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What's The Perfect Balance For a Budget Laptop?
cheapbob writes "Recently HP officially unveiled a budget ultraportable laptop aimed to compete with the likes of Asus Eee PC. According to Compal, one of Dell's assemblers, Dell is also going to enter the budget ultra-portable market soon. All of these devices lack many of the features associated with larger-sized laptops, such as optical drives and large amounts of storage space, yet demand ...
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Feds blame Lieberman for Web site crash
Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election campaign caused its own Web site to crash on the eve of the August 2006 Connecticut primary, federal investigators have found - not supporters of Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, whom Lieberman implied were responsible.
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Feds blame Connecticut Sen. Lieberman for 2006 crash of campaign Web site
WASHINGTON - Federal investigators have found that Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election campaign caused its Web site to crash on the eve of the August 2006 primary, a collapse he had blamed on supporters of Democratic challenger Ned Lamont.
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Feds blame Lieberman for Web site crash
Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election campaign caused its own Web site to crash on the eve of the August 2006 Connecticut primary, federal investigators have found - not supporters of Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, whom Lieberman implied were responsible. "In short, the server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured," according to an Oct. 25, 2006, ...
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Recent Original Stories
Google is funding work to ensure the Windows version of Adobe Systems' Photoshop and other Creative Suite software can run on Linux computers. "We hired CodeWeavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine," Dan Kegel, of Google's software engineering team and the Wine 1.0 release manager, said on Google's open-source blog . "Photoshop is one of those applications that desktop Linux ...
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First Look: SpaceNavigator, 3D mouse
For most people, a mouse or trackpad is all they need to choose commands or navigate their way around a user interface. However, for anyone involved in computer-aided design (CAD), architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), geographic information systems (GIS), or any other application that offers a 3D interface, an ordinary mouse or trackpa...
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The process of creating the art was like none other. MessageLabs carefully sent Dragulescu the once-harmful files after modifying them so his computers would not contract the viruses.
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Embarq Offers Landline Handset With Web
(AP) -- Traditional wireline provider Embarq Corp. is offering a new cordless home phone that includes Internet-powered features it hopes will help it hold on to customers.
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9 Steps to Better Security
As your business gets more dependent on technology, your computer becomes more targeted by hackers and others constantly on the prowl for vulnerabilities.
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Scientists study Internet 'black holes'
U.S. researchers say they are monitoring the Internet, providing a constantly changing map of the system's weak points, including black holes.The University of Washington scientists are studying Internet black holes -- points where information disappears.The researchers say at any given moment, a proportion of the world's computer traffic ends up being routed into information black holes. The ...
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Yahoo 'poisons' well, to test Google AdSense
Yahoo this afternoon made the unusual announcement that it would start a trial of Google's AdSense for Search service. The experiment will see Google's keyword-sensitive ads appear along some search results for visitors to the Yahoo website coming from the US. Starting the trial doesn't commit the company to the practice and will account for just...
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Adobe releases Media Player 1.0
Adobe has released v1.0 of its free, self-titled Media Player, in both Mac and Windows versions. The application is built on AIR technology, and plays various resolutions of Flash video, from 480i through to 1080p. While users can play clips downloaded via web, Adobe is focusing heavily on streaming or downloading content directly from within the...
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Safari: most popular mobile browser in US
StatCounter today revealed that Safari is the most popular web browser in use in the United States, surpassing Windows Mobile, Palm, and Opera by a wide margin. According to Yahoo, Safari occupies 0.23 percent of US web traffic, with Nokia devices coming in at around 0.08 percent. Internationally, however, their positions are reversed: Nokia was fo...
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IEEE 1394 Reaches Billion Port Milestone
The 1394 Trade Association today announced that more than one billion FireWire ports have now shipped since the introduction of the first 1394-equipped products in 1995. The billion ports provide more than 600 million consumer and computer products worldwide with the most versatile high-speed connections available from any interface standard.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Jun 2006 18:39 UTC
At a Computex event today, Intel officially unveiled its 965 Express chipset (the P965, codenamed 'Broadwater') for use with its forthcoming line of Core 2 Duo processors.
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Zombie Computers Decried as Imminent National Threat
Legions of compromised Windows machines could be used to cause power outages and a U.S. financial crisis, according to security professionals and U.S. officials speaking at the RSA conference. Oh, botnet army ... is there anything you can't do?
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Celebrity Medical Records Hacked: Are You at Risk?
Celebrities may not be the only ones whose medical files are being snooped through, experts say.
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Long-delayed AMD Barcelona chip available
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Early Mozilla leader leaves Matrix Partners to rejoin entrepreneurial ranks -- Bob Lisbonne is leaving Matrix Partners, perhaps to develop the next Firefox? Long-delayed AMD Barcelona chip available -- AMD has announced that customers can get the long-delayed Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor in systems from Hewlett-Packard as well as other ...
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EchoStar Piracy Trial Against Murdoch Unit Kicks Off
Nearly five years after filing suit, EchoStar Wednesday went to trial regarding its allegations that a News Corp. subsidiary hacked into the Dish Network’s encrypted “smart cards,” allowing people to pirate satellite programming.
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Janey said the computers will work "in conformity with Census Bureau specifications," but the specifications were inadequate. Congressional investigators also put most of the blame on the Census Bureau, but said Harris Corp. was also at fault.
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Tech problems blamed on Census Bureau
The company hired to help modernize the 2010 census blamed government officials Wednesday for technology problems that will force census-takers to continue using paper and pencil. The Census Bureau announced last week that it will abandon plans to use handheld computers to count the millions of residents who do not return census forms mailed out by the government. Cheryl L. Janey of ...
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UMPC global players eye India
Vijay Thakur NEW DELHI, April 9: After the mobile phone revolution, India is likely to become the new battleground in the global ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC) sector.
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Federal Agent Not Guilty in Campaign Ad Trial
DENVER - A Denver jury has acquitted a federal agent who was accused of taking information from a restricted criminal database which was later used in a campaign ad against Gov. Ritter. Cory Voorhis was found not guilty on both counts. He was charged with exceeding his authorized access to government computers.
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Embarq Offers Landline Handset With Web
Traditional wireline provider Embarq Corp. is offering a new cordless home phone that includes Internet-powered features it hopes will help it hold on to customers.The company, which lost 6.3 percent of its access lines in 2007 — ending the fiscal year with 6.47 million — expects to continue losing them at that rate or faster in 2008.
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Privacy report urges search engines to delete data after 6 months
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- A European Union privacy panel wants Internet search engine providers like Google and Yahoo to delete data taken from users after six months, even when they operate abroad.
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