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Windows 7: The information lockdown continues
When is Microsoft finally going to start sharing information on Windows 7? After all, if the Redmondians stick to their own oft-quoted ship target of 2010 for the operating system, that is just two years away.
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GRC is NOT dead and it also NOT a Tool.
http://andyitguy.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ grc-is-not-dead-and-it-also-not-tool.ht…There is a debate going on involving the validity of GRC and whether it's living, dead or was every around. You can find some of the discussions here, here, here, here and here. I'm here to tell you that GRC isn't dead. It's alive and well and living in a business near you.
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More Car Park News
http://almax.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 20/ more-car-park-news/As you know I wrote to NCP on 17 May about our ordeal last Thursday trapped in their lift in Edinburgh. The acknowledgement on their web-site said, Thank you for your enquiry. A representative from the selected service will be in touch with you shortly.
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Respect
http://quinnell.us/ sspb/ ?p=1737Out of respect for the hard work that other state-level bloggers have done and the apparent problems with the DNCC credential process, I’m one of the credentialed bloggers who sent the following letter to Howard Dean: Governor Dean: Let us begin by noting our respect for your position at the Democratic National Committee and the reforms you have made.
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Five Themes for Interaction Design
http://people.clarkson.edu/ ~johndan/ workspace/ 2008/ 05/ five_themes_for_inter…Dan Saffer points to a slightly old but still very useful-looking paper about embodied interaction design and re-thinking the current, relatively thin approach to how people interact with computers (and other work technologies/environments): "How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design" [pdf].
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Johanna Nowanna Plastic Surgery to Win Miss Peru Beauty Pageant
http://www.mm-agency.com/ blog/ mtv-real-world/ johanna-nowanna-plastic-surgery-…Johanna Botta was to represent as Miss Peru USA at the Miss Peru Universe 2008 Pageant but left after constant pressure from the organization to get plastic surgery along with her sense of the pageant’s corruption as well disorganization. I asked Johanna directly what happened and to provide her true thoughts and facts of the situation.
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Microsoft - Yahoo on again
http://www.websearchguide.ca/ netblog/ archives/ 007460.htmlIt's not over. Microsoft proposes to buy Yahoo search: source by ANUPREETA DAS, AP via Globe and Mail (May 20) "Microsoft Corp. has proposed to buy Yahoo Inc.'s search business and take a minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar with the discussions
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Some Useful, Some Not, Things for You
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/ home/ 2008/ some-useful-some-not-things-fo…Here is a list of things I have been collecting as of late, which may or may not be of interest to those in academia . . . I frequently make the argument that blogs are one of the most useful “tech tools” in education.
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Voting/Nominations Update and Open Thread
http://quinnell.us/ sspb/ ?p=1736We now have 24 votes towards which presentations we’ll be offering at JJ. You can check out the five options here and e-mail me at quinnelk@hotmail.com with your two choices. Keep in mind, you should vote even if you aren’t going to JJ. There are certainly people who are going who think the way you do and may not see this, so you can represent them.
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Where Is PTCL IPTV?
http://telecompk.net/ 2008/ 05/ 20/ where-is-ptcl-iptv/Eager consumers in Pakistan have been waiting for months to get specific details about the pricing and availability of IPTV by PTCL. No official word yet but launch date has been moved several times. Various online forums have been reported a limited trial going on in select cities and PTCL has started advertising IPTV on their website and broadband portals.
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Flash Gets Flashier With P2P
http://www.publicknowledge.org/ node/ 1583If you haven’t heard yet, a beta of Adobe’s Flash Player Version 10 is available for download. It offers a host of new features, but one has implications that blow the others out of the water: built-in peer-to-peer. That’s right, all the tools necessary to build a p2p client will be built into the Flash plug-in.