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Microsoft's "Katmai" Is Filled to the Brim
SQL Server 2008 release candidate sports improvements across the board, but the head turners -- and disappointments -- will mostly impact large shops.
PC World |
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Linux Not The Savior For Our Economy
There's always a group who are so overly passionate about their favorite hammer that everything else looks like a nail.
PC World |
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NCTA Saluted for Fighting Internet Child Pornography
FCC commissioner Robert McDowell, Sens. Ted Stevens, Mark Pryor applaud cable industry.
Broadcasting and Cable |
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Amazon to offer Web-streaming movies, TV shows
In a significant step toward vanquishing the local video store, Amazon.com on Thursday introduced a new online store of TV shows and movies, called Amazon Video on Demand.
Austin American-Statesman |
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AP Exclusive: A digital Albom through Kindle
Mitch Albom has a new book out - well, not really a book, but a commencement speech in book form. And not in traditional book form, but as an e-book, published exclusively through Amazon.com's Kindle reader.
Miami Herald |
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Obama raises $52M in June, setting torrid new pace
Though he's raking in the cash so far, Barack Obama's decision to forgo public funds for the fall campaign means he must keep up his torrid pace — a tall order that will tax his time, test his Internet support and require the help of Democratic donors who once wished for his defeat.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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"Low-cost" PC/104-Plus board has dual LAN ports
— Jul. 07, 2008 — Tri-M Engineering has begun shipping a low-cost PC/104-Plus processor module with dual 10/100 Ethernet ports.
WindowsForDevices |
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AMD sends CEO Ruiz to executive chairman post as chip maker struggles
Jordan Robertson And Rachel Metz July 17, 2008 - 6:48 p.m.
Canadian Business |
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IBM beats estimates with 22 percent profit gain
IBM SAID on Thursday that is second-quarter profit leaped 22 percent, blowing past Wall Street estimates as the computer giant's bread-and-butter services division continued to thrive despite economic malaise in the United States.
Kingston Daily Freeman |
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Anhydrous ammonia leak at J.R. Simplot prompts brief evacuation
An anhydrous ammonia leak at the J.R. Simplot plant in Grand Forks triggered an evacuation on Thursday afternoon. Advertisement: Tim Shea's Nursery & Landscaping Huge July Internet Savings! See our specials page @ www.sheasnursery.com!
Grand Forks Herald |
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Wal-Mart challenges Best Buy's Geeks
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it has partnered with Dell to test market technology services, including home theater installation and computer repair.
The Morning News |
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Pell City School Catches Fire
The newly built Williams Intermediate School in Pell City catches fire Thursday, catching the computer lab and cafeteria on fire. FOX6 News Reporter Alan Collins takes a look at the damage left behind.
FOX 6 News Birmingham |
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Summary Box: AMD changes CEO amid struggles
COMMAND CHANGE: Hector Ruiz, 62, is done as CEO at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. after six turbulent years. He now is executive chairman.
Tri-City Herald |
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Engineer pleads not guilty to cyber crime
A San Francisco computer engineer has pleaded not guilty to charges of taking over a city computer network.
FOX 6 News San Diego |
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Online retail spending up 38 pct
LONDON (Reuters) - Online retail sales in Britain leapt 38 percent in the first half of the year to account for 17 pence in every pound spent, and this figure could rise to as high as 50 pence in five years, a report said on Friday.
Reuters.co.uk |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Aug 2005 12:35 UTC
The second beta of Mandriva Linux 2006 has been released . Read the release notes , and download it from one of the mirros listed on that same page. Update: screenshot gallery .
New Mobile Computing |
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Portage la Prairie News
In a flash, residents living on the same street in Portage la Prairie had many of their electronic devices rendered useless last weekend, as a power surge shot down their street.
Portage Daily Graphic |
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Microsoft adds workflow to cloud-based SOA platform
Microsoft added this week workflow capabilities to BizTalk Services, the company's platform-in-the-cloud project for SOA and business process management.
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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Social Computing, Online Transactions Are Critical To Growing The ASPAC Market HEDNA Reports
Tapping the e-commerce market is key to reaching the tech savvy Asia-Pacific electronic distribution market, experts told attendees at HEDNA's ASPAC Meeting, held 9 July 2008 at the InterContinental Hong Kong. Many countries fall under the classification of "technology optimists," including metropolitan China, India, Australia, South Korea and Japan, says Henry Harteveldt, vice president and ...
Hospitality Net |
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Earnings: Microsoft and Google disappoint, while IBM soars
Earnings are up across the board, but profits are down...but not everywhere.
CNET |
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AMD Gets New Chief
After another bad quarter, the chip maker replaces Hector Ruiz with Dirk Meyer.
Forbes |
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disabling UAP altogether ? Elsewhere, there's a tweaking guide for Vista RC1 .
One of Vista's big security features is 'User Account Protection' (or 'User Account Control') which pops up and asks for user authentication before software can make any administrative changes to the system. But the TweakVista utility can turn off UAP in one click.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Nov 2007 23:31 UTC
"The GNOME Foundation has issued a statement in response to recent accusations that it has been supporting the acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML format as an ECMA standard at the expense of the Open Document Format, the open standard used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and other free software office applications.
OS News |
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UK shoppers spend £145m a day online
A DOWNTURN in the economy has seen shopping on the internet rocket over the past 12 months, with more than £145 million now spent online every day.
The Scotsman |
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AMD second quarter loss widens, worse than analyst forecast
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Thursday its second-quarter loss widened as the computer chip maker was hurt by a large asset impairment charge from discontinued operations.
Canoe Technology |
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