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Firewall vendors scramble to fix DNS problem
Updated: 04 Aug 2008 SAN FRANCISCO, 01 AUGUST 2008 - Nearly a month after a critical flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System was first reported, vendors of some of the most widely used firewall software are scrambling to fix a problem that can essentially undo part of the patches that address this bug.
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Intel keeps number of Larrabee cores under wraps
Updated: 04 Aug 2008 SINGAPORE, 04 AUGUST 2008 - Intel plans to detail the architecture of its upcoming Larrabee chip at the SIGGRAPH conference on Aug. 12, but the company will keep one important aspect of the chip under wraps: the number of cores it will have.
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Alibaba: 'We will do things our own way'
Updated: 04 Aug 2008 HANGZHOU, CHINA, 02 AUGUST, 2008 - Alibaba.com Group CEO Jack Ma said Saturday that no matter what happened to major shareholder Yahoo, the company would retain its independence.
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Qimonda, Nanya finalizing plans to end DRAM joint venture
Updated: 04 Aug 2008 TAIPEI, 01 AUGUST 2008 - Memory chip maker Qimonda and partner Nanya Technology are nearing a deal to end their joint venture in Taiwan, representatives of the companies confirmed Friday.
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Microsoft.com Canada has released pricing for Windows Vista . Windows Vista Ultimate is listed at $499 Canadian which translates into $450.36 in USD. Home Premium is listed at $299 or $269.86 USD, Vista Ultimate Upgrade is priced at $299 or $269.86 USD, while Home Premium Upgrade is $199 or $179.60 USD. At the same time, the first 100000 respondents can download Vista Build 5536 . Microsoft is ...
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Intel Keeps Number of Larrabee Cores Under Wraps
Intel plans to detail the architecture of its upcoming Larrabee chip on Aug. 12,, but it will keep the number of cores secret...
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Blog posts poke holes in 'taste test' by Microsoft
Deserved or not, the Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft gets a bad rap. But the company's effort to repair Vista's reputation did not win rave reviews either.
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Launch of private rocket fails; three satellites were onboard
A privately funded rocket was lost on its way to space, bringing a third failure in a row to an Internet multimillionaire's effort to create a market for low-cost space-delivery business.
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SOFTWARE NOTEBOOK / Microsoft gobbles 21 firms as appetite grows
Microsoft failed in its big bid to buy Yahoo, but it still found plenty of companies to spend its money on during the past year. The Redmond, Wash., company paid out a total of $8.8 billion on 21 acquisitions in its recently completed fiscal year, according...
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PSE signs agreement for stock market shows on cable TV
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Stock Exchange has signed an agreement with a cable television station to broadcast updates of the stock market on cable TV and the Internet.
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Toshiba denies report on chip packaging JV with ASE
Japan's Toshiba, the world's No2 maker of NAND flash memory chips, denied on Monday a report that it was in talks with Taiwan's ASE to jointly set up a plant to assemble and test NAND memory chips in Japan.
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Apple releases patch for critical DNS flaw
The company has released a security update for its Tiger and Leopard operating systems to address a critical and well-publicized Domain Name System flaw. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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Dell tries to trademark 'cloud computing'
Updated: 04 Aug 2008 SAN FRANCISCO, 1 AUGUST 2008 - Dell may be trying to grab control of a term that could define technology infrastructure for years to come.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th May 2006 13:05 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"AMD today introduced AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology , the first and only family of 64-bit dual-core processors designed for thin and light notebook PCs.
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Top Sports
Australian victims of an online Olympic ticketing scam have reported losses of more than $40,000 in the first few hours after a national hotline opened today.
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Some take a dim view of tech lights / They show what's on, but brightness can turn people off
Twinkle, twinkle, little Internet router. And cell phone. And digital video recorder. And cable modem. And game console. And power strip. And TV - even though it's turned off. Turn off the lamps in a living room or bedroom today, and chances are good the room...
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Brightcove Accelerates Expansion in Japan
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Brightcove Inc., the leading global Internet video platform, today announced that it has appointed technology industry leader and entrepreneur Hisashige Hashimoto as general manager of Brightcove KK, Brightcove's Japan -based subsidiary.
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Toshiba denies report on chip packaging JV with ASE
TOKYO/TAIPEI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba <6502.T>, the world's No.2 maker of NAND flash memory chips, denied on Monday a report that it was in talks with Taiwan's ASE <2311.TW> to jointly set up a plant to assemble and test NAND memory chips in Japan.
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PSE signs agreement for stock market shows in cable TV
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Stock Exchange has signed an agreement with cable television station to broadcast updates on the stock market on cable television and the internet.
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Political Sex Scandals Rock Modest Malaysia
Sex and politics have collided in Malaysia before but wider use of the Internet has helped disseminate the kind of informations and rumors that used to be filtered out.
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Sneak Peek: Lenovo's Upcoming Low-Cost Ultraportable? [Lenovo]
Liliputing links to a video this evening of what they describe as a first look of Lenovo's upcoming low-cost ultraportable laptop. The video's creator said he shot the video at an "electronics...
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Video: Ants Turn Guy's Scanner Into Giant Ant Farm [Bugs In The System]
The video is pretty self explanatory, but here it is for those who can't see it: A man and his wife had been noticing lots of ants on their computer desk but couldn't figure out where they were...
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3G handset makers to ring in a Rs 3,500-4,000 offering
With 3G mobile services, which provide high-speed downloads of data, movies and videos, around six month away, mobile phone makers are getting ready to offer handsets for as little as Rs 3,500, against the currently available minimum price of over Rs 8,000.
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Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes
mjasay writes "Microsoft's most recent annual report suggests that the company is increasingly coming to grips with open source, yet also seems determined to perpetuate myths about open source that poorly serve it and its shareholders. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has suggested before that 'free software means no free soda' for Microsoft employees; but this is perhaps the first time that ...
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'That thing is a 'person'' - improving your relationship with objects
Hamburg - Next time you kiss your car when it starts on a cold day, or you curse your computer when it crashes - you may be relieved to know that it is only human nature to regard inanimate objects as sentient beings like yourself. Scientists in Germ...
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