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Cover Story: Comcast Combats Customer Service Complaints With Software
Comcast in recent years has built an ambitious reputation on Wall Street, acquiring other companies to become the nation’s largest video provider, and rolling out digital phone service to become the fourth-largest telephone company in the U.S.
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Microblogs: No Tidbit Too Trivial, No Moment Too Mundane
In cyberspace, no status update is too small to share with friends, family and strangers, including this: In Franklin, Tenn., an office worker reports that he just shuffled over from his desk to the couch. A biker in Orange, Calif., is headed to Starbucks. Elsewhere in California, someone just got coffee up his nose.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Kids to sample pioneer life at cabin
Long before there was fast food or computers, a meal would have been caught from the St. Joseph River and folks would have communicated using a quill and ink.
South Bend Tribune |
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Prize for helping silver surfers
AN initiative aimed at helping elderly people in the Capital learn computer skills has won a UK award.
The Scotsman |
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Recent Original Stories
Kelly Wilson ported the Gnash Flash player clone to Syllable [ screenshot ], enabling the playing of Adobe Flash content. It uses the Boost C++ libraries, the SDL and Anti-Grain Geometry libraries for graphics rendering and FFMPEG for multimedia decoding.
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The Do-Good Imperative
When I first read about the computer designed for the One Laptop Per Child project, I wanted one. Not because it was adorable, cheap or a means of doing good (to buy one you had to buy a second for a child in a poor country). I coveted its screen, designed for use in full daylight. Even my Apple MacBook Pro, with all its clever tricks, can't manage that.
LinuxInsider.com |
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Squeezing the Internet for Political Cash, Part 1: Follow the Leader
As the heated Democratic primary race came to a conclusion last month, much discussion centered on presumptive nominee Barack Obama's superior fundraising. Hillary Clinton started the race with an edge among deep-pocket donors, but Obama roared to the nomination finish line with a substantial fundraising lead.
E-Commerce Times |
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Blendtec mashes new iPhone in YouTube video
While hundreds camped overnight outside many AT&T stores nationwide, including one at the University Mall, for Apple Inc.'s Friday launch of the much-hyped new iPhone 3G, Blendtec founder Tom Dickson blended his as part of an infomercial for YouTube.
Provo Daily Herald |
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FCC chief hopes Comcast sanction serves as warning
The nation's top telecommunications regulator says a recommendation to punish Comcast Corp. for allegedly blocking subscribers' Internet traffic should serve as a warning to other service providers.
WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Apr 2006 20:29 UTC
Microsoft told a European Union court on Monday that regulators had completely misunderstood thriving competition in the software market in issuing a landmark antitrust ruling against the giant U.S. company.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Mar 2008 22:21 UTC
A new version of Mozilla's popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.
New Mobile Computing |
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iPhone rings up local sales
Rob Perrotta has been waiting three years to get a new cellphone. His beat-up Samsung phone was top of the line when on-screen colour was new technology. It's embarrassing compared to my new iPhone," he said. Perrotta rushed out to get Apple's newest device as it was [...]
The North Bay Nugget |
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Online sex predator sting leads to arrest
BERRYVILLE — Authorities arrested a South Carolina man Wednesday in Clarke County in a sting aimed at tracking alleged sexual predators on the Internet.
The Northern Virginia Daily |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Apr 2007 11:19 UTC
"It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work" said Bill Gates in 1999 (pdf).
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posted by Anthony Hicks on Tue 8th Apr 2003 16:17 UTC
This (quite long) article has been written by me for two primary reasons: One, to hopefully save someone else the time and hassle associated with trying out various Linux distributions, and two, to promote some discussion and feedback regarding what a modern Linux distribution should be, and of course to contrast this with what is currently available.
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Linked by Adam S on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 13:09 UTC, submitted by Georgina
A lawyer acting for Linus Torvalds has contacted Linux vendors in Australia and asked them to sign a legal document relinquishing any legal claim to the word "Linux" and demanding they purchase a licence for its use from the Torvalds-created Linux Mark Institute, which administers the Linux trademark.
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My Wheels
IT WAS 1989 WHEN JOHN O'ROARKE OF STONINGTON FIRST SPOTTED THIS 1930 MODEL A FORD PICKUP TRUCK STITTING IN A LOCAL BARN. HE INQUIRED
New London Day |
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iPhone glitch leads to setup delays
A global problem with Apple's iTunes servers prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store
Corpus Christi Caller-Times |
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Women buying 'do-it-yourself abortion pills online'
London, July 12 : Women living in over 70 countries where abortion is restricted are using the Internet to buy do-it-yourself medication for abortions, according to a new research.
New Kerala |
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In Silicon Valley, a mild-mannered specter haunts Facebook
In Silicon Valley, a mild-mannered specter haunts Facebook
MENAFN |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd May 2006 19:34 UTC
"Just because you use a Macintosh, don't think you're any more secure than a Wintel user. A sharp increase in the number of flaws being discovered in Mac OS X suggests that the Apple operating system may soon be every bit as prone to malicious attacks as Windows systems, according to a report from the SANS Institute, a security training and research firm."
New Mobile Computing |
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Server problems cloud global release of new iPhone
NEW YORK – The launch of Apple Inc.’s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Local blogger to cover GOP convention
An office overlooking the White River is a long way from the Twin Cities where the Republican Convention will be held in September.
Baxter Bulletin |
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For the fridge
The Parent's Place at the Federal Communications Commission Web site provides a wealth of information to help parents learn about, sort out and monitor what their children see and hear through the various kinds of communication available to them.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Murdoch's News Corp. unlikely to be in Yahoo deal
(AP) -- News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said his media conglomerate is "very unlikely" to be a part of any deal for Yahoo Inc., scuttling talk that Microsoft Corp. was making headway in enlisting the media mogul as part of a deal to break up the Internet search company.
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