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Recent Original Stories
"Windows Vista has finally arrived! Many people have been asking us what are Stardock's plans? What can we do to take an excellent new OS like Windows Vista and make it better?
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Linked by Adam S on Sat 28th Apr 2007 16:29 UTC
From time to time, we like take a break from technology news to query our readers to find out details about our community. Previously, we asked you to show us your desktop . This time, we ask "What's your favorite movie?" Is it sci-fi or comedy? Action or maybe drama?
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Average Issue Readership General Public PARC Media Index 1997, Saudi Arabia
With technology opening the new doors of communication and the distribution of news and information, ArabNews Online is not bound by physical limitations. ArabNews Online is published by ArabNews from its offices located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is now available to readers around the globe.
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Screen Actors board backs negotiators on new media
LOS ANGELES, July 27 (Reuters) - The board of the major union for U.S. film and television actors has backed its negotiators' demands to cover Internet-related work, signaling that contract talks with Hollywood's studios may remain stalled for weeks.
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The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
Digital piracy is a deadly boring topic that nobody wants to hear about in the Kingdom any more. That’s a pity because a 2008 IDC survey showed that a ten point reduction in PC software piracy
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Videos: Forced evictions in Ji'an, Jilin Province
China Digital Times points us to these two videos of forced evictions by the local government in Jilin Province's Ji'an City (集安市) that are quickly spreading throughout the Chinese internets. The videos, dated May 29, 4am, were found on Sina but subsequently copied by a journalist from Boxun.com (a dissident site) and posted up to foreign video hosting sites since they would soon be ...
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Andrew Keen on New Media: Kids with cameras lead the way in giving web users their daily Fred
This time last year I went down to Los Angeles to do a live debate about the merits of user-generated-content with a kid called Justin Kan. It was a surreal experience. Kan, a freshly graduated Yale philosophy student, had affixed an always-on video camera on his head. Everything in his life – absolutely everything including, of course, sex and sleep – is streamed in grainy video onto his ...
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My Life In Media: Samir Arora
Samir Arora, 42, is the founder of Glam Media, the world's biggest women's fashion and lifestyle internet portal. Glam.com boasts 64 million unique users, and launched in the UK last month. It integrates over 500 women's style websites into a vast, online glossy magazine, and advertising partners include Agent Provocateur, Reebok, Paramount and Garnier.
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‘Virtual children’ will take guesswork out of making the medicine go down
Using computers to test medicines could soon become routine, after the introduction of European Union regulations that require stricter testing for drugs intended for children.
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Movie Review: WarGames 25th Anniversary Event, July 24
The seminal hacker film WarGames returned to the big screen July 24 for a one night, nationwide, 25th Anniversary tribute. It was the coolest movie trailer in the summer of 1983. A robotic synthetic voice asked "SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?" as the words themselves spooled out across a computer screen. And David Lightman (played by a nearly unknown Matthew Broderick) answered back: "How about 'GLOBAL ...
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Vista: the 'New Coke' of Tech
Enterprises still cling to Windows XP, although Vista's adoption outpaces Mac, Forrester reports.
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Alcatel-Lucent Second-Quarter Loss May Narrow on Lower Expenses
July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Alcatel-Lucent SA , the world's largest supplier of fixed-line telecommunications networks, may report a narrower second-quarter loss compared with the year- earlier period, when it wrote down wireless assets.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 3rd May 2006 22:19 UTC
Xandros Corporation has announced the availability of Xandros Server, the company's inaugural release of a high-end server distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux: "Xandros becomes the first Linux platform to provide a 'Debian Enterprise' end-to-end desktop and server platform."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 21st Apr 2007 16:25 UTC
Macaulay, a software engineer, was able to hack into a MacBook through a zero-day security hole in Apple's Safari browser. The computer was one of two offered as a prize in the 'PWN to Own' hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference.
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Expensive laptops stolen in string of office thefts
Expensive laptop computers were stolen from the offices of at least five communications and advertising companies over the past days in the Gżira/Ta' Xbiex area.
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Television - Technology
The smartest way to dodge job insecurity is to train in IT or science. The tech sector lost some of its shine after the dot-com boom and is now struggling to find skilled IT workers both here and internationally.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Nov 2005 19:18 UTC
Linux desktops have always faced an uphill battle against Windows desktops. Now, OSDL is calling together architects from over two-dozen key desktop-oriented Linux projects to a Dec. 1-2 meeting at its headquarters to set strategic directions and standards, and find synergies amongst Desktop Linux organizations.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Jul 2005 17:35 UTC, submitted by PapaPitufo
Asa Dotzler, from the Mozilla foundation, has just written an interesting analysis describing why Linux is not ready for desktops yet, and suggests four main categories that must be addressed to improve this.
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Retirees jump on board to surf the web
THE web may be thought of as a young person's game, but older people are leading the charge in internet take-up, embracing a technology that has only become pervasive in the years since many of them retired.
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Board of Screen Actors Guild Backs Negotiators? Demands
Hollywood?s largest actors union backed negotiators? demands for greater control over Internet content, indicating any deal with studios might be weeks away.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Microsoft is shaking up management of its online division and strengthening its tie to Facebook in the aftermath of a failed bid to buy Yahoo to bolster its lagging Internet business.
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Kids too scared to play outdoors
CHILDREN and teenagers are so scared of the outdoors they prefer to hang out in shopping centres, play computer games or go to school, a new report shows.
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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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Bowman lets his hands-on approach set the mood
Figuring out how your computer works is a challenge for anyone on their first day in a new job. But for Philip Bowman, the new chief executive of Smiths Group , there was an added complication when he arrived. There was no computer and no printer. It told him something about the company.
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Recent Original Stories
The JNode team has released version 0.2.3 of the JNode operating system. JNode is an open source [LGPL] operating system written completely in Java (with a very small assembler nano-kernel).
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