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Linked by Andrew Youll on Fri 22nd Jul 2005 06:10 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Is the official new name for the Longhorn operating system is Microsoft Windows Vista ? Flexbeta seems to think so, and has posted a domain registration from MS that seems to support this idea.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Apr 2007 21:36 UTC
The Xfce project just announced the first maintenance release of the Xfce 4.4 branch, Xfce 4.4.1. There is a changelog , and you can download it from the Sourceforge download page . In case you lived under a rock the past few years: "Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems.
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/Interview/ Janus Friis
eBay may not be too happy about the performance of Skype, but its co-founders have moved on to promising new ventures. Janus Friis tells Oliver Lindberg why online TV service Joost is all set to revolutionise the way we watch television
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For 30 years now, you've been getting spam
This week, the world will mark an anniversary that has changed the face - and other anatomical regions - of email inboxes everywhere.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Oct 2005 09:01 UTC
Mac OS X 10.4.3 will weigh in at around 100MB and include more than 550 fixes and improvements, although unconfirmed reports have pegged this number at more than 1,000 when smaller, undocumented changes are included in the count.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jan 2006 14:44 UTC
"Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, outlined plans to bring a wide range of content, from sports to first-run movies, to anyone with a broadband Internet connection and a remote control using its new Viiv PC platform, during a Thursday night keynote at the 2006 CES. While it incorporates new hardware and software, including Intel's latest Core Duo and Pentium D 900 series chips, Viiv represents the ...
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Computer keyboards are filthier than loo seats!
London, May 1 : The next you go on a 'clean home' drive make sure to head first to the computer and then the toilet seats, for according to a new research, the PC's keyboard can be dirtier than the average toilet covers and are home to millions of bacteria, which can lead to diarrhoea and vomiting.
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Facebook loophole can leave you vulnerable to identity thieves
London, May 1 : You might be happily enjoying your daily dose of social networking on Facebook, but according to an investigation, a loophole on the site can allow identity thieves to access your personal details.
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Police: Fayette mom on MySpace when tot fell from window
State police say a Fayette County woman was busy with a MySpace.com computer account when her 3-year-old daughter fell from a second-floor apartment window and fractured her skull.
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Gaggle.Net Honored With a BESSIE Award
Gaggle.Net, the leading provider of safe student email to school districts across the country, is pleased to accept the 2008 BESSIE Award in the Middle School Category for Best Communication tool.
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'Iron Man'
It has primo parts, but they don't all come together. IRON MAN ? This is the name for a superhero? Rather than sounding like a six-pack of blue-collar beer, shouldn't the handle for a fighter for truth and justice be something sleek and modern like Titanium Man or even Uranium Al? Isn't Iron Man a little old-school for today's computer-generated movie franchise world?
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ITA Software Announces Milton A. Alpern as Chief Financial Officer
ITA Software, Inc., the leading provider of innovative Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to the airline industry, today announced it has appointed Milton A. Alpern as chief financial officer. With more than 25 years of financial and operational experience, Alpern brings expertise with both public and privately-held companies in high-growth technology industries. In this new position at ITA, ...
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iPodObserver - Adobe Announces Open Screen Project, Removes Flash Restrictions
Adobe introduced its new Open Screen Project on Thursday in a move to help content creators offer a consistent Internet experience across different devices. As part of its unifying plan, Adobe also removed restrictions of the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
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Business & Legal Reports (BLR(R)) Launches Online Employee Training Center
Business & Legal Reports, Inc. (BLR(R)) today launched a new Web-based Employee Training Center for online training of federal and state mandated safety and HR-related issues. BLR is an award-winning publisher dedicated to supporting companies with up-to-date HR, Compensation, Safety, and Environmental analysis, training, and regulatory compliance information. The new BLR Employee Training ...
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Supercomputer to Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics
Robert Fisher and Cal Jordan are among a team of scientists who will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds.
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Washington DC
SAN FRANCISCO , May 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM ), the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service, today announced that, through its commitment to philanthropy, the company has received the "Corporate Community Involvement Award" from The Volunteer Center, which serves San Francisco and San Mateo counties.
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Fast facts
Picture Stable, a local video production company, recently teamed up with local copywriter and independent producer Bruce Brown to create two television commercials for a new computer tech support company, Nerds to Your Rescue, which offers on-site computer support from Paso Robles to Thousand Oaks. The commercials will feature a "nerd" who saves the day from computer maladies.
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Health Warning On Computer Keyboards
Your computer keyboard could be dirtier than your toilet.A study from Which? Computing has found some keyboards contained more bacteria than the average lavatory seat.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Oct 2006 21:14 UTC
Microsoft has confirmed that IE7 will be released as an optional download later this month . The long-awaited next version of Microsoft's browser software will be pushed out as an automatic update a "few weeks" later, probably as part of Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday update cycle in either November or December.
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Vernon fires business administrator accused of luring girls
VERNON — The Vernon Board of Education voted unanimously late Thursday night to fire School Business Administrator Thomas Papa, who has been accused of trying to meet a 14-year-old girl after a month of sex-laced online chats.
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Webroot plots the end of desktop security
Security's rising star, Webroot, plans to offer Web and malware filtering as a service to SMBs, the first vendor of any size to offer such a capability in subscription form. The software-as a service (SaaS) model, which extends the e-mail filtering service already offered by the company, will appeal to smaller and medium-sized outfits for whom keeping out Web threats with conventional ...
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Salk Institute Receives Large Donation For Cell Research
The Salk Institute in La Jolla has received a five-year, $20 million donation from the Waitt Family Foundation and its president, Gateway computer company co-founder Ted Waitt, 10News reported.
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Desktone Announces Support for System Center and Planned Support for . Hyper-V
Hyper-V 29/04/2008 17:00:00 Business Wire US74834T1034 Desktone, Inc., provider of the first solution that enables virtual desktops as a service, today announced that the Desktone Virtual-D Platform will support System Center, including System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM), and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
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Microsoft board undecided on Yahoo approach - Update
New York - Microsoft's board has given company CEO Steve Ballmer broad authority to decide on how to proceed with the takeover attempt of Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The board held a protracted meeting Wednesday but failed to de...
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Student charged with making threats against Virginia Beach school
VIRGINIA BEACH Threats made on a school bus and then on the Internet led to a student being charged with a felony, police said Thursday. According to police a 14-year-old Salem High School student got into an argument with other students on the bus on the way home Wednesday and threatened to br ...
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