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Fujitsu Siemens' Amilo Mini gets spied on video
Filed under: Laptops Hey, remember that teeny-tiny Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Mini we spied a few weeks ago? You do? Good, because we've just discovered video of the as-yet-unreleased device in action. According to the source, the device will be officially revealed at IFA this year, and will be priced around €300 to €400 ($475 to $634). It won't blow your mind, but if you've been hoping ...
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Solutions must be found for Navajo Internet troubles
The hits keep coming for the Navajo Nation government and, unfortunately, it's the Navajo people who are taking the direct blows.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Apr 2006 21:16 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"If your laptop computer is a complement to your desktop machine, you're probably well aware of the need to synchronize data between the two.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Oct 2006 17:28 UTC, submitted by Tyr. "Leading PC manufacturer Acer has accused Microsoft of ratcheting up the cost of Windows by effectively forcing consumers to opt for the Premium version of Vista.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 3rd Jul 2006 02:42 UTC
It's been over a year since the last time I reviewed ( 1 , 2 ) the Linux distribution that I use most of the time, Arch Linux . Since then, while the distro-specific innovations have slowed a bit down, maturity and stability has emerged.
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Phoenix police: College shooter was punched first
PHOENIX (AP) — The most seriously wounded of three people shot in a community-college computer lab had punched the gunman, an old enemy, in the face before he opened fire, police said Friday.
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Linked by Kroc on Wed 7th Mar 2007 18:20 UTC
Augmented Reality is the overlapping of digital information and physical environment. Sci-Fi has often portrayed A.R. as interactive floating transparent computer screens projected into the air, or perhaps the most absolute example: standing inside an entirely computer generated world.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th May 2006 20:14 UTC
A senior Microsoft executive told a BBC documentary that people should use commercial software if they're looking for stability . "Some people want to use community-based software, and they get value out of sharing with other people in the community.
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Comcast communicated by blog
A Washington student got a bit of a shock when he received an email from internet service provider Comcast about comments he had made on his blog. Brandon Dilbeck, a student at the University of Washington, writes a blog and used it to complain about the service he was getting from Comcast.
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On the heels of announcing their plan to offer Ubuntu Linux pre-installed on selected consumer desktops and laptops, ...
to distribute Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server software along with Microsoft's Windows Server software. As part of the deal, Dell will help Novell and Microsoft make SLES and Windows work together efficiently on Dell's computer hardware.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Oct 2007 15:12 UTC
This week's 'big' news on OSNews was about software patents. You know, those things that say you cannot stack four pixels on top of one another unless you pay money to the guy who invented four-pixel-stacks (or the guy who bought the guy who invented four-pixel-stacks).
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 29th Dec 2006 20:36 UTC
Ford Motor Co. will unveil next month a hands-free Bluetooth wireless system and in-vehicle operating system developed by Microsoft as an option for its entire Ford brand lineup.
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"Joel Spolsky in his article ' Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering ' compares Microsoft and Apple ways of text rendering and explains why windows people don't like Safari. Text in Safari looks too blurry and that must be why.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 22nd May 2007 03:43 UTC
Would you be able to survive one full day without using the X server? Linux offers us a wide assortment of CLI based tools which use curses and/or framebuffer for functional user interfaces.
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John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died . He was 82. Backus died Saturday in Ashland, Oregon, according to IBM, where he spent his career.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Oct 2005 10:35 UTC
"What would help the most is to eliminate both the dependency on expensive commercial software and also eliminate the company-owned computer. If, like master mechanics in machine shops, the employee owned his or her own tools, none of this would be an issue.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Sep 2005 14:08 UTC
At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft is planning to provide programmers with the code for an early version of Vista, as well as Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, both of which will be released in November.
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"Imagine the following situation: a collection of computer users draw up a wishlist of software they'd really like to see developed. These end users then begin to donate money to projects that they'd individually like to see appear.
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Just over a year ago, Tim Butler wrote an article
which outlined why he thought the GNOME Project was clearly the free software desktop project with the best vision of the future.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Oct 2005 13:29 UTC
STI (Sony-IBM-Toshiba) has said all along that they plan to see Cell commercialized far beyond the upcoming PS3, so it was no surprise when Mercury Computer Systems announced back in June that they planned to use the Cell in unspecified aerospace, defense, and medical imaging applications.
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"What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach. He had the temerity to make Redmond's software better.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Oct 2005 22:16 UTC
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, said that although Microsoft is seen as being very pro-patent at the moment, if every other software maker enforced its patents in the same way then Microsoft would find it very difficult and expensive to do business.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Feb 2006 20:17 UTC
A second strain of malware targeting Mac OS X has been discovered days after a Mac OS X Trojan appeared on the scene . The latest malware, Inqtana-A , is a proof-of-concept worm that attempts to spread using a Bluetooth vulnerability.
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"I must say that both of these distros have pleased me a lot and completely suffice my requirement of a home desktop system. Both automatically detected all my hardware and had installed the drivers required.
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Microsoft, shrugging off licensing moves to prevent it from repeating its controversial patent deal with Novell, has signed a set of broad collaboration agreements with Linux provider Xandros that include an intellectual property assurance under which Microsoft will provide patent covenants for Xandros customers.
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