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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Friday 10 October 2008. 15:54:00 Spiffy KDE 4.1, plus LXDE for netbooks THE SOPHISTICATED international Linux vendor Mandriva released several versions of its latest Mandriva Linux 2009 distribution on Thursday. The respun and updated Mandriva 2009 is the first of two anticipated releases this year, if Mandriva continues emulating Intel's "tick-tock" chip technology...
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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Friday 10 October 2008. 11:23:00 To open in 2010 HP HAS SIGNED UP with Chongquing Municipality to build a PC plant to serve rapidly-growing Chinese computer markets and help boost economic development in Sichuan. The factory deal follows a joint announcement that HP will locate a Global Call Center in Chongquing and build an information-sharing system with Chongquing's...
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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Thursday 9 October 2008. 13:27:00 Money for nothing, chips for free US TELECOM Sprint Nextel tops the list of companies that overpaid their top executives in 2007, said a study released this week by an investors' advisory firm. The cellphone service provider had the worst 2007 pay-for-performance ranking among all companies in the S&P 500 index of large US corporations,...
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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Thursday 9 October 2008. 10:28:00 Shutters 18 service providers THE CHINESE Ministry of Information and Information Technology (MIIT) has ordered 18 cellphone service providers to suspend operations due to "irregular activities", a local news service reported Thursday. MIIT said it had analysed reports of mobile spam messages made by users to a national mobile...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Egan Orion the Inquirer , Wednesday 8 October 2008. 16:12:00 Bigger interest makes a better spam hook DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE Senator Barack Obama has been showing up in more spam emails than his US presidential election rival, Republican nominee Senator John McCain. Spam researchers at Secure Computing reported that Obama's name was used in dodgy email subject lines seven times more often...
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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Wednesday 8 October 2008. 14:12:00 Admonished but not penalised AUSTRALIA'S Network Ten transmitted subliminal advertising during a music awards show last year, but the government media authority let it off lightly with just a stern warning. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) on Thursday announced that Network Ten had breached the Commercial...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Egan Orion the Inquirer , Wednesday 8 October 2008. 13:34:00 Blusters about rights and royalties CHIPZILLA of Satan Clara said Tuesday that it has "serious questions" about its precious x86 patents with regard to AMD's spinoff of its manufacturing facilities and operations to Foundry Company. Intel and AMD have a patent cross-licensing agreement under which AMD pays royalties to Intel,...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Egan Orion the Inquirer , Tuesday 7 October 2008. 14:50:00 MAFIAA made it a deal it couldn't refuse A READER sent along the following email he recently received from his cable ISP, Comcast: Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer: As of October 25, 2008, the complimentary Comcast Newsgroups service, powered by Giganews, will be discontinued....
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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Tuesday 7 October 2008. 02:49:00 More fun than writing in .net MICROSOFT PUT ON a week-long .net programming contest it called 'DevSta' looking for "star developers" in Australia as a follow-on to its annual 'Tech Ed' event down under. It didn't garner much of a turnout, except for a couple of hackers who defaced contest entries....
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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Tuesday 7 October 2008. 10:00:00 Update Hector goes with the fabs THE OUTLINES of AMD's spinoff of its manufacturing plants to Abu Dhabi that is to be announced today are starting to come out. The United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi is paying AMD $700 million in cash for a 56 per cent stake in the spinoff, called Foundry Company, with...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Egan Orion the Inquirer , Friday 3 October 2008. 13:42:00 Loss of professional credibility NORWEGIAN MEMBERS of the Technical Committee of that country's International Standards Organisation (ISO) body Standard Norge have resigned their posts to protest the approval of Microsoft's OOXML document formats proposal in defiance of the majority recommendation....
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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Friday 3 October 2008. 12:49:00 Small screen hides malicious URLs SECURITY RESEARCHER Aviv Raff disclosed two Iphone security flaws Thursday that could allow attackers to trick wibblers into unknowingly surfing to malicious destinations. He had brought both vulnerabilities to Apple's attention way back in July but the company failed to address them with patches,...
