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Hackers may have used US man's computer to claim for bombings: Indian police
MUMBAI, India - Police launched a massive manhunt in India's financial capital on Tuesday, believing that the serial blasts that rocked the western Indian city of Ahmadabad over the weekend, killing 45 people, were hatched in a Mumbai suburb.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Nov 2005 16:24 UTC, submitted by Lunxer
Here is an 8 minute documentary about the recently unveiled 100$ laptop. It shows the laptop in action, and also discusses its aspects with one of the team members, such as the screen, the cheap keyboard, and much more.
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Electricity, Internet outages strike
The electricity went out on Sunday night for 2,500 Allegheny Power customers after a faulty piece of equipment shut down the Milesburg substation, and on Monday Comcast cable customers from Howard to Bellefonte began to experience life without Internet.
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VODone Appointed Sole New Media Partner by BIMC to Develop the Olympics Live Channel & Explore Internet Advertising ...
HONG KONG , July 29 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- VODone Limited ("VODone" or the "Company") (SEHK code: 82.HK), a leading tele-media service provider in China (1), announced today that it has been appointed as the sole authorized new media by the Beijing International Media Centre ("BIMC"). The other four partners include Lenovo, Sohu, Aigo and China Mobile.
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Decoding SourceForge's Open Source "World Changing" Finalists
As the SourceForge Community Choice awards comes to an end, there’s one category of finalists that immediately caught my attention - Most Likely to Change the World . In this article, I’ll look at these projects, providing my perspective as to why these open source applications were selected as most likely to change the world.
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Will a $19.99 Ubuntu Succeed Where the Free Version Hasn’t?
Canonical, the company behind the Linux distro Ubuntu , has collaborated with software distributor ValuSoft to sell a boxed version of Ubuntu 8.04 into Best Buy retail stores.
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Indian police: Hackers may have used US man's computer to claim credit for bombings
Police launched a massive manhunt in India's financial capital Tuesday, believing that the serial blasts that rocked the western Indian city of Ahmadabad over the weekend, killing 45 people, were hatched in a Mumbai suburb.
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Recent Original Stories
Technewsworld postulates that Gateway would be a prime takeover target for Sun Microsystems. Sun's competence on the desktop, they argue, would be greatly improved, as well as their ability to manage at an executive level.
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Taiwan market: Asustek expects to ship up to 240,000 Eee PCs in 2008
Asustek Computer expects to ship 220,000-240,000 Eee PCs in the Taiwan market in 2008, according to sources at the company.
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Sohu breaks quarterly revenue record
Chinese internet firm Sohu.com hit a revenue record of $102m in the second quarter, the company has reported.
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DigitalPost Interactive Launches New Online Photo Editor for Its Digital Media-Sharing Platform
DigitalPost Interactive (www.dglp.com), a leader in the digital media-sharing and social networking space, announced today the launch of Qwik-Edit(SM) -- a new, user-friendly photo-editing solution for its re-brandable digital media-sharing platform. This exciting new feature enables even the most novice Internet users to enhance their favorite family photos in one, easy step -- no downloads ...
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China tops global Internet user-base at end of June 2008
The number of Internet surfers in China grew to an estimated 252.9 million as of the end of June 2008, surpassing the US for the first time to become the largest among all countries, according to the latest semiannual survey conducted by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
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Tanzania: Govt Turns to Cellphones to Tackle Teacher Shortage
The Government is to start using mobile phones and computers to mitigate the effects of an acute shortage of teachers in its primary and secondary schools.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Jul 2006 16:26 UTC, submitted by James Arthur
IBM plans to unveil this week a version of its Lotus Notes desktop collaboration software for Linux. Lotus Notes on Linux 7.0.1, which will be generally available July 24, is based on the Eclipse open-source framework.
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Sohu breaks quarterly revenue record
Simon Burns in Taipei, vnunet.com , Tuesday 29 July 2008 at 11:10:00 Chinese giant plans games unit spin off and IPO Chinese internet firm Sohu.com hit a revenue record of $102m in the second quarter, the company has reported. The portal operator plans to spin off its online games division as...
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US$100 notebook is at least three years away, says Gartner
The US$100 laptop will not be a realistic target for the next three years, according to Gartner. Analysts said that while education was the initial target audience for low-cost mini-notebooks, all current versions cost notably more than US$100 and prices are unlikely to fall significantly during the next two to three years.
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Makers to support China's CMMB mobile TV standard on Intel MID/UMPC platform
Intel will support the development of China's mobile TV standard CMMB (China mobile multimedia broadcasting) by supporting MID (mobile Internet device) and UMPC (ultra mobile PC) platform products supporting CMMB technology, according to sources in the Taiwan handset industry.
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Wrestling with Payroll Management? How to Find Online Solutions
(ARA) - It's no cliché: Small businesses really are the backbone of the American economy. Representing 99.7 percent of all employer firms, nearly 25 million small businesses have created 60 to 80 percent of the new jobs annually over the past decade, according to the Small Business Administration.
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Branded IT product vendors concentrating component procurement among small groups of suppliers
More and More branded IT product vendors are concentrating the purchase of key components for their products among a few suppliers in order to strengthen their competitiveness through reduced costs, according to sources at Taiwan component suppliers.
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Sohu breaks quarterly revenue record
Chinese internet firm Sohu.com hit a revenue record of $102m in the second quarter, the company has reported. The portal operator plans to spin off its online games division as a separate company with a potential IPO in the future.
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Facebook poaches Mozilla engineering chief
Facebook has added further seasoned management talent with the hiring of Mozilla's vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer.
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A Great Way to Expand Your Home's Living Space
(ARA) - Is what used to be your office now the baby's room? Have your desk and computer taken up residence in the formal living room? Are you running out of space to store your growing collection of stuff?
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U.S. to pilot Internet travel authorization scheme
The United States will launch a pilot scheme on Friday which will require travelers covered by its visa waiver programme to get prior Internet authorization before boarding flights to America.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Customise Your New Mac
Apple has agreed another of its major deals with a US education district, this time inking a deal with Natrona County School District in the US. The $3.8 million lease purchase agreement means over 3,000 Macs are to be distributed among schools in the area.
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Microsoft to set up third R&D center in Taiwan
Microsoft will establish a Hardware Innovation Center (HIC) in Taiwan, the third R&D center in Taiwan following the Microsoft Technology Center set up in June 2003 and Microsoft Innovation Center in June 2008, according to corporate senior vice president and Microsoft China's R&D leader Ya-qin Zhang at a forum in Taipei on July 28.
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