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- UK house price growth is set to ease, but a strong economy will ensure that the mortgage market stays buoyant, Northern Rock says. |
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- The number of virus attacks has jumped by 20% in the past six months, say computer security experts. |
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- What does Primerica, a financial-services marketing organization in North America, have in common with, JetBlue, a New York-based discount airline? Executives at both companies have been scratching their heads over how to ensure their customer-data management policies comply with confusing new regulatory guidelines in their respective industries. |
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- Just offering the lowest price or the highest-quality products and services is not always a winning corporate strategy. Understanding each customer's requirements and crafting offerings that match is at the heart of effective sales and CRM processes. |
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- IBM says it is pushing the scope of its virtual-hosting strategy to include all of its eServer platforms. The company is inviting clients to leave the flying to IBM and hopes to kick-start a trend in that direction. |
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- When I was at Steve's Books in Tulsa I found this women's journal: Iris: a journal about women I contacted... |
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- Mal etwas Eigenwerbung: ich habe gerade die Version 0.6.0 vom Python Desktop Server zusammengestellt. Da sich die schon seit über 3 Monaten in der Entwicklung befindet, gibts dementsprechend viele Änderungen. |
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- Yes, the quality of the games has gone up so much now that teams like LA are no longer playing. Go Bay Area teams! |
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- I don't think I've mentioned it here, but I'm really looking forward to the Windows Forms pre-conference tutorial I'm giving with Rocky Lhotka at the PDC. I've never spoken at a PDC before but it'll be just like old times with Don, Tim and Martin down the hall.Also, I've never spoken with Rocky before, but he's also a big Midwesterner with a strong opinion, so it should be fun. Plus, he prefers semi-colonless languages, so all kinds of sparks should fly as I attempt to convert him to the one, true way and he does the same to me. We may have trouble remembering there's an audience. |
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- "LonghornBlogs.com is a community initiative to help spread the word with factual information about the next version of Windows, straight from the people that are building it. Because of this, the majority of people posting here (at least for now) will be Microsoft employees. Our intention here was to keep the signal-to-noise ratio extremely low. You won't find too many personal posts here, just good solid information about Longhorn. |
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- Microsoft quietly released Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 and Paul Thurrott loudly loves it (although he certainly identifies "opportunities for improvement" as well... : ). |
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- If you see a little "Send comments on this topic" link, it launches an email to MS where you can complain about the docs, e.g. the .NET Mutex ctor. I had always ignored that link, thinking that I'd never get a response to email sent that way, but I was wrong. |
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- While the .NET Resource Kit is targeted at VB programmers, it comes with tons of real 3rd party controls for free that work just as well for C# programmers as well as VB.NET programmers. |
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- "Are you curious about the new Microsoft® Office System, including the latest versions of Office Professional Edition, Outlook®, and the all-new OneNoteâ„¢ note-taking application? The current Insider show is a perfect way to whet your appetite for their release this fall, plus get the latest information on Tablet PC." |
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- A deceptively frivolous article on MacDevCenter has inspired a lot of people to show their Docks in public. (The Dock is an application launcher / current applications list / application switcher in Mac OS X, analogous to the Taskbar + Start Menu in Windows.) I noticed a particular commonality among many of the Docks posted, and wanted to ask about it. But before I asked people about their Docks, I thought I ought to show mine. |
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- LookSmart launches a regular pay-per-click text ad service. |
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- The SMEALsearch search engine lets you search academic papers. |
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- China's Leader Calls for 'Democratic' Changes. President Hu Jintao has made a vague but insistent call for more democracy in China on the eve of the country's National Day holiday. By Joseph Kahn. [New York Times: International] |
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- (US) Fine cleared: Trail Blazers guard Damon Stoudamire was reinstated to the team.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Portland guard Damon Stoudamire was reinstated to the team, having served a nearly four-month suspension for his arrest on drug charges. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- vnunet.com SCO slams IBM's GPL Linux defence Latest episode of saga sees SCO hit back at Big Blue's accusation of GPL violation... |
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- Chinese Girls' Toil Brings Pain, Not Riches. Two girls' ill-fated attempt to flee a factory illustrates how even rudimentary workers' rights lag far behind job creation and profits in China's surging economy. By Joseph Kahn. [New York Times: International] |
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- At Congressional hearings yesterday, the RIAA announced that it was ceasing its campaign of "sue first and ask questions later" in its crusade against American filesharers and would begin to write letters first before launching litigation. |
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- "We're concerned that the Homeland Security Department's CAPPS II plan sacrifices the privacy and civil liberties of travelers without a logical connection to safety and security," said EFF Attorney Kevin Bankston. |
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- A week after the publication of a report critical of Microsoft, Dan Geer responed to interview questions in interviews at Computer World and eWeek. |
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- The Register Usually we hear of ISPs banning a Web site over some bit of content that a well-heeled and lawyered-up malcontent objects to.... |
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- Crime knows no borders, not even Tonga's. The Pacific island kingdom with a population of 120,000 has seen its first murder in a decade. But wee as Tonga is, Interpol says, it's one of 78 countries now hooked up to a new, high-tech, global database to track terrorists and other criminals. |
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- Universal Currency Converter™ I was on an Australian site looking at Panel PCs and was reminded that most folks don’t know about this great currency converter.... |
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- N. Korea boosts nuclear program [CNN Top Stories] |
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- It's nice to see that even after £110m we retain our tradition of getting beat by much lesser opposition.... |
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- Oct 1, 2003 ... digital still photos. It can store up to 730 still images or 18 minutes of MPEG4 video on the 64M bytes of internal memory. Users can ... |
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- N Korea 'boosts nuclear arsenal'. North Korea says it has reprocessed 8,000 spent fuel rods, enough to make up to six nuclear weapons. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition] |
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- I installed the .ear instead of the .war and then installed the .war and .rds from within my cfusion folder in JRun and now it runs fine but as an Enterprise Application rather than Web Application. |
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- Feste IP oder achter IP-Netz gegen Aufpreis erhältlich |
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- North Korea 'making atomic bombs'. North Korea has completed reprocessing its 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and is using plutonium extracted from them to make atomic bombs. [TCM Irish Breaking News - World] |
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- Kina skickar kanske upp en bemannad rymdfarkost senare i oktober (Nature). Därmed skulle man bli det tredje landet som skickar människor upp i rymden. Som vanligt när det gäller rymdforskning är projektet en salig mix av vetenskap, militära ambitioner, utrikespolitik, nationell prestige mm: Many of China's space scientists and engineers consider the space programme to be a scientific one, even though it falls within the military budget. They want to see an end to US export-control rules that block collaboration with NASA and exclude China from the International Space Station project. |
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- OCT 2/03: WMD hunt in Kuwait?; Free markets in Iraq; the latest Saddam sighting; Iran's impending nuclearization; |
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