if introducing Windows 7 involves buying a new computer that is bad news. By my calculation, almost any likely energy saving from running Windows 7 would be wiped out by bringing forward the purchase of your next computer by more than a few weeks.

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TechRepublic's CIO Jury finds that IT leaders trust Microsoft more than Google as a technology partner, but tune in next year. Jason Hiner outlines the latest findings in the TechRepublic CIO Jury.

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As a result of it's prominent spot in the news recently, it is unsurprising that Pakistan is a source of concern for people who are worried about terrorism and political stability in the world at large, or who have a humanitarian bent.

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The use of diagnostic tests, especially imaging studies, varies markedly across the United States—with higher costs but no better patient outcomes associated with the highest-use regions.

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Finland is making access to at least a 1 Mb/s broadband connection a legal right for its residents in their attempt to guarantee 100 Mb/s connectivity within the decade.

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A South African company on Wednesday proved it was faster to transmit data by carrier pigeon than to send it using the country's leading internet service provider.

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Come November, all villages in Kerala will have access to high-speed internet access, making it India's first state with broadband (defined as 256 kpbs and above) connectivity in every village.

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Marketing professional in New Hampshire's Seacoast providing interactive website design, marketing plans, and information technology services. Created MCE123 in high school - continues to advance his career in fields of Marketing and IT.

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This article discuses and speculates about the Conficker worm.

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Next time you're driving along Italy's Amalfi coast and you select "English" as the language on the car's GPS navigation system, there's every chance you've used Dr Julie Vonwiller's technology.

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The Obama administration introduced online tools on Tuesday that will track and analyze the more than $70 billion a year that the federal government spends on information technology.

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The world press is marking the 35th anniversary of the bar code. So many people have grown up with it that it no longer appears to be the sinister innovation it once seemed; as my friend Jackson Lears remarked to the New York Times:

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The health-care industry's reluctance to digitize its records is rooted in a desire to keep medicine's lucrative business model hidden.

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Washington has expressed concern to Beijing over its new effort to censor Internet use and its possible impact on trade and access to information, the U.S. Embassy said Monday.

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Reporting from San Francisco -- Amit Chatterjee worked for three Silicon Valley start-ups and software company SAP, but he was growing increasingly intrigued by global warming and climate change.

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"The Pope was in Israel earlier this month, bringing with him thousands of Catholic pilgrims.

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Google, a company revered for its ability to think outside the box, has come up with a novel way to clear its land of brush. Goats. They've hired goats to clean their brush. More Articles

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on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel's found this smashing ad for Honeywell electronic mail from the dawn of time.

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A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. More Articles

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Several firms accused of subscribing to a secret database of building workers' details have denied any wrongdoing. The Information Commissioner says a firm called the Consulting Association flagged up workers who had raised safety concerns or who had union links.

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Limbaugh warned, "Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system" and declared that this and similar health care provisions have "nothing to do with stimulus but have everything to do with advancing the liberal agenda."

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Here I thought it was impressive that I won a regional science fair at the age of 12. But now comes the story of M.Lavinashree, a girl from the Tamil Nadu state in India, who has passed the Microsoft Certified Professional exam at the age of 9.

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Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. announced plans Friday to slash at least 20,000 jobs worldwide in an effort to cut 80 billion yen ($895 million) in costs over the next two years.

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