| Rules of Returns |
[Jan. 17th, 2007|11:30 pm] |
Rules of Returns
Bridgewater Courier News - Dec 21 12:04 PM
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Consumer experts are warning shoppers and gift recipients to be wary this season as retailers further tighten return policies. Instead of one rule -- such as requiring all returns to be made within 90 days -- more retailers have different policies for different products, he said.Save |
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| Soap opera update |
[Jan. 17th, 2007|11:10 am] |
Soap opera update
Canton Repository - Rebecca was upset when Vincent told Jared, Chad, Theresa and Whitney that a deceased J.T.’s flash drive (USB drive) is missing. Ethan hoped to find the flash drive to get information to use against Jared. After Miguel got Eve to admit Fox is in
What spelled success at CES
Kansas City Star - The Digital Pen & USB Flash Drive from Epos Technologies lets users take notes or just doodle on normal white paper. It records everything using a small flash-drive-based receiver that picks up sound waves from the pen. Hundreds of pages can be
Naughty Employees Threaten IT Security
Think & Ask - Down with Downloads -- More organizations will implement policies and practices placing restrictions on computers and data devices, like flash drive USBs. This will include companies disabling capabilities to download information from computers.
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| Earthen Angels |
[Jan. 17th, 2007|03:00 am] |
Earthen Angels
Montgomery Advertiser - Dec 24 2:07 AM
Lake Jordan clay artist Robin Rogers can't really see them, but she can feel the angels that surround her.Save
Alcoa Man Held on Child Porn Charges
WVLT-TV Knoxville - Dec 21 3:49 PM
Sheriff's Deputies in Blount County have charged a 30-year-old Alcoa man with sexual exploitation of a minor.Save
Local firm fills growing need for data storage
The Wheaton Sun - Jan 11 10:38 PM
As business expansions go, XNet's new computing center is not the flashiest. It cruises along at a low hum, with racks of computers shuttered away in metal lockers. There's a ventilation and cooling system, a place for people to plug in their iPods - and room to grow. Save
Taliban leader threatens to 'heat up' Afghan war
International Herald Tribune - Jan 04 1:44 PM
The leader, Muhammad Omar, said he would never negotiate with the government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan.Save |
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| Crime Report |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|10:50 pm] |
Crime Report
Washington Post - Two TVs, a laptop computer, furniture, a microwave oven and clothing were stolen from a residence. GREENBELT METRO DR., 5700 block, 6:55 p.m. Dec. 3. A cellphone was stolen from a park bench at a Metro station. GREENBELT RD., 7400 block, 12:35 p.m. Dec. 7
Online Press Release
PRWeb - A Pioneer in Web-Based Custom Computer Furniture Business Innovations in SMARTdesks’ product line and business model have come together in the deployment of their new web site. A pioneer in manufacturing computer classroom furniture, customized one
Transform Your Armoire into a CPU Workstation
Popular Mechanics - Even after another $200 for hardware, it was still cheaper--and a lot more interesting--than mass-produced computer furniture from a showroom floor. Before buying an armoire, measure the depth and height of your computer equipment, and bring a tape
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| Shoppers let loose 11th-hour energy |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|06:50 pm] |
Shoppers let loose 11th-hour energy
San Jose Mercury News - No matter that Christmas is only a couple of shopping days away. Lief Koepsel was leisurely browsing the Valley Fair Apple store Friday, searching for stocking stuffers for his wife. Among his purchases: an iTunes gift card and some computer
Gary Crandall, CEO
PRWeb - SHIPMENTS OF ELECTRONIC/ELECTRICAL COMPUTER ACCESSORIES TO THE U.S. AFTERMARKET WILL GROW TO MORE THAN $3.6 BILLION BY 2006: VDC FINDS THAT WIRELESS LANS (WLANS) AND USB HUBS ARE LEADING THE WAY While WLANs and USB connectivity are in some ways
Rules tighten on returns
AZCentral.com - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., for instance, wants computers back within 15 days, cameras back within 30, computer accessories in 45, and all other items within 90 days. "You almost never see a straight, one category return policy anymore," said Dworsky. "They
The Record Breaker
Ottawa Citizen - Joachim moved to Australia in 1998, where he ran a computer accessories business and passed his time breaking records both gruelling and arcane, like carrying a 4.5 kilogram brick 126.75 kilometres and crawling non-stop for 56.62 kilometres. But it's
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| Financial Mail - Sony's revenge |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|02:50 pm] |
Financial Mail - Sony's revenge
Financial Mail - Jan 14 11:38 PM
It's all over bar the shouting. Sony, with Blu-ray, is likely to control the future of optical storage. With superior technology, and with the backing of Korea's electronics giants, the Japanese consumer electronics firm looks set to win the race to replace the DVD.Save |
