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Profit down, revenue up at BT
Janie Davies, Computing , Thursday 31 July 2008 at 12:12:00 Managed solutions growth boosts revenue at BT, but profits fall BT has unveiled a seven per cent fall in first-quarter profit to £613m, compared with £658m for the same period last year....
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House of Fraser deploys new POS system
Angelica Mari, Computing , Thursday 31 July 2008 at 12:08:00 Retailer hopes to gain advantage amid tough trading conditions by investing in in-store technology Department store House of Fraser is using a new point-of-sale (POS) system for four of its new stores in the UK and Ireland....
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YouTube faces more copyright legal action
Ambrose McNevin, Computing , Thursday 31 July 2008 at 11:00:00 €500m lawsuit launched by Italian media giant Google-owned YouTube.com is facing a €500m lawsuit from Italian broadcaster Mediaset Spa. Mediaset says about 4,600 of its copyrighted clips (325 hours of transmission) are posted on the video-sharing site....
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OU freshman Jarboe raps about weapons on Internet video
Associated Press - July 31, 2008 12:05 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Freshman Oklahoma receiver Josh Jarboe raps about carrying guns and shooting people in a video circulating on the...
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China continues to censor internet for Olympics
Tom Young, Computing , Thursday 31 July 2008 at 10:19:00 Foreign media concerned about being unable to do their jobs China will continue to censor the internet during the Olympic Games, causing concern for the 20,000 members of the media who will be covering the event....
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Global Biotechnology Company Licenses WinNonlin AutoPilot
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 31, 2008 -- Pharsight Corporation , a leading provider of software, strategic consulting, and regulatory services for optimizing clinical drug development, today announced that a global biotechnology company has purchased WinNonlin AutoPilot to use in conjunction with its licenses of WinNonlin and Pharsight Knowledgebase Server (PKS).
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DJ DGAP-Adhoc: Valor Computerized Systems Ltd. Announces Option Grant
Valor Computerized Systems Ltd. / Miscellaneous 31.07.2008 Release of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Advanced Equities Financial Corp. to Utilize Modavox BoomBox(TM) Video for Customized Broadcasting and Communications ...
PHOENIX, BUSINESS WIRE -- Modavox, Inc. (OTCBB:MDVX), Internet broadcasting pioneer and holder of several patented technologies, announced today that through the use of its patented BoomBox(TM) Video 2.0 software the company will provide video publication and secure distribution of interactive Internet broadcasts for Advanced Equities Financial Corp. (Advanced Equities).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet.
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Yahoo exec builds Yuil to parody Cuil, but then removes it
Using Yahoo's Build your Own Search Service (BOSS), Yahoo Vice President of Platforms Sam Pullara built a parody of the newly-launched search engine Cuil, calling it Yuil.
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In light of the many misunderstandings about Linux, software repositories and installation of packages, part one of ...
about it. It explains why the nature of Free Software leads to a more userfriendly software installation setup for Linux distributions in general, as compared to proprietary systems such as the current desktop market leader. The process is illustrated with Mandriva Linux tools.
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Study: Boulder and Front Range 'addicted' to e-mail
Fading are the days of blinking lights on answering machines and growing are the ways of communicating, connecting and reconnecting via the World Wide Web — especially along the Front Range.
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KDE's Aaron Seigo also shares his thoughts
"The next-generation of the KDE open source project, version 4.0, has been touted as the beginning of a new era in desktop computing, but only two months from the first release some users are wondering if it's just all hype . KDE 4.0 will bring a collection of new technologies to the Linux and Unix desktop, but there are uncertainties around how much of it will be included in the initial release.
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Computer games could get cinema-style ratings
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could give all computer games cinema-style age ratings to protect children from increasingly realistic and violent titles, the government said on Thursday.
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Linked by Adam S on Mon 29th Aug 2005 21:37 UTC
Linuxwatch.com is running a great story called " Five Reasons NOT To Use Linux ." It includes a nice list of reasons why one might want to steer clear of Linux, along with a nice comparison to how easily these reasons are addressed in Microsoft Windows.
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Carl Icahn to Sit Out Yahoo Meeting
Carl Icahn has been a busy blogger. The latest posts on his Icahn Report, which appeared Thursday morning, comprise of a critique of the financial press and an explanation of why he dropped his proxy fight with Yahoo . He also said that, after months of highly public feuding with Yahoo, he won’t be making an appearance at its upcoming shareholder meeting.
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Exorcise the Demons That Come Preinstalled
Call it junkware. Or bloatware or demoware or adware. It?s the software preinstalled on new Windows computers. In other words, marketers are using the computer you just bought as a billboard.
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First It Was Song Downloads. Now It?s Organic Chemistry.
Between used books and pirated copies offered for illegal download, the textbook industry has begun to transition to other models of distribution and sales.
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Amazon Offers Other Sites Use of Its Payment Service
The Seattle-based online retailer unveiled a new payment service that it will offer other online retailers to use on their Web sites.
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Find an Undervalued Asset. Fix It Up. Flip It. (Now It?s Web Sites, Not Houses)
A wave of entrepreneurs are using free software to buy niche Web sites and fix them up with the hope of reselling them.
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energyXT Now on the Portable Linux Audio Studio Indamixx
XT Software AS has signed an agreement with Trinity Audio Group Inc to integrate energyXT Indamixx Version, a super compact DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), with Indamixx, a handheld and portable Linux studio based on Samsung Q1 Ultra. Indamixx with energyXT inside is in sale worldwide.
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OU freshman Jarboe raps about weapons on Internet video
Associated Press - July 31, 2008 12:05 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Freshman Oklahoma receiver Josh Jarboe raps about carrying guns and shooting people in a video circulating on the...
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Icahn hopes to work 'harmoniously' with new Yahoo board
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he will not attend Friday board meeting and that he hopes the peace he made with Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock will turn into "a beautiful friendship."
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NFL Finally Gets Into the Digital Game
For the last few years, it's been easier to sack New England quarterback Tom Brady than to get the National Football League thinking about a more progressive Internet strategy. "They've been very dictatorial about the amount of [video highlight] content you can put on your Web site," Gartner Digital Media Analyst Allen Weiner told the E-Commerce Times.
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Google: complete privacy 'does not exist'
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Thursday 31 July 2008 at 22:30:00 Street View debate rages on Google has argued in a court submission that there can be no expectation of privacy in the modern world. The search giant is being sued by a Pennsylvania couple after...
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