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Dell rolls out touch-screen mod
Dell has released a new module to add multi-touch capibilities to its Latitude XT tablet. The user-downloadable update will allow the tablet notebooks to accept multi-touch commands similar to those used in the iPhone and Voodoo Envy smartphones.
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Barclays offshores 1,800 IT staff
Barclays Bank has confirmed that it intends to offshore many sections of its IT operations over the next three years. As many as 1,800 UK ships could be shipped overseas, and while some will be offered to UK employees the company was giving no idea of terms and conditions.
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Intel reports 25 percent jump in profits
Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip maker, reported a 25 percent rise in second-quarter profit Tuesday and gave a sales forecast that topped analysts' estimates after demand grew worldwide for personal computer processors.
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The keys to knowledge
Angelina Herr, 3, sat on her mother Ker Vang’s lap during a computer class taught in Hmong at the Brookdale library.
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Lawmakers scrutinize Yahoo-Google ad partnership
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo, demanding to know whether the internet company's advertising partnership with Google, intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft, raises antitrust concerns.
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How Gülen triumphed. Turkish Sufi cleric Fethullah Gülen has topped Prospect magazine's list of the world's top 100 intellectuals after Turkish media and Gülen's followers voted en masse in the online poll.
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San Francisco admin hijacks city network
A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out.
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Death Row Inmates Go Online To Reach Out
Death row inmates are using the internet to reach out to pen pals, to say they're sorry and to proclaim their innocence. The criminals themselves can't put up their own messages on websites, but there are plenty of groups willing to do it for them.
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Man gets prison time for spamming AOL
NEW YORK - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.
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Omatek Repositions for Future Challenges
Foremost computer manufacturing company , Omatek Computers, is set to reposition its operations to enable it meet the future challenges of the market.
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posted by alcibiades on Tue 9th Jan 2007 14:54 UTC
Revolution is descended in spirit from Hypercard (HC). When Apple's support for HC withered, Scott Raney developed Metacard (MC), a near clone. Metacard was then bought by Revolution (RR), based in Scotland.
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Recent Original Stories
Using the default Gnome desktop, Fedora 9 generally felt solid and polished. Previous versions of Fedora have generally been hit or miss in this respect, so it's good to find a Fedora release that actually feels like a stable one, says Techiemoe . DesktopLinux has a mini-interview about Fedora and some additional info too .
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Citrix Systems has announced Project Kensho, a set of tools that will allow virtual environments to be more independent of hypervisors. A technical preview of the tools will be available for download before the end of the third quarter.
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Recent Original Stories
"On Sept. 1, Microsoft began rolling out Vista RC1, raising hopes that all of the major issues have been resolved in the months since the beta two version.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Aug 2005 18:23 UTC
Head of all things Windows at Microsoft, Jim Allchin provides a heads up on the operating system formerly known as Longhorn: "Most of the stuff that we would expect that tech enthusiasts and consumers will be interested in will happen at Beta 2. Beta 1 is not what I would call deeply interesting unless you are a real bithead".
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2007 08:08 UTC
Geeks.com sent us in one of their consumer electronics , the Linux-based Archos 604 PMP for a whirl, and we surely gave it one. This 30 GB PMP is the fourth generation video product from Archos, one of the biggest names in that market.
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Teachers union's Web site hacked
The state teachers union got an unwanted lesson in Internet security recently when a Turkish hacker temporarily replaced their main Web page with a picture of the Turkish flag.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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MoD admits 830 laptops lost or stolen in past five years
More than 830 military laptops - nine of which contained information classified as top secret or secret - have been stolen or lost in the past five years, the Ministry of Defence admitted for the first time yesterday.
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Junk food firms are using the internet to 'push products on children'
Junk food firms have been accused of using high-tech tactics, such as utilising the Internet, to push their products to children.
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Online Ticket Scalping Bill Goes to NC House
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A plan to permit online ticket scalping is headed to the House floor, after committee members again revised the plan. The House Finance Commitee met Tuesday to discuss the plan, which allows tickets to be sold over the Internet for more than their face value. Current state law prohibits tickets from being sold for more than $3 above cost.
WGHP Greensboro |
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How to Compile Software From Source Code
Most of the time, installing a new program is a simple one-click affair. But venture out on the bleeding edge of open-source packages or nightly browser builds and you'll need to build your own executable application from raw code. Fear not -- this Webmonkey tutorial will show you how to compile and run binaries on your desktop.
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Google-Viacom lawsuit deal cloaks YouTube user identities
SAN FRANCISCO -- A deal struck Tuesday lets Google cloak identities of YouTube users while complying with a court order to show Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used the popular website.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Intel beats forecasts with profit of $1.6 B
SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit rose 25 percent from a year ago to $1.6 billion as the world's biggest computer chipmaker shook off economic headwinds.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Toshiba Expands 2.5-inch HDD Line With First Commercially Available 200GB-Per-Platter Product and New 7,200 RPM Family
Toshiba Storage Device Division , the pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives , today announced the industry's first commercially available 200GB-per-platter 5,400 RPM HDD, which will provide the highest HDD capacity at 400GB for integration into mobile PCs for the holiday season.
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Microsoft Voices Concerns About Google-Yahoo Deal
Washington -- July 15, 2008 -- Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp. senior vice president and general counsel, testified on the Google-Yahoo! deal and the future of Internet advertising today before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust and the House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force.
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