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China expands wireless city projects
China is set to expand wireless Internet coverage in some major cities, with a unified network proposed for one of the country's most prosperous regions.
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Peer-to-peer client uTorrent fixes serious vulnerability
One of the most popular programs used by some to illegally share files under copyright has patched a serious software vulnerability.
Network World |
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Bigfoot Press Conference Promises 'DNA Evidence'
The rush to view purported pictures of Bigfoot on Thursday was so intense that the Web site SearchingForBigfoot.com went offline.
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Does Windows... battles iPhone?
Last week, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., showed off the Omnia mobile phone to members of the local IT media. Samsung’s dual-SIM phone - Take Two! In the Philippines, most mobile phone users now carry two mobile phones because one TelCo decided to give unlimited call and text messaging services.
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Chevron sells U.K unit for $40 million
DCC Plc, an Irish distributor of goods from computer games to food, agreed to buy San Ramon-based Chevron Corp.'s U.K. fuel and oil distribution unit for $40.
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Sharing 2,999 Songs, 199 Movies Is Safe In Germany
unassimilatible writes "Torrentfreak is reporting that German prosecutors will now only pursue larger-scale file sharers on the Internet, as they are tired of being the entertainment industry's profit collector. 'Prosecutors in a German state have announced they will refuse to entertain the majority of file-sharing lawsuits in [the] future. It appears that only commercial-scale copyright ...
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BlackBerry Gets Bold
Research in Motion's (RIM) latest and greatest BlackBerry, the Bold, now is being sold in various markets around the world, sporting tri-band HSDPA 3G wireless data networking on any GSM network worldwide for the first time in BlackBerry history. The new model also sports a full-color display, at "half VGA"...
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NYT: Google's Android coming soon on HTC handset
Yet another report that Google's Android software is about to make its debut surfaced Friday.
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Judge keeps MIT fare-hackers under cone of silence
Judge George O'Toole declined to waive the injunction currently in place against a group of MIT students charged with causing harm against the Massachussetts Bay Transit Authority. In doing so, he may have violated the students' First Amendment rights against prior restraint. Read More...
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Intel Fesses up to G45 Performance Issues
Intel blames software partners for one of the most severe issues...
AnandTech |
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Apple deals: MacBook Air, Mac Pro, Apple TV
Apple certified refurbished MacBook Air models are now available at Apple's online store with various configurations to choose from. For $1,499 is the 1.6GHz model with 2GB of memory and 80GB PATA hard drive; for $200 more ($1,699) is the 1.8GHz model with the same RAM and hard drive specs as the first. MacBook Air models with 64GB solid-state ha...
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DealNN: JBL On Stage II, MacBook, more
DealNN deals for today include the JBL On Stage II speaker system for use with iPod priced at $40 from Buy.com, also at Buy is the Dane-Elec 2GB zMate USB flash drive for $8. Expercom.com has a great deal on the black MacBook with twice the memory (4GB) and hard drive space (500GB) of the stock model (stock priced at $1,499) for $1,850. The Trend...
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HP Labs adopts 41 university projects
SAN JOSE, Calif. — New modeling tools to create more energy efficient data centers, more powerful lasers to create faster optical interconnects and online agents that are paid for making accurate predictions.
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Teens losing interest in IT
Computing A-Levels falling out of favour?
Silicon.com |
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Former Merrimack College dean arrested on child porn charges
ANDOVER — A former dean of Merrimack College's business school has been arrested on child pornography charges, with state police finding more than 1,000 images of children on his home computer. Edward Popper, 63, of 120 Dascomb Road, Andover was arrested Thursday night. According to court documents, Popper admitted to police he sent and received child sexual abuse images during various online ...
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University of Toronto, IBM to Launch Supercomputer
Expected to be one of the fastest computers in the world, the University of Toronto and IBM Corp are building Canada's most powerful supercomputer. The supercomputer machine will need its own building and will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second.
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Review of Acer Aspire One running Windows XP
The Acer Aspire One is one of the so-called netbooks or mini-notebooks inspired by the success of the Asus Eee PC. It is just over two pounds and comes in two distinctly different models. One model runs the Linux operating system and has 512MB RAM with a 8GB solid state flash drive. The other model [...]
Geek.com |
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Small Biz: Learn From Launch of Kindle
When Amazon debuted its new product, people didn't think it would catch on. Here's what the company did to make it a success.
TheStreet.com |
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Online Games & Fraud: Easy Money
Online games have become popular in recent years. They involve exploring magnificent virtual worlds and completing tasks - known as quests - which gain the players money, valuables and experience, not points as in a more traditional computer game. They can be pu...
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Timesys Announces Embedded Linux for Tensilica Diamond Standard 232L Processor Core
Timesys Corporation(R) (http://www.timesys.com), a premier provider of embedded Linux software solutions, and Tensilica,(R) Inc. (http://www.tensilica.com) today announced general availability of LinuxLink software subscriptions for Tensilica's Diamond Standard 232L processor cores.
Centre Daily Times |
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Sun: Mobile Development Tool Heals Fragmentation
Company releases source code for Java ME-based Lightweight UI Toolkit, which provides UI library for developing mobile applications.
PC World |
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VIDEO: Happy Birthday, iMac
Watch Steve Jobs unveil Apple's iMac in 1998 It was 10 years ago today that Apple started selling its iconic bubble-shaped iMac computer. On August 15, 1998 Apple transformed how people saw computers – and the industry and interior decorating was never the same again.
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Northern Ireland plugs open source hybrid
COUNCILS across Northern Ireland are being encouraged to join a co-operative software movement that has stood in defiance of the occupation of government computer departments by multinational suppliers in big-ticket deals.
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