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CD-ROM for computers helps identify birds, their songs
The interactive CD-ROM, “Guide to Birds of North America,” takes some of the frustration out of bird-watching. It identifies 927 birds and has 2,700 photos.
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Recent Original Stories
"Opera Software filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed at giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers. The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.
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Pope praises Australia for apology to Aborigines
Pope Benedict XVI has used a speech to hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholic pilgrims gathered in the Australian city of Sydney to urge the world to take more care of its natural resources. The pope also condemned television and the internet for exalting violence and sexual exploitation.
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UT employee sued for false Web story
An Oklahoma publishing company and one of its beat reporters have filed a lawsuit against a UT employee who allegedly published a fake news article using several of the company's copyrighted trademarks. The Oklahoma Publishing Company and Jacob "Jake" Trotter, a reporter for The Oklahoman newspaper, are suing James Conradt, a service manager for UT Information Technology Services, for ...
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iPhone Madness--Plus Great Keyboards
Readers discuss the pros and cons of Apple's iPhone 3G, and gush over their favorite PC keyboards.
PC World |
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City engineer accused of tampering with computer network
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A city computer engineer is due in court in San Francisco today to face charges of tampering with the city's new computer network.
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17-07-2008: Matsushita to spend RM3.1b for battery plant
TOKYO: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd will invest more than ¥100 billion (RM3.07 billion) to build a lithium-ion battery plant in Japan to meet robust demand for their use in electronic devices, company sources said on Thursday.
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City engineer accused of tampering with computer network
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A city computer engineer is due in court in San Francisco today to face charges of tampering with the city's new computer network.
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'Children having online sex chats'
Almost half of children have lied about their web activities, with 11 per cent having sexually explicit conversations online, a survey has shown.
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Microsoft goes to Congress over Yahoo-Google deal
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Thursday 17 July 2008 at 22:35:00 Irony still lost in Redmond Microsoft has approached Congress over what it claims are antitrust concerns regarding Yahoo's advertising deal with Google. Brad Smith, general counsel at Microsoft, told a congressional hearing on 15 July...
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Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta Released
Opera Software today released the first public version of Opera Mobile 9.5 beta. A taster of what is to come, this beta takes mobile browsing speed and features to a new level with cool visual effects and a new look. Opera said it has changed the face of its mob...
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City engineer accused of tampering with computer network
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A city computer engineer is due in court in San Francisco today to face charges of tampering with the city's new computer network.
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Online service offers one stop shop for all utilities
Rowlett residents no longer have to trek across town to turn on their utilities when they move into the community. In about three minutes, a new resident can eliminate that moving chore.
The Rowlett Lakeshore Times |
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Microsoft goes to Congress over Yahoo-Google deal
Microsoft has approached Congress over what it claims are antitrust concerns regarding Yahoo's advertising deal with Google.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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HP crams data centre into shipping container
HP has unveiled an entire data centre that fits into a standard shipping container.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Linked by Jussi Pakkanen on Tue 17th Apr 2007 18:20 UTC
Let me begin by telling you a little story. Some time ago I needed to run a script at work once a day. We had tons of machines ranging from big Unix servers to Linux desktops. Due to various reasons the script could only be run on a desktop machine. However using cron was disabled on desktops.
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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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EBay falls nearly 8 percent as consumers spend less
EBay Inc., the world's largest Internet auctioneer, fell 7.7 percent in late U.S. trading after reporting slowing growth in spending at its retail sites.
Asbury Park Press |
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Dell hit by class action over unpaid overtime
US call centre workers can team up Dell is facing a class action case from 5,000 call centre staff in the US who claim the computer giant has underpaid them since 2004.…
The Register |
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Television - World
Computer games now make even more money than movies. So it is not surprising the industry has its own summit.
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Engineering competition seeks to entice young Vermonters
Two federal agencies and three technology companies are offering Vermont teachers and students a multimillion dollar opportunity to use top-line software, work with engineering experts and try their hands at improving the energy efficiency of aircraft.
The Burlington Free Press |
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Attract, repel: lifelike dolls are collector cult
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Their chests rise and fall and you can hear a tiny heartbeat, but these babies for sale over the Internet are not alive.
The Star |
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Intel faces new EU anti-trust charges
Company said to have squeezed AMD out of stores. The European Commission is set to slap new anti-trust charges on Intel, this time for trying to squeeze rival chip maker AMD out of some of Europe's most important technology retail stores.
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Bus helps people out
The bus, labeled the "Help is Here Express," housed wireless laptops and a handful of experts specifically trained to help people like Anselmi, who have little to no insurance coverage, pay for the prescriptions they need.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 14th Aug 2006 16:47 UTC
OneStat today reported that Microsoft's Windows dominates the operating system market with a global usage share of 96.97 percent.
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