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Facebook Nabs Firefox Star
The talent keeps pouring into Facebook headquarters. The most recent addition (and the first of more to come, Facebook sources tells WebProNews), is Mike Schroepfer , also known as Mozilla's vice president of engineering. read more
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Google Street View turning into Google Farm View [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
If you moved out to the country for a little privacy, you may need to rethink your plans. Google's Street View camera-cars have roved far into the rural reaches of Sonoma County, more than an hour... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Forget Fake Steve -- Real Dan Lyons is even better [Blogging For Dollars]
To be honest, I didn't think Fake Steve Jobs author Dan Lyons would be able to keep it coming under his own name. (And also to be honest, I looked into getting his old job at Forbes.) Anyway, now... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Eastside data center lands another tenant
EAST WENATCHEE - Palo Alto-based software company VMware will become the next tenant at a data center under construction near Pangborn Memorial Airport.
The Wenatchee World |
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Updated: SMIC posts wider quarterly loss
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's top contract chip maker, posted a wider quarterly loss Monday as it winds down production of memory chips whose prices have been battered.
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The Online Information Source for the Medical Device Industry
A number of converging healthcare trends are pushing medical equipment manufacturers to design smaller, lighter, and less costly devices while also making them safer and more appealing to patients.
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Local Honda dealer eyes site in East Wenatchee
EAST WENATCHEE - Apple Valley Honda has made a deposit on 4 acres of property near the intersection of 3rd Street Southeast and Highline Drive to relocate its Wenatchee car dealership.
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Atheros Announces the Appointment of Dan Artusi to Its Board of Directors
Atheros Communications, Inc. , a leading developer of advanced semiconductor system solutions for wireless and wired communications, today announced that industry veteran, Dan Artusi, has rejoined Atheros' board of directors.
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Economic ripples rock Jewish community
My complaints a week ago about being really, really busy and a bit negligent of this blog were courtesy of this story I was writing about how the tumbling economy was hurting the Jewish community.
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Remembering the ‘nakba’
The answer, since our online archive began 10 years ago, is 14 ( three more if you include the alternative spelling). This piece from 1998—the 50th anniversary of Israel’s modern statehood and before the Second Intifada —was the most interesting .
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Al-Qaida commander urges killing of Saudi king
Associated Press - July 28, 2008 4:03 PM ET CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An al-Qaida commander who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan has posted a Web video urging Muslims to kill the Saudi king...
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Cloud Computing Could Be a $1BN Business for Dell "In a Couple of Years"
Already generating 'hundreds of millions' of dollars in sales for Dell, cloud computing could be a $1 billion business 'in a couple [of] years' according to a BusinessWeek interview with Michael Dell, founder and CEO of the company.
SYS-CON Media |
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FCC to bar Comcast from traffic filtering
The US Federal Communications Commission is said today to be preparing a ruling that would find Comcast violating rules for filtering traffic on its cable Internet service. While the regulatory body's chairman Kevin Martin has already said the ruling won't involve fines, the decision will reportedly ban Comcast from its current practices, which sp...
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Bionic Commando Rearmed in two weeks
Late word in from Capcom this evening reveals that Bionic Commando Rearmed has finally been dated for release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3; via their respective online services, that is.
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Strong mindshare of platform players as BI innovators
SINGAPORE & HONG KONG: A new survey-based IDC report finds that platform vendors such as IBM and Microsoft are dominating the ranking for both product and process innovation in business intelligence software across the four key Asia/Pacific countries: Australia, Korea, India, and the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?
A Texas Congressman grew angry when his use of Twitter was "censored" by Congress. Ars digs deep into the backstory of a strange fight over Congressional communications rules and wonders why the blogosphere let such an issue drop so easily. Read More...
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drugstore.com to Expand Sales Internationally
drugstore.com, inc. , a leading online retailer of health, beauty, vision and pharmacy products has entered into a contract to utilize E4X, Inc.'s FiftyOne Global Ecommerce Solution to power the expansion of sales internationally. drugstore.com expects to be able to provide a wide selection of over-the-counter products to customers in 34 countries before year end.
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Check Point Software Announces Participation in Third Quarter Investor Conferences
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. , the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the company's expected investor conference participation for the third quarter of 2008.
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FCC votes to punish Comcast for blocking peer-to-peer
A bipartisan majority of the Federal Communications Commission has reportedly voted to punish Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, for blocking consumers' access to the open Internet. According to press reports, Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein have voted with Chairman Kevin Martin for an "enforcement order" that would require Comcast to stop blocking and publicly ...
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Electronic Research Publications: Too Much of A Good Thing?
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research at the University of Chicago shows that as more scholarly and research journals are available online, researchers cite fewer, newer papers.
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Recession-proof engineering jobs
A new survey pegs software as recession-proof. Does that scale to embedded development?
EETimes |
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'Sunday Night Football' Goes Online
NBC, NFL to stream games with extra features NBC and the NFL will give football fans a new way to watch the network's Sunday-night broadcasts this fall.
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Clear Channel And Katz Media Roll Out Online Radio Network
Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) Radio has teamed with media sales firm Katz Media Group on what the two claim is the largest digital radio network. Dubbed the Katz Online Network, the partnership takes in 1,200 Clear Channel and Katz affiliate stations and five million listeners a week. Citing data from Arbitron and Edison Media Research, Clear Channel and Katz say that they hope to reach more of the ...
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Al-Qaeda commander urges killing of Saudi king
An al-Qaeda commander has posted a Web video urging Muslims to kill the Saudi king for leading an interfaith conference.
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Award-Winning Sales Simplicity Software Gains Widening Acceptance as CRM &
Canadian Builders Retool with Sales Simplicity Software. Company Adds Another 2,100 Annual Housing Starts to its UserBase
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