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Web Maps for walking or biking
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. As more commuters consider ditching their cars to save money on gas, Internet mapping services, cities and community groups are being pushed to lay out the best routes for biking ...
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Glitch delays money to Medicaid providers
TALLAHASSEE — The state of Florida has sent out emergency payments to 5,600 Medicaid providers that haven’t been reimbursed in a month because of a computer glitch.
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State spruces up official Web site
COLUMBIA — South Carolina has revamped the official state Web site. Www.sc.gov now includes video and audio clips helping users to navigate the site and has added Google maps to state buildings as well as aerial photos from Google Earth.
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Eight terror blasts rock IT hub Bangalore, one killed
By V.S. Karnic and Fakir Balaji, Bangalore, July 25: Eight bombs went off within an hour in Bangalore's central business district and other crowded areas Friday afternoon, killing a woman at a deserted bus stop, injuring seven people and putting the focus on terror cells in India's IT hub once again.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Apr 2007 18:53 UTC
As reported by Slashdot, debate has risen over ClearType in Linux. OpenSUSE recently disabled this technology, saying "that this feature is covered by several Microsoft patents and should not be activated in any default build of the library" . Other websites have picked up on this as well: "The strange thing is though: no matter the fact that Novell and Microsoft are now buddies, openSUSE still ...
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Recent Original Stories
"Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP?
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Broadband Innovations, Part 4: The Doctor Isn't In but Can Still See You
How telehealth is changing the way America gets well.
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Suspicious printout spurred Cohen probe
The discovery late last week of a computer printout of a photograph of a nude girl, possibly in her early teens or younger, prompted an investigation of Assemblyman Neil Cohen (D-Union) for alleged possession of child pornography, according to two sources.
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Popular business directory searches
DRIVER & LABOR needed for Local Company Pipeline Contractor is hiring a Class B Truck Driver & Labor hands. Good benefits & competitive pay. Must have valid dri ...
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Blogging?s Glass Ceiling
Although women and men are creating blogs in roughly equal numbers, many women believe that they are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts.
New York Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Nov 2007 23:31 UTC
"The GNOME Foundation has issued a statement in response to recent accusations that it has been supporting the acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML format as an ECMA standard at the expense of the Open Document Format, the open standard used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and other free software office applications.
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NFL, GE Call Audible, Will Broadcast Games Via Web
The NFL says it will broadcast select games on the web this season.
NBC San Diego |
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The Young Turks of Cyberspace
A close-up look at the creators of the likes of Facebook and YouTube.
New York Times |
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Club’s teen center gets new games
HP employees donated dancing, music features to Boys & Girls Club
Corvallis Gazette-Times |
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Silicon Clips
During an economic downturn, the coupon finds new life online.
New York Times |
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Brutal attack gets bloggers going on death penalty
STABBED 37 times, gang-raped and left to die. The story, about a 23-year old girl who faked her death to escape three men who violently raped her, hacked her with knives and dumped her bloodied body into a river , hit a nerve with Dispatch readers this week.
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China's web surfers outnumber users in U.S.
BEIJING -- China's booming internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on web use, according to government data reported yesterday.
The Star-Ledger |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 17:36 UTC, submitted by anonymous
It seems that PC-BSD has set a trend. " DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 28th Jun 2007 21:39 UTC
Today we feature a very interesting interview with David Turner, one of the main Freetype developers, discussing the project's past and future. These days, David continues his work in Freetype even after having been hired by Google.
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During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who ...
"Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Nov 2005 19:18 UTC
Linux desktops have always faced an uphill battle against Windows desktops. Now, OSDL is calling together architects from over two-dozen key desktop-oriented Linux projects to a Dec. 1-2 meeting at its headquarters to set strategic directions and standards, and find synergies amongst Desktop Linux organizations.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Sep 2006 17:19 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Asbestos , a new prototype operating system, provides labeling and isolation mechanisms that help contain the effects of exploitable software flaws.
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Terrorists hit IT hub Bangalore again, one dead
By V.S. Karnic and Fakir Balaji, Bangalore, July 25 : Seven bombs went off within an hour in Bangalore's central business district and other crowded areas Friday afternoon, killing a woman at a deserted bus stop, injuring seven people and putting the focus on terror cells in India's IT hub once again.
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WEATHER FOR STROUDSBURG:
EAST STROUDSBURG — As giant goggles framed his face, Joshua James, 9, tried to transform an old, broken computer keyboard into a component of something more useful — an "anti-sister" robot.
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And Now Your Friday Downer: No 'Golden Girls' Made It To Estelle Getty's Funeral [Thank You For Nothing]
Uh-oh—don't let that crying kid on YouTube see this, lest we prepare for a tsunami of waterworks that could very well short-out the entire internet: None of the surviving Golden Girls showed up...
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