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Chrome captures 1% market share in just nine hours
Google's new browser has zoomed past 1% market share in just ten hours after its release yesterday at 3:02 p.m. EDT and reached almost 1.5% earlier today. Although it is too early to tell which competing browser makers were hit by Google’s new software, the initial numbers numbers indicate that Chrome is off to a good start.
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Online proofreaders sought
Asia Online yesterday launched ''the world's largest literacy project'', aimed at doubling the Thai-language internet, and called for volunteer proofreaders.
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Kashmir's "children of conflict" rise in anger
The protesters organise with Facebook, YouTube as well as via messages from local mosques.
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Foxconn's A7DA-S HTPC mobo gets a going-over
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING bits of chip engineering to come out of AMD’s labs has been the 790GX. Guru 3D has a Foxconn A7DA-S based on this chipset in the office, and Hilbert is pretty enthused with the chip combo.
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Intel needs a console deal to get Larrabee off the ground
SPECULATION FROM INDUSTRY insiders has it that Intel is having significant trouble getting publishers and developers to programme for Larrabee.
The Inquirer |
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Test drive: Picasa 3 gets off-, online photo sharing right
Google issued major upgrades to both Picasa 3, its photo management software, and Picasa Web Albums, its online sharing competitor to Flickr. Ars Technica takes the two new products for a spin around the studio. Read More...
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Burglars steal Oakland school computers storing personal data
Thieves stole 10 desktop computers containing employees' personal information Tuesday night from the Oakland school district's main office on 2nd Avenue, district official said today. The computers were located in the 2nd floor Human Resources Department and...
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FEATURE-Kashmir's "children of conflict" rise in anger
Source: Reuters By Alistair Scrutton SRINAGAR, India, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The protesters organise with Facebook, YouTube as well as via messages from local mosques. They eschew violence, but are seething with anger ...
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Toshiba PWNS Gaming Battlefield with Qosmio X300
Auckland, 4 September 2008 – Whether you’re a newbie or a hardcore gamer, get ready to combat a new level of extreme mobile gaming with the Qosmio X300, a fiery gaming Notebook built to frag the competition, from Toshiba (Australia) Information Systems Division (Toshiba ISD).
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Picasa Upgrade Gives Photo Sharing a Facelift
Picasa upgrades its desktop and online components of photo-aggregation and editing tools. Most notably, Picasa Web Albums now has the ability to identify and filter photos by facial recognition. It's a little creepy, but it gives Google's photo software a leg up on the competition by being the first of its kind.
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UNFORGETTABLE KRABI
''Unforgettable Suite Experience'' is a two-night package priced at 39,990 baht net on weekdays (Mon-Thu) and 49,990 baht on weekends (Fri-Sun) and available until October 31. Benefits include accommodation in the Tubkaak Suite (good for four persons), breakfast, round-trip airport transfer, a set of in-room mini-bars, wireless Internet, DVD movies, use of sauna, steam and hot and cold plunge ...
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Sony busts out VAIO JS, LV and RT all-in-one desktops, includes Blu-ray
Filed under: Desktops , HDTV , Home Entertainment , Media PCs We were already warned that Sony was gearing up to push the Blu-ray / HD recording abilities of its VAIO machines , and here's all the proof you need that it plans on keeping its word. Here at CEDIA , the outfit has unveiled a trio of new all-in-one desktop PCs -- not quite ready for an HTPC label, but definitely ...
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Fatal Protein Interactions Key to Neurological Disease
In a collaborative study at the University of California, San Diego, investigators from neurosciences, chemistry and medicine, as well as the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have investigated how proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease interact to form unique complexes.
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S Korea Regulator May Investigate FX Dealers - Report
SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- The South Korean Financial Authority is reviewing plans to investigate foreign exchange traders at banks, Yonhap Infomax reported Thursday, citing unnamed government source.
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Website pinpoints where in the world your name is
It is a question that not even Google can answer: where in the world are all the other people with my name?It sounds impossible, but it can now be answered thanks to a remarkable new website launched yesterday, which enables the names of most people in the English-speaking world, and a sizeable chunk of the rest of it, to be tracked to the places they live.
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BlackBerry Bold: RIM Beats Back Apple iPhone
Research In Motion's latest smartphone should help keep its core enterprise market intact, says a Pacific Crest report.
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How the riches use the Internet [Digital Divide]
Here in the Bay Area, we have a skewed view of both who qualifies as a rich and what constitutes typical technology adoption. Households earning $100,000 a year or more account for 20 percent of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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EDGE, HSPA and LTE Continue to Lead and Innovate Mobile Broadband
"UMTS/HSPA has exploited tremendous innovation to deliver capabilities on a global scale never achieved by any other technology, offering operators key technical and business advantages," concluded Peter Rysavy, President of Rysavy Research and author of the white paper published today by 3G Americas. "EDGE, HSPA and LTE Broadband Innovation" discusses the significant evolution of these 3GPP ...
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Free Web Services Increasingly Used as Spam Hosting Techniques
Picasa Web Albums is the latest of Google's hosted services to be exploited by spammers while Adobe Flash redirection techniques are also being abused by spammers to host Flash-based .SWF, Shockwave Flash, files that cause Web browsers to re-direct to the spammer's site.
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Queensland police this week warned lonely hearts not to be fooled by internet romance scams. CIOs of top Australian organisations spilled the beans to ZDNet.com.au on what they think of the 3G iPhone, and whether they will let the device, launched early this morning, into their enterprise.
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Queenslanders fleeced in online scam
Queensland police this week warned lonely hearts not to be fooled by internet romance scams.
ZDNet Australia |
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License Plate Renewals: More Workers, Shorter Lines
Shorter lines while waiting for license plates are attributed to more workers and an improved computer system.
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Judge Rules Oracle Failed To Produce CEO's E-mail
The lawsuit claims Ellison and other executives made false statements about the company's financial condition as well as the functionality of its Oracle 11i suite of business management software.
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Man accidentally hands himself in
CHENGDU: Zhang Tianping, whose name is on the police's most wanted list for providing technical support to an infamous software hacker, was arrested here last month, local media said Wednesday.
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Kashmir's "children of conflict" rise in anger
The protesters organize with Facebook, YouTube as well as via messages from local mosques. They eschew violence, but are seething with anger.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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