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Rambler Launching TV/Movie Downloads Site, A 'Russian Hulu'
Russia's third-placed search and portal operator Rambler is to launch a major TV and movie site - described to me as a "Russian Hulu" - as the basis of its video advertising effort, as Russia's broadband population booms. Currently in beta and due to launch by September/October, Rambler Kinozal ("cinema") will offer titles for download rather than web streaming - interestingly, each show can ...
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Lauderdale County Schools adopts
A new school district policy regarding text messaging at Lauderdale County Public Schools reflects a growing concern regarding communication between students and school personnel through telephone and Internet social network sites.
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Suspect sought after medical-center break-in
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP -- Police are looking for a man who allegedly broke into a medical building on West Main Street and stole computers and medicine.
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TiVo lets users buy stuff from Amazon on their TV, all three QVC fans go wild
Filed under: Home Entertainment Back in May, TiVo's VP of product marketing got all of our hopes up that the next announcement involving it and Amazon would include HD Unbox content . As you can very clearly see, this is most certainly not the case. Instead, we have the immense pleasure of informing internet-connected Series2, Series3 and TiVo HD owners that they can now buy wares ...
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posted by Trans Onoma on Mon 26th Jun 2006 14:34 UTC
Recent news tells us Apple is still struggling to gain market share in the personal computer market. That's too bad. While I have some beefy grieves with Apple (being that I am an IT "expert" and all that), their systems nonetheless beat the proverbial tars out of the typical Windows PC crowd.
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Hamid Named vAuto's Senior Director of Digital Marketing Services
CHICAGO----Rafi Hamid, an award-winning Internet marketing executive and e-commerce sales professional, has been named senior director of digital marketing services at vAuto, a high-tech provider of used-car inventory management systems for the nation's 70,000 franchised and independent car dealers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd May 2007 21:05 UTC, submitted by Nix_User
LinuxHelp has reviewed PC-BSD . "PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other desktop operating systems.
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Alleged racism attracts online attention
A local woman who said a racist hate-group targeted her grandchildren earlier this week claims to have received hundreds of anonymous phone calls since her story hit the airwaves and the Internet.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Jun 2007 10:31 UTC, submitted by Gary Driggs
According to Microsoft's beta tester site for Windows Home Server , they "will be notifying all applicants this week that they can now access the Windows Home Server RC build in order to download the software."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Jul 2005 19:09 UTC
Today, Microsoft released the first beta of Windows Vista. PC Mag reviews it . "After several years of waiting to see the successor to Windows XP, code-named Longhorn, we've finally gotten our hands on Beta 1 of what now will be called Windows Vista."
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Recent Original Stories
Software engineer Satoshi Nakajima, the lead architect of Microsoft's Windows 95, picked up a Mac for the first time two years ago. He was so impressed, he says he'll never again touch a PC again.
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Stocks Open Lower on Wachovia Woes
Wall Street traded mixed today after discouraging quarterly results from Wachovia Corp. and other blue chips heightened concerns about the continuing impact of the credit crisis. A drop in oil prices lifted stocks from a sharp early loss. The market fell at the opening after results from companies including American Express Co., Apple Inc., and Texas Instruments Inc. fell short of expectations. ...
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E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering
Ian Lamont writes "The three owners of Internet currency service e-gold have pled guilty to money laundering in the U.S. District Court for D.C.. The service is based in the West Indies, but the directors apparently live in Florida. They haven't been sentenced yet, but potentially face decades in prison and millions in fines. In addition, the principal director posted a blog entry yesterday ...
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AG to Comcast: Purge servers of all child pornography
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York's attorney general notified Comcast Corp. on Monday that the state will take legal action if the company - the nation's second-largest Internet service provider - doesn't agree to eliminate access to child pornography.
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The Online Information Source for the Medical Device Industry
The diversity and complexity of medical devices are likely to increase with time, as will the associated design risks and manufacturing challenges. Manufacturing systems must not only be compliant, but also be built on a solid understanding of the process in relation to its predefined design state.
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PGP platform tackles data breaches
The PGP Endpoint security system is intended to transparently ensure the security of PCs, mobile devices, ports and wireless links
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Oct 2007 12:08 UTC
Today, Apple is unleashing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard onto the world. It's already available to people in Australia and New Zealand (you liking it, Kaiwai ?), and Europe and the US will follow later today.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Sep 2005 21:06 UTC, submitted by anonymous
EDE 1.0.4 is a new version of EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) which brings full FreeBSD support, various bugfixes and new features. The Equinox Desktop Environment is a small desktop environment, built to be simple, to have a familiar look and feel and to be reasonably fast.
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Recent Original Stories
Scott Finley, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has ported the Linux files system Ext2 to Microsoft's new research operating system Singularity . One of the most striking observations was the author's comments on Singularity's robustness.
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ThomasNet Recognized in New Book, Get Content. Get Customers.
NEW YORK----ThomasNet today announced that the newly released book on using the Internet to grow business, Get Content. Get Customers. features a case study on the company's "100% online content strategy," which the authors describe as critical to industrial suppliers' continued revenue growth.
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GameTap Signs Partnership with THQ
ATLANTA----GameTap, the first-of-its-kind broadband entertainment network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., announced today a long-term partnership with THQ Inc. that includes worldwide subscription play and digital download rights for a wide selection of the publisher's games for Windows PC.
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Taiwan DRAM makers to completely phase out production at 8" fabs by 2009
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Jail term for child porn offender
A man who downloaded images of children being abused is jailed for 18 months.
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Will Yahoo ad business weather economic storm?
Google got off easy with its second-quarter results. It's not clear that Yahoo, with more exposure to display ads, will be so lucky.
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Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert August showdown
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp. The compromise spares Yahoo from more bickering with Icahn, an acerbic billionaire who had spent the past two months spearheading a rebellion to replace the ...
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