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EIC Squared: Psystar on the firing line with Apple, etc.
Larry Dignan and I take stock of the Psystar-Apple face-off, Intel's surprisingly good quarter and the state of Israeli high-tech.
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Retailer/Wholesaler Stock Quotes
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Finance</a><br/><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ARDNA">Quote for ARDNA</a>
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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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Recent Original Stories
"Marking what could have been a summer-long hiatus in its 'Get the Facts' campaign, Microsoft is re-igniting the flames on the argument over whether enterprises spend less to manage Windows systems than Linux systems.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd May 2006 19:33 UTC
Google has made informal complaints to competition authorities in Europe and the US about default settings in Microsoft's IE7. The latest Microsoft browser includes a small window so users can search without opening up a specific page.
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Political bloggers work to step up offline activism
AUSTIN — Moving their energy and political activism from the virtual world to the blood, sweat and tears of the real world is the goal of more than 2,000 progressive bloggers from across the nation who converge on Austin today for their annual convention.
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Google's YouTube in Lions Gate film clips deal
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - In a move that signals a possible thawing of Google Inc's relations with Hollywood, its YouTube unit has reached a deal to feature film clips from Lions Gate Entertainment Inc on the video-sharing site.
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Cutting Cost out of Web Commercial Production - VRVCO
CHICAGO, BUSINESS WIRE -- In the current economic climate, businesses need new ways to access customers and differentiate themselves from their competition in a creative and affordable way.
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HP plans to ship a modular data center, based on a standard shipping container, called HP POD, in the third quarter, it said Wednesday.
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I Am Alive May Not Be What It Seems
Rumor dispelled. July 16, 2008 - Before E3 began there were rumors that we'd be seeing the first sign of Jade Raymond's next project for Ubisoft. Once news of I Am Alive hit the wire the Internet was abuzz, saying that this was the next high-profile title for the developer who brought us Assassin's Creed.
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HP crams datacenters into shipping container
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Thursday 17 July 2008 at 00:37:00 POD offering shrinks server footprints HP has unveiled a new product which fits an entire datacentre into a standard shipping container. Dubbed the Performance-Optimized Datacenter, or POD, the new system replaces the equivalent of a...
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Super Aguri F1 eBay sale goes off track
David Jetuah, Accountancy Age , Thursday 17 July 2008 at 00:36:00 BDO's move to sell Super Aguri's assets on eBay could be scuppered if a buyer is found using conventional means The landmark sale of Super Aguri's assets on eBay may not go ahead as BDO continues last-minute efforts to secure a buyer....
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Environment: Whitehall to become carbon neutral with aid of smart PCs
The government plans to become the first in the world to make all of its computers carbon neutral. In a speech at the Science Museum today, Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson is to announce 18 measures that will change the habits of civil servants throughout Whitehall. The proposals, including desktop computers that switch themselves off if they are inactive for too long, are aimed at ...
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BT to spend £1.5bn installing fibre-optic cable to boost web speeds
Small niche internet service providers and BT - and their customers - will be the early beneficiaries of the telecoms giant's announcement on Tuesday that it will spend £1.5bn to install new fibre-optic cables to reach the streets, and in a small number of cases the walls, of 10m homes. The new systems, to be installed over the next five years, should be capable of speeds of up to 100 ...
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Ask Jack
DNS fix zoned out After reading articles about the net's latest security problem, I made sure I installed the Microsoft update. Result: I could not access any web pages until I rolled my computer back, at which point everything was fine. Jane Knight JS: The bulk of this week's mailbox came from Zone Alarm users who lost their internet access following last week's Windows Update. The ...
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Google and co want us to read all about it as digital books take off
His kingdom is an alehouse and his scepter a can, which is seldom out of his hand". Sounds like a familiar 21st century binge drinking problem. But it is actually from The Man in the Moone, taken from a unique copy printed in 1609 and preserved in the Bodleian library. I came across it serendipitously as I was looking through the books - now more than 1m - that Google has been quietly ...
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Super Aguri F1 eBay sale goes off track
The landmark sale of Super Aguri ’s assets on eBay may not go ahead as BDO continues last-minute efforts to secure a buyer.
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Charles Arthur: The worms are slower, but the net's not safe yet
An unpatched PC running Windows XP will last on average between four and five minutes before it is attacked by a worm, according to the latest update from the Sans Institute - which says that the "window" during which a machine is safe to download the necessary software updates from Microsoft after, say, a system reinstallation "has shrunk over the past couple of years" But in less ...
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COTA riders get help planning trips from Google
Google helps millions of people find things on the Internet. Now, it's helping COTA riders find their bus. Riders can go to the COTA Web site, www.cota.com, and punch in the origin and destination of their trip along with the desired date and time.
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Lions Gate to share ad revenue on movie clips on YouTube
(AP:BEVERLY HILLS, California) Google Inc. said Wednesday that it will partner with filmmaker Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. to share revenue from ads that Google places on YouTube clips from the studio's movies.
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Google's YouTube in Lions Gate film clips deal
In a move that signals a possible thawing of Google Inc's relations with Hollywood, its YouTube unit has reached a deal to feature film clips from Lions Gate Entertainment Inc on the video-sharing site.
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Computer shipments grew faster than expected in second quarter
SEATTLE - Computer shipments rose faster than expected in the second quarter, fuelled by exceptional demand in emerging markets and a decline in prices in the U.S. and western Europe, two research groups said Wednesday.
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Technophile: HP2133 Mini-Note
There's a growing pile of subnotebooks by the side of my desk, and so far, Hewlett-Packard's HP2133 Mini-Note is the biggest and the best. It's a full-spec ultramobile with a lovely brushed aluminium casing, excellent screen and a keyboard that you can actually touch-type on. As a Wired blog headline put it, it's "what we really wanted the MacBook Air to be". But it's quite a lot wider ...
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HighPoint offers low-cost eSATA RAID solution
HighPoint Technologies on Wednesday unveiled the RocketRAID 3122 PCI-Express controller card, offering users a low-cost, performance solution for connecting eSATA hard drives to a Mac Pro. The RocketRAID 3122 requires a 1x PCI-express slot, and can use up to 10 daisy-chained drives on two external 3Gb/s eSATA ports. Users can choose between RAID le...
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Earnings Preview: Google seen producing big 2Q
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) Google Inc.'s second-quarter earnings report due out after the stock market closes Thursday will give investors another chance to assess how well the Internet search leader is holding up in a drooping U.S. economy.
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