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Jan. 18th, 2007 @ 06:50 am Will 2007 be the year for XO? 

Will 2007 be the year for XO? 
p2pnet.net - Jan 02 4:30 AM
OLPC is on the waySave

Logitech's Madame X 
PC Magazine via Yahoo! News - Jan 05 3:11 AM
Like John Singer Sargent's portrait, the X-240 speakers are dressed in black and look pretty good.Save

Oh Sh*t, Xbox 360 H@ck3d! 
XBOX365 - Jan 01 3:47 PM
Or is it? This video popped up recently showing what claims to be a hacked Xbox 360 running Linux. The person showing it off is well-hidden behind a hoody so that he cannot be found by the Microsoft Spec Ops team (and believe me, they do exist).Save

Angel Links 
Anime News Network - Dec 22 1:03 AM
Change is in the air at the Links Group, and everyone's life seems to be at a turning point. A shipment is stolen right outside the gate of the Links Group, and Meifon is determined to get it back.Save
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Jan. 18th, 2007 @ 02:43 am Lenovo may cut PC prices in China

Lenovo may cut PC prices in China
China Daily - Personal computer sales in China, the world's second-biggest PC market, will rise 16 percent to $15.1 billion this year, compared with a 6 percent gain to $67.4 billion in the U.S., according to researcher IDC. Lenovo will seek growth in the

Hackers look to crack Mac
CNN - Apple accounted for 3.3 percent of total U.S. computer sales in 2004, and for 4.3 percent in 2005, according to technology research firm International Data Corporation. Experts say these low numbers, and the unlikelihood that Apple's share will ever

For electronics, holiday season may be more ho-hum than ho-ho
Akron Beacon Journal - It didn't help either, when Microsoft Corp. delayed the release of its new Windows Vista operating system until late January, potentially stubbing holiday computer sales. Well-known Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg even advised
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Jan. 17th, 2007 @ 06:38 pm Review: Tesco Personal Finance personal finance software 

Review: Tesco Personal Finance personal finance software 
Computer Active - 46 minutes ago
After enjoying Tescos Photorestyle software, we were confident that its budget bookkeeping cousin, would equally impress us. Easy to install and licenses for two computers, Tesco Personal Finance also comes with a password security option to keep sensitive accounting figures private.Save

New laptop computers keep sheriffs deputies rolling 
The Ironton Tribune - Jan 16 7:58 AM
Lawrence County Sheriffs deputies have a new piece of technology riding with them these days while theyre on patrol. The office acquired four new Panasonic Toughbooks laptop computers late last year. The laptops are mounted in cruisers and are used to prepare reports in the field.Save

Hearth To Hearth 
The Cape Cod Chronicle - 8 minutes ago
Most of us enjoy love/hate relationships with our computers. Mine started 39 years ago in boarding school. Our school was privileged to be one of the first on-line with the Dartmouth computer, a premier model connecting collegiate and educational institutions.Save

Chili library to get new computers 
Gates-Chili Post - 36 minutes ago
The library board will purchase 35 new computers and possibly some laptops later, thanks to state funding.Save
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Jan. 17th, 2007 @ 02:31 pm The Best & Worst of 2006

The Best & Worst of 2006
BusinessWeek - Search 25,000 New Openings each month. GMAC Bank Student Loans   Up to 40,000 a Year – defer payment until after graduation Durable Notebook Computer Sale   Free Carrying Case & 2 Year Warranty Upgrade with Durabook Purchase. Durabook notebook

Tech Data Financing Gives Small VARs A Boost
CRN - As 2007 gets under way, Tech Data's financing initiatives with IBM and Sony are helping the distributor's small partners take on big deals. Columbus, Ohio, solution provider XTEK had a potential desktop computer sale to a local law firm but couldn't

Wasn't Dell supposed to dominate the LAN market by now?
Computerworld Australia - The company has used Dell servers and workstations for many years, and the switches were first purchased as an add-on to a larger computer sale, Bury says. He found gear that cost less and was easier to use than the Cisco switches already installed.

