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The battle for your phone
Increased competition in the home phone market is bringing record low prices for Kiwi consumers. Heavy-hitters Vodafone and Orcon have launched new homeline and broadband networks following the Government's "unbundling" legislation allowing competitors access to Telecom's exchanges.
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Thirteen bombs hit India's Ahmedabad, ten killed
At least 13 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 90, a day after another set of blasts in the country's IT hub, officials said.
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Fighting off the great spam attack
The internet is under attack like never before, with spam accounting for 80 per cent of all emails sent worldwide, many of them money-making scams run by criminal gangs.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Deborah Coddington : Uninformed public blogging a step too far
Former Green MP Nandor Tanczos was on to it when he likened some members of the press gallery to vultures, poised above the politicians waiting for the next corpse to pick over. He was speaking metaphorically, but in other media, there are those never satisfied until they produce a real body.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Recent Original Stories
Kaj de Vos made two big announcements at SylCon 2007. The first was a new web browser, based on a port of WebKit. The second is Syllable Server, which will bring together the Syllable GUI with the Linux kernel to create a server operating system that compliments Syllable on the desktop.
New Mobile Computing |
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Microsoft Products Tops at E3 Media and Business Summit
Every competition has winners and losers. The E3 Media and Business Summit is no different. Since 1995, E3 has been the video game industry's ultimate dog show. The companies trot out their prized possessions and hope to garner enough buzz.
HispanicBusiness.com |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Jun 2006 12:59 UTC
Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal challenge from Adobe Systems. Microsoft said earlier Friday that it expects an antitrust suit from Adobe after months of negotiations in which the companies failed to reach an accord.
New Mobile Computing |
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Thirteen bombs hit India's Ahmedabad, five killed
At least 13 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least five people and wounding 55, a day after another set of blasts in the country's IT hub, officials said.
Ottawa Citizen |
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PhilBoxing.com >> News
There are 17,982 news articles in the database. Displaying articles 17981 to 17982. Arum, Oscar back on the same page By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports , 01 Jan 1970 Bob Arum leaned forward in his seat, a small grin creasing his face.
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More State Stories
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- 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.
Bay News 9 Tampa Bay |
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Terrorism and the Internet
As the Internet continues to dominate the world over, the nation's military is considering how to better handle threats posed by attacks through it.
Collinsville Herald |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Oct 2007 08:02 UTC
Three reviews of Mac OS X Leopard, to be released coming Friday. David Pogue writes : "Leopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots - and most of them are bright ones."
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Dixie Chicks' Maguire has baby girl
Dixie Chicks singer Martie Maguire has confirmed she has given birth to a girl in Austin, Texas.The country music star said she gave birth to Harper Rosie Maguire Friday, marking her third child with actor Gareth Maguire, People magazine reported.A statement on the Dixie Chicks' Web site said the couple, who already have twin daughters, Eva Ruth and Kathleen Emilie, are happy.Martie is doing ...
Moldova.org |
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Help sought in finding missing foster children
HONOLULU - Five children previously listed on the Department of Human Services (DHS) Missing Children Web site were reported found this past week, department officials said.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Police say blasts in Indian IT city were 'professional'
BANGALORE, India (AFP) - Police in India's IT capital Bangalore were on Saturday looking for clues to a "professional" string of bombings that left one dead and seven wounded.
Muzi |
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Report: Google-Digg acquisition talks fall through
With talks of an acquisition in the final stage, Google reportedly decides not to buy the social-news site.
CNET |
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Even ‘average’ students can attend this IT school for free
FOR 1,742 POOR HIGH school graduates hoping for a chance to continue their education, a three-story school nearing completion in a Las Piñas City subdivision means the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Oct 2005 16:25 UTC
"Sun Microsystems must have figured digital rights management never sounded so good when it recently announced a call for partners in its quest to use open source DRM to "compensate rights holders and stimulate innovation," but Sun's open DReaM (DRM everywhere available) Project is as scary as any other content control nightmare to open source and digital freedom proponents."
New Mobile Computing |
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TV, video games not related to nightmares: study
Television and computer games aren't to blame for dark dreams about things that go bump in the night, according to a new study that finds no link between children's viewing or gaming habits and their nightmares.
Ottawa Citizen |
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Fadillah: Social networking sites gaining notoriety
KUCHING: Social networking sites can be fun but they are now gaining notoriety as a platform to defame and even blackmail people.
The Borneo Post |
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Recent Original Stories
This blog-entry is a short tutorial how to set up Fedora Core's yum on a SUSE Linux 10.0 system, which is officially supported from 10.0 on. The article shows a short comparison of yum and yast as well as the problems yum still has because some servers still do not have yum support.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 18th Oct 2005 18:00 UTC
In its first update to a new community-based preview program, Microsoft is showing off a number of new features for Windows Vista, including efforts to improve the web browser and make the operating system more resilient.
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Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode!
BhaKi writes "Remember the Tree-View mode in many file management applications? It's shocking to know that this omnipresent feature was patented by Microsoft back in 1995 (granted in 1997). I'm not very sure about the implications, though. The patent is so general that it can be related to many things from tree-mode to virtual filesystems. Check out claim no. 3 of the patent for the most clear ...
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Erin Kotecki Vest: NY TIMES To Women Bloggers- Get Thee to "Fashion and Style!"
Apparently I can push political agendas, but I'll always be seen as an Oprah-watching, bon-bon eating, Katie Couric-esq, shoe-shopping, GIRL. Even the New York Times...
HuffingtonPost |
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Taiwan firm rolls out first Atom-powered laptop in RP
The invasion of Taiwan made sub-laptops has reached fever-pitch as tech firm MSI announced recently the immediate availability of the first Atom-powered laptop in the country.
Manila Bulletin |
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