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Select Dell Notebooks Now Cheaper With Ubuntu + Retail Vista Than Vista Pre-Installed
"Since Dell has recently added several new models to the Ubuntu line, I decided to do price comparisons between the Linux and Windows models. I tried to get the systems as close as possible, but in a few cases there are very minor differences.
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DreamWorks to buy back $21.8M in shares
(AP:NEW YORK) Computer animation company DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the creator of "Kung Fu Panda," said Wednesday it agreed with The Wunderkinder Foundation to buy back 706,330 shares of the company's stock held by the foundation for about $21.8 million.
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World's First Zero-Watt Monitor
The world's first monitors to feature power supplies that automatically switch off completely in power-save mode started shipping today. Developed by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the new power-saving technology goes on sale in the SCENICVIEW Premium Line ECO rang...
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Board still deciding whether to fire Hawaii's tourism chief
The board of the Hawaii Tourism Authority last night ended a 6 1/2-hour closed-door meeting without revealing the employment future of HTA president Rex Johnson, who has admitted receiving and sending adult-oriented e-mails on his state computer.
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Pair pleads not guilty to crimes
BRATTLEBORO -- A man and woman pleaded not guilty Aug. 6 to burglarizing Brown Computers on Birge Street the night before.
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Lawsuit filed against deceased doctor
A woman has filed a lawsuit against the estate of a Quad-City anesthesiologist who committed suicide in June, claiming he committed battery, negligence and treatment without consent while she was a patient at Genesis Medical Center.
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Researchers Examine Safety Of Internet Prescriber Service Providing Erectile Dysfunction Medications
Online Internet shopping today offers many benefits. You can research a product in the privacy of your own home and purchase most anything by clicking a mouse.
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hackers
Security specialists say hackers are taking increasing aim at iPhones and Macintosh computers as the hot-selling Apple devices gain popularity. Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalise home pages.
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Man nabbed for selling lawyer’s stolen laptop
MANILA, Philippines—A man who used the Internet to sell a laptop stolen from a lawyer's car was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in an entrapment operation on Tuesday, the bureau said Wednesday.
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Yahoo launches Fire Eagle
Yahoo continues its run of new service announcements, this time launching general availability of its location-sharing platform on Tuesday. Fire Eagle , first discussed by Yahoo last year, is a service users can employ to update their location information and share that information with web-based applications of their choosing.
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European court delays British hacker's extradition to US
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday temporarily held up the extradition of a British computer hacker facing computer misuse charges in the US.
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Delphi Digital's Vital Information Manager (Delphi VIM(TM)) a Breakthrough Online Resource for Storing and Managing ...
At a time when instant access to information has never been more critical, Delphi Digital announces Vital Information Manager (Delphi VIM) www.delphivim.com the first comprehensive online tool for storing and managing an array of key personal information: family, legal, medical, financial, household, insurance, veterinary and more.
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Seminar touts importance of super computers
CEDAR CITY - In an effort to spread information about super computers and the assistance they can provide to students and individuals in various industries, the College of Integrated Engineering and Technology is sponsoring the Utah Advanced Computing Summer Institute.
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IncrediMail Reports $5.2M Revenues with $0.6M Net Income for Q2 2008
IncrediMail Ltd. (NASDAQ:MAIL) (www.incredimail-corp.com), an Internet company, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
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State's Internet speeds rank 47th
Montanans tolerate some of the nation's slowest average Internet download speeds, according to a report released Tuesday by the Communications Workers of America.
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Grant means laptops for deputies
The Marshall County Sheriff's Department has received a $25,000 grant to buy 18 laptop computers for deputies to use in vehicles, Marshall County Sheriff Scott Walls said.
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Laptops With Cable Company Workers’ Data Stolen
The personal information of thousands of current and former Charter Communications employees are in the wrong hands after several laptop computers were stiolen last month, the company said.
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BBC iPlayer goes H.264
BBC iPlayer content is to be encoded in high quality H.264 streams at 800Kbps, according to the BBC Internet blog. As iPlayer's video compression partners have only just been able to support the requirements, H.264 will be introduced in two phases.
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RP software exports to hit $1 billion by 2010
Philippine software exports are expected to reach almost $1 billion by 2010, more than twice the $423 million earned in 2007, an industry association said Wednesday.
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Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer
(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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Starz ending Vongo movie service for Starz Play
(AP) -- Liberty Media Corp.'s Starz pay TV subsidiary is pulling the plug on its Vongo movie-download service in favor of letting Verizon Communications Inc. and other affiliates market a similar service.
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'Seeing sound' for the deaf
Deaf children have been testing software that enables then to see a visual representation of sound waves.
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Tourism Wikis: The World According to the Crowd
It used to be that travelers looking for the hippest getaway, the coziest hotel, or the best restaurant had to rely solely on travel guidebooks, which were often out of date by the time they were published. The Web, however, has spawned a new destination for those seeking travel information: travel wikis and online communities.
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Laptop computer stolen from unlocked motor home
Amherst police have another vehicle burglary on their hands, this one involving the theft of a laptop computer from a motor home parked in a Cranburne Lane driveway last week.
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Lyris Launches ListManager 10
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) now provide increasingly specific reasons, rather than a generic rejection, when they ‘block' messages from reaching the inbox of the intended recipient. Lyris ListManager 10 has been developed in response so that the software a...
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