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DWM ex-senator goes online ISO nice, athletic, 30 and available F
Dean Barkley is out there on the Web looking for affection. The COO of a transportation company, political adviser, former U.S. senator and possible future Senate candidate has a Match.com profile, which notes that he'll do anything to avoid using his law degree.
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The MSI Wind Saga: Delays and First Impressions
When the MSI Wind was first announced back in April, they promised that this small Atom-powered notebook would be able to provide you with up to seven hours of battery life.
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Centrino 2 With VPro Coming in August
Laptops based on Intel's Centrino 2 with vPro will hit the market in August.
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Websites get retro active
Internet forums typically dwell on the latest and greatest in technology. But there's always time to reminisce about how things were way back when -- whether it was just a few decades ago or more than a century.
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Toshiba Satellite Pro Laptop Enhances Intel Centrino 2 Processor with Business Essentials
IRVINE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Toshiba's Digital Products Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the expansion of its Satellite Pro notebook family with the Satellite Pro(R) S300 laptop.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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AOL launches personal finance site
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's AOL will launch a personal finance site on Tuesday, adding to a roster of new properties that do not bear its name.
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Police: Man cut off his head over eviction
EASTLEIGH, England, July 15 (UPI) -- British police said they believe a man hacked off his own head with a chainsaw shortly after receiving an eviction notice.
UPI |
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Cell phone companies scramble to halt trafficking
It's technically not illegal to unlock the software on your personal cell phone - but the companies are hoping to put a stop to traffickers that they say are siphoning away profits.
KBCI Boise |
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Icahn, Yahoo brace for board fight
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo, investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the internet company's board yesterday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft was angrily rejected.
The Star-Ledger |
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A bill to fight web censors gains a voice
WASHINGTON -- Stifling dissent used to be as simple as banning printing presses and intimidating anyone who might speak out against repressive regimes. Today, it's all about online blocking and filtering, though intimidation is still in the playbook.
The Star-Ledger |
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Applied Materials wins system support contract with Inotera
Applied Materials announced that it has signed a two-year system support contract with Inotera Memories, a leading DRAM manufacturer in Taiwan. The contract covers all Applied systems in Inotera's 300mm facilities. Under this agreement, Inotera is expected to realize significant cost savings over their current practices, as well as improved system productivity.
Digi Times |
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Intel Fights Back
The chip giant rolls out Centrino 2 to compete with AMD's laptop chips.
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Leaders want wider broadband access
Broadband Internet access may be the answer to a shortage of health-care workers, dwindling employment opportunities and providing declining rural North Dakota school districts with teachers, state leaders say. Advertisement: TRU GREEN $25 OFF First Application Along with FREE Lawn Analysis and FREE Estimate with TruGreen!
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Taiwan market: HP launches two color laser MFPs, Epson offers inkjet printer
Hewlett-Packard (HP) on July 14 unveiled its Color LaserJet CM1312 and Color LaserJet CM1312nfi, two new color laser MFP (multi-function peripheral) models, while Seiko Epson on the same day debuted its new business-use inkjet printer B-508DN, both for immediate launch in the Taiwan market, according to HP Taiwan and Epson Taiwan Technology & Trading, respectively.
Digi Times |
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14th July 2008
As with many Hollywood A-list actors, Roger Moore put his name and face to a series of commercials exclusively for the Japanese market. Unseen elsewhere prior to the internet, the celebrity adverts often spoofed the movies most associated with the star of the moment.
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Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs
Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting his research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia. If his proof of concept code consisting of JavaScript or TCP/IP packet attacks on...
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Recent Original Stories
MauriceK writes about security in the ZETA operating system. Apparently magnussoft, sole distributor of ZETA, makes security claims [on the German version] that with ZETA "it is not possible to examine a system from the outside without notifying the user due to the architecture of this software."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Feb 2007 23:15 UTC
Castle released RISC OS 5.13 this weekend, its first free update since the paid-for release of 5.12. The ROM image can be fetched from Castle's iyonix.com website.
New Mobile Computing |
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Multi-touch gesture upgrade for Tablet PC from Dell coming this week
July 15, 2008 [mobile PCs (Tablet PC, mini-PC, ...)] By Edward J. R.
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Microsoft's Xbox 360 to stream Netflix movies
\The arrangement Microsoft Corp. announced Monday at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles will give Netflix's 8 million subscribers another way to stream movies on a TV instead of a computer.
KATU Portland |
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EBay wins counterfeit suit brought by Tiffany
EBay Inc. won a major legal victory Monday when a judge ruled that the e-commerce giant did enough to combat the sale of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry on its Web site. The decision reaffirmed eBay's argument that trademark holders such as Tiffany & Co., which...
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Game characters get smarter - and less predictable
Games used to come preprogrammed with canned movements that expert players eventually could anticipate and figure out. But recent advancements in video game design have endowed computer-controlled characters with a sense of self-preservation and unpredictability not seen even a year ago.
KATU Portland |
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Palm launches new Treo on Sprint network
Palm Inc., which has been struggling to maintain its position in the hot market for "smart" phones, introduced a new Treo model Monday with Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities.
KATU Portland |
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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. Starting Sunday, Microsoft's mid-range Xbox 360 console with a 20-gigabyte hard drive will cost $299 in the U.S., down from $350.
KATU Portland |
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PC Vendors Ready New Intel-based Notebooks
Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Toshiba and Fujitsu are preparing to offer new notebooks that are based on the Intel Centrino 2 mobile platform. In addition to consumer notebooks, PC vendors are basing several business laptops on the Intel Centrino 2 platform. · The PC vendors are lining up to offers new notebooks based on Intel’s Centrino 2. In the hours after Intel debuted the new Centrino platform, ...
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