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The Top Contenders for AO100 competition (Jun 17 2004 18:59 GMT) - Palo Alto, California, June 16, 2004- AlwaysOn and KPMG 1Start have narrowed the list for their highly-anticipated Top 100 private companies competition to the 200 companies listed below. AlwaysOn editors and KPMG 1Start compiled the list with assistance of MIT/Stanford Venture Lab. The three groups surveyed more than 1,000 venture investors, investment bankers, top entrepreneurs and executives, who nominated more than 700 companies for the competition. Each of the AO100 winners... |
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'Al Qaeda manipuló un web de EEUU para difundir el vídeo del rehén' (Jun 17 2004 18:59 GMT) - El grupo terrorista Al Qaeda manipuló la programación de un sitio web localizado en California (Estados Unidos) para difundir su vídeo sobre el rehén estadounidense secuestrado en Arabia Saudí, lo que constituye una novedad absoluta en las técnicas de propaganda, informó el semanario alemán 'Der Spiegel'. |
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Mueren 41 personas en dos ataques con coches bomba en Bagdad (Jun 17 2004 18:59 GMT) - Al menos 41 personas murieron y 142 resultaron heridas al hacer explosión un coche bomba conducido por un suicida en Bagdad. El atentado fue perpetrado en la entrada de la antigua base aérea de Al Muzana, convertida en base militar estadounidense y centro de reclutamiento iraquí. Horas después, seis personas perdían la vida en otro ataque en un área situada al norte de esta capital. |
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El 30% de los españoles cree que perderá su trabajo en un año (Jun 17 2004 18:59 GMT) - Una tercera parte de los ciudadanos españoles cree que perderá su empleo en los próximos doce meses y el 60% considera que, en la actualidad, nadie tiene el puesto de trabajo asegurado. Los menos pesimistas, según un estudio, son los mayores de 60 años que, al ver más cerca la jubilación, les preocupa menos su situación laboral futura. |
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thunderbird update (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - Reclaim your inbox. Mozilla Thunderbird, 0.7 was released yesterday. Thunderbird is a full-featured e-mail and newsgroup client that makes e-mailing safer, faster and easier than ever before. geekSpeak .:. |
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Intel, Proxim Team Up For WiMAX (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - • Proxim, Intel to develop WiMax reference kit - “Intel and wireless equipment maker Proxim today said they would collaborate on the development of WiMAX kit for both ends of the broadband wireless link. The agreement echoes a similar pact signed between Intel and Alcatel last March to co-develop WiMAX (aka 802.16) equipment. Ultimately, Intel sees receivers being refined to the point where they can be installed inside computing devices themselves, allowing truly mobile broadband. It expects that to happen sometime in 2006. |
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Tablets Step Up (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - New Tablet PC applications could drive building industry’s use of wireless - “Up until now, I’ve been lukewarm about Tablet PCs. Not because a “digital clipboard” wouldn’t make sense for a home builder, but because there hadn’t been any applications for the Tablet PC that made it any better than a regular laptop—or, for that matter, an inexpensive PDA. That’s no longer the case. Field2Base has developed ConstructConnect software that may speed up the home building industry’s use of wireless computing for field communications and managing documents.” (Source: |
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Gates' 1991 Keynote on Pen Computing (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - • Gates' 1991 Keynote on Pen Computing - “...I thought the pen computing segment was so interesting that I transcribed it. Before I get to the transcript, let me set some context using some info pulled from the recording...Most people are running DOS on a 386 machine. In the year 1991 20 million DOS/Windows systems were sold, 2 million Apple systems, and 250,000 Sun computers. |
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Tablet PC Market to Grow, But Slowly (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - • Tablet PC Market Will Remain Partially Successful Until Prices Fall - “The effort put forth by Microsoft and its hardware partners to introduce the Tablet PC into horizontal and vertical commercial markets, has only been partly successful...A recent report from the high-tech market research firm reports that the device, which was designed to counteract sluggish commercial PC sales, has been adopted in vertical markets, such as health care, real estate, and insurance. However, horizontal commercial markets have been somewhat hesitant to adopt a new PC form factor in a world of slow-growing IT budgets.” (Source: Press Release) • Tablet PCs struggle for acceptance - “The much-hyped Tablet PC has enjoyed only limited success so far due to high prices and IT managers who are not willing to take a risk on the devices. |
