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Computer Mouse R.I.P. In Five Years, Experts Say [Mouse RIP]
Is the end of the venerable computer mouse at hand? Analyst firm Gartner seems to think so, and says its case is bolstered by the meteoric rise of technologies found in, and made popular by,...
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Briefly: Dell Studio 15 review
Dell has often enforced a hard split between its entry-level (Inspiron) and high-end (XPS) home notebooks, but that distinction is blurred with the Studio series: the new line should in theory be the best of the breed with the more upscale design and performance of the XPS but the customization normally reserved for Inspirons. The Studio 15 achiev...
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Online gaming industry develops soundly
Baby-faced Peng Haitao comes across as a shy student who seldom talks. But the 24-year-old college dropout is a hero for many Chinese students hooked to online games.
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Tangram 3DS wins animation award
PORTSMOUTH and#8212; Tangram 3DS, a firm specializing in visualization and computer animation, announces that its animation for architect Johann Lettner in Vienna, Austria, took Best of Interactive at the N.H. Creative Club's 20th annual exhibition. The...
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CTA Bus Tracker online program adding more routes
Agency is adding 15 more routes, maps to Bus Tracker system Fifteen more bus routes and a new online map with a streamlined look and more information will be added Monday to the Chicago Transit Authority's Web-based Bus Tracker program.
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Fallon's 'Late Night' to Get Web Tryout
Jimmy Fallon's new NBC late-night show will debut on the Internet before it premieres on TV. Executive producer Lorne Michaels told reporters Sunday that he plans to "do the show on the Internet (first) so we can experiment."
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The Fall Of TV's Discontent
"The fall 2008 TV season has been decimated by the writers strike. Audiences are shrinking. The most honored dramas are on cable. Some predict nearly half of all TV watching will be done on the Internet in five years.
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Opinion: How to make the Kindle a mainstream success
Although the Kindle is the fastest-selling e-book reader to date, Amazon needs to get to work on its glaring issues and ensure that the mistakes it made the first time around aren't made again in October. Read More...
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Top Scoops
Voters in the state of Hawaii filed a lawsuit on July 14, 2008, asking the Court to order the Hawaii Chief Elections Officer to stop using telephone lines or the internet for transmitting ballot counts and election results for final tabulation until such time as administrative rules can be legally promulgated in accordance with Hawaii Administrative Law, Chapter 91, HRS, and all other laws can ...
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Brunei Internet Chess Blitz
The 1st Brunei Internet Chess Blitz was held on Tuesday at ICC whereby 418 elite online players vied for the $6,500 prize fund.
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Cybersecurity Will Take A Big Bite of the Budget
President Bush's single largest request for funds and "most important initiative" in the fiscal 2009 intelligence budget is for the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a little publicized but massive program whose details "remain vague and thus open to question," according to the House...
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Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Carolyn Gudmundson , a former Microsoft manager who has admitted stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company, wrote a letter of explanation and apology, reports a post in Todd Bishop's blog . The story is a sad one of a high-paid, ...
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Fresh-faced schools await Mount Vernon students return
MOUNT VERNON, Ind. — Two Mount Vernon elementary schools with roots in the 1950s will look a lot newer when school starts next month. When Farmersville and West schools were built, "there weren't any computers or interactive boards," said Dave Frye, director of buildings and grounds for the Metropolitan School District of Mount Vernon. "Back then, it was maybe an overhead projector, maybe a ...
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Bus Tracker expands
Jon Hilkevitch: The CTA is adding 15 bus routes and a new online map with more information to its Web-based program, but will the changes result in improved bus service reliability?
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Along with the potential performance and coverage benefits of 802.11n come a few new security risks, says industry security guru Joshua Wright.
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Obama raises profile of mixed-racial Americans
On blogs and around kitchen tables across the country, mixed-race Americans are celebrating the fact that, for the first time, a biracial person, Barack Obama, will be a major party's nominee for president of the United States. Obama identifies as African...
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Unlike McCain, Many Seniors Depend On The Web
NEW YORK -- If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help. Robinson is now 106 -- that's 35 years older than McCain -- and she began using the Internet at 98, at the Barclay Friends home in West Chester, Pa., where she lives.
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County Backup System Updates - 7/20/2008
Almost all businesses depend on the use of computers to save data and store information, but if that system crashes, it can create a major problem. That's why many businesses create a backup system.
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Nintendo Dead Last on Greenpeace's Eco-Friendly Manufacturers Meter
In a quarterly report from Greenpeace, Nintendo, Microsoft and Philips score miserably on several degrees that measure a company's concern for the environment.
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Bus Tracker expands
Agency is adding 15 more routes, maps to Bus Tracker system Jon Hilkevitch: The CTA is adding 15 bus routes and a new online map with more information to its Web-based program, but will the changes result in improved bus service reliability?
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The MAG: A 'delicious' way to save web addresses - online column by Bob Vaillancourt
During the course of the last few months, this column has provided a plethora of web addresses for everything from online storage to humour. But what do you do with all of those addresses? How do you keep track of them? Organize them? Sure, your browser will [...]
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Jul 2005 20:48 UTC
Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET for Linux and other operating systems. In this article , Tim Anderson interviews project leader Miguel de Icaza. Why is Mono now partnering with Mainsoft to ease migration to J2EE?
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'Sensitive' MoD laptop stolen at hotel
*A laptop containing sensitive information was stolen as an official checked out of a Liverpool hotel, the Ministry of Defence has admitted. The theft from the Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre on Thursday was disclosed by ministers in response to a Parliamentary question.
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Rogers latest ISP to "help" customers with DNS redirects
Canadian ISP Rogers is coming under fire for redirecting mistyped URLs to an ad-laden search page instead allowing users' web browsers to serve up the usual and expected error messages. Read More...
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Microsoft profit rises but web ad business rocky
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) Shares of Microsoft sank more than 5%, a day after the company missed Wall Street's earnings forecast by a penny, and issued softer-than-expected guidance for the current first quarter.
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