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What recession? Home video bucks downturn
Data from DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals show the home video business is holding upwell despite the down economy, the high price of gas and any consumer shift toward the Internet.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Realty upstart lands cyber big shot
Michael Malone named CEO of Sarasota-based PropertyMaps.com.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Clewiston worries about post-sugar future
Jim Withers sat in the back room of his small barbershop smoking a cigarette and studying his computer screen.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Taiwan Operator Upgrades 3G Network
Nokia Siemens Networks has won a €72 million (US$115 million) contract to expand the 3G network operated by Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom. The contract will enable the operator to trial Nokia Siemens Networks’ Internet High Speed Access (I-HSPA) network.
Cellular-News.com |
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Catch brings first-of-a-kind online buzz marketing to Middle East
Catch, a Dubai-based independent digital agency, has teamed up with a global leader in buzz marketing to bring first-of-a-kind online marketing tools to the Middle East.
AME Info |
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10 things: 12,000 laptops lost per week at US airports
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
BBC News |
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Silicon Valley's biggest social networker
Reid Hoffman's vision of the Web as a means to connect people, not just computers, has shaped his role in some of its most successful ventures. Mountain View, Calif.
Baltimore Sun |
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On his blog, Miguel de Icaza announced
the first public releases of Moonlight. Moonlight is the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight , the company's Flash competitor. Moonlight is not yet free of bugs, though.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Jul 2005 17:49 UTC
Microsoft is tightening the noose for those people running illegal or pirated copies of its Windows XP/2000 software on their systems.
New Mobile Computing |
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"Yesterday was our big day at Google, and we can say with a good degree of confidence that the Haiku Tech Talk was ...
. We had a very special guest for this event: former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gassée, not only joined us at Google for our presentation, but also gave a few words of support and encouragement for our project.
New Mobile Computing |
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Monster.com founder turns to obituaries
Fourteen years ago, Jeff Taylor helped set off a tectonic shift in recruitment advertising by founding Monster.com, one of the first online companies to challenge a big profit source for newspapers.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Microsoft cuts Xbox price by $50, plans 60GB model
SEATTLE - 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.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Too Human demo this afternoon News by
Microsoft has specified that the Too Human demo will be available this afternoon from 6pm on Xbox Live. It offers the entire first level of the vikings-in-space adventure for you to wade through, where you can batter waves of goblin robots with big mallets.
EuroGamer |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Mar 2006 21:58 UTC
In the newest of a series of moves to try to impart momentum to Intel's Itanium processor, allies backing the chip are funding work to improve a key programming tool.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
Complaining about Windows Vista is a national past time on Internet forums these days. Windows Vista 'costs too much', 'has onerous product activation', 'requires too much hardware', etc. These complaints are often followed up by a very simple boast: 'I'm just going to switch to Linux'.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
Are you still using a web browser to access your favourite online applications? Why not do things the easy way, and make those applications part of your desktop with Prism.
OS News |
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MC gets computer radiography equipment
MC gets computer radiography equipment By Ruth Campbell Staff Writer Midland College's radiography program has gone filmless.
Midland Reporter-Telegram |
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Speeding tickets go electronic
SALISBURY--Armed with scanners, printers and superlaptops designed to withstand the most gross abuses, state and regional law enforcement officers plan to hit the streets with mobile units that will allow them to issue electronic tickets.
The Daily Times |
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Singapore Bank Installs Crime Surveillance System ePaynews.com
Jul 14 2008 : DBS Bank, Singapore’s largest financial institution, is automating its fraud detection, compliance and anti-money laundering operations with software from Actimize . The software is being installed across DBS’s Asia-Pacific operations by IT firm Unisys.
ePaynews |
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World's oldest blogger dies
An Australian woman described as the world's oldest internet blogger has died at the age of 108.
iafrica.com |
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Console conflict
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo battle for gamers' attention
BBC News |
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Becoming a locavore
Lisa Sherrodd’s habit of eating locally started 10 years ago when she traded a computer for a goat.
Rapid City Journal |
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Software makers seeking piece of iPhone pie
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Call it the iPhone economy.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Polaroid's PoGo neat, but prints are poor
Tired of waiting to download those snapshots from your cell phone onto your laptop in order to print them? The company that gave you pictures in an instant with its slogan...
Boston Herald |
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Microsoft's next move expected today
Whatever else that can be said about the Yahoo-Microsoft takeover battle, it's never dull. Late Saturday night, Yahoo rebuffed a second offer from Microsoft to buy its search business, describing the proposal as "completely absurd and irresponsible.
San Jose Mercury News |
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