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Observer columnist awarded fellowship
Jeff Elder, who writes 'The Insider' column for the Observer, is one of 12 U.S. journalists awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship to study at Stanford University during the 2008-09 academic year. Elder will focus on "the impact of mobile internet devices on news dissemination, reporting and citizen reporting."
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Memristor proven to exist by HP Labs
HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering called Memristor. Memristor is the fourth fundamental circuit el...
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Various Artists Kitsuné BoomBox / Kitsuné Maison 5
Given the preponderance of compilations beginning with the word "Kitsuné" over the past few years, it's remarkable that the French dance (not dance) music label is only now getting round to its first DJ mix-- ironically, now that the label is synonymous with "blog house", and all the stuttery one-off exclusive remixes of third-grade indie rock anthems that term implies.
Pitchfork |
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-04-30 18:45 CSC, Zurich Financial ink $399M IT desktop outsourcing agreement
SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - Computer Sciences Corp. said Wednesday it has signed an information technology outsourcing contract that expands the scope of services the company provides to Zurich Financial Services Group.
Interactive Investor |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 17th Mar 2007 00:26 UTC
During my 8 years of Linux on and off usage I have tried more distros than I have chocolate bars. Each one of my previous encounters meant that I had to spend at least 2 days configuring before I have a desktop that I was somewhat comfortable with.
OS News |
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What Will Become of AOL?
With cable split set, Time Warner confronts its biggest problem.
Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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U.S. Foodservice, Inc. is an OPEN SCAN(R) Client
DENVER----U.S. Foodservice, Inc., one of the largest broadline foodservice distributors in the United States, is a user of Open Scan Technologies, Inc.'s RedCap™ Corporate Accounts Receivable Processing software. U.S.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Cisco and Nokia Gain Momentum in Mobile Unified Communications
Cisco and Nokia announced growing customer and partner acceptance of their combined mobile unified communications solution. The Mobile Business Solution from Cisco and Nokia extends the rich Cisco Unified Internet Protocol (IP) Phone capabilities to Nokia Eseries smartphones over Cisco Unified Wireless Networks to offer users a seamless mobile experience in the enterprise environment and public ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Three Questions with Jeff Gordon
Jerry Bonkowski Yahoo! Sports for Gatehouse News Service RICHMOND, Va. - The voices have gone from a whisper to an annoying rumble."What's wrong with Jeff Gordon?" they say.After dominating much of the first 26 races last season, Gordon admittedly is struggling this season. In nine starts, he has yet to win and has just three top-five finishes.Even worse, Gordon has been in a significant slump, ...
Arizona Silver Belt |
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Magistrate guilty of child porn
A magistrate is found guilty of accessing and possessing indecent images of children on the internet.
BBC News |
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US$1 salary for Yahoo chief
Yahoo paid chief executive officer Jerry Yang US$1 last year. Susan Decker, who is president, had total compensation of US$14.8 million, Yahoo said in a regulatory filing.
The New Zealand Herald |
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News in brief
A car commercial shot at the Marana Regional Airport last month has recently started circulating on the Internet and television. A 2008 Mercedes Benz C63 AMG is depicted skidding through smoke on the tarmac. The Tucson Mountains can be seen in the background near the end of the commercial.
Explorer News |
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Rotary learns of the future of computers
Eric Spellman, left, with Spellman and Associates is thanked by club President Tom Benton for sharing his knowledge of computers and internet technology with Borger Rotary Club. He told the club about the future of computers and what he predicts for the future of the internet.
Borger News-Herald |
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Sector Snap: Major Web stocks mixed; IAC, Google rise
Major Web stocks mostly rose Wednesday, with IAC/InterActiveCorp rising after the Internet conglomerate's head, Barry Diller, predicted its plans to spin off various business units would be completed in August.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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SOFTBANK Leads Investment in Oak Pacific Interactive to Fuel China's Largest Social Networking Site
Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI), 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. The investment will be used to augment the market leadership of Oak Pacific's Xiaonei.com, China's largest social-networking site. SBI and JOHO Capital also participated in the funding.
Centre Daily Times |
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XPEL Announces 2007 Financial Results
XPEL Technologies Corp. (TSXV: DAP.U) announced today results for the year ended December 31, 2007, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2006.
Centre Daily Times |
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Week's extension to file tax forms by Netfile; deadline for money due unchanged
OTTAWA - Canadians scrambling to file their tax returns online are getting a break - and if Wednesday's difficulties getting onto the taxman's website are any indication, they'll need it.
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News |
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GSmart debuts new touch interface
Smartphone maker GSmart has revealed the creation of a new touchscreen interface, designed to compete with that of the Apple iPhone. GSmart's Smart Touch technology likewise relies on figure gestures, and similar tropes, such as placing shortcuts for up to 16 applications on the Standby screen; to add, delete or reposition shortcuts, users can sim...
MacNN |
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Charter Launches High-Speed Internet Max with Speeds up to 16 Mbps in Missouri and Illinois
ST. LOUIS----Charter Communications, Inc. today announced that it is launching its Charter High-Speed Internet Max service, with download speeds of up to 16 megabits per second . Charter High-Speed Internet Max is available to residential customers throughout most of Charter's service area in Missouri and Illinois.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Washington DC
SANTA CLARA, Calif. ( Map ) - SANTA CLARA, Calif. , April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synaptics Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNA ), a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications and entertainment devices, announced today that its ClearPad(TM) and ClearArray(TM) solutions provide the interface on the LG Secret (model LG-KF750), the third model from the successful LG ...
The San Francisco Examiner |
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by chrishaney (1.32) on Sat 16th Dec 2006 17:59 UTC
Windows and Mac are listed as killer apps while Linux is not even mentioned.. LOL
New Mobile Computing |
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Cloudy picture for cloud computing
You can call it cloud computing . You can call it grid computing. You can call it on-demand computing. Just don't call it the next big thing -- at least not yet . Efforts by such Web heavyweights as Amazon and Google to entice companies into tapping into the power of their datacenters are being slowed by a number of factors, according to Interop panelists . Analyst Alistair ...
InfoWorld |
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INDONESIA: Broadband access across the archipelago expected by 2015
Broadband Internet access will be available throughout Indonesia by 2015, minister says.
AsiaMedia |
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San Antonio’s “No-Tech” Family
How would you do without cell phones, internet, TV and video games for a whole week?
WOAI San Antonio |
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Artificial intelligence helps explore Mars
The European Space Agency (ESA) is using artificial intelligence to help its Mars Express probe search for life on the Red Planet.
Personal Computer World |
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