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AOL to shut down Xdrive, other services
AOL will axe several services that haven’t achieved enough popularity, as it struggles to grow its online ad business.
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Laptop Security: Keep the Bad Guys at Bay
Joe's laptop computer boasts some advanced security gizmos.
PC World |
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Ballmer Distances Microsoft From Yahoo Deal
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touched on the talks with Yahoo during the company's annual analyst meeting.
PC World |
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Cool Applications Available For iPhone
(NBC) -- It's been some two weeks now since the latest version of the iPhone and a big new software update for older iPhones was released. There are two things new to these second edition iPhones that take mobile computing to a whole new level.
WLBZ Bangor |
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Yahoo: Burn your DRMed tracks to CD now
Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM.
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Report: Microsoft, Facebook to Sign Search Deal
Microsoft and Facebook will announce an Internet search and ad deal, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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Stay cool with the MacBook Air
Jason Snell and other have noticed that Intel’s Santa Rosa chip architecture, used by the MacBook Air, shuts down a core when it gets too hot. The result? At random times, generally on warm days and generally in the afternoon after you’ve been using my MacBook Air for a while, the computer will become crazily unresponsive.
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Bigger Isn’t Better
Things were different then. My daughter and her high school friends can hardly imagine I grew up without them: cell phones, laptops, ipods. “What do you mean?” they ask. You mean you couldn’t just “go on line”, enter a word or phrase and have a world of information at your fingertips?
La Prensa San Diego |
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Columbia Ave. robber gets laptop
A man using a laptap computer on top of a trash can was the victim of a strong-armed robbery shortly after midnight today in Manor
Lancaster Online |
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AOL to Shut Down Xdrive and Other Services
AOL will phase out several online services as the Time Warner unit continues to struggle in its transition from a business model based on subscription fees to one based on advertising revenue.
New York Times |
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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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Bikers, pedestrians seeking better Web maps
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 2:27 p.m. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- With the old gas-guzzler in the garage, you've got your bicycle ready and your sneakers laced up. Now all you need is a map of the quickest, safest routes for riding around town. Well, not so fast.
WPDE-TV Myrtle Beach - Florence |
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CMU prof Randy Pausch, whose 'last lecture' became a sensation, has died
Randy Pausch 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. In it, Pausch talked about living the life he had always dreamed of instead of concentrating on his impending death.
WIS News 10 Columbia |
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Video: World Tech Update
In this week’s show: hackers descend on New York City, a new service sends you directly to voicemail, Microsoft’s online services head departs, NTT DoCoMo shows off Super 3G, augmented reality mixes computers with the real world, Microsoft announces plans to make your own Xbox games, WiMAX is set to take off and a robotic device helps paralyzed people walk again.
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Native Instruments Updates Traktor 3 and Traktor Scratch
Music software and hardware company, Native Instruments, released updates for its professional DJ line of software products...
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Community college shooting stemmed from fist fight
A man suspected of shooting three people in a community-college computer lab lost a fistfight to one of the victims months ago and had been feuding with him ever since, a police detective said Friday.
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Microsoft looks to mimic Apple success, says Ballmer
In an e-mail to Microsoft employees, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested the company would follow Apple’s lead to provide a more complete experience to customers.
Macworld |
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Beware the Hype for Software as a Service
What's called SaaS, or on-demand software, needs some debunking. For starters, it isn't cheap, and your data aren't secure
BusinessWeek |
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Post.Office Mail Server Compatible With Leopard
Tenon Intersystems has announced the release of Post.Office 3.8.4, an update to its mail server for Mac OS X. Post.Office...
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Community college shooting stemmed from fist fight
A man suspected of shooting three people in a community-college computer lab lost a fistfight to one of the victims months ago and had been feuding with him ever since, a police detective said Friday. Rodney Smith and the 19-year-old shooting victim had gotten into verbal confrontations every time they met since the December fistfight, Phoenix Detective Reuben Gonzales said. The ...
AP via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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Community college shooting stemmed from fist fight
A man suspected of shooting three people in a community-college computer lab lost a fistfight to one of the victims months ago and had been feuding with him ever since, a police detective said Friday. Rodney Smith and the 19-year-old shooting victim had gotten into verbal confrontations every time they met since the December fistfight, Phoenix Detective Reuben Gonzales said. The ...
AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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Review: OmniFocus for iPhone
The Omni Group’s OmniFocus is a complex to-do application for the Mac, and it’s equally complex in iPhone form. While overkill for some, users who like the Getting Things Done workflow philosophy or who already use the desktop version will like OmniFocus on the iPhone.
Macworld |
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Open Typed URLs in New Tabs
Everyone is probably aware of how to open links in new tabs in your favorite browser--just Command-click the link, and it will...
PC World |
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Open typed URLs in new tabs
Learn how to open new tabs when typing URLs into the address bar in many browsers.
Macworld |
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Yahoo! shoots DRM servers, swallows keys to tunes
Music Un limited Like Micro, like Hoo. Following in the footsteps of Steve Ballmer and company, Yahoo! plans to destroy the DRM servers propping up all those people misguided enough to purchase tunes from its failed music store.…
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