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Microsoft ramps up efforts to counter Apple
With Windows Vista's reputation suffering and Macs continuing to gain ground, Microsoft made it clear last week that Apple is on its competitive radar.
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Verizon Quarterly Profit Gains, Led By Wireless
Verizon Communications Monday said quarterly profit rose on strong wireless sales, shrugging off the impact of a weaker economy and offsetting a fall in landline users.
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Cash-strapped Ghana cuts spending on "luxuries"
Source: Reuters By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA, July 28 (Reuters) - Ghana is halving government spending on cars, computers, carpets and other "luxuries" as the West African nation struggles with escalating costs ...
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Breaking news freshens Yahoo search results
Placed more rapidly and more artfully within other results, the more dynamic inclusion of links to breaking-news stories will improve users' search experience, Yahoo says.
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Eric Larson Named President of Gumiyo
Gumiyo, a leading mobile marketing platform provider for automotive, real estate and publishing, today announced the appointment of Eric Larson as company president. Larson brings more than 20 years of management, technology, wireless and automotive experience to his new position, where he will oversee Gumiyo's day-to-day operations, growth and new market expansion. He is the former president ...
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Microsoft's trick to popularize Vista: A new name
Hey, I'm back from vacation and all the hot tech news that's piled up while I was out is burning a hole in my laptop. I'll apologize for the touch of age on some of the posts I'll hit this week, but I do want to make sure you get a chance to see some of the topics you might have missed while I was out. Let's get started with the subject that never dies: Windows Vista. That millions of users ...
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AutoUSA Announces Edmunds.com Premier Dealer Program for GM Dealers
AutoUSA, the industry's leading provider of the highest quality Internet-generated consumer leads to auto dealers nationwide, today announced that its Edmunds.com Premier Dealer Program is now available to General Motors (GM) auto retailers. The program provides dealers with exclusive lead territories, top placement in Edmunds' Dealer Locator, and over 100 dealer-branded advertisements ...
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SMIC quarterly loss widens
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's top contract chip maker, posted a wider quarterly loss, as the company winds down production of memory chips, prices of which have been battered in a globally weak market.
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Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
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. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.
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CG Reviews the Eco-Friendly [re]Drive
Hard drives are boring. You plug them in, watch them spin, and then replace them when they die. Hopefully somewhere in there you back them up and maybe reformat them, just to switch things up a little, but you’re pretty much dealing with a bucket of metal platters that store information. Enter the SimpleTech [re]Drive. I’d [...]
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Polish Operator Licenses the Orange Brandname
Polish network operator, Telekomunikacja Polska has inked a deal with its largest shareholder, France Telecom to use the Orange brandname for the next ten years for its TV and internet services. The company already uses the Orange brand for its mobile network.
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Botswana: Consumer Watchdog
First of all I learned that someone in Nigeria had died and all I had to do was respond to the unsolicited email from his poor unfortunate widow, son, daughter or pet cat (I can't remember which) and I would get a share of the dead relative's immense fortune that had, inexplicably, got itself stuck in a bank account somewhere.
AllAfrica.com |
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The Microsoft Outlook fix of last resort
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network The Microsoft Outlook fix of last resort --Delete your profile to give Outlook a fresh start. A prayer for Microsoft --Microsoft is not the problem--it is a symptom of the problem. The problem is patents, and the way forward is through cooperation, not finger-pointing. Dell issues update for Nvidia graphics chip glitch --Dell has issued an ...
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Florida Dentist Launches Revolutionary Solution to National Dental Specialist/Patient Care Dilemma
Created by a dentist for the dental community, PatientsCount.com is the newly-launched online referral system that provides the ideal solution to ensure optimized revenue for dental specialists and is an easy-to-use business tool for general dentists to improve patient care.
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Swapping facial features protects online privacy
Software that automatically pieces together different faces for people in web images could preserve public anonymity
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School tax holiday starts Thursday
The back-to-school tax holiday runs from July 31 through Aug. 3. Certain school supplies including clothing, footwear, computers and computer-related accessories are exempt from state sales tax during this time. From Oct. 2-5, the purchase of energy- or water-efficient products with a sales price of $1,500 or less per product, purchased for noncommercial home or personal use, will be exempt from ...
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Online trading boosts IT profile in business
Janie Davies, Computing , Monday 28 July 2008 at 16:07:00 IT is increasingly seen as an integral part of an organisation as online trading creates new roles The profile of IT within businesses is rising with growth in online trading, according to six skills councils, including technology's own e-Skills UK....
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Does IT Matter?
"The name initrd is an abbreviation for “Initial RAM disk”. It’s a file, which includes the image of a file system.
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Journal Broadcast joins online radio ad network
Milwaukee-based Journal Broadcast Group has joined what’s being called the largest online radio advertising network ever assembled. (JRN) (CCU)
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Un-American feel aids U.S. Web firms
NEW YORK -- AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with col
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white papers
Citrix Systems last week made Ingram Micro its exclusive distributor in North America for all software products, and dropped three other distributors (Tech Data, Avnet, and Alternative Technology) from the supply chain. Citrix has 1,900 resellers, and all will have to go through Ingram now.
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Social Networking Can Be a Friend Indeed
People can use these Web sites to promote their small business, or to find one to patronize.
TheStreet.com |
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Will a $19.99 Ubuntu Succeed Where the Free Version Hasn’t?
Canonical, the company behind the Linux distro Ubuntu , has collaborated with software distributor ValuSoft to sell a boxed version of Ubuntu 8.04 into Best Buy retail stores.
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Ex-Googler, husband launch Cuil new search engine
A former Google employee and her husband launched a new search engine Monday called Cuil (pronounced "cool"), aiming to topple Google by indexing more Web pages than the search giant.
IT World |
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Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
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. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable only this time it's not for sale.
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