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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jul 2007 22:49 UTC
"'Siag, it sucks less!' This is the slogan for Siag Office . This and the self-effacing name for the Siag Office Word Processor, Pathetic Writer, might leave you thinking that this office suite is a mere plaything, a university student's cobbled-together programming assignment.
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Hopefuls seek slice of Google's search-ad billions
New York-based Clickable has raised $14.5m in funding to help push its search-ad applications, while Marchex has retooled its local-search advertising platform
ZDNet UK |
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China to censor Internet during Games
Will India do better at this year's Olympics? Foreign reporters will not have complete access to the Internet during the Beijing Olympics, Games organisers said on Wednesday, reversing a pledge to bring down the Chinese firewall of censorship.
NDTV |
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The more things change
Linux and Windows have an unexpected commonality: development in both groups is constrained by the relative lack of change in Intel's x86 products - relative, that is, to hardware progress being made in the PPC, SPARC, and IBM/Cell communities where things like transactional memory, hardware scout, and parallel ultra-high...
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Tech Weekly podcast: Web startup gossip
We visit Estonia's crack cybercrime unit and Paul Carr - self proclaimed new medua whore spills the beans on the bad behaviour in the start-up scene
Guardian Unlimited |
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Acer will cut more jobs in North Sioux City
SIOUX CITY -- Acer will be cutting an additional 115 jobs in North Sioux City and Irvine, Calif., as it closes down the Gateway direct sales unit.
Sioux City Journal |
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Olympics: China to censor Internet during Games - organisers
Foreign reporters will not have complete access to the Internet during the Beijing Olympics, Games organisers said Wednesday, reversing a pledge to bring down the Chinese firewall of censorship.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Theft of 'sentimental' chair prompts online reward offer
It wasn't what most people would call a family heirloom, but the old-fashioned pink metal lawn chair was Deanna Cox's mother's chair. She realized how much it meant to her after someone took it from her yard last month.
Arizona Daily Star |
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Trico expands its web service to Vail
Trico Electric Cooperative, the utility serving parts of the Northwest and Marana, has expanded its high-speed wireless Internet product to Vail. Wi-Power has been available in the Northwest and west Tucson for several years.
Explorer News |
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Mediacom working to restore services
Several Mediacom customers in the Quad-City area are still waiting for their Internet and cable services to be restored, but company officials say they can’t give a firm date by which everything will be repaired.
Quad-City Times |
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Marina del Rey woman arrested in HGH case
Woman is charged with selling illegal growth hormone and fake Botox. » BLOG: Keep up to date with South Bay crime and court news
Daily Breeze |
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Marchex Launches Next-Generation Local Advertising Platform
Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX) (NASDAQ: MCHXP) a local search and advertising company, today announced that it has launched Marchex Connect 2.0, its next-generation local advertising platform. Marchex Connect 2.0 integrates three important advertising products: online advertising, call-based advertising and Business Profile Pages, which are fully trackable branded Web pages that give advertisers ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Amazon Mechanical Turk Launches New Web-Based Tools That Bring the Power of an On-Demand Workforce to Businesses ...
Amazon Web Services LLC ("AWS"), a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today launched a new set of web-based tools for Amazon Mechanical Turk that make it easy for businesses to use Mechanical Turk to outsource work to an on-demand, scalable workforce via a simple graphical interface--in just a few minutes and without writing any code. The new web-based interface guides business users ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Battle over Internet radio royalties could be settled soon
WASHINGTON — A way of life for Internet radio stations, their listeners and musicians is hanging in the balance as supporters of competing legislation vie to determine their fates before Congress recesses for the summer.
The Tennessean |
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Ventelo Selects Callidus Software Suite for Norwegian Sales Performance Management
Ventelo Selects Callidus Software Suite for Norwegian Sales Performance Management
Fox News |
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Hitachi Delivers High-Capacity, Low-Power Digital Video Storage for the Tera Era
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) today introduced two new CinemaStar(TM) hard drives optimized for use in digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes. The CinemaStar(TM) 7K1000.B is available in a broad range of capacities up to one terabyte (1TB) and the CinemaStar 5K320 delivers up to 320GB of capacity and incorporates innovative Hitachi CoolSpin(TM) technology.
Centre Daily Times |
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More Adults Over 50 Use the Internet than Ever Before
If you regularly use the Internet, you are in good company. The number of adults over 50 who use the Internet is growing steadily, according to a Harris Poll. How...
About.com |
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Recent Original Stories
"When choosing an operating system for use in your enterprise , you need to look beyond the security capabilities 'on the box' and think about how the OS really affects you over the long haul.
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FTC: Kids target of $1.6 billion in food ads
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.
San Mateo Daily Journal |
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New online networking community for corporate travel industry
American Express Business Travel has plans to launch a business-to-business online networking community, BusinessTravelConnexion.com, for the corporate travel industry.
eyefortravel.com |
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Recent Original Stories
The 17" MacBook Pro has just been released. The 17" model has Firewire 800 and 8x dual layer Superdrive, both of which the 15.4" version lacks. The new MacBook Pro was presented during the NAB2006 . The machine will cost $2799,- in the US, or round and about EUR 2879,- (differs per country) in the EU, or GBP 1999,- if you live in the UK.
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Journalists battling for rights promised for Olympics in Beijing
BEIJING -- Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work. ... - By STEPHEN WADE The Associated Press
Rutland Herald |
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3000 stolen passports: Yes they *can* be hacked says NO2ID
"Yes; but they could be [hacked] anyway. NO2ID demonstrated well over a year ago for the Mail that we could get all the data off the ePassport *without opening the envelope it is delivered in*.
PublicTechnology.net |
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Tens of millions suffer from Internet addiction
WASHINGTON —For a growing number of people, the Internet is an out-of-control habit instead of a necessary part of life.
The Tennessean |
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Coming to a cellphone near you: Stephen King's original series `N'
Stephen King fans can download a video companion to the author's upcoming short story collection on their mobile phones starting this week.
Miami Herald |
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