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AMD CEO resigns under financial turmoil
Under Hector Ruiz's leadership, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc rose to challenge larger rival Intel Corp as never before in AMD's nearly 40-year history.
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iQ Academy Washington Marks Official Expansion of Online School With Guinness World Record Attempt
iQ Academy Washington marked the official statewide expansion of its online school for Washington students in grades 7-12 on Friday, July 18 as one of the school's administrators pursued a Guinness World Record for scuba diving with a laptop -- the first known attempt at such a feat.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Philips SPC 620NC WebCam
The Philips SPC 620NC is a poorly conceived webcam that underperforms in terms of design, brightness and quality of picture, and included software.
PC Magazine |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Jun 2006 12:17 UTC, submitted by fish
Google has released a beta version of Google Earth 4, which runs on all the three major platforms . "We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of Google Earth that we decided to celebrate a bit early.
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Recent Original Stories
"At APC we've been running the Beta 2 edition of Windows Home Server for the past two months and it's acquitted itself surprisingly well - no doubt a reflection on the time this 'server for the rest of us' spent in the Redmond skunkworks.
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Key Shareholder Backs Yahoo Board
Fund manager Bill Miller, one of Yahoo's top shareholders, dealt a blow on Friday to billionaire investor Carl Icahn's two-month campaign to replace the Internet firm's directors, throwing his support behind Yahoo's current board.
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Google marches into Russia with ad buy
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 18 July 2008 at 23:00:00 Company acquires local ad firm Google is to acquire Russian-based contextual ad firm ZAO Begun. The company hopes that the buy will increase its advertising reach in the fast-growing Russian market....
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Recent Original Stories
"An interesting patent application recently filed by Microsoft may offer a glimpse at the future of the Windows interface . The patent describes a 'method for managing windows in a display' that seems to describe a method of task switching that is neither Taskbar nor Expose, but something in between."
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EU Scoffs at Intel's Antitrust Objections
European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes on Friday rejected chipmaker Intel's remarks that new charges filed against it by the European Commission would lead to higher prices for consumers.
PC Magazine |
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ISPs sign nationwide deal to ban child porn
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 18 July 2008 at 22:57:00 87 per cent of internet providers sign up The vast majority of internet service providers in the US have signed up to a pact to ban child pornography from being viewed online....
vnunet.com |
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Police Searching For Serial Laptop Thief
Plymouth Township police are looking for a serial laptop thief.
ClickOnDetroit |
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Tips to Make 'Back to Pool' Time Safe and Fun
(ARA) - Every parent knows summertime means fun time. With the warmer temperatures, it's time to unglue young eyes from the television, computer screen and video games. There's no better place for kids to get out and get active than in the pool.
Richfield Reaper |
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Nevada cable companies agree to block child porn
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 (3:03 p.m.) Nevada state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto says Nevada's two largest cable companies have joined a nationwide push to limit access to child pornography on the Internet.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Netroots Nation draws 2,000 political bloggers to Austin
The influential network of liberal online organizers is in Austin for its annual meeting.
KVUE-TV Austin |
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How to sell your company's secrets and not get caught [Tim The IT Guy]
This week, the HP vice president indicted for leaking trade secrets from IBM, his former employeer, pleaded guilty. Dude, UR DOIN IT RONG. Atul Malhotra allegedly emailed the goods to a coworker,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Google wants Tagore online
Calcutta, July 18: You are more likely find that old Bengali film you were looking for on YouTube or the once-read Tagore short story on the Net as Google gears up to increase its involvement with Bengal and the Bengali language.
The Telegraph |
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More ISPs Decide to Filter Usenet Newsgroups
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo recently succeeding in pressuring AOL and AT&T to join the ranks of Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable in limiting access to many or all of the Usenet newsgroups hosted on their servers.
Electronic Frontier Foundations |
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UF Haitian Creole professor works to expand program
Benjamin Hebblethwaite stared at Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous words from his “I Have a Dream” speech displayed on the computer screen. Hebblethwaite knew exactly what to do as he sat in an Indiana University computer lab in 2003.
Independent Florida Alligator |
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Australian wins defamation case in B.C.
Victim awarded $180,000 for being the brunt of a online tirade conducted by a man from Nanaimo
The Globe and Mail |
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IAC heads toward $2B spinoff
The Internet conglomerate receives financing commitments for Ticketmaster, HSN home shopping network, LendingTree.com and Interval Leisure Group.
CNN Money |
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Newsletter Subscription
SSDs don't consume profoundly less power or run any faster than spinning hard drives...yet.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Sep 2005 21:04 UTC
"From its humble origins in the 'hacker' culture of US computer science laboratories in the 1970s, open source software has grown to become arguably the most influential and talked about phenomenon to hit the computer industry since the invention of the microprocessor.
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Satyam profit rises 45%
Software major Satyam Computer Services on Friday announced a consolidated net profit of Rs 547.70 crore for the quarter ended June 30.
The Times of India |
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Las Cruces feels Starbucks java bubble burst (3:44)
LAS CRUCES — There's just no use crying over spilt non-fat half-caff triple-grande quarter-sweet sugar-free vanilla non-fat Lactaid extra-hot extra-foamy caramel macciato.
Las Cruces Sun-News |
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The Right Boots Up To Gain Strength Online
If the political blogosphere is a boxing ring -- noisy, boisterous, full of punches -- then, for this week at least, Austin is Vegas, reports The Washington Post.
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