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Media "Zelig" Men: Bill Campbell and Vivi Nevo
Yes, they exist, but you may never have heard of them before. Coincidentally, Fortune and New York Times (NYSE: NYT) profile two of the most powerful behind-the-scene men in the Internet and media industry, within a week of each other.
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Recent Original Stories
"Buried in a Knowledge Base article that Microsoft published to the Web on November 14 are details of Microsoft's plans to combat Office 2007 piracy via new Office Genuine Advantage lockdowns.
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More reasons for broadband
While the country's lingering economic problems take a bite out of other businesses, broadband internet access demand defies the slump.
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Researchers piece together clues of puzzling disorder, theorizing that it might be preventable
SEATTLE - When her toddler son seemed not to notice a door slamming nearby during his checkup, Jo James thought nothing of it. Her husband, a Microsoft manager, also has an uncanny ability to block out his surroundings.
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Dec 2006 22:06 UTC
After seven years of work, the LinuxBIOS project is on the brink of making a free BIOS a standard option for computers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Nov 2006 10:55 UTC, submitted by Jean Claude
French députés' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software. There will be 1154 French parliamentary workstations running on an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client.
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DAILY EXPRESS NEWS
BEIJING: Basketball icon Yao Ming and more than 200 other Chinese Olympic hopefuls and officials checked into the Athletes Village on Sunday as it opened amid tight security and a shroud of smog.
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DAILY EXPRESS NEWS
Kota Kinabalu : City Hall seized 32 computer units from an illegally-run cyber cafe at Sadong Jaya, here, Saturday night.
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Rabbi repairs sacred scrolls
With high-tech assistance from a computer scanner and low-tech help from a sharp-tipped pen and magnifying glass, a rabbi from Baltimore slowly read the same two passages from Deuteronomy over and over again on Sunday.
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OKI and Recruit Selected for Japan's Government Project with their Laddering Search Service for the Second Consecutive ...
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) today announced that its "Laddering(1) Search Service," jointly developed with Recruit Co., Ltd., has been selected to be part of the "2008 Information Grand Voyage Project" by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry for the second consecutive year. Laddering Search Service enables users to find what they are looking for on the web through ...
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Linked by Andy Tanenbaum on Mon 25th Sep 2006 05:41 UTC
How often have you rebooted your TV set in the past year? Probably a lot less than you have rebooted your computer. Of course there are many "reasons" for this, but increasingly, nontechnical users don't want to hear them. They just want their computer to work perfectly all the time and never crash.
New Mobile Computing |
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New Whitney Houston Song Leaked on Internet
Whitney Houston says it all in a new track making the rounds online. "I want you to love me like I never left," the legendary songbird trills in the aptly titled "Like I Never Left."
China Daily |
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Click to Call Dials Calls from Your Browser [Featured Firefox Extension]
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The GrandCentral Click to Call Firefox extension calls phone numbers on web pages using your GrandCentral account with the click of your mouse. That means whenever a...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 23:01 UTC
Developers have received from Apple a 'ZFS on Mac OS X Preview 1.1' package, which offers preliminary support for the ZFS file system , originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris OS. Currently, the Mac OS is based on the HFS+ file system, but leaked screenshots of earlier versions of Leopard showed options for formatting hard drives for ZFS. Reportedly, this preview allows full ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 16th Dec 2007 00:02 UTC
Apple and Linux are engaged in battle – a battle to win over disgruntled Windows users. But who will win, and what will the consequences be for the loser? The most commonly held belief amongst Apple and Linux fanboys is that both factions are engaged in some kind of a war with Microsoft.
OS News |
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Area arrests
• Lap Yu Chau, 41, 1707 Brighton Way, Dalton, was charged Saturday by the Dalton Police Department with simple battery (family violence) and terroristic threats and acts.
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iSkin ProTouch for your keyboard and mouse
Eat near your computer much? I wish that I could say that I never do, but in reality I eat around my computer a lot more than I like to admit. The consequence of such activity is the inevitable crumbs and every other manor of...
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Open courts vs. privacy: Move toward online access to files sparks concerns
The judges on the Supreme Court of Canada will decide this fall whether to post court documents online, the culmination of years of debate on whether throwing open the electronic doors threatens privacy rights in an era of Internet stalkers and identity thieves.
Canada.com |
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Vista still struggling to gain business users
Less than 10 percent of the 2,300 companies surveyed by Forrester Research use Vista, with Windows XP remaining the version of choice.
ZDNet Asia |
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HP-EDS merger gets OK in Europe
Hewlett-Packard's US$13.9 billion acquisition of the computer services company has now won approval from both U.S. and European antitrust authorities.
ZDNet Asia |
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Microsoft CFO: Yahoo a 'declining asset'
Speaking to financial analysts, Chris Liddell concedes online business has not shown much tangible progress, but says Yahoo deal making less and less sense.
ZDNet Asia |
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Recent Original Stories
For years computer interfaces have been held back by two dimensions. The power and flexibility of three dimensional interfaces have remained the stuff of science fiction movies, video games and very custom high-end applications.
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Analysis: Russia behind Georgia cyberwar?
Analysis: Russia behind Georgia cyberwar? by Shaun Waterman Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2008 The Web site of President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia was brought down this week by hackers apparently based in Russia, the latest in a string of cyberattacks directed against neighboring countries experiencing friction with the newly resurgent bear.
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'World's Cheapest Laptop' Now Available
A Taiwanese company is selling what it calls the "world's cheapest laptop."
PC World |
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India bombings were revenge for 2002 riots: Islamic group
AHMADABAD (India) - AN obscure Islamic militant group warning of 'the terror of Death' took credit for synchronized bombings that killed at least 45 people in western India - the second series of blasts in India in two days.
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