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- translation of notes from a meeting held with Genoa Legal Forum lawyers, in Berlin, June 28, 2003 |
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- Two ways to get your site listed in Yahoo! sur webproworld.com. Vous pouvez soumettre un lien RSS Yahoo! en l'ajoutant votre "My Yahoo! |
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- Reinforcing its efforts to bolster software security, Microsoft is planning to release updates to its Visual Studio.Net developer tools and .Net development environment. The news comes on the heels of the company's announcement that it will release a large, security-oriented service pack for its Windows XP operating system. |
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- In what's been called the "Academy Awards for Engineers," four distinguished figures in personal computer history will be awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize. Sharing the $500,000 prize will be Robert W. Taylor, Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson and Charles P. |
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- Wind River, a developer of operating systems for set-top boxes, network cards and the Mars rovers, has announced an about-face by embracing Linux. "We watched and waited until Linux really started to gain traction," said David Fraser, Wind River's chief product officer. |
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- Two new standards approved this week by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are poised to provide consumers with content more appropriate for their needs, enabling computers to locate relevant information on the Internet more quickly than was ever possible before. The consortium disclosed the new standards Tuesday as part of its overall push to create the so-called Semantic Web. |
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- The Linux kernel development process is akin to a game of leapfrog. Even-numbered kernels (v2.0, v2.2, v2.4) are stable kernels, and odd-numbered kernels are unstable, or development, kernels. |
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- It may already be the de facto voice platform for the Internet, but this week the Voice XML 2.0 specification has moved closer to becoming an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. The W3C, the body responsible for maintaining many of the core standards and protocols at the heart of the Internet, has published the new Voice XML 2.0 specification as a Proposed Recommendation. |
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- A few years ago, Daniel Kaberon never would have considered deploying any of his applications on a grid-computing environment. Now he can't imagine life without the distributed technology. Today, Kaberon is running an application that calculates pension benefits on a grid of Linux-based, two-processor, 2.8-GHz blades from IBM. |
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- To the chagrin of purists, the complaint most often aired by Unix users (by that I mean Unix, Linux, and BSD) is Unix's inability to run Windows applications. There are several approaches to counter this shortcoming. But unfortunately, despite all of these choices, the majority of desktop users and developers who need Unix and Windows maintain separate Unix and Windows partitions and reboot to switch between them. |
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- Silicon Graphics this week launched an initiative that will bring the company's graphics technology to computers running Linux. The initiative consists of two elements: SGI's collaboration with various open-source graphics projects, including Chromium, and SGI's release of a tool kit for developers. |
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- Silicon Graphics has been struggling to regain its dominance in the high-performance technical-computing market. Now, with the release of SGI Altix 350, a new Intel Itanium 2 and 64-bit Linux OS-based server, SGI is trying to make a major impact on the landscape of the $2.6 billion midrange segment of this market. |
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- Didn't Netscape lose the browser war? Mozilla, the technology that lies underneath Netscape products and a slew of its own products, just gets better and better. Netscape is effectively dead, but Mozilla keeps on keeping on. In 2010 we'll look back and say 2003 was the year that Mozilla really began. |
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- ARM, one of the largest developers of embedded systems, has announced its membership in the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum. Established in June, CELF is an industry group focused on advancing Linux as an open-source platform for consumer electronics devices such as handheld computers and other audiovisual devices. |
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- While Linux continues to make inroads into the personal computer and network markets -- thanks to a heavy push by big firms like IBM -- a handful of firms in the consumer electronics (CE) industry are also pushing hard to standardize on the open-source OS. |
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- Even before we could send recorded sound reliably over the Internet and a file-sharing revolution set the music industry in an uproar, the large size of digital audio files was causing headaches. A minute of raw stereo sound at CD quality -- or 16-bit, 44.1 KHz sampling -- occupies 10.5 MB on a hard drive. Obviously, files of song-length recordings at that size can quickly get unwieldy. |
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- The iBOT mobility system, called the Ferrari of wheelchairs, is now helping disabled users break through physical barriers. The iBOT can climb stairs, bump up curbs, glide through gravel and even elevate a seated passenger to reach the top shelf at a grocery store. To help get the iBOT out on the market, the Food and Drug Administration expedited the review of the wheelchair. |
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- Processors continue to get faster and faster, but the frontside bus (FSB) remains one of the biggest bottlenecks on system performance. Most major manufacturers, including Intel, Motorola and AMD, are trying to develop methods to sidestep FSB limitations. |
