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SOFTWARE NOTEBOOK / Netflix, Xbox home movie deal no vision of tech simplicity / Viewers must add choice at firm's ...
Microsoft and Netflix generated lots of buzz last week when they revealed plans to let Xbox Live subscribers watch more than 10,000 movies and TV shows on demand, through their game consoles, from the movie-rental company's online library of streaming...
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Uh, about that paperless society ...
The very technologies that were supposed to replace paper — things like e-mail, electronic data storage and the Web — have led to more paper usage than ever before.
Seattle Times |
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Saugus’ new weekly recycling program deemed a success
SAUGUS-It’s been two weeks since the town began weekly recycling and, while she doesn’t have the figures to back it up Recycling Coordinator Lorna Cerbone is sure she’s noticed a difference.
The Daily Item |
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News site blooper: Tyson who?
Technology is great, right . as long as it does what we want it to do. If not, there can be red faces all around, like those at the American Family Association and its Onenewsnow.com Web site. Onenewsnow handles a lot of Associated Press copy, and its small staff doesn't always have time to read every item before it goes to the Web, says Fred Jackson , the news director. They ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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Court order dissolves privacy protections
NEW YORK . Credit card companies know what you've bought. Phone companies know whom you've called. Electronic toll services know where you've gone. Internet search companies know what you've sought. It might be reassuring, then, that companies have largely pledged to safeguard these repositories of data about you. But a recent federal court ruling ordering the disclosure of YouTube ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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That's just brand for Google
Google has beaten Microsoft to take the title of the UK's number one brand, according to a poll. (21/07/2008 08:11:18)
Yorkshire Post Today |
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News site blooper: Tyson who?
Technology is great, right . as long as it does what we want it to do. If not, there can be red faces all around, like those at the American Family Association and its Onenewsnow.com Web site. Onenewsnow handles a lot of Associated Press copy, and its small staff doesn't always have time to read every item before it goes to the Web, says Fred Jackson , the news director. They ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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Town Board sets Web site, e-mail privacy policies
RHINEBECK - The Town Board has adopted a privacy policy covering visitors to the town's Web site and the use of e-mail lists obtained from requests for information.
Kingston Daily Freeman |
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Sunshine briefs
Alteon Training, a subsidiary of the Boeing Co., said it will place a new Boeing 787 training suite, including a full-flight simulator, at its training center in Miami.
Miami Herald |
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Debugging multiprocessor code
Although code has been run on multiprocessor systems for some time, debugging multiprocessing code has today become an urgent problem for programmers of multiprocessor and multicore systems.
EETimes.fr |
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Crawford Communications Contracts NSS-7
SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announces that Crawford Communications, Inc. (Crawford) has contracted a total bandwidth of 20 MHz on the NSS-7 satellite at the orbital location of 338 degrees East for a period of five years.
Centre Daily Times |
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Blog Log
Here are snippets from some of our blogs last week. The blogs, and others, can be seen in their entirety at www.
Chico Enterprise-Record |
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Digital diagnosis: Consultations get tech-savvy to save patients time
More patients are taking advantage of e-mail consults Mike Holland came home from a business trip a few weeks ago in so much pain he tried something new: He made a doctor's appointment online. The next morning, he arrived and saw the doctor in minutes.
Sun-Sentinel |
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Your Web searches may reflect your morals
Question: Do you think your Google habits can be bundled together to paint an accurate representation of your morality?
The Tennessean |
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Wealth of rumors, gossip yield success story
For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his Web site, MacRumors.com.It had been a hobby -- albeit a time-consuming one -- while Kim earned his medical degree. He kept at it as he completed his medical training and began diagnosing patients' kidney problems. Kim's Web site now attracts more than 4.4 million ...
Albany Times Union |
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Allowing guests to choose the exact room that suits their needs
Homewood Suites by Hilton's online Suite Selection tool is now available to all the Hilton HHonors Members.
eyefortravel.com |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Oct 2005 01:09 UTC
Simple passwords aren't good enough any more, as the flood of stories about phishing, fraud, and compromised accounts by the millions demonstrate.
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Flight search and booking facility for smartphones launched
Justtheflight.co.uk, a part of UK's Online Regional Travel Group (ORTG), has launched a global flight search and booking facility for smartphones, an initiative described as a first in the mobile travel field.
eyefortravel.com |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 14:56 UTC
NewsWeek interviewed Bill Gates about Vista, its reception, and Apple , among other things. On the complaint that some of the features in Vista appear to come from the Mac: "You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts.
New Mobile Computing |
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Microsoft focuses on retail and travel search
Microsoft Corp. doesn't expect any short-term turnaround in its online services business, and warned investors to expect ramped-up investment with little immediate prospect of profitability.
eyefortravel.com |
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Tech help
I use a 1 GB USB flash drive to move files between my Windows laptop PC at work and my MacBook portable at home. But that doesn't work with the 160 GB external drive I use to back up my MacBook; my Windows laptop doesn't even recognize the external drive when it's connected. What's the problem?
The Oregonian |
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Dash GPS features plenty of flash
Here's why every gadget lover should own a GPS-navigation device: You'll never need to go to a gas station to ask for directions. Instead, gas stations will be just for fill-ups, and with the right GPS, you could find one with the lowest price.
The Oregonian |
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BCS calls Government's Carbon Neutral IT plan a 'rational' step
The British Computer Society (BCS) has praised the Cabinet Office 's decision to make its IT function carbon neutral as a "rational" contribution to the issue of emissions.
PublicTechnology.net |
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Socitm confirms Adrian Hancock as its Managing Director
The Society of IT Management ( Socitm ) has confirmed Adrian Hancock as its managing director, a role he has occupied on an interim basis since January.
PublicTechnology.net |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Sep 2006 15:04 UTC
With Release Candidate 1 now out the door, Microsoft is putting what it calls the 'fit-and-finish' on Windows Vista's user interface, and the company is looking for feedback from users testing out the beta release.
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