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Brazilians first to unlock iPhone
A Brazilian company has claimed to be the first to have found a way to unlock Apple's new iPhone 3G, getting around restrictions that require users to sign up for calling plans with exclusive carriers.
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Ontario Prof calls for online gambling rules
Online gamblers play more frequently and aggressively than those who take their chances in casinos according to a study from the University of Western Ontario that suggests new regulations to govern Internet gambling.
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Viva Pinata 2 s'illustre
Microsoft Games nous dévoile de nouvelles images de Viva Pinata 2 : Trouble in Paradise sur Xbox 360.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 21:24 UTC
OS X is more appealing to enterprises as a desktop operating system than ever before and although it is unlikely to take market share away from Windows, the Mac could reduce the number of Linux-based desktops , according to research group Gartner.
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Recent Original Stories
"Asus has big plans for its little laptop and to the dismay of purists and Penguinistas, those plans centre on Windows . The company expects to sell five million Eee PCs this year, and Asus CEO Jerry Shen predicts that 'about 60 percent of these' will run XP rather than the Xandros OS with which the mini-note debuted."
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Microsoft: Google/Yahoo deal means less competition
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has told Microsoft executives that the company's search advertising deal with Google would reduce the Internet search market from two poles to one, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday.
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Watercooler: TV shows only part of the TV experience
Remember the dark days before we had the Internet and writers' strikes and all this multimedia synergy? Television viewing was so straightforward. So anticlimactic. You knew that "Dallas" came on at 8 p.m. on Friday, and if you wanted to watch it, you had one simple option: Get yourself in front of the television at 8 p.m. on Friday.
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Zoho, maker of an online suite of collaborative and business productivity applications, has landed a six-month pilot partnership with Swisscom to deliver its products to the telecom's 300,000 business customers.
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Watercooler: TV shows only part of the TV experience
Remember the dark days before we had the Internet and writers' strikes and all this multimedia synergy? Television viewing was so straightforward. So anticlimactic. You knew that "Dallas" came on at 8 p.m. on Friday, and if you wanted to watch it, you had one simple option: Get yourself in front of the television at 8 p.m. on Friday. Today, of course, things are different. "Dallas" is about to ...
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Zoho gets big partner win for its SaaS business apps
Zoho, maker of an online suite of collaborative and business productivity applications, has landed a six-month pilot partnership with Swisscom to deliver its products to the telecom's 300,000 business customers.
IT World |
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Strong processor, chip demand spurs Intel earnings
Intel recorded strong earnings in the second quarter of 2008 despite a drop in the average selling price of its chips. The company's net income was up 25 percent to US$1.6 billion, or $0.28 per share, compared to $1.28 billion, or $0.22 per share, in the same period of last year.
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Intel beats forecasts with profit of 1.6 billion dollars
Intel Corp. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit rose 25 percent from a year ago to 1.6 billion dollars as the world's biggest computer chipmaker shook off economic headwinds.
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XTO Energy Announces 2nd Quarter 2008 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call
In conjunction with its second quarter 2008 earnings release, XTO Energy Inc. will broadcast its operational review conference call on Tuesday, July 22nd at 10:00 a.m. Central via live internet webcast.
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Recent Original Stories
"Linspire announced plans to standardize software installation across Linux distributions by expanding its popular CNR digital download and software management service to support several of the most popular desktop Linux distributions in 2007. Previously available only for Linspire and Freespire desktop Linux users, the CNR Service will begin providing users of other desktop Linux distributions ...
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Oracle Ships 45 Security Fixes in Latest Update
Oracle releases nearly four dozen security fixes across its products, including 11 for the Oracle database. · Oracle released 45 security fixes today as part of its latest Critical Patch Update. The patches bring the total for the year to 112 vulnerabilities patched. The Oracle Database has the most fixes – a total of 11, none of which can be exploited re... ...
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Promptness Will Earn You Points With Older Email Users
It seems clear that, if you think about something for a few days and then take 30 minutes to sculpt a message, your emails will be a little better than if you dash out a quick blurb. Only, in a lesson that both marketers and grandchildren should learn, older people prefer fast replies. read more
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Probing Question: How old is political satire?
During the 2004 election season, an animated streaming video featuring Senator John Kerry and President George Bush trading insults to the tune of This Land Is Your Land was seen by millions of people over the Internet—and was even viewed by astronauts on the International Space Station.
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Lawmakers scrutinize Yahoo-Google ad partnership
Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company's advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft Corp., raises antitrust concerns.
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Lawmakers scrutinize Yahoo-Google ad partnership
Tue, Jul 15, 2008 (2:15 p.m.) Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company's advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft Corp., raises antitrust concerns.
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Watercooler: TV shows only part of the TV experience
Remember the dark days before we had the Internet and writers' strikes and all this multimedia synergy? Television viewing was so straightforward. So anticlimactic. You knew that "Dallas" came on at 8 p.m. on Friday, and if you wanted to watch it, you had one simple option: Get yourself in front of the television at 8 p.m. on Friday.
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Apple Lawsuit Against Psystar Filed
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Psystar , a Miami-based company that has been selling Intel computers bundled and running with Mac OS X. The note appeared in Jorge Espinosa's blog on Tuesday. The suit was filed in the federal district court for the northern district of California against Psystar.
HispanicBusiness.com |
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You Bought It, But You Don't Own It
In a devastating blow to user rights, an Arizona federal court has ruled that consumers can be guilty of copyright infringement if they violate the end user license agreement ("EULA") that comes with the software--even where the so-called "violation" is specifically excluded from copyright liability.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel says its second-quarter profit jumped 25 per cent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates.
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Blu-Ray On Xbox? No Way
Microsoft wants to send you your movies online.
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It's a Yankee Doodle Linux phone
— Jul. 02, 2008 — OpenMoko will start selling its Linux-based Neo FreeRunner phone online on July 4th, says the company. Billed as a completely open source, hackable hardware platform, the Neo FreeRunner will receive updated software with new location-based applications in August, says OpenMoko.
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