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CORRECTING and REPLACING New Dale Pollak Blog Focuses on Used-Car Industry Trends
First graph, first sentence of release should read: Author, former new-car dealer and high-tech entrepreneur Dale Pollak has launched a blog (www.dalepollak.com) to discuss used-car sales trends (sted Author, former new-car dealer and high-tech entrepreneur Dale Pollak has launched a blog (www.dale.pollak.com) to discuss used-car sales trends.)
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Pooch Cluster Software for Mac Adds OpenMPI Support
Dauger Research announced on Tuesday that their Pooch Pro clustering software version 1.7.6 now taps the OpenMPI implementation that shipped with Mac OS X,"Leopard."
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SprintSecure(SM) Message Protection Helps Provide Peace of Mind for Businesses
Electronic messaging is important for businesses, but the continued proliferation of viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks and spam makes effective message security and management increasingly difficult. Businesses have invested heavily in their IP and MPLS VPN networks and they need to protect it from such threats. Sprint (NYSE:S) offers a solution to help provide peace of mind for ...
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Madison Miscellany -- April 29, 2008
Google opens up shop downtown, PROG plays the HNS, John Mendels(s)ohn, Pizza Brutta, Memorial student Vander Blue commits to Wisco men's hoops, and much more can be found in this latest round-up of online social media in Madison and Dane County.
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Briefs: Windstream doubles Internet speed
Windstream Corporation said it has doubled the Internet speeds available across most of its 16-state network, including Lincoln and southeast Nebraska, doubling local speeds to 12-megabits per second and expanding the availability of 3 and 6-Mbps service.
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Gas prices are driving many consumers to choose online shopping, survey fin
61% of online consumers in a recent Harris Interactive survey cite the ability to shop at any hour as a reason to make a purchase online rather than in a retail store, while 57% cite free shipping and 51% lower prices.
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DHL and Borderlinx partner to simplify international e-commerce
Delivery and logistics company DHL International GmbH and U.K.-based Borderlinx, a company that helps businesses ship goods from a number of suppliers, have partnered to assist U.S. e-retailers selling internationally.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Shopping carts are often culprits in card data thefts at e-commerce sites,
70% of incidents of cardholder data theft have taken place offline, with 54% occurring in restaurants. But many e-commerce merchants, especially smaller ones, are vulnerable, often due to flaws in their shopping cart software, says security firm Trustwave.
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Consumers searched for tax help as April 15 loomed
With the April 15 deadline for filing taxes fast approaching, nearly 700,000 consumers searched the Internet in March for help, seeking the popular software Turbo Tax from Intuit Inc., according to data provided to Internet Retailer from Nielsen Online’s MegaView Search Custom Data. The MegaView Search data is based on tallies from 58 search engines.
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AndandTech, in its usual in-depth fashion (14 pages), reviewed Windows Vista Beta 2 . Their conclusions are grouped ...
"However, even with the massive improvements Microsoft has shown with Vista, we still feel they aren't quite ready to beat Tiger in a fight." When comparing to XP: "Feature for feature, Vista is superior to XP, and its only real costs are memory usage, hard drive usage, and price."
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I.E. 8 allows shoppers to view a “slice” of a site as they browse the web
With “webslices” saved in the Favorites menu of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 8, shoppers can view icons that alert them to updated content on a favorite site—the latest price on a popular handbag, for instance—as they browse other sites on the web, says Matt Lapsen, director of Internet Explorer 8 product management.
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Microsoft delays release of Windows XP SP3
Microsoft has delayed the release of a third service pack for Windows XP, blaming a "compatibility issue" between the software and a retail-chain-management application. Microsoft had said last week that it completed development on Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3) and that it would be available via its software-update services on Tuesday. However, incompatibilities discovered in the ...
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IntelliDOT(R) Secures Second Patent for Innovative Patient Safety Processes
IntelliDOT Corporation, a leading provider of wireless, handheld, bedside point-of-care solutions to hospitals, today announced that it has secured an additional key patent covering advances in controlling hospital workflows and medication administration to patients.
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Markets (April 29)
OUTSOURCING Satyam, Arcelor-Mittal in outsourcing deal Hyderabad, April 29 Satyam Computer on Tuesday announced it signed an agreement with steel major Arcelor-Mittal, as one of the two global IT services providers to consolidate sub-contractor activities and help in overall business ...
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Recent Original Stories
Red Hat is actively talking to Microsoft to improve Linux/Windows interoperability, but says it will only sign an interoperability agreement with Microsoft if it is based entirely on open standards.
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In Economic Times Like These - Marketers Can't Afford to Miss What is Being Discussed Online About Their Brands
When consumer spending takes a dive, it's time for all marketers to focus efforts and dollars on smart marketing tactics. One key way is to use social media as your sounding board and your partner -- but monitoring the millions of online venues where discussions occur can cost a fortune in employee time.
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Every CinemaNow's customer can now download films via cell phones
CinemaNow , a World Wide Web-based digital video distribution company, has offered a new service. Now everyone can download films through a mobile phone.
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IBM Adds Online Storage to its Services Arsenal
Online storage services took the spotlight in IBM's semiannual services product release this week, thanks to Big Blue's recent acquisition of online backup pioneer Arsenal Digital.
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CNN and MSNBC Battle Yahoo News for Top News Site
Integration of video into news stories may be making the difference in the battle for news supremacy.
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CORRECTING and REPLACING New Dale Pollak Blog Focuses on Used-Car Industry Trends
CHICAGO----First graph, first sentence of release should read: Author, former new-car dealer and high-tech entrepreneur Dale Pollak has launched a blog to discuss used-car sales trends (sted Author, former new-car dealer and high-tech entrepreneur Dale Pollak has launched a blog to discuss used-car sales trends.)
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Palm founder Jeffrey C. Hawkins sells 20,000 shares
(AP:NEW YORK) The founder of Palm Inc., which makes hand-held computers, sold 20,000 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday.
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French judge can’t ban Internet video of motor racing chief
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 (12:07 p.m.) A judge said Tuesday it was not within his jurisdiction to ban an Internet video of motor racing chief Max Mosley with prostitutes, but he ordered the French recall of newspapers containing photos of the scene.
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New Atos directors backed by hedge funds
Two hedge funds besieging Atos Origin , the French computer services group, will support new directors proposed by the board even as they continue to demand the exit of several existing supervisory board members.
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Dell to cut jobs in Ireland
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 (12:07 p.m.) Personal computer maker Dell Inc. announced Tuesday that it will lay off 250 workers in Ireland as part of its global cost-cutting plan, a decision economists said reflected the rising expense of doing business here.
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Cable Shopping Network Goes Live on Junction Solutions' Retail Software
Junction Solutions, a provider of vertical industry focused enterprise software and services based on the Microsoft platform, today announced that Cable Shopping Network (CSN), a provider of unique collectibles, is live on JunctionRES, a retail software system built on Microsoft Dynamics AX. CSN chose JunctionRES in order to better manage its sales, customer order fulfillment, continuity, kit ...
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