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"Google is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun's Solaris operating system as a possible long-term prelude to replacing its massive global network of Linux servers, according to sources.
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Feds claim right to laptops
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Saturday 2 August 2008 at 02:15:00 Computers can be seized and held indefinitely by DHS The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will continue to allow its agents to seize notebook computers and retain the devices indefinitely....
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No Fireworks at Yahoo Meeting
The annual gathering featured familiar themes, from hopeful strategies to unhappy shareholders, amid little Microsoft fallout
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Tax-free weekend creates a run on computers, school supplies
You could not see Best Buy's computers unless you saw Chris Dunston first.
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China, IOC break promises
Show of hands. How many were surprised to learn that the Chinese government will restrict Internet access to journalists covering the Olympics, with the approval of International Olympic Committee members?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Nov 2005 22:54 UTC, submitted by Jari
The Xbox-Linux team have got to work on trying to port Linux to the Xbox 360, in a project named ' Free 60 '. The Free60 Project aims to port open source operating systems like GNU/Linux and Darwin to the Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Dec 2005 13:18 UTC
Microsoft has published a set of guidelines on which decisions to make now, so that your computer will be ready to run Windows Vista.
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Linked by Stephen Reilly on Mon 12th Mar 2007 17:47 UTC
I have been both a Windows and Linux user for a long time (I started with Windows 3.1 and RedHat 5.1 kernel 2.0.x if I recall correctly) and have stuck with both for various reasons.
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Internet sting leads to marijuana bust
A man's arrest on allegations of enticing a minor over the Internet led police in Tooele to uncover a marijuana growing operation.
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"Bill Laing, a General Manager in the Microsoft Windows Server Division, has been quoted
as saying that Windows Server 2008 will be the last 32-bit operating system. Bill is a server guy and indeed Windows Server 2008 is the last 32-bit server operating system - all future operating systems for server hardware from Microsoft beyond Windows Server 2008 will be 64-bit.
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FBI arrests Countrywide Financial analyst for data theft
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Saturday 2 August 2008 at 01:49:00 Downloaded and sold customer identities The FBI has arrested two men and charged them with stealing customer information from the servers of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial....
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Images: Dinosaur sightings: Old search engines
Here's a look back at some of the first home pages of search engines that are still around today, and some that have passed on.
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News sites benefit from Yahoo! distribution
Yahoo! says the company has driven more than 100 million visits to Newspaper Consortium Web sites through the distribution of local news headlines across its search network.
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Yahoo! shareholders back board, Carl Icahn appointed
Yahoo! stockholders held have re-elected all of the company's nominees to the Board of Directors. In addition, stockholders voted to approve the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm.
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Cablevision won't carry full NBA Olympic package
NBC has spent months touting its unprecedented 3,600 hours of Olympics-related programming, but it appears viewers who get their broadband Internet service through Cable.vision will be limited to 1,400 of those hours.
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Lia returns to home track Riverhead for big race
Donny Lia took an unorthodox journey to the racetrack. Before even getting behind a wheel, Lia cut his teeth and honed his racing skills with the help of an online racing simulation program.
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even some Yahoo officials, who had braced for a stronger protest vote after the tumultuous Microsoft saga and older grievances over Yahoo’s slipping performance against Google .
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Border agents can seize travelers' laptops at will
By ELLEN NAKASHIMA WASHINGTON — Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period without any suspicion of wrongdoing as part of border search policies, the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed. Officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and private entities for language ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Jan 2006 18:49 UTC
DualCor will ship its dual-CPU PDA-PC combo in March, the privately held start-up revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today.
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Yahoo Board Unscathed After Annual Meeting
Yahoo's board emerged unscathed from the company's annual meeting, despite expectations of shareholder dissatisfaction.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jan 2006 22:56 UTC
Open source experts have hit back at a study published by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team that said more vulnerabilities were found in Linux/Unix than in Windows in 2005, labelling the report misleading and confusing.
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Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK.
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Recent Original Stories
"When Office 12 arrives sometime in the second half of 2006, you may stop hating Microsoft Office. We looked at an early, private beta version of the suite and found a lot of improvements. Although the interface is radically changed, a lot of the underlying features and commands remain the same.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 28th Oct 2006 08:06 UTC, submitted by anonGPLv3supporter
"Slackware is one of the oldest (arguably *the* oldest) Linux distributions still around today. It is the pet project of one Patrick Volkerding who, love him or hate him, has ruled his distribution with an iron fist since the beginning.
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Yahoo board wins solid shareholder backing in vote
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Yahoo's board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 percent of the vote in his favour.
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