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Jan. 17th, 2007 @ 10:17 am Computer Telephony Integration: From the Internet to the Desktop, In

Computer Telephony Integration: From the Internet to the Desktop, In
IT-Analysis.com - CTI is the technology at the core of the modern call center. It integrates not just the organizationÆs computer and telephone systems; it integrates the applications to make every phone call, inbound and outbound, smarter. And although the most

Singapore sentences WiFi pirate
Australian IT - According to a court document, Tan secured access at about 2:00 am on May 13 last year to a wireless router belonging to a person identified as Amos Leong "for the purpose of obtaining computer service" and specifically for internet access. Tan

Sony ships 1 mln PS3s in Japan,seen missing target
Reuters - Sony's game unit, Sony Computer Entertainment, said in a statement its global PS3 shipments reached 2 million in about two months after the launch, compared with its original target to hit the figure by the end of December. Sony launched the new video
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Jan. 17th, 2007 @ 02:00 am Western Massachusetts Residents to Benefit From Verizon Wireless

Western Massachusetts Residents to Benefit From Verizon Wireless
MSN MoneyCentral - Test vehicles are equipped with computers that automatically make more than 750,000 voice call attempts and more than 4 million data tests quarterly on the Verizon Wireless network and the networks of other carriers. About Verizon Wireless

Netflix launches 1,000-title online movie feature
Reuters - Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc (NFLX.O: Quote , Profile , Research ) is unveiling its long-awaited online movie delivery service which allows subscribers to watch about 1,000 movies and television shows on their personal computers at no
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Jan. 16th, 2007 @ 09:50 am In what do we trust?

In what do we trust?
Hong Kong Standard - I can access information freely and write articles that can go around the world largely through having access to cheap computer technology. Much of it is made in the mainland, where many do not have the same access to information or to the same
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Jan. 16th, 2007 @ 01:33 am Online Press Release

Online Press Release
PRWeb - Guaranteed Without Trace From Any Computer." New private and secure membership site protects the privacy and reputation of both men and women surfers online from any computer in the world. - 2004-03-17 Online Maternity Store Right for Every

Get Arts and Entertainment Feeds
Summit Daily News - It's 2007, and you've undoubtedly made several new resolutions. While you're at it, be sure not to neglect your computer. The following are six resolutions to keep your computer happy and healthy throughout the year! • Give your old computer new

Ahead of the Bell: Apple Computer
MSN MoneyCentral - NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Apple Computer Inc. climbed in the premarket session Tuesday before the opening of the MacWorld show, where the company is expected to unveil products, among which -- possibly_ an Apple-branded cellular phone. Shares added

After Years of Temporary Homes, One to Call Her Own
New York Times - Ugas, a caseworker in the post legal adoption program at New Alternatives for Children, wrote a letter to The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund explaining her need for a computer. New Alternatives for Children is a member of the Federation of
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Jan. 15th, 2007 @ 09:24 pm Micro Industries Debuts Next Generation of In-Store, Interactive

Micro Industries Debuts Next Generation of In-Store, Interactive
Consumer Electronics Net - NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- Micro Industries(R)today released computer products and related software that together offer consumers real-time access to relevant information about their purchases. The products introduced at the National Retail

Governor's Budget Ups Pay, Student Fees
UCSD Guardian - Part of the proposal will fund a petascale computer, a $200-million university project which will build the most powerful computer in the world. "[The computer] will provide an enormous competitive advantage to California businesses and

Virtual fashion: Designer find customers - and, for some, real profits
Newsday - He'd often fiddle on the computer with paint programs, add graphics to digital photos or jazz up signs for the store. Women's fashion interested him, too, but he couldn't imagine participating in it. Till now. "The computer allows me to express my
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Jan. 15th, 2007 @ 05:14 pm Virtual fashion: Designer find customers - and, for some, real profits

