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News archive: 19th of July 2008 |
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With the latest update for the Daylite Productivity Suite, Marketcircle gives potential Mac "switchers" more reasons to make the leap from Microsoft's OS to Apple's. Alykhan Jetha, Marketcircle's CEO, was kind enough to answer a few questions regarding the switch to Mac in small businesses.Daylite 3.7.... |
19 July 2008
09:59 GMT |
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Many people are frustrated with the enormous amount of money they have to pay for their mortgage. The least lucky of them already lost all of their belongings, and putting the blame on the mortgage brokers seems like it eases the pain. Two websites railed against the industry by promoting materials that don't sp... |
19 July 2008
08:24 GMT |
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Apple's Mighty Mouse is probably the best mouse ever made. It has multiple programmable functions that are intuitive, it's easy to get accustomed to, and downright a pleasure to use. There's only one problem that has always been reported regarding the little rascal: its scroll-ball gets clogged up with... |
19 July 2008
08:07 GMT |
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We've recently spotted a Sony Ericsson concept that can surely be categorized as one of the most extravagant potential mobile phones ever designed. This new virtual handset is named Sony Ericsson French Luxury, or Sony Ericsson FL, and is made to celebrate the July 14 French National Day, also known as Bastille ... |
19 July 2008
07:57 GMT |
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As online threats grow in number more and more each day, it is important to stay as safe and secure as possible: networks must be monitored, security solutions put in place and enforced, data encrypted and protected. But selecting a password for your software programs or encrypted data is not as simple as using your ... |
19 July 2008
07:51 GMT |
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I think we will agree when I say that everything in this world revolves around communication, irrespective of the form it takes. The fantastic spring of telephony, the jump of Internet messengers, and basically any technology that enables easier and cheaper long-distance communication are all arguments that cannot be... |
19 July 2008
07:39 GMT |
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Yahoo!'s stockholders who still haven't decided whether they will use their white or gold proxy card are given a strong hint. Yahoo! has just modified its webpage in order to prevent the change of the current board of directors, due to the implication of the activist investor Carl Icahn. At the bottom of th... |
19 July 2008
07:22 GMT |
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The Crookes radiometer is a light mill consisting of a set of fins placed on a spindle that rotates inside a partially vacuumed glass bulb when exposed to light. The rotation speed is directly related with the intensity of the electromagnetic radiation, while the rotation direction depends on the temperature of the e... |
19 July 2008
07:08 GMT |
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It seems that no airplane could land at Dublin airport recently, because the ATC (Air Traffic Control) could not track them. The airport had to be shut down until the problem could be identified and remedied accordingly. It was discovered that a faulty network card was the cause of the whole incident.The Irish Aviat... |
19 July 2008
06:57 GMT |
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LG Mobile Phones has recently announced a new partnership with the VH1 Save The Music Foundation and the pop star Natasha Bedingfield. The young English singer and songwriter has donated a live version of "Angel", a song from her latest album, Pocketful Of Sunshine, for the creation of an exclusive mobile ringtone. ... |
19 July 2008
06:39 GMT |
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According to an agreement between laptop manufacturer Toshiba and Symantec, company that specializes in providing security software solutions, all laptop models produced by the previously mentioned manufacturer and distributed in North and South America, will come with Norton 360 and Norton Internet Security 2008 in... |
19 July 2008
06:17 GMT |
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Facebook's popularity makes some take on the recipe without worrying about copyrights, hoping that the benefits will outrun the risks. This did not prove very efficient for StudiVZ, a German social network for students whose "look, feel, features and services" are incredibly similar to Facebook's, as the co... |
19 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Images provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the collision between Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the Third Red Spot has all but destroyed the latter. All that was left behind was only a deformed and pale structure that is likely to be sucked completely into the giant anticyclone that has been... |
19 July 2008
05:54 GMT |
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Motorola ZN5 is one of the next high-end phones that T-Mobile USA apparently intends to release. This will surely make lots of its customers happy, as the ZN5 is one of the coolest handsets from Moto's 2008 line-up. Of course, the release of Motorola ZN5 has not yet been confirmed by T-Mobile but, according to... |
19 July 2008
05:33 GMT |
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A court of law has found Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former employee of industry giant Microsoft, guilty of embezzling approximately $1 million. Consequently, she was sentenced to 22 months incarceration time but, after she is done serving her time, she will continue to be closely supervised for a period of three years... |
19 July 2008
05:18 GMT |
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After successfully launching the GT200 65nm, branded as GTX 280 / 260, Nvidia is moving on to the next target, which would be the launch of the 55nm version of the GT200 chip. The Santa Clara company should rush the new chip to the market to provide a powerful competitor to AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2. The R700 crea... |
19 July 2008
05:07 GMT |
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Yahoo!'s Search market share is presented very differently by the two major companies that have conducted studies regarding the number of American people who performed searches in June. According to comScore, 20.9% of the users resorted to Yahoo! with their queries. However, Nielsen Online says that only 16.6% p... |
19 July 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Yet another exploding star was discovered in the Milky Way galaxy by Europe's X-ray space observatory, XMM-Newton, during a slew survey. It should have been spotted several days before the actual discovery by the thousands of astronomers throughout the world. According to estimations, the event should have been ... |
19 July 2008
04:41 GMT |
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The UK has recently proposed the creation of a so-called "super database" with the purpose of logging information about every telephone call, text message, and e-mail sent. The thing is that, over the past four years, from 2004 up to this day, the MoD (Ministry of Defense) has officially admitted to losing a total of... |
19 July 2008
04:39 GMT |
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It's safe to say that most of us believe that the rivalry between the two biggest chip manufacturers is pretty much real and intense. Over time, countless words have been spent on said rivalry, all of them claiming that big players like NVIDIA and ATI have never seen eye to eye. But they do say that, more often ... |
19 July 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Not long after unveiling the upcoming release of the new Walkman handsets (July 22 is the awaited date), Sony Ericsson has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2008, which are far from being great. The Swedish-Japanese joint venture reports a net profit of only 6 million Euros for Q2 2008, with 9... |
19 July 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Although the competition between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel is tight and spans across many areas of the computer industry, their products seem to get along quite well when put inside the same system. That's why Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's largest PC makers, has on display a lot of notebooks th... |
19 July 2008
04:20 GMT |
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On July 7, eighteen tons of uranium solution containing natural uranium have been accidentally released in the surrounding environment from one of the containment tanks of the Tricastin nuclear power plant, southern France, leading to the contamination of the ground with about 75 kilograms of unenriched nuclear mater... |
19 July 2008
03:26 GMT |
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