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Flood-affected businesses, groups staying connected online
Finding a flooded business, a place to volunteer or up-to-the-minute flood information is often as simple as a Google search.While many businesses and organizations have posted signs at their brick-and-mortar locations or rerouted telephone numbers to temporary offices or cell phones, they've also gone online to keep the community in the loop.They're using Web sites and social networking sites ...
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MEDIA DAYS NOTEBOOK: Miles playing nice in Hoover
HOOVER — Les Miles trod carefully Wednesday.
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Eurotech Announces A3pci8024 Embedded Computer Platform Based on Intel(R) EP80579 Integrated Processor
Eurotech Inc., a leading provider of application-ready embedded computer systems for low power and high performance applications, announces today the launch of the Eurotech A3pci8024.
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General Software Announces Support for the New Intel(R) EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
General Software is now supporting through its Embedded BIOS® with StrongFrame® Technology the new Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line. It is the first in a family of enterprise-class complete "system-on-a-chip" products combining an x86 CPU, a memory controller and an I/O controller into a single chip.
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UK officials going snoop crazy
Officials made more than 500,000 requests to spy on private phone and Internet information in the United Kingdom last year.
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Recent Original Stories
Dell has been asking for input from their (prospective) customers, via a Digg-style site called Dell ' Ideastorm '. It turns out that the top requested feature is for Dell to pre-install Linux (alongside Windows) as an option.
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Alltel Upgrading Broadband in the East, Providing Faster Service
To watch video online please click here to download the latest version of the Flash plugin. Alltel Wireless is upgrading so folks in the East can have faster service.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Oct 2005 17:09 UTC
"A file system is something which computer users hear about all the time, but many do not know very much about. This article is going to be a short guide, which goes over the basics of file systems so you will at least know enough to get by.
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Utarget.Fox to Take blinkx Worldwide for Advertising Sales
LOS ANGELES----.FOX Networks, the leading international ad network operated by Fox International Channels , announced today that its video advertising division, Utarget.Fox, has signed a significant global sales agreement with blinkx, the world's largest video search engine.
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Insyde Software Releases UEFI Firmware for New Intel(R) System-On-A-Chip
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. & TAIPEI, Taiwan----Insyde Software, a leading provider of Universal Extensible Firmware Interface based firmware, BIOS and engineering services today announced the availability of its InsydeH2O™ UEFI firmware solution for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
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Top Scoops
Te Reo and the Resolution Jul 24, 2008 09:50 Russell Brown's Hard News The Maori Language Week episode of Media7 is online now.
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SKorea's Hynix to close US chip plant
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip manufacturer, said Thursday it will close its only U.S. factory amid changes in production standards and steep price declines buffeting the industry.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 8th Oct 2006 21:16 UTC
Microsoft is winding down the beta program for Office 2007 as it prepares for a release to manufacturing before the end of the month . On Oct. 25, Microsoft will close its Office Preview site and stop allowing downloads of the beta.
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Providers back net piracy crackdown
Britain's six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have signed up to a government-backed drive to clamp down on illegal downloading of music and films.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Oct 2006 22:04 UTC
"Today, Microsoft is excited to announce the availability of Windows Vista RC2 to Technical Beta Testers, TAP Testers, and MSDN/TechNet subscribers.
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The Cure for the NetFlix 10,000
One of the biggest beefs most folks have with NetFlix as an alternative to traditional forms of livingroom-based entertainment is that their on-demand selection is somewhat limited in nature (actually, recent Mashable commenter “Cody” remarked that “the online/stream selection was just plain miserable…”). Miserable might be an overstatement, but unfortunately dated and small is fairly ...
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Computer program Polaris tops Las Vegas’ best pro poker players
The phrase “artificial intelligence” has been synonymous with science fiction films for decades. But thanks to the hard work of a University of Alberta artificial intelligence research team, the next time you hear about AI might be at a poker table. That’s because earlier this month at the Gaming Life Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, the team pitted their poker playing computer program, named ...
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Baidu.com quarterly profit surges 87%
The top search engine in China forecast another jump in revenue on Internet traffic growth from the Beijing Olympics.
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Gadgets of the Week
A smaller, simpler laptop from Acer; airport-security-friendly laptop bags from Mobile Edge; a Panasonic digital camera with a zippy Leica zoom.
International Herald Tribune |
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Coaches decry hoax about Sooners quarterbacks
There may be one good thing to come out of the Internet hoax that had two radio stations broadcasting a false report that two Oklahoma quarterbacks had been arrested for cocaine distribution.
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16-Channel I2C LED Blinker From Catalyst Semiconductor Provides Simple Solution For Flashing And "On/Off" LED ...
Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. a supplier of analog, mixed-signal and non-volatile memory semiconductors, has added a 16-channel I2C/SMBus LED driver/blinker to its line of bus products
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Internet, alcohol and sleep tied to girls' weight
NEW YORK - GIRLS and young women who devote much time to the Internet, get too little sleep or regularly drink alcohol are more likely than their peers to put on excess weight, a new study suggests.
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As Olympics near, China begins crackdown by arresting blogger
As the country prepares to open the 2008 Summer Olympics in three weeks, Chinese officials have arrested a writer and dissident who was already on probation after being charged a few years ago.
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China's Baidu.com says quarterly profit rises nearly 87 percent on growth in advertising
(AP:BEIJING) Baidu.com Inc., China's leading search engine, said Thursday its second-quarter profit soared 87 percent over the year-earlier period on rapid growth in revenue from smaller advertisers.
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SKorea's Hynix to close US chip plant
(AP:SEOUL, South Korea) Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip manufacturer, said Thursday it will close its only U.S. factory amid changes in production standards and steep price declines buffeting the industry.
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