Virtual fashion: Designer find customers - and, for some, real profits
Newsday - He'd often fiddle on the computer with paint programs, add graphics to digital photos or jazz up signs for the store. Women's fashion interested him, too, but he couldn't imagine participating in it. Till now. "The computer allows me to express my
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Jan. 15th, 2007 @ 09:01 am Gold Fundamentals 

Gold Fundamentals 
GoldSeek.com - Dec 22 10:22 AM
In this frenetic world of ours, we spend most of our time trapped under the tyranny of the present. The urgent preempts the important and life is a mad dash from one activity to the next with little opportunity for reflection.Save

Will 2007 be the year for XO? 
p2pnet.net - Jan 02 4:30 AM
OLPC is on the waySave
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Jan. 15th, 2007 @ 12:50 am Hackers look to crack Mac

Hackers look to crack Mac
CNN - Apple accounted for 3.3 percent of total U.S. computer sales in 2004, and for 4.3 percent in 2005, according to technology research firm International Data Corporation. Experts say these low numbers, and the unlikelihood that Apple's share will ever

In a New York minute, Vista, Office 2007 debut
TMCnet - That could result in billions of dollars in delayed computer sales. Microsoft and its partners in the computer industry, many of which were on hand Thursday, are walking a tightrope with the business launch. By making too big a marketing splash with
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Jan. 14th, 2007 @ 04:41 pm Macs on the Rebound

Macs on the Rebound
Inside Higher Ed - They are not trying to create a cheap computer to match Dell’s cheapest computer. They are not trying to get all Dell users to move to mac. If you look at all those macbook ads and feel only scorn, you’re not in the target audience. If what you

press box
Slate - Craig Newmark has wrought on the newspaper industry's $15 billion classified ad market with his good idea and a cluster of cheap computer servers illustrates the sort of dislocations in store for the editorial side of publications. ***** I'd also

A tough job for Schwab
Hong Kong Standard - There is a basic paradox inherent in what I do each working day: I can access information freely and write articles that can go around the world largely through having access to cheap computer technology. Much of it is made in the mainland, where

In defense of freedom
Hong Kong Standard - I can access information freely and write articles that can go around the world largely through having access to cheap computer technology. Much of it is made in the mainland, where many do not have the same access to information or to the same
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Jan. 14th, 2007 @ 12:40 pm Tech Data Financing Gives Small VARs A Boost

Tech Data Financing Gives Small VARs A Boost
CRN - As 2007 gets under way, Tech Data's financing initiatives with IBM and Sony are helping the distributor's small partners take on big deals. Columbus, Ohio, solution provider XTEK had a potential desktop computer sale to a local law firm but couldn't
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Jan. 14th, 2007 @ 12:33 am Ex-Head of MCSi Pleads Not Guilty 

Ex-Head of MCSi Pleads Not Guilty 
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Dec 19 5:12 AM
The former head of MCSi Inc., a now-defunct computer sales company that once had more than 1,300 employees worldwide, has pleaded not guilty to securities fraud and other charges.Save

Small town leads Chilean WiFi revolution 
AAP via Yahoo!7 News - Jan 07 5:42 PM
Salamanca, 316 km north of the Chilean capital Santiago, has become Chile's first WiFi town.Save

Vista renews PC industry hopes 
Sharewatch - Dec 15 9:04 AM
Consider the personal computer. Even as PCs have developed insane levels of memory and power, enabling fantastic storehouses of videos and photos, the machines themselves have gotten less exciting. Owning a PC once felt like dipping a toe in the future.Save

Jobs Is Focus of Apple Questions 
RedNova - Dec 29 2:11 PM
By Alan Sipress and Mike Musgrove, WashingtonSave
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Jan. 13th, 2007 @ 12:30 pm Computer Security Institute (CSI) and Cenzic to Host Application Security Web Seminar 

