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Police Blotter
Today's headlines: Elgin police say man threatened neighbor with knife; Elgin man charged in assault with golf club; homeless man released after battery arrest; traffic stop yields DUI arrest; Rockford man charged with DUI, passenger with drug possession; Elgin man faces DUI charge; laptop stolen from Elgin home; SUV reported stolen; Algonquin family loses pets to fire
The Courier News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Nov 2005 22:50 UTC
GNOME 2.12.2 has been released , as the second maintenance release in the 2.12 series. Download the tarballs of the platform , desktop and bindings .
OS News |
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Rugged, Industrial Strength USB to Serial Converters
Ottawa, IL - High Retention, 15N, Type B Connectors are now a standard feature on most B&B Electronics USB products. The world has adopted the universal serial bus as a useful, cost effective connectivity tool. One issue slowing its acceptance in the industrial automation field is the connector. Without a strong retention mechanism, USB is inadequate for use in this environment. A number of ...
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Hifn CTO to Address Cal State University IT Staffs on Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Strategies
Russell Dietz, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Hifn , the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, will address some of the top IT officials from within the California State University system on data protection and disaster recovery strategies at the next meeting of the CSU Systems Technology Alliance in San Francisco on the morning of April 30 at the San Francisco ...
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Sun Microsystems Extends World's First Open Storage Platform with New Services and Tools in OpenSolaris Operating System
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Sun Microsystems today announced the addition of powerful developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities to help developers better leverage the growing open source communities that are fast changing the economics of the storage IT landscape.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Female cadets at the Peter the Great Strategic Missile Forces Academy
Female cadets will complete a five-year course in the field of computer software and mathematical modeling.
Russian Information Agency Novosti |
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CompIQ Acquired by ACS
Irvine-based CompIQ Corporation, a provider of worker's compensation claims review software, has been acquired by Affiliated Computer Services. Texas-based ACS said that it would pay $22M for CompIQ, plus additional unspecified contingent payments based on future financial performance. CompIQ develops software used for medical bill review and cost containment of worker's compensation, group ...
socalTech.com |
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Interview with Ophir Tanz, GumGum
Online publishers often have difficulty paying for an locating the right photos for their sites, because of an industry which has been--so far--structured and priced mostly for the offline, "dead tree" magazine and newspaper world. Plus, photographers and their agencies often find sites are pirating photos, and that they don't have a way to get their photos to those publishers. To solve that ...
socalTech.com |
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Indian stock index rises 2.1 percent, led by technology stocks, banks
(AP:MUMBAI, India) Indian stocks rose Tuesday, boosted by the central bank's decision to leave key short-term interest rates unchanged and the government's plan to extend tax breaks for software companies.
INO News |
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FastSpring Signs Customer
Santa Barbara-based FastSpring, a provider of e-commerce payment and merchandising software, said this week that MediaRECOVER, a provider of data recovery and security solutions, has selected the firm's software. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. FastSpring develops e-commerce software for firms selling products online; the firm is headed by Dan Engel, who was formerly at Google, ...
socalTech.com |
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Xirrus Rolls WiFi Widget
Westlake Village-based Xirrus said Thursday that it has rolled out a widget version of the firm's Wi-Fi Monitor utility. The Yahoo! Widget works with Microsoft Windows XP. According to the firm, the software helps end users and IT managers to monitor, secure, and troubleshoot their Wi-Fi networks. The widget is also available for Windows Vista. The new tool is available for free on the Yahoo! ...
socalTech.com |
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iMac ATI Update Improves Stability
Apple released the iMac ATI Radeon 2600/2400 1.0.1 firmware update for iMacs with either ATI Radeon 2600 Pro or ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics cards late on Monday. According to the slim release notes, the update improves system stability
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Fandango, Tellme Link For Movie Information
Los Angeles-based Fandango and Tellme, Microsoft's voice directory subsidiary, said late Wednesday that the firm have launched a new service to provide movie information to mobile phone users. According to the two, the new, voice-activated movie information service will allow users to say a movie title or local theater name and see showtimes, purchase tickets, and driving directions. Financial ...
socalTech.com |
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Microsoft Cuts Xbox 360 Prices in Four Asian Markets (Update2)
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. , the world's biggest software maker, cut prices of its Xbox 360 game console in four Asian markets to help stem market-share losses to Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp.
Bloomberg.com |
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Washington DC
DALLAS , April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS ) today announced that it has been awarded a five-year contract extension to provide comprehensive information technology outsourcing services to NIKE, Inc. (NYSE: NKE ), the world's leading designer, marketer and distributor of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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French punters offered petite Eee PC rival
Vive La Révolution? French online retailer Surcouf has become the latest purveyor of sub-notebooks based on chip maker VIA's Nanobook reference design.…
The Register |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 19:10 UTC
"Today, I want to take you on a journey. A journey that starts back into the cold recesses of the mid-1980s, back into the days of EGA and serial port mice and the MS-DOS Executive . Microsoft Word 1.0 for Windows shipped in 1989 after a long development cycle and was designed to run on Windows 386. There's not much more to the program than what you see here, but it gives you an idea of how far ...
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 26th Nov 2005 17:02 UTC, submitted by Mehta Bhai
"The Linux community was left stunned when Windows Server software outsold Linux in the server market. Gartner, Inc. recently reported that sales of Windows systems accounted for nearly 37 percent of all server revenue in the last quarter while Linux accounted for 31.7 percent.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
"This article, the first in a five-part series on real-time Java, describes the key challenges to using the Java language to develop systems that meet real-time performance requirements.
New Mobile Computing |
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Attunity Appoints Mr Shimon Alon as Chief Executive Officer
Attunity Ltd , a leading provider of enterprise-class software for application and data integration, and workplace solutions in the Composite Applications market, announced today that Mr.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Grand Theft Auto IV: Violence flares after launch
A stabbing and a violent mugging today marked the long-awaited release of the violent computer game Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA).
Daily Telegraph |
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Sun sheds light on its open-source future
Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development
ZDNet UK |
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Police aim to catch Allston pimps using world wide web
Boston police said they turn to their computers to seek out and shut down illegal massage parlors and prostitution houses in Allston-Brighton, where a john is more likely to look for a trick on Craigslist than a corner.
The Daily Free Press |
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HP plugs latest ActiveX software update flaw
HP has plugged another ActiveX vulnerability in its software update application. The patch (CVE-2008-0712) covers "a potential vulnerability has been identified with the HPeDiag ActiveX control which is a component of HP Software Update running under windows. The vulnerability could be exploited to allow remote disclosure of...
ZDNet |
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Altova Announces Version 2008 Release 2 of Its Software Product Line
Altova®, creator of XMLSpy®, the industry leading XML editor, and other popular XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced the availability of Version 2008 Release 2 of its line of software tools.
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