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IBM Hones New Blade Server to Repel DoS Attacks
IBM is increasing its arsenal against hackers with a new beefed-up blade server. The IBM BladeCenter PN41, announced this week, combines Deep Packet Inspection technology from CloudShield with IBM's other protection platforms to create a powerhouse against attacks. The system is designed specifically to better protect against denial-of-service attacks, one of the most difficult types to detect ...
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Trinity Preparatory School Eliminates Unauthorized HTTPS Requests with Cymphonix; Gains More Control over Bandwidth ...
SALT LAKE CITY----Cymphonix has announced Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, Florida, has integrated the Cymphonix Network Composer DC30X as its sole content filtering solution and is now able to prioritize its bandwidth and prevent students from bypassing its firewall using HTTPS protocols.
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Where have all the icons gone?
Q. I recently installed a larger hard drive on my PC, and when I booted it, everything worked perfectly, except for the Microsoft icons. Before I changed the hard drive, MS Word docs had a MS Word icon, MS Excel had the correct icon; PowerPoint, Outlook, same thing. Now after changing the hard drive, all my icons are a generic white box with a blue outline. Any ideas?
Centre Daily Times |
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Microsoft releases beta version of Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft last week released a broadly available test version of its latest Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, including a tool to cover one's tracks across the Web.
PhysOrg |
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Trent Reznor brings Nine Inch Nails to Oakland
The main man in Nine Inch Nails says the band's current tour, which plays Oracle Arena Sept. 5, is a high-tech visual and audio show. It's "the most ambitious thing I've ever tried to do," he says
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Seven years on from that day in 2001, conspiracy theories continue to lurk on the wilder reaches of the internet. This ...
French actress Sandrine Bonnaire turns director to deliver an impassioned and moving portrait of a little sister lost to autism.
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A Page from The Page
ST. PAUL — Perhaps the only thing rivaling the promotion of the parties’ platforms during their nominating conventions has been that of Time ’s blog, The Page. Mark Halperin’s questionably “indispensable” Web site is almost everywhere in St. Paul, introducing itself to a wider audience, solidifying its brand, and bringing a whole new cache to the Excessive Definite Article.
Columbia Journalism Review |
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Sun Microsystems Announces Launch of "Socially Speaking", New Social Media Show on BlogTalkRadio
MENLO PARK, Calif.----Sun Microsystems today announced the launch of a new BlogTalkRadio show focused on social media. “Socially Speaking” from Sun Internet Radio is designed to provide a forum for Sun to engage leading commentators and influencers in discussions around the key trends, tools and technologies that impact the social media space today.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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JoAnn.com web sales total $8 million in the second quarter
Jo-Ann Stores Inc. generated web sales of about $8 million in the second quarter. Overall the web accounted for about 2% of total sales in Q2, though the company didn’t break out a similar number for the prior year.
InternetRetailer.com |
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SourceForge hammers out 31% web sales growth for fiscal 2008
SourceForge Inc. booked $36.8 million in e-commerce sales for fiscal 2008, up by 31%, or $8.7 million, compared with $28.1 million the prior year.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Top 500 books, music and video retailers log higher sales in 2007
Books, music and video – the shopping segment that began the online retailing movement in the 1990s – grew by a combined 32% to $4.1 billion in 2007 from $3.1 billion in 2006, according to data compiled in the current edition of Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide.
InternetRetailer.com |
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GameFly creates a video buzz
Having used animated stars in its last series of television commercials, GameFly Inc. is introducing a dose of reality this time around. The video game subscription company, No. 271 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide , soon will launch a new national TV advertising campaign using the winner of a national video challenge.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Netting a fortune: online dating couple win £1.9m on the lottery
A newly-wed couple who met on a dating website have continued their online lucky streak by winning £1.9m on the National Lottery with an internet-bought ticket.
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Shoes.com web sales declined 3% in Q2 while overall sales fell 1.3%
Web sales at Shoes.com Inc., the e-commerce segment of Brown Shoe Co., declined about 3%, from $17.3 million in the prior year quarter to $16.8 million in Q2 2008. Net earnings plunged 77%, to $2.2 million, which the company attributed mainly to moving its Famous Footwear division headquarters from Madison, WI, to St. Louis.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Internet phone fits inside laptop
There are literally dozens of Internet phone services these days. These services use a technology known as Voice over Internet Protocol, or more commonly "VoIP."
Tri-City Herald |
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Q2 web sales up 11.5% at Talbots, far outpacing stores
The web accounted for $60.2 million in web sales for the second quarter of 2008, up by 11.5% from $54 million in the prior year quarter. Comparable store sales declined 12% for Q2 as Talbots continues to reposition itself in the marketplace.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Web sales at dELiA*s grow up in Q2
Young female shoppers with an Internet connection are keeping web sales growing at dELiA*s Inc. For the second quarter ended Aug. 2, web sales at dELiA*s, No. 101 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide , totaled $28.1 million, up 12.4% from web sales of $25 million in the second quarter of 2007. At the same time, total revenue rose year-over-year by 10.9% to $58.1 million from $52.4 million in ...
InternetRetailer.com |
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Internet sales drop at Coldwater Creek
An ongoing shift away from direct sales to a concentration on stores caused web sales at Coldwater Creek Inc. to drop in the second quarter. For the quarter ended Aug 2, e-commerce revenue at Coldwater Creek declined by 27.5% to $39.6 million from $54.6 million in the prior year.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Xerox Develops 3-D Visualization Software For Printing
The technology would let print shops show customers exactly what their document will look like, including texture, gloss, folds, and binding, before any ink is put to paper.
InformationWeek |
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J. Crew’s Q2 web sales up by 23.4% as online revenue tops $70 million
J. Crew Group Inc. is sustaining its web sales growth in 2008 as e-commerce accounts for a larger slice of the chain retailer’s direct sales pie. Q2 web sales were up by 23.4%, or $13.4 million, to $70.7 million from $57.3 million in the prior year quarter.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Internet phone fits inside laptop
There are literally dozens of Internet phone services these days. These services use a technology known as Voice over Internet Protocol, or more commonly "VoIP."
Miami Herald |
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Gannett Takes Control Of CareerBuilder
This development can be seen as something that's either good for the Internet sector or bad for the economy in general. Or both. Regardless, Gannett has paid $135 million for another ten percent of CareerBuilder.com, which brings its total stake up to 50.8 percent. read more
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Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood
Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.
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Internet phone fits inside laptop
There are literally dozens of Internet phone services these days. These services use a technology known as Voice over Internet Protocol, or more commonly "VoIP." The idea behind VoIP is fairly simply to understand but highly complex to make happen. I still don't think it's ready for prime time but it's getting better. The Internet lets us send data across the street and around the world. That ...
The State |
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Where have all the icons gone?
Q. I recently installed a larger hard drive on my PC, and when I booted it, everything worked perfectly, except for the Microsoft icons. Before I changed the hard drive, MS Word docs had a MS Word icon, MS Excel had the correct icon; PowerPoint, Outlook, same thing. Now after changing the hard drive, all my icons are a generic white box with a blue outline. Any ideas?
Bradenton Herald |
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