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Cinema 4D R11 adds new light engine, tools, more
Maxon on Tuesday unveiled Cinema 4D Release 11, a major update to its 3D animation suite, introducing an enhanced lighting engine, animation tools, and improved render speeds, among other features. In addition to the aforementioned inclusions, Cinema 4D now offers enhanced compatibility with other industry software, such as the COLLADA file format,...
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New IPod Touch and MacBooks Coming Soon, Analysts Say
Apple in September will announce a new iPod Touch and a redesigned MacBook, analysts say.
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Silenced Subway Hackers, Silenced No More
The MIT student presentation 'Anatomy of a Subway Hack' that was barred from DEFCON security conference is released to Web.
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Online Olympics Leave Out iPhones, PowerPC Macs
NBC is offering streaming coverage of Olympic events to computers and handhelds--but if you use an iPhone or a PowerPC-based Mac, you're out of luck.
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Six-bay MacBook/iBook Battery Charger Debuts
Oncore Power on Monday announced a six-bay battery charger designed to recharge MacBook and iBook batteries. It costs US$395.
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Recycling seen as money saver
BISBEE — There are strong reasons for developing a countywide recycling program.
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Developer Aims to Unlock iPhone's VoIP Potential
The iPhone-using world just got a shot in the arm for VoIP communication. Global IP Solutions has announced support for application developers for VoIP-based utilities running on the iPhone -- which means that actual VoIP calling might not be far off. In simple terms, VoIP lets a phone make calls using the Internet as the delivery backbone rather than a regular telecom service.
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Georgia gets allies in Russian cyberwar
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 21:53:00 Estonia and Poland offer assistance Georgia is gaining allies to resist online attacks, which it says are the work of Russian hackers. Two members of Estonia’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) are heading to Georgia...
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High-Tech Tools Can Plug the Holes in the Border Between Canada and U.S.
Remote sensing technology and computer programs are the way to further protect both Canada and the United States from criminal incursions at the largely unmonitored stretches of the Canada-U.S. border, says Margaret Kalacska in a paper released today by the Canadian International Council.
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Wristwatch sellers predict industry's end
The California-based Jewelry Consumer Opinion Council said watch companies have reported declining sales of between 8 percent and 15 percent since 2006.Watch companies and retailers said the business seems to be on its way out as more and more consumers gets their time updates from cell phones and computer desktops, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Tuesday.The business seems to be dying ...
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Security Experts: No Smoking Gun in Georgian Cyber Attacks
The timing is suspicious: Just as Russian tanks began their physical assaults on Georgia's armies, that country's civilian communications infrastructure started coming under attack in cyberspace. Yet there is no direct evidence that ties this Internet warfare to the Russian government, and it may stay that way.
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Roost.com online real estate company expands to Seattle
Another online real estate company is now serving Seattle: Roost.com, a listing of homes for sale in the city, said it now has Seattle home-sale listings.
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white papers
Boeing is paying AT&T $400 million over the next five years to consolidate its voice and data networks into one system that will be based on IP. Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery.
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AT&T snags big Boeing voice/data contract
Boeing is paying AT&T US$400 million over the next five years to consolidate its current voice and data networks into one IP-based system. In selecting AT&T as it's primary telecom provider, Boeing will use AT&T's WAN services, voice and audio conferencing systems, managed Internet service, as well as wireless voice and data services.
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Digg in Bed With Russian Menace! [Diggbait]
Take a look at the front page of crazy-huge crowdsourced web aggregator Digg today and you'll see a totally different portrait of the war in Georgia than you'd find on the front of the New York...
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Spot the mistakes
The new internet game is spot the errors on Google’s Street View in Australia.
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iPodObserver - Walt Mossberg Describes New Future Created by iPhone
Walt Mossberg, at the Aspen, Colorado Ideas Festival last month, spoke about the rise and importance of the iPhone. He set the stage by pointing out that the Internet is not a place, but rather a pervasive utility. When we switch to that kind of thinking, the future enabled by the Apple iPhone comes...
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States Mull Digital Download Tax
Now that e-commerce is obviously here to stay and iTunes song purchases have topped 5 billion downloads, state politicians and tax collectors have begun to levy fees on digital downloads.
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CyberPatrol Parental Controls 7.7 Introduces Unique Capability to Award-Winning Software
CyberPatrol LLC today announced the introduction of CyberPatrol Parental Controls 7.7, the most effective and accurate online safety product for families and others. CyberPatrol Parental Controls 7.7 incorporates SiteCAT, a unique content filtering engine that greatly enhances the product's blocking and filtering capabilities.
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Hello again, Im Vista
Were ads rather than sales the yardstick, Apple would have dominated the computer industry for decades. First there was the legendary spot "1984", in that same year, which is often considered the best ad in history.
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Montana's Internet download speeds tortoise-like
Montanans suffer under some of the nation’s slowest Internet download speeds, according to a report released Tuesday by the Communications Workers of America.
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Video: Daisy on What the Other Half Watches on the Web?
The conventional wisdom from TV networks is that consumers turn to the Web to catch up on episodes of shows they missed. But new research from IMMI says only half of online TV viewers use the computer as a DVR. What does the other half do?
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Applied Materials profit falls
SAN FRANCISCO — — Applied Materials Inc., the No. 1 maker of computer chips, posted a sharply lower quarterly profit as revenue slid 28 per cent amid an industry slump, and its shares slipped in extended trade.
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Computer availability at schools falling short
There was one personal computer available for every seven students at public elementary and junior high schools in March, leaving the government with a long way to go to meet its target of one per 3.6 students by 2010. An education ministry survey found a slight improvement from March 2007, when one PC was shared by 7.3 students on average, but the rate was still half the target the government ...
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Lenovo Launches Powerhouse Quad-Core ThinkPad
Lenovo has launched its 17-inch ThinkPad W700, which it described as "the PC industry's highest-performance mobile workstation." The laptop has a built-in graphics tablet and will support the upcoming Intel mobile quad-core processor.
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