1. '05 RTC Annual Conference
    The Rural Telecommunications Congress and Connect Kentucky, the host of Rural Telecon ‘05’, are pleased to announce that on-line registration for the conference is now open. The Rural Telecommunications Congress (RTC) is a national membership org...
  2. A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank
    It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility....
  3. A Maker of Games Is Bought
    Electronic Arts, the video game publisher, said it had reached a $680 million deal to acquire Jamdat Mobile, which makes games to be played on mobile phones....
  4. A Podcast Package to Make the World Your Stage, or Not
    The Podcast Factory kit from M-Audio includes everything a podcaster needs to make professional-sounding productions....
  5. A Variation on the Picture Frame for Showing Off Digital Photos
    The Digital Photo Display from Philips is an easy option for showing off photos at home....
  6. AOL Boosts Web Search for Cell Phones
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  7. AOL Co-Founder Calls for Split of Time Warner
    Stephen M. Case is aligning himself with the thinking of the financier Carl C. Icahn, who controls 3 percent of Time Warner's shares....
  8. AOL Deal May Omit Stake Sale
    Time Warner's negotiations with Microsoft and Google mostly do not involve either company's buying a stake in AOL....
  9. AOL Releases StandAlone Security App
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  10. AOL testing PC remote access service based on WebEx
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  11. AOpen Readies YonahBased Mini PC
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  12. Adobe's Deal for Macromedia May Help It Fend Off Microsoft
    Adobe Systems' $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia cements its dominant position in the market for electronic document management....
  13. Advertising: New Caution on Spending This Year; Web Spared
    Forecasters of advertising spending have turned cautious in their predictions for most media, except - not surprisingly - the Internet....
  14. Agilent unveils test software for mobile WiMAX
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  15. Among Makers of Memory Chips for Gadgets, Fierce Scrum Takes Shape
    Toshiba is battling Samsung Electronics for control of the market for the advanced memory chips at the heart of portable music devices like the Apple iPod Nano....
  16. Amsterdam Gets Active With FTTH.
    Light Reading: Amsterdam Gets Active With FTTH. That's a lot of switch ports....
  17. At Google, Cube Culture Has New Rules
    Google, like I.B.M., says it is forging a corporate culture in which success depends on performance. But rather than revamping its social contract with workers, Google is writing one from scratch....
  18. At Traditional Phone Companies, Jobs May Not Last a Lifetime
    Traditional phone companies are moving from vast and costly networks to new, cheaper technologies that require fewer workers....
  19. Attackers targeting unpatched IE bug Microsoft warns
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  20. Basics: Home Network 2.0: Synchronized Computing
    Making the same files accessible from computer to computer at home does not mean you need a centralized server or a big budget....
  21. Basics: In Judging DVD Players, Performance Is in Details
    High-end DVD players may offer the best in audio and visual quality, but you can often get a lot for quite a bit less....
  22. BlackBerry Patent Case Is Nearer Showdown
    Research In Motion moved closer to a showdown with NTP over BlackBerry service after a court dismissed its request to impose a failed settlement agreement....
  23. Branson in Talks to Sell Stake in Cellphone Unit
    Sir Richard Branson is in talks to sell his stake in Virgin Mobile's British business to NTL, a British cable and phone provider....
  24. Bye Bye BlackBerry?
    A long-running patent infringement battle between the maker of BlackBerry, Research In Motion, and NTP, a tiny patent holding company, might cause a service shutdown....
  25. CHEOPS RPMs available
    SuSE source and binary RPMs are now available for CHEOPS. CHEOPS (CHEss OPponent Simulator) is a fully-functional AI chess program capable of human vs. human, human vs. computer, and computer vs. computer play....
  26. Can This Man Reprogram Microsoft?
    Bill Gates is counting on Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft eight months ago, to help the company tackle Google....
  27. Cellphones Straight Out of the Prop Department
    Hulger makes cellphone handsets that wouldn't be out of place in a 1930's screwball comedy....
  28. Cisco IOS security hole surfaces in Web server code
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  29. Cities Question Cost of Hybrid Cars
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  30. Companies to build IPv6 test center
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  31. Critical RealPlayer Flaw Flagged
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  32. DLink bolsters line of SMB security products
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  33. David Pogue: A Camera That Has It All? Well, Almost
    Sony's approach to innovation has produced the R1, a camera that shatters a longstanding law of digital photography and takes spectacular photos....
  34. David Pogue: Upload, Store, Play and Share in a Few Clicks
    Glide Effortless allows you to upload files to a personal Web site without requiring too much geeky know-how....
