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After Network Hijacking, Mayor Helps City Reboot
Treat your IT workers well. Listen to their concerns. Encourage their creativity. But set up good checks to make sure they can't hijack your system.
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Phoenix police: College shooter was punched before he opened fire in computer lab, wounding 3
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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Legislators agree to install software to block porn on state computers
TRENTON -- While waiting to see whether a longtime assemblyman will be charged with possessing child pornography and/or resign his office, legislative leaders agreed Friday to install software that would prevent others in the Legislature from using state-issued computers to access pornography.
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Nearly impossible to find on Google
Nearly impossible to miss in Guelph; It started small, but now the developer's mark on Guelph is undeniable, writes Magda Konieczna.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 20:54 UTC
Microsoft has hit back at critics , including IBM, which voted against approving the company's Office OpenXML format as an Ecma standard, claiming it is nothing more than a vendor-dictated specification that documents proprietary products via XML. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general assembly and said it will begin the fast track ...
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Douglas County sheriff hails $42,500 grant
TUSCOLA – The Douglas County sheriff says the award of a federal grant is going to move his department ahead about 15 years in technology terms. Sheriff Charlie McGrew said he recently learned his office has been awarded a Homeland Security grant of $42,500 that will enable his department to buy five computers for squad cars.
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OS X Virus Described
Mac antivirus vendor Intego warns of a possible OS X virus offered for sale.
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FCC poised to punish Comcast for traffic blocking
WASHINGTON—A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers’ Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
Texarkana Gazette |
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University security breach leaves student info mistakenly posted
HOUSTON—University of Houston officials were notifying 259 students that their personal information was inadvertently posted online for almost three years, but was recently removed.
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Recent Original Stories
Here is an interview with Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco of Genesi, the company behind the PowerPC G4 Open Desktop Workstation . They talk about MorphOS, Java, the ODW, future plans for the ODW, and much more.
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Recent Original Stories
Steve Jobs writes about Apple's efforts to become a more enironmental friendly company . "Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft's C++/CLI Language Specification is an ECMA Standard (ECMA-372) and they are trying to fast track this document to be an ISO standard. The problem is that the language specified is very different from C++ and so is likely to create a great deal of confusion.
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Not grandma's favorite trick
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Aug 2006 22:32 UTC
"In the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about Xgl, compiz, AIGLX et cetera. It seems that 'Xgl' has become a synonym for fancy desktop on Linux - but no one seems to talk about the alternatives or how it all works.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Jan 2007 00:45 UTC
CNet has reviewed Windows Vista , and the concluded: "Perhaps we're spoiled, but after more than five years of development, there's a definite 'Is that all?' feeling about Windows Vista.
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lost its cherished moral edge ."
"Is open source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior? Some observers argue it's the latter.
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Recent Original Stories
"VectorLinux has been one of my favorite projects since my first test of the distribution almost 18 months ago.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Mar 2006 16:44 UTC
PCMag reviews the MacBook Pro , and concludes: "For typical users running the iLife '06 suite, iTunes, and even nonuniversal applications such as Microsoft Office and Adobe products, the Apple MacBook Pro is a solid notebook.
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Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 July 2008
It's time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we compared Nokia and Apple in the Internet mobile phone market, explored the new-look Facebook, checked out MySpace's moves to open up, and reviewed new products from Google and Microsoft. On the trends side we looked at what's beyond the API, asked how much downtime is too much for Amazon's online storage service, and ...
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Virtualization - AMD Loses Share
According to Mercury Research by way of Lehman Brothers AMD lost share in both desktops and notebooks in Q2 measured in both units and revenue. Intel was up two points to 87.5% in notebook units aided and abetted by AMD's slower-than-expected Puma ramp, which took 6% off of AMD's notebook units while Intel's pushed up 11%.
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Virtualization - Nehalem Schedule Unchanged
DigiTimes' defect rate seems to be rising. It reported Thursday that Intel has moved up its Nehalem launch to September. It hasn't. Production is still set for Q4. Meanwhile, Intel has unveiled eight highly integrated, multifunction, energy-efficient, Internet-driven, x86-compatible System on Chip (SoC) parts. Intel has 15 SoC projects in hand, some of them Atom-based and including Moorestown, ...
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SnapLogic-SugarCRM an Item
SnapLogic, the outfit that calls itself the really simple integration company and leverages RESTful web technology, has announced a SugarCRM Solution Pack, an extension to its open source data integration framework. SnapLogic enables enterprises to integrate data on both sides of the enterprise firewall and create custom integration solutions, including application integrations, enterprise ...
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Apple, Google, Yahoo & Cloud Computing
Industry gadfly John Dvorak is advancing a theory culled from the blogosphere that Microsoft wants Yahoo for some all-important patent or another that would give it an edge in cloud computing, SaaS and portable search advertising.
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VMware To Cut its Hypervisor Price To Free
Two weeks after its co-founder and CEO Diane Greene was abruptly dismissed, VMware - now run by one of Microsoft's old rulers, Paul Maritz - disclosed exactly how much under its promised 50% year-over-year growth 2008 is going to be. It's going to be 5%-8% short of the magic number.
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Zimbra Revs Desktop
Zimbra, Yahoo's open source Microsoft-opposing e-mail and calendaring folks, bought last September for $350 million, have released rev 3 beta of their offline e-mail client, Zimbra Desktop, which competes with Outlook, Thunderbird and everybody else with a dog in this race. It's unclear what exactly Zimbra brings to the party other than its Yahoo connection.
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