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Open Tech joins Mac clone race
A new company says it is joining the world of Mac clones, according to reports. Open Tech claims to be developing a new PC designed to run any one of several operating systems, including not just Windows XP and Vista, but Ubuntu and Mac OS X Leopard. Though people will be able to customize their hardware once the machine goes on sale, a tentative...
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Yahoo Settles With Icahn
Yahoo has announced an agreement with alienated investor Carl Icahn: Yahoo is giving Icahn three seats on the board - including one for the man himself.
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Boingo Partners with free-hotspot.com to Extend Its European Reach
DUBLIN, Ireland & LOS ANGELES----Boingo Wireless and free-hotspot.com are pleased to announce that Boingo customers will now be able to roam at all of free-hotspot.com's Wi-Fi locations.
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Fiserv uses Microsoft CRM platform for Customer Value Enhancement products
Fiserv (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading provider of information technology services to the financial industry, today announced that its Customer Value ...
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Comcast, Other Cable Companies Sign Pact To Block Child Porn Online
With the help of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 17 cable companies will update policies to keep up with emerging sources of child pornography, like newsgroups.
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EU PSN Video Store hack detailed
European PS3 owners who really want to start downloading movies via the PlayStation network this year may well be able to; Sony silent so far on potential repercussions.
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Resources Toolbox
Al Rotti is the first to admit he doesn’t know a lot about the Internet. But the owner of a Holden, Mass., power equipment supplier does know how people find his store online—and it’s not by Googling “Rotti’s Power and Service” and hitting the “I’m feeling lucky” button.
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Intel cuts chip prices up to 31 percent
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Intel cuts chip prices up to 31 percent --Cuts to prices of dominant chipmaker's processor prices are limited in number and degree. Largest cut comes to the desktop Core 2 Duo E8500, at 3.16GHz. p Replay Solutions on 'TiVo for software' --CEO Jonathan Lindo discusses how enterprise Java developers, like those at game companies, would use its bug ...
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An angler has died off the west coast of Scotland in the middle of a 48-hour strike by Coastguard staff.
Internet search engine Google has been named the UK’s number one brand according to a poll out today, beating fellow IT giant Microsoft into second place.
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white papers
The iPhone Dev team has managed to create unlocking/jailbreaking software for iPhone 3G within a few days of that product's release. Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery.
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Pwnage 2.0 iPhone jailbreak software calls
The iPhone Dev team has managed to create unlocking/jailbreaking software for iPhone 3G within a few days of that product's release. The team has published software - Pwnage 2.0 - which lets any iPhone or iPod touch user unlock the device, a process which enables installation of non-Apple-approved third party applications.
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Kingston Communications plays host to UKCES
Integrator Kingston Communications has secured a contract from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) to provide a hosting service for its web site.
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Buzz Briefs: Amy Winehouse, Jimmy Fallon
Amy Winehouse' husband gets jail sentence. Fallon to start "Late Night" online. Richard Roeper leaving popular movie show. Lil Scrappy free on bond after weekend arrest.
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UnitedLayer Amps Up Managed Internet Infrastructure
SAN FRANCISCO----UnitedLayer, an industry leader in Managed Internet Infrastructure & Colocation services, has a new strategy to increase client computing power and flexibility by taking Cloud Computing to the next level.
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isee systems Releases isee NetSim Next Generation Model Sharing
LEBANON, N.H.----isee systems has announced the release of isee NetSim, the next generation in web-based model sharing, along with version 9.1 releases of its market leading iThink® and STELLA® Systems Thinking software. "isee NetSim makes it incredibly easy to publish models to the web," says Joanne Egner, Managing Director of isee systems.
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Recent Original Stories
Just as the bragging rights for dual-core chip supremacy are dying down, Intel gave the first glimpse of a quad-core chip coming next year. Clovertown, a four-core processor, will start shipping to computer manufacturers late this year and hit the market in early 2007. Clovertown will be made for dual-processor servers, which means that these servers will essentially be eight-processor servers.
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Recent Original Stories
We covered earlier about Apple suing Psystar the creator of Open Computer. Now we have more details of the complaint . Apple's complaint is now available online (registration required).
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Intel slashes processor prices
CHIP MAKING GIANT Intel has slashed processor prices by up to 31 per cent. Price cuts include the quad-core Q6600, down from $224 to $193, while the desktop Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz) now sells for $183 instead of $266.
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Unlike Sen. John McCain, many seniors depend on the Internet
NEW YORK - If Senator John McCain is really serious about becoming a web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help.
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Illinois battered by junk e-mails
If you have an e-mail account or run a Web site, chances are that you have had your taste of spam.
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CambridgeSoft Announces $21M Investment by Goldman Sachs
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----CambridgeSoft Corporation announced today that it has completed a $21 million private equity investment by Goldman, Sachs & Co. CambridgeSoft is a leading supplier of discovery, collaboration, and knowledge management research IT enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases and consulting services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries.
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Service Channels
Anyone who has owned a dedicated server knows that the typical hosting provider’s control panel (or portal) interface has not drastically changed over the past ten years, which provided the impetus for today’s public launch of SingleHop’s LEAP: the world’s first Webtop-style interface allowing users complete management of their dedicated servers.
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Computer Crime is Here to Stay; So Are Jobs to Combat It
(ARA) - What do a recent global crackdown on Internet child pornography and the arrest of Dennis Rader, the infamous "BTK" serial killer have in common with the Sept. 11 attacks on America?
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General Dynamics to Deliver Trusted Virtualization Environment
General Dynamics C4 Systems has selected the OptiPlex 755 desktop by Dell as the computer hardware to host its Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE), a High Assurance Platform (HAP)-compliant workstation intended for classified work by government users. The workstation enables individuals to use a single computer workstation to securely access information and applications from multiple networks, at ...
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Harrington Says Fear Drove Him to Second Major
SOUTHPORT (Reuters) - British Open champion Padraig Harrington said on Monday that fear was the key to his successful title defense at Royal Birkdale. The Irishman played a commanding final round on Sunday to secure a four-shot victory over Britain's Ian Poulter and his second major triumph. "Fear has always been a motivator in my golf," Harrington told a news conference. "I think winning a ...
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