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Software glitches at heart of £2.8bn tax credit fiasco
Computing, Computing , Monday 28 July 2008 at 15:13:00 Tax officials chasing overpayments led to discovery of errors Faults embedded in tax credit software combined with "rogue" files that could not be erased from the system are among causes blamed for losses totalling a potential £2.8bn by HM...
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Hundreds back rejected GB hurdler
An internet campaign backing overlooked GB hurdler Rick Yates has gained more than 800 signatures.
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Upstart aims to upset Google's cool
Dave Bailey, Information World Review , Monday 28 July 2008 at 15:12:00 New search engine, Cuil, goes live Several former Google engineers have today launched a search engine rival, which promises to provide users with greater control over their privacy....
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Zune Tattoo Guy Signs Off: Buh-Bye
Steven Smith, who you might know as the Zune Tattoo Guy, has seen the light -- and it isn't Microsoft's mp3 player. No, the ultimate Zune fanboy says he is disenchanted and that you won't have him to kick around anymore. All we can think to say is ... thanks?
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Comcast To Face FCC Ruling On Slowing Traffic
The Federal Communications Commission is set to announce this week that Comcast wrongly throttled the Internet traffic of some of its customers. read more
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New search engine Cuil aims to dethrone Google
SAN FRANCISCO — Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
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New Products: The latest laptop bags from Huzzk, Dicota and Kensington
Huzzk has got a nice range of laptop cases that are available in the UK through Laptop Stuff . Their Sleevie range is designed specifically for 13in and 15in MacBook models. All the Sleevie cases are made out of tough rubber to provide plenty of protection.
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Gamefest: Designing Rapture To Make Sense In BioShock
How do you create a believable space for an entirely unreal location? Gamasutra was at Microsoft's Gamefest event, where 2K Marin's lead environmental artist Hogarth de la Plante and lead designer Jean-Paul LeBreton looked back at the creation of BioShock's city of Rapture. The duo, now relocated from the original 2K Boston studio that created the original with 2K Australia, are working on ...
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Ocado Selects Transitive Virtualization
Transitive announced that prominent UK-based internet grocer Ocado has deployed Transitive's QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 solution to move its application development and testing infrastructure to a new hardware platform. Built from the ground up, Ocado made its first grocery delivery in 2002 and now handles tens of thousands of orders each week, providing high-quality ...
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FCC Poised to Punish Comcast for Traffic Blocking
It looks like the FCC is set to take action against Comcast for the way it has treated some of its Internet customers.
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Web Cast of Irvine Sensors Company Presentation at 2008 Annual Stockholders Meeting to Start at Approximately 1:30 pm ...
Irvine Sensors Corporation issued a reminder today that the web cast of the Company's management presentation at its Annual Stockholders Meeting on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 is expected to begin at approximately 1:30 pm Pacific Time on that date, as has been previously posted on its web site.
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Philly champs
Philadelphia won a championship this weekend . . . in arena football. Plus, a new rival for Google and Robocop will return.
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Serial killer's items sold online
Correctional Service of Canada is investigating how personal items from Canada's most notorious serial child killer wound up for sale in an online auction.
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Baltimore Schools Will Go Wireless
All Baltimore County schools are expected to go wireless when the new school year begins next month.
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Steve Jobs speaks on personal health
Steve Jobs has not had a recurrence of his pancreatic cancer, writes the New York Times. In speaking with the Apple CEO via phone, the newspaper says it has learned more about Jobs' medical problems, which were previously described as "a private matter" during a recent third-quarter earnings call. Concerns over a gaunt appearance are said to have...
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VIZIO preps hybrid PC/TV display, Eco HDTV
VIZIO today provided early details of three new display lines, including the company's first true hybrid display. Known so far as the VMM Monitor, the 26-inch LCD will have dual HDMI inputs but also DVI and VGA as well as RCA audio inputs for built-in 3W speakers. The TV maker promises a more desktop-capable design with a relatively thin bezel, a...
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New Porsche 911 Targa 4, Targa 4S Let Loose On Unsuspecting Internet [2009 Porsche 911 Targa 4]
Porsche just released a set of three shots of their newest glass-roofed versions of the new 911, the 2009 Porsche 911 Targa 4 and the speedier 2009 Porsche 911 Targa 4S. Although we'd already spotted...
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Does Google Maps endanger your child's safety?
From desktop computers to mobile phones, Google Maps is one of the slickest and most useful online navigation tools available. But an American watchdog group is worried that Google's nifty technology could be used by cyber-perverts to scope out neighbourhoods where kids live.
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Online Journalism News
A group representing the UK's magazine industry has slammed a website for illegally reproducing its members content. Mygazines.com is 'flagrantly breaching the intellectual property rights' of PPA members, whose magazines are being digitally reproduced by the site, the organisation said.
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Brands Grab Web Video's Long Tail
NEW YORK Xeni Jardin isn't exactly a household name, but she has a sizable following. As one of the creators of the popular blog Boing Boing, Jardin's a bona fide Web celebrity.
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MarketWatch First Take: Five reasons Cuil won't kill Google … yet
Privacy advocates and proponents of greater competition will be relieved to know a rival to Google’s search engine has finally appeared.
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Facebook fends off attack of the clones
In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself. Clones of the wunderkind social-networking Web site -- some of which resemble Facebook right down to color, font and layout -- have popped up in local languages around the world.
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IntervalZero Acquires Ardence Embedded Software Business From Citrix; Senior Ardence Executives Will Lead New Embedded ...
IntervalZero Inc., a new Embedded software company led by a group of senior Ardence executives, today announced that it has acquired Ardence's Embedded software business from Citrix Systems, Inc.
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Lenovo Kicks-Off Final Global Olympic Auction Leading Up to Olympic Games
Counting down the final days to the start of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, PC company Lenovo today is kicking off its final online auction of limited-edition notebook PCs inspired by the Lenovo-designed Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch.
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Apptis Announces Completion of First Primary Objective for the DoD Clinical Data Repository (CDR) Upgrade
Apptis, Inc., a leading IT services and solutions provider to the federal marketplace, announced today it has completed the first of five primary objectives for upgrading the clinical data repository (CDR) within the DoD's Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) electronic health record system. This database, built upon Oracle solutions, is the world's busiest Oracle ...
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