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The Ubuntu team announced the release of Ubuntu 6.10 , codenamed 'Edgy Eft'. Highlights for the desktop include GNOME 2.16, Firefox 2.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, Gaim 2.0 and two new applications, F-Spot and Tomboy.
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Lieberman staff blamed for Web site crash
STAMFORD — Federal investigators have concluded that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's 2006 re-election campaign caused the crash of its Web site the day before the Democratic primary with Ned
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Absolute Software and Intel Collaborate on Anti-Theft Technologies
Absolute Software Corporation has announced that they are collaborating with Intel to integrate its Computrace asset management, data protection, and theft recovery technology and services into Intel's Anti-Theft Technology (ATT). The technology will be a key component of Intel's Anti-Theft Technology (ATT) to be delivered on the upcoming Centrino processor platform later this year
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Ambric to Demo Mac Compatible Am2045 GT at NAB
Ambric announced on Wednesday that it plans to demonstrate its Mac-vompatible version of the Am2045 GT Video Reverence Platform at NAB in Las Vegas next week. The platform includes support for MPEG-2, H.264, Adobe Flash, DVD and Blu-ray.
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Canada's air force boosts its heavy lift capacity into Afghanistan
The lights of a lonely village twinkled below as Major Tim Burke maneuvered the giant, camouflaged C-17 Globemaster into position for a spine-tingling, rapid descent into Kandahar Airfield with a 43,000 kilogram load of ammo, mail, medical supplies, computers and paper cups for Canadian troops fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
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Get Paid to Find 'Back Doors'
A security research and training group is offering up to $20,000 in grants to anyone with computer programming chops who can help locate and close hidden "back doors" in commercial hardware and software. According to the Bethesda, Md.-based SANS Institute -- the group offering the grants, hundreds of millions of devices -- from printers to Internet routers and storage systems -- are being placed ...
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Maximum Football 2.0 Gets Another Update
A new update has blitzed through the offensive line and his headed straight for hard drives.
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IGS Announces New Geo Political Sim Commander in Chief
Don't wait until November; June is your chance to become president. April 9, 2008 - IGS (Interactive Gaming Software), a privately funded interactive entertainment publisher, today announced it will release a unique geo-political simulator game titled Commander In Chief.
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For Marriott, Green IT is Reality, Not Hype
The lodging company is consolidating platforms, reducing datacenters and reaping 'green' rewards.
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The Open Source Commandments
Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...
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Investor: MS 'blundered' in threats towards Yahoo
Microsoft "blundered" this weekend when it threatened to underbid in a hostile takeover of Yahoo, according to one of the latter company's major shareholders. Bill Miller, the portfolio manager for Legg Mason, states that his company is ready to back Yahoo's desire to stay independent, which is aided by its 7 percent control. This makes Legg Maso...
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NHL Network Online Launches with Marquee Sponsors Bud Light, Cisco, Dodge and Verizon WirelessThe NHL Network Online ...
NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- The National Hockey League (NHL) today unveiled the NHL Network Online, a groundbreaking broadband media service sponsored by NHL partners Bud Light, Cisco, Dodge and Verizon Wireless, and available for free to fans at NHL.com.
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AT&T plans big wireless investment in Texas
AT&T Inc. plans to invest nearly $200 million into its wireless network in Texas during 2008. That will bring the telecom giant's three-year investment in the Lone Star State to more than $700 million. (T)
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Negroponte Promises $50 OLPC Laptop
Well, I don't know if "promise" is the right word, but Nicholas Negroponte is responding to the recent influx of affordable minilaptops by saying that they are striving toward a $50 laptop, which he says is the ultimate goal of the OLPC project. Really? Fifty bucks?
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With Virtualization, Regular Defragmentation Is Vital
Many software providers from large to small are in the race to offer virtualization solutions, and many enterprises are taking advantage. While this futuristic technology certainly offers many benefits, it has one critical challenge to its overall performance -- disk file fragmentation.
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Linked by killermike on Wed 18th Apr 2007 10:07 UTC
In this article, I'm going to explore the idea that the 8 bit home computer not only had a great deal to offer the prehistoric early-humans of 1985 but that it may also have a place in the modern world; perhaps, there is something that we can learn from it.
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"One of the main benefits of an open source WebKit is allowing developers to download nightly browser builds from the WebKit Open Source Project page. Nightly builds allow you as a developer to prepare for changes before they wind up on your users' desktops.
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Endeavors to Present at Technology Council
Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, and its parent company, Tadpole Technology plc, today announced that Arthur Hitomi, CTO and co-founder is speaking at the Technology Council of Southern California's Software as a Service event taking place on Thursday, April 10.
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CNN - Feds Want Early Alert System For Cyber Attacks
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Iranian-American Researcher Explores Technology Frontiers in U.S.
Computer displays that fit into contact lenses, machines that assemble themselves, tools that let a doctor see precisely which of your cells has cancer, and nanodevices that monitor your health and dispense medicines -- these are just some of the projects that Iranian-American scientist and researcher Babak Parviz of the University of Washington is pursuing. -Steve Holgate, America.gov
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Techex and DVC sign Strategic Partnership Agreement
DMN Newswire--2008-4-9-- DVC Digitalvideo Computing Gmbh (www.digitalvideo.de), a leading developer and provider of integrated system solutions for the digital video, presentation and HDTV market, today signed an strategic partnership agreement with Techex Europe (www.techex.co.uk), Europe`s largest leading provider of enterprise -class IP video solutions.
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New Toshiba REGZA 52ZH500, 46ZH500, 42ZV500 and 37ZV500
Toshiba introduces the REGZA ZH500 and ZV500 HDTV series in Japan. The Toshiba REGZA 52ZH500 (52 inch) and 46ZH500 (46 inch) feature an integrated 300GB hard-drive PVR. Both ZH500 series TVs have full HD (1920x1080px) resolution and BS 110 degree C...
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City, County Talk Joint Wireless Network
Columbia and Richland County officials are talking about partnering to create a wireless Internet access network. The ideas range from a pilot project to a countywide system and are being explored as the General Assembly considers legislation to provide wireless Internet access to the entire state.
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Intel invests in Arab education
Intel's chairman Craig Barrett marked his fourth visit to the United Arab Emirates by unveiling new education initiatives in the Arab world through the use of technology.
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Social Networks: a Hacker's Paradise
Online communities become vulnerable when hackers move in.
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