Computer Security Institute (CSI) and Cenzic to Host Application Security Web Seminar 
[Press Release] Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jan 12 8:30 AM
Cenzic, Inc., the leading provider of application security assessment and risk management solutions, and the Computer Security Institute will be hosting a Web seminar with industry luminaries to help IT organizations prevent the latest web application attacks and vulnerabilities. As new hacks against web applications continue to proliferate each day, this panel of application security experts ...Save

Private detective pleads guilty in HP boardroom spying case 
AFP via Yahoo! News - Jan 12 2:53 PM
A private detective pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining a news reporter's telephone records as part of a company-sanctioned hunt for a boardroom leak at computer maker Hewlett-Packard.Save
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Jan. 13th, 2007 @ 12:11 am Chip Stock Plays For 2007

Chip Stock Plays For 2007
Forbes - Personal computer sales, which have been sluggish, could see a boost as Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) rolls out its Vista operating system in February, possibly putting to rest consumer concerns over which machines will
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Jan. 12th, 2007 @ 04:10 pm Open-Source Spying

Open-Source Spying
New York Times - Dizard III, a writer with Government Computer News who has covered federal technology issues for two decades, he said, “You have all these little barons at N.S.A. and C.I.A. and whatever, and a lot of people think they’re not going to do what the

Apple shares fall on stock options probe worries, new questions about
TMCnet - Shares of Apple Computer ( News - Alert ) Inc. had another wild ride Thursday after new details of a federal investigation into the company's stock options practices raised questions about the role played by its charismatic CEO, Steve Jobs ( News
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Jan. 12th, 2007 @ 08:00 am Former MCSi CEO pleads not guilty to 26 federal charges 

Former MCSi CEO pleads not guilty to 26 federal charges 
Dayton Daily News - Dec 19 12:12 AM
DAYTON Michael E. Peppel, freed on $250,000 bond and represented by a federal public defender, pleaded not guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to 26 criminal charges stemming from the demise of MCSi, a computer sales firm, that went bankrupt in 2003.Save

Computer makers, program creators pin hopes on Microsoft's Windows Vista 
The Salt Lake Tribune - Dec 31 11:05 PM
Sometimes the march of technology can lull us to sleep. Consider the personal computer. Even as P.C.s have developed insane levels of memory and power, enabling fantastic storehouses of videos and photos, the machines themselves have gotten less exciting. Owning a P.C. once felt like dipping a toe in the future. Now the device is as revolutionary as a refrigerator. So for many buyers, ...Save

(AFX UK Focus) 2006-12-15 02:48 GMT: Ex-head of MCSi indicted for fraud 
Interactive Investor - Dec 14 7:23 PM
DAYTON, Ohio (AFX) - The former head of MCSi Inc., a now-defunct computer sales company that once had more than 1,300 employees worldwide, was arrested Thursday and accused of securities fraud involving tens of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors said.Save
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Jan. 12th, 2007 @ 12:00 am Tech Data Financing Gives Small VARs A Boost

Tech Data Financing Gives Small VARs A Boost
CRN - As 2007 gets under way, Tech Data's financing initiatives with IBM and Sony are helping the distributor's small partners take on big deals. Columbus, Ohio, solution provider XTEK had a potential desktop computer sale to a local law firm but couldn't

The Best & Worst of 2006
BusinessWeek - Search 25,000 New Openings each month. GMAC Bank Student Loans   Up to 40,000 a Year – defer payment until after graduation Durable Notebook Computer Sale   Free Carrying Case & 2 Year Warranty Upgrade with Durabook Purchase. Durabook notebook

Wasn't Dell supposed to dominate the LAN market by now?
Computerworld Australia - The company has used Dell servers and workstations for many years, and the switches were first purchased as an add-on to a larger computer sale, Bury says. He found gear that cost less and was easier to use than the Cisco switches already installed.
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