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A Virtual Clinic to Treat the Stresses of War
The Institute for Creative Technologies hopes that a healing center in the virtual world Second Life will help veterans cope with their combat experiences. More: continued here
Amazon Cuts Price of International Kindle by $20
The retailer cut the price of the e-reader to $259, from $279, only a couple of weeks after sales began. More: continued here
State of the Art: Windows 7 Keeps the Good, Tries to Fix Flaws
Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system fixes much of what users hated about the much-maligned Vista. More: continued here
The Khans’ Path in Silicon Valley
Sakhawat Khan, the husband of the vital witness in the Galleon hedge fund probe, has had a long career as a Silicon Valley chip engineer. More: continued here
In Lawsuit, Nokia Says iPhone Infringes Its Patents
A Nokia executive says the Finnish cellphone maker sued Apple after failing to reach a licensing deal. More: continued here
Acer Moves to the Third Dimension
New portables show off novel functions like 3-D screens and “always on” Internet access. More: continued here
How to get the Memory Utilization of a Cisco IOS
Memory, RAM, is one of those resources that is extremely valuable to IOS. Monitoring memory utilization can be done with the user mode commands show processes memory and show memory. Figure 5-16 shows part of the output from the show process memory command. qutter(config)# show processes memory ———————————————————— Allocs Allocated Frees Freed Process (bytes) (bytes) [...]
A Deal That Lost Millions for Galleon
One bad trade more than wiped out the profits that prosecutors claim Raj Rajaratnam and his accomplices reaped with their scheme. More: continued here
State of the Art: Windows 7 Keeps the Good and Tries to Fix Flaws
Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system fixes much of what users hated about the much-maligned Vista. More: continued here
New MySpace C.E.O. Reaches Beyond the Social Network
Owen Van Natta, MySpace’s new chief executive, talks about salvaging the flagging social network and exporting its content to other sites. More: continued here
The Virtual Hosts Section in httpd.conf
Before delving into a discussion on virtual hosts, you need to become familiar with the Virtual Hosts section in the httpd.conf file. The following section (Section 3) contains a few directives that you should be familiar with before you begin: # Section 3: Virtual Hosts # # VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames [...]
Advertising: The Billion Designers of Windows 7
In Microsoft’s new ad campaign, the company credits a billion PC users with the creative genius behind moving beyond a certain unnamed previous Windows operating system. More: continued here
A Reversal for eBay as Shoppers Return and Revenue Rises, but Profit Still Slides
The results did provide some indication that the online shopping site may be pulling out of its yearlong slump. More: continued here
2 Deals Hint at Revenue for Twitter
The deals to make Twitter streams available to Microsoft and Google’s search engines may point to a potential new source of cash. More: continued here
No Budget, No Boundaries: It’s the Real You
In the lavishly appointed realms of avatar-driven social networking sites, conspicuous consumption is all the rage. More: continued here