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Back to school budgeting
GREENVILLE - With most families reeling after a summer of record-high gas and food prices, the annual back-to-school shopping spree seems destined to be a budget-buster. More than 70 percent of DDT readers report that the economy has affected their back-to-school budget this year, according to a recent online poll.
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Popular Scrabble knockoff suspended on Facebook
(AP:NEW YORK) The creators of a Scrabble knockoff responsible for countless hours at the online hangout Facebook suspended their word game Tuesday after being hit with a lawsuit, disappointing fans who logged on expecting to make their next moves.
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Yahoo, Intel and HP join to create distributed computer 'cloud' for research
Calling it the Cloud Computing Test Bed, HP, Intel and Yahoo today announced a multi-datacenter testing environment to promote internet-scale open source collaboration.
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Recent Original Stories
EyeOS is a free, cross-platform personal content manager system based upon the style of a desktop operating system. The base package includes the whole operating system structure and ten apps: a calendar, file manager, text editor, internal messenger, browser and calculator.
New Mobile Computing |
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SDCC '08 - Warner Bros. Interactive Announces Watchmen Game
Press Release Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will publish WATCHMEN, an episodic downloadable game based on the upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures' film for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in 2009. The game captures the action and intrigue of the "Watchmen" feature film, directed by Zack Snyder, who ...
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FTC: Companies spent $1.6 billion on food and drink ads aimed at kids
WASHINGTON - Marketing food and drinks to children these days occurs with more than just a few television ads. It involves promotional displays at grocery stores and packaging that directs them to Web sites where they can play games, win prizes or send e-cards to a friend.
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SDCC '08 - Ed Brubaker Creates Live-Action Online Series
Press Release San Diego, CA. - July 24, 2008 - Comics mastermind and Eisner Award-winning writer Ed Brubaker (Criminal, The Death of Captain America) and White Rock Lake Productions have teamed up to produce Angel of Death, a new live-action series for Crackle.com, Sony Pictures Entertainment's online video network, that will premiere in 2009.
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Pickens sells all 10 million shares of Yahoo
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 1:54 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Billionaire investor and Oklahoma native T.Boone Pickens has sold all his shares of Yahoo over the way the Internet company's management handled sales talks with Microsoft.
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Yahoo in 'cloud computing' research with HP-Intel
Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo and technology giants Intel and Hewlett Packard on Tuesday announced an alliance to advance "cloud computing," backing a trend that would reduce reliance on packaged software.
TODAYonline |
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ISPs agree in NY to limit child-porn access
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — New York's attorney general says several more Internet service providers have agreed to limit access to child pornography.
Plattsburgh Press Republican |
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Sign Up for KESQ NewsChannel 3 News Flash
You can download this great tool to use on your home computer! STEP 1: Complete the form below to get your copy of KESQ NewsChannel 3 NewsFlash. STEP 2 : Click the Download Now button.
KESQ Palm Springs |
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HP, Intel, Yahoo Join Government, Academia In Cloud Computing Research
Each of the founding members will host a cloud-computing infrastructure largely based on HP computers and Intel processors in six data centers.
InformationWeek |
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Nintendo Joins 54 Companies to Battle DS Piracy in Japan
Lawsuit filed to ban the sale of ubiquitous DS flash carts.
1up.com |
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Vonage Unveils Traveling VoIP Service
The Vonage Pro calling plan allows subscribers to use their home phone numbers virtually anywhere they can find a high-speed Internet connection.
InformationWeek |
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Park City Healthcare Chooses iMedica Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) Technology
DALLAS----iMedica Corporation, a leading developer of healthcare software solutions for physician practices, announced today that Park City Healthcare in Utah, one of the largest clinics in the area, has chosen iMedica’s Electronic Health Record and Practice Management solution after an extensive search.
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The Bauminator
2:45 PM -- Well, they say timing is everything. With Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) about to get smacked up by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for throttling peer-to-peer (P2P) apps and allegedly violating the agency's Internet principles, the blogosphere was abuzz after learning this week that AT&T Inc.
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Cyber Corner: Workers do surf the ’Net
Hello again, everyone. Don’t hate me, but I’m about to blow your cover.
The Pottsville Republican & Herald |
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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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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 19:29 UTC
Jeff Atwood explains why Vista uses so much memory. "You have to stop thinking of system memory as a resource and start thinking of it as a a cache . Just like the level 1 and level 2 cache on your CPU, system memory is yet another type of high-speed cache that sits between your computer and the disk drive.
OS News |
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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.
InformationWeek |
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The FSF today released version 3 of the GNU GPL
, the popular free software license. "Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom.
OS News |
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ISPs agree in NY to limit child-porn access
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — New York's attorney general says several more Internet service providers have agreed to limit access to child pornography.
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ISPs agree in NY to limit child-porn access
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. New York's attorney general says several more Internet service providers have agreed to limit access to child pornography. Andrew Cuomo says Comcast, NetZero, Juno, and BlueLight Internet will purge their servers of child porn sites and eliminate access to child porn newsgroups.
WRGB Albany |
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Gartner Predicts $100 Notebook Will Take Years To Achieve
The research firm says the industry also needs to answer questions on power availability and the cost and availability of Internet connections.
InformationWeek |
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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.
InformationWeek |
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