijing Olympic broadcasting hurdle
Shanghai. July 11. INTERFAX-CHINA - Chinese online portals Sina, NetEase and Tencent have been authorized by CCTV.com, the Web site of China's national state broadcaster, to co-broadcast the Beijing Olympic Games, Chinese portal Hexun reported on July 11.
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In line for the iPhone
West Hartford (WTNH, July 11, 2008 6:19 AM) -- Those who crave the latest gadgets are celebrating the release late this morning of Apple's new iPhone.
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How Google's Virtual World Will Change the Real One
Google launched a "beta" 3D virtual environment platform yesterday called Lively . The product has been compared to the virtual world "Second Life," but with a difference: Lively isn't one giant world, but individual "rooms" or size-limited "spaces" that can be embedded into Web pages or even FaceBook profiles.
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Games industry calls for single rating system
Ian Williams, vnunet.com , Friday 11 July 2008 at 11:23:00 Europe needs one standard, says ELSPA The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) has called on Europe to adopt a single rating system for video games....
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Apple's new iPhone snapped up in Asia and Europe
LONDON/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Apple's (AAPL.O) new iPhone made its hotly awaited debut on Friday, with buyers storming stores in Asia and queues forming in European cities.
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iPhone hype blows into town
Employees at Rogers Wireless stores across the country will be a busy bunch today. The reason: iPhone mania has hit Canada, and its devout followers are sure to make a mad dash to pick up Apple's latest technological barn burner. Rogers Wireless stores in Niagara Falls might [...]
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Viacom wins victory over privacy
HUA HIN, Thailand - The fight over online privacy went further this week as media and entertainment behemoth Viacom won a few more rounds against Internet search giant Google in its billion-dollar lawsuit.
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Ontario joins electronics recycling program;
A new fee on electronics products will help establish a recycling system in Ontario for electronic waste, but critics said Thursday that the cost of keeping televisions and computers out of landfills should come out of corporate profits and not consumers' wallets. Starting next April, manufacturers of televisions, [...]
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Apple's new iPhone snapped up in Asia and Europe
Apple's new iPhone made its hotly awaited debut on Friday, with buyers storming stores in Asia and queues forming in European cities.
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posted by Charles Goodwin on Mon 27th May 2002 23:20 UTC
I keep reading review after review after review of the current crop of linux distributions. And everytime I'm annoyed at the end. I'm not annoyed by the style, or the comments, but more at the way they always end far too soon?
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Area tech entrepreneurs get tips on funding
Norman Rapino, an owner of IP Dynamics LLC in Toledo, is looking for capital to expand his company. Rocket Ventures, the venture capital wing of the Regional Growth Partnership, has more than $22 million in state and private grant funds to aid northwest Ohio businesses. But area businesses have struggled to secure local and state funds for high-technology research. In a five-year period when ...
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Recent Original Stories
The cooperation between the XGL and AIGLX projects to bring better interfaces for the Linux desktop continues as David Reveman (Novell) of XGL has agreed to adopt many changes from the AIGLX project sent in by Kristian Hogsberg (Red Hat).
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Recent Original Stories
When Dell put up its IdeaStorm community-feedback site, the company was surprised by the strong response in favor of shipping personal computers with Linux.
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Games industry calls for single rating system
The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) has called on Europe to adopt a single rating system for video games.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 21st Jan 2006 22:40 UTC
"The combination of Mono, Gtk#, C#, Glade, Glade# and Monodevelop will get you knocking out desktop and Web apps like a pro in no time.
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Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Thu 10th Jul 2008 16:37 UTC
The Linux desktop has come a long, long way, but there are still times when I have to use the command line . (I am a hardcore user, after all.) But even though I'm used to typing, spending hours upon hours with my fingers at the keyboard, I still grow tired of typing the same commands over and over.
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