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Amazon's Full Text Search (Oct 23 2003 18:56 GMT) - Amazon has now extended its search to include the full text of over 120,000 books [1]. It will even do hit-highlighting on the actual pages that match. Slick! [1] http://www. |
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Oracle-PeopleSoft Opera: Time To Cue the Fat Lady? (Oct 23 2003 18:56 GMT) - PeopleSoft beat earnings expectations and declared -- once again -- that Oracle's hostile bid for the maker of business-software applications is over. The continued positive performance of PeopleSoft most likely means that Oracle will have to raise its offer, but the most daunting obstacle for Oracle is currently the U.S. Department of Justice. |
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Analytics Can Ease Recruiting and Hiring Process (Oct 23 2003 18:56 GMT) - Enterprise-software vendors have applied analytics to helping companies better manage many types of relationships over the last several years: those with customers, suppliers, partners and employees. And, according to an Aberdeen Group report, companies would do well to use the same techniques in their recruiting and hiring processes. |
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Now Vodafone Links with Oracle (Oct 23 2003 18:56 GMT) - Oracle is to simplify user access to corporate systems via mobile phones and other wireless devices, following a tie-up with Vodafone. The two firms are set to bundle a preconfigured application program interface into Oracle's application server, which will enable users to access Vodafone's network services. |
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Wireless Phones Becoming Digital 'Swiss Army Knives' (Oct 23 2003 18:56 GMT) - Just getting used to the idea of using your cell phone to send text messages or take pictures? Wait until you see what wireless companies are planning next. Mobile phones are morphing from mere communications tools into digital Swiss Army knives that can play games and music, get news and weather reports and -- oh, yes -- still make an occasional call. |
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Another cocaine courier caught at JHB Airport (Oct 23 2003 18:55 GMT) - Another cocaine courier caught at JHB Airport A drug courier was arrested at Johannesburg International Airport yesterday after cocaine was found in his luggage.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(100%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $cannabis(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $heroin(100%), $depressant(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%), $police_related_news(70%)] |
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World Cup players to be test for THG (Oct 23 2003 18:55 GMT) - (Ireland) While the IAAF plan to retest samples taken in the World Championships, the Australian Sports Drug Agency (ASDA), carrying out the World Cup testing, will also have leeway to reanalyse old samples. [$drug_related(100%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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German and Dutch Ministers Plan Joint Drug Offensive (Oct 23 2003 18:55 GMT) - (Germany) German Interior Minister Otto Schily and Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner have agreed to fight the drug trade together but clashed on the subject of Dutch coffee shops which sell cannabis. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(90%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $propaganda_theme7(90%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $drug_law(100%), $legalization(70%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $cannabis(100%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Intact Viking ship found? (Oct 23 2003 18:55 GMT) - Exciting news from Norway:Pulse levels are rising among Norwegian researchers who think they may have found the country's fourth intact Viking ship buried in a mound near Toensberg. The site is just next to the |
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Steve Ballmer taler om Open Source (Oct 23 2003 18:55 GMT) - Microsoft's øverste chef, Steve Ballmer, har til en konference fornyligt talt om open source, og ikke mindst om hvorfor Microsoft prøver at holde det for døren. |
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Panther imponerer (Oct 23 2003 18:55 GMT) - Apples nye styresystem, Mac OS X 10.3, imponerer tilsyneladende engelske, The Guardian. |
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Korte spilnyheder (23/10) (Oct 23 2003 18:55 GMT) - Aspyr har netop annonceret, at de vil udgive Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness til Mac OS X, som dermed bliver den 6. TR-udgivelse fra dem. Desuden er Flagship Studios med alle de gamle Blizzard-desertører på vej med et nyt og banebrydende spil - ifølge dem selv. |
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Skippin' work (Oct 23 2003 18:54 GMT) - Yeah I'm skipping work today. I'm not feeling too hot, and I need to grade 23 papers. I hope my employers don't feel like I'm BS-ing them. The supe sounded sympathetic on the phone though, so maybe I'm just being... |
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iChat: How do they do that? (Oct 23 2003 18:54 GMT) - Upon disconnecting a Mac from it's net connection (eg, disconnecting the ethernet cable from a cable modem), iChat immediately detects this and goes offline. Is the operating system supplying a notification? What mechanism would you use to have your app reliably go offline/online? |
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Trials of Atlantis, an Overview (Oct 23 2003 18:54 GMT) - As I returned from lunch, I saw wet footprints leading into my office. There on my chair was a thick bundle tied with twine, and someone had used my favorite marker to write "From Atlantis" on the top sheet of parchment. What follows is the content of that package. |
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new weblog (Oct 23 2003 18:53 GMT) - Habe jetzt ein eigenes weblog errichtet. Sag mal Kleppus kannste mal die links unten von studio 1 und utopia rausschmeissen. braucht keiner mehr. http://antville. |
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iTune Music Parlor? (Oct 23 2003 18:53 GMT) - After reading Ape Infinitum's post regarding the Apple's Music store, I started thinking. If what Ape Infinitum says is correct, then the Ipod Music Store is not a store at all. After all, stores sell products, and, Ipod seems to be selling a service, not |
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