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Apple has filed a suit (more details
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Option activity heats up on eBay (EBAY) ahead of this afternoon's earnings report
Confession TimeWe're all friends here, right? Well, I have a confession to make: I'm a shoe-aholic (I may have mentioned this in the past)...( Read More )
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'Need for Speed' - Introducing the Widow Predator - The new, unrivalled mobile gaming laptop from Visionman
Visionman Computers, a manufacturer of servers, gaming systems and notebooks for small business and home users, today announced the release of its latest high-performance gaming Widow Notebook model, the "Widow Predator."
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Nominations Open for CEO Vision Awards
July 11, 2008: Who are the most visionary CEOs in tech? Submit your nominations by Aug. 2 for the 2008 InternetNews.com CEO Vision Awards.
CIO Information Network |
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'World's Greatest Dad' faces sex-related charges
A 33-year-old Clarkston man faces two 20-year felonies after authorities say he arranged a meeting for sex with an online contact he believed was a 14-year-old girl and showed up wearing a T-shirt that read: "World's Greatest Dad.
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Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities
Billy Rios is at it again. Rios, Rob Carter, and I have made a year and more of our research into exploiting URI/protocol handler vulnerabilities on numerous operating systems and applications, and it appears Rios has ANOTHER one to go with all that previously reported, as well as his most...
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Sector Snap: Chip stocks rise on earnings news
Chip stocks mostly climbed Wednesday after bellwether Intel Corp. reported its second-quarter profit climbed 25 percent, helped by strong sales of processors for laptop computers -- a good sign for investors wary of possible slowing PC demand.
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Supercomputers fight against bird flu
A worldwide outbreak of avian or 'bird flu' is still not excluded and health officials recognize that new drugs are needed since new strains of the virus appear everyday. Now, U.S. scientists are using supercomputers to find new drugs to fight the virus and to stay ahead of these mutations....
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News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
"MySpace" mini-PC review — May 21, 2008 — Everex's gPC mini is a small, quiet, powerful $500 computer with a hip Linux-based OS designed for MySpace users and others who appreciate the entertainment value of PCs.
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Study: UF medical students reveal private information on Facebook
A recent UF study suggests that medical students should take up a “private” practice and conceal personal information on their Facebook profiles.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
SRI stresses that during the visit paid on Tuesday by Premier Tariceanu at its offices, Director George Maior presented to him the stage of the transformation of the Service, in order to reach the performance parameters likely to allow it to assure good quality intelligence for the Government.
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Linux 2.6.26 enhances desktop Linux
A new stable kernel is out. Three months in the making, Linux 2.6.26 boasts read-only bind mounts, better USB webcam support, 802.11s mesh WiFi, virtualization and paravirtualization improvements, and a ton of new peripheral drivers.
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Apple has filed a suit (more details ) on July 3rd against Psystar in the northern district of California. Psystar dubbed its cheap Mac Clone as Open Computer and started shipping them around April of this year.
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Tripwire Granted Patent for Integrity Based Fail Over
The U.S. Patent Office has granted Tripwire its third patent. Customers have applauded Tripwire's leadership in configuration control and change auditing since the company's founding in 1997 -- and analysts recognize Tripwire as the go-to product for ensuring the continuous integrity of IT configurations, helping ensure regulatory compliance, mitigating security risk and improving IT ...
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Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, taking the unusual step of updating the older version 2.0 on Tuesday but delaying the fixes for the newer version 3.0 until Wednesday.
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Mozilla patches Firefox side of Safari 'carpet bomb' threat
Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox , taking the unusual step of updating the older version 2.0 on Tuesday but delaying the fixes for the newer version 3.0 until Wednesday.
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Playtime for the iPhone
Well, I guess Apple does care about games. The flood of titles on the new online App Store for the iPhone and iPhone 3G is a good sign for gamers eager to see someone other than Nintendo or Sony in the portable-gaming space. The first crop of iPhone games is mostly of the sort that cell phone owners have been playing for a decade.
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MDC Holdings names Anderson to replace Reece
MDC Holdings Inc. named Christopher Anderson its senior vice president of finance on Tuesday, and said Anderson will replace long-time CFO Paris G. “Gary” Reece III when he retires. (MDC) (BKC) (HPQ) (OXY)
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Sep 2005 11:38 UTC
As early as May 1995, three months before Netscape initial public offering sparked the dot-com boom, Microsoft executives were worried that the nascent WWW could one day become a significant threat to the Windows franchise. Another memo is also making the rounds.
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Linked by Neeraj Singh on Mon 23rd Apr 2007 19:02 UTC
If you shout something loud enough and many people are saying it, does it become true? Some groups of people (include tech journalists and Linux advocates, such as Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols) have a psychological need to find Vista lacking.
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Blogger apologizes to Doucet
An anonymous blog post that criticized Capital Councillor Clive Doucet based on incorrect information was replaced Wednesday by an apology.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 16:56 UTC, submitted by Robert
Novell might have signed a patent and interoperability deal with Microsoft Corp but it is not about to give up competing with the software giant and last week released a study that suggests its Linux desktop product is better value than Windows Vista.
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Netflix To Stream Videos To Microsoft's Xbox 360
Microsoft and Netflix have forged an exclusive partnership under which Netflix will begin streaming feature films and TV programs to owners of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console. Beginning this fall, Netflix subscribers who also have an Xbox Live Gold membership will be able to download and view movies at no additional cost, said Microsoft Corporate Vice President John Schappert.
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft and its critics agree that the future of innovation is at stake when the US software giant challenges a landmark 2004 antitrust ruling next week before the European Union's second highest court.
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Recent Original Stories
Apple has filed a suit (more details ) on July 3rd against Psystar in the northern district of California. Psystar dubbed its cheap Mac Clone as Open Computer and started shipping them around April of this year.
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