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Industry Luminaries to Deliver Keynote Presentations at Flash Memory Summit 2008
The Flash Memory Summit 2008 (www.flashmemorysummit.com), to be held August 12-14 at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara, California, will feature keynote addresses from seven industry luminaries.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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11 Charged in Theft of 41 Million Card Numbers
Authorities said the scheme was spearheaded by a Miami man who hacked into several retailers’ computer systems.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Leading Digital Publishing Innovator READOZ, Launches Internet Portal
ReadOz, a leading innovator in digital publishing services, today announced that it has launched its portal making hundreds of digital magazines available for viewing and allowing publishers to add their content ranging from magazines to manuals and menus to the site.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Comcast sweetens its online menu with Daily Candy
Cable and Internet service provider Comcast Corp. is expanding its online menu with the acquisition of Daily Candy, an electronic newsletter catering to women looking for tips on fashion, food and fun things to do in big cities. Financial terms weren't disclosed. The Wall Street Journal reported the sales price at about $125 million, citing people familiar with the matter who it did not name. ...
The State |
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One $12-Gaming-Console Per Child?
Can a 20-year-old gaming console be the way to offer truly low-cost computing to Third World students?
Washington Post |
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Computer Sciences shares decline after 1Q results
Shares of Computer Sciences above. dropped Wednesday even after the technology consulting services provider reported fiscal first-quarter earnings beat Wall Street's expectations.
Boston Globe |
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Dell says its operations are now carbon-neutral
Computers are far from being truly clean machines, but Dell Inc. and other PC makers are trying to make their own business operations greener.
Boston Globe |
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Web TV: Not ad-ing up to enough?
Online television is great, in large part because there are so few ads. But limited ad revenue may be this medium's downfall.
Salon.com |
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TSA To Allow 'Checkpoint Friendly' Laptop Cases
Annoyed at having to take your laptop out of its bag at airport security? The Transportation Security Administration is offering a new option.
NBC4 Washington, D.C. |
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Siemens could be close to exiting Fujitsu venture
Siemens AG is close to leaving its long-running computer joint venture with Fujitsu Ltd. , The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Boston Globe |
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Buzz Grows Over State Tax Holidays
The mother-daughter team of Renee and Kristen Turner stuck it to the man. A new MacBook, iPhone and printer in tow after a recent shopping trip, the duo didn't pay a cent of sales tax, saving about $100. "That's a lot of money right now," says the elder Ms. Turner. The downside?
KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches |
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The Herald-Zeitung Mobile Edition
The Herald-Zeitung provides a text-only version of its daily web edition for readers using cellular telephones or handheld computers. Registered users of AvantGo can create their own custom channel to download regular updates.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Government Computer News
Spearstone is offering DiskAgent, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) product for secure data storage.
Government Computer News |
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Man guilty of internet grooming
A man from Leeds is convicted of grooming a teenage girl over the internet and trying to arrange a sex session with her and her father.
BBC News |
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Neal Stephenson's new novel makes me want to kill the Internet [I Hate It Here]
I'm a hundred pages into Anathem (accent on first syllable), Neal Stephenson's forthcoming thousand-page novel about Fraa Erasmus, a young man who lives in a millennia-old monastery devoted not to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Technology Helps Local Mute Girl Speak
Erica Pugh has been silent all her life, but now her touch-screen computer has given her a voice.
WISC-TV Madison |
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The true meaning of Twitter
I am sitting in a meeting room at the San Francisco offices of Twitter, chatting with the fast-growing startup's 31-year-old CEO, Jack Dorsey, when a wave of déjà vu washes over me. The youthful vibe, the playful decor, the funky South of Market loft space - I've been here before. In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg earnestly explained to me the importance of Facebook as we sat in his similarly appointed ...
CNN Money |
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Ubuntu goes enterprise
Ubuntu is well known in user circles as the cool kids' Linux. It's available pre-installed on PCs and laptops from Dell and from numerous smaller computer vendors. What Ubuntu hasn't been known as is a Linux distribution that matters to CIOs and IT managers. Things are changing. Canonical , Ubuntu's parent company, is finally taking serious action on its long-announced plans to ...
InfoWorld |
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Judge dismisses suit by NY computer business
Associated Press - August 6, 2008 11:05 AM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against several customs agents by an upstate New York computer software company...
WCAX-TV Vermont |
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Texas landfill search for computer fruitless
Associated Press - August 6, 2008 9:15 AM ET MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - After a two-week search, Texas authorities have stopped looking in a landfill for a computer allegedly containing child...
WCAX-TV Vermont |
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Mac laptop prices steady as Windows prices fall
In two years, the prices of Windows notebooks have fallen by 20 percent, while Apple notebook prices are down just 3 percent, suggesting the upcoming Apple "product transition" could involve cheaper notebooks.
CNET |
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Dell: Operations are now carbon-neutral
Computers are far from being truly clean machines, but Dell Inc. and other PC makers are trying to make their own business operations greener.
KVUE-TV Austin |
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Preventative action guards against computer viruses
Dealing with anti-virus and firewall protection may not sound very exciting, but it's just as important as any preventive measure.¬
Garden City Telegram |
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Youth pastor at Vero Beach church accused of stealing school computer equipment
Chevez Price, 46, of Palm Bay faces charges of grand theft and false verification of ownership. Price worked as a computer information technician at University Park Elementary School in Melbourne.
Sebastian Sun |
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Microchipped passports were cloned in tests exposing "a serious safety flaw", it was reported. A computer researcher cloned the chips on two passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber, according to The Times.
Croydon Guardian |
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