Topic: COMPUTER - on October 24, 2006 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time
Over the years, computers have changed the way we live today! In order to get us there, many hardware and software companies have pushed the envelope to create what we use today. Although we currently live in an age of amazing hardware and software achievements, these products did not come at no cost. Below is a list of some of the worst flops in computer history.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 24, 2006 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
The City of Chicago goes Linux, saves over 85%
The City of Chicago's announced successful migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for essential government programs including the vehicle registration system online job applications restaurant inspections ethics training and more. The City of Chicago migrated to Red Hat in order to reduce costs and improve support performance and scalability.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 23, 2006 at 4:26:00 PM CEST
Firefox 2.0 Available To Public
The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 22, 2006 at 12:34:00 PM CEST
Apple's Steve Jobs to go to Jail?
This week's ouster of William W. McGuire as chairman and chief executive of UnitedHealth Group Inc. provided an inescapable sign that no executive is too big to be toppled by the stock option scandal - despite having many fans in the boardroom and on Wall Street.
That news also could rekindle a question: Is Apple Computer's iconic CEO Steven P. Jobs truly safe?
& Steve Jobs declares 2007 to be "one of the most exciting" in Apples history
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 21, 2006 at 10:51:00 PM CEST
Is Internet Explorer 7 Spying on Me?
Like many other people in the world today, I decided to install IE7 on my computer. Now, I am a diehard fan of Firefox but I need to keep abreast of all different types of technology. This is why I was interested in installing Internet Explorer 7.
Now, imagine my surprise when I was asked to validate my copy of Windows before I continued to install Internet Explorer!
I fired up filemon and regmon from Sysinternals to see what it was exactly doing.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 20, 2006 at 12:59:00 AM CEST
Internet Explorer 7
Less than 24 hours have passed and there is already a vulnerability in the Internet Explorer code base.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 20, 2006 at 12:53:00 AM CEST
How Firefox 2.0 Will Be Marketed
This week I spoke to Chris Beard, Mozilla's vice president of products. Among other things we discussed how Firefox 2.0 is going to be marketed. I was going to save this for the full write-up of my interview with Chris Beard, but reading Chris Messina's post today about IE7 made me want to address it now.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 19, 2006 at 12:12:00 AM CEST
Microsoft lässt Bücher in Weltrekord-Tempo scannen
Für das Digitalisierungsprojekt Live Book Search, das Bestandteil der Windows-Live-Initiative ist, hat Microsoft eine Vereinbarung mit dem US-amerikanischen Scanning-Spezialisten Kirtas Technologies getroffen.
Das Zugpferd im Hause Kirtas kann rund 2400 Seiten pro Stunde einscannen und garantiert dabei Ergebnisse mit maximal einem Fehler pro 10.000 Seiten.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2006 at 1:49:00 PM CEST
Project Blackbox
The Blackbox is a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter built into a shipping container from Sun Microsystems. It can accommodate 250 x64-based servers with 1000 cores, provide 1.5 petabytes (= 1,500 TB) of disk storage, 7 terabytes of memory and handle up to 10,000 desktop users simultaneously.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2006 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
One giant step for home entertainment?
Is this the way we will all be 'enjoying' our television programmes and computer games in the future?
In this astonishing photo, a model is wearing a new gadget, from electronics manufacturer Toshiba, that enables the wearer to experience a full 360-degree view on a 40 centimetre dome-shaped screen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2006 at 9:39:00 AM CEST
Windows virus worms onto some Apple iPods
The company said that a small number of video iPods made after Sept. 12 included the RavMonE virus. It said it has seen fewer than 25 reports of the problem, which it said does not affect other models of the media player, nor does it affect Macs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2006 at 9:31:00 AM CEST
Why Woz left Apple - an extract from his new autobiography
AFTER the US festivals and graduating from Berkeley * I went back to Apple as an engineer. I didn't want to be an executive. I wanted just to design circuits and apply clever ideas.
But it was weird because I was in the media mainstream and had so much other stuff to do.
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