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Google unveiling its own Web browser
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine.
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Amazon to make web more open to blind
Amazon , the world’s largest internet retailer, will be required to make some of its web software more accessible to blind people, under the terms of a $6m legal settlement agreed between Target, the discount retailer, and the National Federation of the Blind.
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Microsoft decision sparks dissent amid ISO members
LONDON (Reuters) - A decision to dismiss appeals against the controversial fast-track approval of a Microsoft (MSFT.O) document format has provoked six members of global standards-setting body ISO to question ISO's relevance.
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IBM Looks to Break Windows Hold on PC
IBM Corp. and Linux OS distributors Red Hat Inc., Novell and Ubuntu sponsor Canonical Ltd. are joining forces with their hardware partners to create what they're calling Microsoft-free personal-computing choices.
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Hurricane uproots Tulane players again
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Tulane football players have hotel rooms with power, comfortable beds and running water. They have their computers and DVDs and a nice place to practice every day.
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Leak nightmare follows Twilight hit for Meyer
Bestselling author Stephenie Meyer shelves plans for her upcoming novel Midnight Sun after an unfinished draft was leaked on the internet.
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Fashionistas getting sweet on stylish dishes from DailyCandy site
By MONICA CORCORAN If you’re one of DailyCandy’s 2.5 million subscribers, you already know the online newsletter with its sly signature illustrations and chirpy, conspiratorial tone. Each piece reads like a whisper in the ear from a giddy chum who’s always in the know.Sure, maybe it was easy to dismiss DailyCandy as a breathless coed in the world of heavyweight online sites and fashion ...
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Colleges confront shootings with survival training
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any "improvised weapon," from a backpack to a laptop...
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Ford, Creekstone, Siemens, Archer Daniels, BHP in Court News
Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. won court approval of an agreement that lets the second-biggest U.S.-based automaker shift retiree health-care obligations to a union-run trust.
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TIP: Nested Stored Procedure Calls with SQL Server Transactions
When developing data-driven software, it is often vital that you manage transactions to ensure that unexpected errors do not corrupt the database. Transactions allow you to group sets of related database calls in a single, logical unit-of-work.
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Google takes aim at Microsoft with new Web browser
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its Internet-leading search engine.
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Made in Oklahoma: RVA LLC Market Research and Consulting
•Address: 15 W 6th St., Suite 1204, Tulsa. •Web site: www.RVAllc.com. •Employees: Five. •Key personnel: Michael Render, president, Cathryn Render, vice president. •Founded: 1990. •Key Service: Market research and strategic marketing consulting. •Background: Michael Render has a vision for Oklahoma. He sees fiber optic networks connecting Oklahoma homes and businesses to the Internet at super ...
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Affordable, stylish yoga wear
Each day's economic news is enough to make you want to grab all the nattering nabobs of negativism, the purveyors of pessimism, and toss them and their media of choice out the window: the radio, the TV set, the computer.
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Cowboys’ defense embraces its necessity for greatness
JENNIFER FLOYD ENGEL IRVING — Leaving Texas for far away, communist locales had me craving certain little pleasures. Mexican food. Uncensored Internet. And Cowboys football. God, how I missed this team with its never-ending nonpursuit of a No. 3 receiver and confusing interest in Brooks Bollinger and crazy-big expectations for this season. I even attempted to find a bar in Tokyo to watch ...
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Micrel's HyperLight Load™ Technology Enables Lightning Fast, Minuscule Solutions For Handheld Systems
Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, recently launched the MIC23030 and MIC23031, the newest additions to the HyperLight Load family of synchronous step-down regulators.
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Tattooed, Feathered Amazonians Use Internet to Save Rain Forest
Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, the indigenous Surui tribe made its first contact with the modern world barely four decades ago; electricity came to their tribal lands just last year.
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Too bad about Too Human
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Too Human. Action RPG. (Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios. Developer: Silicon Knights. $59.99 for Xbox 360. ESRB Rating: Mature.) Depending on how you look at it, some form of Too Human has been in the works for nearly 10 years, having...
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Google pulls plug on "Green" search engine Forestle
Google has ended its affiliation with Forestle, the search engine that promised to donate all of its proceeds to save rainforests, according to Ars Technica. Google claimed Forestle.com offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links" despite a disclaimer at the top of the page telling visitors to "only click on Google sponsored links if you are really interested in them."...
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Businessman aims to provide laptops to poor children
It is the most ambitious effort to provide computers to poor children worldwide, and a South Florida company is handling logistics.
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Laptops a gray area in tax law
Question: Can we take a laptop purchased for our son as a legitimate expense from a 529 college plan?
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Recycling dates set
Collections for household appliances and hazardous chemicals are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 13, throughout Eau Claire County. -9 a.m. to noon - county highway shop in Foster.
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White box notebook market still there, makers note
Although some branded notebook vendors think the white box notebook market is facing pressure from branded netbooks and other low-cost notebooks, some notebook makers are optimistic that the market still has potential for growth in the future.
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MySpace to launch 'High School Musical' contest
MySpace plans to launch a contest on Tuesday to market the latest in Walt Disney Co's blockbuster franchise "High School Musical 3" in what the News Corp Internet social network called its biggest film campaign to date.
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