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Govt ignored IB’s Wi-fi warning
This is one warning — credible and actionable — that intelligence agencies can certainly lay claim to. They had cautioned the government against letting telecom service providers offer Wi-fi services to consumers without insisting on adequate access control mechanisms.
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Yahoo To Reimburse Customers Of DRM-Protected Music
The company said its digital rights management servers would be taken down, severely limiting the use of the files.
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VIA’s Nano finally faces off against Atom
We’ve covered VIA’s Nano processor a few times already, but so far we have had nothing but big claims from VIA and some information about the processor architecture. Today is the first time that the Nano processor (formerly known as Isaiah) as put head-to-head against it’s main rival, Intel’s recently released Atom. HotHardware summed up their [...]
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Apple Sneaking MobileMe Onto Windows PCs
Microsoft channel partners are irked by Apple's recent moves to bundle its Mobile cloud service with the latest version of iTunes for Windows.
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Mark/Space Launches Missing Sync for Symbian
Mark/Space, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a Symbian version of its data transfer software, The Missing Sync for Symbian. Now Mac users can take full advantage of Symbian OS devices from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola.
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Recent Original Stories
"The impending release of Windows Vista with its fancy Aero Glass special effects, along with the hasty addition of the similar XGL and Compiz technologies to the latest SUSE Linux release makes me think that programmers have a warped idea of what desktop computing is about.
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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.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Nov 2005 18:57 UTC
Reaffirming prior statements, Sun said that it intends to open-source its Java and N1 software at a later date. The free software will cover its Java Enterprise System set of server middleware, Java development tools and N1 management software.
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Linked by Adam S on Tue 26th Sep 2006 12:03 UTC
After several months, we're very proud to finally bring you the result of the OSNews Alternative OS Contest . It took us a while to publish them all, but we are done now. Read on for the results.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Oct 2005 11:44 UTC
Adobe, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, RealNetworks and Red Hat are all backing the new Linux standards effort led by the Free Standards Group . The nonprofit organisation plans to marshal their resources to form standards for key components of Linux desktop software, including libraries, application runtime and install time.
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Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead
eldavojohn writes "Sometime this morning, Facebook shut down Scrabulous to American and Canadian users. Scrabulous, we hardly knew ye." This is sadly unsurprising, now that Hasbro's finally taken legal action against the developers, after quite a few months of letting it go unmolested. Seems like they waited until there was an official Scrabble client available (also on Facebook), while the ...
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Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
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China spying on Olympics hotel guests: senator
China has installed Internet-spying equipment in all the major hotel chains serving the 2008 Summer Olympics, a U.S. senator charged on Tuesday.
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Drugstore.com starts a push for overseas sales
Drugstore.com Inc., No. 41 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide , will use E4X Inc.’s FiftyOne Global Ecommerce Solution to expand sales internationally. Drugstore.com expects to sell in 34 countries before year-end.
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THE AUTHORITY ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND LOSS PREVENTION
ADD OH ISSUE HEADLINES ON YOUR DESKTOP! You can now add HLR headlines to or or any other RSS reader by using our feed. Also receive a custom newsletter on just the industry you are interested in.
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Coming of age
Microsoft India is knocking on the doors of adulthood, hoping to find its own identity as distinct from its Redmond parent. Microsoft has seldom been good at making predictions.
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The Hub-o-sphere
-- We can't find Whitey Bulger in Boston, but we have no problem spotting Whitey Squirrel. [ Off on a Tangent .] -- Boston Beer Bike. Greaaaaat idea. [ That Hotness ] -- While Barack was getting buddy-buddy with Berlin, you may have noticed he calls out Boston drivers on global warming. [ Universal Hub ] -- Someone has really started an online petition to save the Newton Centre ...
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The Future of Web Fonts Looking Brighter
Web design is limited to the six or so fonts installed on computers by default. Recent developments by browsers have given designers hope, allowing them to utilize fonts embedded over the web. Safari and future versions of Firefox and Opera are already on board, but are font developers?
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Fifth of U.S. TV viewers watching online: survey
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A fifth of U.S. television viewers are putting down their remote controls and clicking on a mouse instead to watch primetime programs online -- particularly professional women, according to a new survey.
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Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation Xbox Live Market Place Downloadable Content Details
Special Aircrafts Colors and Missions
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An IT Admin's Dream Come True: The Promise of Desktop Virtualization
Join MokaFive co-founder and CTO, John Whaley, as he discusses desktop virtualization as a potential dream-come-true for IT administrators faced with demanding users and impending disasters. Whaley will cover how desktop virtualization provides solutions to accommodate a mobile workforce including secure remote access, ability to work online or offline, running complete operating systems and ...
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Those Heady Days of Sex, Drugs & Linux Are Over
Well, it looks like Richard Stallman, the father of FOSS, is going to have to cut his hair and get a suit because the warmed-over hippie movement he's been leading is no longer the radical anti-software establishment counter-culture his rag-tag army fancies it is. Nope, it IS the software establishment. That is the finding of the Standish Group, which after five years of research on open source ...
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Clear Channel Radio joins national online radio network
Clear Channel Radio and Katz Media Group formed a new online radio network that will feature content from leading AM, FM and Internet stations in the country. (CCU) (CCO)
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Car leaves 25th Street NE, hits house
CANTON Tywanna Brantley was sitting at her home computer on her lunch hour about 12:30 p.m. today when her house shook. "I felt this 'boom,' and I was scared," she said from her living room at 2430 25th St. NE.
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ParaFin Corporation Asset Manager Sells Off Non Hydrocarbon Related Assets. Focus Will Be on the Development of the ...
ParaFin Corporation: On July 17TH, 2008, Mr. Francisco A. Sáez, Asset Manager of ParaFin and the Board of Directors has made the decision to divest ParaFin of non hydrocarbon assets. ParaFin announces the sale of its PC-E ergonomic Work Station, the PC-E Internet Web sites, e-Mail addresses, intellectual properties and all development concepts to METARUNNER INC. for US$6,000,000.00 and a five ...
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