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Yahoo Releases Location-Enabling Tech
As telecom and Web firms compete to provide location-based services, telcos have the advantage of knowing where a user is on the network. Today, Yahoo released new technology – dubbed FireEagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net) – that lets users explicitly enter, and control, information about their location. ...
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Developers Honored by Forum Nokia
Forum Nokia has recognized eight mobile developers, six of them from the United States, for innovative applications that include widgets, location-based services, social networking, multimedia, back-up and enterprise connectivity. The recognition is part of Forum Nokia’s 2008 Innovation Series, which selects applications...
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Stix Game Controller Takes Wii-Style Play to the PC
Looking at its size, shape, white wrist strap and B-button on the bottom, it's easy to compare the Stix with the Wiimote, the wireless controller for the popular Nintendo gaming console. Except the Stix is for your PC. The Stix comes from Playhut, a toy company that also makes cute little indoor tents for kids.
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MetroPCS Chooses LTE for 4G Wireless Network
MetroPCS is the latest wireless carrier to choose Long Term Evolution technology for its next-generation wireless broadband technology. During its second quarter conference call, the company said it would be joining the likes of Verizon Wireless and AT&T by backing LTE. MetroPCS also said it sees the next-generation of ...
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Review: PC Specialist Fusion 780 X3 desktop computer
The PC Specialist X3 uses AMD's triple-core processor. Halfway, obviously, between the dual-core computers that are now fairly common and the more expensive quad-core PCs, the triple-core, in theory, offers a good trade-off between price and performance.
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MOZAMBIQUE: Long road to successful PMTCT
Source: IRIN More and more HIV-positive pregnant women are testing for the virus and seeking out prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services in Sofala Province, in central Mozambique, but local health officials say much work remains to be done.
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Open-source pact subject to copyrights law: court
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the holder of a copyright to a computer programming code made available for free public download can enforce an "open-source" copyright license to control future use of the work.
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Online sex sting nets 5
MONROE TWP. Five women who advertised their services on craigslist were charged with prostitution after attempting to broker a sex-for-cash deal with undercover police officers Thursday.
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Use Social Networking If You Want To Increase Your Online Popularity
Reputation is very important on the Internet. Whether you created a Web site for business or personal use, you need to amass a certain amount of popularity in order to achieve your goals.
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Wireless Phone Users in Hardin and Dexter, Kentucky, Now Experience Even Clearer Reception and Fewer Dropped Calls
Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site in Hardin that expands network coverage, enabling more customers to use their wireless phones concurrently to make voice calls; send and receive email and text, picture and video messages; access the Internet; view high-quality videos; and download music, games and ringtones, while enjoying clearer reception and fewer dropped calls.
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Columnist dips into (e)mailbox
The magic of modern technology brings a variety of email messages our way, many worth sharing with you and others not suitable for this family newspaper. To wit:
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System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making
Microsoft is continuing to flesh out its Software+Service portfolio and has yet another, still-unannounced, Microsoft-hosted service that it is developing. The new member of the family? System Center Online, according to tipsters who talked under the conditiion of anonymity. by Mary Jo Foley
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Keynote KITE Flies Free
August 14, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- On-demand test and measurement solutions provider Keynote Systems has announced its Keynote Internet Testing Environment, or KITE, is available for free to qualified early adopters for testing and analyzing web application performance.
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NameCheap Offers Free Comodo SSL
August 14, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain registrar and web hosting provider NameCheap announced on Tuesday it is offering a free Comodo PositiveSSL certificate with any purchase on its website.
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Microsoft's Cambridge Campus Plan Hits Legal Snag
InterSystems, a longtime occupant in the building at One Memorial Drive in the shadow of MIT, maintains that it, and not Microsoft, has rights to a coveted space.
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Forrester: The X Internet is coming (for real this time)
Forrester Research is pitching an "IT everywhere" vision that's comprised of existing technologies as well as some emerging trends--including the X Internet where physical objects are networked to the Web. In a report, Forrester analyst Bobby Cameron concludes: Today's technology trends may appear like only incremental...
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HL:Zi Corporation reports Q2 loss of $1.5M on sales of $2.7M@
CALGARY _ Software company Zi Corp. (TSX:ZIC) reported a bigger quarterly loss of US$1.5 million as sales fell to US$2.7 million.
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Leaked IDF slides shed light on Nehalem’s successors
French website Canardplus today published slides that seem to be part part of Intel’s IDF presentation program next week and provide some information on the continuation of Intel’s tick-tock strategy until 2012 and 22 nm processors.
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British recycling leaflets show wrong Birmingham
Britain's second-largest city, Birmingham, has a new skyline -- only it belongs to its Alabama namesake. Birmingham City Council distributed 720,000 leaflets that praised residents for exceeding recycling targets, carrying a message that read: "Thank You Birmingham." The message appeared stamped across a photograph of the city's skyline. But the photo was not of Birmingham, England, but of ...
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Political Shinanigans Boost Search Activity for Paris Hilton and John Edwards on Lycos Top Search List
Lycos, Inc. , a leading provider of social publishing, media and search services, today announced the following information from The Lycos 50, the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending Aug. 9, 2008.
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Computer Sciences Corp. spent $240K lobbying in 2Q
Computer Sciences Corp. spent $240,000 lobbying the federal government on intelligence spending, defense funding and homeland security issues, according to a recent disclosure form.
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How to Beef Up Your Sales Pipeline
Please login or register to access this white paper. OSMOFLO, an Australian company, implemented a suite of four GFI products to protect its network from viruses and spam, to monitor and control internet usage and to save time and money on faxing.
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Electronics group spent $256K to lobby in 2Q
The American Electronics Association, whose members include Microsoft Corp. , Dell Inc. and Google Inc., spent $256,000 in the second quarter to lobby on tax issues, customs and tariffs, and trade measures, according to a recent disclosure report.
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Review: WD My Book Mirror Edition 2TB
Very few consumers understand the importance of redundant storage. What this means is that most people are woefully unprepared for a crash, something that not only happens all the time, but will happen eventually on any computer or piece of equipment. The solution to this is not always as easy as we would like though, [...]
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Two Internet Summit Speakers vie for Olympic Gold this weekend
Featured Internet Summit speakers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss will be competing for Olympic medal this weekend, as they represent the US rowing team in men’s pair rowing finals.
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