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HackCollege's Back-to-School Essential Student Know-How [Back To School]
Editor's note: It's been awhile since anyone on staff here has been a fresh-faced undergrad bustling off to school, so we asked the savvy students at the HackCollege blog what you need to know before...
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Google rewards Android app developers
Winners of the Android Developer Challenge shared prizes worth a total of $3.75m, with location-aware applications scooping the big prizes
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Recent Microsoft Corporation News
Tokyo, Sept 1, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Microsoft Co. said Monday it will cut the retail prices of its Xbox 360 videogame console in Japan on Sept. 11 in an effort to compete better with rivals in the crucial year-end shopping season.
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From Software shows Ninja Blade for 360 News
Microsoft has announced Ninja Blade for Xbox 360 during its Japanese press conference. Armored Core developer From Software is at the controls and has set the very familiar-sounding game in modern day Tokyo, which just happens to be abuzz with plenty of zombie and demon baddies.
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Nigeria: National Assembly, EFCC, Bank Chiefs Meet Over Money Laundering
Anti-money Laundering and Cyber Crime Coalition at the National Assembly, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, (EFCC) and operators of commercial banks will tomorrow meet in Abuja to review loss of public funds, monetary transactions, due diligence and inside lending in the capital market.
AllAfrica.com |
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Microsoft Unveils Ninja Blade
As part of the same press conference at which price drops for the Xbox 360 family of consoles were announced, Microsoft has also unveiled new action game Ninja Blade for the first time. Although the name was leaked several months ago, no details of the game itself have been revealed until now. The game will be developed by current Tenchu makers From Software, who also worked on the Otogi ...
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Intel lists new low-cost processors
The Q8200 is priced at $224, making it one of the least expensive quad-core chips that the company now offers.
CNET |
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Life without plastic: Top tips from plastic-free bloggers
There is an internet community of people blogging about reducing plastic in their lives (see blogroll) and they have all been at it far longer than I have.
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Comcast, Cable Operators Eye Net Management Makeovers
Cable-company engineers and lawyers are huddling to determine whether to change the way they treat Internet traffic that traverses their pipes.
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Blog: Creative use of the mozzie net
Source: IRIN Long-lasting insecticidal bed nets and non-treated mosquito nets are being used to catch and dry fish along Lake Victoria in Kenya, reports the Voices for a Free-Free Future the online journal and current issue of the Malaria Journal in Unforeseen misuses of bed nets in fishing villages along Lake Victoria.
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Nigeria: N10 Million Iptto Grant - Abu, Notap Trade Words
A N10m grant reportedly allocated to the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, for the Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) has become a subject of controversy with the ABU vice chancellor denying ever receiving the money.
AllAfrica.com |
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Google inks deal to buy GeoEye satellite imagery
Under the deal, the search giant will be the exclusive online mapping site that may use the imagery supplied by a satellite due to launch in the next few days
ZDNet UK |
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Perkins returns to Computer 2000 as country manager, Broadline
COMPUTER 2000 , the UK arm of Tech Data, has announced the appointment of Lee Perkins as country manager, Broadline. He will take overall management responsibility for the company’s broadline business including both the sales and product marketing functions.
Channel Business |
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Federation Against Software Theft joins Investors in Software to improve advice
The Federation Against Software Theft and...
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DJ DGAP-Adhoc: net AG infrastructure, software and solutions: net AG announces 1.0 Mio of further losses
net AG infrastructure, software and solutions / Miscellaneous 01.09.2008 Release of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Posted: 01-09-2008 , 12:57 GMT
Malek Sultan Al Malek, Executive Director at Dubai Internet City, today inaugurated FVC's first Technology Briefing Centre at Dubai Internet City. FVC, a leading Value Added Distributor (VAD) in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region, has set up the centre to showcase Polycom's top of the range RPX Immersive Tele-presence systems in a special Executive Briefing Centre and a separate ...
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Privacy worries stall ads targeted to users
NEW YORK (AP) It sounded like a winning proposition - free money - for Internet access providers. By tracking their subscribers' personal Web surfing habits, they could help deliver ads targeted to the consumers' interests and claim a share of the burgeoning online advertising market dominated by Internet search companies.
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Fujitsu 8.9-inch LifeBook P1630 sashays into the FCC's lair
Filed under: Laptops Fujitsu's looking to keep its typically small and light P-series alive by dumping the wee P1630 into the FCC's oh-so-capable hands. Based on the filed documentation, the unit will possess a 8.9-inch 1,280 x 768 resolution display, a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo SU9400 processor, Intel's GMA X4500 graphics set, up to 2GB of RAM, a fingerprint reader, WiFi / Bluetooth, Ethernet ...
Engadget |
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Discomgoogolated?
Nearly half of Britons suffer stress or anxiety about connections to Internet
The Globe and Mail |
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ON COMPUTERS: PlanPlus Online organizes enthusiasm
PlanPlus Online (www.planplusonline.com), which is the digital embodiment of the Franklin Planner made famous a number of years back, now supports mobile devices, and quite nicely.
The Washington Times |
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Mystery bureaucrat seeks to keep name private
A man known as Mr. X is fighting Canada’s staffing watchdog to stop it from publicly posting his name on the Internet, along with the personal details of his life uncovered while investigating an employment fraud.
Canada.com |
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Suffer from discomgoogolation?
Feeling stressed or anxious at an inability to access the internet? Don't worry, you're not alone and now there's even a name for your condition.
News 24 South Africa |
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Latest advisory: Gustav weakens to Category 2 hurricane
The National Hurricane Center says in its latest public advisory that Gustav weakened as it made landfall on the Louisiana coast. Here's an unedited excerpt: GUSTAV IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 16 MPH...26 KM/HR...AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT DAY OR SO WITH SOME DECREASE IN FORWARD SPEED AND A GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE WEST- NORTHWEST ON TUESDAY. ON THE FORECAST ...
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Labor Day '08 Logos Not From Google or Yahoo
Like last year , Google, Yahoo and Ask.com do not have special logos up for Labor Day. But Dogpile and even Live.com have logos or themes live for the day. Here is DogPile's logo: Live.com has a mention of Labor Day in one of their mouse over elements: We at the Search Engine Roundtable have a theme for Labor Day: It is not uncommon for Google and Yahoo not to have ...
Search Engine Roundtable |
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Fla. company handling distribution of laptops to poor
It's the most ambitious effort to provide computers to poor children worldwide, and a South Florida company is handling logistics.
The Gainesville Sun |
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