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June 2008 |
Putting data centers on decommissioned ships and reusing hot water from cooling systems to fill the town swimming pool were among the wackier ideas floated at the Data Center Energy Summit on Thursday.
Data center operators came together to compare notes about the best ways to tackle rising energy consumption at their facilities. Ideas ranged from the exotic to the more down to earth, like improving air-flow management and using outside air in colder climates to cool equipment.
After a brief lull a fe... |
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June 2008 |
A former administrator at EliteTorrents.org has been convicted of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement in a Virginia court, the first time in the U.S. that a peer-to-peer user has been convicted by a jury of copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed Friday.
Daniel Dove, 26, formerly of Clintwood, Virginia, faces a maximum sentence in prison for his participation in EliteTorrents.org, a Web site that specialized in releasing copyright works without authorization, the DOJ said... |
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June 2008 |
Bill Gates' farewell speech to Microsoft reminded employees that the company knows how to come from behind as well as to lead.
"In some cases, those are the ones that bond you the most," Gates said, recalling some of the tougher times. "You know when IBM decides to attack you or when some legal ruling isn't quite right, and you have to do a press conference afterward."
Gates, whose voice cracked at times, thanked Microsoft's employees for all of their dedication as he marked his final day as a full-ti... |
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June 2008 |
A new report from market research firm DisplaySearch shows Apple's notebook shipments grew 61 percent from the first quarter of 2007 to the first quarter of 2008. Shipments rose from almost 900,000 to just over 1.4 million.
The growth puts Apple in seventh place in overall notebook market share with 4.6 percent. HP (20.8 percent), Dell (15.1 percent), Acer (14.6 percent), Toshiba (9.3 percent), Lenovo (7.5 percent), and Fujitsu-Siemens (5.2 percent) all had higher market share numbers. Asus (4.3 percent)... |
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June 2008 |
The family road trip may never be the same. Chrysler says it will turn select model Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep vehicles into roving Wi-Fi hotspot with a new "Uconnect" option available in 2009.
Using either Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity passengers can link to an on-board 30GB hard drive that can be stuffed with music, video, and pictures. Using a cell phone with a data-plan passengers can also connect to the Internet using Chrysler's Uconnect technology.
Your iPod can also take advantage of the cars... |
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June 2008 |
Turkish hackers broke into two of the most established international Websites that oversee and regulate the Internet in order to reroute visitors to a rogue domain, the New York Times reported Friday.
Two of the domains under attack include the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, icann.org) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA (iana.org) -- two organizations that that have dominion over numerous critical functions regarding Internet regulation.
IANA oversees the in... |
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June 2008 |
The ROKR E8 is a candybar-style cellphone, which carries significant media capabilities. But the real reason this phone is getting attention isn't for its media abilities, its for the intuitive and innovative keypad.
Motorola has deployed ModeShift technology with this cellphone. ModeShift gives this handset the ability to quickly shift from being a media player to a phone with a touch of a button. The ModeShift not only changes the interface functionality, but it also changes the keypad entirely. A sing... |
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June 2008 |
Microsoft has finally given in to public demand. The company has decided to offer technical support for Windows XP with updates and security patches for an extended period until April 2014. However, it will not go back on its decision to discontinue Windows XP sales after June 30.
This means that after June 30, Microsoft will stop distributing Windows XP as a stand-alone product, as well as stop licensing it to PC manufacturers like Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others. However, it doesn't mean that XP will disa... |
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June 2008 |
I wanted to set the record straight on behalf of the members of U2 on comments made to the BBC by our much-loved and valued manager, Paul McGuinness, regarding Radiohead's decision to make the music of 'In Rainbows' available as a download, using the 'honesty box' idea for payment.
We agree with our manager that this is a head-scratching and worrisome time for many musicians who, unlike ourselves, are depending on royalty or publishing cheques to pay the rent (particularly songwriters). We also agree tha... |
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June 2008 |
It's easy to see how some gadgets might be biased towards those who are right-handed versus left, and certainly some gadgets are completely unfriendly toward those with disabilities. But can a gadget be sexist? According to an article published in the Los Angeles Times, that's the claim being made by many women who believe the iPhone is unfairly designed to be completely unusable by those of the fairer sex with long fingernails.
Every application within the iPhone was specifically designed to be accessib... |
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June 2008 |
Google Inc was named on Monday in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company's business software unit copied a tiny start-up's tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google's.
LimitNone LLC filed a complaint in an Illinois circuit court alleging that Google at first began promoting the smaller firm's tool for migrating Microsoft Outlook customers to Gmail, then copied the idea and went into competition with it.
The lawsuit was brought by the commercial litigation firm of Kell... |
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June 2008 |
The organization that manages the world's most important Web address extensions--what goes after the dot in a URL--is to hold a vote on Thursday that could see an entire new generation of URLs made possible.
Proposals that could be voted through at the board meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) include the introduction of internationalised domain names--those that do not use Latin characters--and companies being allowed to create their own top-level domains (TLDs) in... |
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June 2008 |
Is that spin I smell? Despite earlier rumors to the contrary, Microsoft seems now to be standing firm behind a 2010 release date for the next-generation version of Windows, currently known as Windows 7. Nobody is being too specific just yet, but a letter sent by Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte reiterated that the new OS would ship "approximately three years after the January 2007 general availability launch date of Windows Vista."
The really amazing part, however, is Veghte's explanation ... |
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June 2008 |
U.S. Federal Communications Commission member Jonathan Adelstein and several high-profile technology executives and industry advocates on Tuesday launched an initiative to make broadband access a national priority in the U.S.
At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Adelstein and others unveiled InternetforEveryone.org, a movement aimed at fostering a public dialogue among U.S. citizens to advise the government on how to set a national policy.
In addition to Adelstein, industry luminaries on hand ... |
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June 2008 |
With the help of an Australian partner, Google is close to landing a contract to support 1.3 million students with Gmail.
The deal for student e-mail accounts at public schools and colleges in New South Wales is not quite finalized. But it is expected to be worth roughly AU$9.5 million (US$9.05 million) over a three-year period with an optional two-year extension, according to a press release from a New South Wales government agency.
SMS Management & Technology, an Australian systems integrator, will ... |
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