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Cogent Communications hits 2-year low on warning
Shares of Internet service provider Cogent Communications Group Inc. lost a third of their value Friday after it slashed its financial forecasts for the year.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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IBM goes mobile
IBM today launched new mobile software and services designed to help companies tap into the growing numbers of mobile internet users, and to enable more flexible and productive working practices in organisations.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Katie Holmes chops the bob down to a pixie
Katie Holmes just keeps taking it off. Mrs. Tom Cruise, who made a huge hairstyle splash when she helped fuel Hollywood's bob craze late last year, has been seen out and about in New York with a new pixie cut. Photos popping up on the Internet show Holmes sporting a shaggier version of the short 'do, with long bangs and a tapered neck.
Miami Herald |
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IBM launches three mobile software products and services
IBM announced new software and services for mobile devices today, noting that sometime later this year there will be more mobile phones in use worldwide than land-line phones. IBM's internal Institute for Business Value also projects that the number of mobile Internet users worldwide should reach 1 billion this year, nearly 200 percent above the number in 2006. Two-thirds of all workers ...
InfoWorld |
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Facebook and MySpace: Walking the security-social networking line
Security--actually insecurity--is a very social thing. Get a cute malware infested email and forward it along to your contact list. See a site that's interesting--but is really just a phishing expedition--and you get hit with a virus/worm/rootkit. Social engineering makes the security world go around. So what do you do...
ZDNet |
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Weekly SearchBuzz RoundUp: 08/08/08 - Google Insights, Performics Dropped & Yahoo Gets Better
Today is 08/08/08. You can imagine how precisely Barry planned out this post -- since, well, that only happens once in a century. The Olympics are Here! Also occurring almost as infrequently is the Olympics, which started yesterday and are now being celebrated within the search industry and here at Search Engine Roundtable . Speaking of which, the designer of our Olympics logo, Mabe, ...
Search Engine Roundtable |
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Internet service provider Tiscali has business plan rethink after losing UK customers
Italian owners reduce sale and profit forecasts as Sky creeps up on number four position
Guardian Unlimited |
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Free Windows Vista Themes [Vista]
The Life Rocks! blog rounds up seven gorgeous Windows Vista themes which are free to download. Pick your favorite, dress up your desktop, then show it off in the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell...
Lifehacker |
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New InstallAware 8 Integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio, Automates Setup Creation
InstallAware Software Corporation has released InstallAware 8, a setup authoring tool for ISVs and enterprises deploying products, patches, and web updates. InstallAware 8 creates Windows Installer setup packages with support for the latest technologies, including Windows Installer 4.5, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008, and 64 ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Love and Money [Sponsors]
Thanks to this week's sponsors for the iced coffee and handheld fans: American Express, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Eve Online, Microsoft Windows, Novint, Puma, Sharp Aquos, Sprint, Starwood Hotels,...
Lifehacker |
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Online forum to buy, sell restaurant reservations comes to Chicago
NEW 10:25 a.m. CHICAGO -- Trying to score a last-minute table at a hot restaurant? It can go like this: Place large bill in sweaty palm. Ask to speak to manager. Shake manager’s hand while passing on the money and a desperate request for a table. Hope for the best.
The Pantagraph |
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Florida investment firm wins patent on interactive email ads
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - James Curry Investments (JCI), an investment firm located in Fort Lauderdale, has been awarded a US Patent for technology enabling value added, centrally processed email.
TechJournal South |
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Reporters booted from conference for hacking
Three journalists working for the French publication Global Security Magazine were booted Thursday from the hackers' conference after they were allegedly caught hacking into the private computer network set up for the media.
MSNBC |
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Make Firefox 3's Bookmarks Available to Launchy and Quicksilver [Firefox Tip]
Firefox 3 doesn't store your bookmarks in the plain old HTML file that Firefox 2 did, so desktop launchers like Quicksilver and Launchy can't index them properly. But the HackCollege blog has a...
Lifehacker |
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iPhone 'kill switch' only aimed at GPS apps?
The alleged kill switch for iPhone software is not meant to apply universally, a new source claims. Yesterday, writer Jonathan Zdziarski called attention to the iPhone 2.0 firmware, whose Core Location code contains a URL titled "https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps." Zdziarski and others have thus argued that Apple may have a ...
MacNN |
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Notebooks help Lenovo book higher sales, profit
Increased shipments of personal computers, powered by a surge in demand for notebook laptops, pushed consolidated sales at the Lenovo Group to $4.2 billion during the first quarter of the company's 2008-09 fiscal year, which ended June 30. That was 10 percent higher than in the comparable period in the previous year.
BizJournals |
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Enjoy Gaming as a Child? Here's Why You Should Make a Career of It
(ARA) - As a kid did you spend all your spare time at the arcade, or playing games on your home computer? If so, your experience as a gamer could end up paying off big. There's a growing need in this country for people with the kinds of skills you have.
Carteret County News-Times |
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New InstallAware 8 Integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio, Automates Setup Creation
Newly released InstallAware 8 automatically creates and builds setup projects for solutions inside the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, adds support for de-elevating applications on Windows Vista, offers dual-mode web updates, and allows granular installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 components. (PRWeb Aug 8, 2008) Read the full story at ...
PRWeb |
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Apple (AAPL) is no stranger to the bulls in the brokerage bunch
Computer king Apple (AAPL: sentiment, chart, options) ticked higher in early trading today, bolstered in part by some bullish banter from the brokerage bunch...( Read More )
Schaeffers Research |
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Katie Holmes chops the bob down to a pixie
Katie Holmes just keeps taking it off. Mrs. Tom Cruise, who made a huge hairstyle splash when she helped fuel Hollywood's bob craze late last year, has been seen out and about in New York with a new pixie cut. Photos popping up on the Internet show Holmes sporting a shaggier version of the short 'do, with long bangs and a tapered neck. The style was popular in the late '80s and early '90s, ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Miyamoto Delivering CEDEC 2008 Keynote
Japan's Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association (CESA) announced that legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto will deliver a keynote at Japanese developer conference CEDEC 2008. Scheduled to take place September 9 - 11 at Tokyo's Show Women's College, CEDEC 2008 (CESA Developers Conference) offers developer talks, as well as presentations on game tools and middleware. For his keynote ...
Gamasutra |
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Buying or Selling in Today's Market? Internet Paves the Path to Real Estate Success
(ARA) - Home buyers and sellers - the relationship may seem like it should be more adversarial than ever, given the current market. Coming at the real estate equation from opposite sides, buyers and sellers may feel they have little in common.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Squeezed by Sluggish Economy, Many Find Charity Begins at Home -- On the Computer
(ARA) - The downturn in the economy and rising food and gas prices are taking a toll on charities and non-profit organizations. Soup kitchens, churches, international aid organizations and schools report donations of all kinds are down as folks struggle to make their own ends meet.
Carteret County News-Times |
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What Does a DIYer Really Want? Tools that Do More
(ARA) - From smart phones that also function as computers to green practices that reduce waste and generate energy at the same time, multi-tasking is in vogue.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Government Computer News
IT professionals and system administrators can expect to be busy this month as Microsoft announced yesterday that it plans to release 12 patches for its monthly security bulletin rollout.
Government Computer News |
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