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Google Chrome versus Windows Vista
Not just another browser say industry experts Google's new Chrome browser, which was launched yesterday, is more about the search engine's attempts to kill Windows than it is about offering a new browser, say industry observers.
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Swiss police break up Internet child porn ring, arrest four
ST. GALLEN, Switzerland - Swiss prosecutors say police have broken up an Internet child pornography ring operating in at least four countries.
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ubExact Launches World's Only Direct Navigation, Action-Based Search Engine to Speed Users to Desired Brands & Boost ...
ubExact® today announced the beta launch of the world's only direct navigation, action-based search engine to tackle search frustrations. ubExact boosts ease, speed and relevance of search results, while bringing increased branding opportunities, localization and targeted/relevant audiences to advertisers . ubExact builds trust with users by securing user privacy, and providing opportunities ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Getting to grips with Linux
One punter offers his views on coming to grips with an alternative to Windows.
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Lonely Girl Seeks Money
The LonelyGirl15 dudes launch a cool new Web video series. Can they make it pay?
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Families tout tech gear on Verizon TV
Kay Royer wants her family’s computer skirmishes to end. Her two teenage sons need the computer for homework, and her husband records and edits songs with it. The constant demand for the computer by the southwest Fort Wayne family leaves Royer few chances to check e-mail.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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ubExact Launches World's Only Direct Navigation, Action-Based Search Engine to Speed Users to Relevant Results
ubExact today announced the beta launch of the only direct navigation, action-based search engine. ubExact serves users with a fast and simple way to search based on user behavior/actions, geo-targeted metro service areas and direct navigation to desired brands. ubExact's direct navigation architecture drastically improves relevance, content localization, micro-targeting, speed and organization ...
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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SDK for Sony xPeria X1 Phone Launched, Doesn't Cost a Penny [Sony]
Sony's just come up with the software development kit for the xPeria X1, designed to let programmers create new "panel" apps for the phone's funky one-touch panel interface that sits on top of its...
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New software promises to reduce bottlenecks in emergency departments
Australian researchers have developed a computer program which is able to accurately predict how many patients can be expected to turn up at hospital emergency departments and their expected medical needs and also promises to reduce bottlenecks in emergency departments.
News-Medical-Net |
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Lonely Girl Seeks Money
The LonelyGirl15 dudes launch a cool new Web video series. Can they make it pay?
Forbes |
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Google unveils new Web browser
MOUNTAIN VIEW – The new Web browser that Google released yesterday is designed to expand its huge lead in the Internet search market and reduce Microsoft's imprint on personal computers. The free browser, called Chrome, is being promoted as a sleeker, faster, safer and reliable alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has been the leading vehicle for surfing the Web for the past decade.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Product is showcase of smart features
Does the world really need another Web browser? Google thinks so. Chrome, its new browser, was developed in secrecy and released to the world yesterday. The Windows version is available for download now at google.com/chrome; the Mac and Linux versions will take a little longer.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Online banking glitches mar credit union debut
The merger of First Future Credit Union with California Coast Credit Union has gotten off to a rocky start, as members encountered problems with online banking.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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IE8 is a resource hog
The tests were run over several days under both Windows XP (SP3) and Vista x86 (SP1). What exo.performance.network discovered was "another example of unchecked Microsoft code 'bloat,' complete with 'shirt-bursting, waistline-stretching' memory consumption and the kind of CPU-hogging thread growth normally reserved for massively parallel server farms."
The Inquirer |
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Author Stephenie Meyer drops new book after Web leak
Author Stephenie Meyer, writer of the best-selling young adult "Twilight" books, has put the fifth and final installment in the series on hold in protest after a partial draft was posted on the Internet.
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New Google browser takes on Microsoft
It's Browser War II. Only things are a little different this time. In the mid 1990s, Microsoft Corp. used every weapon in its arsenal to defeat Netscape Communications Corp. to claim the crown of top browser.
The Globe and Mail |
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Lenovo offers online backup deal
Save it to the cloud... Lenovo is making EMC’s Mozy backup-to-the-cloud service available to ThinkPad SL buyers with a trial offer of unlimited online backup for $49.…
The Register |
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Smart Boards take teaching to the next level
YORK and#8212; Gone are the days of chalkboards and chalk dust, and marker-streaked white boards and#8212; in the York School District, teachers and students are quickly adapting to a new, computer-based technology: the Smart Board.
The York Weekly |
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Cyber-Surfing Gives Everyone Easy Access to History
(ARA) - History is making history on the World Wide Web. With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by.
Palatka Daily News |
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Vigilante justice comes to BLIP
There's been a problem in Bayers Lake with parking lot thefts lately - and now one irritated citizen has fought back. Police say a young man attacked another on Tuesday around 4:30 p.m. as he left Future Shop with a brand new laptop.
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Serious Potential in Google Browser
The minimalist Chrome browser from Google is built for a future that blurs the lines of Web and desktop, David Pogue writes.
The Gainesville Sun |
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Search Giant Wants a Share of Browser Market
Google fears that Microsoft could leverage its dominance of the browser market to promote its search business.
The Gainesville Sun |
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Buddhist monk kept child porn to sate 'sexual desire
A Buddhist monk admitted in a Hong Kong court to keeping child porn at his monastery after alerting Interpol by downloading photos from an illegal website, local media reported.
Express India |
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Demo proves to be a real eye-opener
One minute there was a dorm room. Less than two minutes later, there was only a burned bed, charred desk, melted computer and black walls.
London Free Press |
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Looking to assist autistic children, local firm promises dog donations
An organization that trains dogs in Canada to help autistic children is about to get a boost. The Wag Inc., a London-based Internet company that sells leather accessories for dogs, has launched a campaign to raise money for National Service Dogs, a charity based in Cambridge.
London Free Press |
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