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Mourning a Club Fixture, and an Internet Pioneer
Cal Chamberlain lived his life at the intersection of Manhattan?s art, fashion, music and technology scenes. His death is still a mystery.
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Intel mobile PC processors drive shipments in 2Q08
SAN MATEO, USA: Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments in the second calendar quarter of 2008 (2Q08) reached record levels again, according to new data from IDC.
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Seattle relieved to lose its high-tech toilets
City officials have finally gotten rid of five high-tech self-cleaning toilets that cost Seattle $5 million _ but sold online for just $12,549. The city installed the modernistic stand-alone toilets four years ago, hoping they would provide tourists and the...
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Seattle relieved to lose its high-tech toilets
By WHITNEY MALKIN City officials have finally gotten rid of five high-tech self-cleaning toilets that cost Seattle $5 million - but sold online for just $12,549. The city installed the modernistic stand-alone toilets four years ago, hoping they would provide tourists and the homeless a place to do their business while downtown. But the automated loos became better known for drug use and ...
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Gartner rates Satyam 'Positive' for BI, PM
HYDERABAD, INDIA: Satyam Computer Services Ltd. announced that it has been rated "Positive" in Gartner's "MarketScope for Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) Services, Western Europe, 2008.
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Seamless Wi-Fi signs software agreement with Garmin
Seamless Wi-Fi, a provider of secure mobile communications, has announced that its subsidiary Seamless Internet has signed an agreement with Garmin USA, a provider of satellite navigation technology. The agreement will provide Seamless Internet with access to Garmin Mobile XT software.
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St. Cecilia gears up for school year with electronics
* Location: 2900 Hoover Ave. * Principal: Dr. Thomas Budnik. * Phone: (515) 232-5290. * Web site: www.stceciliaparish.org/stcschool. * Opens for year: Thursday, Aug. 21.
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Apple budgets $450K for lobbying govt in Q2
During the second quarter of 2008, Apple reportedly spend $450,000 on lobbying within the federal government, under a broad spectrum of interests in energy conservation, education, and intellectual property rights. Forbes writes that a disclosure form ñ which Apple filed July 21st ñ shows Apple dividing the aforementioned figure among patent reform...
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Miles Mogulescu: What Do MoveOn Members Think About Health Care? Who Knows? A Reply to MoveOn's Eli Pariser
On Wednesday I posted a blog on Huffington Post asking readers to sign a Petition requesting that our friends at MoveOn.Org let its members vote...
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Eds: INCORPORATES and UPDATES BC-KS--Unemployment, BC-KS-XGR--Uncontested Races, BC-KS--State Budget, BC-KS--Water Projects. ADDS byline, Internet note.
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Tight Squeeze
Installation of new air conditioning equipment at the Westport Town Hall computer center today not only involved a delicate crane operation to hoist it from the rear of the building to the front but careful navigation in the hallways.
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Microsoft sues site to stop certification test leaks
A federal court in Connecticut has ordered a certification test help-site to stop publishing Microsoft-related materials after the software maker sued the company, claiming that it was selling actual certification exam questions.
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
A series of regional consultative meetings about crucial changes to ICANN will take place over the next three months in an effort to reach out to and involve the organization’s global stakeholders.
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3 Secrets to a Site that Sells
Put these tips in place to turn browsers into buyers.
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Matt Southall trawls BBC's Have You Say for cretinous comments
Hi, I'm from the internet and I'm an arrogant, abusive, annoying git who runs a website called Speak You're Branes. I actually prefer the domain name, ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com . See, already I've gone and used a term like "domain name", but you're reading the Guardian and have unlimited broadband so you can probably cope with that, can't you? You big, organic shandy drinker. ...
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Ancestry hunters stuck in past as web project fails
Genealogists reacted with anger yesterday after it emerged that a government website, which promised direct access to 171 years of family records, had been delayed indefinitely following the failure of a Whitehall computer project. An attempt to scan, index and digitise 250m records of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales from 1837 to the present day was supposed to result in a ...
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Dork Talk: Stephen Fry is wowed by the SpinVox messaging system
However uninterested you may be in technology, it is likely that you use a voicemail system. If you have a mobile, then it will probably be the one provided as standard by your network. You dial 121, or 123, and dance the ghastly Menu Minuet until you're done. The Apple iPhone has introduced a patented "visual voicemail" system, which presents a list of onscreen messages enabling you to play ...
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Charter school proposed for Los Lunas
Los Lunas A charter school with a focus on instruction in arts and a computer-based core subject program has been proposed for Los Lunas.
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Microsoft Not Sure If SaaS Will Cut Piracy
Microsoft isn't speculating on the possibility that software pirates could have a tougher time once the software giant starts delivering more of its applications as services.
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Microsoft Adds ActiveX Fix For Monster Patch Release
Microsoft issued a late set of fixes for the ActiveX control but didn't provide a security rating due to the fact that the update addresses a third party control.
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Self-Growing Material Opens Chip, Storage Advances
coondoggie brings us this NetworkWorld article, which begins: "In the ever-growing desire to produce smaller, less costly, yet more powerful and faster computers and storage devices, researchers today said they are looking at a way to use self-growing fabrics that will let manufacturers build nano-sized high resolution semiconductors and arrays to answer that craving. Researchers at the ...
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Easy Does It
Workers lower some air conditioning equipment at Westport Town Hall today. The equipment, bound for the computer center, had to be lifted by crane over the roof to a front walkway to get it into the building.
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Rugged handheld offers SPI expansion
— Aug. 07, 2008 — New Zealand company Aceeca International has announced a ruggedized handheld computer that runs Windows CE. The Meazura MEZ1500 has a Marvell PXA270 processor, and a proprietary "MZIO" expansion slot that carries SPI (serial peripheral interface) signals, allowing the attachment of custom A/D (analog/digital) converter modules.
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