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Rogers deploys Amdocs CRM to enhance customer experience
The company said its customer relationship management (CRM) has been rolled out to more than 12 million consumer and Business to Business (B2B) customers across Rogers' quadruple-play businesses, consisting of wireless, cable, broadband internet and telephony.
Computer Business Review |
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ANZ beefs up tech in debt fight
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has unveiled plans to combat bad debt on its books with a raft of new technologies including SMS messages, 'non-intrusive' voice technology and better collections software.
ZDNet Australia |
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Adams County, Colorado selects Accela suite to serve public
Several departments will use the solution to streamline land management processes and provide Adams County citizens and the local development community with a user-friendly, easily accessible system for conducting business via the internet.
Computer Business Review |
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Ocado selects QuickTransit to accelerate delivery of applications
Transitive, a provider of cross-platform virtualization solutions, has announced that UK-based internet grocer Ocado has deployed its QuickTransit for Solaris/Sparc-to-Linux/x86-64 solution to move its application development and testing infrastructure to a new hardware platform.
Computer Business Review |
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How to kill yourself, with Wikipedia help
Wikipedia , the online "free encyclopedia" written and edited by its users, now includes dozens of detailed suicide methods with descriptions of ways in which people can mutilate or kill themselves.
WorldNetDaily |
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Microsoft lays out August XBL schedule
Galaga Legions, Castle Crashers, Braid get dated as publisher celebrates the "Summer of Arcade" with 100,000 Microsoft point giveaway.
GameSpot |
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Man arrested for child porn
A Pasadena man has been arrested on charges of downloading child porn and police worried there could be local victims
ABC 13 Houston |
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New: Charges added against local child porn suspect
Charges are mounting against a Naperville photographer accused of storing thousands of pornographic images of children on his work and personal computers.
The Naperville Sun |
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Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Mon 28th Jul 2008 18:42 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Business PC buyers are still overwhelmingly opting for XP, computer giant HP has revealed. Yet at the same time, Microsoft is claiming that Vista is selling faster than XP ever did ... so where's the truth?
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Adam S on Mon 29th Aug 2005 21:37 UTC
Linuxwatch.com is running a great story called " Five Reasons NOT To Use Linux ." It includes a nice list of reasons why one might want to steer clear of Linux, along with a nice comparison to how easily these reasons are addressed in Microsoft Windows.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 14:56 UTC
NewsWeek interviewed Bill Gates about Vista, its reception, and Apple , among other things. On the complaint that some of the features in Vista appear to come from the Mac: "You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts.
OS News |
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Internet television debuts locally
The Internet television revolution has plugged into Palm Beach County.
The Palm Beach Post |
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Cuil: When your best feature becomes your worst enemy
First Look - Product announcements are always tricky in a the way how you describe a products features in a flashy enough way to attract attention, but remain sufficiently careful to not overstate its features and benefits. Even a fantastic new product can easily be trashed in today’s Internet world if you go overboard: That may be the case with Cuil, an interesting new try to come up with a new ...
TG Daily |
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Phishing Racket Threatens Credit, Identity
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Consumer Investigator Amy Clancy warns about the multi-billion dollar racket that can ruin your credit and cost you thousands of dollars to repair.
KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma |
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Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?!
An alternative search engine launched last night. It's called Cuil and, if you're a reader of tech blogs and/or the New York Times, you've no doubt been hammered with the news all day. We checked Cuil out and had a mixed user experience, as did most of the commenters in the post. So it's a pretty average search engine, although like many before it Cuil claims to be a Google competitor. ...
ReadWriteWeb |
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Former investigator in prosecutor's office pleads guilty
A former investigator in City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle's office pleaded guilty this morning to two counts of theft of city funds and two counts of illegal use of city computers.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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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.
PC World |
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[NSFW] Ex-Googlers reinvent web search
Quantum porn NSFW In an attempt to upstage their former employer, a trio of ex-Googlers have launched a search engine of their own. They insist on calling it "Cuil" - pronounced "cool," apparently - and they say it "goes beyond today’s search techniques."…
The Register |
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AMD in home stretch on reorganization
As Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lays plans for returning to profitability, executives acknowledge that one key element involves reorganizing its expensive chip manufacturing business.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Secure Your Domain Name Server With OpenDNS
You use Domain Name Servers every time you type an address in your browser, and you probably never think about it. Hackers do. A vulnerability found recently could allow them to take over your DNS. You can hope your internet provider is prepared for the attack, or you can use a service immune to such attacks, like OpenDNS.
Wired News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Jul 2008 22:04 UTC
As someone who uses Windows Vista practically daily, I've always wondered where all the negativity in the media comes from. Sure, Vista isn't perfect (as if any operating system is), but I just don't see where all the complaints are coming from.
New Mobile Computing |
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China Party pundit spies battle outside Games arena
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has cast its Olympic Games as the crowning act in a year of patriotic bonding, and yet Sima Nan -- television pundit, blogger and Communist Party defender -- sees dark forces within seeking to ruin the Party.
The Star |
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Indian police link US man's computer to e-mail taking credit for bombs that killed 45
Police raided the home of an American citizen in Mumbai, India's financial capital, and seized a computer from which an e-mail claiming responsibility for bombings that killed 45 people in western India was believed to have been sent, officials said.
AP via Yahoo! Singapore News |
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Reuters Technology Summary
Verizon profit rises, but wireline disappoints NEW YORK - Verizon Communications Inc posted a higher quarterly profit on strong wireless sales, but its shares fell on worries about its declining landlines and weaker-than-expected growth in its FiOS Internet and video service. FiOS, delivered over a high-speed, all-fiber network, is a key part of Verizon's strategy to bolster ...
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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New tools to fight ID theft
A computer and a dollar, that’s all it takes for a crook to buy your credit card information. Cyber-criminals buy and sell this information for a dollar or less in chat rooms.
ABC 15 Phoenix |
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