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"On June 15, Bill Gates announced that he would be retiring from Microsoft in July 2008, and everything changed. It may be two years away, but when a giant the size of Gates moves, the world moves with him.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Aug 2006 19:23 UTC
Paul Thurrot, everybody's favourite Microsoft Apple Microsoft zealot, writes on his webpage: "It's funny. Apple calls Microsoft a copy-cat, and yet, I feel like I've seen some of these features somewhere before . Many of the features, however, are just sad.
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eBay Wins Legal Victory Over Tiffany
Ebay, the online auction site, has won an important legal victory over Tiffany, which sued it over the sale of counterfeit goods. Following a four-year court action by the jeweler, a New York judge ruled that luxury goods manufacturers must police their trademarks on the Internet and not rely on auctions sites to do it for them. The ruling marks the first legal victory for eBay, a ...
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Ebay survives counterfeit battle with Tiffany
Ebay on Monday survived a potentially devastating legal challenge to its online auction system after a US judge refused to back a claim by Tiffany that the internet company should be held liable for the sale of counterfeit jewellery on its site.
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Optus network out in Qld, northern NSW
Optus mobile phone, landlines and internet connections across Queensland and northern NSW went down on Tuesday after an Optus cable was damaged. The electronic check-in and baggage handling systems at Brisbane's international and domestic terminals went offline, delaying flights for up to an hour.
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Sony Unveils Centrino 2-based Vaio Laptops
Sony has announced four laptops based on the Centrino 2 processor
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Sony debuts VAIO Z Series with 16x9 LCD, Blu-ray
Sony on Monday evening unveiled its new Centrino 2-powered line of ultra-portable VAIO Z Series notebooks, with options for Blue-Ray, a flash-memory SSD drive, Sprint broadband, and more. Weighing just over 3 pounds, the VAIO Z model offers speeds up to 2.53GHz, incorporates a 13.1-inch widescreen display with Sony's XBRITE-DuraView LCD technology ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Sep 2006 16:02 UTC
IBM has finally, finally, started shipping computers based on the Cell architecture it co-developed with Sony and Toshiba. In fact, the company claims, a number of high profile clients such as the University of Manchester and the Fraunhofer Institute are already running the much ballyhooed devices.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Mar 2007 22:27 UTC
"Although the .NET vs. Java war is basically over for control of the Windows desktop, where .NET is sure to become the managed language of choice for new Windows desktop applications, there is a new battle brewing.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Jan 2007 23:30 UTC
The buzz is swelling in anticipation of consumer-side announcements from Steve Jobs' keynote address that will kick off the annual Macworld Expo here. Will it be the iPod phone or the iTV digital media server (name change is also expected)? Only Jobs and a select cadre of Apple execs know for sure.
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 14th Jul 2008 23:22 UTC
"Linux kernel hacker Greg Kroah Hartman's June 5, 2008 talk at Google titled "The Linux Kernel" was chock-full of details about kernel development ". This is a collection of some statistics about the Linux kernel development from that talk.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 23:01 UTC
Developers have received from Apple a 'ZFS on Mac OS X Preview 1.1' package, which offers preliminary support for the ZFS file system , originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris OS. Currently, the Mac OS is based on the HFS+ file system, but leaked screenshots of earlier versions of Leopard showed options for formatting hard drives for ZFS. Reportedly, this preview allows full ...
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Recent Original Stories
Just when you thought fancy effects on Linux desktops started to get remotely understandable, focussing on Aiglx/Xgl with Compiz, a fork of Compiz is announced: Beryl . This is the logical continuation of the popular compiz-quinnstorm branch, used by many Ubuntu users.
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Sprint offers a double-duty phone
Sprint on Monday launched the Palm Treo 800w, a smartphone that runs on either Sprint’s high-speed broadband network or on noncellular Wi-Fi networks.
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Digital age proves troublesome for Kansas Lottery
I don’t trust computers. Never have. Probably never will. They crash. They freeze. They fail. They even have an annual convention for it. The third annual Computer & Human Error conference was held in New York several months back. I imagine those conventioneers all wear paper bags over their heads.
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Reaching out to document storage clients
A COURIER and records management firm located in Shah Alam is claiming a world first: That it is ahead of all other companies in its field in using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to store, manage, and retrieve documents.
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Setting Strategy: Blogs can give small-business Web sites a personal touch
The Internet gives small-business owners a powerful marketing tool that is economical, efficient and never calls in sick.
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At the Uneasy Intersection of Bloggers and the Law
There is no better way to get a blogger fired up than by telling him what he cannot publish — although you might forgive a government prosecutor for thinking otherwise.
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DataCase App Brings File Browser & Wireless Data Transfer to iPhone & iPod touch [IPhone]
Being able to use the iPhone or iPod touch for basic data storage and file browsing has been a missing feature for over a year now. But an app called DataCase, available July 28, claims it will...
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Court Clears eBay in Suit Over Sale of Counterfeit Goods
Ruling against the jeweler Tiffany, a judge said that eBay does not have a legal responsibility to actively filter counterfeit items.
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Icahn again takes aim at Yahoo board
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company's board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft Corp. was angrily rejected.
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Local man off-line and under arrest
ALAMOSA — A 23-year old Alamosa man is being held at the county detention center pending extradition to California on charges of child pornography and exploitation of a child for allegedly exchanging nude photos with a 12-year old Riverside, Calif. girl he supposedly met in an online game room and began an Internet romance with.
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Local man off-line and under arrest
ALAMOSA — A 23-year old Alamosa man is being held at the county detention center pending extradition to California on charges of child pornography and exploitation of a child for allegedly exchanging nude photos with a 12-year old Riverside, Calif. girl he supposedly met in an online game room and began an Internet romance with.
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From the Inside, Jerry Yang Looks Out for Yahoo
Yahoo and the fate of its chief executive were Topic A at the annual billionaires’ summer camp as rival moguls gossiped about whether Yahoo would end up in the hands of Microsoft.
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