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Sony: Vaio Notebooks Can Burn Your Lap
Manufacturer recalls 438,000 laptops on fire concern.
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Hulu vs. Amazon: Amazon Never Stood A Chance
Since Amazon released its video on demand service earlier today, I've pored over each and every section of the site to determine if it has what it takes to supplant Hulu as the best online video service providing professional network content. And after doing just that, I've quickly realized that it doesn't. Amazon has done all it can to solidify its stance in the online video market. ...
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McCain, Obama and a Polarized Online Media
New Web analyses give more dimension to media treatment of presidential candidates.
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It's Official: Dell Enters the Netbook Fray
The long-rumored Inspiron Mini 9 aims to carve a space for the PC giant in a nascent, yet already crowded market.
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DAILY EXPRESS NEWS
Kota Kinabalu : Sabah Barisan Nasional (BN) Parliamentary Backbenchers Club Chairman Datuk Anifah Aman has denied widespread speculation that some BN Members of Parliment (MPs) from Sabah would defect to the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) starting from today (Friday).
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Red Hat Bets on Startup to Shake Up Virtualization
Acquiring Qumranet puts Xen on the sidelines as the Linux vendor seeks to challenge Microsoft in another arena.
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Local researchers in China to observe total solar eclipse
A group of area researchers are in Weinan, China to video capture and broadcast to the Internet a total solar eclipse, observable only from a small narrow corridor on the Earth.
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HP Tiptoes Forward in Smartphones
But the PC vendor has a hard road against high-profile competitors, say industry watchers.
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Secure Computing Says Securify the Right Fit
The $15 million purchase adds identity-based monitoring to Securing Computing's portfolio.
InternetNews.com |
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Tech a Big Player at GOP Convention
With the hurricane fading out and Palin taking the stage, buzz about the Republican Convention is back at the center of the Internet.
InternetNews.com |
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Remember Figlets? They're Back With Zend
Who knew they would work well to tell humans from bots on Web sites? You can now use them as part of the PHP framework, too.
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He'll get in your face
Andy Thibault spends a lot of time in shorts and sandals watching rabbits nibble in his Litchfield backyard. When he feels up to it, he climbs the steep stairs of his Victorian home on a quiet, tree shaded street, turns on the computer and takes on the world.
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Job vacancy: Ict Systems Support Officer
(Ref: RT605) We are looking for an enthusiastic, hard working and self-motivated professional to join the Council’s ICT support team. You will be based at the main Council offices in Cannock and be involved with the support of the Council's networked ICT desktop services to its users.
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Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-G3 with WiFi diddled by the FCC
Filed under: Digital Cameras The FCC didn't give us much to go on here besides these wireframe images and a few radiation reports. From that we can tell you that Sony's about to release its new DSC-G3 Cyber-shot boasting 802.11b/g WiFi. As a followup to the WiFi-packing DSC-G1 announced more than a year ago, we're expecting the 3.5-inch LCD (now probably touchscreen like the T700 ) ...
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Libraries limit time for computer use
When the warning comes, Tiffani Chandler shifts into high gear like a football team in a two-minute drill. The teen has 10 minutes left, a pop-up bubble says, to finish her homework, check her MySpace page or do anything else before it is someone else's turn on this computer at Glendale Branch Library.
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New Web site lets teachers blog
See the new Rapid City Area Schools Web site at www.rcas.org
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So Is Chrome The Fastest Or What?
There have been a number of timed and anecdotal speed tests performed on Google Chrome over the last couple of days. My personal testing: Chrome is the fastest browser I have ever used. More structured TechCrunch testing showed similar results: It's fast . Here are what others came up with: CNET agrees , but their approach was biased towards Google. Chrome came out way ahead in a suite of ...
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Beatmaker for iPhone review
Those accustomed to thinking of iPhone and iPod touch applications as stripped-down mini-versions of desktop applications need only spend a half hour with BeatMaker, Intua’s mobile music-creation application, to change their minds.
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The Seinfeld Ad Microsoft Paid Millions For: Pro and Con Opinions
Microsoft ran its first commercial with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld on NBC this afternoon, to mixed reviews. Seinfeld will reportedly take home $10 million for his part of the $300 million "Windows Not Walls" ad campaign. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/The_Seinfeld_Ad_Microsoft_Paid_Millions_For_Pro_and_Con_Opi';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal'; Does that seem ...
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It's Time for a New Terms of Service Regime
Yesterday's flare-up about the Terms of Service for Google's new browser Chrome , followed by the company's rapid backtracking on the demands it was making of users, left many people wondering about Google ToS in general. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/It_s_Time_for_a_New_Terms_of_Service_Regime';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal'; Is it ok for service providers ...
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Democratic Convention Web Site Gets 3.2 Million Visits
Just as the Republican National Convention is about to wrap up tonight, the Democratic National Convention Committee released some interesting numbers about its web presence during the Democratic convention last week. During the convention week, the official Web site received more than 3.2 million visits. Also, visitors to the DNC site watched a total of more than 360,000 hours of online ...
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Docstoc Now Syncs Your Documents Online
Docstoc has announced two impressive new features today that will distance it from rival Scribd , for now anyway. The features are called Docstoc MyDocs and Docstoc Sync. Docstoc MyDocs lets you store all your documents (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf) in your own online folders for anytime, anywhere access. You can now access your private documents and manage the public documents you publish to ...
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Circos Relaunched: Search for Food and Bed Via Consumer Reviews
If you’re in search for two things of major importance each day, they undoubtedly are 1) food, and 2) a roof. Which is why a search engine by the name of Circos , which we spotlighted briefly back in January and has just been re-launched, is so compelling. The items on which it pays focus are twofold: restaurants and hotels. That’s all. For now, at least. What’s most interesting is the way ...
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Tumbltape Mashes Up Muxtape and Tumblr
The demise of Muxtape, the popular mixtape service, clearly left a void on the Internet that a number of new companies are now trying to fill. Most clones, from 8tracks to the self-hosted OpenTape , have followed the Muxtape model very closely. Tumbltape , which launched today, takes a slightly different route by using the Tumblr for storing and posting the actual MP3 files. While ...
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Social Media for Real World Social Change
The Real World Change 2.0 series with Leslie Poston is an ongoing look at how people are using social media tools and their personal and professional social media networks to bridge the chasm from the Internet and social media bubble to the real world to do a variety of things to effect true change. Change can come in waves or inch along in baby steps. When you have a great need for positive ...
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