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Freakish $5bn lawsuit against Google dismissed, twice
The $5 billion lawsuit against Google charging the company with crimes against humanity, terrorism, and other various evils has been dismissed on appeal. Read More...
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Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to Jajah
Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care, the startup said Tuesday.
KATU Portland |
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Report: Google Announces Plans To Open Madison Office
MADISON, Wis. -- Web industry titan Google unveiled Tuesday plans to open a facility in downtown Madison this fall, according to a Madison newspaper report.
WISC-TV Madison |
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DFC: 'How Nintendo Will Conquer Europe'
The latest report from analyst group DFC Intelligence predicts that Nintendo will deftly take control of the traditionally Sony-focused region, largely by making inroads on the more casually-focused ground Sony has paved with the PS2 -- though the group says there's still room for a strong second place this generation. The full text of the report follows: "Over the next few months DFC ...
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Mac OS X Leopard Installed on OQO Model 02 UMPC (Video)
I can't say for certain, but this could very well be the world's smallest Mac. The OQO Model 02 UMPC has been hacked to run Mac OS X Leopard, breaking new ground for folks who might fancy themselves a pocketable Hackintosh.
MobileMag |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Jun 2006 21:35 UTC
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 has been released. It contains performance improvements, improved compatibility with Microsoft Office formats, support for Intel MAcs, and much more.
OS News |
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Building your first business Web site
Dear FSB: I want to take my business online but I am not sure of the best way to do that. Is it better for a small business to run its own Web site or to pay a company to do it?
CNN Money |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 18th Apr 2006 17:44 UTC, submitted by Fran Matell
While most people won't be able to get their hands on Vista until next year, consumers will be able to get some of the media enhancements sooner . Microsoft is on track to release a Windows XP version of Windows Media Player 11 before the end of June, the company confirmed last week.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Jul 2006 11:37 UTC
eWeek reviews IIS 7 Beta . "Versions of IIS prior to 6 were the main points of attack for major worms and viruses such as Nimda. With IIS 6, Microsoft moved the Web server to a default profile that was much more secure.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 3rd Oct 2007 22:32 UTC
Palm CEO Ed Colligan has confirmed the new Palm OS won't be finished until the end of 2008 . Originally scheduled for release by the end of this year, the operating system's launch date has continued to be pushed back, despite the added attention of the engineers freed up by the scrapping of Foleo last month.
OS News |
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Ribbit Launches Phone Service for Salesforce
The Internet telephony startup Ribbit announced Tuesday that one of its initial flagship projects -- an integration with...
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Microsoft builds hard drive scanner for police
Microsoft has built a USB thumb drive for the police that scans computer hard drives. The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor can be used in police raids to map hard drives and decrypt passwords without shutting the computer down and losing evidence.
Infomatics |
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Microsoft Expands Datacenter Management Offerings With Virtualization Capabilities
Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft outlined the next phase in the company's strategy to enable dynamic IT organizations. As part of this strategy, Muglia announced technology innovations that are designed to expand Microsoft's virtualization capabilities and introduced its use of open source technologies and industry standards to broaden its ability ...
SYS-CON Media |
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A Third Of UK Internet Users Bank Online
Online financial services are used by about a third of the total U.K. online population, according to a new comScore report. Thirty-three percent of UK Internet users did online banking in January, accounting for 10.9 million customers who used at least one online account in the first month of the year. The most popular online banking brand was the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) with 2.9 ...
WebProNews |
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IBM takes pole position in server revenues in RP
The server business remains to be IBM’s territory as the tech giant again dominated the overall local server market for the twelfth consecutive quarter by revenue share, a statement from the company said.
Manila Bulletin |
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Elpida, Qimonda ally for 4F2 DRAM cell
TOKYO, JAPAN & MUNICH GERMANY: Elpida Memory Inc. and Qimonda AG , leading global memory suppliers, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a technology partnership on joint development of memory chips (DRAMs).
CIOL |
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Coldplay Jumps on Free Music Bandwagon
Like Radiohead and Prince, the Brit band will give away its next single online.
ABC News |
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Madonna April 30 U.S. Performance at New York City's Roseland Ballroom Available to the Public for Free on MSN
Madonna's exclusive performance at New York City's famed Roseland Ballroom will be available live to millions of fans via an online broadcast at http://music.msn.com/madonna, it was confirmed today by MSN and Control Room, which announced that the show will stream live Wednesday evening, April 30, at 10 p.m.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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4Mezzo in typical SAN environment
Running as an OS-level software component, 4Mezzo intermediates between the iSCSI and TCP protocols, reducing CPU utilization associated with block reads and writes.
Linux Devices |
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Still no firm future for smart meters
Janie Davies, Computing , Tuesday 29 April 2008 at 17:22:00 The government has reiterated its support for smart meters, but the industry is still waiting for a mandate The government has finally responded to the consultation on the metering and billing aspects of last year's energy white paper, discussing options for rolling out real-time networked energy meters in... > Read ...
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4 more linked to OR video
MANILA, Philippines -- Another doctor and three more nurses of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center were named by the Department of Health (DoH), bringing to nine the number of respondents in an administrative case over the illegal filming and Internet uploading of a rectal operation in Cebu.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Government Websites In A Spin
Anyone interested in politics on the web will find the latest Public Accounts Committee report, "Government on the Internet: Progess in delivering information and services online", a hoot. Classic Yes Minister. For instance: "After 10 years of uncoordinated growth, the...
SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Research in Motion to develop for iPhone?
Research in Motion, originator of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, may in fact be seeking to develop applications for Apple's iPhone, anonymous sources claim. A job listing for such a role is said to be circulating internally, with so few details that even RIM employees may not fully understand what their work will entail. "As part of a newly-c...
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Washington DC
LAS VEGAS , April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, before an audience of more than 4,000 IT professionals and partners at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2008, Bob Muglia , senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp., outlined the next phase in the company's strategy to enable dynamic IT organizations.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Aug 2005 11:52 UTC
The August edition of the VOICE newsletter is out. VOICE is a newsletter for the OS/2 community. The August edition includes articles on of course IBM quitting support for OS/2, OS/2 in the living room, image acquisition and much more.
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