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Apple ties Acer for market share
Research firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments grew at 15 percent in the second quarter of 2008. The quarter also saw Apple roughly tie Acer in the US market, assuming fourth place and missing third place by only a few thousand units. Demand in the United States suffered from the ongoing economic pressure, with rowth in the low single-digits...
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Toshiba to Push Laptop Drives to 400 Gbytes
Toshiba's storage division is gearing up for the holiday season with a line of 400-Gbyte 2.5-inch disk drives.
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Don’t hand Ledger the Oscar just yet, critics say
Oscar watchers and veteran critics say the joke may be on fans creating mostly Internet-based buzz about a likely Academy Award win for the late Heath Ledger for his work as the Joker in "The Dark Knight."
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Microsoft Opens Live Mesh
The Live Mesh software/service is now available to all--okay, anyone with a Windows Live ID--as of today. It is currently limited to Windows users, but Mac and Linux are promised for the future.
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PC shipments grew faster than expected in 2Q
By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE (AP) -- Computer shipments rose faster than expected in the second quarter, fueled by exceptional demand in emerging markets and a decline in prices in the U.S. and Western Europe, a research group said Wednesday.
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Web-based program gives the blind Internet access
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP SEATTLE (AP) -- Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes.
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Congress asks Embarq about selling customer info
By DAVID TWIDDY KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy.
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Computing center contracts awarded
The SIUE Board of Trustees met last week in Springfield and awarded more than $500,000 in contracts to build a secondary computing center on the SIUE campus. Three Illinois companies and two Missouri companies were awarded the contracts.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Nov 2005 22:50 UTC
GNOME 2.12.2 has been released , as the second maintenance release in the 2.12 series. Download the tarballs of the platform , desktop and bindings .
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BC BREAKING NEWS:
Kirk joined Black Press in January of 2008 and is the web editor in the new media division.
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Recent Original Stories
Starting today, Linspire does not only offer a free OS, but also its CNR Basic service . " Linspire, Inc., developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the free community desktop Linux operating system, announced the immediate change in pricing for its popular CNR Service from an annual subscription fee based offering to a completely free service."
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They Know Where You Are
"Pick any restaurant around Rittenhouse Square," says Richard Rasansky. "Let's say Rouge, for example. Rouge is having a slow night, so they put out ads saying 'We're having this special tonight.' Now, everyone that's around Rittenhouse gets an ad from Rouge on their smartphone or laptop, and it helps them get traffic." ADVERTISEMENT Rasansky is one of the founders of Network ...
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Mac OS continues to gain share
The latest PC shipment numbers have Apple gaining at least another percentage point in U.S. market share.
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Vermont, 11 others, get Gates library grants
SEATTLE (AP) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday announced plans to give $8.1 million in grants to keep library computers up-to-date in 11 states, including Vermont.
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Mac OS continues to gain share
The latest PC shipment numbers have Apple gaining at least another percentage point in U.S. market share.
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Live Giant Squid Dissection Tomorrow
BoogieChile writes "The dissection of a 245 kilo giant squid caught off the coast of Portland, Victoria in May will take place tomorrow at the Museum of Victoria. In a first for the museum, the event is open to the public and will also be streamed live to the internet from the University's website, starting at 0130GMT on the 17th of July." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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AlleyCorp's Kevin Ryan Speaks!
With the sale of paidContent to the Guardian Media Group and the talks TechCrunch has been in with AOL, there certainly is a lot of hubbub around tech blogging sites of late. One of the more interesting sites that has gone up over the last year is Silicon Alley Insider, which is headlined by former Internet ...
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Congress asks Embarq about selling customer info
Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy. Overland Park, Kan.-based Embarq is the nation's fourth-largest traditional...
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Recent Original Stories
"Is Fedora for its users, or is Fedora for Red Hat? That is, is Fedora a distribution that people should run and to which people should contribute, or is it really, as detractors have often claimed, simply a playground for new ideas on their way to Red Hat Enterprise Linux?"
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New FBI digital forensics lab partners with local law enforcement
Andrew R. Bland, III, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Houston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the opening of a new state-of-the art digital forensics laboratory which will better serve the region’s law enforcement community. This one-stop, full service forensics laboratory is the new home of the Greater Houston Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (GHRCFL). ...
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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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Get it fresh from Pembre
Fresh local produce is to be available in Pembrokeshire at the click of a button. Early next year, a new venture called Pembrokeshire Produce Direct will be launched enabling anyone in the county to order locally-produced goods on the Internet, and have them delivered directly to their door.
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'World's Greatest Dad' faces sex-related charges
NOVI, Mich. (AP) -- 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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Congress asks Embarq about selling customer info
(AP) -- Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy.
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Pure Michigan ads help push state’s travel Web site to No. 1 in hits
In its second year, the Pure Michigan advertising campaign produced by McCann Erickson of Birmingham has boosted hits on the state’s travel and tourism Web site Michigan.org, and — based on June totals — the site is ranked No.
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