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Adobe shoots an AIR ball with new Media Player
Adobe has released a 1.0 version of its new Media Player, which it hopes will enable users to watch their own media on the desktop as well as streaming content from partners. Available content is limited, however, as are the file types that Adobe Media Player can actually open. Read More...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Sep 2006 21:39 UTC
Microsoft announced on Tuesday US prices for Windows Vista , the long-awaited new version of the operating system that sits on more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Ryan Thiessen on Mon 20th Mar 2006 17:19 UTC
Sony's PS3, scheduled to be released near the end of this year, has been slated to have a hard drive that will support and will even include preinstalled Linux . This could be a breakthrough event not just for Linux but also for other alternative operating systems as well.
New Mobile Computing |
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Are Macs more expensive than PCs? Does it matter?
Over on Computerworld, Preston Gralla posted a piece called "Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X." I'm going to be straight up and say that I don't agree with much that Gralla wrote in this piece, but one of the five reasons he gives comes down to that age old argument -...
ZDNet |
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Cyber Criminals Use Social Networks for Profit
Cyber-thieves shift tactics to gain your financial information. If you've got a Facebook or MySpace page watch out! Cyber criminals are targeting people who use social networking sites. read more
WMGT Macon |
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CNet: Mac Security Not About the OS Anymore
Security researchers have never identified any instance in the wild in which a Mac has been exploited from the Internet, according to CNet on Wednesday. That's despite a recent incident in which a well crafted Website was used to exploit a flaw in Safari. As a result, exploitation techniques have moved from attacking the OS directly to tricking the user
The Mac Observer |
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Developers ponder Web 2.0 app dev needs
Software developers serving on a panel at the Evans Data Developer Relations conference in Redwood City, Calif. Tuesday had different perspectives on transitioning to Web 2.0-style development involving Web applications that feature user interactions.
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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EU urges search sites to dump personal info
A European Union privacy panel on Wednesday urged Internet search engine providers like Google Inc., Yahoo and MSN to delete data taken from users after six months.
MSNBC |
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Mae Vion Meyer announces for Bandera County Tax Assessor/Collector
In 1977 I was hired by Tax Assessor Collector Marguerite Stevens and worked for her until 1989. Then in 1989 Bandera County saw a need to automate the county with computers and installed me as the Director of the IT department where I worked under the County Judge.
Bandera Bulletin |
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Chertoff on Cybersecurity: 'Reverse Manhattan Project' Needed
After working for years to prevent cyberterrorist attacks on the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security has approached the private sector for help. At a talk given to information security professionals at the RSA Security Conference, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned that a cyberterrorist attack would hurt the U.S. as much as the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings ...
E-Commerce Times |
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Europe Poised to Bolster Web Shield
PARIS: Nearly a year after Estonia weathered an onslaught of cyberattacks, its name has become a rallying cry for countries pressing to strengthen global cooperation between governments and private Internet service providers to combat computer crime.
YaleGlobal Online |
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Feature: Reviews
In this age of multi-core processors and 3-D desktops, some people still get work done on old resource-strapped single-core machines, thanks to programs like the AbiWord word processor. The latest stable AbiWord 2.6.0 release was unveiled last month, two years after the software's last stable release. Feature-wise, the little cross-platform word processor has closed the gap with heavyweight ...
IT Manager's Journal |
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Harmonix: Wii need a hard drive
Design director Rob Kay says the main reason there's no downloadable content for the Nintendo edition of Rock Band is that there's nowhere to store it.
GameSpot |
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Mushkin XP-800AP 800W Review
One of the most overlooked components when building a computer is the power supply. More attention is paid to the CPU and other speedy components, but sometimes there is no thought to what is going to power them.
Overclockers Club |
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FormFactor hit by another layoff
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In its second layoff this year, FormFactor Inc. will reduce its global workforce by about 12 percent, with the reductions primarily coming from the company's North America operations.
Electronics Supply and Manufacturing |
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IRS Data Said To Be Vulnerable To Hacks
It's just one more thing to be worried about as the tax filing deadline draws one week away. Treasury Department officials say lax monitoring of Internal Revenue Service computers could allow personal tax data to fall into the wrong hands.
KTHV Little Rock |
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EU Report Urges Search Data Deletion
A European Union privacy panel wants Internet search engine providers like Google and Yahoo to delete data taken from users after six months, even when they operate abroad. more
WKRG News 5 Mobile |
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Verdict Reached in Voorhis Trial
DENVER - Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of a government official accused of using restricted criminal information for a campaign ad. The verdict was scheduled to be read in federal court at 1:30 p.m. MDT. Cory Voorhis is an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent facing federal charges of exceeding authorized access to government computers.
FOX 31 Denver |
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Lingerie, iPods on Government Credit Cards
The charges include Internet dating services, iPods, expensive clothing, a $13,500 dinner and lingerie to be worn during jungle training in Ecuador, the study said.
KARK Little Rock |
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With Virtualization, Regular Defragmentation Is Vital
Many software providers from large to small are in the race to offer virtualization solutions, and many enterprises are taking advantage. While this futuristic technology certainly offers many benefits, it has one critical challenge to its overall performance -- disk file fragmentation. File fragmentation -- the splitting of files into pieces (fragments) in order to better utilize disk space -- ...
SYS-CON Media |
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EU lifts DRAM duties on Hynix
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Council of the European Union formally adopted a decision to lift countervailing duties on imports of DRAMs from Korea manufactured by Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the company said on Monday (April 7).
Electronics Supply and Manufacturing |
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Microsoft Releases Forefront Stirling to Beta
Microsoft has unveiled the public beta of its Forefront enterprise security product, known as "Stirling." This is a single product that delivers coordinated protection across desktop and server applications and the network edge. It comes with a single dashboard that shows all the systems protected by Stirling.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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EU Calls For Stricter Online Privacy Rules
EU report urges search engines to delete user data after six months.
ABC News |
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EU report urges data deletion
Privacy watchdog recommended that search engines such as Google and Yahoo follow European data protection rules and delete data after 6 months
The Globe and Mail |
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Religious teaching straight to your iPod
Evangelists have long used the airwaves to get their messages out to a mass audience. But now, podcast technology is opening the doors to a wider variety of religious teaching than ever before, available on demand and delivered automatically to the computers of a growing number of Americans hungry for spirituality.
USA Today |
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