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Corning 2Q profit jumps on gain; outlook is weak
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. But it forecast third-quarter sales below Wall Street expectations, and its shares dropped 4 percent.
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Reporters learn to beat censor
Reporters Without Borders is encouraging journalists covering the Beijing Olympics to skirt censorship with internet tips.
News 24 South Africa |
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Baggage system breakdown delays flights
A software glitch crippled the baggage handling system in an American Airlines terminal at Kennedy Airport, delaying some flights
ABC 13 Houston |
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Cloud Computing Dream Team
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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Yahoo To Reimburse Customers Of DRM-Protected Music
People who purchased from Yahoo's soon-to-be-closed online music store will be offered coupons for MP3s from Rhapsody.
InformationWeek |
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China accused of web censorship
China has been accused of backtracking on promises to protect press freedom during the Beijing Olympics.
ITV.com |
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Microsoft Prepares For Post-Windows Era With 'Midori'
The operating system is being designed from the ground up to support Internet-based computing and multicore architectures.
InformationWeek |
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Tech Boys' Kryptonite (Fine, Julia Allison) [The Internets]
newVideoPlayer("/celebrechaun.flv", 506, 423,""); Fameball web boy Charles Forman's hilarious talk at last night's Ignite tech conference was called "How to Date a Celebrechaun." These are the types...
Gawker |
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Intel's Barrett Sees No Slowdown In World PC Market
Intel, the world's biggest microchip producer, expects no slowdown in global demand for PCs despite economic problems in the United States and in other countries, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett said Wednesday.
InformationWeek |
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British Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal
UFO fanatic Gary McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 U.S. military computer systems in 2001 and 2002 and may face as many as 70 years in a U.S. prison.
InformationWeek |
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Microsoft Offers In-Car Internet Search Service To Automakers
The Microsoft service comes as automakers begin to embrace the Internet, starting with wireless connection service Chrysler will offer beginning next month.
InformationWeek |
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Free Software Group Seeks To Disrupt Apple Genius Bars
The Free Software Foundation, unhappy with Apple's restrictions on the iPhone, is urging members to overload the appointment schedule at the Genius Bars.
InformationWeek |
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Struggling Banks Turn To Social Networking
Fiserv has launched a Facebook application called MyMoney that lets users pay bills, make transfers, and check balances.
InformationWeek |
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Mediaset Sues Google's YouTube, Seeks $780 million
Italian publisher Mediaset said on Wednesday it had filed suit against Internet search company Google and its unit YouTube for illegal use of its materials.
InformationWeek |
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Computing companies testing bounds of the cloud
Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., and Yahoo Inc. are putting "cloud computing" to the test with help from researchers at the University of Illinois. Cloud computing allows computer users or companies to access programs installed remotely in big data centers....
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Skyfire Beta Available For Some Symbian Handsets
The mobile browser enables users to access and have full interaction with Web pages that have Flash, Ajax, Java, and more.
InformationWeek |
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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.
InformationWeek |
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HL:Rogers says sales of iPhone are ahead of supply but it has no shortages@
MONTREAL _ Sales of the iPhone in Canada are still outpacing supply, but the device's exclusive carrier Rogers Wireless (TMX:RCI.B) says it's getting weekly shipments from manufacturer Apple Inc. to help meet the demand.
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East Harlem Church Receives Help From Web Site
A century-old church in East Harlem needed millions of dollars in repairs, but its parishioners didn't have the money to fix them. That didn't stop the pastor from believing, and now his prayers are being answered with a little help from technology.
WCBS-TV New York |
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Man sends Murfreesboro woman fake check for $2,500 purse and wallet
A 30-year-old Murfreesboro woman notified police that she was defrauded of more than $2,500 dollars after making a transaction over the Internet via Craiglist.
Daily News Journal |
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Review of Sun's Free Open Source Virtual Machine
goombah99 writes "After snapping up virtualization company InnoTek at the beginning of the year, Sun has recently released VirtualBox as a fully functional and highly polished free GPL open source x86 Virtual Macine. It can host 32- or 64-bit Linux, Windows XP Vista and 98, OpenSolaris and DOS. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix platforms. The download is just 27MB. A review of it on ...
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City Link Goes Digital, Introduces Live Internet Chat
City Link, Winston-Salem's 24-hour-a-day citizen call center, is offering something new. Instead of calling in your question or suggestion about city services and government, residents can now chat live the internet. FOX8's Neill McNeill reports.
WGHP Greensboro |
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Recent Original Stories
It's that time of the year again . "If 'a year of GNU/Linux on the desktop' is defined as a year when GNU/Linux has finally started its steady encroachment to the desktop then 2006 is the year.
New Mobile Computing |
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Small Dell Desktops Tout Energy Savings and Look Good
Hybrid line emphasizes conservation but packs enough power to play DVDs and Web video.
US News & World Report |
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Baggage system breakdown delays flights at JFK
A software glitch crippled the baggage handling system in an American Airlines terminal at Kennedy Airport today, delaying some flights and causing a luggage pileup at ticket counters.
Los Angeles Times |
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