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BM makes business dashboards mobile
The company is adding new software and consulting services to its lineup, in an effort to charm mobile enterprises.
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Gartner issues caveats over enterprise iPhone use
The analyst house says Apple's latest iPhone is suitable for business use, but various 'inconveniences' must be taken into account.
ZDNet Asia |
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AMD and Blizzard Team Up
The AMD vs. nVidia battle just got a little hotter...or is it cooler? AMD has entered into a partnership with ultra-mega-jumbo developer and publisher of some of the biggest game franchises of all-time, Blizzard Entertainment. If you haven't heard of Blizzard, please close your browser immediately, shut down your computer, and donate it to a local school. The benefit to Blizzard is that it ...
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'Slow' iPhone 3G glitch blamed on secrecy
iPhone 3G users around the world are suffering from slow internet speeds and poor reception because of a flaw in the device that may have been fixed if not for Apple's immense culture of secrecy.
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Auburn gets Web cams
Former Auburn residents and Auburn University fans can walk down memory lane with just a click on the city’s Web site. A new feature on the site now offers live video from six downtown intersections, including Toomer’s Corner, courtesy of newly installed Web cams.
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Police Catch Criminals Online
The Internet has changed the way police investigate crimes. Web sites like MySpace and Facebook are now valuable resources for police.
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News: Best Buy to begin selling iPhone Sept. 7
Best Buy will become the first independent retailer of the iPhone in the U.S. when it begins selling the iPhone 3G across 970 full-size stores and 16 Best Buy Mobile locations on September 7, reports the Associated Press. “We had a lot of work to do, obviously, to get in a position where Apple and AT&T would feel good about Best Buy Mobile carrying it, and that’s what we’ve done in the last 18 ...
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Stuff we like
Why we should be afraid of Google Streetview. Google's StreetView just launched in Australia. And it's creeping a lot of people out. If you want to understand why “Joe Sixpack” might feel uneasy about Google StreetView, you need to do something that rarely happens in the IT industry.
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Recycling your PC - Feature
Washington - Getting a shiny new computer often means figuring out what to do with the old one. And dispensing of an old or unneeded computer is no trivial task. You can't simply throw a PC out with the rest of the garbage. It's illegal to do so in m...
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InternetNZ awards research project
InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) is pleased to announce that it has engaged Auckland-based Network Strategies to produce a report assessing broadband strategy options for New Zealand. This follows an RFP process begun in June, which attracted 10 respondents.
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Russian hackers continue attacks on Georgian sites
Attacks by Russian hackers against Georgian Web sites, including one hosted in the United States, continued Tuesday even as Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to hostilities against Georgia.
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Official: ARMM polls a ‘success’
MANILA (AFP) - Computerized elections in the Muslim autonomous region of the southern Philippines were proclaimed a success yesterday despite efforts by Moro rebels to disrupt the polling, officials said.
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Spot Runner lays off 100 [Online Advertising]
Nick Grouf once told me he started his online-advertising agency, Spot Runner, in Los Angeles, not Silicon Valley, for one reason: The video-production talent he needed to customize television ads en... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Will electric sheep have Android Dreams? [GooglePhone]
The HTC Dream, the first fruit of Google's foray into mobile phones, will be available for preorder from T-Mobile during a one-week window starting September 17. The artificial time scarcity seems... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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British hacker gets temporary reprieve [Gary McKinnon]
Gary McKinnon — crowned by the Pentagon as the biggest hacker of all time — will have to wait a bit longer before heading to the U.S. to face criminal charges. The European Court of Human... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Russian hackers continue attacks on Georgian sites
Attacks by Russian hackers against Georgian Web sites, including one hosted in the United States, continued Tuesday even as Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to hostilities against Georgia. Tom Burling, acting chief executive of Atlanta-based Web-hosting firm Tulip Systems Inc., said the Web site of the president of Georgia was the target of a flood of traffic from Russia aiming ...
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Rockford-area Marine killed in Iraq 'felt it an honor to protect us'
Cherry Valley native was known for his computer skill at Jefferson High Even in middle school, Cpl. Adam T. McKiski knew he wanted to be a U.S. Marine like his grandfathers, friends said Tuesday.
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Rogers Man Pleads Guilty To Internet Stalking
BENTONVILLE - A Rogers man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for Internet stalking of a child.
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Social Networking Sites Help Vet Jurors
The Internet has become an important jury selection tool for consultants and trial lawyers as more and more personal information from prospective jurors becomes available on the Web and from posts on personal blogs and accounts on MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites.
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Defiant Clinton Women Refuse To Support Obama
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild doesn’t look like a radical. Surrounded by bike paths, ponds and the Atlantic Ocean in her Martha’s Vineyard farmhouse, not far from where Bill and Hillary Clinton usually summer, the lifelong Democrat and Clinton fund-raiser opened a laptop to her “Together4Us” Web site, an online petition that features Hillary Clinton looking luminous above a series of ...
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Mini-notebook shipments to surpass 5 million units
Ultra-portable laptops are quickly gaining popularity, as individuals demand a more mobile computing lifestyle. According to Gartner, an IT research and advisory company, shipments of mini-notebook computers are expected to surpass 5 million units in 2008. Mini-notebooks are defined here as computing devices with a screen size of 5 to 10 inches th...
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Zpower offers zinc-silver alternative to Li-ion
Zpower, a provider of silver-zinc battery technology, announced the inclusion of their silver-zinc cells in a major notebook computer in 2009. Zpower claims their batteries have run-times up to 40 percent longer than comparable Lithium-ion cells, while simultaneously offering safety and environmental advantages. Zinc-silver batteries have almost ...
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iPass and IIJ Partner for Mobile Broadband in Japan
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. and TOKYO, Aug. 13, 2008 -- iPass Inc. , a global provider of services that unify the management of enterprise mobility, and Internet Initiative Japan Inc. , one of Japan's leading internet access and network solution providers, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement.
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iPass and IIJ Partner for Mobile Broadband in Japan
iPass Inc., a global provider of services that unify the management of enterprise mobility, and Internet Initiative Japan Inc., one of Japan's leading internet access and network solution providers, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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CNN adds reporters in 10 cities to expand coverage
LOS ANGELES (AP) - CNN says it's adding journalists in 10 cities from Philadelphia to Seattle to provide broader, more nimble TV and online coverage of news nationwide.
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