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Creative rolls out (working) driver update for X-Fi cards
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops While at least one enterprising individual did his best to get Creative's X-Fi sound cards to play nice with Vista, Creative wasn't exactly keen on that idea and apparently decided to have a go at updating its drivers itself instead (go figure). Among other things, the new, long overdue drivers supposedly fix the problematic Dolby Digital and DTS ...
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Adobe updates Photoshop Express with new features
Adobe has updated its online photo sharing and editing Web site, Photoshop Express with a plethora of new features, including one click resizing and drag and drop from the desktop.
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Schools to look at new phone system
The school district is exploring a new broadband-based phone system officials hope to install to help ease communication throughout the buildings and give teachers their own voice mailboxes.
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IOC "surprised" by Games web censorship
The media should have been told they would not have total Internet freedom before arriving for the Beijing Olympics, a senior IOC official said on Thursday, as rights groups piled criticism on both the IOC and host China.
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Canton attorney convicted on child pornography charges
A Canton attorney was convicted today of possessing and viewing child pornography on his two home computers. Brian J. Butler, 39, will be sentenced Aug. 25 by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Robert M. Gippin. He was immediately taken into custody following the guilty findings.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Oct 2006 21:01 UTC
"Eventually, we're going to see Vista come out. Yes, I know, even at this late date, Vista is still getting unexpected delays - it was set to go to manufacturing Oct. 25, but it's not going to make it - but it is on its way.
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Faster FireWire on way for gigabit generation
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers approves a specification that gives support for bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps.
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Canton attorney convicted on child pornography charges
A Canton attorney was convicted today of possessing and viewing child pornography on his two home computers. Brian J. Butler, 39, will be sentenced Aug. 25 by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Robert M. Gippin. He was immediately taken into custody following the guilty findings.
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Ergotron Promotes Productive Computing Benefits of Using Multiple Computer Displays in Dare2Dual Promotion
In an effort to raise awareness of the productivity benefits of using more than one computer display, Ergotron is launching a national promotion called Dare2Dual, which kicks off August 1, 2008.
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GMP strengthens its investment advisor desktop
Full-service investment firm GMP Private Client L.P. announced today that it has enlisted the services of Toogood Financial Systems to provide software for portfolio management, performance measurement, modeling, trade order management, and client reporting.
Investment Executive |
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National Research Corporation to Broadcast Its Second Quarter 2008 Conference Call Live on the Internet
LINCOLN, Neb.----National Research Corporation , a leader in healthcare performance measurement, today announced that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its second quarter 2008 earnings conference call on Wednesday, August 6, 2008.
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Should you duck under table during an earthquake?
Internet gossip sets off debate.
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Acer scales down Aspire one netbook shipment target
Component supply problems and software development delays caused Acer to delay the launch of its Aspire one netbook by a month, leading it to revise down its shipment target for this year. The world's third-largest PC vendor now expects to ship 5 million to 6 million Aspire ones in 2008, down from a previous estimate of 5 million to 7 million, said Gianfranco Lanci, CEO of Acer, ...
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FireWire gets a speed boost, but USB will catch up in time
FireWire versus USB isn't exactly the most exciting of format wars -- we are talking about data cables, after all. Most people use one or the other for connecting all manner of digital paraphernalia to their PC (and more often than not, USB 2.0) but probably don't give the underlying technology much of a though.
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NM tax-free weekend
From 12:01 a.m. Friday until midnight Sunday, certain items can be purchased without gross receipt taxes collected for those items. Clothes, school supplies and computers are on the list, including:
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LG
Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. At the Consumer Electronics Show last January, LG teased people with an announcement that it would introduce some sort of device that would play movies on Netflix’s streaming, on-demand service. But it wouldn’t say what device or how much it would cost.
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Nokia To Invest $150 Million In Venture Arm Growth
Nokia will invest a further $150 million into its venture investment arm, hoping to find emerging Internet services from China and India, the world's largest cellphone maker said Thursday.
InformationWeek |
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Ancient device may have predicted eclipses
CARDIFF, Wales, July 31 (UPI) -- An ancient Greek mechanical device regarded by some experts as the world's first computer may have foresaw solar eclipses, studies indicate.
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Computer games could get cinema-style ratings
LONDON (Reuters) - All computer games could get cinema-style age ratings to protect children from increasingly realistic and violent titles, the government said on Thursday.
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Yahoo relents, gives coupons, refunds to music DRM captives
Yahoo announced last week that it would be shutting down its DRM authentication servers in September, leaving Yahoo Music customers out in the cold. Now, the company says it will offer coupons to customers who want to repurchase their music from Rhapsody's DRM-free store, or refunds to those who just want their darn money back. Read More...
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Symantec Profit Rises As It Signs More Big Deals
Chief Executive John Thompson noted the company's recent signing of 85 contracts with a value greater than $1 million.
InformationWeek |
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Dell Downplays Report Of Music Device
Dell launched a line of MP3 music players in 2003, but poor sales prompted the company to pull the plug in 2006.
InformationWeek |
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Rebooting Windows: How To Recover From Vista Crashes
We've pulled together a passel of little-known software backup and repair techniques so you won't have to reinstall Vista from scratch, if it gets trashed or hits a fatal startup error.
InformationWeek |
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Sweet! American Journalism Review
Sweet! Welcome to the high-energy world of Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times Washington bureau chief, indefatigable blogger, Obama watchdog—and interviewing technique guru.
American Journalism Review |
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De Oro high school gets 10 computers
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/31 July) -- The Balulang National High School here has received 10 sets of computers and accessories that will be connected to the Internet, according to the Philippine Information Agency.
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