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China Internet boom
China says it has more people surfing the Web than the US
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Farah proclaims: Vote 'no' on Election Day
WASHINGTON – Both major-party presidential candidates should be rejected at the polls this November, writes Joseph Farah, founder and editor of the largest independent news source on the Internet in an unusual new book hitting bookstores nationwide in three weeks and available now exclusively through WND's online store.
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Tiff with barista spills onto Internet
Associated Press - July 27, 2008 3:05 PM ET ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - A cup of coffee has created a tempest in a teapot in Arlington, where a dispute over a triple espresso on ice has spilled into...
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Leaked French wine law proposals to treat alcohol like porn
Details of proposed new laws that put alcohol on the same level as pornography, and would effectively ban wine on the internet in France, were leaked to members of the press.
South African Wine News |
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CMU prof whose `last lecture’ moved millions dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They “give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams.
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Big change for welfarist Sweden: School choice
Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students? It may sound out of place in Sweden, that paragon of taxpayer-funded cradle-to-grave welfare. But a sweeping reform of the school system has survived the critics and 16 years later is spreading and attracting interest abroad.
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Nerdcore Documentary Examines the Good, Bad and Geeky
Director Dan Lamoureux’s documentary "Nerdcore For Life" traces the nerdcore rap genre from its origins on laptops coast-to-coast to a full-on movement trying to find its identity.
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Tiff With Barista Spills Onto Internet
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - A cup of coffee has created a tempest in a teapot in Arlington, where a dispute over a triple espresso on ice has spilled into a debate over the consequences of blogging. Jeff Simmermon
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Price to play
By Adrian ChenFor the PostHow do you convince potential customers to pay for a product they can get for free? This question has harrowed the struggling music industry since illegal, free music began flooding the Internet in the mid-1990s.
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Fofonov tests positive on Tour
Dmitri Fofonov of Kazakhstan has tested positive for an illegal stimulant on the Tour de France, the web site of the daily L'Equipe reported. The 31-year-old rider for the Credit Agricole team was found to have traces of the banned substance heptaminol in his body after Thursday's 18th stage.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Dec 2006 17:35 UTC
Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday.
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Recent Original Stories
"KDE 4 is coming. It's starting to look and behave in a mature enough manner to use it on a normal desktop. This article is a little introduction as to what you should expect from the brand new KDE that is due out later this year."
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Next-gen broadband at your service
Faster, smarter broadband networks are on the way, thanks to European research. The next step will be to usher in compelling services for European consumers. Already companies are eager to get their hands on the technologies developed by the MUSE project.
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Hewlett Packard's proposed acquisition of Texan IT services giant Electronic Data Systems has won approval from the European Commission. Queensland Health has fired its chief information officer Paul Summergreene, following reports in June that he was being investigated over expense claims.
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Professor whose 'last lecture' became best-seller, dies (+video)
PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, a computer science professor whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an internet sensation and a best-selling book, died on Friday. He was 47.
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Linked by Christian Paratschek on Wed 16th Nov 2005 19:02 UTC
OpenDocument got a lot of publicity lately. StarOffice 8 and OpenOffice.org 2.0 finally arrived, and all the other makers of office suites (with the notable exception of Microsoft) have started implementing the new standard into their programs.
OS News |
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SAP customers furious at price rise
British SAP users have reacted angrily to changes in the way the German software giant charges for support, arguing that costs could rise by as much as 29.4 per cent next year.
ZDNet Australia |
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Boom times at the library
Business is booming at Canada's major public libraries, which credit everything from the high price of buying books to social networking, erotic vampires and a new social acceptance for frothy best-sellers.
Victoria Times Colonist |
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An eye on the Customer
Big-Ticket advertisers like Nokia, Colgate Palmolive, Tata Housing, Reliance, Airtel and Hutch seem to be warming up to online advertising.
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Satyam Computer taps life sciences segment, draws long-term contracts
Satyam BPO, the business processing arm of Satyam Computer Services, is tapping a new wave of opportunities in the life sciences segment and is now high on long-term contracts.
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Icahnt
Agood punch-up was just getting to the bloody stage. Carl Icahn, an activist investor, had taken a stake in Yahoo!, a beleaguered internet company, and was hurling public abuse at Jerry Yang, its boss and co-founder.
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New store in Coastland Center helping customers navigate the wireless revolution
Are you tangled in a jungle of corded communication devices? Does your home theater system leave you more wired than a grande triple shot latte? If so, Wired for Wireless in the Coastland Center mall in Naples could remove some stress from your life.
Naples Daily News |
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Recent Original Stories
"Linux has proven amazingly flexible: after nearly 10 years of use, I'm still impressed by how the Linux operating system does exactly what I want on any type of hardware.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Sep 2006 20:51 UTC
Linux.com reviews the Koobox Linspire-based mini-PC , and concludes: "If you want a mini-PC form factor that's Linux-compatible, the Mini Koobox seems to be one of the best values on the market. It's small and quiet, and its performance is fine for normal desktop use.
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Internap likely to enter India via Reliance Globalcom
US-based Internap Network Services Corporation, an internet solutions provider, is expected to start its operations in India through an alliance with Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's Reliance Globalcom. Internap intends to target the Indian enterprises with its CDN services.
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