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Is this the first of many to go down this path? Starting next month, it will be "TGIT" for Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday." In a yearlong experiment aimed...
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Key new features are a download manager for viewing pending podcasts/enclosures and integration with Google Reader, NewsGator Online and the Windows Common Feed List. Download
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I’ve been testing several different news readers over the last few days, and watching resource utilization at the same time.  A few days ago, Outlook 2007 slowed to a crawl, only to discover one of...
Hmmm…interesting concept for those that may be a little addicted to Sat TV.  Portable sat TV   DIRECTV® SAT-GO ("Satellite-To-Go") combines a receiver, antenna and TV all in one easy...
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The end of an era for P&G…just read this in the local press… Jams and jellies company J.M. Smucker is moving to take over more for of the breakfast table, announcing this morning that it will buy Folgers...
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According to an article this morning in the Wall Street Journal, Google Inc.'s short-term outlook has grown increasingly murky in the wake of new data showing weakness in the number of consumers clicking...
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According to a Wall Street Journal story, U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc. appears to have been a victim of a fraud in which swindlers used forged documents from one of Japan's biggest trading...
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How are you celebrating earth hour? Looks like Google goes dark... What's earth hour? http://www.earthhour.org/cities
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Softpedia is reporting that Apple's OS was hacked...pretty quick...due to a challenge. At 12:38pm local time, the team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators...
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I have a great show this week even if your not a Media Center enthusiast. Windows expert Ed Bott joined me for a live show a couple of weeks ago talking about Vista Service Pack 1. We talked about many...
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TJX Cos., which last year disclosed a major data-security breach, agreed to have its systems that safeguard customers' credit-card data audited every other year for the next two decades under a settlement...
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Nokia Siemens speeds up 2.5G cell net Wireless equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks said Thursday that it has new software that will more than double the download speed on networks using 2.5G EDGE (Enhanced...
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Who's Russell Shaw? For those following the telecom/mobile device world, they will probably recognize the name. He maintained The Blackberry Beat over at ZDNet. Well, I was reading VoIP Watch news...
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Intel Tuesday confirmed that it is close to unveiling a new line of solid-state drives for laptop and notebook PCs that will feature a storage capacity up to 160GB. An Intel spokesman said that the chipmaker...
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SIIA has released their 2007 Year in Review . Some of the interesting stats: The largest states, naturally, are home to the largest number of piracy cases. California leads with 18%. Texas and New York...
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I've been a big fan of Audible and a customer for many years. Amazon must have agreed that it's a great concept listening to books when you aren't able to read them and flip the pages. Amazon...
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Motorola to Explore Structural and Strategic Realignment of its Businesses to Enhance Shareholder Value Company will evaluate alternatives to accelerate the ability of its Mobile Device Business to recapture...
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There was a time several years ago that this was the only browser we supported internally. I remember working with my tech support team of one additional person and how thrilled we were that we could access...
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US WIRELESS mobile phone company Sprint Nextel announced Friday that it plans to cut 4,000 jobs and close 125 company owned retail stores plus 4,000 third-party retail outlets, in anticipation of slowing...
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Own a Directv Plus DVR? Now you can program the DVR remotely via computer or your mobile device. With DIRECTV's DVR SCHEDULER you no longer need to be at home to program your DIRECTV Plus® DVR. This...
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The laptop with personal information on about 600,000 people was stolen from an officer in the Royal Navy. A laptop containing personal information on about 600,000 people was stolen from an officer in...
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Thieves have stolen two laptops containing unencrypted Social Security numbers of 337,000 Tennessee residents. The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters...
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Are Mulder and Skully returning??? 20th Century Fox has provided ComingSoon.net with four new photos of David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully in Fox's...
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First I read that RIM is moving in to Las Colinas, now Microsoft is hiring for that location as well. What's going on in Las Colinas, TX? Job Title: Support Professional Job Category: Product Support...
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Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office. The investigation follows a complaint by a user of the social network who was unable to fully...
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Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week. Speaking at a conference of security...
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I don't know about you, but I grew up with the Brady Bunch. Just read this: Allan Melvin, a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on "The Brady Bunch," has died. He was 84...
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Girding for a potential threat from Apple, online DVD rental service Netflix is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections...
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“We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the...
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It’s that time again: a new version of Paint.NET! This release fixes a few minor bugs and adds a new, much-needed Reduce Noise effect. You can download it from the website at http://www.getpaint.net ,...
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