  35. Digital Photo Printing Easier Cheaper
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  36. Directions: A United Nations of Weird-Looking Sketches
    A Web site takes online search terms and invites visitors to collaborate in turning them into group art....
  37. Directions: Robot Rock
    Thanks to Beck's new video, QRIO, a robot manufactured by Sony, is now a rising cyberstar....
  38. Distinguishing Startcom From Livecom
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  39. DivX offers Mac video encoding software
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  40. Do Hybrid Cars Really Mean Big Savings at the Pump
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  41. E-Commerce Report: Is That Item Sold Out? Know Before You Go
    Being able to check the Internet to see whether certain local stores have particular items in stock seems a marriage made in shopping heaven, but analysts caution that the wedding date may be a long way off....
  42. Educated Guesswork has a report on the user interface of open access Internet service with structural separation.
    Educated Guesswork has a report on the user interface of open access Internet service with structural separation....
  43. Email crucial to future of desktop Linux
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  44. Europe Expected to Require Keeping of Phone-Call Data
    Legislation would require telecommunications companies to keep details on their clients' phone calls, faxes and e-mail messages to combat terrorism....
  45. Executive Pursuits : A Cellphone Just Made to Be Run Over by a Porsche
    Sure your handset has a bunch of functions, but does it have a call button for the concierge?...
  46. External Speakers Small Enough to Fit in a Purse
    Weighing just over two ounces, Zelco's TriPod lets you share music stored on MP3 players....
  47. Firefox revisions boost user experience
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  48. Flash! This Just In: Close-Up Lighting, and It's Wireless
    The R1 Wireless Close-Up Speedlight System from Nikon provides a flash for picture-taking at unconventional distances....
  49. Flash chips for cheaper handhelds
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  50. Flaw Found in SQL Server 2000 Profiler
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  51. For the Children
    by Francis Cullooyah "For the Children". The Kalispel Tribe has taken this message to heart. The Kalispel Tribe located in Usk Washington has a long history of community. ... Half way through the last year of our Technology Opportunities......
  52. Fox defends home video model sees digital future
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  53. French media groups eye satellite TV venture
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  54. GPP RPMs available
    SuSE source and binary RPMs are now available for GPP. GPP is a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax, suitable for a wide range of preproces...
  55. GPP ports for FreeBSD and Mac OS X available
    A web search has revealed some third-party ports of GPP to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Links to these ports are now available on GPP's home page. (GPP is a general-purpose GStreamer 0.10
    Open source multimedia framework GStreamer 0.10 was released. This is like the Unix equivalent of QuickTime....
  56. Glaser turns wrath on Apple Jobs
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  57. Gone Spear-Phishin'
    A new kind of fraud, dubbed "spear-phishing," has emerged and raised alarms among the digital world's watchdogs....
  58. Google Adds Virus Protection To Gmail
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  59. Google Calendar said to be close to launch
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  60. Google Fixes Desktop Search Loophole
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  61. HP Dreamworks promote virtual meetings with Halo
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  62. Hackers publish two more Windows attacks
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  63. HarperCollins Will Create a Searchable Digital Library
    HarperCollins's decision to put all of its book and audio content online is the latest move in the battle between publishers and search engines....
  64. Home network 20 Synchronized computing
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  65. Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way
    Specialists estimate that 6 percent to 10 percent of the approximately 189 million Internet users in this country have Internet addictions....
  66. Hosted EMail IM Service Providers Offer Archiving
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  67. How to go from office equipment to WISP in a few easy steps
    Marlon K. SchaferOwner Odessa Office Equipment(509) 982-2181 Well, I've FINALLY had time to sit still and write the story of how I started my WISP. Back in '96 while I was working on copiers and other assorted office machinery I......
  68. IBM introduces selfhealing data center software
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  69. ICANN Gives Tentative OK on asia Domain
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  70. ICTs in Rural Community Development
    by Corry Bregendahl, Research Associate, NCRCRC-Iowa State University While the notion of rural often conjures up singular images of remote places with small and scattered populations, rural areas are anything but homogenous. Some are racially and cu...
  71. IE Design Flaw Lets Hacker Crack Google Desktop
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  72. Intel AMD Believe in the Power of Four
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  73. Intel Narrows Sales Forecast for Quarter
    The Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker, said Thursday that its fourth-quarter revenue would meet the midpoint of its expectations....
