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Microsoft offers LiveMesh to more user
Looking to outflank Apple on mobile service Microsoft is letting more people use its Live Mesh service just days after Apple launched its similar, but broader, MobileMe service.
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MURRIETA: Comedian Andy Dick arrested in Murrieta
MURRIETA ---- Comedian Andy Dick was "extremely intoxicated and belligerent," Murrieta police say, when officers arrested him on suspicion of sexual battery and drug possession early Wednesday morning. Dick, 42, of Woodland Hills, was in the front pa
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Registration forms to be available online
The Oak Park Unified School District is offering registration and other forms online that parents can fill out and print from home.
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GigaMedia Partners with EA and Tencent in China for NBA STREET Online
GigaMedia Limited announced today that it has secured an exclusive license to offer in China the highly anticipated EA SPORTS title NBA STREET Online, an exciting new sports game from Electronic Arts Inc. , the world's leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment.
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Intel's 25% profit jump reassures Wall Street
Worried that the ailing US economy has spilled abroad and hurt global PC sales, investors had subdued expectations for Intel in the second quarter, an Associated Press report said.
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Local businessman top 10 finalist for Small Business Excellence Awards
Onalaska businessman Ryan Rugroden was named as one of 10 finalists in the Nation’s Most Innovative Companies competition sponsored by the National Federation of Independent Businesses and Dell Computers.
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Congress mulls bill to keep kids from surfing Facebook at library
WASHINGTON -- Congress is considering a bill that would bar children who use computers in public libraries from accessing Facebook and other social networking Web sites without parental permission.
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Apple OS continues to gain market share
The latest PC shipment numbers show Apple gaining at least another percentage point in US market share
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AOL EYEING M'SOFT OR YAHOO! DEAL
With hostilities between Microsoft and Yahoo! at an all-time high, Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes is desperately trying to dial up a deal to offload his ailing AOL business to either company. AOL executives and their advisers from Bank of America...
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EBAY HITS REVENUE GUSHERS
EBay is having a banner week. Shares of the world's biggest online auctioneer jumped 4.5 percent yesterday amid news that second-quarter profit rose 22 percent after customers listed more items for sale and revenue at its PayPal unit surged...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th May 2006 22:05 UTC
A group of software developers have created a program to make Microsoft Office work with files in the OpenDocument format , a move that would bridge currently incompatible desktop applications.
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"The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight
by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. At the Mix '07 conference on Monday, Microsoft touted the ability to write Silverlight Web applications that run on Internet Explorer, Firefox and the Safari browser on Mac OS. Next up for Silverlight is an edition for mobile devices, including Windows Mobile.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Apr 2006 14:20 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Vista will run on just about any PC available today, but it will only show its true colors on about half of them , according to a new report from Gartner.
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Linked by David Adams on Thu 17th Jul 2008 05:59 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, according to Pingdom, a Swedish uptime monitoring company.
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Regents name new Internet coordinator
The South Dakota Board of Regents announced that Cathy Anderson is the new academic coordinator of the Electronic University Consortium.
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Amazon plans an online store for movies and TV shows
The move is a significant step toward vanquishing the local video store and keeping couch potatoes planted firmly in front of their televisions and computers.
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AUTO: Classic car ads possible source of fraud
Beware the bargain classic car. Advertisements on classic car Web sites and other online sales venues and print media offer what seem to be some alluring deals: Classic cars that normally fetch prices in five figures appear for a fraction of the market rate.
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Thieves cause net and phone blackout
Hundreds of people have been left without their telephone and internet connections for nearly a week after thieves tried to steal underground cabling.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Dec 2006 11:38 UTC
In 2002, both KDE and GNOME released their last major revisions; KDE released KDE 3.0 on 3rd April , while GNOME followed shortly after with GNOME 2.0 on 27th June . For the Linux desktop, therefore, 2002 was an important year.
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Linked by David Adams on Thu 17th Jul 2008 05:59 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, according to Pingdom, a Swedish uptime monitoring company.
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OSNews.com informs you about the latest news on a vast range of operating systems, from the well-known mainstream OSes, down to small embedded (but also very interesting technically) ones.
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Shock new figures show one in ten kids has had online sex chats
MORE than one in 10 children have had sexually explicit chats online, according to a survey.
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Hacked S.F. Web site infected visitors Security vendor Finjan reported Wednesday that SFgov.org, the city of San Francisco's home on the Web, was among more than 1,000 sites treating visitors to malicious software code. Other sites caught up in this latest...
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TiVo broadband users can watch YouTube on TV
Starting today, TiVo subscribers with a broadband Internet connection and up-to-date digital recorders will be able to browse, search and watch YouTube clips on their television sets. TiVo is among a handful of companies, including Sony, Panasonic and Apple,...
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Founder of blog platform gets venture funding
Matt Mullenweg owes much of his success to the ascendancy of blogs. But bloggers just might end up thanking the 24-year-old college dropout in the end. Mullenweg is the founder of San Francisco's Automattic, which runs the blog service WordPress, home to 4...
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