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Media Outlets Losing Money From a Lack of Auto Ads
The flight of advertising dollars to the Internet is one explanation for the pain felt by traditional media. Another culprit that is increasingly to blame is Detroit.
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Blind MBA girds for battle with Ottawa over issue of website accessibility
A Toronto businesswoman who has been blind since birth is girding for battle with Ottawa over what she alleges is the federal government's failure to make its systems for filing job applications online accessible to the visually impaired.
Times & Transcript |
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Dell unlikely to get trademark for 'cloud computing'
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reverses course on its preliminary decision to allow Dell to trademark the term 'cloud computing.
ZDNet Asia |
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Google Translate comes to the iPhone
Service, which can translate text between 24 languages, came out of the company's policy to set aside a day of each employee's week to work on any idea desired.
ZDNet Asia |
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last100's Smartphone Parade: One Size Doesn't Fit All
At last100 [a ReadWriteWeb Network blog] , we love the iPhone as much as anyone. Yet we remain convinced that for all of Apple's innovation - especially on the mobile browsing front and major improvements in usability - the iPhone in its current incarnation will have significant but limited appeal. There's only one iPhone, and in the smartphone market, one size doesn't fit all. Case in ...
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Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack
A federal judge ordered three college students to cancel a Sunday presentation at a computer hackers' conference where they planned to show security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's subway.
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ASUS Eee Box
Despite a few useful features, the ASUS Eee Box is a novelty at best. It can't come close to the performance and robustness of even the most basic standard budget PC, while a low-end notebook can do everything it can do and more.
ZDNet Australia |
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Intel's Nehalem now officially Core i7
Intel on Sunday quickly confirmed recent leaks with official word that its next-generation Nehalem processor architecture will be named Core i7. The move continues the Core name despite a major platform change and signals the new line's status as Intel's seventh major architecture since it began with the 8086 decades earlier. The highest-performi...
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Is Your Handheld Powerful Enough To Allow You To Leave The Laptop At The Office?
http://www.computerworld.com/action...&intsrc=hm_list "As handheld devices become more like full-fledged computers in their own right, the question of whether business travelers might be better served by leaving their laptops at home is again being asked by IT managers and end users alike. But that still appears to be more of a future goal than a current reality." Is your handheld ...
Pocket PC Thoughts |
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Microsoft Money goes online
Microsoft, via a newsgroup posting from one of its enthusiasts, has announced it would no longer update its Money product each year and, more importantly, it will stop selling the product at retail stores.
ZDNet Australia |
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Online China Overview
The TrendsSpotting blog has produced a thorough overview of Online China, collected from a variety of sources such as Universal McCann, CNNIC, Pew Internet, Hitwise, comScore and more. The report focus on three key themes: 1) China as an online leader, 2) the competitive landscape in Search, IM & Web 2.0, and 3) Business in Online China. TrendsSpotting says that these are "key indicators of ...
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Patents are not necessary for innovation
The fact is that most of the far-reaching innovations in the software industry happened well before software patents became common.
Express India |
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Globe expects branding boost from launch of iconic iPhone
MANILA, Philippines--Globe Telecom Inc. said last week that its iPhone launch was not a "gamble" but a branding move that was also hoped to boost the company's wireless broadband revenue.
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Verizon and union reach tentative labor contract
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications and union workers agreed on a new tentative labor contract on Sunday, avoiding a strike that could have delayed the roll-out of the phone company's FiOS Internet and video service.
EARTHtimes.org |
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Modern abolitionists fight slavery online
How do you eliminate slavery and human trafficking? Modern abolitionists across the globe are tackling that question head on - and collaborating via the Internet on their efforts.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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MIT students sued over transit system hack
Three students are being sued by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for allegedly hacking their way through ticketing security systems.The MBTA's successful request for a temporary injunction alleged that the three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students offered free subway rides for life over the Internet and were planning to show others how to duplicate their techniques at ...
Moldova.org |
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Weekly Top 10: Sony DSC-T77, DSC-T700, Nikon S60, IdeaPad S10, Asus S101
This week Nikon and Sony introduced new digital cameras. See the highlights of these releases below. The new low-cost and tiny Asus Eee Box Desktop is shipping. One of the most anticipated Sony PS3 games is also available ...
I4U |
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Have no fear, the $99 laptop is here
Jointech's JL7100 laptop is apparently ready to sell – but is this actually a laptop or just a glorified PDA?
iTNews |
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Physicist hacks DNS patch
A bored Russian physicist has successfully hacked an emergency patch designed to fix a recently discovered DNS vulnerability.
iTNews |
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A First Look Inside the Defcon Network Ops Center
Over 9,000 hackers, freaks, feds and geeks are in Las Vegas for Defcon, the world's largest computer security convention. Threat Level gets the first ever photo tour of the Defcon Network Operations Center.
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Linux Today - ASUS P5E64 WS Professional Review
"We have tested many Intel X38 and X48 Express motherboards and with not a single one had we run into any compatibility issues with this chipset, even going back to the early X38 motherboards from last year. Did the ASUS P5E64 WS Professional break this pattern of success?
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CNN Warns About "Fraudulent" E-mail Not from CNN
A spam message purporting to be from CNN has been circulating the Internet, CNN reported on its blog. The message, claiming to contain CNN's Top 10 news stories and videos of the day, is fraudulent and did not originate from CNN, the news operation said.
GigaLaw.com |
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Apple twice the price of PCs
Research by analyst house NPD has shown that on average Apple users pay twice as much in the shops as PC users..
iTNews |
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Verizon and union reach labor contract, avoid strike
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications and union workers agreed on a new labor contract avoiding a strike that could have delayed the roll-out of the phone company's FiOS Internet and video service.
EARTHtimes.org |
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Abolitionists take on slavery – online
Changemakers.net hosts global competition for innovative solutions to human trafficking.
The Christian Science Monitor |
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