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Jetstar unveils thin client, BYO laptop visionJETSTAR plans to replace its entire fleet of airport computers with thin clients, buy netbooks and look at a bring-your-own laptop scheme.
Australian IT Thursday, September 03, 2009Not enough Facebook friends? Buy themSYDNEY (Reuters) - Who says you can't buy friends? An Australian online marketing
company is selling friends and fans to Facebook members after offering a similar
service to Twitter users.
Reuters Thursday, September 03, 2009Virtual detectives stalk in-game spammersLAS VEGAS, Nevada (Reuters) -
gamers
competing against rivals
around the globe in online multiplayer games have a new force protecting them -- teams of virtual detectives.
Reuters Thursday, September 03, 2009Global CIO: Citrix CEO Templeton On Killing IT Inertia Before It Kills YouColumn about Citrix philosophy of virtualization, optimization and centralization to help CIOs lower IT costs and increase
business agility.
Information Week Thursday, September 03, 2009Nokia Netbook Tips Price ScaleThe Booklet 3G has a 10-inch display, 12-hour battery life, Windows 7 OS, and will cost more than double most other mini-laptops.
Information Week Thursday, September 03, 2009Telmex to market Cisco TelePresence suite across LatAm(Telecompaper) Mexican operator Telmex has signed a partnership agreement with Cisco to market and deliver Cisco TelePresence
technology and services across Latin America. The agreement combines Cisco's global network of TelePresence locations with Telmex's sales foot-print and MPLS regional network to enable the adoption and growth of telepresence technology among businesses and organizations in the Latin
american region. Also as part of the deal, Telmex will
launch public TelePresence
service suites in Latin America. The new service is
expected to enable companies of all sizes, as well as individuals, to use TelePresence to conduct meetings with colleagues, customers, suppliers, partners or even
family and friends. The Intercompany Cisco TelePresence services suite allows calls directly from a Cisco TelePresence room on a
customer network to a TelePresence room on a different
company's network via a secure connection from the service provider. Using Telepresencia Administrada Telmex,
DMeurope.com Thursday, September 03, 2009Nokia seeking developers' help in Apple rivalrySTUTTGART (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj said on Thursday it would start to open its
software platforms to external developers in a bid to boost the quantity and quality of software for Nokia phones.
Reuters Thursday, September 03, 2009Salesforce.com Aims Service At Individuals, Smallest BusinessesThe
service, priced at $9 per user per month, allows users to store and manage contacts and accounts online.
Information Week Thursday, September 03, 2009Monitor: Only humans allowedComputing: Can online puzzles that force
internet users to prove that they really are human be kept secure from attackers?ON THE
internet, goes the old joke, nobody knows you’re a dog. This is untrue, of course. There are many situations where internet users are required to prove that they are human—not because they might be dogs, but because they might be nefarious pieces of
software trying to gain access to things. That is why, when you try to post a message on a blog, sign up with a new website or make a purchase online, you will often be asked to examine an image of mangled text and type the letters into a box. Because humans are much better at pattern recognition than
software, these online puzzles—called CAPTCHAs—can help prevent spammers from using software to automate the creation of large numbers of bogus e-mail accounts, for example.Unlike a user login, which proves a specific identity, CAPTCHAs merely show that “there’s really a human on t
Economist Thursday, September 03, 2009Selling designer goods online: When cheap is exclusiveHard times for luxury retailers are good times for discount fashion websitesTHE racks of expensive gowns and shoes sit, serene and mostly untouched, on the floors of Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale’s and almost every fancy
department store. In a sign of how consumers’ newfound thrift has hurt luxury retailers, Saks Incorporated, the parent
company of Saks Fifth Avenue, recently
announced losses of more than $50m in the three months to July. Sales are down more than 20%. The recession, it seems, has spelt an end to Americans’ appetite for luxury—at
department-store prices, at any rate.Yet luxury e-tailers, which sell designer goods online at discounted prices, are flourishing. The slowdown has actually helped them, simultaneously producing seemingly endless supplies of unsold inventory and forcing consumers to tighten their belts. That has let
american e-tailers such as Gilt Groupe, HauteLook and Rue La La, and their French rival Vente-privee.co
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