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- A Windows XP feature forces consumers to use Internet Explorer to purchase music online, even if they specify that they prefer a competitor's browser. The feature also steers users to a Microsoft-owned website. The DOJ and 19 attorneys general are not amused. (Associated Press via MyAppleMenu Wintel News) |
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- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will not only announce the worldwide availability of Office System 2003, but will also roll out the results of a commissioned study. According to the findings, its latest suite brings big worker productivity improvements and a rapid return on investment. By Peter Galli (eWeek via MyAppleMenu Wintel News) |
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- Microsoft says the new version of Office, its most profitable product, could also represent a bonanza for its partners. By David Becker (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu Wintel News) |
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- Microsoft is set to begin its most aggressive effort yet to sell instant-messaging services to corporations -- and it's pulling out its old playbook to gain traction. By Jim Hu (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu Wintel News) |
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- "Clocked him in the nuts" This has been your words of the day. Every time you hear somebody say "clocked... |
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Gnomoradio (Oct 21 2003 20:24 GMT) - dajobe: announcement of (yet another!) project for distributing music freely on the net, in a CC stylee; dajobe: GPLed software, CC license, RDF metadata; |
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- Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad withdrew a request today that might have allowed him to introduce mental health evidence at sentencing to persuade a jury to spare his life. |
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- If Americans are importing prescription drugs from Canada, where they are much cheaper, why not college textbooks from the UK, India, and Asia?"We think it's frightening, and it's wrong, that the same American textbooks our |
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- The MessageXpress (a desktop redirector) will be part of the wireless e-mail capabilities on the new Sony Ericsson P900. |
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- ExtremeTech published an article explaining how to connect wi-fi devices, topology and networking. Great guide for wireless and connected PDA users. |
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- Vodafone and Verizon Wireless announced during the CTIA in Las Vegas that they will exchange content. |
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- Germans the first ones to have the hiptop in the European market. |
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- The first mobile phone running the Windows Mobile Smartphone to be released in North American is now available on AT&T. Juha Christensen, corporate vice president of the Mobile Devices Division at Microsoft comments. |
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- British mobile phone maker Sendo announced the Symbian Series 60 based Sendo X smartphone. |
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- One of my most sublime summer moments this year came on a gorgeous sunny day as I zipped along St. Paul's downtown riverfront, the warm wind whistling past my ears, on a motorized vehicle that made almost no noise. Yes, it was an electric scooter. No, it wasn't a Segway Human Transporter (good guess, though). I'll get to that upright contraption in a second. |
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- On October 19, 2003, the Swiss elected the National Council and the Council of States. The elections also marked a shift in the Swiss mindset that resulted in the polarisation of Swiss politics. The rightwing Swiss People's Party (SVP) won... |
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- Amnesty International USA to Hold Annual Midwest Conference in Minneapolis This Weekend; War on Terror's Threat to Human Rights a Main Focus |
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- according to surfcontrol this weblog should be censored. it falls under the Usenet News/Forums category, which some companies block. as... |
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- I haven't had much to say lately. At least, much to say that isn't expletive-laden. All in all, it's been... |
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- This week we've got a very special giveaway from Anti for Eddie Izzard's brilliant concert film Eddie Izzard -... |
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- This week we've got a very special giveaway from Anti for Eddie Izzard's brilliant concert film Eddie Izzard -... |
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- "During the dot-com boom, marketers predicted that we wouldn't be able to pass a Chinese restaurant without our mobile phones ringing with a coupon for free fried rice. A wireless device in the restaurant would recognize passing phones as belonging... |
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- By far the best compact 4x2 |
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- Economical and reliable, but noisy, slow, and can't be very safe |
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- Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:00:00 PDT |
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- Received a new box* today: Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003. What's inside? Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Outlook and Business Contact Manager for Outlook. Outlook is the only software in this package that was significantly upgraded from Office XP. |
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- Je suis un fan de Thierry Ardisson. Je ne rate jamais son mission hebdomadaire, qui passe ici au Qubec avec 2 jours de retard sur RFO et aprs 10 jours sur TV5. Hier, Thierry a invit les deux jeunes filles, Lila et Alma, qui se sont fait exc... |
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- Vous venez de lire ces mots : Nouveau blog artistique collectif la tourgueniev. |
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- Il parait que le Global Flash Mob va se drouler le 25 octobre. On ne sait toujours pas s'il va y en avoir un Montral! |
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- I would like a Classroom Management system for Linux. Use of opensource components is fine. The system should work similar to |
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- A small C++ program.See deliverables. Keywords:C++ / C |
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- Developing mambo component (mamboserver.com) using PHP/mySQLcomponent requires identical functional to this web page: http://gsiserve. hitechdata. |
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- Description: Interactive training to be developed. It will be instructor lead and have several activities. The instructor has already been filmed and the clips need to be packaged with the (more...) Keywords: |
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- Complete the “findC” function to satisfy the requirements described below. |
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- I am an importer of Tropical Fish. I buy from different countries. |
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- The games just keep on comin' |
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- SEGA's sports team is at it again. |
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- Two titles from the publisher ship today. But which ones are they? |
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- Quick fix for people with oddball system configs. |
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- THQ claims to be researching development for PS3, Xbox2 and the PSP handheld. |
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- "Bionicle" comes to consoles. |
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- One of the unexpected delights of my quick trip to Lightning Field in New Mexico was meeting poet Regan Good... |
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- Don't let the bedbugs bite: Today a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion by Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner that begins (some citations omitted): |
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- There was some serious trouble with the Radio Userland server today. So, what can one do in the meantime? Watch the phenakistiscope, the thaumatrope, zoetrope and other optical toys. |
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- Interview with Don Reinertsen ~1997: When you understand this [queueing theory], you see that idle time in development is not 'waste', but rather a tool that prevents your resources from being blocked 100 percent of the time. This gives you... |
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- Dal basso si dice che questa metropoli non funziona. Dal basso si crea... |
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- Los Angeles Film Critics Association votes to scrap 2003 awards in protest of controversial screener ban |
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- Defamation suit against rapper tossed out of court by judge who raps her own ruling |
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- Meet the Governor segments show embarrassing clips |
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- Suit claims singers father stole song that became Survivor |
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- Congress was expected Tuesday to approve a ban on a specific late-term abortion procedure, a legislative landmark that could lead to a fierce legal fight affecting a womans right to end a pregnancy. |
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- A third of the nations workers without health insurance are employed by large companies, a study says. |
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