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Faster Internet service for Virginia SMBs
VIRGINIA, USA: Cox Business customers are taking advantage of faster Internet service thanks to speed increases that took effect this week.
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Effort made to increase universal waste recycling
As a way to reduce universal waste, Waste Management Inc. and Waste Management of Hawai‘i has recently launched an online service — ThinkGreenFromHome.com — that allows consumers to recycle compact fluorescent lamps and batteries.
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Poughkeepsie man charged with possession of laptop stolen from Newburgh store
NEWBURGH – Town Police in Newburgh Thursday evening charged Kevin Costigan, 38, of 212 North Hamilton Street in the City of Poughkeepsie with criminal possession of stolen property after they found a hot notebook computer stolen from Wal-Mart in the Town of Newburgh in the trunk of his car.
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By Justin Cox Killeen Daily Herald
Wireless Internet access will be available by November for Central Texas College students. The upgrade comes as part of a $289,857 contract with AT&T approved by the Central Texas College Board of Trustees Thursday for enhancements to the data communications network.
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AMD and Intel Centrino 2 make strange bedfellows
AMD is making gains at Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest computer maker, even in Centrino 2 notebooks.
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Raid stuns trash hauler
Firm denies $15M ripped off from Colonie CLIFTON PARK -- State investigators launched an early-morning raid Thursday on the Capital Region's largest trash hauler amid a whistleblower's allegations that the company cheated Colonie out of at least $15 million.Officials from the state attorney general's office and Department of Environmental Conservation kept County Waste and Recycling on Route 9 ...
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Method for AP-Yahoo poll on voters
The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that is tracking the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The fifth wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,759 people between June 13-23 who were originally interviewed in November or early December.
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Poll says many blacks find presidential race exciting, while most whites just yawn
An Associated Press-Yahoo News poll found differences in how engaged various groups of voters are in the presidential campaign. In the AP-Yahoo News poll conducted in June, 49 percent of blacks said they are excited by the election campaign, compared to 16 percent of whites.
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Method for AP-Yahoo poll on voters
The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that is tracking the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The fifth wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,759 people between June 13-23 who were originally interviewed in November or early December.
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Clean Machines: Keeping Your Electronics Spotless
How to clean your computer and other tips on keeping your electronics spotless.
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Poll says many blacks find presidential race exciting, while most whites just yawn
An Associated Press-Yahoo News poll found differences in how engaged various groups of voters are in the presidential campaign. In the AP-Yahoo News poll conducted in June, 49 percent of blacks said they are excited by the election campaign, compared to 16 percent of whites.
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Chip-driven processors are at the heart of every computer, and their increase in processing power has been a precondition for the rise in productivity in the ICT sector in recent decades.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th May 2006 00:31 UTC
"In a decision that could set the tone for journalism in the digital age, a California appeals court ruled Friday that bloggers, like traditional reporters, have the right to keep their sources confidential . A panel of three judges said in a 69-page decision that a group of bloggers did not have to divulge their sources to Apple, contending that the same laws that protect traditional ...
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Microsoft Profit Up 42% In 4th Quarter
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumped 42 percent, helped by strong sales of its Office and Windows software, but the company offered a soft outlook for the current quarter. Earnings for the three months ended June 30 rose to $4.3 billion, or 46 cents per share, missing Wall Street's expectations by a penny per...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Jul 2006 10:41 UTC
Microsoft is giving in to the unrelenting pressure to be more open, particularly with regard to its Office Open XML file format and interoperability with the Open Document Format alternative.
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Google Shares Get Boost
Google Inc. said it earned $1.25 billion, or $3.92 per share, during the three months ended in June. That represented a 35 percent increase from net income of $925.1 million, or $2.93 per share, at the same time last year. If not for costs incurred for employee stock compensation, Google said it would have earned $4.63 per share. Investors quickly...
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CSU hangs up on calling long-distance from dorms
CSU has decided to stop offering long-distance phone service in its residence halls starting this fall, and is instead boosting the speed of students' Internet connections.
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Main Menu
Amazon.com has announced plans to introduce a new online store of TV shows and movies, seperate from it's Unbox service, called Amazon Video on Demand.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Oct 2005 11:12 UTC
While Microsoft has no current plan to apply for Open Source Initiative approval of the new licenses that will govern its Shared Source projects going forward, the software maker has not ruled this out as a possibility going forward.
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Laptop with patient files stolen
A laptop containing the details of 89 patients is stolen from Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary, it emerges.
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Recent Original Stories
"They said it at LinuxWorld in Toronto a few months ago. They've buzzed it at analysts, and now the press is saying it to the public . Novell says this is the year of the Linux desktop, and I'm familiar with evidence showing gains in popularity for Linux. Yet, I disagree that this is the year.
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Computer mouse heading for extinction
Guy Dixon, vnunet.com , Friday 18 July 2008 at 11:50:00 Humble input device being usurped by touch screens and facial recognition The computer mouse is set to die out in the next five years and will be usurped by touch screens and facial recognition, analysts believe....
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The Growing Threat of Job Site Scams, Part 2
A troubling up-tick in the frequency of Internet fraud attempts and the growing use of more sophisticated botnets is leading a growing number of organizations to enlist the services of specialized Internet anti-fraud security services. Private companies and Internet security providers are increasingly joining in efforts that involve taking offensive action against Internet fraud in defense of ...
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Etiquette 2.0: A Guide to Online Manners
(ARA) - New laws about online harassment have put online bullying center stage in the headlines recently. While much of the recent news focuses on adolescents and teenagers being bullied on the Internet instead of the playground, the problem of online bullying transcends age.
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Sony confirms UK launch for PlayTV
Sony has announced that the PlayStation PlayTV service will launch in the UK on 10 September. PlayTV allows users to record TV while playing games, and offers live television broadcasts to handheld PSP consoles via the internet.
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