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Homeless man arrested, charged with child porn
VALPARAISO -- A computer disc a man left behind in a Valparaiso homeless shelter led to him being arrested on child pornography charges.
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ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC)
- What is a UMPC? Ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) is a hand-held computing device capable of running a Windows operating system. A UMPC is larger than a personal digital assistant ( PDA ) but smaller than a laptop.
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Having Problems Sleeping? Maybe Your Gadgets Are To Blame
We live in a world where the proliferation of gadgets has reached epidemic proportions. While this brings a number of positive benefits it also seems as though having a number of gadgets in the room you sleep in could be detrimental to how easy it is to nod off . Always on devices such as routers (and probably your computer if you're anything like me) are most to blame, and more specifically ...
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Recent Original Stories
After yesterday's unconfirmed rumour about Ubuntu being pre-installed on Dell machines, it has now become official. In a joint statement released today, Dell and Canonical announced that Dell will now offer laptops and desktop computers pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux 7.04 . The computers will be sold via Dell's web site, said Canonical's director of operations Jane Silber.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft suffered a stunning defeat on Monday when a European Union court backed a European Commission ruling that the US software giant illegally abused its market power to crush competitors.
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Bird causes power outage in Hanover
A blown transformer and downed lines on Carlisle Street in Hanover caused a power outage Tuesday afternoon and might have been the cause of other local sparks and outages as the system came back online that night.
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Computer projects demonstrated by Microsoft
The alternative user interface is one of the biggest trends in computing - letting people control machines with digital pens, fingers and natural motions. Or by flapping their arms like a bird. A report on concepts presented at Microsoft's annual Faculty Summit Tuesday in Redmond.
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Reuters Loses Right To Use Crucial IM Technology
Thomson Reuters Corp. must remove a crucial layer of software from its instant messaging service beginning Friday under a federal court order that threatens to disrupt communications within dozens of stock brokerages and banks.
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Portugal To Sell 500,000 Of Intel's Classmate PCs
Intel Corp.'s low-cost laptop initiative is set to get a boost Wednesday from Portugal's government, which is pledging to provide elementary school students with 500,000 computers based on the chipmaker's Classmate PC design.
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Police: 'We do not engage in this sort of surveillance'
The type of spying by state police on lawful anti-war and anti-death penalty protesters that prompted calls for state and congressional action last week does not occur in Baltimore County, according to a county police spokesman, because county police adhere to federal rules on criminal intelligence operations.
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Further Softening in Online Advertised Job Vacancies in July, The Conference Board Reports
In July 2008, there were 3,864,100 online advertised job vacancies, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series released today. This is down 330,800 from June's level of 4,194,900 , a decline that is larger than seasonally expected for this month.
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SSD vs. SATA RAID: A performance benchmark
Solid state drives (SSD) have many advantages over traditional spinning-platter hard drives including no noise, low power and heat generation, good resistance to shock, and most importantly, extremely low seek times. To see just how much an SSD might improve performance, I used Bonnie++ to benchmark a contemporary SSD as it might be used in a laptop computer.
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CNN - Admitted NASA, Pentagon Hacker Loses Appeal
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Corning 2Q profit jumps on gain; outlook is weak
By BEN DOBBIN ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Corning Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit surged thanks to a hefty one-time tax gain and strong demand for glass used in flat-screen televisions and computers.
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TechInsights' TechOnline Launches Comprehensive Site for Designers of Digital Home Systems and Software
Today, TechOnline formally launched DigitalHomeDesignLine.com, the one-stop resource aimed squarely at designers of systems and software for the digital home. DigitalHome is TechOnline's 20th design-oriented community and like the others provides online support environments for engineers and engineering managers.
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Dell tests music player to renew iPod battle: report
BANGALORE (Reuters) - In recent months, personal computer maker Dell Inc. (DELL.O), has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September, the Wall Street Journal newspaper said, citing several Dell officials.
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Chinese Authorities Order Olympic Hotels To Install Spy Gear
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback claims foreign-owned hotels have been asked to install Internet monitoring equipment to spy on hotel guests during the Beijing Games.
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Teens plead not guilty to hacking school computers
Two Orange County high school seniors say they didn't hack into school computers to steal tests or change grades.
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To Kill or Not To Kill a Project?
To Kill or Not To Kill a Project? ( Page 1 of 2 ) Is terminating a project a waste of the efforts already exerted? Or is it an evolution of mature information technology practices? Based on the survey findings of one IT governance organization, the answer depends on whom you ask.
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"quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux .
Linux may soon have a stronger open-source competitor on the desktop if FreeBSD's plans come to fruition. FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "Lots of work is going on to make FreeBSD more friendly on the desktop," Long said.
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Dell Studio 17 quickly hacked to run OSx86
Filed under: Laptops Usually it's "only a matter of time" before some new-fangled laptop destined for a Windows kind of life up and gets OSx86 installed on it, but for the Dell Studio , that matter of time was extremely short. Witness a Studio 17 running Leopard out of the box, save for a few minor problems like lack of full video support, sound, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet. ...
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Harvard Opens Education Portal in Allston
Although summer break began in June, some Allston-Brighton students have found themselves back in the classroom, learning about science from undergraduate mentors at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.
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Singing the New-PC Blues
Setting up a new system is a major hassle--and the Web doesn't provide much help.
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EEMBC Publishes New Certified Scores for Freescale i.MX31 With ARM Compiler
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium today announced the publication of new certified benchmark scores for the ARM processor-based Freescale i.MX31 multimedia applications processor.
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Flash Memory Summit 2008 to Host "20 Years of Flash" Commemorative Exhibit
Flash memory will celebrate its 20th birthday during the third annual Flash Memory Summit at the Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, California on August 12-14, 2008. Archival items from Intel, Kingston Technology, Samsung, SanDisk, Spansion, and Toshiba commemorating the evolution of flash from 1988 to today will be on display in the Exhibit Hall on August 13 from Noon to 2:00 p.m. and from ...
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