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Phone Giants Fight to Keep Subscribers
Telecommunication companies in the U.S. have to juggle the financial effect of customers dropping their landlines, and increased competition between wireless operators.
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Microsoft Moves On, Signs New Search and Ad Deal with Facebook
For now, Microsoft may have gave up on acquiring Yahoo and lost its only hope of catching up with Google in the search and online ad department. But it wouldn’t just rest that easy and so it has to turn to a new ally in its quest to boost its search and online ad business [...]
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Sex offender pleads guilty to child porn possession
A registered sex offender who went to live in Panama after police in Davenport found child pornography in his computer pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court, Davenport.
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British ISPs take active role in online piracy fight
The British music and film industries finally received the cooperation they have been seeking from Internet Service Providers in helping them fight illegal file downloading. A report on Thursday has six of the country's largest Internet providers sending warning letters to subscribers suspected of illegal file downloading and sharing. The decision ...
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Jobs takes off in Gulfstream jet more often
In recent months Steve Jobs has been flying more frequently around the world. When Jobs flies on his personal jet he bills Apple, and these expenses show up in the Apple quarterly reports. In the most recent June report, Steve's expenses jumped from $30,000 to $102,000. It is also notable that in the last three months of 2007, Jobs racked up $550,0...
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NetLogic Microsystems Announces Record Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL), the leader in the design and development of knowledge-based processors and high-speed integrated circuits, today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
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YouTube’s popularity has become a double-edged sword
YouTube is one of the Internet’s most popular Web sites, ranking fourth among the most visited sites in the United States, according to Alexa.com, an Internet traffic ranking service.
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Intel outlines plans, launches eight products
SANTA CLARA, USA: As Internet access continues to be added to all kinds of computers and devices, Intel executives outlined a plan to use its chip design expertise, factory capacity, advanced manufacturing techniques and the economics of Moore's Law to usher in a new category of highly integrated, purpose-built and Web-savvy System on Chip (SoC) designs and products.
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Ricketts family identified as second bidder for Cubs
Another bidder is known to have made the cut to the second round of the Tribune Co. auction to sell the Cubs and Wrigley Field: the family of Joe Ricketts, founder of the online brokerage Ameritrade.
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PCTEL Posts $20.3 Million in Second Quarter Revenue from Continuing Operations
PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCTI), a leader in propagation and optimization solutions for the wireless industry, announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
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Major shareholder advisory firm backs Yahoo board
An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.'s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the Internet company's directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid during the spring.
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BPO, offshoring may be obsolete words by 2015
Words like business process outsourcing (BPO) and offshoring may not exist in the IT dictionary by 2015. Substitutes like business service outsourcing and global delivery model (GDM), necessitated by the changing business model of IT firms, are likely to replace them over the next seven years.
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Oldest Bible published on the Internet
British Library officials said they have started making sections of the oldest existing copy of the New Testament available on the Internet.The British Library is publishing the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century manuscript written by hand in Greek, on its Internet site, CNN reported.Library officials said the Gospel of Mark and the Book of Psalms were scheduled to be available online starting ...
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white papers
Mozilla Messaging patched nine security vulnerabilities in Thunderbird Wednesday, the first time it's plugged holes in the e-mail software since early May.
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white papers
A marketing company warns others to stay away from e-mail lists offered for sale by other companies. Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery.
IT World |
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Crusty old organ powered by PC
ONE OF the oldest chapels in Port Talbot, in Wales, has recruited a computer to tickle the ivories on its ancient organ.
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Recent Original Stories
Mozilla's Firefox web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor.
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Police: Trooper Sought Sex From Woman, Young Daughters
A Pennsylvania state trooper is charged with trying to set up a sexual encounter with a mother and her two young daughters through the Internet.
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posted by Dustin Wilson on Sun 16th Mar 2003 23:49 UTC
I am not a seasoned Linux user. I am not command line veteran (unless you count DOS way back in the day). In fact, let's face it, I am a noob (newbie, nooblar, n00b, etc). For awhile I have been looking at the Gentoo distro hungrily.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Nov 2007 23:05 UTC
This is the seventh article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [ part I part II part III part IV part V part VI ]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Dec 2005 21:03 UTC
"When you've been anticipating something for a long time you often find yourself disappointed when you finally see/touch/use it - that won't happen with the Xbox 360. Microsoft has succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of gaming, and bringing media playback and streaming functionality into your living room.
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Recent Original Stories
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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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 24th Jul 2008 18:01 UTC, submitted by Ward D
Mac Antivirus developer Intego might have stumbled across an OS X specific virus being offered for auction that targets a previously unknown ZIP archive vulnerability.
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Microsoft buying DATAllegro
Microsoft Corp. said it’s buying DATAllegro Inc., which makes data warehousing appliances, for an undisclosed sum. (MSFT)
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Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
The same day that Forrester Research is touting yet another of a growing number of studies claiming Vista is failing to gain traction in the enterprise, Microsoft is claiming just the opposite. by Mary Jo Foley
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