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'Space Chimps': Formulaic story and not very funny
I s 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?
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Laboratory information system launched
24 July, 2008 - Patients coming to Thimphu hospital will no longer have to carry a file of medical reports with them whenever they go to the hospital but should be able to access their report through a computerized system.
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Multimedia out of the box
I suppose when it comes down to it, there are three kinds of notebook owners in this world — the multimedia junkie, the serious gamer and those that need an ultra-portable for casual word processing and surfing.
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Gates, Bloomberg team up to fight 'tobacco epidemic'
NEW YORK -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.
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Mariners Notebook: Faces may change
The question as the Mariners packed up after Wednesday's game against the Red Sox in preparation for a flight to Toronto: What would the club look like the next time it assembled at Safeco Field?
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Sheriff's Blotter
Agoura Hills A thief stole sunglasses from a vehicle parked in the 29400 block of Cresthaven Court July 15. Someone was arrested for driving without a license and on suspicion of being in possession of stolen property at the 101 Freeway and Reyes Adobe Road onramp, July 15.
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First iPhone app cracked? Super Monkey Ball for all?
A group of hackers say they have cracked Apple's close Fairplay DRM on Sega's Super Monkey Balll for iPhone. A posting on Haklabs points to a download link for the pirated game. A number of users who commented on the site say they were succesfully able to run Super Monkey Ball on a jailbroken version 2.0 iPhone using SSH. Other users, however, sai...
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Amazon.com Net Beats Estimates on Overseas, Electronics Sales
July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. , the world's largest Internet retailer, reported second-quarter profit that rose more than analysts estimated as customers bought flat-panel TVs and jewelry and the dollar's decline boosted overseas sales.
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iPhone tools for running, mapping, medicine [video]
With hundreds of iPhone apps to choose from the competition is fierce. But developers have managed to come up with some clever utilities that may be hard for some users to pass up. Among them: a simple audio recorder for note-taking, a database of cocktail recipes, a "social mapping" app, GPS software for runners, and a utility for doctors to vie...
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Fair Goers Make Movies
Fairgoers can be internet stars this week. The North Dakota State Fair rolled out a new program this year. Fairgoers can rent a flash video camera for two hours and record their experiences. The video will then be edited down to a five minute clip and put on youtube, the internet video website.
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Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Tom Yager takes a closer look at Apple's iPhone SDK confidentiality agreement, which restricts developers from discussing the SDK or exchanging ideas with others, thereby leaving no room for forums, newsgroups, open source projects, tutorials, magazine articles, users' groups, or books. But because anyone is free to obtain the iPhone SDK by signing up for it, Apple is ...
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Utarget.Fox to Take blinkx Worldwide for Advertising Sales
LOS ANGELES, BUSINESS WIRE -- .FOX Networks, the leading international ad network operated by Fox International Channels (FIC), 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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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. ASI Solutions experienced a 50 per cent surge in its Intel server business during the financial year to June 30.
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Facebook to help some programmers, punish others
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.
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Seismic array may lead to improved tsunami detection for the Asia-Pacific region
Canberra, July 23 : A new seismic array that has been proposed for north-west Australia and improved computer modeling can help in faster and more accurate tsunami predictions in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Amazon shrugs off high gas prices, weak economy
(AP:NEW YORK) Amazon.com Inc. doesn't seem to be bothered by high gas prices or the sputtering U.S. economy. On Wednesday, the Internet retailer reported second-quarter earnings that more than doubled and easily topped analysts' expectations. It also raised its full-year revenue projections.
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National Business Briefs
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said yesterday they would spend $500 million to help developing countries reduce tobacco use, forecast to claim 1 billion lives this century.
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Use Google Mobile for the iPhone for Quick Local Lookups [Google]
Over at the Google Mobile Blog I've put together a step-by-step video detailing how I use the previously mentioned Google Mobile app on my iPhone to do quick local look-ups. The concept is simple:...
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Cablecos, Telcos Childish Behavior Harmful to National Interest, Says Vint Cerft
Vint Cerf has blasted telephone and cable companies for harming national interests by holding investments in their networks to ransom. A long-time advocate of keeping the internet free from control by service providers, Cerf, a current senior vice-president for search giant Google Inc., told the Silicon Valley Watcher blog that the companies are being childish by threatening to withhold ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Dec 2007 21:58 UTC
Users who install Windows XP Service Pack 3 will not be required to enter Microsoft's product activation key before they use the operating system , according to a Microsoft white paper.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Dec 2005 19:29 UTC
A new study on the major players in the Unix server market has declared IBM the clear customer favorite and brought to light some serious issues with Sun Microsystems' product line.
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Recent Original Stories
"Is Ubuntu an operating system? Last week at EuroOSCON, Mark Shuttleworth gave the closing keynote outlining what he believes are the major struggles faced by the open-source/free-software community.
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Industry Insider: FDA gripes aired on the internet
A group of dissident current and former Food and Drug Administration employees have launched a website, Thoreau-FDA.com, to express their complaints about the agency and to expose what they consider to be improper conduct by those in charge.
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Biz Buzz: Retirement calculator or hacker helper? You decide
There are things happening on the website of the Social Security Administration that will help you. Well, that's what the government says anyway, and everyone knows the government would never mislead anyone, right?
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