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IBM to spend $300M to expand data-recovery service
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) In a sign that political instability and natural disasters can fuel technology spending, IBM Corp. plans to invest $300 million building new centers that can store companies' sensitive data and deliver it remotely in the event of a meltdown.
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Police: 40 laptops stolen from Pace High School recovered
Nearly 40 laptops stolen from Pace High School were recovered by Brownsville Independent School District Police after the department received a tip indicating potential suspects, spokesman Oscar Garcia said.
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Microsoft, Novell expand controversial interop pact
Microsoft on Wednesday is expanding its agreement to supply Linux support certificates from Novell, which originally was part of a controversial arrangement set in late 2006. Through the updated arrangement, Microsoft is committing to an additional purchase of as much as $100 million in certificates that its customers can redeem for Novell to support Suse Linux Enterprise Server. The ...
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Area gamers invited to LAN party at ACTC
ASHLAND, Ky. -- Computer-gamers age 16 and older are invited to a "Back-to-School LAN Party" from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at Ashland Community and Technical College. It will be on the third floor of the Goodpaster Building at the College Drive Campus.
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Crime reports
THEFT A computer valued at more than $500 was stolen from Wal-Mart at 3200 Atlantic Blvd. NE at 10:45 a.m. Monday, according to reports. THEFT Golf clubs valued at $750 were taken from the 5600 block of Quarry Lake Drive SE between 8 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, police reported.
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IBM to put $300 million in new data-protection services
In an effort to supply its customers with more reliable and safe operational services, IBM Corp. on Wednesday will unveil a $300 million investment to build 13 new service delivery centers worldwide in what the technology giant calls the largest infrastructure investment of its kind.
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Blog of the day
Last week, movie studio Warner Bros. announced that it would be pushing back the release of its highly anticipated film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from November 2008 to July 2009. The news of the delayed release has created an uproar over the internet, with rabid fans of the series airing their disenchantment on sites such as Facebook and YouTube, as well as the series’ most popular ...
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OSU Open Source Lab Grows With Support From Google
CORVALLIS , Ore. – The Oregon State University Open Source Lab’s capacity to support open source projects is being expanded through a donation of $300,000 from Google. That increases the company’s cumulative support of academia's leading open source development center to $750,000.
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Sheriff's Deputy Among 55 Men Arrested in Child Pornography Bust
Fifty-five men, including a former sheriff's deputy and at least one attorney, were charged with possessing child pornography following an eight-month investigation, authorities said Tuesday. The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said the suspects used peer-to-peer networks to exchange graphic images and videos, then stored the files on their computers.
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Audit finds problems in Missouri school-safety efforts
JEFFERSON CITY A state review of safety at Missouri’s public schools found problems with discipline policies, emergency planning, building security and Internet safety.
The Kansas City Star |
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Intel Developer Forum Day 1 News Disclosures
Intel Corporation is holding its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco from August 19-21. Below are brief summaries of each executive’s keynote speech and news highlights for Day 1.
Scoop.co.nz |
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10 questions with...Peter Moutsatson
The key to success with online courses is to be upfront with all expectations for both students and professors, according to Peter Moutsatson.
The Morning Sun |
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Apple tries to de-bug iPhone
Apple (AAPL) acknowledged Tuesday that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G.
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Almost one mobile phone for every South Korean, statistics show
SEOUL (AFP) - Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday.
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IBM to spend $300M to expand data-recovery service
In a sign that political instability and natural disasters can fuel technology spending, IBM Corp. plans to invest $300 million building new centers that can store companies' sensitive data and deliver it remotely in the event of a meltdown. Called "cloud...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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The Weatherford Democrat |
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Paedophile web 'librarian' jailed indefinitely
A 27 year-old British man has been jailed indefinitely for acting as an online librarian for a child pornography ring.
Computer Active |
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Smash-and-grab numbers rise
Ross Buttle thinks twice when he parks his car, double checking to make sure he doesn’t leave anything valuable behind. On Aug. 8, the 26-year-old Buttle, left his laptop in his 2006 Chevrolet Malibu that was parked outside his home on the 2200 block of Morganton Road.
The Fayetteville Observer |
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IBM invests $300 million in disaster recovery centers
IBM plans to spend $300 million this year to build 13 "cloud computing" data centers where businesses can store information for quick retrieval in case their computer systems are destroyed in a disaster.
The Economic Times |
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Apple says older iPods have battery problem
Apple said on Wednesday that iPod music players sold in 2005 and 2006 on rare occasion can overheat, fail and deform because of a battery defect traced to a single supplier, and that other models are fine.
The Economic Times |
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Spammers go down to Georgia
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Spam Data Mine is showing that the war in Georgia is being used to evade spam filters.
Computer Active |
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Hewlett-Packard posts 14% boost in profit on laptop sales
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest personal-computer maker, reported a 14 percent increase in third-quarter profit, beating analysts' estimates, as new designs attracted notebook buyers. The shares gained 2.6 percent.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Eyal Goldshmid: I can’t make my POGO game go full screen
Whenever I play POGO games (www.pogo.com), the game I play takes up only half of my available display, which is on my 17-inch monitor. I’ve tried changing the resolution numbers but then it becomes too big and I lose my chat line and part of the display. I have AOL and my computer is an HP Pavilion 1703. Any ideas?
TCPalm.com |
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Future of schooling is online, local think tank says
You can go to Harvard in Hubbards, and to Princeton in Pugwash. That’s the way of the future in higher education, says the head of a Halifax think tank. “Your physical presence on the campus is not required,” says Charles Cirtwill, executive vice-president at Atlantic Institute for Market Studies. This alternative approach to higher learning, Cirtwill calls the “bits and bytes model,” ...
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Microsoft, Novell expand controversial interop pact
Microsoft on Wednesday is expanding its agreement to supply Linux support certificates from Novell, which originally was part of a controversial arrangement set in late 2006.
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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