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Thrifty shoppers could bruise profits
Fears that belt-tightening US consumers will bruise third-quarter earnings for makers of gadgets, pummelled the stocks of consumer electronics companies like Apple and SanDisk.
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Crowd-sourcing the e-car
A Finnish Internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones.
Independent Online |
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Cedarburg, Wis., teacher fired for 1 minute of pornography
MADISON, Wis. — In a case closely watched by public employees unions, a Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday upheld the firing of a teacher who briefly looked at pornography on his work computer.
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Option activity picks up on the financial sector
Banking on a Turnaround?We're having a bit of a delay in receiving the data that I use to pull our Options Update subject, so I sauntered over to my handy-dandy computer desktop and looked around for data from another source...( Read More )
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San Francisco Network Fiasco Resolved
Administrators had been locked out of San Francisco's FiberWAN network for nine days after a former network administrator changed the passwords to the routers and switches and refused to divulge them to his bosses. That resulted in the administrator, Terry Childs, being jailed and charged with four felony counts of computer tampering. Bail was set at $5 million. Yesterday San Francisco's mayor, ...
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Recent Original Stories
"The Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu teams are proud to present a second Beta release of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu 6.06 LTS, codenamed "Dapper Drake". This release corrects some serious flaws in the installer present on the Desktop CD in the first Beta release.
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NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market
KentuckyFC writes "Earlier this year, Paris-based Aldebaran-Robotics picked up $8 million in venture capital funding to help commercialize its NAO humanoid robot. The target market for this device is research labs working on the next generation of robotic hardware and software. Today, the company has posted a detailed spec of NAO on the arXiv saying that it expects the robot to cost about ...
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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.
OS News |
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Dell Launches Rack Workstation
The company also introduced a PC-over-IP remote access device that offers hardware-based encryption and compression without compromising system performance.
InformationWeek |
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Microsoft Mum On 'Red Dog' Cloud Computing
The Windows-compatible platform can be seen as Microsoft's counterpart Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing service, known as EC2, and to the Google App Engine.
InformationWeek |
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Introduction To Ubuntu Linux
Read this chapter of A Practical Guide To Ubuntu Linux and bring yourself up to speed on the open source operating system's desktop and its root privileges, and learn how to work with the command line and control windows.
InformationWeek |
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Commercial Mobile Browsers To See Strong Growth
While open source mobile browsers will gain popularity, ABI Research says offerings from companies like Opera can still garner significant revenue.
InformationWeek |
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Apple 'Product Transition' Chatter Sparks Web Speculation
Popular theories about Apple's "state-of-the-art" product, hinted at Monday, include an update of the MacBook and a multitouch tablet computer.
InformationWeek |
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Betting on Betas: How Internet Entrepreneurs Are Creating New Paths to Online Revenue
Some Internet entrepreneurs are blazing new trails to real revenue in the virtual world. In the examples that emerged from the recent Supernova conference, an annual technology event in San Francisco organized by Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach, these models have something in common: building long-term relationships with customers.
Knowledge at Wharton |
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Virginia Tech's Supercomputing Site Gets InfiniBand Upgrade
Mellanox Technologies adds 40-Gbps interconnects to the university's 29-Tflop computer systems research cluster.
InformationWeek |
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FontXChange 1.5 updates Unicode support
Morrison SoftDesign has released FontXChange 1.5 for Mac OS X. The font-format converter has updated its Unicode support to 5.1 and improved its parsing and rendering tools. The 1.5 update can generate .AFM files, can rebuild a damaged font and has new naming options available. FontXChange converts between OpenType, PostScript Type 1, TrueType for ...
MacNN |
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San Francisco's mayor gets back keys to the network
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the city's multimillion-dollar wide area network.
Network World |
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CherryPal Unveils Low-Cost 'Cloud Computer'
The $249 Linux-based minidesktop consumes only 2 watts of power, compared with the 100 watts of some desktops.
InformationWeek |
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Dell Bundles Xbox Elite With XPS Notebook
The package costs $2,999 and includes the 17-inch XPS M1730 powered by a 2.5-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 processor.
InformationWeek |
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by vermaden (3.36) on Sun 26th Nov 2006 20:08 UTC
Its about time to add Gnome support to PC-BSD. I would love to see a version with Gnome as well. I like KDE a lot but having a choice of desktop managers would be nice.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Feb 2007 15:51 UTC
Forbes takes a look at Vista, and writes: "More than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump . The new slogan is: 'The Wow Starts Now', and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh.
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SF Mayor Gets Hacker's Password in Jailhouse Visit
In jailhouse visit, alleged hacker reveals password to SF mayor Gavin Newsom.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Feb 2006 19:43 UTC
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, made some surprising remarks in an interview . Wozniak says that Apple should spin-off its iPod business to a separate division because it distracts Apple from its core business-- computers.
OS News |
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Dell Launches Rack Workstation
The company also introduced a PC-over-IP remote access device that offers hardware-based encryption and compression without compromising system performance.
InformationWeek |
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Introduction To Ubuntu Linux
Read this chapter of A Practical Guide To Ubuntu Linux and bring yourself up to speed on the open source operating system's desktop and its root privileges, and learn how to work with the command line and control windows.
InformationWeek |
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