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US stocks tumble on lower spending, Dell's earnings
Washington, Aug 30 : US stocks retreated Friday, led by slower consumer spending and lower-than-expected earnings from computer maker Dell.
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New trial in Internet killing case
A federal judge has reversed the conviction of a Michigan woman convicted of getting a man she met on the Internet to kill her husband.U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said a suicide note written by Sharee Miller's alleged lover, Jerry Cassaday, should not have been allowed into evidence at her trial, the Flint Journal reported. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said he will ask the ...
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Kozhikode declared first e-literate city in Kerala
Kozhikode, Aug 30 : Kozhikode was Friday declared the first e-literate city in Kerala, thanks to a special scheme that aims at making at least one member of each family computer literate.
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Appliances use Pentium M SoC
— Aug. 21, 2008 — Lanner Electronics announced two devices using Intel's EP80579 SoC (system on chip) that run Linux.
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Laser-guided French robots run Linux
— Aug. 21, 2008 — A French robotics start-up called Wany Robotics has announced two mobile, mini-ITX-based sensor robots that run Linux.
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GPL compliance guide published
— Aug. 21, 2008 — The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has published an 8,000-word guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL), the most popular open source software license in the world.
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Linux growth
Klein said Linux bookings grew 115 percent, approaching a runrate of $100M. Wind River's participation in the Google-Android focused Open Handset Alliance, Intel's Moblin initiative, and in the Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo) "significantly increased" the mobile Linux pipeline, Klein said.
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Obama camp seeking 'totalitarian' state?
Ed Martin, co-founder of the American Issues Project, which made a television and Internet ad questioning Sen. Barack Obama's ties to William Ayers, is wondering whether the Democratic presidential nominee actually wants a "totalitarian" state.
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Google ready to release mobile phone system
Google is prepping for the release of its Android mobile phone operating system by taking a page from Apple's playbook - and updating it. While Apple opened a successful online application store last month, one year after the iPhone went on sale and in time...
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Candidates' Web Sites Get to Know the Voters
Any two people interested in whether Amanda Beard is dating fellow Olympian Michael Phelps, and who clicked on the Boston Herald tidbit that raced around the Web last week, got the same piece of gossip.
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Internet Dominance Flowing Away From United States
The era of the American Internet is ending. Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe.
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New trial in Internet killing case
FLINT, Mich., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A federal judge has reversed the conviction of a Michigan woman convicted of getting a man she met on the Internet to kill her husband.
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New trend in printers helps you avoid dreaded tangle of wires
I’ve gone on record as disliking, even hating wires. Take a look behind the average computer desk and you’ll marvel at the rat’s nest of wires and the dust bunnies trapped within them.
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The hottest photo of Alaska's governor on the Internet [Sarah Palin]
There are no naked pix of the Republican vice-presidential candidate to be found — yet — but this one will hold me over. Click it for full size. Thanks to GOP hottie hunter Rachel Marsden. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Stocks Tumble On Income Report
Stocks tumbled Friday after the government said personal incomes fell last month by the largest amount in nearly three years while consumer spending slowed. The Dow Jones industrial average fell by 171.63, while a disappointing profit report from computer maker Dell Inc. weighed on the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index, which fell 44.12.
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Wall Street tumbles as personal income falls
Wall Street took a dive Friday, as the U.S. government said personal incomes fell more than expected in July and Dell reported disappointing results. The U.S. Commerce Department reported that personal incomes fell 0.7 percent in July. It was the first decrease since August 2005 and worse than the 0.1 percent decrease that analysts had expected. Meanwhile, consumer spending rose a modest 0.2 ...
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Rolling Review: Hyper-V Aces VM Basics
But Microsoft's hypervisor lags behind VMware in rapid provisioning and disaster recovery--for now.
InformationWeek |
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A New Model: Open Source Software After It's Acquired
From MySQL to XenSource, open source companies are in increasingly high demand. For users of the software, it presents a new set of questions.
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OVAC Museum Contributor Will Be Missed
(1) We were saddened to learn of the death of BILL BURRALL, from cancer, earlier this week at the age of 58. He was a very talented, honored and recognized professional in computer technology and telecommunications and had recently retired from the Marshall County School system.
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Music-sharing site has its own blip, twitter
Blip + Twitter = buzz In the digital world, you know you've made it when you become a verb. Google this. Twitter that. Blog the other. Well, now there's another service out there bucking for digital verbhood. It's called Blip.fm, the latest music-sharing...
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Explosion injures two Anderson men inside car
Two men are being treated for first- and second-degree burns after Anderson police say a lit cigarette caused the car in which they were huffing aerosol chemicals to explode. Anderson police say a 34-year-old Georgia man and a 19-year-old Conastee man were in a car huffing computer keyboard cleaner near the Anderson Sports and Entertainment Complex on Thursday night, The Greenville News ...
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Blog of the day
We recently came across a news story that stated that American Airlines will soon offer unfiltered internet access, and that access will include porn . What man in his right mind is going to view porn while sitting on a plane?
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Site of the Day
Yet another internet distraction for those long, dragged out days at the office.
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A Gaming Glitch: Computer failure reveals FAA's lack of safeguards
When a computer glitch at a Federal Aviation Administration center caused widespread airline delays this week, it served as a reminder that the U.S. flight system is waiting for a modernizing overhaul. But it also appears that the FAA's management of its existing technologies falls short of standards in other vital sectors.
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EGF City water, light workers show for duty
Strike is still on the table Advertisement: BERGSTROM ELECTRIC INC Your Full-Service Electrical Contractor! New & Remodel Construction, Full Project Management, Service Agreements, Design/Build Capabilities, Professional Engineering Services, Lighting Retrofits, Underground & Overhead Construction, Certified Installation of Computer, Telephone & Fiber Optic Cabling Systems, Thermal ...
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