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Recent Original Stories
Just weeks after releasing Windows Vista Beta 1, Microsoft has shifted our paradigms again, unveiling a preview of beta 2 at the TechEd 2005 developer conference.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st May 2006 16:02 UTC
"Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system. Instead, a window opened on the screen and strange commands ran as if the machine was under the control of someone - or something - else.
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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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Opinion: Microsoft must move fast to realize its online future
Microsoft, the biggest software company of them all, needs desperately to increase its presence on the Web and attempt to solidify itself in the advertising and search space. And it needs to work fast. Read More...
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Recent Original Stories
"A while back, when Microsoft announced its decision to no longer release a monthly CTP for Vista, we were a bit worried, since we wanted to follow-up on the latest developments of Microsoft's next-generation operating system (though Microsoft promised to update current versions via critical updates).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Jul 2008 22:04 UTC
As someone who uses Windows Vista practically daily, I've always wondered where all the negativity in the media comes from. Sure, Vista isn't perfect (as if any operating system is), but I just don't see where all the complaints are coming from.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Oct 2005 10:56 UTC
Intentionally or not, Linspire may be trying to become the "Education Linux" distribution. The desktop Linux software maker, formerly known as Lindows, Thursday launched a new, low-cost licensing program for schools who wish to install a Linux desktop operating system as an alternative to the more expensive Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Recent Original Stories
Ars Technica has posted a lengthy article on the new promising Microsoft Command Shell. It looks at MSH from the point of view of both coders and Windows admins.
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Gladewater Has The Guts To Build New Water Plant
GLADEWATER — City Manager Jay Stokes likens Gladewater’s planned $7 million water treatment plant to a computer with “new guts.”
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Computer industry has highest wages
It pays to have skills - and in particular IT skills. TradeMe's done a salary analysis of the 73,000 jobs on its website. It reveals pay increases for unskilled and semi-skilled workers are flat, while pay rises for the highly skilled are way above the national average.
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LAKIN, Kan. (AP) -- On a stormy afternoon, Walter Geiger sat in front of his two computer monitors at the Kearny County Airport with a radio in his hand.
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Linked by Trans Onoma on Mon 26th Jun 2006 14:34 UTC
Recent news tells us Apple is still struggling to gain market share in the personal computer market. That's too bad. While I have some beefy grieves with Apple (being that I am an IT "expert" and all that), their systems nonetheless beat the proverbial tars out of the typical Windows PC crowd.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Aug 2006 18:37 UTC
RPCEmu has been ported to the Mac OS X platform, allowing RISC OS 4 to run alongside Apple's shiny desktop . An experimental port of the open source RiscPC emulator was checked into its source code repository over the weekend after the emulator was adapted to run on Apple computers that use PowerPC processors.
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Google counts more than 1 trillion unique Web URLs
In a discovery that would probably send the Dr. Evil character of the " Austin Powers " movies into cardiac arrest, Google recently detected more than a trillion unique URLs on the Web.
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Computers in bank cannot override the law
I am a senior citizen aged 67 years. I have a deposit under the 9 per cent Senior Citizens Savings Scheme with State Bank of India, Mylapore, in which the quarterly interest amounting to Rs. 33,750 is credited to my savings bank (SB) account. ...
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An un-American feel aids expanding US Web firms
AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated icons. As major U.S....
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An Un-American Feel Aids Expanding US Web Firms
AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated icons.
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Calling all small businesses to the Internet
TelstraClear is releasing a product today that lets small to medium-sized businesses manage their phone calls over the Internet.
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white papers
Gateway on Friday said it would stop selling PCs through its Web site, instead focusing on selling PCs through third-party stores and other online retailers.
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Apple restores partial access to MobileMe e-mail
Apple Inc. late Friday announced that it had restored partial access to blacked-out MobileMe e-mail accounts, but acknowledged that some messages sent to those accounts had been lost during the week-long outage.
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Decoding SourceForge's Open Source "World Changing" Finalists
As the SourceForge Community Choice awards comes to an end, there’s one category of finalists that immediately caught my attention - Most Likely to Change the World . In this article, I’ll look at these projects, providing my perspective as to why these open source applications were selected as most likely to change the world.
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S.F. computer tech had turned life around
Prosecutors portray Terry Childs as an unstable, power-mad computer engineer who held hostage the San Francisco city network he had built and awaited its destruction as revenge on bosses he saw as inferiors. To Childs' friends, some former colleagues and his...
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Linked by Adam S on Wed 23rd May 2007 23:54 UTC
If online articles and blogs are any indication of things, the number of Linux users migrating to, and satisfied with, Ubuntu GNU/Linux seems to be staggering.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 22:03 UTC
With the Sonnet library for KDE 4, developer Jacob Rideout hopes to reinvigorate the field of desktop linguistics by adding automatic language detection and other innovative features.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Sep 2006 15:53 UTC, submitted by Jeff
Hackers are hitting paydirt in their search for browser bugs . According to Symantec's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, hackers found 47 bugs in Mozilla's open-source browsers and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer during the first six months of this year.
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