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Fujitsu Siemens' netbook entry gets revealed
Filed under: Laptops It looks like Fujitsu Siemens have broken cover on the next member to get in on the netbook party. That's right -- the company is launching a cheap, micro-sized laptop in the coming months... just like everyone else. According to reports, the 8.9-inch device will clock in around €300 or €400 (about $470 to $630), and will likely sport some version of Windows ...
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Consumers still wary of m-commerce
The cellphone is practically universal, with more than 3.3 billion subscribers worldwide, yet 71% of all consumers surveyed in 14 countries will not consider using a mobile device to bank or shop online, according to a study by Unisys.
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Google is the king of the internet
Bill Gates, who walked away from full-time work at Microsoft last month, was perhaps the foremost applied economist of the second half of the 20th century.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Oct 2007 15:12 UTC
This week's 'big' news on OSNews was about software patents. You know, those things that say you cannot stack four pixels on top of one another unless you pay money to the guy who invented four-pixel-stacks (or the guy who bought the guy who invented four-pixel-stacks).
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Yahoo rejects joint Microsoft, Icahn proposal
Yahoo Inc has said it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corp and activist investor Carl Icahn that would have involved selling its search business to the software maker.
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FCC To Comcast: You Can't Block Web Traffic
"The potentially precedent-setting action comes after several months of investigation at the FCC over whether Comcast was blocking Internet traffic to gain a competitive advantage, or whether it had interfered with Internet traffic to maintain online speeds for millions of customers.
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posted by David Adams on Thu 26th Feb 1998 11:48 UTC, submitted by Weston Cann
Just because the browser shares components with the OS does not mean that it is part of it. My car stereo died this week.
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Microsoft Reveals 60GB Xbox 360, Discontinues 20GB For $299
Ahead of its E3 press conference in Los Angeles, Xbox 360 creator Microsoft has confirmed a 60GB version of the Xbox 360 hardware at $349, with the 20GB version to be discontinued and sold off at $299. According to an official press statement, the new Xbox 360 will be identical to the previous $349-retailing version, except with a 60gb hard drive replacing the 20gb version. As the company ...
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Recent Original Stories
"Sure, you've use Firefox and Internet Explorer. You may have even dabbled in Flock and Opera, or even become a devotee of one of these lesser-known applications. But have you ever browsed the web with Deepnet Explorer? How 'bout SeaMonkey? And when's the last time you used Netscape?
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Cell phone companies scramble to halt trafficking
For less than $15, you can buy a cell phone loaded with minutes. You can buy more as you go whenever those minutes run out. Best of all, you aren't locked into a long-term contract. But in South Florida, New York, California, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere, traffickers have figured out they can make big profits by purchasing thousands of these low-cost phones and tweaking the software so that ...
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Testy Negotiations Between Yahoo, Microsoft Continue
Yahoo rejects another offer from Microsoft, describing their offer to buy its online search operations as ludicrous.
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Will iPhone Sex Ever Make Good Money? Does It Even Have To?
It’s still the weekend for a large portion of the globe, and while the technorati have largely spent the last couple of days chronicling iPhone disasterdom to quite phenomenal extent, the many days left in the year will likely be nothing but smooth, sweet sailing for Apple and its 3G-enabled invention. The excitement is already very [...]
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posted by Michael L. Love on Mon 3rd Nov 2003 19:19 UTC
The GNU-Darwin Distribution is a free operating system and a popular source of free software for Mac OS X and Darwin-x86 users, but it is also a platform for digital activism.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Aug 2007 18:15 UTC
Openbox 3.4.4 has been released . "Openbox is a minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. Openbox lets you bring the latest applications outside of a full desktop environment.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Sep 2006 20:33 UTC
Microsoft's next-gen Office suite for the Mac is being given a top-to-toe refit in readiness for its debut in the third quarter of 2007. On the surface is a revised interface which borrows ideas from the Office 2007 for Windows 'ribbon' and has already been radically changed due to user feedback.
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Recent Original Stories
"Officially, Dell hasn't said a word yet about which Linux it will be preloading on its desktops and laptops. Several sources within Dell, however, have told DesktopLinux.com that Dell's desktop Linux pick is going to be Ubuntu . While unable to confirm this through official Dell channels, we have heard the same story now from several internal Dell sources.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd May 2006 22:45 UTC
eWeek takes a look at Sony's Vaio SZ160 , and concludes: "Sony's Vaio SZ160 is the type of laptop that executives ask for - and with good reason.
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Make a Cadence Meter for Your Bike for $12 [DIY]
Instructable user Sailor Bob wanted to track his pedals-per-minute to set goals and get more out of his routine, so he turned a cheap $10 bicycle computer (found at Wal-Mart, in his case) into a...
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North Royalton ghostbuster to appear on Internet radio show
Mary Ann Winkowski, a well-known local ghostbuster and the creative advisor on CBS' "Ghost Whisperer," will answer questions on Heal Yourself Talk Radio at 2 p.m. July 15. Listeners can join a chatroom a blogtalkradio.com/healyourselftalkradio or can phone in...
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Pentaho Releases iPhone BI Application
The software can navigate through interactive reports and dashboards, as well as integrate BI functionality with other features of the smartphone, such as voice calling, e-mail and text messaging.
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Microsoft cuts Xbox price by $50, plans 60GB model
Microsoft Corp. is trimming the price of its Xbox 360 video game console to make way for a new model with a bigger hard drive.
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Yahoo rejects Microsoft proposal
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo has rejected a deal proposed by Microsoft and corporate raider Carl Icahn that would have led to the sale of its online search business. ...
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Yet another review of Redfly published
July 13, 2008 [General] By Edward J. R. Redfly looks like notebook but in reality it is a Windows Mobile extender that adds bigger display and full-size QWERTY keyboard.
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