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| Not too shabby |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|10:50 am] |
Not too shabby
Boston Online - Feeney got a computer table, credenza, three custom-built workstations, and the wall unit and chair for $11,017; Ross ordered a small file cabinet and the credenza for $1,392; and Tobin got the 42-inch table for $997. Flaherty said Tobin's purchase
LEBANON: Hear Our Voices – At home with unexploded bombs
IRIN - I left my schoolbag, my notes and all of my books inside the drawers, on my computer table and over the bed. Some of them were burned [by the rocket attacks], others thrown out of the balcony and lie on the floor in the garden. What will I do when
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| Apple Supports CEO Steve Jobs Despite Stock Fiasco |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|06:50 am] |
Apple Supports CEO Steve Jobs Despite Stock Fiasco
NewsFactor Network - A Samsung executive agreed to plead guilty and serve 10 months in prison for his role in a global price-fixing scheme involving a common form of computer memory, federal prosecutors said. HP Labs Develops New Tech for Cooling Data Centers HP Labs
NASA Opportunity Rover Begins Standing Up NASA Opportunity Rover
Mars Today - Meanwhile, halfway around Mars, Opportunity's twin, Spirit, continues on the mend from a computer memory problem that struck it a week ago. "Right now we're working to get complete control of the vehicle, and we're still not quite there," said
Roving about the Red Planet
US News and World Report - Other than an overloaded computer memory that hobbled Spirit for a few weeks in the early going and was fixed by a change in procedure, showstoppers have been few. In 1997, Squyres joined forces with Ray Arvidson, a planetary scientist at Washington
Amsterdam Will Give Open Source a Try
NewsFactor Network - A Samsung executive agreed to plead guilty and serve 10 months in prison for his role in a global price-fixing scheme involving a common form of computer memory, federal prosecutors said. HP Labs Develops New Tech for Cooling Data Centers HP Labs
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| Microsoft to offer Vista ‘Family Pack’ discount for Ultimate users |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|10:30 pm] |
Microsoft to offer Vista ‘Family Pack’ discount for Ultimate users
ZDNet Blogs - If Microsoft were to make this (family discount program) happen, and every home that has more than one computer were to upgrade, Microsoft could realize at least $900 Million dollars in additional revenue . … I know not EVERY family will upgrade
Selling Computers and Accessories on eBay
MSNBC - Computers and computer accessories are some of the best-selling and most reliably profitable items on eBay. Thousands of people visit eBay every day to browse and shop for new PCs, printers, networking components, cables, monitors and many other
Personal computers still at Apple's business core
Boston Globe - Jack Minsky built a successful business by writing software for Apple 's Macintosh computers. So when Apple last week dropped the word "computer" from its name, and dedicated its annual Macworld trade show to noncomputer gadgets, Minsky might have
Intentional programming and Dreaming in Code
ZDNet Blogs - He uses the Open Source Applications Foundation's Chandler and Cosmo projects as a backdrop for exploring the lore and enigmas of software development and the human-computer interface. In the book, which is a thoroughly engrossing and instructive
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| In This Issue |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|06:30 pm] |
In This Issue
American Economic Alert - On August 21, after noting the explosive rise in Chinese exports of computer accessories to the United States, The Wall Street Journal reported, "Only in the areas of aircraft and agricultural commodities does the U.S. still run a sizable trade
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SanDisk Launches Major Retail Expansion In India With Broad Line Of
WebWire - We see great potential for growth in consumer electronics products, especially mobile phones, digital cameras and computer accessories,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, president and chief operating officer of SanDisk. “India’s emergence as a technology
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| Hands on: A Mac fan takes on Vista |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|10:20 am] |
Hands on: A Mac fan takes on Vista
Computerworld - Part of it is that seemingly innocuous actions trigger it -- such as changing the time and date on the computer. Part of it is that you can't selectively turn UAC off. In Mac OS X, changes to the system through system preferences can be "locked" and
NEC says 2 desktop power units caught fire in Japan
MSN MoneyCentral - The desktop in question is its Valuestar model that was manufactured in Japan between November 2003 and June 2004. NEC said it had shipped 14,600 units of the model in Japan. NEC said it will replace the computer part free of charge. Copyright 2006
