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Ex-Googleers unveil a new search engine
MENLO PARK, California: A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.
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Angry, late, tired China passengers make computers crash
BEIJING - SCORES of Chinese air passengers smashed computers and desks and clashed with police on Tuesday after a night stranded at an airport without accommodation, state media said.
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Microsoft multi-touch Sphere surfaces in Redmond
Filed under: Displays There it is, right on cue Microsoft's Surface has gone spherical over at Microsoft Research. Rumored since March , the prototype relies upon an infrared system to detect hands, fingers, and objects as well as an internal (not external like Surface) projection system developed by Global Imagination (and customized by Microsoft) to deliver its multi-touch UI. ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Oct 2006 23:07 UTC
At an event in Mumbai, soon after the completion of the acquisition of ATI, AMD announced a line of latest Vista-ready ATI Radeon graphic processors . According to Chris Jones, corporate vice president - Windows Core OS Division, "Microsoft will deliver a series of graphics innovations with Windows Vista that provide a customer experience that is second to none.
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Mercury Computer Systems Earns Lockheed Martin STAR Supplier Award
CHELMSFORD, Mass., July 2008 -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), a leading provider of embedded, high-performance computing solutions for image, sensor and signal processing applications, announced it has received the coveted STAR Supplier Award from Lockheed Martin.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Oct 2005 11:18 UTC
Microsoft on Thursday reported first quarter earnings just ahead of Wall Street estimates, though the company's sales and current quarter forecast fell short of expectations.
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Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal
Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...
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The federal government's plans to build a $4.7 billion national fibre to the node broadband network (NBN) could be stopping one of Queensland's newest cities from getting fibre to the home.
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The federal government's plans to build a $4.7 billion national fibre to the node broadband network (NBN) could be stopping one of Queensland's newest cities from getting fibre to the home.
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Golf will have to wait another day
Instead of playing in the Bill Wall Memorial tournament, Gean Leonard was stuck at home trying to get his new laptop up and running.
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Verizon profit rises, but wireline disappoints
NEW YORK, USA: 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, i...
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Recent Original Stories
During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement . "Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year.
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Board of Supervisors Meeting
Video of Tuesday's Calaveras County Board of Supervisors. Video streaming allows most viewers to watch video while it is downloading to their computer. Viewers with landlines may not be able to view video from our site.
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A study released this week has predicted that around 1.3 million iPhones will be shipped by Apple to Australia over the next five years, as the appetite for converged devices continue to grow.
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The Suave Assassin
Single male, 26, tax-exile resident in Monaco. Has boyish good looks and lots of money. Enjoys a clean, healthy, exciting, lifestyle passionate about fast cars, fond of Alpine skiing, roller blading, music, reading, movies and computers. Despite all this, he has his head screwed on right.
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LSU officer investigated
A 21-year veteran of the LSU Police Department resigned July 23 after the FBI seized his work computer containing suspected child pornography, authorities said Monday.
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Friday's remote solar eclipse will be on Internet
For stargazers lamenting that they won't be able to step outside to gawk at Friday's solar eclipse, there is an alternative -- the Internet.
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Lightroom 2 adds precision tools, enhanced RAW tools
Adobe on Tuesday unveiled Photoshop Lightroom 2, a major update to its photo management, tweaking, and presenting software, offering users enhancements such as dual-monitor support, non-destructive localized image correction, and improved search capabilities. Lightroom 2 also marks Adobe's first attempt at a fully 64-bit application, offering impro...
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Microsoft to build on auto unit
Detroit may be struggling to sell cars, but Microsoft Corp. sees nothing but room to grow in its push to wire them.
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SimpleTech Ships Bamboo Hard Drive
Santa Ana- and San Mateo-based Fabrik, a developer of storage devices and services, said Monday that the firm has shipped a hard disk drive--made out of bamboo and aluminum. The company claims the drive is an energy-efficient, "resource-conscious" and sustainable product. The SimpleTech [re]drive is an external hard drive uses bamboo as part of its external case; the firm said the bamboo is ...
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Bombings in India kill at least 45
AHMADABAD, India - An obscure Islamic militant group warning of "the terror of Death" claimed responsibility for bombings that killed at least 45 people and authorities stepped up security Sunday after India's second series of blasts in two days.
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Interactive Web site lets grandparents stay in touch
It used to be that all kids had to do to pay Grandma or Grandpa a visit was walk up the street or hop in the station wagon and take a short car ride across town. In today's mobile society, though, it's not unusual for extended families to live farther...
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Gateway Dumps Direct Efforts
Irvine-based computer manufacturer Gateway said Friday that the firm is moving to a 100 percent, indirect sales model. The firm said it will discontinue phone and online sales of its desktop PCs and notebooks. The move follows the purchase of Gateway by Acer in August of 2007; Gateway attributed the move to "better align" with Acer's indirect model. Gateway's products will be available from ...
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Aptera Raises $24M In Series C
Carlsbad-based Aptera said late Thursday evening that it has raised $24M in a Series C funding. The funding announcement came shortly after Google disclosed it had provided funding through Google.org to the company. Funding in this round came from Idealab, Google, Esenjay Investments, The Simons Family, and The Beall Family Trust. Aptera said the funding will be used to start production of the ...
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Mobiles used more for non-phone calls
LONDON (Reuters) - Mobiles are no longer used just to make phone calls on the hop, but to send more text messages, take pictures and check the Internet, new figures released on Tuesday showed.
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