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Recent Original Stories
"iXsystems, an enterprise-class hardware solution provider, announced today its acquisition of PC-BSD , a rock solid UNIX operating system based on FreeBSD. PC-BSD is a fully functional desktop operating system running FreeBSD version 6, with a KDE desktop interface and graphical system installer.
New Mobile Computing |
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Dell Aims to Compete with Asus Eee PC
Looks like we're about to get another player in the mini-laptop game.
MobileMag |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Feb 2007 22:41 UTC, submitted by IdaAshley
"A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux performance. In this article, learn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses . You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example."
OS News |
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Business briefly: Online sales expected to rise in 2008
Online spending is expected to rise a robust 17 percent this year, despite a sluggish economy that has bruised many brick-and-mortar retailers, according to an annual survey to be released Tuesday.
Everett Herald |
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NASA worker buys iPods with government credit card
Government audit of federal agencies' credit card use singles out NASA employees for purchase of iPods with tax dollars. More in our space blog.
Florida Today |
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Thoughts on HP’s Mini-Note laptop for kids
HP has unveiled its entry into the “laptop for kids” market with a machine called the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC. The machine is a direct competitor to Intel’s Classmate laptop and Asus’s Eee PC, but with some major differences in hardware. The Mini-Note will have a VIA processor at its core with options up to 1.6 [...]
Geek.com |
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Hacker sends Oregon community college searchers to porn site
PENDLETON (AP) — People who used the Google search engine to get to Blue Mountain Community College got something blue, all right.
The World |
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Lark soars above tumult at Dell
It is eight months since Andy Lark traded life in Silicon Valley start-up Loglogic for a plum job at computer maker Dell where the job title seems tailor-made for the Kiwi technology entrepreneur.
The New Zealand Herald |
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EU report urges search data deletion
A European Union privacy panel wants Internet search engine providers like Google and Yahoo to delete data taken from users after six months, even when they operate abroad.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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The Fergus Falls Daily Journal
When Pam Odegard’s students arrive in her Underwood classroom, she encourages them to talk. Not to her, not to each other, but to their computers. “It’s getting them to practice breaking down that word and sounding it out,” Odegard said of the pilot reading program she’s using with early readers.
Fergus Falls Daily Journal |
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Industrial PC vendor distributes Ubuntu
Ampro will begin distributing a Ubuntu Linux derivative with its x86-compatible single-board computers this month, it said.
IT Manager's Journal |
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Opening Glance: Computers, peripherals
Computer and peripheral stocks were mixed Wednesday morning as the broader market fell after United Parcel Service Inc. decreased its first-quarter earnings forecast, increasing ongoing concerns about the health of corporate earnings.
Boston Globe |
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Lomonosov Moscow State University Institute of Information Security Issues (IISI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together on increasing awareness on Internet issues inside Russia.
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Storage Drive Encryption Featured at Shows
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Cisco, EMC, IBM, Seagate, and LSI are talking up disk drive encryption for data center storage this week, but they're not necessarily on the same page.
Byte and Switch |
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Recent Original Stories
"Last month, I thought I left RISC OS. After 19 years of using Acorn or Acorn-derived computers, my love affair is no longer. I sit here writing this on my Mac Mini, and very happy I am with it too. My Iyonix lies abandoned - still sitting under the desk here, but not connected.
New Mobile Computing |
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Taming Firefox on a Mac
Question: I was so impressed with all of the talk of Firefox that I downloaded it to my Mac PowerBook and deleted Safari. Dumb me. Now I cannot get Safari back from Apple. Anyway, Firefox runs fine except that I cannot get images to download on some sites such as Amazon unless I go to each little icon where there should be an image and right-click.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Zepto Build-to-Order Notebooks Come to U.S.
Danish built-to-order computer maker Zepto is making its wares available to U.S. and Canadian customers through a new distributor, DenneD.
DesignTechnica |
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Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction pool
When will Windows 7 be ready for release? The tech blogosphere seems to have interpreted Microsoft's latest carefully parsed announcement as pointing to a January 2010 release. But I agree with my colleague Mary Jo Foley that a 2010 date doesn't make much sense. And I don't need any inside...
ZDNet |
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WASHINGTON - Federal employees charged millions of dollars for Internet dating, tailor-made suits, lingerie, lavish ...
A report by the Government Accountability Office, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, examined spending controls across the federal government following reports of credit-card abuse at departments including Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.
Casa Grande Dispatch |
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NuGen IT Launches New Generation E-Commerce Solution for Auto Claims Processing
NuGen IT, an information management authority to the insurance and collision repair industries, is pleased to announce the availability of its new business-to-business e-commerce platform for auto claims.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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What the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is for
The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit , currently in progress in Austin, Texas, is a small event, with only about 300 invited attendees.
NewsForge |
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Six students from Tucker Center head to IT Olympics
Six members of the Cisco Networking Academy at the Tucker Center will go to the IT Olympics at Iowa State University later this month.
Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil |
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Beware the attack of the killer cellphones
LAS VEGAS - Cellphones are poised to take over Internet browsing from desktop and laptop computers. That's the buzz this week at the CTIA Wireless 2008 megashow in Las Vegas, where the newest phones, accessories, networks and applications feed a worldwide $500-billion industry annually.
Canada.com |
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EU Report Urges Search Data Deletion
A European Union privacy panel wants Internet search engine providers like Google and Yahoo to delete data taken from users after six months, even when they operate abroad.
Seattle Times |
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Cyber Thieves Shift Tactics To Steal Financial Information
If you've got a Facebook or MySpace page watch out! Cyber criminals are targeting people who use social networking sites.
WOAI San Antonio |
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