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IT professor's internship scheme pays dividends
Professor John Hosking got so tired of the IT industry complaining that graduates weren't up to the job that he decided to get his students intern jobs.
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Spam King sentenced to be Jail King for 30 months [Spam]
Convicted "Spam king" Adam Vitale was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday, for spamming more than 1.2 million AOL subscribers. Vitale had boasted of using 35,000 proxy computers to bypass AOL's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Logitech Introduces Cordless Keyboard for Wii Chat Games
Logitech announced a Nintendo licensed wireless keyboard for the Wii that makes for easy typing, browsing and searching. The Logitech cordless Keyboard for Wii uses 2.4 GHz wireless technology and is intended to be used with upcoming chat-oriented games. ...
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How pissed off are Yahoos? Ask their janitors, who'd like them to stop peeing in the sink [Cubicle Culture]
"PLEASE STOP PEEING IN THE SINK THANK YOU! FACILITIES" How low do things have to go before workers start treating their office like a public toilet? This low: A sign posted in a bathroom at Yahoo... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Asetek to Cool Acer Aspire Predator Gaming PC
Asetek is known in enthusiast crowds for making the Vapochill phase change cooling system for highly overclocked PCs. Asetek also provides OEM cooling solutions to some of the most recognizable computer makers around. Asetek announced that it is providing ...
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Broadcast your next investor teleconference on the Internet.
Webcasting is a great way to distribute your company's message to a wide audience. InvestQuest's® Webcast Services provides broad access to your event at a low cost, with the convenience you'd expect from a pioneer in online investor communication.
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Immobel Launches International Real Estate Listings Exchange
Immobel, , a technology company that expertly translates online real estate listings into thirteen languages, today announced the launch of the International IDX Alliance, an online exchange for real estate professionals worldwide to share and market each others' properties.
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GAO Bashes Feds Sloppy E-mail Management
The agency has criticized the digital-records and cyber-security policies at five government agencies including the National Archives and Record Administration and the Dept. of Homeland Security.
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Linux video camera geo-tags, writes to SATA drives
— Jul. 03, 2008 — [Updated Jul. 7] -- This riveting tale describes the development of a fairly amazing Linux device.
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IT professor's internship scheme pays dividends
Professor John Hosking got so tired of the IT industry complaining that graduates weren't up to the job that he decided to get his students intern jobs.
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Wait Until You Get Your Hands on Surface Computing!
By taking advantage of people's natural sense of touch, new hands-on computer systems can offer more precise control over what's happening on the screen, compared to pointing and clicking with a mouse.
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Q&A: Google's Tim Armstrong
Online advertising continues to outpace growth in other forms of media, and is projected by PricewaterhouseCoopers to increase at a compounded annual rate of 23.5% in Canada over the next few years.
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iPhone 3G review supplemental: battery life and MobileMe tests
Filed under: Cellphones We spent most of the weekend putting the iPhone 3G's battery life (and to a lesser extent, MobileMe implementation) to the test, and we've got far more encouraging results to report back than we had on day one. Pretty much everything we've found thus far jibes with Apple's claims, if not exceeds them. (Our video results early on skewed low because we had mistakenly ...
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Making it big
And to think it all began as a passing fad ... The internet is helping bring Kiwi talent to the world once again, with Brooke Fraser's album Albertine scaling the iTunes USA album charts last week.
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Congress puts heat on search engine giants as tie-up rings alarm bells
The United States Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo yesterday, 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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Intel wows market with 25pc lift in quarterly profit to $2 billion
Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, reported a 25 per cent increase in second-quarter profit and gave a sales forecast that topped analysts' estimates after demand grew worldwide for personal computer processors.
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Movie downloads for Xbox 360 - but not for NZ
LOS ANGELES - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the internet, thanks to a deal announced with Netflix that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding into all-purpose home-entertainment hubs.
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Conviction would harm hacker's future - judge
A young Whitianga computer hacker walked free from court today after a judge said a conviction would have harmed his prospects. Owen Thor Walker had pleaded guilty to charges relating to an international cyber-crime ring but was today discharged without conviction.
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Palm Unveils First Treo With Wi-Fi, GPS
Treo 800w goes head-to-head with Apple's second-generation iPhone, but may be too late to save company.
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Congress puts heat on search engine giants as tie-up rings alarm bells
The United States Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo yesterday, 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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FDA warns against boguss cancer cures
Correspondent Twenty-three U.S. companies and two foreign ones are marketing a wide range of products fraudulently claiming to prevent and cure cancer. The FDA also warns North American consumers against using or purchasing the products, which include tablets, teas, tonics, black salves, and creams, and are sold under various names on the Internet. The products contain ingredients such as ...
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Intel wows market with 25pc lift in quarterly profit to $2 billion
Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, reported a 25 per cent increase in second-quarter profit and gave a sales forecast that topped analysts' estimates after demand grew worldwide for personal computer processors.
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Apple to offer compensation for MobileMe problems
Apple is now offering limited compensation in the wake of the difficult MobileMe launch, according to announcement. The company admits that the transition from .Mac was "a lot rockier than we [Apple] had hoped," and notes that "within the next few weeks," it will extend select MobileMe subscriptions by 30 days. At present several important Mobile...
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posted by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
You may have heard of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice which is being offered as a viable and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Openoffice.org is the open source (or, free indefinitely) cousin of StarOffice.
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Recent Original Stories
LXer compares Ubuntu, Mac OSX, and Windows XP . "All three desktop operating systems have admirable qualities. Each has some weaknesses. Attending a recent User Group Fair, I had another chance to see them at work. Having used and programmed on each platform provides some unbiased insights."
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