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Western Digital acquires ST's HDD controller division
Western Digital (Lake Forest, Calif.), a manufacturer of computer hard disks, announced it has acquired the hard disk drive controller IP rights, design tools and design team from STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland). Financial details remained undisclosed.
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New Google rival rooted in firm
n New search engine `Cuil' is the invention of former Google engineers
Inside Bay Area |
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New Google rival rooted in firm
n New search engine `Cuil' is the invention of former Google engineers
Contra Costa Times |
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Google old boys launch their own engine in global search for wealth
Call it internet treachery if you like but three former senior engineers from the Google campus are trying to usurp the search-engine crown from their former employer by launching an alternative tool that they hope we may all one day use for scouring cyberspace content.
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Oracle expands theft allegations against rival business software maker SAP
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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Burglars vandalize, steal computers at junior high school
BARSTOW — Intruders broke into buildings at Barstow Junior High School, damaged school property and stole computers over the weekend.
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New Google rival rooted in firm
n New search engine `Cuil' is the invention of former Google engineers
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Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
(AP: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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Gay hero with Purple Heart who didn't tell unless asked
In life, Major Alan G Rogers was an American patriot, committed to the US Army in which he had served for 18 of his 40 years. His death, from a roadside bomb, which took the number of American losses in Iraq to more than 4,000 this year, robbed the service of an outstanding military intelligence officer and deprived his friends of someone they all described as a great listener and a profoundly ...
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by JonathanBThompson (4.4) on Fri 30th Jun 2006 19:26 UTC
Yeah, that's right: the FAT filesystems took a conceptually similar path, from FAT12 to FAT16 and mutations of it, to FAT32, for the DOS/Windows world, all in the name of backwards compatibility (mostly) while still keeping limits on them that weren't justified with current technology already available, such as NTFS, which has (IIRC) been 64-bit address capable with the huge files (64 bit) ...
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How Do You Deal With Sensitive Data?
imus writes "Just wondering how most IT shops secure sensitive data (customer records). Most centrally managed databases seem to be monitored and maintained very well and IT workers know when they are tampered with or when unauthorized access occurs. But what about employees who do legitimate selects from these databases and then load CSV files and other text files onto their laptops and PDAs? ...
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Dell Takes Heat for Faulty Nvidia Chips
Users are questioning Dell's decision to fix the problem of faulty Nvidia graphics cards with a software patch instead of...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 12th Jan 2006 18:58 UTC
Sun Microsystems tried to acquire Apple once and then almost merged with Apple on two other occasions, according to Sun co-founder Bill Joy . Beyond these deals, the two companies almost teamed on three other projects including sharing a user interface and the SPARC architecture.
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Recent Original Stories
Linux-Noob has reviewed SLED 10 . "Novell's strengths are many, and I'm delighted to see the excellent work they have done in usability tests, and making the whole desktop feel like it's ready, ready to do business, and ready to serve its users.
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Recent Original Stories
"DirectX 10 would not work with XP, and that was fine and dandy. It was an honest technical reason why you could not backport DX10 to XP without a major rip and replace operation. Microsoft wasn't going to bend on this one at all."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Jul 2006 21:08 UTC
In a Q&A , Neelie Kroes, who fined MS for not complying with the EC's antitrust ruling, said: "I regret that the Commission has had to take such a step today, but given Microsoft's continued non-compliance to date, I have been left with no alternative.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 21st Mar 2006 22:52 UTC, submitted by Bob Stein
Microsoft has officially announced to ActiveWin (over a conference call) the release date of Windows Vista.
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Suspend wi-fi in schools, says union chief following ill-health claims
The rush to install wireless computer networks in schools may be jeopardising children's health and should be suspended, a teachers' chief said yesterday.
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New Apple MacBook to Feature Glass Touchscreen for Trackpad?
Part of the reason why the iPhone is so popular is because it has a fantastic glass touchscreen. In this way, it wouldn't take much for Apple to plunk that technology into the next-generation MacBook.
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FCC, Verizon Results Add To Woes of Cable Stocks
A down market, the specter of heightened government scrutiny and discouraging high-speed Internet subscriber results from one of its key competitors put a damper on cable stocks Monday.
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Secret History
Many Knoxvillians heard Sunday morning’s awful news not from the Internet or television or even a phone call but oracle-like, from the pulpit, a shaken minister announcing a tragedy that would soon be known to the nation.
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Site guesses your sex via age-old web flaw
Pardon me, your browser history is showing One of the problems that's plagued netizens since the inception of the world wide web that their browsers have a habit of leaking every site they've visited in the recent past. A quick stop at Blowupdolls.com, Mysecretbusinessproject.net or any other site is available to any webmaster with rudimentary coding skills.…
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Oracle expands SAP theft charges
n Newest documents in lawsuit allege SAP embraced illegal operation aimed at Oracle
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Mowasalat launches online recruitment system
DOHA • Mowasalat Karwa scored some green points yesterday when the public transport company announced its new E-recruitment system as a part of its Qatarisation policy at a press conference held at Chopsticks Restaurant, Grand Regency Hotel.
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How safe is safe?
Security expert Doug Camplejohn on building a smarter firewall to outsmart cyber slimeballs.
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