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Town Square Forum
After being assured of few or no financial risks, the Palo Alto City Council fast-tracked a "watershed" plan for a citywide, ultra-high-speed fiber Internet network for residents and businesses Monday. The city will put up part of its existing fiber network in lieu of any cash.
Palo Alto Weekly |
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IBM to expand in New York state
IBM Corp. will invest $1.5 billion to promote nanotechnology research.
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Purdue researchers work on cooling computer chips
Purdue University scientists have taken a page from air conditioner technology in their quest for a new way to cool down ever-more powerful computer chips.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Edison makes some GovDeals
EDISON - Does anyone need a new horse trailer? Or some extra VHS tapes? Anyone? Anyone? Edison Township's selling them, as well as a number of other items, through an Internet site catering specifically to municipal governments called GovDeals.
Edison Sentinel |
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Kimmel, Silverman confirm they're no longer an item
Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said. "Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment," Kimmel's spokesman, Lewis Kay, said, confirming the split that was first reported on Vanity Fair magazine's Web site. Silverman's publicist, Amy...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Ken you rid this? Ginger can
There are problems in life that Microsoft can't solve for us, and one is spelling out of context. Type "My aidl holiday wood bee in nue zeelend, were I can go hickin" into Word and the software will be completely befuddled.
Haaretz Daily |
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The party's ending in Tel Aviv, too
In the merry month of May, some 600 employees of Tel Aviv's big investment banks were packing their bags. Workers from Excellence Nessuah, DS Apex and Migdal Capital Markets turned off their computers, leaving a few people on duty just in case, and stormed for the airport. Destination: Turkey.
Haaretz Daily |
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Google's Android platform: not so open after all
Third-party Android application developers are beginning to question Google's commitment to making Android an open platform following the revelation that a select few developers have been receiving special access to new versions of the Android SDK under non-disclosure agreements. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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XBox 360 to stream Netflix movies
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal announced Monday with Netflix Inc. that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding into all-purpose home-entertainment hubs. The arrangement, revealed at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles, will let Netflix subscribers stream 10,000 movies and TV shows ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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Boulder company faces charges for trading with Cuba
DENVER – The U.S. Attorney's office announced charges against a Boulder company it says traded software and other information that was used to help Cuba with oil and gas exploration.
9 News Denver |
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San Francisco municipal computer system hacked
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 00:25:00 Internal engineer accused of pwning entire grid A computer engineer has been arrested and accused of hijacking San Francisco's FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) computer system, which holds details of city payroll files and confidential law enforcement documents....
vnunet.com |
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XBox 360 to stream Netflix movies
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal announced Monday with Netflix Inc. that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding into all-purpose home-entertainment hubs. The arrangement, revealed at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles, will let Netflix subscribers stream 10,000 movies and TV shows to ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Outraged Icahn refocuses on ousting Yahoo board
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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.
The Post-Standard |
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XBox 360 to stream Netflix movies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal announced Monday with Netflix Inc. that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding into all-purpose home-entertainment hubs.
The Post-Standard |
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CDC shares jump after 2Q revenue prediction
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of CDC Corp. climbed Tuesday after the Hong Kong-based software, gaming and Internet service provider predicted second-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates, due partly to higher licensing revenue.
INO News |
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Intel 2Q profit jumps 25 percent
Blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates.
WSYR 9 Syracuse |
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Sun Micro shares up on preliminary earnings
High-end computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc on Tuesday posted preliminary results for its fourth quarter that were largely in line with Wall Street forecasts, but sparked a rally in its stock by investors who had feared worse results.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Child Pornography Found On University Of Arkansas Computer
University of Arkansas police said they found a computer containing child pornography.
KHBS - KHOG Fort Smith - Fayetteville |
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Intel Bucks Gloomy Trend, Posts Boffo Profits
Chip maker reports 25 percent jump in Q2 net income year-on-year, 9 percent growth in revenues, Otellini expects new Centrino 2 notebooks and Atom chips to 'ramp quickly.'
ChannelWeb |
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InvestmentYogi to raise Rs 20 crore VC fund
InvestmentYogi FinAdvisory Services Private Limited, a Hyderabad-based Internet startup, is looking to raise $5 million (around Rs 20 crore) venture capital fund by this year end, company's chief executive officer Sanjay Joshi said here on Tuesday.
Business Standard India |
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Intel-Nvidia-AMD battle may clip chip prices
Nvidia, best-known for its PC graphics, has thrown a challenge to Intel by focusing on the emerging mobile internet device (MID) and smartphone markets with its forthcoming "mobile computer on a chip" architecture, dubbed Tegra.
Business Standard India |
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Aiken man charged after online investigation
AIKEN, SC (WIS) - The Aiken County Sheriff's Office arrested an Aiken man late Monday who they say after chatting online with someone who he thought was a 13-year-old girl, drove to meet investigators on Gun Range Road.
WIS News 10 Columbia |
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PC can't read Mac-formatted backup drive
QI use a 1-gigabyte USB flash drive to move files between my Windows laptop PC at work and my MacBook portable at home. But that doesn't work with the 160-gigabyte external drive I use to back up my MacBook; my Windows laptop doesn't even recognize the external drive when it's connected.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Intel profit jumps 25%, beats estimates
SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 25 percent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates today.
Los Angeles Times |
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Intel 2Q profit jumps 25 percent, beats estimates
Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 25 percent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates Tuesday. Investors viewed the chip maker's favorable results as a sign that global PC demand is healthy despite a...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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