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1 hr ago | Canada.com

Staring at computer screens may be causing chronic eye ailments

Digital screen users get computer vision syndrome because their eyes have to work harder compared with reading paper.

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Related Topix: Optometry, Medicine, Video Games

6 hrs ago | Greeley Tribune

Black Friday crowds swamp Centerplace

It's 5:30 a.m. Friday and Ethiopia native Asad Abdi, with a blanket over his shoulder and a Sony laptop computer under his arm, is the picture of American life.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Greeley, CO, Greeley Metro

10 hrs ago | Jan Samachar

CAT computer glitch to be short-lived: IIM director

New Delhi, Nov 28 Notwithstanding the hiccups faced by thousands of students on day one of the Common Admission Test , an Indian Institute of Management director said the online examination is a "democratising process" and "all the problems will be sorted out quickly". "CAT on computer is a democratising process and aims at benefiting students in a ...

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Related Topix: World News, India, Asia,

14 hrs ago | Science Daily

Building Real Security With Virtual Worlds

"Defense analysts can understand the repercussions of their proposed recommendations for policy options or military actions by interacting with a virtual world environment....They can propose a policy option and walk skeptical commanders through a virtual world where the commander can literally 'see' how things might play out.

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Related Topix: Video Games, Science, Computer Science

19 hrs ago | Associated Content

Review of Windows 7

Background The question that this review will ask is: Should you get or upgrade to Windows 7? The answer could depend a lot on what operating system you currently use.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Examiner.com

Black Friday Computer Deals from Best Buy, Walmart, Apple and Fry's

Black Friday shoppers looking for deals on laptop and desktop computers have plenty of options to choose from.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving, Science / Technology, Apple, PC

Gouverneur Times

Conn. charity gets fishing vessels, jobs for vets

Work Vessels for Veterans was started two years ago by Connecticut lobsterman John Niekrash, who donated a boat to Richard Giguere, a Marine reservist from Rhode Island who served two tours in Iraq.

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Related Topix: Westport, CT

New York Times

Lenovo to Buy Back Mobile Phone Business

Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year.

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Related Topix: PC, Morrisville, NC, Science / Technology

Physics Blog

Apple's iPhone set to make splash in South Korea

The iPhone's arrival in South Korea is generating considerable buzz among consumers and industry watchers amid expectations it will shake up a market dominated by world-beating domestic manufacturers.

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Related Topix: iPhone, South Korea, World News, Asia, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics,

WHNT-TV Huntsville

Computers and can drives: food banks turn to technology to help feed the hungry

Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, GPS, Syracuse Metro, East Syracuse, NY, US Energy Systems, Energy

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Macworld UK

Apple posts guidelines on 27-inch iMac's Target Display mode

If you happen to own one of the new 27-inch iMacs , you may have heard that you can also use it as an external display for your other computers and devices .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple

Canoe

British government will not intervene to prevent extradition of computer hacker to US

The British government said Thursday it will not prevent the extradition of an autistic hacker accused of breaking into U.S. military computers.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computer Security, UFO and Alien

Macworld UK

Psystar promised investors huge clone sales

The Mac clone maker now fighting for its life in federal court pitched an extremely aggressive business plan to potential investors last year, claiming that it would sell as many as 12 million machines in 2011.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Science / Technology, Apple, DMCA News, CPU

CIOL

PC sales in India up 24 p.c. in July-Sept

The growth points to a strong recovery' says IDC; notebook PC sales cross 7 lakh units for the first time in a single quarter BANGALORE, INDIA: Raising hopes of a strong economic recovery, the overall India PC market sales touched 21.9 lakh units during July-September 2009 quarter, recording a 24 per cent quarter-on-quarter growth.

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Related Topix: PC, Laptops/Notebooks, India, World News

News.com.au

Twenty years of the internet in Australia

It was stone age by today's standards, but a milestone in the development of what was to become the internet in Australia.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Travel, Australia Travel, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, NASA,

Science Daily

Virtual streams created to help restore real ones

The Virtual StreamLab, which demonstrates the physics of natural water flows at an unprecedented level of detail and realism, was unveiled for the first time this week at the 2009 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Minneapolis, one of the largest conferences in fluid dynamics with more than 1,500 attendees from around ...

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Related Topix: University of Minnesota, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing

Wed Nov 25, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

The GPU cluster will be able to speed up the reconstruction of 3-D images, such as this wood microstructure created from many 2-D images.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, PC, High Performance Computing, Science, Computer Science

The Age

Jobs may make Mat lose his job

Dismissive ... Steve Jobs replies to a plea from the Little App Factory. A long-time Apple software developer from Sydney fears he may have to lay off most of his staff after draconian Apple legal threats and a rare personal email from Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Computers, Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, iPod

SlashGear.com

AT&T announce HP iPAQ Glisten 3G WinMo world-phone

You have to give HP and AT&T some credit: it takes guts to call your new smartphone the HP iPAQ Glisten .

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Related Topix: Hewlett Packard, Wireless, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technology, Social Software, Dallas Metro

www.computertooslow.com | acitodg

How to change your browser homepage in IE and Firefox

Being the huge internet user that I am, I have specific sites that I always go to. Search engines probably taking up the most of my time. I might search for products or do various other types of research. Therefore, instead of going to a news site like CNN, I would rather go straight to Google's page. This guide shows you how to set up your browser homepage to go to the page you want when you open your browser.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

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