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World-first To Predict Premature Births
Australian researchers and a pathology company have joined forces to develop a world-first computerized system which may reveal a way to predict premature birth with greater accuracy.
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Publicis Buys Digital Marcom Shop PBJS
BOSTON Ever-acquisitive Publicis Groupe has purchased Seattle-based digital marketing company PBJS. That shop's largest client is Microsoft.
AdWeek |
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Sony Recalls Laptops For Possible Overheating
Sony Corp. is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of a wiring flaw that could cause overheating.
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Airlines offer Wi-Fi - for a price, of course
Most of our domestic airlines seem to have zeroed in on at least one common strategy for helping their desperately ill bottom lines: Add as many services as you can think of that travelers will pay for, and cut (or add fees to) as many traditionally free...
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Thinking Makes Us Pig Out
Food for thought: Intellectual activities make people eat more than when just resting, according to a study that sheds new light on brain food.
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EXCLUSIVE: Minneola Council member resigns after porn found on computer
Council member Joe Teri resigned Wednesday evening after city officials found thousands of pictures of pornography on his city-issued laptop computer.
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Experts Explore Latest Thinking On Computational Intelligence
The role of intelligent computers in video games and medicine will be among the topics under discussion at an event held at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU). The 2008 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2008) is taking place next week and will ...
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Sony says laptops overheat, urges repairs
Sony Corp. said Thursday that overheating notebook computers slightly injured seven people and urged customers to bring in some 440,000 units for repairs.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Dorm Storm
By Abby McGuire More than 400 freshmen moved into dorms at Northwood University Thursday hauling boxes, totes, suitcases, lamps, and laptops.
Midland Daily News |
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Game Console Makers to Make Billions From Online Content and Services
In 2013, online content and services for Internet-connected game consoles will generate over $8 billion in global revenue for Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, the three console manufacturers, according to Connected Consoles: Games, Media, and Beyond.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Military health system prepares more online mental health tools
The Military Health System is planning a late-September update to its behavioral health Web site, AfterDeployment.org. The site launched Aug. 5.
The Belvoir Eagle |
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Google Introduces New Web Browser
The US Internet giant Google introduced Tuesday their new Internet browser Google Chrome which is seen as the biggest competitor of the Microsoft project - Internet Explorer.
Novinite.com |
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Sheriff uses simulator for training
Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett said he hopes a new state-of-the-art indoor firearms training system will help make his deputies and the citizens of Morgan County safer thanks to the use of a gun simulator.
Hartselle Enquirer |
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Backstage: Informed Guesses on New iPod Family Pricing
The discussion around iLounge this morning: iPod family pricing. There’s been buzz for months that Apple “needs” to reduce the prices of the iPod touch lineup—and possibly all iPods—in order to offset the $199*** 8GB iPhone 3G. (*** = Not really.) If we’ve learned anything over the past seven years of iPod releases, it’s that Apple doesn’t drop iPod prices just for the hell of it. It also has a ...
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Boys Soccer: Gov. Mifflin and Exeter tie, 2-2
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Intel's six-core Xeon 7400 due Sept. 15
Intel's first processor with more than four cores will launch within less than two weeks, a leak from within the industry claims. The architecture previously codenamed Dunnington technology should start shipping on September 15th as the Xeon 7400 series and will carry its planned six cores, helping out with particuarly demanding computing tasks, especially virtualization of multiple operating ...
MacNN |
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Cablevision Completes First Phase Of WiFi Buildout
Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday it has finished the first phase of its wireless network buildout in New York and remains on track to complete the project in two years.
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Microsoft Cuts 360's Price in Throwdown With Sony
Ars Technica reports: Microsoft will cut the price on Xbox 360 models by as much as one-third, starting Friday. Expect $50 to be cut from the Pro and Elite models of the hardware , and ...
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Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops for overheating danger
Tokyo-based Sony Corp. on Thursday said it is recalling about 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide to fix a faulty wiring problem that could cause the products to overheat.
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Verizon Wireless Opens New Retail Location in Brockton, Massachusetts
In response to growing demand for the company's wireless voice and data products and services, Verizon Wireless has opened a new location in Brockton, Massachusetts. Located inside the Circuit City at 395 Westgate Drive, the Verizon Wireless 'store-within-a-store' is open Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.; and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to ...
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Here are the facts
On the Internet there’s a great Web site called Truthorfiction.com. It’s the first place I go to when I want to check on the accuracy or truth of one of the countless e-mails we all get as forwards.
Vail Daily |
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Red Hat buys Qumranet to extend virtualization reach
Red Hat has expanded its support for virtualization technologies with the acquisition of Israeli software company Qumranet, developer of the open-source KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) project, for $107 million. KVM is an extension to the Linux kernel that allows it to be used as a "bare-metal" hypervisor, running directly on the underlying hardware and hosting guest operating ...
InfoWorld |
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SOA Software Announces Record Growth in Production Environments
SOA Software, an Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, announced today that the number of transactions processed by its systems each month grew by 400%, to over 2.5 billion transactions a month. The growth was due to the expansion of ...
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
Net Applications' Operating System Usage Trend shows that iPhone usage grew quickly with the initial launch, but held steady for the 3-4 months prior to the release of iPhone 3G, most likely due to the lack of iPhone supply prior to the launch of iPhone 3G, which would naturally stunt growth in usage.
Mac Daily News |
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Intellectual work induces excessive calorie intake
A Université Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic, are published in the most recent issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.
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