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U.S. Air Force buys 141,000 HP computers
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Sep 2007 18:43 UTC
Two interesting bits of news from the Haiku front. First, Haiku now has basic support for FireWire , thanks to GSOC student JiSheng Zhang. You cannot connect a FireWire hard drive just yet, though.
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Court affirms online content law unconstitutional
A federal appeals court Tuesday agreed 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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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 17:54 UTC
David Williams over at iTWire has done a comparison of Windows vs Linux . It is performed by doing functionally identical tasks in both the OSes. This comparison is not a fair one by any measure.
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Apple stock drops despite jump in Q3 profit
Shares of Apple Inc. fell sharply as investors focused more on the company's cautious guidance for the current quarter than on the blockbuster Macintosh and iPod sales during the previous three-month period.
Philly.com |
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AmEx, Apple, Assured Guaranty, UAL are big movers
Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Jul 2005 19:22 UTC, submitted by george
Reports of the death of Sun Microsystems' Java Desktop System with Linux combination are exaggerated , says its chief software executive. by (Staff) on Wed 20th Jul 2005 20:16 UTC in reply to " Hmm...
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Crowd-sourcing the e-car
HELSINKI (Reuters) - After the wikipedia, the wikicar. "eCars - Now!" is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year.
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Web-initiated harassment of grandma continues
Web postings urging online and telephone harassment of Herald-Zeitung employees appeared Saturday morning on the Internet hours after an article was published describing similar attacks toward a New Braunfels woman.
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Network Security Toolkit distribution aids network security administrators
Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give network security administrators easy access to a comprehensive set of open source network applications, many of which are among the top 100 security tools recommended by insecure.org.
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MySpace joins OpenID alliance
MySpace has signed up to the OpenID initiative aimed at allowing internet users to employ the same accounts and passwords across the web.
Infomatics |
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Former UGA Worker Arrested On Hacking Charges
Authorities have arrested a former University of Georgia employee accused of using the school's computers to hack into the computers of former co-workers.
CBS 46 News Atlanta |
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Brian Taylor returns to blog on the Glasgow East by-election
Brian Taylor returns to blog on the Glasgow by-election
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Newsom Cracks Code In Jail House Visit
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom managed to get the passwords for his city's hacked computer network Tuesday night.
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eMusic 2.0 as relaunched music site adds YouTube & Wikipedia
The mercifully DRM-free music download service eMusic has relaunched its website today and gone all web 2.0 on our arse with addition of both YouTube and Wikipedia content.
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Netflix Exits Acquisitions and Theatrical Biz; Red Envelope Folded
Netflix , the online film rental juggernaut, is adhering to its name: Getting out of the theatrical business altogether and focusing solely on Internet and new media distribution platforms.
indieWIRE |
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Acrobat 9 Pro
Adobe's Acrobat 8 Professional, saw major leaps forward in nearly every function and feature of the august PDF creator. Adobe...
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Seattle "Spam King" Sentenced
Just a couple weeks after sitting on the Sonics trial , U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman passed down a precedent setting judgement in the case of Robert Soloway, the so-called Seattle " Spam King ." Yesterday, the Judge sentenced Soloway to 47 months in prison for sending over 90 million spam messages in just three months off two servers. His nearly four year sentence is only half of what ...
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RENCI Selects Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization Capabilities for N.C. Research Network
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) has selected Infinera to support its research on the experimental network testbed dubbed BEN (Breakable Experimental Network), which links RENCI to sites at three universities in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park.
SYS-CON Media |
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San Francisco mayor secretly visits cyber suspect
Terry Childs gave up the passcode to the city's computer system yesterday during a secret prison visit by mayor Gavin Newsom
Guardian Unlimited |
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Heaping Helping Of Hype
The preseason magazines arrived in bookstores months ago, and Internet message boards have started buzzing with excitement lately.
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AT&T Second-Quarter Profit Increases 30% on Wireless (Update2)
July 23 (Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc. , the biggest U.S. telephone carrier, posted a 30 percent increase in second-quarter profit and said the new version of the iPhone is selling twice as fast as the first one, sending the shares higher.
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MSI to build LG's X110 netbook?
MSI has been pretty successful grabbing headlines with their Wind -- and it seems they've impressed LG, too. Today's DigiTimes is reporting that LG is hoping to solicit MSI's services in order to build its own X110 netbook. The mini laptop is said to boast an 8.9-inch...
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Drew's attorney: Law is flawed
The lawyer for a Dardenne Prairie woman accused of using a fake online identity to harass a neighborhood teen who later committed suicide fired off the first detailed challenge to prosecutors' legal theory early today in California.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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vmSight Extends Connector ID to Thin Clients
vmSight(TM), the leader in managing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for performance, reliability and compliance, today announced that the company's patented Connector ID technology is now available for thin clients used in virtual desktop deployments. The new capability allows virtual desktop administrators to more effectively manage end-to-end performance and reliability of VDI deployments ...
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