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Randy Pausch, 47, writer of popular Internet lecture
PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, who after confronted with incurable cancer devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a...
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Ex-Google engineers launch a 'Cuil' challenger
New index spans 120 billion Web pages, offers different presentation, company says
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Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine
Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of their index, although they claim to know about a trillion unique web pages) (Update: see our very early testing here). They’ve [...]
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Comcast communicated by blog
A Washington student got a bit of a shock when he received an email from internet service provider Comcast about comments he had made on his blog..
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Moondo Fuses Casual Gaming With Massively Multiplayer Games
One of the biggest draws for massively multiplayer online games (MMO’s) is the satisfaction that comes from earning in-game items and abilities. Unlike simple Flash games where your accomplishments vanish the moment you step away from your computer, MMO’s allow you to acquire virtual goods and work your way up a skill ladder, in [...]
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Sun may or may not be about to obliterate Oracle and Microsoft
Transactional memory: The great nerd equalizer Fail and You I don't know about you, but every time I have to program with threads and shared resources, I want to remove my face incrementally with a salad fork. Locks, mutexes, the synchronized keyword; all of these things can strike fear into the heart of a green developer. Most seasoned developers just fall into a rut of depression when ...
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Have opinions? Here's a techpreneur who wants them
Every day, tens of millions of people visit blogs, MySpace and Facebook, reading and spouting opinions on every imaginable issue. To some, these Web sites breed procrastination and idleness; to others, they can be a gold mine for useful data -- the kind of data that can make you a millionaire.
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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.
The Patriot-News |
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The Coming Storm Over Software Renewals
As the IT world moves toward cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service as the norm, I can't help but wonder if there's a storm brewing in that cloud over renewals.
ChannelWeb |
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GM's Steady Online Spending Shift: A Double-Edged Sword?
For the past three years, General Motors has been cutting total ad expenditures, going from the number two spender to number four. During that same period, the automaker tells AdAge, it has shifted about 25 percent of its roughly $2 billion annual ad spend to digital. In the last year, TNS recently said GM's online spending was over $212 milliondisplay only, not search or online videoa 79 ...
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posted by Gavin Wraith on Wed 5th Jul 2006 17:44 UTC
So you thought you would find here an impartial, knowledgeable comparison of RISC OS with the more popular and better known operating systems?
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Armidale Express |
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Armidale skate comp
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Armidale Express |
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Sohu.com Reports Second Quarter 2008 Unaudited Financial Results
Sohu.com Inc. , China's leading online media, communications, search, online games and mobile value-added services company, today reported unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
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Photos: Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web
Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) Processors Deliver World-Record Web Performance
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Demonstrating its superior ability to handle the strenuous and increasing demands placed on today's high-traffic Web-based businesses, AMD today announced that the power- and cost-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the ...
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Fighting off the great spam attack
The internet is under attack like never before, with spam accounting for 80 per cent of all emails sent worldwide, many of them money-making scams run by criminal gangs.
The New Zealand Herald |
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DRAM Glut Driving up Chip Capacity, Technology
The DRAM glut is causing companies to speed up technology development and sell chips with higher capacities.
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The New York Times 07/27/08
Is The Internet Killing Reading? (Or Helping It?)
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 14th Jul 2005 20:02 UTC
When it was first introduced, Sun Microsystems' Java software for cellular phones was supposed to let developers write a single program that could run on any handset.
OS News |
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Need for speed behind Comcast’s latest plan
Cable and broadband provider Comcast today said it has doubled download speeds of its fastest tier of Internet service.
Galveston County Daily News |
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How to save money on school clothes
Smart mothers know that once mid-July comes around, it’s time to start thinking school. We don’t mention this to the kids, who have half of their vacation still in front of them, but we know in our hearts that it won’t be long until we’re stockpiling notebooks and No. 2 pencils.
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Sunday, July 27th
Apple continued to scramble over the weekend to limit the damage caused by MobileMe, the company’s first step into cloud computing, by posting on Friday an additional longer, four-paragraph apology, and acknowledging that the new service was still not problem-free.
New York Times |
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UPDATED 7/26/08 with name of third investor
Verve Wireless’s mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. It provides publishers with the technology to create mobile Web sites, so readers can read the paper on their cell phones. Verve or the newspaper then sell ads on those sites.
New York Times |
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FCC to rule Comcast can't block Web videos
Federal regulators are set to announce this week that Comcast Corp. wrongly slowed some of its customers' Internet traffic, according to a published report.
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