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- With an upgrade to the Windows XP variant due Tuesday, the software maker aims to address critiques from its earliest customers. Dell, Sony and other PC makers are standing by. |
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- Storage specialist Optima sues Network Solutions for $3 million in damages in the second case to allege that the VeriSign unit gave away a domain name without the owner's consent. |
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- Worldwide sales of semiconductor chips grew for the sixth consecutive month, raising the prospects of stronger third-quarter growth, a new study shows. |
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- Sprint PCS and Nextel Communications agree on a process to let each others' customers switch carriers later this year but keep their old cell phone numbers. |
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- The Internet music software company jumps into the business of selling digital songs. Dell is expected to provide accompaniment, promoting the new download service to consumers. |
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- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making its course materials available to the world for free download. |
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- The civil liberties group files a motion accusing the RIAA of illegally using subpoenas to unmask alleged copyright infringers, a move that could complicate the labels' antipiracy plan. |
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- Category: Digital Cameras Canon only released its G5 digital camera three months ago, and already the rumors are flying that a G6 is in the works. These are unconfirmed, but supposedly the G6 will come out in mid-November, be 20% smaller than the G5, have a 5x optical zoom lens, and a resolution of 6.5 megapixels. So you might want to wait a couple of months if you were thinking of buying a G5. |
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- After years of losses and thousands of job cuts, 3Com is only a shell of its former self. But that shell is the basis for firm's new strategy to outsource its manufacturing. 3Com is getting back into the router business with a new series of products that will hit the market within the next month. |
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- Moving to establish itself as a heavyweight in the enterprise market, Red Hat announced its long-term plans to create an open-source architecture infrastructure that will be cheaper and more flexible for its clients. Red Hat's move comes after similar moves by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. |
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- Network-intelligence company Lancope has teamed with leading U.S. defense organizations to create a new way to terminate malicious network attacks. SWaT "provides unprecedented real-time visualization of network traffic and pattern-less detection of known and unknown attacks to protect sensitive data," said Lancope spokesperson Jody Ma Kissling |
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- Ron Kaufman was the absolute wrong guy to put on hold. All he wanted was to talk to a real person to get help making a major change to his business-class tickets to London. But Expedia put him on hold. That was just the beginning of his journey into phone hell. |
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- Turning images on your PC into real-life computer chips with your home printer sounds like science fiction, yet the first prototype is already in operation. |
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- A crab introduced to western Russia 40 years ago from the Soviet far east has reached Svalbard, 960 km from the North Pole. |
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- Why real thieves are robbing online gamers of virtual valuables |
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- Germany begins to turn against wind energy |
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- By Richard Verrier and Claudia Eller Hand-drawn cartoons have been its stock in trade, but 3-D movies are bringing in bigger box office returns. |
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- By Terril Yue Jones More companies are betting on the all-in-one media centers to revive slumping sales. |
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- Our yearly Programming Survey takes an in-depth look at what programmers are building and which scripting languages they're using |
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- Malicious programs can be planted on vulnerable systems |
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- Reuters - Mon Sep 29, 3:21 PM ET Several Internet "peer-to-peer" networks unveiled a code of conduct on Monday to encourage responsible behavior among the millions of users who copy music, pornography and other material from each others' hard drives. |
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- AP - Mon Sep 29, 5:13 PM ET Verizon Wireless is launching a faster generation of wireless Internet access in two cities, Washington and San Diego, promising download speeds between five and 10 times quicker than dial-up service and the typical cellular-based data connections currently available. |
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- A new study finds current creams only block about half of a type of solar ray linked to the deadliest form of skin cancer |
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- But experts say major recent electricity cuts in Europe and the US are all due to reduced investment in emergency capacity |
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- It's been said before, many times, many ways, but it always bears repeating, especially when it's said as well as it is by Tobacco Road Fogey: Western popular culture is... |
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- It has been 125 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Northwestern University doesn't ever have to pay property taxes to the tony Chicago suburb of Evanston. But the bitter feelings that ruling left between the prestigious private school and the city, named for one of the university's founders, have never really gone away. |
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- Unemployment statistics cut by use of punitive reviews |
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- The rumor is that palmOne will be announcing three new Palms on Oct. 1. The models are the Tungsten T3, the Tungsten E, and the Zire 21. We can't wait to check them out. [via Gizmodo]... |
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- Damn... Heh... [foolish grin] That'll teach me not to fool around with MySQL without reading the fine manual again, I... |
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- "Have you ever tried surfing with a tabbed web browser? Try Avant Browser, an upgrade to Internet Explorer. Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser. Avant Browser is freeware. That's right. |
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- "Critics Say Frist, Republicans Not Tough Enough": FOXNews yesterday had this report. |
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- Yesterday I included the code to perform an online word lookup and return an XML packet. Here is the Flash application which includes the code to consume the xml packets and display a message. All that remains for me to do is edit the ... |
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- Election Central The Web's 1st Blog on Verified Voting, Election Reform & Democracy |
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Bidi (Sep 30 2003 02:35 GMT) - Inspired by a new contributor who wants to introduce Urdu into the mix — hurrah! — I have been tinkering with a solution to the problem of bidirectional text on our wiki. I've discovered a workaround based on a WakkaWiki hack that I came across recently. |
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- On October 13 and 14 Madrid will host the Net.es3 Conference devoted to the contributions of new technologies to social movements. Links and Program at: eCuaderno. |
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- Lesson for the day: Italian for 'blackout' is guasto. From Antonio, the cartoon shows a man listening to a recorded message: "If you are calling to request electrical power, say 'candle.' If you are calling to report a blackout, say 'Berlusconi. |
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- Waypath >> Corpse Poetics >> Venepoetics: |
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- "At Computex we had an opportunity to check out a good few small form factor machines running Microsoft Medea Center (MMC). This is a customised version of Windows XP that is centred around 'lounge media' - playing DVDs, music, watching TV, recording TV PVR-stylee and viewing pictures. Microsoft hope it will dominate the living couch potato dead in a few years time, and it has the support of most of the major OEMs, by which we mean the Dells and HPs of this universe. It sounds great in practice, but any theory is only as good as its execution. Having had a chance to actually go try it out, I thought you might like to hear a few little comments. |
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- Israeli troops blew up Tuesday the home of an Islamic Jihad gunman who carried out an attack on a West Bank settlement on the eve of the Jewish New Year, killing two people, including a seven-month-old baby. |
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- "Court cases mirror America's tensions": Michael Kirkland, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for United Press International, has this look at the upcoming Term. |
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- Interesting tidbit from a recent article about R.E.M.'s current tour, reproduced... |
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- Zootopia, the forum located at U2.com, will soon be relaunching with... |
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Get Tanked (Sep 30 2003 02:34 GMT) - Attention all bored U2 fans! A new fan site may provide... |
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Day (Sep 30 2003 02:34 GMT) - Achy, tired, uncomfortable, dizzy. Feeling better now that I have some food in me. Started re-reading Kushiel's Dart, having finished off all my Dick yesterday. Little Fayoumis was well-behaved. He ate the last slice of Mexican Fiesta pizza, even after my warning that it didn't have regular pizza sauce, it had taco sauce instead. |
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- At my school, it's like a sin if you haven't had sex. A friend and I were talking about it,... |
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