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“The Cuban PCs have Intel Celeron processors with 80 gigabytes of memory (sic) and 512 RAM and are equipped with Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. Both could be violations of a U.S. trade embargo, but not something Washington can do anything about in the absence of diplomatic relations with Havana. Clerks said the PCs were assembled by Cuban companies using parts imported from China.”
Now, there’s an idea for a future “24″ episode.
The June 4, 2009 letter (origina
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Open source might prove to be the wrong answer to the health care mess. But given the VA’s success with VistA,ghd mk4, President Obama should be spending pennies on the stimulus dollar with VistA before he looks elsewhere for solutions. It’s already written. By all accounts, it works well.
Scratch the surface, however, and you quickly run into a major problem with VistA: MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility
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Book rights holders have until next Friday, September 4, to decide if they want to opt out of the proposed settlement and prevent their books from being displayed in Google Book Search. The U.S. Department of Justice is also looking into the Google Books settlement to determine if “anticompetitive practices” were used in the formulation of the settlement.
Some object to the unchecked publishing power granted to a single corporation,
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To encourage further spending, retailers may have to resort to even deeper discounts, which can crimp margins and reduce revenues. More than 70% of holiday shoppers will purchase from discounters this year, according to the NRF. The home page for JCPenney. 8 Mar The World Health Organization does not seem terribly worried about the effects of cell phone use on health: “None of the recent reviews have concluded that exposure to the RF fields from mobile phones or their base stations causes any adverse health consequence.” But this statement–last updated nine years ago–relies on precisely the kind of data these watchdogs suggest is flawed. 8 Mar Fierce assaults on Obama’s agenda, including his ambitious health reform plan, were one factor in the Republican victory in a Massachusetts seat last week that stripped away the Democratic supermajority in the Senate. Obama to call for partial budget freeze |
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STEPHEN COLLINSON January 26, 2010 President Barack Obama will Wednesday call for a three-year partial freeze on spe 8 Mar Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. |
“We have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective but we have no intention of ‘going after’ the wonderful applications and services that use th
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Nvidia on Thursday posted a smaller loss than the year-earlier period but the graphics chip supplier is still grappling with costs related to a chip defect first addressed by the company last July.
Jen-Hsun Huang, the president and chief executive officer, said the company’s “business is recovering. Product demand is improving, and our strategic investments are leading to new growth.” Nvidia expects revenue in the third quarter–ending October 25, 2009–to be up 5 to 7 percent over
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North Korea Detains Second US Citizen |
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(Jan. 28) — For the second time in the last month, a U.S. citizen has been detained in North Korea.
In a brief news dispatch 8 Mar What our data shows is that the number of considered users looking at notebooks climbed 31 percent from July 2007 to July 2008 and–despite Depression 2.0–the number of these users climbed another 25 percent in the past 12 months (sorry, the data guardians at CNET won’t let me publish the actual totals but I’m working on them). That’s healthy growth that could be the result of several factors. As the site editor, I’ll list the two I think are most plausible: our superb laptop edit Categories
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