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Birmingham elementary students attend summer XO laptop workshop
Two young girls were sitting at a table with a small green and white laptop marked with an "XO" on its lid. Screwdrivers in hand, they carefully tried to take the screws out and take the machine apart to learn about its inner workings.
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Get to know the Linux Logical Volume Manager
Hard drives are slow and fail often, and though abolished for working memory ages ago, fixed-size partitions are still the predominant mode of storage space allocation. As if worrying about speed and data loss weren't enough, you also have to worry about whether your partition size calculations were just right when you were installing a server or whether you'll wind up in the unenviable position ...
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Adobe releases Lightroom 2
ADOBE HAS ANNOUNCED the official release of Photoshop Lightroom 2. The company website described the product as the photographer's " essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs".
The Inquirer |
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StanChart OLT launches Islamic FX online services
30 July 2008 The Shariah-compliant version of Standard Chartered Bank's Online Treasury (OLT) proprietary foreign exchange trading and hedging platform has been re-launched under the bank's global brand for Islamic products - Standard Chartered Saadiq.
Zawya |
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Rogers' wireless sales soften
Rogers Communications Inc. could be looking at a rough road ahead that even its exclusive Canadian sales rights to the iPhone may be unable to smooth.
The Globe and Mail |
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Apple finishes restoring MobileMe mail
Apple has completed restoration of mail service to the claimed one per cent of MobileMe customers that found themselves without email. "We have completed restoring Mail service, including historical messages, to all of the 1% of affected members.
Macworld UK |
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'Hacker' awaits US extradition ruling
A Briton accused of the "biggest computer hack of all time" is waiting to hear if he has escaped extradition to the US.
ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Police are banned from social site
Poland's national police headquarters has banned officers from using a popular social networking site similar to Facebook because they were spending too much time using it, a newspaper said Monday.
Nanaimo Daily News |
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County upgrades sex offender tracking
BRIDGETON -- A recently finished computer upgrade at the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office is making it easier to track convicted sex offenders and to keep communities on notice.
Daily Journal |
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Consumers discover power on Internet gripe sites
OTTAWA -- It's the first time Celenia Serrano turned to the Internet to gripe about a corporate decision, but her anger had been simmering for months.
Vancouver Sun |
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Local Beat 7/30/08
For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun Web site at www.corsicanadailysun.com.
Corsicana Daily Sun |
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Asus's £199 Eee Box coming in September
Intel Atom-based desktop cuts power usage Asus has confirmed that the desktop version of its popular Eee PC mini laptop - called the Eee Box - will be available in the UK in September for £199.
PC Advisor |
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9/11 CON HID IN PLAIN (WEB) SITE
An up-and-coming Internet gossip blogger covering the Los Angeles gay scene has been outed as a fugitive scam artist who ripped off charities with a phony tale of a lover killed on 9/11. "Boy About Town" blogger Patric Ian Henn, 33, once a regular...
New York Post |
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Web curbs for Olympic journalists
Journalists covering the Beijing Olympics will not have completely uncensored internet access, Chinese officials admit.
BBC News |
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'£5 laptop' will actually cost £50
Minister clarifies misleading announcement The '$10 laptop' announced yesterday by the Indian government will actually cost ten times that amount, it's been revealed.
PC Advisor |
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Apple: MobileMe is finally restored
Historial messages are recovered All MobileMe customers that found themselves without email over the past week have had their service restored, according to Apple. The company said 1 percent of members were affected by the mail problems.
PC Advisor |
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BOATER DIES A HERO
A computer whiz on a boat ride with four childhood pals saved their lives by calling 911 from under the craft after it capsized in the dark on the Hudson River - but wound up drowning before rescuers could reach him, authorities said yesterday...
New York Post |
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HP, Intel and Yahoo partner on cloud computing
IT giants form Cloud Computing Test Bed HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure.
PC Advisor |
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MSN Direct gets satnav support
Microsoft releases API to developers Microsoft has released an API that allows websites to send location information to GPS navigation devices as part of an expansion of its MSN Direct services.
PC Advisor |
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Site review: Google Knol beta
Google Knol, the search engine giant's answer to Wikipedia, launched in public beta last week. We've taken a look to see how it measures up to the popular online encyclopedia, and whether it offers any potential SEO benefits...
e-Consultancy |
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Lawsuit targets Nintendo DS piracy
Device copies games for handheld console Nintendo and a group of 53 game software companies have filed a lawsuit against five companies they allege sold a device that enables copied games to be played on the Nintendo DS handheld console.
PC Advisor |
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Malast, Underwood reflect on time at Rutgers
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The news trickled across the Internet message boards on Feb. 3, 2004, and for a moment it appeared as if Kevin Malast was a day late in signing with the Rutgers University football team.
Daily Record |
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Kingston Technology launches new DataTraveler 101
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced the release of the new DataTraveler 101, a stylish USB drive featuring security software and is available in bold, fashionable colours.
AME Info |
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Quick Money Sunflashes
IN TOMORROW'S PAPER:
Toronto Sun |
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This article
is about KDE's memory usage, but there are comparisons with other solutions for your desktop. Lubos Lunak concludes there is still work to do and there is some lowhanging fruit, but KDE does already a nice job on keeping its memory usage low.
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