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Tablet PC Application Catalog (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - Tablet PC Application Catalog - “We are building an ISV catalog for our Tablet ISV Partners - we encourage you to sign up by filling out the RFI that can be found at http://www. tabletpcpartners. net. Completing the RFI will provide us with the introduction we need in order to best help drive awareness of your products and services as well as open up addition benefits of the program as introduce them. |
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Tablet PC News (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - • Winona State University goes with 4,000 Gateway M275 Tablet PCs - “Winona State University, of Winona, Minn., has signed an agreement with Gateway, Inc. to standardize on Gateway M275 convertible tablets for its students, faculty and staff. The seven-year deal, which includes an initial two-year agreement and five, one-year extensions, will likely exceed $40 million over the length of the contract. Winona State will immediately rollout more than 4,000 Gateway M275 Tablet PCs for incoming freshmen, as well as current students, faculty and staff ready for a refresh of their existing notebooks. |
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Sony Vaio U Series Review (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - PDA Buyer's Guide has published the first Sony Vaio U series review. ": You may have read about the OQO and Vulcan Flipstart ultra-personal PCs, but Sony beat them to it, releasing the latest U series PCs. Imagine combining the form factor and touch screen of a PDA with a Windows XP notebook and you've got the U50 and U70 which feature Celeron and Centrino processors, enough RAM to get you working and ports to connect to your favorite peripherals. And don't forget the embedded WiFi 802. |
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Quote machine (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - Need a quote in the hurry about Florida politics? Who you gonna call? Usually Susan MacManus. "Find the Susan MacManus Quote" is something of a game for any regular reader of Florida political reportage. Myself, I'm rather more partial to Lance deHaven-Smith, but that's because I follow growth management issues and am more liberal. |
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exordium : La cour des salopes. (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - J'ai cru pouvoir jouer dans la cour des salopes, mais les looseuses n'y sont jamais acceptées. J'voulais croire gagner, croire à mes saloperies, mais j'suis une looseuse et les salopes gagnent toujours. (dire looseuse, j'adore) T'as beau regarder, en dessous, par derrière, quelque part, tu restes la même crasse. Asseyez-vous. Ca risque de prendre du temps. |
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albion : Eurosceptique (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - Je fais un bref retour sur les élections européennes de la semaine dernière. Je ne pensais pas que les résultats me décevraient autant. Au Royaume Uni le parti qui ressort vainqueur de ce vote est UK Independence. Un parti spécialemenr créé pour réclamer la sortie du RU de l'Union Européenne. Leur supporters sont classés dans les eurosceptiques qui ressortent bien postionnés de ces élections dans plusieurs pays de l'Union. |
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lotus : Trop de couleur (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - Bon lors de ma visite de ton joueb, j'ai trouvé qu'il y avait trop de rouge alors avec mon pote leftfield ont mis nos Sun glassessssss...... Et ça va beaucoup mieux |
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LED flashlight hack (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - Popular Science has a simple hack for replacing a flashlight's bulb with bright white light-emitting diodes. ... A flashlight ... hacked to use three 2300-millicandela LEDs will be as bright as an incandescent and last 5 to 10 times longer. Of course you can add up to 20 LEDs (as long as they fit in the reflector) if you're planning to, say, man a lighthouse with the thing. |
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How To Kill a Windows Network (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - The new and improved directory services integration in Panther Server make it almost effortless to bind a Mac server or client to a Windows Active Directory system. So effortless, in fact, that with two clicks and a splash of ignorance, I broke an entire network. Here's how. |
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Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone Sanyo PM-8200 Review (Jun 17 2004 18:57 GMT) - PC Magazine reviews the Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone PM-8200 by Sanyo (whew!), and minor update to the PM-8200 that adds a VGA-quality camera and Ready Link, Sprint's Push-to-Talk feature. Of course, to use Ready Link, both parties will have to have a Sanyo phone, so that may or may not be that hot of a selling point for you yet. The camera sucks, too, but what did you expect out of a VGA-quality clunker these days? Sanyo phones are solid, but the PM-8200 is probably a little too pedestrian f... |
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