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Obama raises $52M in June, setting torrid new pace
By JIM KUHNHENN 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. The Democratic nominee-in-waiting had his second-best fundraising month in June, a $52 million ...
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Hot skills: WebKit
What is it? Anyone seriously interested in developing rich internet applications (RIA) should be paying attention to WebKit, an open source web browser...
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Deputy to appeal firing from sheriff's office
LANCASTER - A Fairfield County Sheriff's deputy has filed a wrongful termination grievance against the department a day after he was fired for violating company policies through an online forum.
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Google Buys Russian Contextual Ads Service for $140m
BREAKING NOW: Google is buying Russian contextual advertising company ZAO Begun for $140 million from UK-registered Rambler Media (many Russian firms now base themselves in the UK). Rambler owns 50.1 percent of Begun, so to secure the deal it is buying the remaining 49.9 percent stake from owner Bannatyne Limited and then selling the [...]
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Obama’s cache of cash; now he must keep filling it
WASHINGTON — 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.
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Audience gets in the act at Jacob's Pillow
BECKET, Mass. -- Got kids at home who can spend hours in front of a computer screen, making frogs hop from lily pad to lily pad or following paths deep into a mystical garden? Take them to Jacob's Pillow this week to step inside what is essentially a life-size computer game.The Italian company T.P.O. (Teatro Di Piazza D'Occasione) -- the name translates roughly as theater for the public square ...
Albany Times Union |
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On the Net: Whedon's new series 'Dr. Horrible'
When the Hollywood writers went on strike last winter, it was speculated that television and film's loss would be the Internet's gain.
The Oakland Press |
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Microsoft sells 180 million Vista licences
Troubled operating system flying off the shelves Microsoft says it has now sold 180 million Vista licences.
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Mood Darkens On Wall Street After Trio Of Disappointing Earnings Results
(RTTNews) - US stocks were facing headwinds Friday morning as most of the optimism generated in the wake of some positive earnings earlier in the week dissipated as investors assessed disappointing quarterly results from Merrill Lynch, Google and Microsoft.
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Online Journalism News
The BBC has appointed Erik Huggers as the new controller of its Future Media & Technology (FM&T) department. Huggers will replace outgoing chief Ashley Highfield, who is to become CEO of Kangaroo, the on-demand video project with Channel 4 and ITV, a release from the BBC has confirmed.
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Asian markets close mixed; Sensex surges 4%
(RTTNews) - The stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region closed mixed on Friday on the back of disappointing earnings reported by Merrill Lynch, Microsoft and Google after the U.S. market closed on Thursday and caution ahead of Citigroup's earnings announcement in the U.S. today.
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EU files fresh anti-trust charges against Intel
European regulators have filed fresh anti-trust charges against the world's largest chip maker Intel.
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Press' television listings go live online
To access full-service, searchable TV listings pages, visit the Web site and click on TV listings under the Entertainment options on the left. Listings are keyed to the zip code of the computer accessing the Oakland Press Web site.
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BBC's Huggers Confirmed Future Media & Technology Director
As we and several others forecast back in April, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers has just been confirmed in the director role, its top new media post, replacing Ashley Highfield on August 1. He will control a 2008/09 budget of 114.4 million ($228 million) for BBC.co.uk alone, but Huggers' responsibilities encompass all internet, interactive TV, mobile, broadband ...
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Video games move to mass market
Both Sony and Microsoft were expected to follow Nintendo into the social arena, with "building communities" and "social gaming" the buzz words of the conference as the three industry gaming heavyweights fought for center stage.
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Pay-TV smackdown
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. It appears that MultiChoice will go to any lengths to protect its stronghold over the subscription-broadcasting market.
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Highlights: Dow Chemical Co., Rohm and Haas Co., Aflac Inc., Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Lawson Software, Inc. ...
(AP:CHICAGO--) (BUSINESS WIRE) _ Jul. 18, 2008--Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets.
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Kieber makes first public address
Computer technician caused massive, international tax scandal when he stole banking records on 1,400 wealthy clients of Liechtenstein's LGT Group
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New media challenges Malaysia's traditional press
Malaysian bloggers Ahirudin bin Attan and Ooi Chuan Aun (Jeff Ooi) speak at a conference in Indonesia. Ooi was recently elected to the Malaysian Parliament for Jelutong, Penang.
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Recent Original Stories
A lengthy debate that began with a suggestion to dual license the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 and the GPLv3 continues on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Throughout the ongoing thread Linux creator Linus Torvalds has spoken out on the GPLv2, the upcoming GPLv3, the BSD license, Tivo, the Free Software Foundation, and much more.
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Recent Original Stories
"Since Apple announced Leopard last year during WWDC, MacOSXRumors obtained reports on two major features in the next release of Mac OS X. The first is a redesigned Finder making extensive use of Spotlight and the second is the inclusion of virtualization software . Recently sources have been indicating that Leopard will feature easy collaborative work throughout the OS. The main idea is that it ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Dec 2005 19:16 UTC
"Although we didn't consider it as such here today, Yonah will be quite impressive on notebooks. The thought of having such a cool running dual core processor in a notebook is honestly amazing, and the performance difference (especially for multitaskers) over what we have today will be significant.
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Mood Darkens On Wall Street After Trio Of Disappointing Earnings Results
(RTTNews) - US stocks were facing headwinds Friday morning as most of the optimism generated in the wake of some positive earnings earlier in the week dissipated as investors assessed disappointing quarterly results from Merrill Lynch, Google and Microsoft.
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Recent Original Stories
Steve McIntyre visited the LiMux team in Munich and has posted a small report about the visit on his blog. LiMux is the specially tailored Debian distribution City of Munich deploys.
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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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