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Gateway to End Its Online Sales, Shift to Retail
Gateway is planning to discontinue online and phone sales of desktop PCs and notebooks, and move entirely to an indirect channel model, the PC vendor plans to announce on Friday.
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Airman in Iraq goes online to help deliver his daughter
From thousands of miles away in Iraq, via the Internet, Sr. Airman Daniel Stewart was able to help his wife, Miranda, deliver their second child today.
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Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Motorola has updated its wireless LAN predictive planning tool to work with 802.11n high throughput access points.
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Samsung Q2 Results Higher on LCD, Cell Phone Sales
Healthy sales of LCD (liquid crystal display) panels and a profitable cellular handset business helped Samsung Electronics...
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Alex Miller: Change keeps Vail on its toes
Remember back in the late 1990s when it seemed the economy was this steamroller that would never stop? Everything would be online, and the Internet would replace all forms of human communication.
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Contrary to a rumor, only one vote counts for 'TitleTown USA'
MASSILLON Despite a rumor circulating today, fans can only vote one time per computer for ESPN's "TitleTown USA." "We're sorry for any confusion we caused the great fans of Massillon," said ESPN spokeswoman Colleen S. Lynch.
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Fibre optic cable can be found in some unusual places, as this photo exploration of London's Victorian sewers reveals. Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than five million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet.
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Colour me tickled
Muppets' simple ethos is a natural for the Web
The Globe and Mail |
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Reuters Business Summary
Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, "done" with Yahoo REDMOND, Washington - Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc. "There's nothing under discussion between the two of us," Ballmer told investors of how six months of various ...
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Reuters Business Summary
Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, "done" with Yahoo REDMOND, Washington - Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc. "There's nothing under discussion between the two of us," Ballmer told investors of how six months of various ...
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Becoming a locavore
Lisa Sherrodd’s habit of eating locally started 10 years ago when she traded a computer for a goat.
Rapid City Journal |
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Current Newswire:
"I think linux users as a community are not as helpful as everyone would like you to believe. We scare new linux adopters, and scoff at any suggestions that might seem “window-like”.
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Witness lodged report only four months later
KUCHING: An administrative assistant with the Ministry of Education told an Election Court here that reading an article posted in Chong Chieng Jen’s blog site had made him feel bad about the government and prompted him to vote the opposition.
The Borneo Post |
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Teen sues all-girls school over alleged bullying
A teenage girl has sued her private, all-girls Catholic school, claiming it allowed bullying to spread from the classroom to online social networks. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Circuit Court against Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, the Archdiocese of Miami and Archbishop John Favalora.
Naples Daily News |
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Recent Original Stories
"The news of Con Kolivas, a Linux kernel developer, quitting that role, along with an interview in which he explains why, could and should make loud noises around the Free Software community which is often touting GNU/Linux as the best operating system one could use, and not just because of freedom you have with it.
New Mobile Computing |
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One-stop mobile phone centre
IMAGINE calling your loved one on your mobile or having an urgent message to pass on to a business associate or family member and suddenly the battery goes dead. What if you’ve run out of credit on the pre-paid service you use.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Sep 2006 17:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Is Browser Security getting better? That is tough to say but Firefox is definitely not leading the way . Despite all the hype, despite all the Myths, Firefox 1.x has a worse security record so far in 2006 than Internet Explorer 6.x."
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Jul 2008 22:04 UTC
As someone who uses Windows Vista practically daily, I've always wondered where all the negativity in the media comes from. Sure, Vista isn't perfect (as if any operating system is), but I just don't see where all the complaints are coming from.
New Mobile Computing |
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Yahoo releases Zimbra Desktop
Yahoo! announced Thursday the release of a beta version of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, which organizes Yahoo! Mail, AOL and Gmail in one place.The company said the software is designed to provide access to a simple, centralized place to manage work, school and personal e-mail, even when not connected to the Internet.USA Today said the program will be offered as a free service with Yahoo! Mail, which ...
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The rich irony of Kevin Johnson's departure from Microsoft
Kevin Johnson built a career fighting open source at Microsoft. Now he owes his future to it.
CNET |
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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.
OS News |
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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.
OS News |
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Future of information security governance
Updated: 25 Jul 2008 SINGAPORE, 18 July 2008 -- Managing information security governance in the traditional sense is no longer sufficient as cyber threats evolve. Such was the message echoed during Oracle’s security symposium, where key speakers challenged long-standing notions of data protection.
Computerworld Singapore |
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No tax support for Mac or Linux yet
The Australian Taxation Office has advised Australians using Apple or Linux operating systems that they will be unable to lodge tax returns electronically using the ATO's e-tax software unless they use a Windows emulator or a kiosk in one of the agency's shop fronts.
ZDNet Australia |
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AG won't appeal ruling in sex offender law
INDIANAPOLIS - Attorney General Steve Carter said Thursday he would not appeal a federal court ruling overturning part of a new state law that would have allowed the computers of sex offenders to be searched long after their sentences had been served.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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