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| Wake up your computer |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|06:20 am] |
Wake up your computer
Herald Tribune - With great computing power comes great responsibility. Unsecured computers hurt their owners by exposing them to identity theft and stolen passwords. But they can also be conscripted as foot soldiers in a destructive online army: At best, it
Why good products fail
Boston Globe - Minicomputer stalwarts Digital and Wang, blindsided by personal computers, had ratios of 0.004 and 0.001 respectively. The arcane ratio, also called the M/E ratio or the Grabowski ratio, has been a subject of interest in engineering and marketing
Interactive connection finally coming together
San Francisco Gate - The technology and consumer electronics industries have long teased consumers with the notion that their computers would serve up all the media content they want and their televisions would offer the interaction and choices of the online world
Here's a vote for computers over humans
Louisville Courier-Journal - This is the sports world we live in: where an otherwise reasonable-thinking person could watch the Notre Dame football team this season, then conclude, "Yeah, that's a top-10 football team." The sports media world today has become a constant case of
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| All-in-one devices: Oppo Digital's LT-2007 |
[Jan. 14th, 2007|01:50 pm] |
All-in-one devices: Oppo Digital's LT-2007
Pioneer Press - Jan 09 1:15 AM
If you're looking for a combo DVD player, TV and all-purpose flat-panel display at a lower cost, OPPO Digital's $600 LT-2007 device may be it.Save
The Year in Review: Jabil Circuit
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Dec 29 1:06 PM
Circuit board and computer component maker Jabil Circuit Inc. ended 2006 down 35 percent after a year marked by regulatory and financial troubles.Save
DayStar Technologies Makes Two Principal Payments on Senior Convertible Note
FinanzNachrichten - Dec 15 9:28 AM
HALFMOON, N.Y., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DayStar Technologies, ( Nachrichten ) Inc. , a developer and manufacturer of innovative CIGS Photovoltaic Foil(TM) products, today announced that it has made its fourth scheduled principal payment of $1,875,000 on its Senior Convertible Note and an additional $500,000 principal payment at the Investor's request.Save |
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| Ford links electronic gadgets to car system |
[Jan. 14th, 2007|05:50 am] |
Ford links electronic gadgets to car system
The Wichita Eagle - Jan 06 11:10 PM
CD players in automobiles could go the way of eight-track tapes with in-dash systems like one Ford Motor Co. and Microsoft Corp. are jointly producing to link cars with cell phones and personal music players.Save
New dashboard system plugs into digital
Lawrence Journal-World - Jan 06 10:28 PM
CD players in automobiles could go the way of eight-track tapes thanks to in-dash systems like one Ford Motor Co. and Microsoft Corp. are jointly producing to link cars with cell phones and personal music players.Save |
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| More on this topic |
[Jan. 13th, 2007|05:40 pm] |
More on this topic
NewsFactor Business Report - A Samsung executive agreed to plead guilty and serve 10 months in prison for his role in a global price-fixing scheme involving a common form of computer memory, federal prosecutors said. HP Labs Develops New Tech for Cooling Data Centers HP Labs
NASA Opportunity Rover Begins Standing Up NASA Opportunity Rover
Mars Today - Meanwhile, halfway around Mars, Opportunity's twin, Spirit, continues on the mend from a computer memory problem that struck it a week ago. "Right now we're working to get complete control of the vehicle, and we're still not quite there," said
Several Lawsuits Take Aim at Apple
NewsFactor Network - 70-nanometer processing technology. Samsung Exec Pleads Guilty in DRAM Price-Fixing Probe A Samsung executive agreed to plead guilty and serve 10 months in prison for his role in a global price-fixing scheme involving a common form of computer memory
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| Apple Drops 'Computer' from Name |
[Jan. 13th, 2007|09:34 am] |
Apple Drops 'Computer' from Name
Beta News - AT MACWORLD Reflecting Apple's movement away from just being a provider of computers, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company would be removing the "Computer" from its company name and would now be known simply as Apple, Inc. The name change would be
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| Thank you, Thank you, Thank You |
[Jan. 13th, 2007|05:33 am] |
Thank you, Thank you, Thank You
PRWeb - Computer Accessories Market With an upsurge in demand for New Media, the U.S. market for Computer Accessory products is rapidly growing. According to a recent study by Acclaro Growth Partners, the market is expected to reach $6 billion in total end
Cars on whas11.com
WHAS 11 - SAN FRANCISCO Computer accessory maker Logitech International SA is introducing a mouse with a free-spinning motorized scroll wheel it believes will help people more efficiently race through pages on their computer screens. 08
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