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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Jul 2006 20:37 UTC
The European Commission plans to raise the ceiling of future fines on Microsoft to 3 million Euros (USD 3.8 million) a day if the company continues to defy an antitrust decision, a diplomatic source said on Monday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Jun 2006 13:44 UTC, submitted by Dylan
In November this year, Sony will launch the PlayStation 3. Apparantly, Sony has high expectations for the Linux-powered device, and Sony even claims it will render the PC useless.
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Google Says Its Counting Over 1 Trillion Unique Pages on the Web?
"We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there.
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Man gets prison for online sex solicitation
SEGUIN — A Schertz man has been sentenced to four years in state prison for attempting to solicit sex over the Internet from a police officer he believed was a 14-year-old girl.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 20:39 UTC
"In a fairly short time, Novell has transformed itself from a firm that had next to nothing to do with Linux into one of the Penguin's most visible and aggressive flag-bearers.
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SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu.
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Trooper arrested in online sex sting
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado Springs state trooper is under arrest in a Fort Lupton Internet sting aimed at trapping sexual predators. Fort Lupton Police Chief Ron Grannis says 22-year-old Justin Tolman allegedly became sexually aggressive with an officer posing as a 14-year-old girl.
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Apple loses email, promises better MobileMe updates
Apple has (finally) acknowledged losing some email data and claims that it will do a better job keeping its customers as to the status of the continuing MobileMe issues. A new status update posted to Apple's website indicates that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has asked an unnamed employee to "write a posting every other day or so to let everyone know whatí...
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Dell Issues BIOS Fix For Mobile GPU Meltdowns
Dell is the first computer manufacturer to attempt to fix a long standing issue involving flaky Nvidia 8M-series GPUs in laptops , where the substrate material of the GPU fails under the high heat produced during use. Dell's solution is a BIOS-based alteration to the computer's fan profile, keeping the internal parts cooler than normal to help prevent the overheating that's causing premature ...
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Sweden's turn to choose schools
Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students? That's part of reform sweeping Sweden, a paragon of the welfare state.
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Brad Wardell writes us: "Windows Vista Beta 2 is nearly here and now seems as good a time as any to take a look at where things stand with Microsoft's next-generation operating system. As this article makes clear, Windows Vista has a lot of potential - it is a major upgrade.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th Aug 2005 20:22 UTC
"It's unusual for a Beta 1 version of Windows to have both the final shipping name of the product and as many new features as this build shows. And that's a strong sign of two things.
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SourceForge Award Winners Announced
Open source software projects took center stage at a ceremony to honor the best and brightest of free software.
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First It Was Song Downloads. Now It?s Organic Chemistry.
Between used books and pirated copies offered for illegal download, the textbook industry has begun to transition to other models of distribution and sales.
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Angel financing takes shape in state
One of Silicon Pastures’ recent investments is in a Rochester, Minn., company that dunks computers in a soybean-derived liquid as part of a process to help them run faster without overheating.
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Start-Up Status Gone With the Skate Ramp
An online emporium of handmade goods based in Brooklyn decides to forgo the startup status and hire professional management.
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Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
Is the Internet the enemy of reading, or has it created a new kind of reading, one that society should not discount?
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FCC Majority Vote Set to Punish Comcast on P2P Blocking
Three out of five FCC commissioners have voted in favor of punishing Comcast for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic. A move that most likely guarantees approval of the item, even if two other FCC commissioners voted against it.
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"Microsoft told Wall St it's reconciled to the fact the seven-year-old Windows XP will occupy more of the client revenue mix than Microsoft would have preferred, while revenue for the full year will grow less than the year just closed.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Nov 2005 21:42 UTC
"Genesi is pleased to announce the development of the 4U2 sub-laptop based on the EFIKA 5K2 reference design and the Freescale MPC5200B . The 4U2 will be produced in Asia and be available in Q2 2006. The 4U2 board can be deployed in a variety of configurations and uses and includes both mobile and WIFI wireless capability."
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10 a.m. - UOG to hold customer service workshop
10 a.m. — The Professional and International Programs at the University of Guam is offering Customer Service 101 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 30-31 in Suite 205 of the Computer Center at Emeritus Hall.
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Lonely women easy targets
THE suave and old-fashioned Casanova prowls around pubs and clubs. And the modern Internet-savvy ones look for victims online. MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong said: "They hang out in night spots, looking for 'strays'.
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Missing Bayport girl, 15, found at Florida home of boyfriend she met online
A Bayport teenage girl reported missing Wednesday was reunited with her family Friday afternoon after authorities found her in Florida staying with an 18-year-old man she befriended on the Internet.
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Filipino diaries reach final destination
IN THE DIGITAL WORLD WHERE LIFE STORIES reach far and wide in the blink of an eye, 40 Filipinos—strangers to one another—have kept alive the romance of pen and ink, making intimate connections in two Moleskine notebooks.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Sep 2005 11:08 UTC, submitted by anonymous
A surprising move by Microsoft: "MSDN Subscriber Downloads now supports Firefox! And Opera. Funnily enough, when we were doing the initial planning for our 3.0 platform I got some pushback from the dev team on this requirement because only .5% of our old site traffic was on a non-IE browser.
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