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Loose Change: News to know
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates bought a 5.5 percent stake in AutoNation Inc., the largest publicly traded U.S. car dealer, through his investment fund and charitable foundation, according to a U.S. regulatory filing.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud
commentary Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, S3, spent a few hours Sunday in a big pothole on the road to the glorious cloud computing future, with an outage taking the storage system offline for several hours Sunday. Should we be surprised?
ZDNet Australia |
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Apple reports 'home run' quarter, but stock falls
Investors pummeled the stock after Apple said profit margins contracted and the company issued soft guidance for the current quarter.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Breakdown hits school district’s message systems
E-mail, voicemail to be restored next week Corvallis school officials announced Saturday that the district’s e-mail and voice mail system failed July 11 and that the system will be out of commission until next week.
Corvallis Gazette-Times |
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Asian bond spreads flat on US earnings worries
HONG KONG -- Asian bond spreads were range bound on Tuesday after a raft of weak earnings from US blue chips such as Apple and American Express raised concerns about the world's largest economy and kept investors sidelined.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Economic and Energy Issues, Ending War in Iraq Top Netroots' Concerns
Progressive bloggers and activists are most concerned about solving basic economic problems and our country's energy crisis as well as ending the war in Iraq, according to a straw poll of participants at this year's Netroots Nation conference conducted by the Campaign for America's Future and Democracy Corps. Those polled also believe that ending the war in Iraq and solving our energy and ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News |
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Kids take part in Intel mural project
Cartoon llamas and photos of primates against a computer-generated backdrop of exploding fireworks.
The MetroWest Daily News |
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Correction
Because of an editing error, an Editorial Notebook article on July 20 misidentified the software Al Gore used to create his global-warming slide show. It was Keynote from Apple, not Microsoft’s PowerPoint.
New York Times |
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CasualCafe Launches Elaborate Flash Games, Facebook Integration
CasualCafe, a developer of Facebook applications, has launched a pair of elaborate Flash games on its flagship site that it says demonstrate the company’s “browser games of uncommon size and detail”. The two games are Burdaloo, a colorful puzzle game similar to Bejewled, and Spyde Solitaire, which takes a new twist on the classic card game [...]
TechCrunch |
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Japanese Browser Maker Taking on IE, Firefox
Japan's Fernir is stepping up promotion of its Sleipnir browser overseas in the hope of snagging a 5% market share
PC World |
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BlackJack II for participants of Microsoft webcast about GPS in Windows Mobile
July 22, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] By Edward J. R. Access instructions will be sent to registered attendees prior to the start of the Webcast event.
MS Mobiles |
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Virtual Attack
A week ago, New Braunfels grandmother Mary Alice Altorfer had never heard of YouTube. Now she’s a hot topic on one of the most influential Web sites in America.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Computer enters the picture
Engineers, statisticians and art historians are coming together to use computers to determine the authenticity of priceless works of art. A picture, after all, can be represented as bits of data, just like a bank account or music on a compact disc, and researchers have sifted this information through the dispassionate filter of statistics.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Apple has a good run, thanks to iPhone
Apple has reported its third-quarter profits topped a billion dollars on strong sales of its Macintosh computers, iPods, and iPhones.
Independent Online |
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Fighting fake email
Google and eBay are to team up to reduce the number of scam emails sent to people's online addresses.
Independent Online |
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Yahoo, Icahn kiss and make up
On the eve of the release of its latest earning figures, Yahoo has struck a truce with corporate raider Carl Icahn.
Independent Online |
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SA firm releases free e-marketing book
South African online marketing firm Quirk eMarketing has released its e-marketing book under a Creative Commons licence.
Independent Online |
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BUMRUNGRAD INTERNATIONAL HONORED WITH AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE, ACHIEVEMENT IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Çѹ·Õè 22 ¡Ã¡®Ò¤Á 2551 12:04 ¹. Bumrungrad International has been named as a recipient of the 2008 AMDIS Award, recognizing excellence and outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics. It is the only hospital outside the US to receive the award this year.
Thaipr.net |
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Brocade deals for Foundry Networks in Cisco salvo
By JORDAN ROBERTSON SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc., dominant in an obscure corner of the data storage market, wants a piece of a bigger pie: Cisco Systems Inc.'s cash cow business of networking equipment that shuttles Internet traffic.
Bay News 9 Tampa Bay |
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Grandmother of murder suspect testifies he was with her during fatal New Bedford shooting
NEW BEDFORD — Murder suspect Wayne Miranda's grandmother said he was inside her house working on a computer when they both heard two gunshots on the evening of Oct. 10, 2005.
The Standard-Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Oct 2007 08:02 UTC
Three reviews of Mac OS X Leopard, to be released coming Friday. David Pogue writes : "Leopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots - and most of them are bright ones."
New Mobile Computing |
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Today’s picks
SABC2, 7.30pm: Song Vir Katryn – In the last episode of this excellent drama series we hear that Jinx and Katryn are involved in Internet activities. Is Robert Gouws behind it? The programme airs in Afrikaans with English subtitles.
Daily Dispatch |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Nov 2006 20:56 UTC
" D-Bus 1.0 was officially released last week. Developed by FreeDesktop.org, D-Bus is an open source interprocess communication system created to promote interoperability between various Linux desktop environments by providing a cohesive common platform for internal system and application messaging.
New Mobile Computing |
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Texas 'Ranger': UT supercomputer upgraded
UT's supercomputer, "Ranger," is the largest general-purpose computer in the world used for research and now, because of a processor upgrade, runs even faster. UT's Advanced Computer Center, located on UT's Pickle Research Campus in Northwest Austin, finished upgrading the supercomputer Wednesday by adding faster processors that allow researchers to cut down on time when computing complex ...
The Daily Texan |
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Recent Original Stories
"In the first purchase of his collection, Sellam Ismail loaded the trunk of his car with old computers he stumbled upon at a flea market for USD 5 apiece. He soon had filled his three-car garage with what others would consider obsolete junk.
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