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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Jul 2005 08:43 UTC
Various sources are posting screenshots of the upcoming beta release of Longhorn, Microsoft's succesor to Windows XP. IE7 shots are also included. Due to the Slashdot-effect, mirrors are already available.
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Restrictions on Net Access in China Seem Relaxed
BEIJING, August 1 - The Chinese authorities appear to have lifted some of the restrictions that blocked Web sites for journalists working at the Olympic Village although other politically sensitive sites, including those on Tibet, remained inaccessible on Friday morning.
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Leading article: China must not let its brief democratic light go out
There was something rather inappropriate about the timing of yesterday's solar eclipse, some of the best views of which could be seen in China. There was darkness over the territory of the 2008 Olympic host just as the government in Beijing was relaxing its policy of censoring the internet and allowing a shaft of light into this still largely closed society. International journalists in the ...
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Symbian S60 Devices Get Treated to Skyfire Web Browser
As more and more people start surfing the web on their phones on a more regular basis, there is an increasing demand for a mobile web browser that is closer to the real computer experience.
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Five Ways to Extend Battery Life on Subnotebooks
Whether you end up with an Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind, or Acer Aspire One, the vast majority of these subnotebooks suffer from less than stellar battery life. Realistically, the whole purpose of these small form factor laptops was that they were supposed to be ultra portable.
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Leading article: Hacked off
It is only right that friendly nations should co-operate to send their nationals abroad for trial if they have committed a serious crime in a foreign country. But transferring one's citizens to a foreign jurisdiction should never be done casually. And the merit of the arguments put forward by the foreign state needs to be rigorously tested. The case of Gary McKinnon, who is due to be extradited ...
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Watchdog hoists Google by its own petard
Spews Street View pics of Larry Page Lexus In an effort to prove that Google is a serious threat to the personal privacy of people everywhere, the National Legal and Policy Center has exposed countless Google Street View pics that detail what are likely the home, cars, and daily commute of top Google executive Larry Page .…
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Apple DNS patch doesn't patch Mac clients
Tiger, Leopard (still) wide open Apple was widely skewered for being among the last to fix a gaping security hole in the net's address lookup system that could allow the wholesale hijacking of users' internet connections. And now that the company has finally got around to issuing a patch , there's just one problem: it doesn't work on client versions of Mac OS X.…
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Yahoo! shareholders! back! Jerry! Yang!
Embattled CEO wins 85 per cent support Microhoo! Despite continued resentment over the aborted merger with Microsoft, Yahoo! shareholders have reelected the company's entire board of directors.…
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Yahoo Survives Annual Meeting, Re-Elects Board, Microsoft Cries Foul
Perhaps we're coming to the point where we'll no longer be writing about Microsoft and Yahoo and their failed courtship. We'll see. Today Yahoo survived its long-anticipated shareholder meeting. It's detailed in this CNET blog post . At the conclusion of the meeting, Yahoo issued a statement that its slate of directors was elected, following the settlement of the Carl Icahn proxy ...
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Wi-Fi TV Offers Businesses Internet TV Stations for $2,000 and Seeks New Sales Reps
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Wi-Fi TV Inc. (Pink Sheets:WIFT) has created a price breakthrough in full-featured global Internet TV station ownership for any business.
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Old Firm ticket levy is blatant hypocrisy
It is difficult to fault Stuart Adam (Fans With Laptops, July 31)in his assessment of the thinking behind the Old Firm's proposal to charge the other SPL clubs a handling fee for match tickets.
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FCC's Comcast Ruling Inconsistent and Incoherent
After voting on the Comcast order today, Kevin Martin and his Democratic Party colleagues issued press releases telling us how they saved the Internet from Comcast's discriminatory practices, but they've failed to release the actual order they adopted and subsequently re-wrote.
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Birmingham Council faces legal threat over internet filtering
Birmingham City Council could be facing legal action after it installed an internet filtering system that breaks religious discrimination rules.
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Recent Original Stories
Today, we cannot know if people would still buy Microsoft products because the government protects the monopoly. What percentage of the market would Microsoft have in a fair market? The only way we can answer that last question is to stop manufacturers from preloading Windows.
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Trailer Bridge Schedules 2008 Second Quarter Results Release Date and Conference Call
Trailer Bridge, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Market: TRBR) today announced that it will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 the afternoon of Monday, August 4, 2008. The Company will then discuss those results in a conference call later that afternoon at 5:00 PM ET. The dial in number is 888-737-9834. The call will also be simultaneously broadcast over the Internet. To ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Nov 2006 13:23 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Just about everyone has expressed an opinion on the Novell/Microsoft patent agreement - except, that is, for the 800-pound gorilla of Linux: IBM. Today, Scott Handy, IBM's VP of Worldwide Linux and Open Source, decided that enough was enough and it was time to state IBM's position.
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Apple patches DNS vulnerability, sort of
Apple has issued a security patch that promises to fix a DNS vulnerability recently discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky, but it appears the fix doesn’t actually fix anything. This leaves Apple computers still vulnerable to DNS spoofing attacks which can redirect web surfers to malware-laden or phishing sites.
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Alan Rosenblatt: Hands Off My Laptop, iPod, Cellphone, Pager, Beeper, Flash Drive, Pocket Litter, First Born (OK, Not ...
Customs and Border Protection just released its new policies for searching and seizing laptops at the border.
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Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Uphill Battle
Microsoft's Sam Ramji trying to pull software giant into open source community.
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Hu Jintao pledges press freedom for Olympics
Chinese President Hu Jintao has held a rare press conference to deflect criticism of media restrictions in China ahead of the Beijing Olympics. With just one week to go before the games open, Hu said China would stand by its pledges to lift Internet censorship for the Olympics.
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U.S. lawmakers query Internet firms on ad targeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are questioning the biggest U.S. Internet companies about whether they track their customers' visits online and use the information to tailor Internet advertisements for them.
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Online DNC audience will see more than ever before
HD video, the text of speeches, speaker bios and Spanish translation will all be available within minutes.
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Yahoo board re-elected after blasting by shareholders
Yahoo executives were resoundingly re-elected Friday after being berated by shareholders over failed takeover talks with Microsoft and for exposing Internet dissidents to Chinese officials.
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Report: Microsoft could release $200 Xbox this September
If it's true that Microsoft plans to break the magic price point, it could go a long way to helping Microsoft win the next-gen console wars.
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