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Brocade Buys Foundry for $3 Billion
July 22, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center networking solutions provider Brocade announced on Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire switching, routing and traffic management solution provider Foundry Networks for around $3 billion.
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Apple's MobileMe Problems Mount
Apple's problems with its MobileMe service continue, as some customers still report that they have not been able to access email on the service after several days. Now an upgrade to Apple's iTunes software has added a MobileMe control panel applet without notification or permission.
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Lolo Jones wallpapers for your desktop
Add Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones to your computer screen. Choose from 6 desktop wallpapers. Mac users: Control-click on an image and select "Set as desktop background."
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CIDC signs lease to relocate corporate HQ
Internet software firm Cambridge Interactive Development Corp. has signed a lease to relocate its corporate headquarters to 54,457 square feet of space along CambridgePark Drive.
BizJournals |
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Aurora man sentenced to 30 months for wire, mail fraud
An Aurora man, convicted in May of nine counts of wire and mail fraud involving a scheme to sell electronics over the Internet without providing the items, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $47,540 to seven people.
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"Games for Windows now free"
Remember that old economics lesson about supply and demand? If demand for a product rises, the company producing it can raise the price to the point where the supply and demand curves intersect.
EuroGamer |
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Microsoft: DirectX 11 Won't Have 'DX9/10 Discontinuity'
During its Gamefest 2008 developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft officially announced DirectX 11, the newest version of its multimedia API package. Like its predecessor DirectX 10, it will be exclusive to Windows Vista "as well as future versions of Windows." Features include new shader technology that begins to allow developers to position GPUs as more general-purpose parallel processors, ...
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MLB.com Sets New Online Ticketing Mark for Eighth Straight Year
MLB Advanced Media , the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, announced today that it has established a new online ticketing record for the eighth consecutive year as, to date in 2008, 27.4 million tickets have been sold on behalf of the League's 30 clubs at MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, and the individual club sites.
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GameFest: Inside Avatars For The Xbox 360
Talking at Microsoft's GameFest event in Seattle, the company's Cameron Egbert and Dan Kroymann have been discussing the creator of avatars for the Xbox 360, revealing lots of new details on the practicality of developers implementing avatars within their games. Egbert, a software development engineer for XNA Developer Connection, started by showing his existing GamerCard for Xbox 360 and ...
Gamasutra |
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Bruno Takes Job at Company with State Contracts
Former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has been hired as chief executive of CMA Consulting Services, which provides computer programming and information technology to the state and other clients.
1010 WINS New York |
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Ex-anchor hacked colleague's e-mail
A fired TV newscaster was charged Monday with hacking into the e-mail of his glamorous younger co-anchor hundreds of times for more than two years.
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AT&T Wants In On Chicago HD Market
AT&T is set to enter the Chicago TV market, filing notice last week that "it may begin offering Internet-based high-definition television service in portions of Chicago in as soon as 10 days." All together now: Anything but Comcast. The Trib gave AT&T's service a six-week testdrive, and found "Comcast edges out AT&T in breadth of TV programming, but AT&T is much easier to use and has ...
Chicagoist |
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Hosting Companies & Open Source a "Match Made in Heaven"
Open-Xchange CEO Presents at HostingCon on Open Source and SaaS, including how Web hosting companies may benefit.
TopHosts.com |
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Mae Vion Meyer announces for Bandera County Tax Assessor/Collector
In 1977 I was hired by Tax Assessor Collector Marguerite Stevens and worked for her until 1989. Then in 1989 Bandera County saw a need to automate the county with computers and installed me as the Director of the IT department where I worked under the County Judge.
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Ceedo Enterprise Introduces Virtualization Solution Product allows IT administrators to Virtualize Windows application ...
Rosh-Haayin, Israel - Ceedo has introduced Ceedo Enterprise, a virtualization product that allows IT administrators to create, deploy and remotely manage desktop workspace environments enabling application portability, remote management, business continuity and disaster recovery.
Finance Technology Network |
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N.Y. Leans On Comcast To Fight Child Porn
The state agreement contains more requirements, including a mandate that ISPs to contribute funds to prevent the distribution of child pornography online.
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Keokuk library now provides downloadable audiobooks
Keokuk Public Library page Joel Carter downloads an audiobook at the library. More than 1,000 audiobooks in all genres are available. Love audiobooks, but hate fumbling with cassette tapes or CDs?
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EVE appoints head of Korean branch
Emulation and Verification Engineering SA (EVE), French developer of hardware and software coverification tools, announced it has appointed Chae-Min Lee, ex-Synopsys and ex-Cadence sales executive, as country manager for EVE Korea Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary in Sungnam City.
EETimes.fr |
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Media has 'bizarre fascination' with Obama: McCain camp
Republican White House hopeful John McCain's campaign on Tuesday lashed out at the US media's "bizarre fascination" for Democrat Barack Obama with a new Internet advertisement.
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Court affirms online content law unconstitutional
(AP) -- 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.
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Media has 'bizarre fascination' with Obama: McCain camp
Republican White House hopeful John McCain's campaign on Tuesday lashed out at the US media's "bizarre fascination" for Democrat Barack Obama with a new Internet advertisement.
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Axion to Discuss Battery Advances for Electric Vehicles at Hearing of US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ...
Axion Power International, Inc. , announced today that it has accepted an invitation to appear as a witness at a Full Committee Hearing by the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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by sorpigal (2.4) on Tue 16th Oct 2007 21:50 UTC
Just because OSI agrees that a license meets their stated criteria does not mean that an entity using that license will behave appropriately. This is, I have no doubt, just a publicity and marketing ploy by Microsoft.
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Ceedo Enterprise Introduces Virtualization Solution
Product allows IT administrators to Virtualize Windows application without packaging.
Insurance and Technology |
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Recent Original Stories
"The FreeBSD operating system is finally through it's buggy 5.x series and into the more reliable 6.x series. Most of the problems of the old days - kernel panics on multi-CPU machines, AMD64 troubles galore, and shaky network drivers - are gone . FreeBSD still isn't perfect, but at least with 6.0-RELEASE it's more stable and functional than it has been in the recent past."
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