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QNX forms partnership with Indian company
Embedded systems products maker QNX Software Systems is teaming up with India's Global Edge Software Ltd., a deal which will give QNX access to a range of Internet protocol technologies that will complement its telecom products.
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Crowd-sourcing the e-car
Jul 23, 2008 12:37 PM "eCars - Now!" is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year.
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The New Best Hope for Mobile CRM: iPhone 3G
On July 11, with the launch of the iPhone 3G, Salesforce.com became the first CRM vendor to announce the availability of its mobile applications for the iPhone in Apple's App Store. Now, two weeks after the phone's release, a few other CRM vendors can claim some sort of iPhone 3G compatibility; many more are planning to roll out an application in the future.
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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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Dropping condom use may up HIV infections four-fold in 10yrs
London, July 25 : Australian researchers have rubbished suggestions that patients who have been effectively treated with antiretroviral drugs, and have no genital infections, don't have to worry about transmitting the virus to others through unprotected sex.
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B.C. model's accused killer describes attack
Cara Anna The Associated Press SHANGHAI–A Chinese man accused of stabbing a Canadian model to death in her apartment building told police in a televised interview the attack began when the woman caught him trying to steal her laptop computer.
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Security Screenings Get Easier - and Faster - with the Checkpoint Friendly(TM) Laptop Bag
Considering today's stricter safety measures and that more than a quarter of travelers carry a laptop, the security process of removing laptops from laptop bags has become a time-consuming, albeit necessary, requirement.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Internet Collaboration Drives Electric Car Conversion Crusade
A Finnish Internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start a mass movement toward electric cars. The plan is to encourage the conversion of used gasoline-powered cars to run on electricity, with the first rollout due this year.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Mac Bloggers on Surprise Products, Snagging 3G iPhones and Squeezing Out Battery Life
While Apple's third quarter financial performance report kicked off the week's news, it was Apple's Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer's commentary about a possible mystery product that really had bloggers typing. The iPhone 3G remains a hot topic as well, but finding one is still posing a problem for many would-be owners.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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The Spam World's Election Season Blast
With the political election season ramping up, spammers are again using news headlines about the candidates to saturate in-boxes. Researchers have uncovered two new spam clusters with subject lines relating to Barack Obama. At certain points, one of these spam runs accounted for up to 18 percent of all spam, according to MessageLabs.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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INTERNET: Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
NEW YORK — T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook.
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Samsung Electronics Q2 net misses forecast
SEOUL, July 25 - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd posted a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and faces a tough second half with a sluggish memory chip market and lower margins in flat screens and mobile phones.
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Scrabble-Maker Hasbro Sues Over Scrabulous
Claiming intellectual property infringement, the toy company Hasbro is suing a pair of brothers from Calcutta, India, who created the Internet phenomenon Scrabulous, a Web-based knockoff of Hasbro's board game Scrabble.
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YouTube video subject granted divorce
A Broadway mogul whose wife trashed him in a widely viewed internet video was granted a divorce from her this week.
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Brison urges Tories to put windfall toward high-speed Internet access
BY BRENT FOX bfox@kentvilleadvertiser.ca NovaNewsNow.com Up to $2 billion of the government's wireless spectrum windfall should go toward providing high-speed Internet for rural and small-town communities such as some in Kings and Hants counties. The federal government came into an unexpected $2.75 billion from auctioning off wireless spectrum licenses for a total of $4.25 billion...
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Cash for Trash
Surrounded by a canyon of neatly stacked trash bundles, Bob Cappadona, area manager of Casella Waste (NasdaqGS:CWST - News) Systems' 65,000-square-foot recycling facility in Auburn, Mass., can't believe the record prices his garbage is commanding. "Aluminum cans, $900 a bale. Tin cans, $150. No. 2 clear plastic, $300. Cardboard, $70. Mixed paper, $40." He barely conceals his glee as he explains ...
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Intel knits SoCs roadmap for x86
TV, storage array and robot pandering Intel is ready to charge once more unto the breach of system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices, this time with a new line of embedded processors based on the same instruction set used in all its desktop and mobile products.…
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Netflix 2Q profit up 4 pct, beats analyst views
Netflix Inc.'s second-quarter profit edged up 4 percent, beating analyst expectations as the online DVD rental leader signed up 168,000 new customers while spending less money to attract them to the service. The Los Gatos-based company said Friday that it...
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Aztecsoft marks $23 Mn loss in the first Quarter
Bangalore: The brutal rupee depreciation phenomena took its toll on the software services firm Aztecsoft, who reported Rs.9.29 crore losses in the first quarter ended June 30, 2008. The depreciation led to a non-cash charge of Rs.22.24 crore being provisioned on the outstanding derivative instruments of the company.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 3rd Aug 2005 16:07 UTC
"I am proud to announce the official release of Symphony OS Alpha 4. Alpha 4 includes the KNOPPIX version of the 2.6.11 Linux Kernel and an updated base based on Knoppix 3.9, numerous improvements to the Mezzo Desktop environment , includes synaptic for package management, beagle for local searching, supports freedesktop.org .desktop files in the Programs target, and much more."
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Constitution Island Association Selects Olive Software to Digitize Revolutionary War and Literature Archives
DENVER----The Constitution Island Association, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the area surrounding West Point, has selected Olive Software to digitize its extensive archive of historic documents dating back to the Revolutionary War.
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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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Rumours hint at £500 MacBook
Speculation is mounting that Apple plans to enter the £500 laptop fray with a MacBook sporting a 13in screen.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Hungry Mobile IM Users Consume 5M Downloads in First Year, eBuddy Processing 1 Billion Messages per Month for 2M ...
eBuddy, the world's leading independent provider of web and mobile messaging (IM), announced today that it has surpassed 5M downloads of its mobile IM client in its first year. The company is now processing over 1 billion messages per month on its mobile platform and counts more than 2 million unique monthly mobile users. eBuddy also announced updated releases and redesiged user interfaces for ...
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Verizon Wireless Rolls Out Evolutionary Store Design in West Hartford, Connecticut
Verizon Wireless is breaking new ground in the U.S. wireless retail experience today with the introduction of its evolutionary store design in West Hartford, Connecticut.
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