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NEW: Missing ISU laptop returned; Student info not accessed
A missing Indiana State University computer has been returned and student information contained on the computer was not accessed while it was missing, according to a report today from Indiana State University Media Relations.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Mar 2007 12:59 UTC
"Microsoft's claim of 20 million Vista licenses sold simply doesn't add up when trying to assess who realistically bought them in the time frame - 'in the opening month' - stated in today's press release. Further, the press release claims that 'Windows Vista made a splash in its debut'.
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HP Rolls out HP Performance Optimized Data Center
HP Performance Optimized Data Center will help customers expand data center capacity.
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Let's Go Shopping With TiVo
TiVo and Amazon shake hands again to let TiVo users shop Amazon's wares.
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City helps teens on MySpace
In an effort to support youths coping with depression, drug abuse and dating violence, the Health Department announced on July 7 an online campaign, NYC Teen Mindspace, operated on the social networking web site MySpace.
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Recent Original Stories
APCMag has a lenghty article on switching from Windows to Ubuntu . "When I was first given this task I had to sit and blink a few times, if for nothing else than dramatic pause. I'm a self-confessed Linux nut, as some of you may know, but even I'm cautious to do away with Windows completely.
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Recent Original Stories
For those of you who just can't get enough Mighty Mouse news, here are a couple of tidbits: An intrepid tinkerer bought a MM, only to take it apart for all the internet to see.
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Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
I thought I'd left this whole Windows "Workstation" 2008 stuff behind, but it seems that I'm back for more ... by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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Record label goes after grandma for illegal music downloads
70-year-old Ellen Saylor says she doesn't even know how to use a computer, but the Clearwater grandmother could owe thousands in fines for illegally downloading music.
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2008 Austin GDC Reveals Bruce Sterling Keynote
The 2008 Austin Game Developers Conference has revealed noted SF author and futurist Bruce Sterling as the keynote for the Writing Track at the September 15th-17th conference, giving a speech named: 'Computer Entertainment 35 Years from Today'. The description of the intriguingly-titled session reads as follows: "Pong is 36 years old, and Pong marked the birth of popular computer ...
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MySpace joins shared identity service OpenID
News Corp's MySpace Internet social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again.
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Global Knowledge Offers EMC Training Courses
Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and Business training, today announced the availability of more than sixty EMC information storage training courses that are designed to help students master storage and information infrastructure environments and provide return on their company's investment in EMC technology and products.
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E-Gold cops to e-money laundering
Knowingly served child predators, feds say Online payment service E-Gold and three of its principals have pleaded guilty to criminal money-laundering charges following accusations they knowingly allowed child pornographers, investment scammers and other internet-based criminals to transfer funds related to their misdeeds.…
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New York threatens Comcast with anti-porn suit
'Back my empty rhetoric - or else' New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has threatened Comcast with legal action if it doesn't fall in line with his quixotic campaign against online child pornography. And the American ISP is set to do exactly what he wants.…
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IBM/Lotus sharpens weapon for unified communications battle
IBM/Lotus is banking on the integration of its Sametime platform and collaboration software with tools from telephony partners to fuel its climb up the ranks of unified communications contenders.
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Court affirms online content law unconstitutional
A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Power your cell phone or PC with your windows
Here’s a new development in the search for alternative sources of energy. A company out of Tokyo known as Nihon Telecommunication System Inc. has developed a pane of glass that can, on a sunny day, harness enough of the sun’s rays to power small appliances, or even a computer. The panes use photovoltaic cells and a [...]
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E-Gold founders face five to twenty years - community blog from Steve Ellis
Mashable has the story in some depth here , picking up on a piece in PC World. The precis is: when PayPal took a dominant market share of internet payments it could then afford to adopt the moral high ground and turn away the seamy side of the marketplace.
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EMC Unveils Documentum Upgrade
”That will put us on a new path of evolution because it starts to add Web 2.0 technologies into the business world,” says Whitney Tidmarsh, EMC’s vice president of marketing, explaining that firms have typically been nervous about harnessing Web 2.0-style social networking and image-sharing technologies.
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$250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer
An anonymous reader sends word of the CherryPal, a tiny desktop computer that its maker says will consume just 2 watts. It uses a Freescale processor that runs Linux and has no moving parts. The CherryPal has integrated software and an embedded Linux (based on Debian) that has been stripped down to support Open Office, Firefox, iTunes, instant messaging, and multimedia access locally. More ...
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After Hours: Yahoo, WaMu, E-Trade, Broadcom on deck for earnings
Web portal Yahoo, thrift bank Washington Mutual and E-Trade will headline the after-hours trading session.
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Windows Vista hurting SSD development, claims SanDisk CEO
Microsoft's Windows Vista is to blame for slowing down the progress -- and, in turn, adoption-- of solid state drives (SSDs), according to Sandisk Chairman and CEO Eli Harari.
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BSkyB and Universal to offer music downloads
British Sky Broadcasting said it was in talks about signing other music companies, including the three other major music groups.
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L2 Digital Automates Their Production and Post Production Business Operations with Xytech Software
Xytech Systems Corporation, a leading provider of software solutions that improve, automate, and streamline the mission critical business aspects of media operations including business workflow, resource scheduling, media library management, and digital workflow automation, announced today that L2 Digital has acquired Xytech's software to automate their entire business operations.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jun 2006 11:22 UTC, submitted by Dylan
The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.
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