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China's Sohu Profit Jumps, Plans Unit IPO
Sohu, whose portal saw a 64% rise in average unique visitors during the second quarter, is vying with the likes of Shanda and Sina.com in a $1.3 billion Chinese Internet market.
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It’s a Wrap! Pelican Red Apple StudioCruzer Protects Red One Digital Motion-Picture Camera and MacBook Pro
Cinematographers and producers say it’s a snap protecting expensive equipment with the new carry-on CaseCruzer. (PRWeb Jul 29, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1129614.htm
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Cuil Challenges Google With Privacy
Founded by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, Cuil aims to rank the relevancy search results by content analysis rather than by popularity.
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China Has More Internet Users Than U.S.
Chinese consulting firm BDA also says that China has the world's largest number of mobile phone users, with about 560 million subscribers.
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Verizon Quarterly Profit Gains, Led By Wireless
Verizon Communications Monday said quarterly profit rose on strong wireless sales, shrugging off the impact of a weaker economy and offsetting a fall in landline users.
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Former Googleers Unveil Search Engine Called Cuil
A startup 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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The Tale of Two Busted Spammers
Being a technology reporter, my e-mail inbox is a crowded place.
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India Developing US$10 Laptop
India is developing a laptop that will cost US$10, for use in higher education.
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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. Four cars used in the weekend bombings were stolen from in the suburb of Navi Mumbai _ "New Mumbai," police said. Meanwhile, police on Tuesday found and ...
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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. Four cars used in the weekend bombings were stolen from in the suburb of Navi Mumbai _ "New Mumbai," police said. Meanwhile, police on Tuesday found and ...
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Apple skewered over missing DNS patch
Users in a BIND Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.…
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Microsoft's Answer To Google's PageRank Algorithm: Less Privacy?
BrowseRank, Microsoft claims, can deliver better search results by measuring user behavior, including where users go and the amount of time they remain at those pages.
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Neuros open set-top box puts Linux in living rooms
Ars looks at the Linux-based Neuros set-top box, a programmable DVR platform that could bring software freedom to living rooms. Read More...
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Government Computer News
Virtualization for your DMZ? Could virtualization work for software-based multi-level security environments? Experts are divided. Virtualization offers the ability to partition different working environments in the same computer.
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Dell Studio Hybrid, new Inspirons reviewed
Dell announced today three new PCs. One of them, the Studio Hybrid, is a small form-factor desktop with a novel design that competes with the Apple Mac mini and HP Slimline series. The other two, the Dell Inspiron 13 laptop and Dell Inspiron 518 desktop, are more practical back-to-school boxes....
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Chris Isaacson
1 billion shares traded daily. VP of operations, BATS; trade desk manager, BATS; developer, BATS; software engineer, Cerner Corp.; software developer, Tradebot Systems.
Finance Technology Network |
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Kevin Kometer
On average, 13 million contracts are traded on the CME every day. Managing director and deputy CIO, CME Group; lead programmer analyst, CME; manager, trading floor technology, CME; director, advanced technology, CME; managing director, trading execution systems, CME; programmer, Continental Bank.
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Apple iPhone Gets Cut And Paste
A new software application for the iPhone offers users basic cut and paste functionality.
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AOC Sets a New Standard for Excellence in Style and Performance with their High-Def by Design 2218Ph Monitor
AOC announced today the release of their High-Def by Design 2218Ph computer monitor. Setting a new benchmark for combining design and the latest in HD performance, the 2218Ph monitor finally brings PC users the element of style Mac(R) users have enjoyed for the last few years, but with the twist of improved performance and HDMI capabilities.
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Minnesota Software Developer CodeWeavers to Make Product Free If President Bush Meets Goals
CodeWeavers, Inc., a developer of software products that lets Mac OS X and Linux users run Windows programs, today is announcing it will make its product free for every American with a computer if President George W. Bush meets one of five goals during the final months of his term.
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NEWSPAPER WEB SITE AUDIENCE RISES TWELVE PERCENT IN SECOND QUARTER TO NEARLY 66.4 MILLION VISITORS
Arlington, Va. – Newspaper Web sites attracted nearly 66.4 million unique visitors on average (40.2 percent of all Internet users) in the second quarter of 2008, a 12.2 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to a custom analysis provided by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America.
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India developing $10 laptop, Gartner says $100 laptop "at least three years away." We're confused.
Filed under: Laptops A pair of Indian universities -- the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Technology -- have teamed up to produce a $10 laptop for "higher education applications." The Indian government is clearly involved in the project, and there's no telling if that price involves subsidies, but however and whenever they pull it off, a $10 laptop would certainly ...
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Investor Pickens drops Yahoo shares: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens has sold his entire stake of Yahoo Inc shares in frustration over its failure to reach a deal with Microsoft Corp , the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Oct 2006 17:48 UTC, submitted by J.
"Compiz is the compositing window manager that works on top of Xgl or AIGLX to enable Desktop Effects. Recently, a community developer named Quinn Storm announced that she would start a Compiz-based fork project called 'Beryl', citing frustration with Novell regarding getting her code fixes accepted into the Compiz upstream source tree.
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Cloud Computing - SnapLogic-SugarCRM an Item
SnapLogic, the outfit that calls itself the really simple integration company and leverages RESTful web technology, has announced a SugarCRM Solution Pack, an extension to its open source data integration framework. SnapLogic enables enterprises to integrate data on both sides of the enterprise firewall and create custom integration solutions, including application integrations, enterprise ...
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