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Freedom4 spreads WiMax love to students
Wireless going further in Warwickshire...
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Microsoft opens up Live Mesh to all testers
If you were closed out of Microsoft's Live Mesh preview for lack of an invite, you now can get in. by Mary Jo Foley
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Japan Cautious In IPhone's Bid For World Dominance
Kentaro Tohyama is proud of his new iPhone. He stood overnight in line to get it when the device became available in Japan for the first time. But the 29-year-old computer engineer isn't about to part with his made-in-Japan cell phone either.
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A decade of data confusion
Tom Young, Computing , Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 17:07:00 Information Commissioner's Office demands a review of the 10-year-old Data Protection Act The Data Protection Act reached its 10th birthday this week amid some controversy. The law has had a rocky history, confounding regulators, businesses and the public sector as being difficult...
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Bank hacking software developer walks free
Ambrose McNevin, Computing , Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 17:02:00 Police plan to use his skills to fight cybercrime A teenage hacker who was part of an international gang who stole $20m from bank accounts has avoided jail, because police want to use his hacking skills....
vnunet.com |
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Bilingual foe says ‘blow up’ Amigos School
An online suggestion from a former city GOP official calling to “blow up” the Amigos School with dynamite has alarmed at least one parent. But the party’s current head said it was a done “to get a laugh.”
Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab |
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Bank hacking software developer walks free
Ambrose McNevin, Computing , Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 17:02:00 Police plan to use his skills to fight cybercrime A teenage hacker who was part of an international gang who stole $20m from bank accounts has avoided jail, because police want to use his hacking skills....
Computing.co.uk |
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Phones by Brand
Aircell , a provider of in-flight Internet services, has announced that it will use LTE 4G technology for its next-generation of airborne Internet services. Aircell plans on deploying LTE so that passengers can enjoy features like high definition, interactive TV and multi-player gaming while flying.
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Citrix project Kensho to enlighten datacentre managers
Dave Bailey, IT Week , Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 16:59:00 Citrix, and a host of others, have collaborated on a virtualised application project Enterprise application delivery vendor Citrix has announced a project designed to allow IT managers to run virtualised applications, wrapped up as a so-called virtual machine (VM), on Microsoft's Hyper-V, VMware's...
vnunet.com |
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Ridata Announces Low Cost Line of SSDs
Ridata 128GB SSD uses MLC technology and will retail for $537...
AnandTech |
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Apple Sues Psystar
It seems as though Apple is taking legal action and suing Mac clone company Psystar. The rumour mills have been kicked into overdrive with a report from [ZDNet-http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9326#B#] that Apple has finally filed suit against the company.
Tom's Hardware |
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Intel Profits Increase 25%, Reports Great Quarterly Sales
Intel cheers as AMD silently weeps...
AnandTech |
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Gartner: Security through the cloud will triple by 2013
Security applications delivered as cloud-based services will more than triple by 2013, according to Gartner. The firm said 20 percent of the revenue of messaging security tools, such as antimalware and antispam services for email and instant messaging, currently comes through the cloud delivery model. But this will jump to 60 percent by 2013. [ Read about what cloud computing really ...
InfoWorld |
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Red Hat Solutions Deliver Flexibility and Reliability for InfoCamere
Red Hat announced that InfoCamere, an organization responsible for managing the IT systems that connect and secure over 100 Italian Chambers of Commerce, relies on Red Hat and JBoss solutions for flexibility, reliability and ease of use for its mission-critical systems.
SYS-CON Media |
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HP to offer data center-in-a-box
Hewlett-Packard became the latest vendor to announce a "mini-data center" housed in a shipping container, which can provide a way for companies to add compute capacity when power and cooling systems in their existing data centers are maxed out. HP's Performance Optimized Data Center, or POD, will be available in the U.S. by the end of the third quarter and worldwide a few months after ...
InfoWorld |
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Intel 2Q profit jump reflects healthy PC demand
SAN FRANCISCO -- Worried that the ailing U.S. economy has spilled abroad and hurt global PC sales, investors had subdued expectations for Intel Corp. in the second quarter. Intel is the world's largest computer
Post-Bulletin |
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Obama Adds 'Cyber Security' to National Defense Plan
After saying yesterday that he is seeking a nuclear weapons-free world , Barack Obama expanded on his security program today with a speech that lays out a plan for "cyber security" and an anti-bioterrorism program. He cited the report from the 9/11 Commission, which described a "failure of imagination" in preparing for terrorist attacks. Here's the text: Remarks of Senator Barack ...
The New York Observer |
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Media host, software developer Les Crane dies at 74
Radio host and one-time Johnny Carson talk show rival Les Crane, who found later success as a software developer and publisher, has died at the age of 74.
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Dell patches Latitude XT Tablet to enable multi-touch
Owners of the Dell Latitude XT Tablet laptop will be happy to know their machines now have a new feature, free of charge via a patch. Rather than wait for Microsoft to get around to adding multi-touch support to Windows, Dell has decided to implement it on their own. Latitude owners can now download and [...]
Geek.com |
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Lawyer sues Google over unfruitful ads
An attorney has sued Google over ads it placed on pages for 'parked' domains and missing page errors, arguing the ads cost $136.11 but were a bust.
CNET |
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Apple apologizes for MobileMe delays, extends subscriptions
.Mac transition was 'rocky' admits Apple Following PC Advisor's news piece that angry MobileMe subscribers were demanding refunds for the breaks in their .Mac services, Apple has relented and extended all users' subscriptions.
PC Advisor |
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BT gets thumbs up for 'geeks' and gremlins
ASA clears advert featuring Dragons' Den star The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has cleared adverts promoting BT's business telecom and home broadband services, following complaints from 31 viewers over adverts featuring Dragons' Den star Peter Jones and My Family's Kris Marshall.
PC Advisor |
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Intel Classmate spec hits UK in £239 JumPC
Low-cost laptop for kids available from Actronix A modified version of Intel's Classmate PC launches in the UK this week, with distributor Actronix releasing the £239 JumPC.
PC Advisor |
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Broadband prices fall 60% in 18 months
Prices keep dropping, despite credit crunch Broadband price drops show no sign of abating, despite the credit crunch, according Top 10 Broadband.
PC Advisor |
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Recent Original Stories
"Here are my few suggestions to make better desktop (making it simple but powerful). Most of them are for GNOME and related applications but for other desktop environments and applications could be also useful.
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