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Five things you need to know today
1For the second time in a month, Google's Gmail e-mail service experienced an outage affecting millions of users. Monday's outage reportedly lasted about two hours.
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Colchester hospital sacks manager over stolen laptop
Thieves took the machine after breaking into the car, which was parked in Edinburgh at the time, where the unnamed manager was holidaying. The computer was password-protected but the data was not encrypted.
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Carving out an iPhone image niche
The first data blip caught Alan Oppenheimer's attention, and a succession of reports from Japan proved even more intriguing for the Ashland software developer.
The Mail Tribune |
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Public views on Internet access sought in Parish
The Salmon Rivers Council of Governments is having an informational meeting this week on a new technology that could allow for more high-speed Internet access in remote areas.
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Homeland Security creates counterintelligence division
Concerns about foreign spies and terrorists have prompted the Homeland Security Department to set up its own counterintelligence division...
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MTNL cuts broadband charges, launches TV on mobile
Public sector telecom services provider MTNL today slashed broadband charges by up to 50 per cent to increase user base in the national capital. The PSU announced a plan that will offer customers high speed (2 mbps) Internet access at a monthly rental of Rs 99 and 150 mb free download.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 27th July 2008
Posted by Danny Allen on Wednesday 13/Aug/2008, @02:12 from the i'm-on-a-rampage! dept. In this week's KDE Commit-Digest : Support for hiding/showing system icons in Plasma , support for using the native Windows start menu where appropriate, with more work in the "Previewer" applet and "TabBar".
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Tencent Announces 2008 Interim and Second Quarter results
Tencent Holdings Limited , a leading provider of Internet and mobile & telecommunications value-added services in China, today announced the unaudited consolidated results for the first half year and the second quarter of 2008 ended June 30, 2008.
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Dell sees industry computer sales higher in 2nd half
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Dell Inc , the world's second-largest personal computer maker, sees global industry computer sales in the second half of this year exceeding those in the first half, Chief Executive Michael Dell said on Wednesday.
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OpenGL 3.1 promise follows gamer revolt
'Just a little longer' Exclusive Graphics and games engineers angered by the delayed OpenGL spec and threatening to adopt Microsoft's DirectX have been asked to hold out a little longer for promised changes.…
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Copa Airlines Receives Embraer 190 Flight Simulator
First Latin American Airline With E-190, B737 Sims Copa Airlines has received an Embraer 190 flight simulator, becoming the first airline in Latin America with both Embraer 190 jet and Boeing 737 Next Generation simulators for pilot training.
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Are PET Scans Beneficial During Cancer Diagnosis, Staging and Monitoring?
Today positron emission tomography scanning is emerging as an increasingly helpful oncology tool for diagnosis, staging and monitoring. It is a computer-based, low-resolution imaging technology emitting a radioactive tracer to localize tumors.
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News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone
Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...
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Best Buy is 1st independent iPhone retailer
NEW YORK (AP) - Best Buy Co. will start selling the iPhone on Sept. 7, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple Inc.'s and AT&T Inc.'s own stores.
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SourceForge hands out open source honours
Open source software site SourceForge.net has handed out its third annual Community Choice Awards.
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09:43 (BST), 13/08/2008 Chalkboard Sports Baseball Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS D2C Games™, Inc., a premier ...
D2C Games™, Inc., a premier developer and publisher of mass-market downloadable interactive entertainment, today announced that Chalkboard Sports Baseball™ is now available on the iTunes® Store ( www.iTunes.com).
gamesindustry.biz |
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Chinese shooter's gold medal sparks search for vanished father
BEIJING: A revelation by Olympic gold medal winner Guo Wenjun that she was abandoned by her father when she was 10 has caught China's imagination and sparked a massive online search to find him.
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SourceForge hands out open source honours
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 21:59:00 OpenOffice wins big with users Open source software site SourceForge.net has handed out its third annual Community Choice Awards. The awards are voted for by the site's users and range in subject and seriousness from...
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Employees at Charter told data was stolen
Cable television operator Charter Communications Inc. is alerting employees, including some in Massachusetts, that their personal information was involved in a security breach that occurred when a number of laptop computers were stolen last month from a Charter media facility in Greenville, S.C.
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Dell sees industry computer sales higher in 2nd half
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Dell Inc , the world's second-largest personal computer maker, sees global industry computer sales in the second half of this year exceeding those in the first half, Chief Executive Michael Dell said on Wednesday.
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Radware's SIP Director Awarded INTERNET TELEPHONY's 2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award
Radware, the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation named its SIP Director, a fully SIP-aware application delivery solution, as a 2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award winner presented by its publication, INTERNET TELEPHONY.
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India tests multi-barrel rocket launcher Pinaka
The unguided rocket system is meant to neutralise bigger geographical area with rapid salvo of rockets. With a range of 40 km, 'Pinaka' can fire salvo of 12 rockets in 44 seconds. One salvo each (12 rockets) from the battery of six launchers can neutralise at a time a target area of 3.9 sq km.
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Dell sees industry computer sales higher in 2nd half
Dell Inc , the world's second-largest personal computer maker, sees global industry computer sales in the second half of this year exceeding those in the first half, Chief Executive Michael Dell said on Wednesday.
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Microsoft shows off 3D video-editing tool
A research project called Unwrap Mosaic paves the way for adding features such as facial hair to the subject of a video that has already been filmed
ZDNet UK |
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$196m should cover costs of bad graphics chips, Nvidia says
As reports claim bad graphics chips may be affecting MacBook Pros, Nvidia took a one-time warranty charge of $196 million against its second-quarter revenue on Tuesday, saying that amount should cover the cost of replacing bad Nvidia graphics chips used in a range of laptop models from different manufacturers.
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