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Can Microsoft retail succeed where others have failed?
ZDNet Asia By Charles Cooper, CNET News.com commentary Did Microsoft just serve up more fodder for the wits who direct Apple's lacerating series of Mac versus PC commercials? Microsoft should hook up with The Source by Circuit City IT World Canada Blogs Microsoft Retail Strategy Doomed to Fail DaniWeb PC World all 6 news articles |
christian.einfeldt writes “According to an article in Laptop Magazine on-line, one-third of Dell Inspiron Mini 9s netbooks are sold with the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Dell senior product manager John New attributed the sales volume to the lower price point of the Ubuntu Linux machines. And the return rate of the Ubuntu Linux machines is approximately equal to that of comparable netbooks sold with Microsoft Windows XP. Dell spokesperson Jay Pinkert attriutes the low return rate to Dell’s good communications with its customers, saying ‘We have done a very good job explaining to folks what Linux is.'”
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CNETNate writes “Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is ’30 times faster than IE7,’ and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include ‘Top Sites,’ which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, ‘Full History Search’ for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while.”
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Apple today announced the public beta of Safari® 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3.
CNETNate writes “Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is ’30 times faster than IE7,’ and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include ‘Top Sites,’ which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, ‘Full History Search’ for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while.”
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CSEMike writes “Currently popular peer-to-peer networks suffer from a lack of privacy. For applications like BitTorrent or Gnutella, sharing a file means exposing your behavior to anyone interested in monitoring it. OneSwarm is a new file sharing application developed by researchers at the University of Washington that improves privacy in peer-to-peer networks. Instead of communicating directly, sharing in OneSwarm is friend-to-friend; senders and receivers exchange data using multiple intermediaries in an overlay mesh. OneSwarm is built on (and backwards compatible with) BitTorrent, but includes numerous extensions to improve privacy while providing good performance: point-to-point encryption using SSL, source-address rewriting, and multi-path and multi-source downloading. Clients and source are available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.”
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Evacuation lifted after chlorine dioxide leak at mothballed BC …
The Canadian Press MACKENZIE, BC – An evacuation order affecting about 30 residents of the northern BC town of Mackenzie was lifted Sunday evening as crews repaired a valve leaking potentially dangerous chlorine dioxide. MacKenzie Chlorine Leak Capped Energeticcity.ca Chlorine Leak in Mackenzie CJDC Globe and Mail – Lesprom Network – The Gazette (Montreal) – Opinion250 News all 47 news articles |
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Can Microsoft retail succeed where others have failed?
ZDNet Asia By Charles Cooper, CNET News.com commentary Did Microsoft just serve up more fodder for the wits who direct Apple's lacerating series of Mac versus PC commercials? Microsoft should hook up with The Source by Circuit City IT World Canada Blogs Three Reasons Microsoft Will Fail with Retail NetworkWorld.com DaniWeb – CIO all 6 news articles |
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Jobs to skip Apple shareholders meeting
Register By Rik Myslewski • Get more from this author Apple's Steve Jobs, on medical leave until June, won't attend attend the company's annual shareholders meeting this Wednesday, fueling rumors that Apple's savior is phasing himself out. Why Steve Jobs Can't Save GM Forbes Steve Jobs health concerns swirl ahead of Apple annual meeting Financial Post CNET News – Telegraph.co.uk – Bizjournals.com – MacNN all 63 news articles |
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Chlorine Leak in Mackenzie
CJDC The residents returned home Sunday evening after crews managed to repair a faulty valve at the Worthington Pulp Mill. The potentially dangerous chlorine dioxide leak caused about 30 residents to be evacuated for roughly 12 hours Sunday as crews worked … Mackenzie residents going home after spill of chemicals Globe and Mail Chlorine dioxide spill at Worthington-Mackenzie pulp mill in … Lesprom Network Energeticcity.ca – The Gazette (Montreal) – The Canadian Press – Opinion250 News all 47 news articles |
