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Dell to sell mini PC to compete with Hewlett-Packard
Dell's product debuted five months after HP released the Mini-Note, whose starting price is almost $150 more than the Dell device.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Album: Glasvegas, Glasvegas (Columbia)
Be honest: you'll scream if you read another agitated blog or hear another airhead broadcaster proclaim Glasvegas as the country's best new band?
Independent |
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Emblem a problem in nesting season
SPRING may be the season of the birds and the bees but one bird in particular is keeping locals on their toes. The students and staff at Westdale Public School have been approaching their computer building with caution because of a swooping magpie.
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Sony recalls laptops due to possible overheating
TOKYO - Sony announced today it is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to a wiring flaw that could cause overheating. Sony said the recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008.
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Apple submits voice, finger, gaze and facial recognition patent application
While praised, today's multi-touch input methods are clearly in its infancy. It recognizes only a handful of gestures, it isn’t terribly accurate and not a great tool for precise object manipulation. It seems, however, Apple has many more ideas for multi-touch and is working on adding new technology that could improve multi-touch accuracy, enable more detailed gestures and perhaps change the way ...
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BBB Warns Against Ticket Scammers
If your main source of ordering tickets for a sporting event, movie, or concert is done online, we have a warning you need to hear. The Better Business Bureau is sending a warning that fans may get burned while Internet shopping.
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Green party drops B.C. candidate over allegedly anti-Semitic blog post
Green Party leader Elizabeth May announced John Shavluk, the Green nominee in the suburban riding of Newton-North Delta, has been dropped from the candidates list
The Globe and Mail |
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Ralph launch online game to promote wrestling
Midway Games has hired digital advertising agency Ralph to produce an interactive online challenge promoting TNA iMPACT! - a hotly-anticipated World Champion Wrestling game.
Netimperative |
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Free wireless broadband at Hamilton libraries
Hamilton residents will now be able to surf the web and access emails using their own laptop or other wireless capable devices in the comfortable surroundings of their local library – and all for free.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Google touts iPhone, Chrome browser
Even as Google prepares to launch its own mobile computing platform, a company executive heaped praise on Apple’s iPhone Thursday.
Macworld |
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Microsoft Doubles Storage Capacity For Netbooks
Netbooks manufactured with Windows XP have had their 80 GB HDD restriction dropped by Microsoft in favor of a 160 GB limit
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Dame Alison Munro: Forthright civil servant and High Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School
Alison Munro was a Renaissance woman, all right – a highly successful senior civil servant, a brilliant international negotiator, a reforming and much-loved High Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School, in west London, chair of a range of committees at national and local level, wit, raconteur, sailor, tennis player, bridge player, a woman who taught herself computer skills in her eighties and ...
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The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
JEDDAH: The Ministry of Labor’s website was hacked recently by a young Saudi man who has been unable to find a job. According to yesterday’s Al-Madinah newspaper, the young man broke through
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Music, Stats, and Docks [Featured Desktop]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. Reader hhggrr's tweaked desktop configuration sports a customized dashboard with a focus on music, system stats, and docks that...
Lifehacker |
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Yahoo's stock hits new 52-week low
Internet pioneer's shares dip below US$18.58, raising questions of whether any catalyst exists that could lift the weary stock in the near future. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
ZDNet Asia |
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Condensed Soup: Size Doesn't Matter
Welcome once again to the new home of Condensed Soup—you loved it on Yahoo, now keep loving it right here! Speaking of love, enjoy the deliciously twisted hate served up on The...
E! Online |
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Dell launches long-awaited netbook
The company has launched the Inspiron Mini 9 mini-laptop computer, four months after it was first expected to enter the Netbook market
ZDNet Asia |
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Police issue alert about online scams
DONNA BARNES has made over 2000 transactions on the popular Internet auction site Ebay, and she still got scammed. Ms Barnes had an online business selling children's clothing and also buys and sells furniture on the Internet.
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Oracle destroyed Ellison's emails
Software maker Oracle deliberately destroyed or withheld CEO Larry Ellison's emails and failed to preserve audio recordings sought as evidence in a class-action lawsuit filed against the software maker, a US federal judge has ruled.
ZDNet Australia |
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"Can the internet ever be stopped now?"
brokenkey wrote: I was reading in our local paper about some bloke just convicted of downloading some kiddie porn. He's been banned from owning anything that has internet access - pc, phone, even a mac.
EuroGamer |
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'Fast Money' Pops and Drops: Yahoo!
A trader calls Jerry Yang the worst CEO of the year.
TheStreet.com |
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NFL teams with Adobe to deliver 'Sunday Night Football' live on Internet
Adobe Systems Inc. said it is teaming with the National Football League to deliver live online video streaming of NBC "Sunday Night Football" games on NFL.com and NBCSports.com starting with Thursday night's season opener. (ADBE)
BizJournals |
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Picasa and Flash become latest spam tools
Google's Picasa image hosting service is fast-becoming the new tool of choice for spammers to elude e-mail filters.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Comcast to sue FCC over network neutrality
Comcast has said that it will go to court to overturn the ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that it cannot throttle users bandwidth.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Movers roundup: Yahoo, Ciena
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Yahoo Inc.'s stock sunk to its lowest level in nearly five years Thursday, magnifying the challenge facing the Internet company as its management tries to justify their rebuff of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid.
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