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Downloads of Microsoft accounting software soar
kayleigh bateman , CRN , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 12:49:00 Reseller community shows support for Office Accounting with record downloads of the software Microsoft has smashed its expectations for Office Accounting, claiming that 93,500 copies of the free application have been downloaded since its UK launch in November....
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Great firewall of China
CHINA'S vow to open up its country to the world through the Olympic Games was in tatters last night as an International Olympic Committee member, Kevan Gosper of Australia, apologised to the global press for misleading them about access to the internet.
Southern Highland News |
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Text of Chinese Foreign Ministry's statement
Text of a statement by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang in response to President Bush's speech, posted on the ministry's Web site Thursday and translated from Chinese by The Associated Press: With the common efforts made both by China and the U.S., the Sino-U.S. relationship has developed steadily in the last few years. The two countries have conducted fruitful talks, communication ...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune |
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Students Get a Break on QuickBooks
The Sleeter Group has announced that a trial version of QuickBooks software will be included with the publisher's three QuickBooks textbooks. Students taking courses in QuickBooks are often required to pay hundreds of dollars for a fully functional version of the program.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Nexan And GE Healthcare IT Unite To Provide Green Storage For Imaging
Nexsan, a leading provider of energy-efficient long-term storage, and GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, announced a joint alliance to provide state-of-the-art systems for capturing, processing, storing and archiving images in hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Medical News Today |
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Online game bringing together some couples
Cynthia Murdock caught the World of Warcraft bug from her husband -- and at first it was just a matter of survival. ... - By BRAD WILCOX Los Angeles Times
The Nashua Telegraph |
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Aide to plead guilty month before Fumo trial
A computer technician accused of illegally destroying years' worth of state Senate computer records will plead guilty next week, marking the first plea in the corruption case against Sen. Vincent Fumo.
Centre Daily Times |
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High gas prices fuel boom in online classes
BOSTON -- Laurel Ranticelli considered driving 40 miles round-trip to take education classes at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. Then she realized she could take the same courses from her computer at home and save on fuel costs. ... - By NANCY KELSEY The Associated Press
The Nashua Telegraph |
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An Old Dog Learns Some New Tricks With Puppy Linux 4
The latest release of Barry Kauler's Puppy Linux version 4.0has a lot to bark about. Installed directly on a hard drive, it lacks some of the bells and whistles found in more popular Linux desktop versions. But run it from a USB drive in RAM, and Puppy growls impressively. The ability to carry an entire operating system on a flash drive and run it with all my files and settings intact is a ...
TechNewsWorld.com |
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AOL Weighs on Time Warner; Earnings Fall 26%
Declining subscriber fees at the AOL online unit and lower ad revenue at the Time publishing business pushed down second-quarter earnings.
The Hendersonville Times-News |
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What Does Apple Have Up Its Sleeve?
When Apple announced last month that it anticipated higher development costs in coming months, analysts cringed and the stock dropped. But tech heads rejoiced. Such a message often means new products are coming from the company. Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer told analysts that a "future product transition" will lower gross margins from nearly 35 to about 30 percent in 2009.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Unified Communications: Lifeblood of the Contact Center
What is unified communications and why do you need it? UC is not unified messaging, and it isn't a unified desktop. But both of these technology solutions help to support a unified communications architecture. In fact, according to Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company, UC is the convergence of such technologies as instant messaging, e-mail, voice over Internet protocol, presence and e-commerce in or ...
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Sneak peek: 'The Road' is fiction, but the bleak scenery is real
Imagining the end of the world is not easy, especially if you're not going to create one with a computer. But director John Hillcoat and filmmakers of The Road believe they discovered it in Pittsburgh.
USA Today |
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Flavour of the month: A for Apple, A for Applications
PUNE, INDIA: If the first generation was about features and touchscreen, the next generation could probably be all about the many bells and whistles of applications.
CIOL |
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Wireless network is city’s access to World Wide Web
For decades, Milledgeville’s economic development efforts have been thwarted by a lack of access to a major interstate road.
The Union-Recorder |
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Deliotte gets Rajarshi Sengupta as new director
BANGALORE, INDIA: Deliotte Technology, a provider of IT services, today announced Rajarshi Sengupta as the Senior Director and Head for Deloitte’s Technology Integration practice in India.
CIOL |
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Marriott International and AT&T Introduce Industry Leading Converged Network Solution for Hotels
Marriott International (NYSE:MAR) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today are announcing a lodging-industry leading agreement that will transform multiple communications networks at hotels into one converged network for voice and data transmission based on Internet technologies. The cutting-edge solution will improve the guest experience and employee performance, support both wired and wireless services ...
Hospitality Net |
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Xbox community gets new Voices
Xbox.com is getting a new Community Voices feature this week, Microsoft clearly keen to touch their userbase more deeply, and on a personal level.
Ferrago |
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Homegrown marijuana cases surge in Japan
Police investigations of marijuana use have surged this year in Japan, the result in part of the easy availability of seeds on the Internet for home cultivation, authorities said Thursday, raising concerns in a country long considered immune from the drug abuse problems of Europe and the United States.
The Kansas City Star |
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Homegrown marijuana cases surge in Japan
TOKYO (AP) - Police investigations of marijuana use have surged this year in Japan, the result in part of the easy availability of seeds on the Internet for home cultivation, authorities said today, raising concerns in a country long considered immune from the drug abuse problems of Europe and the United States.
Philstar.com |
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LinuxWorld makes mobile moves
The scope of the open-source community's annual expo ranges from supercomputers to gadgets on the go.
CNET |
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'Cybersecurity commission' to proffer advice to next president
Four members of a group convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies say the next administration must focus on industry-government collaboration.
CNET |
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CORRECTION
The Apple retail store opening Saturday in Monterey will be the county's first store dedicated solely to Apple computer products. Such products were and continue to be available at other stores. An article on Page 1A of Wednesday's newspaper was incorrect.
The Salinas Californian |
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Homegrown marijuana cases surge in Japan
Police investigations of marijuana use have surged this year in Japan, the result in part of the easy availability of seeds on the Internet for home cultivation, authorities said Thursday, raising concerns in a country long considered immune from the drug...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Chinese government unlikely to be involved in hacking pro-Tibet blog
The culprits behind a hacking attack aimed at a British pro-Tibet protester are unlikely to have acted with the knowledge of the Chinese government, according to one expert. It emerged overnight that a web page written by Lucy Fairbrother – who was arrested in Beijing yesterday – may have been targeted by hackers who doctored the text. According to friends and family of the protesters and ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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