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The Syllable project has published the source code for Syllable Server . The code to build Syllable is maintained in Builder , the build system. There is a main repository of build specifications and overlays for Syllable Desktop and Syllable Server . The code for Server is now completely published in the source repository.
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Satyam records 163% growth in Mideast revenues
Dubai: Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth largest software-services exporter, has registered an impressive 163 per cent year-on-year growth in the first quarter revenues from Middle East operations to Dh54 million. Out of this more than Dh50 million came from the Gulf, a top official said.
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Emmis CEO is on offensive as iPhone's radio applications grow in popularity
Your ears are a battlefield. And broadcast radio is plotting ways to turn them back in its direction. Battered by iPods, satellite radio and the Internet, some radio executives think they've found a path to sneak back into your life: the cell phone.
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My real estate agent can't sell my house. Is there another way to go?
When a home in Central Indiana can take an average of nine months to sell, according to recent data from the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors, homeowners need all the help they can get to speed the process. Members of the Financial Planning Association of Greater Indiana have advice that could help make that process go a little more quickly. You also can visit their Web site at ...
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Land Of Online Games
THE CRAZE: Chinese youngsters spend days in internet cafés playing online games. (Photo courtesy: China Daily) FAVOURITE PASTIME: Some Chinese youth earn money by slaying dragons, killing orcs and saving princesses in distress, all in the cyberspace.
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Clearing the air: A first-time visit to the Church of Scientology
Not about the field of Scientology itself; plenty of articles had been written and/or posted on the Internet by ex-Scientologists (including founder L. Ron Hubbard’s son, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., who reportedly changed his name to Ron deWolf in the early 1980s).
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West Dundee sets recycling program
WEST DUNDEE – The village will conduct an electronic-waste recycling collection program from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the West Dundee Public Works facility, 900 Angle Tarn.
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Al Davis talks Javon Walker out of retiring from Raiders
Wide receiver Javon Walker informed the Raiders on Thursday that he wanted to retire but was persuaded by managing general partner Al Davis to stick it out, according to an Internet report Saturday morning.
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Land Of Online Games
THE CRAZE: Chinese youngsters spend days in internet cafés playing online games. (Photo courtesy: China Daily) FAVOURITE PASTIME: Some Chinese youth earn money by slaying dragons, killing orcs and saving princesses in distress, all in the cyberspace.
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FBI seizes library computers
The FBI removed computer records from the C. Burr Artz Library this week, a library official confirmed Saturday. Darrell Batson, director of Frederick County Public Libraries, said two FBI employees came to the downtown Frederick library either Wednesday or Thursday.
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Aussies caught up in Olympic ticket scam
Olympic officials will ask a judge in California on Monday to shut down an online Beijing Olympics ticket seller accused of scamming Australian, US and European sports fans and travel agents out of tens of thousands of dollars.
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sun 3rd Aug 2008 00:16 UTC
"The recent release of Intel's Centrino 2 platform means a refresh of notebooks from every manufacturer. Lenovo took this chance to not only update the internals of their ThinkPads, but also to make changes to their naming conventions and release a few new models, including the addition of the ThinkPad X200 to the venerable X series.
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Al Davis talks Javon Walker out of retiring from Raiders
Wide receiver Javon Walker informed the Raiders on Thursday that he wanted to retire but was persuaded by managing general partner Al Davis to stick it out, according to an Internet report Saturday morning.
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Recent Original Stories
"Dan Warne reckons Apple is about to deftly round-house kick Microsoft's media center strategy for six. First Apple leaves a mysterious header on the Mac Mini motherboard for a non-existent iPod dock connector. Then it brings out media center software and a video iPod at the same time.
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Couch potato, 8/3
“Late Night with Conan O’Brien”: “In other Olympic news, China is upset because somebody leaked a video of the rehearsal for the Olympics’ Opening Ceremony on the Internet. I don’t want to give away too much, but it ends with the lighting of a torch.”
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3:1 against changing Caledonia mascot
More than 1,000 votes were cast in a weeklong online Commercial Dispatch poll asking “Should the Caledonia schools’ mascot be changed from the Confederates?” And by a margin of three to one, voters were against changing the name.
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Morning roundup
Jankovic to take over No. 1 ranking Jelena Jankovic has assured herself of moving up to the No. 1 ranking in women ‘s tennis later this month. Jankovic, who never has reached a Grand Slam singles final, will become the 18th player to lead the WTA computer rankings when she rises to the top spot Aug. 11. Currently No. 2, Jankovic will move ahead of another Serb, Ana Ivanovic , who has led ...
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Sunday night NFL games to stream online
The National Football League, signaling a major shift in strategy, will stream live broadcasts of Sunday night football games beginning in September, making the contests widely available on the Internet for the first time.
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Al Davis talks Javon Walker out of retiring from Raiders
Wide receiver Javon Walker informed the Raiders on Thursday that he wanted to retire but was persuaded by managing general partner Al Davis to stick it out, according to an Internet report Saturday morning.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 1st May 2007 00:35 UTC
Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher who took home USD b10000 in a highly-publicized MacBook Pro hijack on April 20, has been at the center of a week's worth of controversy about the security of Apple's operating system.
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Evolving technology celebrated in exhibit at Oklahoma Capitol
An existentialist show that deals with "The Illusion of Mattering” and other conundrums of modern life, in black, white and shades of gray, is on view at the state Capitol. In the exhibit are paintings and prints on board, canvas and paper by interactive media specialist Marc Barker, who describes art as "my meditation and my reprieve from the world of computers.” Suggesting the evolution of man ...
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: The evolution of technology
The battery on my laptop died six months ago. And — months before that — my daughter tripped over the power cord, cracking the case, so whenever I wanted to write a column I had to squeeze it together with my thighs.
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Jankovic to take over as world number one
Jelena Jankovic will replace fellow Serb Ana Ivanovic as world number one on August 11, the WTA said on Saturday. With no tournaments taking place next week ahead of the Beijing Olympics, Jankovic will end Ivanovic's nine-week reign when the WTA governing body's computer drops the points from the events played in the same week one year ago.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 20:39 UTC
PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later , a security expert said Thursday.
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Recent Original Stories
The K Desktop Environment was pleased to see its users recently at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Users were excited to learn about KDE 4.0 , some of the hot new stuff in KDE 3.5, and thousands of Linux users got out of the house for a change.
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