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NComputing: Little Box, Big Aspirations
Stephen Dukker believes he has what the world is looking for: The People's PC. But it's not really a PC. The chairman and chief executive of NComputing in Redwood City, Calif., is pursuing a computer revolution with a small box that turns low-cost desktop computers into servers that feed dozens of work stations.
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Revolutionized by the Internet
Douglas Munday of Munda and Associates prepares to auction off items to bidders at his business on Adams Avenue Wednesday.
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Recent Original Stories
Taiwan's leading computer seller Acer is to take over US PC maker Gateway in a USD 710m deal. The takeover will create the world's third largest producer of personal computers, with shipments of more than 20 million PCs and sales of USD 15bn.
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Recent Original Stories
This article is about KDE's memory usage, but there are comparisons with other solutions for your desktop. Lubos Lunak concludes there is still work to do and there is some lowhanging fruit, but KDE does already a nice job on keeping its memory usage low.
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High-Tech Pet Innovations and the People Who Love Them
(ARA) - The Internet or their pets - which could Americans live without? No need to live without either, thanks to some particularly enterprising participants in the pet industry - a market the American Pet Products Manufacturers' Association estimates at $40 billion a year.
Richfield Reaper |
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What Does a DIYer Really Want? Tools that Do More
(ARA) - From smart phones that also function as computers to green practices that reduce waste and generate energy at the same time, multi-tasking is in vogue.
Richfield Reaper |
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Cyber-Surfing Gives Everyone Easy Access to History
(ARA) - History is making history on the World Wide Web. With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by.
Richfield Reaper |
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Teenwire stays on library site, but moves to adult section
BATAVIA – A controversial Web site regarding teen sexuality will remain a link on the Batavia Public Library Web site, officials decided late Tuesday.
Kane County Chronicle |
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Queens Historic Groups Take Collections Online
The last Republican and first Jewish Queens District Attorney, Nat Hentel, right, shaking hands with City Councilman Sid Lazar in 1970. (courtesy of the QJHS)
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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.
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Microsoft has released a list of 800 applications
that should run properly on its new Windows Vista operating system. As expected, virtually all of Microsoft's own offerings are on the list - including the latest Office 2007 products. Also included are a host of business and security applications from vendors ranging from Intuit to Trend Micro.
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Recent Original Stories
Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about these small laptops (sorry, I don't participate in the hype of calling them netbooks or whatever) - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC. Just like Xandros with the Eee, Mandriva is providing the operating system for the upcoming GDium system, produced by Emtec . The first GDium will be a netbook with a 10", 1024x600 ...
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Welcome to The Monti
Everyone has a story to tell, event's founder says. The Monti's three sold-out performances have drawn people away from their televisions and computers -- just to hear a good story.
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Despite economy, young adults optimistic
Heidi Bleau grew up in Lowell "really, really poor," graduated from UMass Lowell in 2002 with a Master's degree in business administration degree. She has a thriving career in marketing and communications at a global computer security firm.
Lowell Sun |
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"I've got some free XBLA games for y'all"
Eurogamer's computer and video game discussion forum
EuroGamer |
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The Internet? That old thing?
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Former Internet tycoon and current cable-TV tycoon Mark Cuban was asked what potentially will kill media companies -- particularly broadcast TV networks --in these uncertain times.
Calgary Sun |
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Park gearing up for annual Monmouth County Fair
It's the equivalent of bringing temporary city services — water, electric, telephone, sewer, even Internet service — to an 81-acre site where tens of thousands of visitors will swarm through various display areas, 36 tents and makeshift marketplaces this week.
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RADIO SOMEWHERE
Traditional radio is "going to have to get better. Fast." So says Jerry Del Colliano of Inside Music Media, one of the best radio blogspots around. Del Colliano was responding to reports that Chrysler is planning to equip its 2009 cars with a wireless Internet connection, called UConnect Web. The irony is that while possibly rescuing an ailing auto industry, it just might breathe new life into ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 22nd Jul 2006 21:15 UTC
Toby Richards wrote an opinion article for NewsForge, claiming that for him, Linux won't get mainstream until Evolution - or another capable Outlook-like client - gets optimized and offers 100% compatibility with Exchange.
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Recent Original Stories
Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have "Windows" as part of their name.
New Mobile Computing |
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Law & Order
HEAD-ON CAR CRASH INJURES WOMAN : A Patterson woman suffered major injuries early Saturday when her car collided head-on with another car on Highway 33, near Ward Avenue in Patterson. Peggy J. Hall, 54, of Patterson, was airlifted to Memorial Medical Center in Modesto with a severed right foot, according to the California Highway Patrol report. According to the CHP report, Francisco Munjia, 32, ...
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Villa Park man accepts plea for 2006 incident
WOODSTOCK – A 49-year-old man originally accused of fondling a 15-year-old boy whom he met online avoided prison and registering as a sex offender as part of a plea bargain. Mark Pauga, of 359 N. Mission Ave., Villa Park, received two years of probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to aggravated battery.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 13th Aug 2005 17:50 UTC
Microsoft's Linux and Open Source Software Lab serves as both a place to examine the threat posed to Microsoft products by open-source offerings and a venue for testing software from Microsoft and others that's designed to span that divide.
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More local campaigns beef up 'Net presence
U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie won't send e-mails. It's too time-consuming, he says. But Abercrombie recently picked up a new hobby -- Twitter, an online service that lets him publish tidbits about himself.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
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Alleged racism attracts online attention
A local woman who said a racist hate-group targeted her grandchildren earlier this week claims to have received hundreds of anonymous phone calls since her story hit the airwaves and the Internet.
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