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'Last Lecture' Professor Randy Pausch Dies in Virginia
Former Professor Randy Pausch inspired millions of people to live life to the fullest, and became an internet sensation as he battled cancer. But his battle ended early Friday when he passed away at his Virginia home. Pausch's 'The Last Lecture' drew international attention, and FOX 5's Elaine Reyes took a look back at his life and his influence.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Jul 2007 11:07 UTC
A lot of people have been emailing us about an issue we are having with one of our ads taking over OSNews. Thank you all for emailing us, the information provided is of good use to us. We are currently working on the problem, and will let you know once it has been fixed.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Feb 2007 18:39 UTC, submitted by anonymous
In this interview, Sam Leffler of the FreeBSD Project and FreeBSD Foundation and 'old school' hacker from the UC Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (where the original Berkeley Software Distribution was developed) explains what the Foundation actually does , and the kind of work it has fostered.
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Airport Security-Friendly Laptop Sleeves
The SpeedThru see-through laptop sleeve should make the process of getting through airport security a little less arduous when traveling with a laptop.
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What's New Now: Google to Buy Digg?
Google launches their Wikipedia knockoff, Nokia and Qualcomm kiss and make up, and more.
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FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars
mjasay writes "At OSCON this year, MySQL's Brian Aker made this bold statement: 'Microsoft is irrelevant ... We're more worried about Apple.' The Free Software Foundation appears to have caught the hint, and has turned its attention to all-things-Apple with a 'denial of service' attack on the Apple Genius Bars. The idea is to completely book all Genius Bars and then ask the 'geniuses,' over and ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Jan 2007 21:37 UTC
A coalition of rivals charged on Friday that Microsoft's new Vista operating system coming out next week will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago.
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Teen Sues School Over Alleged Bullying
A teenage girl has sued her private, all-girls Catholic school, claiming it allowed bullying to spread from the classroom to online social networks.
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Techcrunch August Capital Event Wrapup
Thank you to the nearly 1,100 people who flowed through the Quadras Conference Center for our Mobile Web Wars event and the party at August Capital immediately afterwards. We were able to donate $7,500 to Malaria No More, which will protect at least 750 children from Malaria for five years. This was our third annual party [...]
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Google Walks Away From Digg Deal
The Google/Digg acquisition negotiations were in full swing as of last Tuesday, had passed the term sheet stage and the two companies were in final negotiations in the $200 million range. But sometime this last week Google decided to walk from the deal. Digg was notified on late Thursday or Friday. Google was in the due [...]
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Mobile Web Wars Live Stream
Here’s the live stream of our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable, which starts at 3PM PT and ends at 5 PM. The Roundtable is a freewheeling discussion about whether the mobile Web is finally here and which platform will win going forward. While the iPhone seems like a slam dunk right now, can older [...]
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Google’s Misleading Blog Post: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Their Index Are Very Different
In a blog post today Google says they’ve identified 1 trillion unique URLs on the web. It’s actually more, they say, but some web pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. What they note way down in the fourth paragraph, however, is that they don’t [...]
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Amazon To Power Upcoming MySpace Music Downloads
The as-yet unlaunched MySpace Music will likely partner with Amazon to handle all music ecommerce transactions, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Apple and Rhapsody are also bidding for the business, however, and one source says a final decision hasn’t yet been made. The project, which combines the music from three of the four major labels (Sony [...]
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Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut Down
Below is the full text of the email AOL EVP Kevin Conroy sent out to staff on July 14, outlining the reorganization of his product groups and announcing the “sunsetting” of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile and Bluestring. This follows the news of budget cuts at AOL’s blogging properties earlier today. At the start of this year I [...]
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Microsoft Scores Facebook Search Deal And May Get A Little Live.com Branding To Boot
Microsoft SVP Satya Nadella has announced that the company has expanded its deal with Facebook to integrate Microsoft’s Live Search into the social network. There are few details at this point, but Microsoft will be serving up advertising (both traditional and sponsored search results) through Facebook by the end of the year. Microsoft [...]
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Amnesty urges Egypt to free Facebook militants
Amnesty International on Saturday urged the authorities in Egypt to free 16 Internet activists jailed for more than two weeks for "threatening national security."
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Recent Original Stories
"The OSDL's Desktop Linux Working Group has published its first year-end report on the state of the overall desktop Linux ecosystem . The report provides insight into the year's key accomplishments in terms of functionality, standards, applications, distributions, market penetration, and more."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Sep 2007 13:12 UTC, submitted by Geoda
Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chip maker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.
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Cowen Lowers Online Ad Outlook, But Remains Bullish On Search And Google
Weakness in display advertising caused online ad company ValueClick (nasdaq: VCLK - news - people ) to warn investors last week that earnings in the second half of year would not be as high as expected.
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Local company takes part in mock bio-terrorism operation
Fourwinds Enterprises of Punta Gorda provided solar power and portable wireless access for Operation Golden Phoenix 2008 in San Diego, California and Yuma, Arizona.
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Kranser Issues Statement About Season Tickets
There has been much speculation on the internet in the last few days regarding the location of Season Ticket money. I want to confirm to all supporters that at this stage I am holding over £300,000 of Season Ticket monies for 2008/09. I also have a list of all the individual names and amounts.
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AgForce conference goes online with e-booking
AgForce is now registering delegates for its 2008 conference, Focusing the Future, online via an automated system through the AgForce website, with substantial early-bird savings available until August 1 for the September 16-18 event.
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Vista? It’s like ‘New Coke’!
Analyst likens it to short-lived Cola avatar that customers rejected
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Amnesty urges Egypt to free Facebook militants
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Amnesty International on Saturday urged the authorities in Egypt to free 16 internet activists jailed for more than two weeks for "threatening national security".
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 8th Sep 2006 04:11 UTC
"The release of Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), back in June, brought not only a new desktop system to the Linux world, but also a server system with long-term commercial support.
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