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Master of domains Mark Van Dyke owns popular military, college sports Web names
Talk about good timing. In the early days of the commercial Internet, Mark Van Dyke worked with a company that had the foresight to register a number of domain names, including Rolltide.com, Bulldogs.com, Big-Orange.com and other college mascot names.
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Lenovo Seeks Acquisitions to Regain Market Share
Acer passed Lenovo in market share in 2007 after acquiring Taiwanese computer maker Packard Bell. In 2005 Lenovo rose to third-largest in market share when it acquired the personal computer arm of IBM for $1.25 billion.
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UMC stays open to DRAM services
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will still collaborate with others companies in the DRAM sector, with company chairman Jackson Hu saying the foundry could choose to enter production of commodity DRAM if prices become good in the future.
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Sun's profits melt away
Tom Young, Computing , Friday 2 May 2008 at 10:23:00 US economy brings profits down as company axes up to 2,500 jobs Hardware giant Sun Microsystems said it would cut between 1,500 and 2,500 jobs today after the credit crunch hit profits badly.... > Read the full article
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UK firm Pixsta takes on Google
Clement James, vnunet.com , Friday 2 May 2008 at 10:14:00 New search technology based on contextual image retrieval UK-based advertising platform Pixsta has launched with the bold claim that it can challenge Google's dominance of the web search market.... > Read the full article
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Three Appleton students earn top awards in DECA
APPLETON Three Appleton North High School students took top awards at the International DECA Career Development Conference in Atlanta this week, continuing to make North history.
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FastSoft Launches Premier Partner Program For VARs And System Integrators
FastSoft Inc., developers of one-sided acceleration products for digital media and other large files over the Internet, recently launched its global Premier Partner Program. Participating VARs and system integrators receive significant benefits including volume incentive discounts, 24x7 technical support, lead generation programs, marketing resources, education and tools.
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Computer replaces the old-fashioned color wheel
When it comes to do-it-yourself painting projects, there are many ways today to see-it-first before deciding on colors, styles, textures and costs. "What makes (a painting project) so overwhelming is people are scared of making the wrong decision and not achieving what they visualized," said Amy Passantino, manager of Benjamin Moore's consumer programs and services.
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In the papers 2 May
Half of Dublin firms' Wi-Fi networks are unsecured Sun slides into the red
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City IT companies take home awards
Three Fredericton businesses were saluted Thursday night during the 10th annual Knowledge Industry Recognition and Achievement (KIRA) Awards ceremony and gala at the Delta Fredericton.
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Hynix: Raised Contract DRAM Prices By About 10% In April
SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (000660.SE) Friday said it raised prices of its dynamic random access memory chips by about 10% on- month for the whole of April.
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Microsoft Still Not Decided on Yahoo
Microsoft still hasn’t publicly made a decision over the possible bid for Yahoo.
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TAX-NEWS.COM
Governments and business must work together more effectively and urgently to meet the growing demand for Internet addresses and secure the future of the Internet economy, according to a new OECD report, published on Wednesday.
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Report: Microsoft prepares to approach Yahoo shareholders
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo Inc. as soon as today, according to a published report.
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Deprived youngsters get online
A HIGHLY successful project to provide computers and internet connections for school pupils in some of Barnsley's most deprived communities is expected to be extended. (02/05/2008 10:05:29)
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Longer lasting laptop batteries on the way
Just add silver-zinc. Laptop users may soon get longer battery life from their machines, with ZPower set to plug in its new silver-zinc batteries, which it claims last significantly longer than traditional lithium-ion batteries.
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Adobe establishes Open Screen project
Consistent AIs across handsets. Adobe launched a new community development project aimed at using its Flash and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) technologies to create a consistent application interface across all devices - whether they are smartphones, PCs or set-top boxes.
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Microsoft pulls XP SP3 over corruption fears
Vista SP1 also affected. Microsoft confirmed a delay to the rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) because changes to the operating system can corrupt data in the company's retail point-of-sale and store management software.
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Qumranet revamps the virtual desktop
Its just like the real thing. Qumranet, the start-up behind the increasingly popular KVM kernel-level virtualisation technology, has thrown its hat into the desktop virtualisation ring with a system it promises can deliver an experience indistinguishable from a conventional desktop.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft's Live OneCare security software has failed tests which check how well it spots and stops malicious programs designed to attack Windows. OneCare was the only failure among 17 anti-virus programs tested by the AV Comparatives organisation.
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Security firms 'celebrate' 30 years of spam
Security researchers around the world are giving a tongue-in-cheek salute to the 30th anniversary of the first spam message. Gary Theurk, an employee at Digital Equipment Company, sent a message on Arpanet to hundreds of fellow users on 1 May 1978.
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Kraken awakes to oust Storm
A new global botnet menace dubbed Kraken is taking over from the once huge Storm malware network, experts warn. Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee, told vnunet.com that the company had noticed a drop in Storm activity which he attributed to the rise of Kraken.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 19th Nov 2006 19:32 UTC
C'mon, haven't you ever thought that it would be cool to write a game for the Xbox 360 or Windows, if only you had the time? Microsoft's new XNA Game Architecture is designed to make game development modular and easy.
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UK firm Pixsta takes on Google
UK-based advertising platform Pixsta has launched with the bold claim that it can challenge Google's dominance of the web search market. Pixsta claims to enable full image-to-image search based on contextual image retrieval techniques.
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National Journal
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