  74. Intel Research Shows Compound Boosts Chip Performance
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  75. Intel Unveils Viiv Label Partnerships
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  76. Intel Working with Companies in Entertainment Push
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  77. Intel and J.P. Morgan Chase to Expand Indian Operations
    The two companies will outsource significant operations to India, an indication that more complex high-value work is moving there....
  78. Intel tips intelligent fab automation
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  79. Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall.
    Rob Pike, Sean Dorward, Robert Griesemer, Sean Quinlan: Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall. Looks like Bell Labs is reconstituting itself inside Google....
  80. LMI Team Assesses Central Asian Republics
    by by Steve Rynecki, Senior Program Officer dot-ORG/RITI Access Project Academy for Educational Development www.aed.org www.dot-com-alliance.org In April 2005, Last Mile Coordinators Michael Tetelman and Steve Rynecki of AED's dot-ORG team conducted ...
  81. LinkSys courts Linux hackers with WRT54G"L".
    LinuxDevices: LinkSys courts Linux hackers with WRT54G"L"....
  82. Linksys WiFi Rivals Fast Ethernet
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  83. Live Tracking of Mobile Phones Prompts Court Fights on Privacy
    In recent years, law enforcement officials have turned to cellular technology for monitoring the movements of individuals....
  84. Looking for the Proceeds in TV-on-Demand
    As an era of ordering TV shows at the push of a button gets under way, new challenges are clouding the landscape in the year ahead....
  85. MP3tunes
    Michael Robertson's company MP3tunes lauched their "Oboe" Web-based music locker. I suspect Apple will kill their iTunes plugin almost as fast as they shut down Madison Avenue faces Google fears
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  86. Media Frenzy: Satellite Radio: Out of the Car and Under Fire
    Portable receivers show how far satellite has come, but they also show how far all media businesses have to go to fulfill their digital potential....
  87. Microsoft Office 12 Big Changes Big Learning Curve
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  88. Microsoft Planning IE7 Security Zone Lockdowns
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  89. Microsoft Updates Collaboration Services
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  90. Microsoft launches antivirus service
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  91. Microsoft lets consumers try new security service
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  92. Microsoft to start testing new Messenger
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  93. Microsoft to test featurecomplete Vista by early 2006
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  94. Mike Hearn figured out over a year ago that desktop Linux is being held back by cultural differences that separate application developers from their users.
    Mike Hearn figured out over a year ago that desktop Linux is being held back by cultural differences that separate application developers from their users. The solution (do thin...
  95. Mobile WiMax standard approved
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  96. Mongolia: Last Mile Initiative
    by Darrell Owen The focus of this Mongolia LMI Assessment was to identify and evaluate potential opportunities for expanding rural telecommunications access in Mongolia. This assessment took into account the USAID Mission's programmatic components as...
  97. More teTeX RPMs available
    My directory of teTeX RPMs has been significantly expanded and updated. All packages are now built by hand rather than using an automated p...
  98. Mozilla claims Firefox 15 hole poses minor risk
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  99. Mozilla issues Firefox alert
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  100. NEC develops paperthin mobile battery
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  101. NEC reportedly develops 55nano technology
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  102. New Ogg Vorbis music files available
    Full-length, high-quality Ogg Vorbis files of my "Theme from M.U.L.E." and "Eleanor Rigby" remixes are now available for download....
  103. New Set of Servers Announced by Sun
    Sun Microsystems announced a set of new computer servers that use less energy and cost far less than their predecessors....
  104. New Web Virus Chats With User Before Attacking
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  105. New attack targets known Mozilla bug
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  106. Next Windows Vista CTP Coming in December
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  107. Nissan Paint Repairs Itself
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  108. Nokia Intros Trio of 3G Phones
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  109. Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese
    Affluent online gamers are paying workers at Chinese game-playing factories to play games' early rounds for them....
  110. Online Shopper: A Universe Under Glass Proves Out of Reach
    It is possible to find anything on the Internet, including a Victorian terrarium....
  111. Online Shopper: No Mere Babe in Toyland
    My approach for shopping for children is to look for reasonably priced items that will keep them quiet for very long periods....
  112. Online scammers go spearphishing
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  113. Open-Source Browser's New Version Comes Loaded With Options
    The Firefox Web browser has graduated from its hacker roots and turned into an easily customizable browser that anyone can use....
  114. OpenVZ
    OpenVZ is a virtualization layer for Linux similar to Linux-VServer or Solaris Zones that runs multiple virtual machines on a single kernel....
