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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Apr 2008 21:51 UTC
"The rest of the server world can play with their piddling 2-3GHz chips. IBM, meanwhile, is prepared to deal in the 5GHz realm . The hardware maker has unveiled a Power6-based version of its highest-end Unix server - the Power 595. The box runs on 32 dual-core 5GHz Power6 processors, making it a true performance beast.
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Surprise! Mossberg's notebook buyers guide recommends Macs
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg has changed the focus of his twice-a-year computer buyer's guides from desktop PCs to notebooks because portables have been outselling desktops since May 2004. In his recent installment (which focuses on "mainstream, nontechnical consumers" and not "heavy gamers, video producers or...
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Birmingham splits £25m schools contract
Birmingham City Council has selected eight companies to provide its schools with a choice of approved suppliers of IT equipment and services.
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Broadcast International Breaks Bandwidth Barrier with First-Ever Demo of Live, HD Video Encoding at 3 Mbps at NAB
SALT LAKE CITY, BUSINESS WIRE -- Broadcast International (OTCBB: BCST) ("BI") today announced it will demonstrate live HD video encoding under 3 Mbps at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas next week.
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China consumers switched on to iPhone
More than two-thirds of consumers in China, the world's largest mobile phone market, are aware of Apple's iPhone, even though the product is not on sale there, according to a new survey.
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ReactOS website .
ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, does support now Intel Mac computers with bootcamp installed and Parallels' virtual machine. Furthermore the new ReactOS roadmap has been published yesterday.
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Hackers attack pro-Tibet websites - ScanSafe saves the day
Hackers have attacked pro-Tibet websites in what looks like virtual retaliation to the Olympic relay protests seen all over the world.
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MS Optical Mouse 3000 Gets Pimped
These days laptops are available in a range of wacky colours, so why not added to the visual fiesta with an equally garish mouse. Microsoft has released Special Edition versions of the Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 in five fashionable new colours. ...
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Recent Original Stories
After yesterday's unconfirmed rumour about Ubuntu being pre-installed on Dell machines, it has now become official. In a joint statement released today, Dell and Canonical announced that Dell will now offer laptops and desktop computers pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux 7.04 . The computers will be sold via Dell's web site, said Canonical's director of operations Jane Silber.
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IBM Signs Agreement to Acquire FilesX
IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FilesX, a privately held storage software company based in Newton, Mass., and Haifa, Israel, that specializes in continuous data protection and nearly instant data and application recovery software for enterprises and remote/branch offices.
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Police bust up burglary ring
On March 25 the Osceola Police Department responded to a report of a burglary at Clarke Community High School where several items were taken including computers and cash.
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Datacentre used to heat swimming pool
IBM goes in at deep end with energy saving technology. Here's one way to use that excess heat from a datacentre - just send it to your local swimming pool. A data centre in Zurich is doing just that, when heat from a datacentre built in a bunker is being collected and transferred to the nearby pool as part of an innovative energy efficiency project undertaken by GIB-Services, a Swiss IT ...
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Woman charged in tax fraud banned from computers
A Riverhead woman charged with running a multimillion-dollar tax fraud scheme out of her home was told yesterday by a judge to stay away from computers.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 15th Jun 2006 02:20 UTC
Microsoft's delay with the release of Windows Vista has left enough wiggle room for other players to pursue the desktop operating system market. An old Microsoft rival, Novell, is angling to seize the day with the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, a desktop OS geared to beat Vista in cost, manageability and features.
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Death of a Hard Drive
ET analyst Joel Durham Jr spent the morning doing all the wrong things when his primary hard drive crashed. Thankfully, he did a few things right, too.
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Police: Firefighter Had 300 Child Sex Images
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Central Florida firefighter was charged with 300 counts of possessing child pornography. Lake County firefighter Ian Dunfee was arrested by detectives after a search warrant was ued to seize his computer, hard drives and compact discs from his Eustis home.
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Ask Linux.com: Choosing a distro, working with external hard drives, and learning how to write
Some questions keep coming back in recent threads on the Linux.com forums, such as how to choose the right Linux distribution. If you are a longtime Linux user, it's easy to forget how perplexing it is to get started.
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RM inks exclusive deal to sell HP 2133 Mini-Note
Available from May for £300 RM today announced that it is the sole UK distributor for the HP 2133 Mini-Note laptop.
PC Advisor |
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Seven 'critical' Adobe Flash patches released
Users warned to update now Adobe's Flash Player has been updated, with seven fixes tackling vulnerabilities in the graphics and video software widely used for interactive web pages and banner advertisements.
PC Advisor |
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Mac fans now have a spacious place to store backed-up files
Unless you are a major multinational corporation, you probably haven't backed up the files on your computer lately. In fact, about one-third of us don't back up our files at all, according to a survey from the Consumer Electronics Association. Many of us think it's too much trouble, and keep on thinking that until a computer crash destroys a decade's ...
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7 a.m.: Legislator targets sex offender law
INDIANAPOLIS — A state legislator says he is confident that a state law that would allow police to search the computers of sex offenders long after their sentences end will withstand a legal challenge.
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Google Opens Its Infrastructure
Adobe believes it has an edge over rivals Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, and iTunes by not constraining users by platform or proprietary software.
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Time Capsule
Time Capsule Apple Inc. External hard drive and wireless network router
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PodWorks 2.9.2 Review
PodWorks remains the tool every iPod owner should have. It compensates for the iPod’s one major flaw – though some might call it a security measure. it allows you to copy songs from your iPod to any Mac running OS X (10.4 or higher).
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WD pitches 'rainbow' selection of coloured hard drives
Hue know you want one Western Digital has re-released its My Passport Essential 320GB external hard drive line in a range of ten new colours.…
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