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PORTER CUP BLOG (Day 1): Let's try again
Jay Skurski and Tim Schmitt report from the first day of the Porter Cup at Niagara Falls Country Club.
Niagara Gazette |
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SanDisk: Vista Shortfalls Limit Use of SSDs
SanDisk, a maker of Solid Stated Drives (SSD), said on Monday that Vista is not optimized for those kinds of drives, and suitable SSDs won't be available until late this year or next year. The SanDisk CEO admitted that his company didn't understand the limitations of Vista
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Census Department measures ICT penetration into households
Many experts believe that computer literacy has become the fourth pillar to the traditional three tenets of education: reading, writing, and arithmetic, and that a failure to acquire the now requisite technical knowledge will prevent large segments of population from realising the fruits of the Information Age.
Daily News |
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Cisco to Buy Home-network Software Vendor
Cisco announced plans to acquire Pure, a home networking software company, for $120 million.
PC World |
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The Case of the Massive IDisk Archive
Reader Richard Graham finds his Mac mini's hard drive minier than expected. He writes:
PC World |
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Isilon Systems Licenses Likewise Technology
Likewise Software announced that Isilon Systems is licensing its technology to further streamline the management of mixed storage environments. Likewise Software products deliver state-of-the art authentication and audit capabilities for mixed network environments. Datacenter managers running clustered storage systems on single or mixed operating systems - including Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Knol - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. Search expert Danny Sullivan aptly describes Knol as “ Like Wikipedia, With Moderation .” Articles on various topics are penned by individuals, and in many cases, experts — not collectively by the anonymous masses.
New York Times |
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Study: Online banking possibly dicier than assumed
Many banks are unwittingly training their online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows. The result is that even the most security-conscious Web surfers...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Apple promotes MobileMe rebates
Rebates are being offered to new MobileMe subscribers in select regions, Apple has announced. In the United States, between July 22nd and October 20th, people who have bought any type of Mac -- including MacBooks and Mac Pros -- will be eligible for a $30 discount on a standard one-year subscription, bringing the price down to $69. People wanting...
MacNN |
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Government Computer News
Web 2.0: Back to the future? PORTLAND, ORE—Web 2.0 initiatives such as cloud computing and the programmable Web could take us back to the days of proprietary centralized systems, warned Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media and the originator of the term “Web 2.0.”
Government Computer News |
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Study: Online banking possibly dicier than assumed
SAN FRANCISCO -- Many banks are unwittingly training their online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows.
The Pantagraph |
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iPod News: iPod nano Firmware 1.1.3 Released
Apple has released firmware update 1.1.3 for the third-generation iPod nano. The 58 MB download includes unspecified bug fixes.To get the update, connect your iPod nano to your computer and click the "Check for Update" button in iTunes.-----------------------------------------------------To read ...
PDA Buyer's Guide |
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Review: PopCap Games Bejeweled & Bejeweled 2
From an audiovisual standpoint, Bejeweled is only modestly impressive. Its jewel-shaped blocks look pretty much the same as they have on cell phones and computers for the past couple of years, the music is inoffensive, and the only special effects on display are cool 3-D tunnel-like transitions between levels. Similarly, its gameplay doesn’t hold a candle to a good game of Tetris, or even Sega’s ...
iLounge |
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Games for Windows goes gratis, DX11 detailed
Pay-to-play multiplayer services for all Microsoft-branded PC games now free; first info on next DirectX framework revealed.
GameSpot |
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SF mayor visits city engineer in jail, gets codes
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) A San Francisco government employee accused of withholding the access codes to a computer network failed to get his bail reduced Wednesday, even though he turned over the passwords to Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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Panasonic Launches AG-HPX171E Compact P2 HD Handheld Camcorder
DMN Newswire--2008-7-23-- Panasonic PBITS Professional & Broadcast Systems has announced the AG-HPX171E compact and light-weight P2 HD handheld camera . The AG-HPX171E features a newly developed Leica Dicomar zoom lens providing the widest angle of any 1/3-inch class camcorder . Incorporation of the P2 solid-state recording system reduces the camera 's weight by 25% compared with its ...
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Mayor visits city engineer in jail, gets codes
An unusual jailhouse visit by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom yielded the access codes to the city's computer network. City engineer Terry Childs had been accused of withholding the access codes and has been jailed since July 13 on felony counts. Prosecutors...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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SF. tech stays jailed; prosecutors say he rigged network to implode
A judge refused today to lower the $5 million bail for a San Francisco computer engineer accused of hijacking the city's network, after prosecutors said he had rigged the system to melt down during routine maintenance. The ruling by Superior Court Judge Lucy...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Sep 2006 22:43 UTC
GNOME's Luis Villa has wrote an interesting entry in his blog, explaining why it is in Linux's best interest that distribution communities seek out small Linux OEM companies and help them in providing the best Linux experience possible.
New Mobile Computing |
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11:22 a.m. Police: Teens post video of crimes on Net
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Police in suburban Kansas City are trying to find a group of teenagers they believe videotaped themselves breaking into a facility and committing other vandalism and then posted the videos on the Internet.
The Joplin Globe |
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Recent Original Stories
California has introduced a bill to make open document format a mandatory requirement for agencies when acquiring software, turning up the heat on Microsoft.
New Mobile Computing |
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Ubuntu's Shuttleworth wants Linux to "out-pretty" Apple desktop
Finally we realize that Linux on the desktop should be more attractive.
CNET |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Sep 2006 21:20 UTC
Ars takes a quick look at Vista RC1 , and concludes: "Using it as my daily workhorse for two weeks has taught me a lot of things, the first of which is that Vista is doing better than many of its critics are claiming.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Aug 2006 17:24 UTC
OSNews.com informs you about the latest news on a vast range of operating systems, from the well-known mainstream OSes, down to small embedded (but also very interesting technically) ones.
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Apparel/accessories merchants delivered the best overall performance in Jun
Shoppers with a high broadband connection in June could visit an apparel site in about 6.20 seconds, Gomez says, compared with mass merchants (6.27 seconds), specialty merchants (6.84 seconds) and computer/electronics merchants (6.88 seconds).
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