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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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BANGALORE, India, July 26 (Reuters) - Indian police have few leads into the eight bombings in quick succession across the south Indian IT city of Bangalore that killed a woman and wounded at least six people on Friday, officials said.
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"Windows Vista has finally arrived! Many people have been asking us what are Stardock's plans? What can we do to take an excellent new OS like Windows Vista and make it better?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Jan 2007 23:40 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"As World+Dog gets its head around Windows Vista, lets look back at an operating system that might have been a contender, very nearly becoming Apple's next-generation OS and, but for Linux, almost certainly the key alternative to Windows on x86.
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Linked by David Adams on Wed 17th Aug 2005 17:03 UTC, submitted by G.S.
The most recent Mac OS X security update from Apple Computer includes a glitch that prevents users from running 64-bit applications on the company's new Tiger operating system, AppleInsider has confirmed.
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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 Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 23:27 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML. I am hardly the poster boy of Microsoft partisanship!
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Netflix 2Q profit up 4 pct, beats analyst views
Sat, Jul 26, 2008 (12:27 a.m.) Netflix Inc.'s second-quarter profit crept 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.
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Professor who gave 'last lecture' dies at 47
Randy Pausch's speech was viewed by millions online Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and dying well, died yesterday. He was 47.
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China says it has 253 million using Internet - more than U.S. China has surpassed the United States in the number of Internet users, the Chinese government said Friday, showing yet again how rapidly it adopts technology. China Internet Network Information...
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CMU prof whose `last lecture' moved millions dies
PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They "give us a chance to show how badly we want something." Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams.
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Scrabble lessons for the French
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. To compete in the Scrabble competition, 32-year-old Elisee Poka spent five days in a bus traversing Africa's potholed roads. His competitors from France arrived by plane.
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Web video slowly creeps up on TV in Europe
More than one in four Europeans regularly watches online video on sites such as Google's YouTube but the medium has a long way to go to catch up with regular TV, according to internet research firm Jupiter.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Jan 2007 23:05 UTC, submitted by an Anonymous Reader
This week's KDE Commit Digest tells about an installer for KDE on Windows and the problems the developers encountered setting up a working environment for KDE to run on. Many screenshots included, showing the first applications (such as Konqueror) running natively.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th Jan 2007 17:05 UTC
Groklaw has an article arguing that Microsoft has not yet complied with the DOJ order that users must be able to remove Internet Explorer from Windows.
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Just come out with it, Sam and Lindsay
LINDSAY LOHAN Dustin Diamond, famous for playing the character Screech Powers on 13-odd years of "Saved by the Bell" and its spinoffs (and notorious on a smaller scale for his sex tape, which was released in 2006 and was reportedly so disgusting that even battle-hardened veterans of Internet pornography were grossed out) is making another bid for renewed cultural relevance with a tell-all book, ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Jul 2008 22:55 UTC, submitted by Chavez
While Microsoft has only just begun fighting the perception problems surrounding Windows Vista, the company is already thinking and planning way beyond its latest operating system.
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Plain vanilla beats flash
Money manager Price gains while streaky Legg Mason struggles Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group's plain vanilla approach to investing led it to a $162.2 million quarterly profit, while its flashier crosstown peer, Legg Mason Inc., reported a $31.3 million loss as its star fund managers continued to struggle in a bear market, the companies reported yesterday.
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Infosys, Wipro and the offices of global firms such as Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp. "If such incidents continue, investors will fly away from the city," said state opposition politician Mallikharjuna Kharge, who called for improved security in the city.
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Microsoft stodgy? No...
Updated: 26 Jul 2008 SEATTLE, WA, U.S.A., JULY 25, 2008— When many people think of Microsoft, they think of a stodgy old corporation churning out boring PC software.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 15th Jun 2006 02:20 UTC
Microsoft's delay with the release of Windows Vista has left enough wiggle room for other players to pursue the desktop operating system market. An old Microsoft rival, Novell, is angling to seize the day with the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, a desktop OS geared to beat Vista in cost, manageability and features.
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India police say few clues over Bangalore bombings
Source: Reuters (Adds unexploded bomb found, paragraph 2) BANGALORE, India, July 26 (Reuters) - Indian police have few leads into the eight bombings in quick succession across the south Indian IT city of Bangalore ...
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Professor whose .last lecture' moved millions dies of cancer
PITTSBURGH . Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They .give us a chance to show how badly we want something.. Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams. Ten months after giving the lecture, Mr. Pausch died Friday at his home in Chesapeake, Va., said ...
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Microsoft supports open source Apache
MICROSOFT wowed the open-source community when it bestowed a gracious US$100,000 donation to the Apache Software Corporation.
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