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CE giants extend support for Wi-Fi variant
Amimon announced that five CE giants have extended support on its variation of an 802.11n home network, which is claimed to carry uncompressed HD video an average of 100m.
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Microsoft buys DATAllegro
Well, it's finally started to happen: the first of the data warehouse appliance vendors has fallen under the hammer, in this case with Microsoft announcing its intention to acquire DATAllegro. What are the implications of this?
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NXP 'green' PC solution gets 80 PLUS Gold rating
NXP Semiconductors has rolled that its GreenChip PC chipset has achieved 80 PLUS Gold certification for a reference design, as set by Ecos Consulting and the 80 PLUS Program.
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Government Computer News
PORTLAND, Ore. —Organizations looking for a way to run a Twitter-like microblogging service in-house may consider taking a look at the Laconica platform recently released by Montreal-based Control Yourself Inc.
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Egypt arrests 26 Web activists protesting against high prices
Police have arrested 26 Internet activists in the port of Alexandria, and 14 of them were jailed for more than two weeks for "threatening national security," a security official said on Thursday. Some 30 young Egyptians who belong to the so-called "April 6" group on the Facebook networking site, a group which earlier this year called for a day of protests.
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Intel Unveils 'Smart' System-on-Chip Designs
Intel has unveiled eight new Integrated Processor chips that the company claims will yield new levels of performance and energy efficiency versus traditional system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Beyond targeting the company's traditional computing businesses, Intel intends to customize members of its new product line to fit specialty applications in the Mobile Internet Device (MID), consumer ...
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Google's Knol: More Rules, More Accountability, More Money
While the beta testing seems never to end at Google -- Gmail is still in beta well past age 4 -- the world's largest search engine and advertising machine has released to the public a new knowledge base called "Knol." A "knol," according to Google, is a unit of knowledge. More specifically, Google says Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those ...
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Taliban go hi-tech in media war
The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicize their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday.
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Google reveals its Wiki competitor
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is taking the wraps off an internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off - and profit from - their expertise on any topic.
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Vista in Enterprise: Boom or Bust?
News Analysis. To hear Bill Veghte tell it, Vista is doing well in the enterprise. Forrester Research tells another story.
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Critiquing Claims of an Open Source Jobs Boom
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder examines what appears to be an open source job market boom, as evidenced by a recent O'Reilly Report. According to the study, 5 to 15 percent of all IT openings call for open source software skills, and with overall IT job cuts expected for 2009, 'the recession may be pushing budget-strapped IT execs to examine low-cost alternatives to commercial software,' ...
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Business startup, starting business, small business - Start ups
Emma Haslett on why the oldest tr... Sara Rizk on why Google deserves...
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Major shareholder advisory firm backs Yahoo board
(AP:SAN FRANCISO) 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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Citrix Systems Inc. said on Wednesday that it is slowing its hiring pace in response to economic conditions. It is the second IT vendor this week to cut the tempo of hiring, following VMware Inc., which said it was taking a "pause" on gaining new employees.
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Intellon Corporation Names Walter Amaral to Board of Directors and Audit Committee
ORLANDO, Fla., BUSINESS WIRE -- Intellon Corporation (Nasdaq:ITLN), a leading provider of HomePlug(R)-compatible integrated circuits (ICs) for home networking, networked entertainment, Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC) and smart grid applications, today announced that Walter Amaral has been elected to the Board of Directors at today's board meeting.
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First VMware, now Citrix, announce hiring slowdowns
Citrix Systems Inc. said on Wednesday that it is slowing its hiring pace in response to economic conditions. It is the second IT vendor this week to cut the tempo of hiring, following VMware Inc.
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WD's new 10,000 RPM 2.5-inch drives still aren't for laptops
Despite reducing power consumption by 35 percent, Western Digital's new 10,000 RPM 2.5-inch hard drives won't be making an appearance in laptops. The updated VelociRaptor line, with capacities up to 300GB, are designed for 1U and 2U servers.
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Israeli expat looking x-rated
The supermodel and ex-arm candy of Leonardo DiCaprio was reunited with her native soil, where she was photographed in the lewd at Caesarea and the Dead Sea for a 50-image online gallery.
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A grand jury in California has indicted a Web site owner on four obscenity-related charges, and the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to recover profits from his pornography DVD-distributing business, the DOJ said Thursday.
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AMD denies report it plans to sell off manufacturing operations
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops While it may not all be his doing, newly-minted AMD CEO Dirk Meyer seems to be at the center of more than a bit of confusion in his first few days on the job. First, he detailed AMD's plans to take on Intel's Atom processor this fall, which was apparently news to AMD's Chief Marketing Officer, and now AMD is denying a report that AMD is set to spin off ...
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Recent Original Stories
"Don't get too excited about the whole Mac/Windows dual-boot thing. Although a wide range of starry-eyed experts have lauded Boot Camp in tones not heard since the days of OS/2, it's really nothing to get excited about.
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Recent Original Stories
LXer received a document from an anonymous source with the message "I read your article on linuxJournel about countries growing use of Linux. The attached article was posted in Intel's intranet site."
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Microsoft continues its shopping spree to bolster its SQL Server database platform to make it more suitable for large-scale enterprise deployments. On Thursday the company said it plans to buy DATAllegro, a privately held maker of data-warehouse appliances.
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Microsoft to buy data-warehouse appliance vendor
Microsoft continues its shopping spree to bolster its SQL Server database platform to make it more suitable for large-scale enterprise deployments. On Thursday the company said it plans to buy DATAllegro , a privately held maker of data-warehouse appliances.
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Recent Original Stories
"This is partly a story about a company called Apple Computer. It's also partly a story about a fancy new iPod that plays videos as well as music and that could dramatically change the way people entertain themselves.
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