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Entertainment
A Broadway mogul whose actress wife trashes him in a widely viewed Internet video has been granted a divorce from her. A Manhattan judge granted Philip Smith a divorce from Tricia Walsh-Smith on Monday on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment.
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Hon Hai to Make Low-Cost Notebook for Sony, Economic Daily Says
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will manufacture a low-cost notebook for Sony Corp. , the Economic Daily News reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
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Switching To Solar Power - One Month Later
ThinSkin writes "After an interesting article on solar panel installation for the home, Loyd Case at ExtremeTech has written a follow-up after about a month of normal use. Posting an $11.34 electric bill (roughly 3% of previous months), Loyd shares his experiences using solar power and how it can be fun for the geek, with computer monitoring services and power generation data. Of course, solar ...
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Special fabric for pain relief
This shoulder cover with back support is made from a special Texenergy fabric woven with copper, zinc and silica fibres. Heavy computer use is enough to cause shoulder pain. EU HOOI KHAW explores the options to prevent and soothe this common problem.
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Oldest New Testament Bible heads into cyberspace
BERLIN - MORE than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week.
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Possible shutdown of Navajo Internet pushed back
Associated Press - July 21, 2008 8:04 PM ET WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - The shutdown of Internet services on the Navajo Nation has been temporarily averted.
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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. Linux is set to make a major impact in the mobile computing realm, the executive director of the Linux Foundation stressed at a conference Monday morning.
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Apple Reports Record Q3 Results
SAN FRANCISCO (dpa) -- Powered by unprecedented demand for its Macbooks, iPhones and iPods, Apple reported record revenue and third quarter profits Monday.
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Recent Original Stories
KernelTrap reports on an interesting discussion on the lkml. The specific topic is the legality of the ACX1xx wireless driver , which, according to Andrew Morton, will be included in the next kernel release (2.6.18). Jeff Garzik opened the discussion: "I've never had technical objections to merging this, just AFAIK it had a highly questionable origin, namely being reverse-engineered in a ...
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Recent Original Stories
It's panic time again , boys and girls, according to a ZDNet article . "Microsoft's launch of Windows Vista could slow down or stall traffic on the Net, said Paul Mockapetris, who is widely credited with inventing the Internet's Domain Name System.
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Female Monkeys More Dominant In Groups With Relatively More Males
Female monkeys are more dominant when they live in groups with a higher percentage of males. This is caused by self-organization. What makes the study particularly interesting is that the researchers used a computer model which can simulate interaction between monkeys.
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For Your Eyes Only: Custom Interfaces Make Computer Clicking Faster, Easier
Personalized computer interfaces that adapt to each user's vision and motor abilities significantly speeds up computer tasks, especially in disabled users. A mathematical approach to design offers the first instantly customizable computer interface.
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Apple 'New Product Transition' Shadows Stellar Quarter
Apple recorded another record quarter in terms of Macintosh sales, but analysts attending Apple's announcement were concerned about a new product to be announced that will apparently hurt Apple's margins, albeit slightly.
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Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud
Don't be surprised by Amazon's S3 outage, and don't be complacent about it. But think carefully before you say cloud computing is doomed.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 22nd Jun 2007 06:08 UTC
ITWire : "Linux users can, at times, be the worst kind of ingrates, whining and complaining about what they perceive as missing features in a free operating system.
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Recent Original Stories
Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, a senior Microsoft official is lowering the security expectations , warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Aug 2006 22:32 UTC
"In the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about Xgl, compiz, AIGLX et cetera. It seems that 'Xgl' has become a synonym for fancy desktop on Linux - but no one seems to talk about the alternatives or how it all works.
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Stranger danger warning
Wigan parents have been issued with a stranger danger warning after a schoolgirl was groomed by an Internet pervert. (21/07/2008 15:50:15)
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Theatre mogul humiliated on YouTube wins divorce
A BROADWAY mogul whose actress wife humiliated him in a widely-viewed internet video was granted a divorce yesterday.
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Citizen journalists rush to fill Internet's shortage of A-lists [The 250]
I blame Guy Kawasaki. Ten days after the relentless listmaker joined the advisory board of Vancouver-based citizen journalism hub NowPublic, the site published a link-baiting "The 50 most influential... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Technology: Jobs' weight loss distracts from Apple's 31% profit increase
Nervous investors dump shares in technology firm on concerns over weakening profit margins and rumours about Steve Jobs' health
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Technology: Jobs' weight loss distracts from Apple's 31% profit increase
Nervous investors dumped shares in Apple last night on concerns over weakening profit margins and persistent rumours about the health of the technology company's founder, Steve Jobs. Apple's quarterly profits soared 31% to $1.07bn as customers snapped up record numbers of Mac computers, iPods and iPhones. But the California company provided cautious guidance to Wall Street on its ...
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Strategy for greener government IT
Government departments and executive agencies are being asked to take steps to reduce the energy consumption of their IT systems and make them carbon neutral over their lifetimes.
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Media: Das Wikipedia - online resource goes into print
Sometimes a book spine just isn't long enough - especially when its list of authors runs to 90,000. Due to hit the shelves in September, a published encyclopedia of German Wikipedia entries, the first of its kind, will list in a single volume the 50,000 most commonly searched terms on the German Wikipedia website over the past two years. That means France's first lady, Carla Bruni, ...
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Internet: Peace breaks out in Yahoo leadership row
The struggling internet company Yahoo has struck a pact with its billionaire critic Carl Icahn by giving the hedge fund activist a minority presence on its board to avoid a potentially tempestuous showdown at a shareholder meeting next month. Facing crumbling support among Yahoo investors, Icahn yesterday abandoned his efforts to overthrow the leadership of the embattled Silicon Valley ...
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