  115. Photographer Turned Business Man—Washington Assistive Technology Foundation's Telework Fund at Work
    By, Hillary Rossi Don Schluter is the founder of a digital imaging / photography / teaching / web design business called Natural Settings Digital Imaging and Design. http://www2.localaccess.com/naturalsettings/ Don has a great story to tell about how...
  116. Pixel Canvas: The Gamer as Artiste
    Video play occupies more and more of American imaginative life. Can games move people emotionally or intellectually in the manner of great art?...
  117. Plan for an 'iPod Tax' in Japan Unravels
    A plan to charge an "iPod tax," or royalties on portable digital music players, unraveled after a government committee failed to reach agreement on the measure....
  118. Podcast Hijacker Says Business as Usual
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  119. Popular Internet Telephone Service Adds Video to Voice
    Skype has already attracted millions of fans with its free Internet phone service. Now it's adding a new feature: video calls....
  120. Prize in Indian Talent Search Is a Year on Bill Gates's Team
    Bill Gates announced a contest to identify promising software students in India, offering as top prize an internship with his technical team for a year....
  121. Q. & A.: Playback Problems With DVD's
    Why won't DVD's that I burned on my computer play on the DVD player connected to my TV?...
  122. Q. & A.: Saving Clicks in Windows XP
    Is there a way to open files in Windows XP with just one mouse click instead of clicking on everything twice?...
  123. REVIEW Latest IMac Offers Remote Control
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  124. RealNetworks moves Rhapsody to the Web
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  125. Rewriting History: Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar
    The question of Wikipedia, as of so much of what you find online, is: Can you trust it?...
  126. Ruling for Maker of BlackBerry
    Research In Motion won a second ruling from the United States Patent and Trademark Office over one of the patents at the center of a dispute over its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device....
  127. Save the Date
    When:October 19, 2005 from 10a to 4:30p Where:Ellensburg, Washington - Kittitas County Fairgrounds This all-day meeting will be the first Communities Connect meeting to which all persons in Washington State who are interested in Community Technology ...
  128. Security firms warn of new Microsoft threats
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  129. Settlement Rejected in BlackBerry Case
    The patent holding company NTP Inc. rejected an offer by Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, to settle their patent dispute and the two sides are not negotiating....
  130. Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems.
    Micah Sherr, Eric Cronin, Sandy Clark and Matt Blaze: Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems. "The vulnerabilities allow a party to a wiretapped call to disable content recording and c...
  131. Skype 20 Offers Free Video Calling
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  132. Skype under scrutiny for bugs
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  133. Sober Worm Code Algorithm Cracked
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  134. Sober worm stalls MSN Hotmail
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  135. SoberY Computer Virus Affecting Users
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  136. Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Review.
    Digital Photography Review: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Review. If you've been really good this year....
  137. Sony closes in on new program to cleanse PCs
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  138. Sony rootkit CDs had designs on iPod
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  139. Steven Bellovin clearly explains why NAT has no benefits at all over a regular firewall in an IPv6 world
    On the Interesting People list Steven Bellovin clearly explains why NAT has no benefits at all over a regular firewall in an IPv6 world. This eliminates ...
  140. SuSE RPMs for sam2p and tif22pnm
    RPMs for sam2p, a bitmap to PostScript/PDF converter, and tif22pnm, a TIFF/PNG to PNM converter, have just been posted. The ...
  141. SuSE pledges to rectify GPP dependency problem
    It has been reported that the SuSE RPMs for GPP may cause dependency errors for those who also have the GNU Compiler Collection installed. This ...
  142. Sun released their T1000 & T2000 servers based on the "Niagara" processor.
    Sun released their T1000 & T2000 servers based on the "Niagara" processor. The performance appears to be quite good; I was surprised to see a Niagara beat a quad Opter...
  143. [TS] Nice Funds, Naughty Video Game
    It's a mighty big gamble when a fund company, acting as a fiduciary to its investors, owns more than a quarter of a concern's shares....
  144. Techno Files: Mac Programs That Come With Thinking Caps On
    It's time for another look at "thinking tools." Today the focus is on programs for the Apple Macintosh....
  145. Telecoms required to save logs of email phone calls under EU antiterror plan
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  146. Television: TV Stardom on $20 a Day
    In the right hands, vlogs, or video blogs, are microdocumentaries of surprising beauty, wit and intelligence, and are also increasingly lucrative....
  147. The $199 Alternative to Checking the Weather by Looking Outside
    The Complete Regional Weather Station from Oregon Scientific hopes to change home meteorology....
