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Feds mulling $35M program to safely scrap government electronics
The federal government is contemplating a $35-million recycling program to keep its obsolete and unwanted computers and other gear out of the country's landfills, say newly released documents.
Times & Transcript |
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Midday Glance: Computers companies
Shares of some top computers companies are mixed at noon: Apple Inc rose $4.25 or 2.5 percent, to $173.80.
Boston Globe |
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NBC Makes Web Olympics Viewing Tough for Mac Users
Macs users who have a PowerPC Mac are out of luck if they want to watch the Beijing Olympics at NBC.com. For those who do have an Intel Mac, they'll have to download Microsoft's Silverlight, still in beta
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Georgian president's Web site moves to Atlanta
The Web site of the president of Georgia, the small nation that is battling Russian forces over a breakaway enclave, was moved to a U.S. hosting facility this weekend after allegedly being attacked by Russian hackers.
Boston Globe |
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Triple Format Hitachi DZ-BD10HA Blu-ray Camcorder Also Writes to HD and SDHC [Camcorders]
For folks who smartly don't want to be locked into any particular format, the DZ-BD10HA adds the option to record 1080p videos and stills to its built-in 30GB hard drive or an SDHC card, on top of...
Gizmodo |
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Digsby Test Release Slashes Memory Use in Half [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free multi-network instant messaging application Digsby is testing a new release with significant improvements. The very young IM client quickly found a place among the five best...
Lifehacker |
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Intel Brands Nehalem
Intel Corporation says its upcoming Nehalem desktop chips, due to start rolling out in Q4, will be branded Intel Core processors. The first members of the new architecture family, including an Extreme Edition, will have a telltale “i7’ handle attached so they’ll officially be Intel Core i7 processors. read more
SYS-CON Media |
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Missing SFO Clear Laptop Was Stolen, Not Misplaced
Authorities said Monday they believe a laptop that went missing from a locked office at San Francisco International Airport last month then reappeared more than a week later was stolen, not misplaced.
CBS 5 Bay Area |
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AJAX World RIA Conference - AJAX for Oracle: Building RIAs Without Browser Plug-ins
Enterprise developers (and users) definitely want Web 2.0 features, but unfortunately very few of them have the time to learn and keep up with the swift pace of advancement in AJAX. One approach to solving this problem is to take a bunch of AJAX features and bake them into APIs stored in a database that can be called using simple declarative markup language. In this session John Krahulec will ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense.
Tired of creating and changing Web site passwords? Many experts propose dropping passwords entirely for a security system based on cryptography.
The Florence Times-Daily |
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AJAX World RIA Conference: FLEX+ AIR + Mobile
In this session Thomas will share his experience in migrating from AJAX to Flex, the advantages/disadvantages that Flex has as the primary client for a consumer web-based SaaS product, and his vision of how Flex + AIR via any desktop + Mobile (in one or more technical forms) takes us a step towards the vision that Mark Weiser presented in his original works on ubiquitous computing. read more
SYS-CON Media |
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Georgian Gov't Sets Up Cyber Camp At Blogger.com
After government servers were allegedly knocked offline by Russian cyber attackers, the Georgian government seems to have revived its Web presence on Blogger, Google's free blogging service. read more
WebProNews |
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Bluespring Software Announces Office Business Applications for BPM
Bluespring Software, a BPM innovator that brings process agility to the enterprise, announced it has developed Office Business Applications, providing a fast-deploy, easy-to-manage, cost effective means of automating key business functions. ebizQ ...
ebizQ.net |
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Virtualization Conference & Expo - Virtualization: Beyond Hypervisors to Complete IT Infrastructure Management
This session describes how the wave of virtualization technology in the data center can be extended beyond hypervisors to embrace complete IT infrastructure management resulting in significant business value. It will commence by summarizing the fundamental problems that are holding back scale, flexibility and asset utilization in the data center. It will then describe an innovative approach to ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Deploying into the Clouds: Concepts, Benefits, and Experiences
Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. Dr Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, Inc., will be giving a session at SYS-CON's 'Cloud Computing Expo' (November 20-21, 2008) - an adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held at The Fairmont ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Virtualization Conference & Expo: Control VM Sprawl Before It Controls You; Best Practices
While organizations and IT staff continue to see the many benefits of implementing virtualization, the challenge of controlling virtual infrastructures is quickly arising as a top management priority. Virtualization benefits are offset by issues such as security, administration, increased costs, compliance and configuration management. Managing Virtual Machine (VM) sprawl is of growing concern ...
SYS-CON Media |
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NZXT's Avatar gaming mouse: available now for $60
Filed under: Peripherals Yeah, we've seen the cart come before the horse before, and such is the case with NZXT's Avatar gaming mouse. Shortly after being previewed , the outfit has done its duty and made things official. Specs wise, we're looking at 7 customizable buttons, a 2,600DPI optical sensor, 4-speed DPI switch, ambidextrous design and a rubber grip to keep your palm secure even ...
Engadget |
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AJAX World RIA Conference: Do RIA Widgets Open Security Back Doors?
By producing a popular RIA widget you can distribute your code to millions of users practically overnight. Most widgets are designed to gather data from the web and then present that data to the user. In order to enable this functionality, Google Gadgets for example support a rich programming model based on based on JavaScript and the Gadgets' API. Unfortunately, rich platforms tend to lead to ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: A Sneak Peek [Slide Show] [Features]
When the new computer-generated Star Wars: The Clone Wars film hits theaters this weekend, moviegoers will see some new characters among the saga's familiar faces, as Jedi Anakin Skywalker and evil Sith Lord Count Dooku both take on female apprentices. Will these new trainees test their teachers' loyalty to their own masters, namely Obi-Wan Kenobi for Anakin and Darth Sidious for Dooku? And ...
Scientific American |
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Dell Unlikely to Get Cloud Computing Trademark
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reversed course on its earlier move to grant Dell trademark rights to the term "cloud computing." Dell received a preliminary notice on July 8 saying it could have the trademark, but it was withdrawn on Thursday. read more
SYS-CON Media |
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Government Computer News
Depending on whom you talk to, Extensible Markup Language is either the centralized solution for managing cross-platform and cross-agency data sharing, or it's a bloated monster that's slowly taking over data storage and forcing too much data through networks during queries.
Government Computer News |
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Raymond Kurzweil: That Magical Transcendent Feeling [Where Are They Now?]
FINALIST YEAR: 1965 HIS PROJECT: Programming a computer to compose music like classical composers did [More]
Scientific American |
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Quantum Computing with Ions [Scientific American Magazine]
Over the past several decades technological advances have dramatically boosted the speed and reliability of computers. Modern computer chips pack almost a billion transistors in a mere square inch of silicon, and in the future computer elements will shrink even more, approaching the size of individual molecules. At this level and smaller, computers may begin to look fundamentally different ...
Scientific American |
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Lebanon wireless ‘working’
LEBANON — More than 2,000 people have taken advantage of Lebanon’s all-city wireless network so far, and city officials say they’re pleased with the response.
Albany Democrat-Herald |
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Virtualization Conference & Expo: Future Proofing Virtualization Management for Heterogeneous Environments
Analysts estimate 80 percent of today’s virtualized environments run on VMware technology. However, that landscape will shift over the next 12 to 18 months as more powerful processors, competing hypervisors, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and cloud computing take hold. Virtualization management will need to address heterogeneous environments that combine any number of different software ...
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