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Online Office Apps: Google Docs vs. ThinkFree vs. Zoho
Web-based suites have become real challengers to desktop applications.
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Trailer Hitch
Welcome to Trailer Hitch, BOP's look at the latest movie trailers to hit the Internet. This week: Los Angeles humanizes itself a bit, Disaster Movie literally lives up to its title and Bond is back (and looking better than ever).
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Webinars explore embedded Linux development
— Jul. 07, 2008 — Timesys announced a summer series of free webinars on embedded Linux development. The four "technical deep dives" will explore spotting memory leaks with MPatrol, working with the Timesys Online Linux Factory, using the OProfile profiling tool, and reducing kernel size. ...
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Spammer gets 30 months for inundating AOL
A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period. Adam Vitale was also ordered to pay AOL $180,000 in restitution, according to his attorney, David Touger. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. [ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' ...
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Data can leak from partially encrypted disks
If you're using encryption software to keep part of your computer's hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and British Telecommunications. They've discovered that popular programs like Word and Google Desktop store data on unencrypted sections of a computer's hard drive -- even when the programs are working with encrypted ...
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Business Objects users angry over SAP support transition
Some customers of BI maker Business Objects are steaming mad because they aren't able to access SAP's online support site. SAP, which bought Business Objects for nearly $7 billion earlier this year, switched the company's product support to its own system on July 7. SAP acknowledged some problems have occurred and said it is working as quickly as possible to solve the issues and that ...
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EBay Second-Quarter Profit Increases on Listings Gains, PayPal
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- EBay Inc ., the world's largest Internet auctioneer, said second-quarter profit rose 22 percent after customers listed more items for sale and revenue at its PayPal payment unit jumped.
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Study: Site Redirects Abundant, Aid Phishers
An examination of nearly 2.5 million Web pages at some of the Internet's most popular and trusted sites turned up at least 128,000 links that could be manipulated by fraudsters and virus writers to make online scams more believable, a study released this month found. Scammers and phishers are taking advantage of commonly used coding used in "redirects" to divert traffic from reputable Web site ...
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Tomorrow, a new top-level domain just for .ME
Those interested in getting a .ME domain name -- perhaps one named just for themselves -- can do so after ICANN, the organization responsible for overseeing Internet domains, opens up .ME domain registration tomorrow.
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Walnut Creek police log
The following excerpts were taken from the Walnut Creek police log:Monday, June 23BURGLARY — A computer monitor was reported stolen from a storage room in the 1900 block of Olympic Boulevard.
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white papers
If you're using encryption software to keep part of your computer's hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and British Telecommunications.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Jun 2006 21:57 UTC
Microsoft plans to make several significant tweaks to the next beta of Windows Vista to make a key security feature less annoying to users.
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Data can leak from partially encrypted disks
If you're using encryption software to keep part of your computer's hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and British Telecommunications.
IT World |
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Spammer gets 30 months for inundating AOL
A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period. Adam Vitale was also ordered to pay AOL US$180,000 in restitution, according to his attorney, David Touger.
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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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Intel faces new EU antitrust charges
The European Commission is about to slap new antitrust charges on Intel , this time for trying to squeeze rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices out of some of Europe's most important technology retail stores, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Joss Whedon's 'Dr. Horrible' already an online hit
The television writers strike earlier this was may have been horrible, but Joss Whedon, the creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Firefly” and this fall’s “Dollhouse,” put his downtime to good use.
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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.
New Mobile Computing |
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Walnut Creek police log
The following excerpts were taken from the Walnut Creek police log:Monday, June 23BURGLARY — A computer monitor was reported stolen from a storage room in the 1900 block of Olympic Boulevard.
Contra Costa Times |
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State GOP asking for input on party platform
South Carolina Republicans aren't planning a statewide meeting to get input into their national party platform, but the party still plans to welcome all suggestions submitted online.
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Program provides computers for underpriviledged
Tracy Bradford wanted to get her 11-year-old son, Dakota, the perfect gift for his birthday. She was surprised when she found out she was getting a brand new computer, which will ultimately become Dakota’s present.
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Related Articles
It's conventional wisdom that computers need to be "easier to use." But do they? More reliable, yes. Easier to troubleshoot, yes. But now that so many people use computers so much, I think there's something to be said for making them less easy-to-use and less intuitive.
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200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density
Toshiba has upgraded its 2.5” hard drive series with a new 400 GB model. The total capacity is 20% less than what Toshiba’s rivals are currently offering, but Toshiba has the edge in terms of storage density: While the 500 GB 2.5” drives use three 167 GB disks, Toshiba achieves 400 GB with just two 200 GB disks. These are impressive numbers if we are considering the fact that 200 GB per disk was ...
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Beesley retires after 47 years Longest serving staff member of The Camrose Canadian retires
From linotype to paste-up, to computers, Camrose Canadian office manager Faye Beesley has seen it all. Her time spent at the newspaper began at the age of 17 and ended with her retirement, July 11.
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Recent Original Stories
"This post comes at the convergence of a number of events. First, there was the story on OSNews titled ' Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst ?' That generated a number of responses, one of them from Aaron J. Seigo.
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