  148. The Baltic Life: Hot Technology for Chilly Streets
    Skype has become a hot calling card for Estonia, which has turned itself into a sort of Silicon Valley on the Baltic Sea....
  149. The Circuits Holiday Buying Guide
    Our annual special issue devoted to electronic gifts for work, play and everything in between....
  150. The Saturday Interview | Ed Colligan: Hand-Helds and Palm: What's Next?
    Ed Colligan, the chief executive of Palm, recently spoke about competition and the future of hand-held devices....
  151. The Washington CONNEVyT Portal: An Educational Bridge to Economic Opportunity
    by Bill Gillis Immigrants have always played a crucial role in contributing the US economy both in starting new entrepreneurial businesses and meeting critical labor force needs. Today, particularly as our agriculture and broader economy faces pressu...
  152. The Xen hypervisor reached 3.0
    The Xen hypervisor reached 3.0; it appears to be just about ready for prime time....
  153. The tech boom continues in India
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  154. Times Co. Names Research Executive
    The New York Times Company has appointed Michael Zimbalist, president of the Online Publishers Association, to the new position of vice president for research and development operations....
  155. Tokyo Exchange Struggles With Snarls in Electronics
    Last month, a computer glitch shut down trading on the exchange, and last week a typographical error generated a $330 million loss....
  156. Toshiba Wins New Trial
    The Toshiba Corporation, Japan's second-largest chip maker, won a new trial on $465.4 million awarded to Lexar Media in a trade secrets dispute....
  157. Toshiba builds 128Mbit capacitorless DRAM
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  158. Trojan horse rides on unpatched IE flaw
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  159. Verizon May Sell or Spin Off Directory Division Next Year
    Verizon said that it was considering whether to sell or spin off its directory business so it can concentrate more on providing wireless, data and phone services....
  160. Virtual Stars Compete for Real Money
    A crop of young men and teenagers are living the adolescent dream of making money by playing video games....
  161. Web word processor adds PDF conversion
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  162. What's Offline: Ring Tones to the Rescue
    An increasing number of recording artists, including rappers and pop stars, are using ring tones to introduce new songs....
  163. What's Online: Cuts, Cream, Claus and Coffee
    Globalization presents challenges, writes Jim Jubak, a columnist for TheStreet.com, but too many companies use it as a lame excuse....
  164. What's Online: Eyeballs Are Back, or Maybe Not
    An article in Business 2.0 titled "The Return of Monetized Eyeballs" could send shivers down the spine of anyone who suffered through the Internet bubble's half-decade of buzzwords....
  165. Windows Live Mail Inches Closer to Public Beta
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  166. Windward in the Windy City
    The National Coalition for Community School's Forum was recently held in Chicago and The Washington Team shared their program with Forum participants from all over the world, such as Canada, the Netherlands, Nepal and the United Kingdom. The theme......
  167. Would You Like Some Fries With That Download?
    If the Walt Disney Company has its way, McDonald's Happy Meal toys could be replaced with portable media players that hold Disney movies, music, games or photos....
  168. Xbox 360 changing the home entertainment game
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  169. Yahoo Unveils RSS EMail Folder
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  170. Yahoo adds Skypelike ability to its instant messenger
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  171. Yahoo using online behavior to target ads
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  172. You Can Take It With You, and Now You Can Play It, Too
    The ScreenPlay multimedia drive from Iomega plays video, audio and photo files on home theater systems and many TV sets....
  173. computer graphics pioneer Alvy Ray Smith argued that the new standard should eliminate legacy video baggage such as interlacing and non-square pixels
    Back when the US was first considering digital TV, computer graphics pioneer Alvy Ray Smith argued that the new standard should eliminate legacy video baggage such as interlacing and non-squa...
  174. dlg2html RPMs available
    SuSE source and binary RPMs are now available for dlg2html. dlg2html is a set of Bash shell scripts which help automate the conversion of DLG Pro message bas...
  175. eoconv 1.3 released
    eoconv is a tool which converts text files to and from various Esperanto text encodings. In this release, support has been added for postfix-H, postfix-X, and LaTeX notation. Many aliases have been added for ISO and UTF encodings...
  176. eoconv RPMs available
    SuSE source and binary RPMs are now available for eoconv. eoconv is a tool which converts text files to and from various Esperanto text encodings, including Unicode, ISO-8859-3, HTML, and various ASCII notations....
  177. notes from the OSDL Linux on the Desktop Architect meeting
    Dan Kegel posted notes from the OSDL Linux on the Desktop Architect meeting...



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