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Fring Adds Linux, Java Support
Mobile phone application Fring announced support for Linux and J2ME mobile handsets. Fring is a mobile phone Internet application that allows users to make VoIP calls, messaging and chatting using networks such as MSN, Yahoo and GoogleTalk from their cellphones.
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Poll: Obama backers are more excited than McCain's
John McCain is facing an excitement deficit. While overall interest in the presidential campaign has swelled since last fall, backers of Barack Obama are more fired up and express more loyalty to their candidate than McCain's do, a poll by The Associated Press and Yahoo News showed Friday. In addition, individual groups backing Obama - African-Americans, Democrats and liberals - are more ...
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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. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the ...
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Namibia: IT Gurus Share Wisdom
The second Telecom's Information, Communication and Technology Summit opened yesterday in the capital with much fanfare and anticipation over the future of global communication.
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Forrester Research To Broadcast Second-Quarter Conference Call Via Internet
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Forrester Research, Inc. will broadcast its second-quarter results conference call on the Web at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, July 31, 2008.
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The end of human customer service?
Imagine standing in a retail store desperately looking for help from someone, anyone, and being directed to ... a computer screen. "No one here can help you," a clerk might say. "But someone 1,500 miles away probably can." This just might be the future of customer service.
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The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar
It's easy to think that when it comes to Apple vs. Psystar, that it's going to be a case of David vs. Goliath, only thing time Goliath pounds David into the ground like a nail. But this case could be a catalyst for questions being raised about Apple's own business...
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Google shares fall after disappointing earnings
Google Inc. shares tumbled more than 9 percent in early trading Friday after the Internet search leader's second-quarter earnings missed analysts' expectations. Management said economic turmoil in the United States and parts of Europe appears to be causing...
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Icahn's latest lament: Et tu, Legg Mason?
Heading into his big showdown with Yahoo management, Carl Icahn might have expected to have Wall Street in his pocket. Instead, he received a slap from some of his former buddies.
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Tech Stocks: AMD, Google, Microsoft lead technology sector retreat
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks tumbled at the opening bell Friday morning led lower by some of the sector's biggest players including Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
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Child porn charges laid
Child pornography was found after uniformed and plainclothes officers of the Greater Sudbury Police Service conducted a search of a Sudbury home Wednesday. Numerous computers and data storage devices were seized. The search warrant came after the Greater Sudbury Police Service, Canadian and international police agencies [...]
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Dec 2007 14:24 UTC
"All promised features were cut from Vista." This is a commonly heard complaint about Windows Vista on the internet. While there certainly is a lot to complain about when it comes to Windows Vista, the mythical 'cancelled features' certainly is not one of them. Let me explain why.
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Recent Original Stories
The first development release of Syllable Server is available . It provides a text mode Linux environment, but also contains a preliminary graphical environment built on the framebuffer device, with DirectFB and SDL on top. The planned graphical environment from Syllable Desktop is not included yet.
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Tech Stocks: AMD, Google, Microsoft lead technology sector retreat
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks tumbled at the opening bell Friday morning led lower by some of the sector's biggest players including Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
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Drop in Tech Stocks Leads Market Lower
Google, AMD and Microsoft are all falling. IBM is one positive for technology. Citi is also climbing.
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Dell today gave freelance programmer and sysadmin Dave Mitchell, of Sheffield, UK, a refund of 47 pounds (USD 89) for ...
bundled with his new Dell Inspiron 640m laptop, Mitchell says. Dell also refunded the tax, for a total of GBP 55.23 (USD 105).
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Portage la Prairie News
In a flash, some Portage la Prairie residents had many of their electronic devices rendered useless last weekend.
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Masked Duo Hits NE Portland Computer Store
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Two masked thieves used a rock to shatter a glass window and gain entry to a computer store Wednesday in northeast Portland. Dwayne Dollarhide, owner of Mac Pac, said the same masked duo vandalized and stole from his computer store multiple times in the past two weeks.
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Portage la Prairie News
In a flash, some Portage la Prairie residents had many of their electronic devices rendered useless last weekend.
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CHP identifies drivers in Thursday morning wreck near Cambria
Traffic was halted for about an hour along Highway 1 in Cambria on Thursday after a mid-morning wreck that one emergency worker called “almost a head-on.” Nobody was injured in the crash between a Honda Accord and a Ford F-150, both 2005 models, but traffic was snarled throughout town for about an hour. The heavily damaged truck and car blocked the northbound lane of the highway, and debris ...
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Erik Huggers lands top BBC tech job
Ian Williams, vnunet.com , Friday 18 July 2008 at 15:04:00 Ex-Microsoft man heads up Future Media & Technology The BBC has appointed Erik Huggers as director of Future Media & Technology effective from 1 August. Huggers is being promoted from group controller of the division and is taking...
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Peterson's blog angers Laci's mom
Scott Peterson was convicted November 12, 2004, for the deaths of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child. He may be locked up in San Quentin State Prison and facing the death penalty, but he is not cut off from the outside world.
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Laci Peterson's mom outraged over former son-in-law's blog
Scott Peterson was convicted November 12, 2004, for the deaths of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child. He may be locked up in San Quentin State Prison and facing the death penalty, but he is not cut off from the outside world.
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Microsoft swoops amid fears over piracy rise
kayleigh bateman , CRN , Friday 18 July 2008 at 14:55:00 Software giant claims struggling VARs are under pressure to cut corners Microsoft is stepping up efforts to snare illegal traders after research suggested the economic downturn could spark an increase in software piracy....
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