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"It may be a brave opinion but I predict that Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista are going to be the two operating systems that will take over the largest chunk of the desktop OS market during the next couple of years.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 19th Aug 2006 03:47 UTC
After pushing the launch of Windows Vista to late 2006 for corporate customers and early 2007 for consumers, Microsoft insisted that quality, not timing, would dictate the product's release schedule.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
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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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 22:22 UTC
After a few delays and tons of rumors, Intel's fifth generation notebook platform has arrived. Centrino 2 , previously known as Montevina, comes with with it a line of new Core 2 Duo processors, upgraded graphics and Wi-Fi, and DDR3 RAM. One of the first notebooks to be released with Centrino 2 is Lenovo's newest ThinkPad, the X200 . This is the update to the X61 which not only had all the new ...
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Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook
Even as Yahoo loses execs by the dozens, they continue to hire new blood. Blaine Cook, the controversial (and some say very talented) former chief architect at Twitter, is now a rails developer at Yahoo. A source at Yahoo confirms the hire and says he’s working on the Fire Eagle project in Yahoo’s Brickhouse early [...]
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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.
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Talk Of An AOL-Yahoo Combo Rears Its Ugly Head (Again)
It’s like the beast that won’t go away. As long as Yahoo is in play and Microsoft keeps flubbing negotiations to buy it (or stringing Yahoo along, depending on how you look at it), AOL keeps raising its hand and saying, “What about me? What about me?” Time Warner would be happy to [...]
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Stocks to Watch: Stocks in focus for Thursday
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday's session are a number of high-profile Wall Street firms, including JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch. Industry bellwethers such as Google, Microsoft, and IBM are also slated to report earnings.
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Review: Virtual Machine Software For The Desktop
We rounded up major virtual machine apps for individual users from VMware, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems, as well as Fabrice Bellard's QEMU 0.9.1, and found that licensing types, features, and drawbacks vary widely.
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You've got merger: MS, Yahoo both pursuing AOL deals
As the maneuvering continues ahead of Yahoo's August 1 shareholders' meeting, the company and Microsoft are both looking to relieve Time Warner of its AOL subsidiary, although for very different reasons. Read More...
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Five Web 2.0 dev lessons for enterprise IT
Yahoo's Flickr unit reported this afternoon that the latest update to the photo sharing Web site went live just before 5 p.m. with 9 changes made by three of its developers. The "deployment" was the 36th new release in a week where 627 changes were made by 21 developers. Such constant tweaking -- called a perpetual beta in the Web 2.0 world -- is common for companies like Sunnyvale, ...
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Fujitsu Ltd said Wednesday it plans to introduce affordable ultraportable personal computers in the Asian region from autumn, entering a market dominated by foreign competitors.
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Jul 16, 2008
NPR today invited Internet techies to take custom feeds of NPR text and audio-- 250,000 stories going back to 1995 -- and mash their own combinations for personal noncommercial or nonprofit use.
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Dell Channel Chief Says Partner Growth Shows Strong Momentum
The head of Dell's Americas Channel Group says momentum in the vendor's partner recruitment efforts continue to grow, helping to fuel an anticipated worldwide channel business of $12 billion for fiscal 2008.
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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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Oregon judge certifies class-action against Dell
(AP:PORTLAND, Ore.) A federal judge has granted class-action status for a lawsuit over wages filed by two former Dell Inc. customer service employees in Roseburg.
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Microsoft's Live Mesh may or may not be open
In perhaps the most awkward launch since last week's iPhone 3G, Microsoft at least tried to start its technology preview for its Live Mesh services. But it didn't look like a preview at first, and now, it doesn't look much like a service.
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Kiwi hacker walks free from court
A teenager from New Zealand accused of writing malware that could have stolen millions of pounds has walked free from court and may be recruited by the local police.
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Microsoft goes to Congress with Yahoo-Google deal
Microsoft is speaking to the US Congress over what it says are anti-trust concerns regarding Yahoo's advertising deal with Google.
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Citrix project Kensho to enlighten datacentre managers
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 ESX and Citrix's own XenServer virtualisation platform
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New transceivers extend optical fibre Ethernet range
Network hardware vendors HP ProCurve and Allied Telesis have launched new optical transceivers designed to extend the range of gigabit and 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) optical fibre connections
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Australian wins blog libel case
A Nanaimo man has been ordered to pay an Australian man more than $179,000 in damages arising from hundreds of libelous statements he made on numerous websites over a four-year period.
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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.
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Web-based program gives the blind Internet access
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. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation.
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Portable spectrum analyzer runs Windows CE
— Jul. 01, 2008 — Tektronix has announced a handheld real-time spectrum analyzer running Windows CE. The SA2600 targets everything from "small radio repair depots to spectral interference management in the field," with integrated GPS, a 10-inch touchscreen, a 10kHz-6.2GHz input range, and -153dBm DANL (displayed average noise level), says Tektronix.
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