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Acer Aspire one to get built-in 3G?
Vendor in talks over next-gen mini laptop Acer is in talks with European network operators to supply mini-laptops with built-in 3G.
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Radio Gets It Right
A survey commission by Rajar has revealed that more than 14.5 million people in the UK listened to Internet radio between April and May. The popularity of services such as iPlayer, which also streams radio as well as TV, is helping increase the number of radio listeners overall.
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'Spore' computer game's alien population exploding: Company
The 'Spore' alien population is exploding, boding well for the September launch of the latest brainchild of computer game legend Will Wright.
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A review
of the latest Fedora Core release, code named "Bordeaux", the Fedora Core 5, which has proven itself to be one of the best Linux distributions out there was published by LinuxForums.org.
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by irbis (2.72) on Mon 6th Aug 2007 00:38 UTC
I can't believe how many commentators also in that LWN.net article suggested people only to buy more RAM as a perfect solution to Linux memory and swap management problems. It feels too much like hiding rubbish under carpet.
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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.
International Herald Tribune |
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Intellectual Property
On June 9, 2008, the Supreme Court in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. unanimously reversed the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and held that the doctrine of patent exhaustion applies to method patents. 06-937, 553 U.S. ___ (2008) It is now settled that a licensee's authorized sale of components, which embody a patented apparatus or method and which have no reasonable use ...
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Flash drives easy-to-use, easy-to-lose
Just when I thought I had enough to worry about in this life — skyrocketing gas prices, the fizzling economy, angry Web site users asking me why they can’t find today’s obituaries — a Google search for a Cyber Corner topic revealed a new concern I had never really considered — flash drive security.
The Pottsville Republican & Herald |
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BT to launch super-fast broadband
Company to spend £1.5bn to connect 10m homes, but smaller rivals could lose out. By Graeme Wearden
Guardian Unlimited |
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Jail sought for 'Net predator
Attempting to lure teens into prostitution using Internet spam messages and keeping a stash of kiddie porn should land a city man up to two years in jail, a prosecutor said yesterday.
CNews |
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Police gear up to fight cyber crims
New Zealand police are gearing up to fight increasingly clever cyber criminals.
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Flower Fly Named After Bill Gates
Like geographic features (cities, mountains, rivers, etc.), species are sometimes named after prominent people. The Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi) is a flower fly found only in Costa Rican high montane cloud forests and named after Microsoft founder B...
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Photos, video add another element of pain to cyberbullying
Ricky Alatorre doesn't know which classmate surreptitiously hoisted a cell phone camera and snapped his picture or exactly when it happened.
Daily Record |
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High Performance Wi-Fi is Now a Reality in Italian Hotels
Xirrus, Inc., the only Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that can replace Ethernet workgroup switches with Wi-Fi as the primary network connection, announced today that it has repeated its recent success at major USA hotel properties (Westin Hotel Times Square, The Swan and Dolphin Hotels, Caribe Royale, Westin Hotel Michigan Avenue, and Westin Hotel Embassy Row to name a few) at several major Italian ...
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New Logitech Wheel Delivers Force Feedback Realism with One-Piece Convenience
No need to rearrange your living room - now you can add force feedback realism to your driving-game experience in seconds. Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI), a world leader in force feedback technology, today announced the one-piece Logitech(R) Driving Force Wireless(TM) force feedback racing wheel for PLAYSTATION(R)3. Quick to set up and easy to store, Logitech's one-piece design includes an ...
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ICRco Releases Clarity PACS, The Clear Solution For Your Digital Radiology Imaging Needs
Clarity is an affordable image management solution for imaging centers and medical practices using digital radiology, and sets a new milestone in ease of configuration, reliability, functionality and performance. Clarity is scalable to meet the needs of clinician offices, multi-physician practices, radiology imaging centers, and multi-site facilities connected over the Internet.
Medical News Today |
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Aussie game censors under fire
The Classification Board refused to issue it an age rating, claiming that the game promoted drug use. What got the censor's miffed was that players can use drugs to boost their characters' abilities such as stamina, health and intelligence.
The Inquirer |
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Viacom, YouTube agree user-info deal
YouTube will be allowed to mask out usernames, IP addresses and viewing histories from data it must hand over to Viacom as part of a copyright-infringement suit
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Want a new career as a contract killer?
Google is probably not your friend… A bizarre case was reported in the Times last week of a woman who used a website - www.hitman.us.com - to hire a contract killer to “rub out” her multi-millionaire partner. Sharon Collins, 45 and a divorced mother-of-two, hired Tony Luciano – actually an Egyptian poker player called Essam Eid - to kill property tycoon P J Howard.…
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Recent Original Stories
"The lines between the Mac OS and Windows are starting to blur . And that portends major changes going forward in the world of PCs.
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Reuters Technology Summary
BT to invest $3 bln in super-fast broadband LONDON - Telecoms group BT plans to invest $3 billion to roll out super-fast broadband to up to 10 million homes by 2012, it said on Tuesday. The operator said that it will suspend its share buyback program with effect from July 31, given the strategic priority of this planned investment, but remains committed to its dividend. ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jan 2006 19:16 UTC
Following news that Google refused to comply with a subpoena requiring the company to turn over search records from its database, much speculation swirled about the response from rivals MSN and Yahoo.
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Thermaltake Xaser VI Mx VH9000BWS Review
What would a computer be without a case ? Close to nothing. The installed hardware needs to be protected, supported, and cooled. You couldn't bring it to your friend's home if it were not in a case.
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Lenovo slims further with X200
Centrino 2, WiMax on the way - but no trackpad. Lenovo has introduced the ThinkPad X200 ultrathin laptop, which is a whisker lighter than Apple's MacBook Air. It's cheaper than Lenovo's earlier X300, and will include WiMax and Ultra Wideband connection options.
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Scotiabank purchases E-Trade Canada
TORONTO -- Scotiabank is beefing up its presence in the online brokerage business with the purchase of E-Trade Canada for C$444 million, the bank's latest move to expand the range and depth of services it offers its retail customers in Canada.
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