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Top 20 IT cos witness sharp drop in revenue
After three years of strong growth, top 20 IT companies in India, a majority of them engaged in IT services exports, recorded a revenue growth of 24 % in 2007-08, recording a sharp drop from 41% in the previous financial year, according to a survey.
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SAP, Oracle price hikes open door for license optimization
Oracle and SAP's recent announcements around higher license and support costs may have made one group happy: Third-party companies and consultants who sell wares and services that, in theory, help customers ease the pain of increased software prices. Acresso Software, one of a number of companies that sell software for cataloging licenses and analyzing usage patterns, recently announced ...
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Oracle expands charges against SAP in lawsuit
Oracle Corp amended its lawsuit against SAP AG on Monday, saying SAP executive board members were warned that its TomorrowNow unit was engaged in corporate theft before SAP bought TomorrowNow.
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PhotoTrackr now available for Mac
GiSTEQ has announced on Monday that its PhotoTrackr software is now available for Mac systems, providing Mac users with compatibility for the PhotoTrackr devices, which are small lightweight GPS camera trackers. The software takes the additional information given from the device and then is able to do things such as properly date, map, categorize a...
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Sketch of WagonR driver released
Surat police on Monday released a computer-generated sketch of an accused, who had parked the red WagonR on Saturday evening near Heerabaugh in Varachha.
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REPLACING North Carolina State Ports Authority Selects Mi5 Networks for Multi-Layer Protection Against Web Malware and ...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 28, 2008--Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.
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GPS to track vehicles attending to power failure
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board’s Computer-based Power Failure Redressal Centre of Chennai has been provided with global positioning system (GPS) to track down vehicles of fuse of call centres. The GPS facility has been ...
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VMware Frees Up ESXi
The vendor first discussed its plans to turn ESXi into freeware during its second quarter earnings call last week in what is seen as a defensive action against the likes of Citrix/XenSource and Microsoft, which recently launched its Hyper-V hypervisor.
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Sex problem campaign will test rules
US-style advertising for drugs is coming to Britain in the shape of a television campaign to raise “awareness” of erectile dysfunction. Eli Lilly of the US has launched a series of television and national newspaper advertisements – the most ambitious to date – about erectile dysfunction, accompanied by internet sites and discussion groups, which will run until September.
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Oracle expands theft allegations against rival SAP
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) Escalating its rancor with rival SAP AG, business software maker Oracle Corp. accused SAP on Monday of knowingly buying and then embracing an illegal operation set up to steal Oracle's products and customers.
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Upstate Man Faces Internet Sex Charges
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. -- A 35-year-old Simpsonville man was arrested on Friday after an Internet sex sting. Anderson police said that Michael L. Pellett thought he was soliciting sex online from a 12-year-old girl when he was actually interacting with an undercover officer.
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Bill Gates just says no to smoking at the Beijing Olympics [60-Second Science Blog]
At this year's Olympics, you can boot up, but don't light up: China's pledge to host a "smoke-free" Olympic games in Beijing has gotten a boost from former Microsoft executive and co-founder Bill Gates. [More]
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Jun 2006 22:16 UTC
Paul Thurrot, Microsoft Apple Microsoft supporter, reviews the new Vista build: "Little more than a month after issuing a bug-laden Windows Vista Beta 2, Microsoft has shipped its first post-Beta 2 interim build of the next Windows and it makes up a lot of lost ground.
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Recent Original Stories
Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. [However,] Novell is making one large strategic change . The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES and Novell Linux Desktop line.
New Mobile Computing |
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Apple's Bumpy iPhone Debut Continues
Apple has finally gotten a taste of what Microsoft has gone through for over a decade. Nobody said it was easy at the top, just ask Microsoft. Microsoft has had its share of problems over the years with its Windows operating system, but most non-jaded computer experts will tell you that a lot of those problems stem from its popularity. It's just common sense; the more users you have, the more ...
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Google (GOOG) Challenger Cuil.com Falls Flat on Launch
It seems that every year we have a new challenger for the crowned "King of Internet Search Engines." Being that Google (GOOG: sentiment, chart, options) is still widely considered the end-all-be-all search engine for the web, we can see how well many of these startups have fared...( Read More )
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World Internet Project survey impresses
InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) welcomes the first report of the World Internet Project New Zealand longitudinal study, released today.
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Socket Mobile's hand-helds being deployed in 230 Good Samaritan facilities
Socket Mobile Inc. has made a bulk deal for hand-held computers with the The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, a nonprofit chain of senior care and nursing facilities, Socket said Monday. (SCKT)
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PhilBoxing.com >> News
There are 18,012 news articles in the database. Displaying articles 18011 to 18012. Arum, Oscar back on the same page By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports , 01 Jan 1970 Bob Arum leaned forward in his seat, a small grin creasing his face.
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The driver source code released for the Intel 965 Graphics chipset recently isn't as open as first thought. Keith Packard on the linux-kernel mailing list detailing what parts were not available.
OS News |
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Flipping Web Sites, Selling the Niche
A wave of entrepreneurs are using free software to buy niche Web sites and fix them up with the hope of reselling them for far more than they paid.
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Academics want watchdog to probe online profiling
Academics concerned with new technology applications have asked the federal privacy commissioner to investigate online profiling of Internet users for targeted advertising.
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BBC Editor Going To Google's PR Department
Don't be surprised if Google starts to get a lot of positive press overseas. A man who's something of a media expert - for four years, he served as editor of the BBC show Newsnight - will be joining the search giant as its head of communications and public affairs for the UK, Ireland, and Benelux regions. read more
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Cuil Crashes And Burns At Launch
Crashing right after launch is, apparently, a startup rite of passage. If, however, you've touted your new search engine as a Google killer, you might want to make sure crashes can't happen. Google never goes down, and quite simply, can't be killed with overloaded servers. read more
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Ex-Google team takes on giant
Menlo Park (California), July 28 (Reuters): A start-up led by former star Google engineers yesterday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing surfing habits.
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