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Virtual Attack
A week ago, New Braunfels grandmother Mary Alice Altorfer had never heard of YouTube. Now she’s a hot topic on one of the most influential Web sites in America.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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480 at-home jobs planned for Vigo
TERRE HAUTE – N.E.W. Customer Service Co., which provides customer support in the consumer electronic, computer and wireless industries, is expanding its work-from-home program into west-central Indiana in a move that will add up to 480 new jobs.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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New to historic club
Among rows of computers, an array of fast-food restaurants and a wall of television screens showing international programs, it's hard to imagine The Hub as a historic building.
The Gainesville Sun |
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The young and rich
Sitting back in his tech-swanky SoMa office, Sanjit Biswas, co-founder of a new San Francisco-based wireless venture worth millions, has been asked to spill his guts about his latest extravagant purchases and his wild, Cristal-drenched social life.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Haines City Receives Positive Audit Report
HAINES CITY City finance officials joked that the 2007 city audit was really more of a technological audit because most of the comments were related to city computer systems and programs.City auditor Ron Conrad said the city is in good financial shape.
The Lakeland Ledger |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Dec 2005 13:16 UTC
The omnipresent 'sources' of AppleInsider have told the rumoursite that Apple has ' outsourced ' the design of the next PowerMac's motherboard to Intel.
New Mobile Computing |
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Web-initiated harassment of grandma continues
Web postings urging online and telephone harassment of Herald-Zeitung employees appeared Saturday morning on the Internet hours after an article was published describing similar attacks toward a New Braunfels woman.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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posted by Adam S on Wed 23rd May 2007 23:54 UTC
If online articles and blogs are any indication of things, the number of Linux users migrating to, and satisfied with, Ubuntu GNU/Linux seems to be staggering.
OS News |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Mar 2006 01:00 UTC
Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.14 , the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. Foresight Linux 0.9.4 was first to incorporate GNOME 2.14 on their distribution, VMWare and Qemu images are already available in addition to their normal distribution.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 18:44 UTC, submitted by Jeffo
Last week we announced Mandriva's brand new distribution, and now Mandriva Linux 2007 is finally available to the public . The key new feature of Mandriva Linux 2007 is the AIGLX and Xgl 3D-accelerated desktop.
OS News |
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Clash of the consoles
Press briefings at last week's E3 video game conference in Los Angeles claimed to make clear who's winning the console wars. Microsoft: “We will sell more Xbox 360s than Sony sells PlayStation 3s.” Sony: “We will sell more PS3s than Nintendo sells Wiis. Nintendo: “We are selling more Wiis than anyone.”
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Tool rental goes online
Jeff Boudier says the idea came about when he and some friends spent part of a Sunday morning hanging a mirror in one of the friends’ new apartment.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Alaskans can still pick up bargains on summer tours
Here we are in the middle of the summer and looking for travel deals. Although airfare bargains are hard to find, there still are a few deals to be had. At the top of my list is the Condor nonstop flights from Anchorage to Frankfurt. Condor's Web site (www.condor.com) is easy to navigate and allows you to pick from the thrice-weekly flights.
Anchorage Daily News |
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Gore asks bloggers for help promoting energy challenge
Al Gore received an enthusiastic welcome at Netroots Nation, the annual conference of progressive bloggers.
International Herald Tribune |
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Internet entrepreneur returns to solar energy
Bill Gross, an engineer whose company, Idealab, created a slew of Web businesses in the 1990s, is again building solar power projects.
International Herald Tribune |
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New Xerox print driver makes it easy to print on the go
For office workers who bring their laptop computers to meetings in a variety of locations, on-the-spot printing has long been a frustrating challenge, but not anymore.
AME Info |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jul 2007 22:17 UTC
"SceneCON is an annual meeting of underground computer artists who are members of the famous demo scene. With SceneCON, the organizers aim to follow the two decade old tradition of demo scene parties in Hungary. Yet, with a bit of a twist.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Sep 2007 19:23 UTC
KernelTrap offers a summary of a lengthy debate on OpenBSD's -misc mailing list comparing the security features built into OpenBSD versus the security offered by the Linux kernel's SELinux feature.
OS News |
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Russian Pres threatens to fire officials having no computer skills
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has again shown that he is a state administrator living up to the 21st century standards - he has threatened to fire the government officials having no command of information technologies.
Itar-Tass |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th Aug 2005 18:44 UTC
More than 90 Australian companies have been asked to pay a licence fee for Linux software in a move apparently backed by Linus Torvalds. Letters demanding US$5000 for use of the Linux name were originally dismissed as a hoax.
OS News |
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Postal worker derails reshipping scam
Sandra Scott's tale of woe and deception begins the way so many do in the era of modern communication: She met a man on the Internet. UNICEF. She agreed to help his efforts to aid orphans in Africa.
Mobile Press-Register |
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More seniors finding love online, but skipping remarriage
Elderly Americans aren't just living longer. They're dating more, and they're the fastest-growing users of Internet dating services and the fastest-growing group of cohabiters.
Seattle Times |
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Top cheerleader Clark leaves post
Dena Clark has resigned as coach of the Blue Lightning cheerleading and dance team amidst a haze of controversy after raunchy online pictures of cheerleaders surfaced on several sports web sites this week.
winnipegsun.com |
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Timeline: the hostage crisis
The five men are seized from Baghdad's finance ministry building by around 40 gunmen disguised as police officers. One of the hostages is Peter Moore, an IT consultant from Lincoln who was working in Iraq for BearingPoint, an American management consultancy.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Aerospace notebook
LONDON — Alabama officials returned home from London last week with plenty of KC-45 caps, lapel pins and other promotional items handed out by Northrop Grumman Corp. at the Farnborough International Airshow. But they might not want to unpack them just yet.
Mobile Press-Register |
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