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Gateway exits direct PC sales business
Gateway on Friday revealed that it will formally quit direct-order sales of PCs and other products and offer its lineup only in retail stores. The surprise move ends the business that underpinned Gateway's early success in the 1980s and 1990s but is described as bringing the American company's approach in line with that of its parent company Acer,...
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Digital Revolution Could Be Olympics' Salvation
The Olympic Games will be played out on Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr, one Web-based video marketing executive asserts.
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Government Computer News
NASA’s Ames Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are co-winners of NASA's 2007 Software of the Year Award, the space agency announced this week.
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Yahoo Music: Burn Your Tracks to CD
In a move reminiscent of MSN Music, Yahoo is warning folks who purchased tunes through Yahoo Music to burn them to CD by Sept. 30...or lose'em forever.
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Report: size doesn't matter when it comes to cybercriminals
A new report from McAfee suggests small and medium-size businesses neglect IT security because they think they're too small to be viable targets for cybercrooks. They're wrong. Read More...
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San Francisco Computer Tech Set Booby Trap In City Network
Prosecutors say Childs set the network to delete numerous files during a scheduled maintenance of the system.
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Western Digital acquires ST's HDD controller division
Western Digital (Lake Forest, Calif.), a manufacturer of computer hard disks, announced it has acquired the hard disk drive controller IP rights, design tools and design team from STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland). Financial details remained undisclosed.
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Microsoft Windows Exec Kevin Johnson Jumps To Juniper
Microsoft won't replace Johnson but will split Platforms and Services into two groups that will report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.
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CMU prof Randy Pausch, whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Randy Pausch (powsh) has died. The Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor's "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book.
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New Spray-On Coating Makes Electronics Waterproof
Have you ever spilled something on your computer? It's not a pretty sight but now a new product promises to make all of your electronic gadgets, from your laptop to your cell phone, completely waterproof.
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CMU prof Randy Pausch, whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
Associated Press - July 25, 2008 11:53 AM ET PITTSBURGH (AP) - Randy Pausch (powsh) has died. The Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor's "last lecture" about facing...
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Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. Pausch died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., said Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal writer who co-wrote Pausch's book. Pausch and his family had moved there last fall to be closer to his wife's ...
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Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. Pausch died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., said Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal writer who co-wrote Pausch's book. Pausch and his family had moved there last fall to be closer to his wife's ...
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CMU prof Randy Pausch, whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Randy Pausch (powsh) has died. The Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor's "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book.
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Randy Pausch, 47
Computer scientist's 'last lecture' after diagnosis of terminal cancer became Internet sensation and best-selling book
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Former Adobe CEO Chizen named to Oracle board
Bruce R. Chizen, the former chief executive of Adobe Systems Inc., has been named to an expanded board of another software company, Oracle Corp.
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U. of Houston student info mistakenly posted
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 10:52 a.m. HOUSTON (AP) -- University of Houston officials are notifying 259 students that their personal information was inadvertently posted online for almost three years, but was recently removed.
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'Last Lecture' Professor, Randy Pausch, Dies at 47
The Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor's "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book.
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Missing suburban teen girl found in Florida with man she met online
A 15-year-old girl who had been missing for more than a day this week from her Twin Cities suburb was located in Florida with an 18-year-old man she met on the Internet, police said today.
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Remote access tool wakes up powered-off PCs
Canadian vendor 01 Communique has introduced a remote desktop tool with a difference it can wake up PCs remotely, so that workers do not have to leave their office system running in order to access it from home or another site.
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C2000 shows faith in VARs with credit plan
Computer 2000 (C2000) has launched a credit accelerator programme that will enable resellers to borrow up to £100,000 credit spread out over a 12-month period.
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SigmaQuest CEO to Moderate USC Business School Entrepreneurship Panel
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----SigmaQuest Inc., a leading provider of business intelligence software solutions for global manufacturers, today announced that its CEO, Nader Fathi, will serve as moderator on a University of Southern California Entrepreneurship Panel on July 29, 2008, at 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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SPORTS HEADLINES
PHOENIX (AP) — A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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3 shot at Phoenix college; suspect arrested
PHOENIX (AP) -- A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby.
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C2000 shows faith in VARs with credit plan
Sara Yirrell , CRN , Friday 25 July 2008 at 16:34:00 Initiative that will allow VARs to borrow up to £100,000 is to officially launch this August Computer 2000 (C2000) has launched a credit accelerator programme that will enable resellers to borrow up to £100,000 credit spread out over a 12-month period....
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