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Computer Simulations Show How Special The Solar System Is
by Staff Writers Evanston IL (SPX) Aug 11, 2008 Prevailing theoretical models attempting to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average in every way.
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Webflippers buy sites, fix them and hit reload
Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought the online store bird-cage.com for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was "very, very poorly done," and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and drove up traffic. Last December, he sold it for $173,000.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Crazed man smashes up Seattle poison control center
A deranged man broke into a poison control center in Seattle on Sunday morning, smashing windows and computers while a frightened staff member tried to keep her cool.
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Intel announces new line of chips
SANTA CLARA, California (AP) -- Intel Corp. says it plans to sell its new generation of chips for desktop computers under the established "Core" brand, with the first chips of the new line to be called Core i7.
CNN.com |
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Automated polls start in ARMM
Polling precincts in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) opened without a hitch Monday morning for the region's first ever computerized election that will determine the ARMM's governor, vice governor and assemblymen.
ABS-CBNNEWS.com |
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IBM Unveils Biz Apps For iPhone, Blackberry
About 67% of all workers use mobile devices and wireless computers, IBM said, and the number of mobile Internet users in the world will approach 1 billion this year.
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine |
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Opinion: Why laptops will kick desktop PCs to the curb
The desktop has historically been the leader in the computing business, but in recent years, the notebook has taken charge. And as that changeover continues to progress, is it time to write off the desktop? Read More...
Ars Technica |
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Intel to Release Nehalem Laptop Chips Next Year
Intel to release Nehalem laptop chips next year, the company confirmed on Sunday.
PC World |
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Iteration # 419: Is Google a Content Company?
The familiar and at-times tiresome argument: it Google a content company and is it competing against the very content partners that use its services? This time the culprit is the newly launched Wikipedia-challenger Knol, and the argument is whether Google will give preferential treatment in its search to articles within Knol, vs similar topics from other competing sites.
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Faulty battery could cause wrong date and time display
Question: I have always turned my computer off at night. Recently, when I turned the computer on in the morning, the date and time read Dec. 31, 2001 10:00 p.m. I reset the date and time each day when I power up via the control panel.
The Palm Beach Post |
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Wall of Sheep: Coming to your company?
The Wall of Sheep has become a fixture of the Defcon hacker conference: a wall with a long list of details showing who at the conference has sent readable data using insecure wireless connections.
IT World |
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Intel to release Nehalem laptop chips next year
Consumer laptops and desktops could get faster and more power-efficient when Intel releases chips built around its new Nehalem microarchitecture in the second half of 2009.
IT World |
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Alaskan killed in Guatemala robbery
Robbers armed with machetes hacked an Alaskan couple in northeastern Guatemala, killing a man and seriously wounding his wife in an attack aboard the couple's sailboat.
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Pick of the best of a dazzling array of internet radio stations
I was recently told about an old tape of Orson Welles exploding with fury during the recording of an advert. I tried to find it online. It took less than a minute. The near infinite resources of the web are a godsend - but sometimes all that choice can leave you paralysed. This is certainly the case with internet radio, once seen as a novelty, now a global phenomenon, with stations taking music ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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Free internet calls boost 3 but threaten phone revenues
The mobile phone operator 3 is understood to have sold well over 100,000 Skypephones, its mobile handset that includes the free Skype service, highlighting the growing attraction of free internet-based telephony services that threaten phone company revenues. The success of the phone, which is made by the Chinese manufacturer Amoi, highlights the growing popularity of mobile versions of VoIP - ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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Internet shopping: High street stores are losing out to independents online
Established high street retailers are losing out to internet-savvy rivals because they are not very good at marketing themselves online, according to a report out today. Internet Search Metrics (ISM) said some high street stores' marketing is so ineffective they are difficult to find through a Google search and are therefore losing business to small, independent retailers. In June there were ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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Dotcom merchant launches incubator
One of the dotcom boom's great survivors will today take the plunge with his latest venture, an internet incubator and its first offspring, a web operation that helps small and medium-sized businesses find the professional services they need. Maziar Darvish's most recent dotcom business, AIM-listed Internet Business Group, merged with online marketing group TMN this year. Now he has started ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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white papers
The high-end desktop versions of Intel's Nehalem processor family will carry the Core i7 moniker when they are released later this year. Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery.
IT World |
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Apple selected a shopping centre in suburban Sydney as the location for its second retail outlet in the Asia Pacific. Our photo gallery takes you to its grand opening.
ZDNet Australia |
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Intel's Nehalem desktop chips to be called Core i7
The high-end desktop versions of Intel 's Nehalem processor family will carry the Core i7 moniker when they are released later this year.
IT World |
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Massachusetts transit agency sues to stop hacker talk
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has sued three students and their school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to stop them from disclosing flaws in the MBTA's electronic ticketing system.
IT World |
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Court halts subway hacker talk
A U.S. District Court judge ordered the cancellation of a Defcon conference talk scheduled for Sunday that would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electronic ticketing system.
IT World |
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Intel's new chip to be called Core i7
Intel Corp. said Sunday it plans to sell its new generation of chips for desktop computers under the established "Core" brand, with the first chips of the new line to be called Core i7. The microprocessors are based on a design the company has code-named...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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TM to ride on high speed broadband
Since taking on the top job at Telekom Malaysia Bhd, chief executive officer Datuk Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa has been changing a lot of things.
The Star |
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