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HEELS ON WHEELS: 2008 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG
The Volkswagen Touareg is a luxury SUV with a growing reputation as a fast off-road performance car – the vehicle started out as a prototype for the world famous Dakar Rally and debuted in the 2007 Baja 500. The Touareg is praised for its navigation ability in desert terrain and its computer-controlled descent feature that doesn’t require the driver to manually brake.
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Superior Court now has wireless connection
The Superior Court announced Friday it is now offering free wireless Internet access for court attendees.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Dec 2007 14:24 UTC
"All promised features were cut from Vista." This is a commonly heard complaint about Windows Vista on the internet. While there certainly is a lot to complain about when it comes to Windows Vista, the mythical 'cancelled features' certainly is not one of them. Let me explain why.
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Anand Parthasarathy
Intel’s Larrabee architecture for visual computing is slated for 2009 release; The Radeon HD 4800 series graphic card, the world’s first fuelled by a teraflop processor, was launched in India recently, by AMD (Anand Parthasarathy); The GeForce graphical unit powered by nVidia’s GTX280 chips.
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Subway romance hits end of the line
A modern-day love story of a man spotting the girl of his dreams across a New York subway train and tracking her down over the Internet has failed to have a fairytale ending with the relationship over.
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INFO-TECH
INSIGHT: Transfer pricing issues for IT companies It is well recognised that India has developed as an investment jurisdiction for multinational enterprises (MNEs) for carrying on information technology, R&D and back-office operations. The resultant increase in transactions involving ...
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Don't reveal too much on your blog
A reader writes: "I love to blog. I do it every day, and I read about 25 other blogs that I find fascinating. The problem is, I tend to write down every little thing in my life, and I feel like sometimes I am revealing things that maybe I shouldn't. Should I cut back a little, or is all this OK?"
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Current Newswire:
"So, you have found an application that you want to install and use on (Ubuntu) Linux. You have searched in Add/Remove Applications and in Synaptic, but it is not there (or there's an older version there that just won't cut it for you). What can you do now? Have no fear!
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 12:05 UTC, submitted by Magnum
"So how's that look-like-Windows thing working for the Linux community? Is the wave of desktop adoption far ahead of where it was in 2001 and 2002 when this started? And, if not, why don't we stop doing it?
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft's latest release of Internet Explorer will drive demand for internationalized domain names , according to industry experts who are predicting a sharp increase in sales of foreign language domain names.
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Recent Original Stories
Start-up XenSource has succeeded in booting Microsoft Windows on top of Xen software, an important milestone in its effort to commercialize the virtual machine.
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Kuwait gets tough on web offenders
Kuwait's prosecutor general says internet offenders will no longer be able to escape punishment in the small oil-rich state.
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Property Maps Mobile for Windows Mobile released
July 27, 2008 [General] By Edward J. R. If you are located in USA then with this application you can browse maps and find property for yourself! Since there is a credit crunch now in USA and a lot of properties are available cheaply, this application may be useful...
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Hacker's alien habit may log him off for life
LONDON - British man Gary McKinnon is just days from learning whether he is on the fast track to a 60-year prison sentence, thanks to his obsession with aliens.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Facebook fake victim awarded damages
LONDON - A businessman won damages against an old friend who put libellous and unauthorised information about him on the social networking website Facebook.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Sep 2007 18:40 UTC
Eric S. Raymond writes on his blog: "There's been a lot of debate in the community about how OSI should properly handle Microsoft's planned submission of some of its licenses for OSD certification. That debate has been been going on within OSI, too.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Jan 2007 22:43 UTC
With holiday PC sales apparently unscathed by the lack of Windows Vista, Microsoft reported quarterly earnings Thursday that topped expectations and its own forecast . The software giant said it earned USD 2.63 billion, or 26 cents per share, on revenue of USD 12.54 billion, for the three months ended December 31. That compares with earnings of USD 3.65 billion, or 34 cents per share, on revenue ...
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The Herald-Zeitung Mobile Edition
The Herald-Zeitung provides a text-only version of its daily web edition for readers using cellular telephones or handheld computers. Registered users of AvantGo can create their own custom channel to download regular updates.
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Computer Crime is Here to Stay; So Are Jobs to Combat It
(ARA) - What do a recent global crackdown on Internet child pornography and the arrest of Dennis Rader, the infamous "BTK" serial killer have in common with the Sept. 11 attacks on America?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Aug 2005 11:50 UTC
Despite their best attempts, Linux software companies say they are still having a hard time luring average consumers away from the Windows environment-- but that may not necessarily be a bad thing . Novell's vice president: "(Linux on the desktop) is not the sexy story that it used to be.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Jun 2006 17:52 UTC
"Apple extended the courtesy of meeting with me one day after my column on the closing of the OS X x86 kernel source code was published online.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Oct 2006 15:15 UTC
"With the advent of Intel-based Macintosh computers, Apple was faced with a new requirement: to make it non-trivial to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware. The 'solution' to this 'problem' is multifaceted.
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Linked by Adam S on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 14:55 UTC
In my house today, all of the computers are Macs. This is a long way away from three and a half year ago, when I said that Jaguar could not replace my PC . We're chugging along happily running Tiger, just as productive as before, and enjoying every bit of eye candy.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 11th Nov 2005 19:43 UTC
"As you already know, if I have to sit down in front of a computer, I want it to be running the Gnome desktop on Linux. I've watched it mature from a downright ugly, needlessly complex playground for geeks, to an attractive, simple interface that holds its own against commercial alternatives.
OS News |
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Hacker's alien habit may log him off for life
LONDON - British man Gary McKinnon is just days from learning whether he is on the fast track to a 60-year prison sentence, thanks to his obsession with aliens.
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