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SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network
snydeq writes "Jailed IT admin Terry Childs relinquished his hold over San Francisco's multimillion-dollar FiberWAN, handing his administrative passwords over to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who was 'the only person he felt he could trust.' Childs is still being held on $5 million bail for his lockout of the city's FiberWAN, a case that has been called into question since an insider came ...
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Minn. pharmacy fined for Internet prescriptions
ST. PAUL - A pharmacy in Byron has been slapped with a record $25,000 fine for filling Internet prescriptions in violation of a new state law.
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Yahoo's Tenuous Case for Independence
To justify repelling Microsoft's bid, the Web portal must show investors it can pump up growth and generate revenue from its search business
BusinessWeek |
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United Stationers Inc. to Report Second Quarter 2008 Results
United Stationers Inc. (NASDAQ: USTR) will report second quarter results on Thursday, July 31, 2008, at close of market. In connection with the earnings release, United Stationers will host a conference call, which will also be broadcast over the Internet on Friday, August 1, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Central Time. The press release containing the full text of the earnings announcement and ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Dec 2005 17:11 UTC
NEC has developed an ultra-thin, flexible, rechargeable battery capable of re-charging in just 30 seconds, the company said on Thursday. The new battery has been dubbed ORB, for Organic Redical Battery, by NEC, because it uses an organic radical polymer as its cathode.
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WebFusion Revamps Hosting Plans
July 23, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- UK Web hosting provider WebFusion has revamped its entire shared hosting range, and is temporarily offering discounts of up to 40 per cent, making some plans as cheap as £3.95 per month.
Web Host Industry Review |
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Africa: Internet Technology Can Boost Healthcare
AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana , based in Monrovia, is one of a few media professionals brought to Bellagio, Italy by the Rockefeller Foundation to attend an invitation-only international conference on harnessing Internet-enabled technologies to radically improve public healthcare.
AllAfrica.com |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Apr 2006 03:58 UTC
An ex-Microsoft employee is arguing that Linux is ready for the primetime and that only thing keeping it away is the number of bugs it has. He claims that if these few high-importance bugs are fixed one way or another, Linux can become a dominant power in the desktop OS world.
OS News |
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Internet television service Joost enters China
London-based Internet television service provider Joost said it launched a Chinese service Wednesday with local portal TOM Online to tap the world's largest online market.
AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Minn. Pharmacy Fined For Internet Prescriptions
A pharmacy in Byron has been slapped with a record $25,000 fine for filling Internet prescriptions in violation of a new state law.
WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul |
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Minn. Pharmacy Fined For Internet Prescriptions
A pharmacy in Byron has been slapped with a record $25,000 fine for filling Internet prescriptions in violation of a new state law.
WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul |
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World War II memoirs on Web
A Galesburg man’s memoir of his years in the Army during World War II has been published online by the Veterans History Project of The Library of Congress.
The Galesburg Register-Mail |
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5 ways the iPhone 3G still lags in enterprise
The iPhone 3G may have a lock on the Sexiest Gadget Alive title for 2008, but in the frumpy and boring world of things that matter to enterprise IT managers, it's no pinup. Despite Apple 's improvements upon the previous iPhone , primarily through its licensing of Microsoft's ActiveSync technology, the 3G and its iPhone 2.0 software remain less competent and less tested than its ...
InfoWorld |
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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.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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iPhone 3G vs. Windows Mobile smartphones
The Apple iPhone 3G can do everything, right? Not so fast. Our editor Philip Berne talks about his favorite features on Windows Mobile smartphones, features the Apple iPhone still can't match.
infoSyncWorld |
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Dell does rack workstation
Better than a blade? Dell has launched a rack workstation to challenge blade workstations.…
The Register |
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Samsung MediaLive gives TVs streaming movies
Samsung today followed up its HDTV announcements with word of its MediaLive add-on. The attachment requires one of Samsung's sets made in 2008 with CEC automation support but mostly eliminates the need for a media hub such as the Apple TV or the Roku Netflix Player; a compatible TV has direct access to movies from MovieLink and Vongo as well as sh...
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Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth: "The great task in front of us...
ZDNet |
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The Big Picture
By Melanie Lidman Lidman is an AJR editorial assistant. Nearly 4 million people have flocked to the Boston Globe's blog, The Big Picture , since it debuted in late May, surprising the Globe that such a simple blog could create such a stir.
American Journalism Review |
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Space Chimps (G) *½ Feeling a bit empty, just like outer space
Is computer animation still such a novelty that it will pull moviegoers into theaters? Do wisecracking critters still push children's joy buttons? Is Space Chimps really necessary?
Miami Herald |
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TiVo turns remote into shopping device with Amazon’s help
TiVo has broken new ground this week by introducing the ability to buy items advertised during commercials and programming directly from your remote control. The addition of this feature you will either love or hate; has been made possible through a collaboration with e-tailer Amazon.com. TiVo users will now see links appearing allowing the purchase of [...]
Geek.com |
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A holistic approach to green IT is essential
David Tebbutt, Computing , Wednesday 23 July 2008 at 16:01:00 David Tebbutt explains how businesses must look at the whole picture when implementing green strategies - and the best way to motivate company bosses who are more interested in cost than long-term environmental effects Green computing is an admirable objective - but because the strategy focuses on computing itself, ...
Computing.co.uk |
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USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, and Linux Pro Magazine Team to Offer Live Broadcasts of USENIX ...
BERKELEY, Calif. , July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The USENIX Association, a leading forum for presenting cutting-edge developments in computing, today announced that it is partnering with Linux Pro Magazine to offer live broadcasts of select USENIX conferences.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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AMD's Atom killer roadmap confuses even itself
Filed under: Laptops Freshfaced AMD CEO Dirk Meyer hyped the firm's upcoming Atom-challenging processor the other day, calling it "Bobcat," and promising a November reveal. We'd think he'd be the guy to know, but now we're hearing seemingly conflicting words from AMD's Chief Marketing Officer, Nigel Dessau. Dessau says AMD is "watching... rather than playing" to see what becomes of ...
Engadget |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Nov 2005 20:51 UTC, submitted by Anon_Poster
A batch of BSD news today. Firstly, here are a few impressions on DesktopBSD 1.0 RC3. "DesktopBSD is a breeze to install. Desktop uses a crisp and clean KDE desktop with an attractive theme with a standard selection of applications."
New Mobile Computing |
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