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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 1st Aug 2007 20:09 UTC
If you're a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple's OS X? InformwationWeek asked a Mac fan and a Linux advocate to lead a guided tour of each OS.
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Subprime meltdown behind worst stock market slide since 2001-2002
The collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis has provoked the sharpest fall on world stock markets since the end of the Internet bubble in 2001-2002.
TurkishPress.com |
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Mozilla leads push to reimagine Web browsers
LOS ANGELES -- Mozilla, the group that oversees scores of volunteer programmers collaborating on the free Firefox Web browser, hopes to attract more visionaries to help change the way people surf the Internet, a newspaper report said on Tuesday.
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The Best Gets Better: AMD Extends Its Desktop Platform Advantage for Performance PCs
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----AMD today announced the availability of the industry's preeminent performance desktop platform, the AMD 790GX. Packing a host of innovations, the AMD 790GX integrates advanced performance tuning for AMD PhenomTM processors, plus ATI RadeonTM HD 3300 graphics - the world's fastest motherboard graphics processor - to take media aficionados beyond HD.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Georgia Tech, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Fund New Curriculum Using Personal Robots at 28 Schools
ATLANTA----Through the Institute for Personal Robots in Education —a partnership between Georgia Tech College of Computing, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Research—28 high schools and universities are being provided the opportunity to enhance their introductory Computer Science curriculum using personal robots as a context for teaching foundational computing skills.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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AMD Drives Adoption of Industry Standards in GPGPU Software Development
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----AMD today announced efforts to help further increase the ease and efficiency of software development using AMD Stream™ processing with an extensive set of upgrades planned for future versions of the Stream Software Development Kit .
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Penn. police officer charged in sex case involving Indiana teen
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer has been arrested after authorities say he had sex with a 16-year-old Indiana girl he met over the Internet.
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DAILY EXPRESS NEWS
Kota Kinabalu : The State Government welcomes and encourages higher institutions of learning to set up branches in Sabah, particularly in the interior, to give more opportunities for young Sabahans to further their studies locally.
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DAILY EXPRESS NEWS
Kota Kinabalu : Native Courts must undergo a transformation to remain relevant to natives in Sabah, said Chief Judge for Sabah and Sarawak, Tan Sri Richard Malanjum (pic).
Sabah Daily Express |
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Nissan previews electric car based on lithium ion battery
Updated: 06 Aug 2008 YOKOSUKA, JAPAN, AUGUST 6, 2008— Nissan has unveiled its latest all-electric car prototype, a model based on a new lithium ion battery manufactured by a joint venture it formed with NEC.
Computerworld Singapore |
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Linked by Adam S on Tue 16th Aug 2005 15:54 UTC
O'Reilly's DevCenter is featuring an in-depth look at Windows Vista Beta 1. Their conclusion? "Surprisingly, this build of Windows Vista is pretty stable, and the performance is quite good."
New Mobile Computing |
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Delta To Offer Wi-Fi On Domestic Flights
The airline will begin offering high-speed wireless Internet access on all domestic flights by the middle of 2009.
WCPO Cincinnati |
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Yahoo Shareholder Approval Lower Than Announced: Services Firm
Yahoo overreported the percentage of shareholders who had voted in favor of the current board, services firm Broadridge Financial Solutions said on Tuesday.
The Epoch Times |
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Montauk Monster anti-Semitic?
That’s an absurd question, I know. But the Montauk Monster, though apparently dead, is killing jewishjournal.com . GeekHeeb and The God Blog have each posted twice during the past week about the alien creature or pit bull or raccoon or whatever it might have been or still be that was found on the shores of Long Island.
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |
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New applications halted for airport 'fast pass"
Feds investigating disappearance of laptop recovered Tuesday
Oakland Tribune |
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NASA quickly goes into rumor-control overdrive over Mars findings
It seems every space junkie who thumbs a BlackBerry or hits the keys on a laptop has a rumor to share these days about life on Mars. The latest heady rumor: that the spacecraft Phoenix now analyzing soil and ice on the Arctic plains of Mars had discovered...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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ON THE BLOG: Upgrade for Google Maps
Anyone else notice Google Maps got a little bit of a new look recently? It's nothing drastic, just a few simple changes.
York Daily Record |
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Top Scoops
95bFM Audio: Paul Deady talks to Margaret Taylor from Amnesty International about the internet restrictions China has imposed on the international media covering the Olympics. She says it's indicative of the Chinese wider stance to human rights.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Subprime meltdown behind worst stock market slide
PARIS, France -- The collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis has provoked the sharpest fall on world stock markets since the end of the Internet bubble in 2001-2002. In the last year, leading indices have lost between 12 and 25 percent of their value.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Active Traders are Hungry for Broker Education
Online brokers offer training, night school and live Webinars on risk management.
Wall Street and Technology |
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Online Epicures: The Internet is all about the barbecue
Wet rubs. Dry rubs. No rubs. Pork or beef. Brisket or burnt ends. Like comfort food, almost everyone has his own recipes, traditions, preferences and do's and don'ts when it comes to barbecue. Barbecue experts may argue about what tastes best, but there's a good chance that they share a love of barbecue history. To read about how pork reached its favored status in the South, read a history at ...
The Kansas City Star |
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Corporate networks get new Mac integration, support
Likewise Software has announced Likewise Enterprise 5.0, an update to its network management tool, offering better support for Mac integration in large-scale network environments. The new update will streamline Mac management by integrating Mac OS X Server settings into Group Policy Objects in Microsoft's Active Directory. Likewise allows users to ...
MacNN |
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IBM to open source supercomputing code
Updated: 06 Aug 2008 FRAMINGHAM, MA, U.S.A., AUGUST 5, 2008— IBM Tuesday (August 5) marked its 10 years of participation in Linux and open source by introducing new software, upgrades to existing platforms and an open source code contribution focused on supercomputing.
Computerworld Singapore |
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Google Pushing Software to Low-cost Linux PCs
Google is collaborating with Linux developers to load its software on Linux distributions for low-cost PCs.
PC World |
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IBM Bundles Middleware on Linux Systems
IBM will try to break Microsoft's stranglehold on the business desktop market by preloading Notes software in Linux...
PC World |
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