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ABBYY Products Selected For 2008 BERTL's Best Awards
ABBYY USA, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, recently announced that two of its products, ABBYY FineReader 9.0 and FlexiCapture 8.0, have been recognized with 2008 BERTL's Best Awards
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Gartner says firms must be more social
According to analysts Gartner firms are missing out by not using the best features of social networking on their web sites.
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Olympics could cost Australian businesses $186m in lost productivity
Public interest in the Beijing Olympics could hit staff productivity to the tune of $186 million during the two-week event, according to e-mail and Internet content security provider, Marshal.
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Boost launches mobile internet friendly plans
Boost Mobile has developed several pre-paid rate plans to fuel and encourage the use of online mobile browsing throughout Australia.
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Relay server attack tactic dupes auto-reporting
Nap-of-the-earth strikes on the horizon Sysadmins have begun noticing a coordinated attack on servers with open SSH ports that tries to stay under the radar by only attempting to guess a password three times from any compromised machine. Instead of mounting an attack form a single compromised host hackers have worked out a means to relay a brute force attack between multiple assault machines.…
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Social Networking Site Lets Employees Share Salaries, Boss Reviews
While it's long been the province of public relations experts and marketing gurus to create and shape a company's reputation, the best way to find out about a workplace has always been by talking to its employees.
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"Does performance suck on Vista when compared to XP? That's what I was set out to find out. I was worried at first, since the performance in Beta 2 was quite bad.
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Poll: Czechs mind traffic density, noise
Prague, July 11 (CTK) - Seven out of 100 Czechs mind the density of road traffic at their place of residence and about half of them also complain about the noise level, according to a CVVM public opinion poll conducted in May and released on the Internet Friday.
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Yahoo rejects Microsoft/Icahn bid [Yahoo Raid]
From the Wall Street Journal: "Yahoo Inc. disclosed Saturday night that it had received and rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corp. and Carl Icahn for a restructuring that the Internet giant... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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E3 2008's Most Popular Rumors: Will They Happen?
Our guesses on God of War III, Kid Icarus, and Microsoft's new controller.
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Pupils need to spend less time on computers and 'do more art and craft to improve brainpower'
The decline of traditional art and craft skills is threatening children's intellectual development, a report claims today.
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Google posts virtual tour of Longview area
Thanks to a new feature from Google, you can now stand in Longview's Civic Center, walk a portion of Lake Sacajawea, maybe even get a view of your front door — all from your computer.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 26th Aug 2006 21:05 UTC
Apple is already gearing up for a major marketing campaign for the holidays, and if they're able to ramp up demand, and then deliver the system when they say it will be delivered, it could trump Microsoft in a way that Apple's CEO Steve Jobs would crow about for years.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Oct 2005 10:39 UTC, submitted by Dan Frussel
The new Microsoft's Exchange 2003 service pack comes with the so-called "Direct Push" key enhancement being the ability to push new e-mail directly to mobile devices and eliminates the need for Microsoft mail servers to notify remote users of new e-mail via text messages.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 5th Jan 2006 04:43 UTC
The December pre-beta 2 release of Windows Vista offers the first true glimpse of the OS but is missing key elements. More information and screenshots can be found at Desktop Pipeline .
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Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 model price
SAN FRANCISCO - MICROSOFT said on Sunday it is cutting the price of its 20-gigabyte Xbox 360 video game consoles and rolling out a model with three times the memory space to take its place.
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"So far, Windows Vista is an interesting OS. It does quite a lot of things much better than the previous versions but then it also requires way too many resources in order to work appropriately. There are also some slight glitches, but those are probably due to its beta status and nothing more.
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Old computers get new life with students
About 700 computers that reached the end of their useful life at Carlisle Area School District are now starting second careers in area homes, thanks to a program initiated by technology coordinator Stephanie Douglas.
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Asus Eee Box B202 goes on Sale in Hong Kong
Asus announced the Asus Eee Box desktop PC on June 21st. The Atom based Mini Desktop is supposedly going on sale today in Hong Kong according to Digitimes. The Asus Eee Box B202 is the first available model and would sell for HK$2,500 (~$320). ...
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revised proposal, Microsoft also reiterated its suggestion that Yahoo sell its Asian assets, but Yahoo’s board and advisers felt this was something the company could do independently, one source said.
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Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 model price
Microsoft said it is cutting the price of its 20-gigabyte Xbox 360 video game consoles and rolling out a model with three times the memory space to take its place.
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City council to get more airtime and Web play
GALVESTON — Every detail of city council interactions will be televised and streamed online come October, as long as there’s enough money to fund it.
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Portable analog TVs fading to black in digital conversion
Almost all the battery-powered televisions will be rendered useless when broadcasters switch to digital-only signals. And right now there aren’t many options for replacing them.
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Hoping to lure younger visitors, Itasca State Park gives wireless Internet a try
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) - With attendance slumping among younger adults, Itasca State Park has added wireless Internet to lure more visitors.
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Microsoft and Google Pledge Support for Privacy Legislation
Microsoft and Google have expressed support for the US Congress to bring in privacy legislation at the federal level to protect consumer information.
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