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- Web developers differ in their approach to site creation and maintenance, and Web development programs have evolved to reflect this dichotomy: Some offer graphical user interfaces, while others are geared toward users who prefer hand-coding HTML. Which tools are best? The answer may depend on the state of an industry that is constantly in flux. |
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- By decreasing space requirements and boosting power efficiency, Broadcom said its new, single-chip wireless solution marks a revolutionary breakthrough for the wireless industry and will make wireless LANs less expensive and easier to build. Broadcom said the chip makes Wi-Fi connectivity practical for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players and more. |
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- Only 15 years ago, we watched in amazement while the rusty iron curtain collapsed and the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe embarked on new lives in the global market. For most of us, this neglected region stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans then retreated to the fringes of our attention. |
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- Looking to land its first major handset maker as a Windows Mobile software customer, Microsoft is reportedly involved in a deal with Motorola, the company that will build the new smart phone to be offered by French operator Orange. A briefing is scheduled for next week, and industry insiders told TechNewsWorld that the move was expected, especially given Motorola's existing relationship with Microsoft. |
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- The universal shortage of nurses in particular and healthcare workers in general is getting worse. Meanwhile, baby boomers are moving like a tidal wave toward assisted-living homes. Soon, patients could face the choice of being cared for by a robotic nurse or no nurse at all. |
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- As exciting as the Internet's past 30 years have been, they're only a shadow of what is to come. We are already catching glimpses of the future in projects sponsored by universities and pharmaceutical research labs. Grid computing -- a Web-based operation that will allow companies to share computing resources on demand -- is where we're headed. |
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- A protest tomorrow in the streets of Brussels, Belgium, over a proposed European law on software patents will spill into the Internet as more than 600 Web sites are expected to modify their operations in support of the dissenters. The online protest is being organized by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. |
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- DARPA has played a pivotal role in support of innovative research, hosting some of the best as well as the strangest research projects, and garnering a reputation as a hugely influential center of intellectual excellence. But the organization has come under increasingly critical scrutiny in those areas where its spirit of scientific adventure has bumped into the hard realities of domestic politics. |
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- Wireless startup Airgo -- a company that consists of some of the wireless industry's most prominent pioneers -- announced it is sampling a new Wi-Fi chipset that promises to double the range and data rates of wireless local area networks. Airgo said its AGN100 Wi-Fi chipset, for use in 802.11 wireless networks, will increase existing Wi-Fi rates to 108 Mbps. |
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- From the 1970s to the late 1990s, the computer industry's main source of revenue came from developing business and consumer markets. But with technology spending down from the historic heights of just a few years ago and only now starting to rebound, computer companies once again have looked to the government for work to keep their software developers and hardware engineers busy. |
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- Security will move farther from the fallible hands of users and closer to the heart of the computer with a deal announced by Intel and Wave Systems. Chip giant Intel will use software from Lee, Massachusetts-based Wave Systems to support a security measure known as the Trusted Platform Module in a version of Intel's desktop motherboards to be released in the fourth quarter. |
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- Modeling and simulation have made momentous strides in recent years, and the military, medical science and other professions are on the verge of being able to use computing power to simulate reality for all kinds of applications. |
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- SGI has announced a new workstation designed for visualization, multiprocessing and digital media. Called the Tezro, the workstation can be configured with up to four 700-MHz MIPS RISC processors, each with 4 MB of Level-2 cache. |
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- "Creo que nuestro estudio fue censurado y suprimido por la OMS porque no le gustaban sus conclusiones. La experiencia previa sugiere que los funcionarios de la OMS estaban sometidos a presiones por parte de la AIEA cuyo objetivo es promover la energía nuclear. Fue un hecho realmente desafortunado ya que si el estudio se hubiera publicado se habría podido advertir a las autoridades sobre los riesgos de utilizar en Iraq armas con uranio empobrecido." |
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- The Karmapa has called for India to do more to help the Tibetan causeFor the first time since he escaped to India four years ago from Chinese-controlled Tibet, Karmapa lama Ugyen Trinley Dorji has stated that ‘‘Tibet’s problem is India’s problem’ |
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- [Lidovky.cz - ekonomika] - Česká spořitelna, která spravuje 4,6 milionu účtů, změní od dnešního dne některé poplatky. Některé zvýší, jiné sníží. Banka počítá s tím, že na základě změny letos vybere od klientů na poplatcích zhruba o 230 milionů korun více. Uvedla to mluvčí spořitelny Klára Gajdušková. |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 5 Feb 2004): Ranking: 179, Activity percentile: 98.83%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 5 Feb 2004): Download count: 5 |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Public discussion forums: Help, Open Discussion, Developers, Network status |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 5 Feb 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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