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USB set for turbo boost
2008 will mark the first year in which shipments of high-speed USB devices surpass sales of low-speed and full-speed USB-enabled devices, experts predict.
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Open source Java added to Linux distros
Sun Microsystems, Canonical and Red Hat have announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support Server and Desktop editions.
Personal Computer World |
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Google shares awaken from six-month snooze
The once high-flying shares of Google have apparently recovered from their six-month slump, surging nearly 30% since a strong earnings report two weeks ago.
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Toshiba Adds Face Recognition to New Satellite Line
Toshiba has added an interesting feature to its new Satellite notebooks that allows users to log onto their notebook without typing or swiping a finger. The new Satellite U400, M300, A300, and P300 notebooks are all equipped with Toshiba Face Recognition s...
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London blogger exposes life on the Underground
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 17:40 UTC
While the technologies used on the web have always been mostly free, with non-free technologies delegated to non-essential parts of the net, this has been changing fast, lately.
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London blogger exposes life on the Underground
LONDON, April 30 (Reuters Life!) - Annie Mole's blog about the London Underground rail system began as a New Year's resolution to teach herself how to make an Internet Web site and has blossomed into a popular slice of commuter life.
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Google Board Member Ann Mather a Target of the SEC
Ann Mather, who has served on Google’s board of directors since 2005, is now coming under fire from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with a shady backdating scandal at Pixar. Mather was the CFO at Pixar from 1999 to 2004. Google disclosed in an SEC filing of their own that the LA office [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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Radio Hones Message to Advertisers
This is the advent of change for the radio advertising buying experience. Within weeks, the radio industry will begin embracing a process of posting similar to that used by television and Internet advertising portals, which give advertisers assurance of audience levels and reconciles shortcomings when they occur. In fact, as previously reported, CBS Radio is currently on a three-city tour ...
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FullArmor PolicyPortal Provides End-to-End Policy and Compliance for Application Virtualization
FullArmor announced that PolicyPortal delivers a web based end-to-end policy and compliance management solution for Application Virtualization. From a web based console, PolicyPortal provides IT administrators the ability to configure the client and the application, deploy the configuration, and then report on the compliance of those settings. PolicyPortal embeds a Group Policy Object to a ...
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Open Source Router Firmware: Expanding Possibilities
While Tomato is this author's firmware of choice, there are plenty of other options that offer some compelling functionality of their own.
Enterprise IT Planet |
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Wal-mart Laptop Theft
Authorities are investigating a laptop theft.
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XPEL Announces 2007 Financial Results
SAN ANTONIO----XPEL Technologies Corp. announced today results for the year ended December 31, 2007, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2006.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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PopCap Launches Mother's Day Promotion Benefiting Leading Breast Cancer Organization
Until May 11, 2008, 30% of online purchases will go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
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FullArmor PolicyPortal provides End-to-End Policy and Compliance for Application Virtualization
FullArmor, a leader in enterprise policy management, today announced that PolicyPortal delivers a web based end-to-end policy and compliance management solution for Application Virtualization.
Centre Daily Times |
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Ocean Tomo to Sell Wireless Communication Patent at Live IP Auction on 26 June in Amsterdam
Ocean Tomo Auctions today announced that it will offer for sale a patent portfolio directed to the field of wireless communications at The Ocean Tomo 2008 European Live IP Auction. US Patent 7,092,370 and related IP, which disclose a system and method for redirecting a communication session from a data-based session to a voice-based session and vice versa, will be offered by Roamware, Inc. and ...
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ControlPoint Developer Alliance Draws Leading Computing and Networking Firms as Founding Members
Fulcrum Microsystems today announced that Continuous Computing, Green Hills Software, Liquid Computing, Nimbus Data Systems, Open Grid Computing, Panasas, Quadrics, SMC Networks and XORP are founding members of the ControlPoint Developer Alliance, which was announced today. The Alliance is a collaboration of telecom infrastructure, data center computing and complementary software vendors coming ...
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SOFTBANK Leads Investment in Oak Pacific Interactive to Fuel China's Largest Social Networking Site
BEIJING, China----Oak Pacific Interactive , the leading provider of Web 2.0 communities in China, announced today that SOFTBANK Corp. has agreed to lead an investment totaling $430 million for approximately 35% of the company.
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New Report Calls for Fast Corporate Action to Curb Escalating Power Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Resulting ...
The rapidly increasing demand for digital processing for everything from online banking to e-Bay auctions, Amazon orders, Google searches, and iTunes and YouTube downloads has become part of the global warming story. A new study released today suggests that large-scale computing facilities, or data centers, are a fast-growing contributor to global warming and a drain on corporate profitability. ...
Centre Daily Times |
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University work brings old crimes to internet
Details of all crimes tried at legendary London criminal court the Old Bailey between 1674 and 1913 are now freely available on-line thanks to researchers from the Open University, the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Sheffield.
Business Weekly |
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Digital anniversary
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 marks the 15 th anniversary since the code of the internet was put on the public domain by CERN, the Switzerland-based research centre which developed it.
Malta Star |
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Happy Birthday internet!
The world wide web, commonly known as the internet, has hit its 15 year in its mainstream service.
Malta Star |
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H.P. Unveils New Memory Technology
A device, called a memristor, is an electrical resistor with memory properties. The technology could eventually build very dense chips that go beyond DRAM and use much less power.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Software Solutions You Can't Live Without
There are thousands of software programs available for computers from utilities to applications of just about any variety you can think of. While many of these are a matter of choice, there are some software programs that, in this day and age, you can't operate without.
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London blogger exposes life on the Underground
Annie Mole's blog about the London Underground rail system began as a New Year's resolution to teach herself how to make an Internet Web site and has blossomed into a popular slice of commuter life.
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