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Parvus will demonstrate a new Linux-ready in-vehicle computer on June 13, at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Rail Conference in New York City. The DuraCOR 1100 is a rugged, Intel Celeron-based "vehicle logic unit" (VLU) that targets "information-level applications" in road and rail transit vehicles.

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Software companies, big and small, have failed to deliver on the promise to make life easier for users, said the 21-year-old inventor of the Firefox Internet browser during a speech today at the City Club of Cleveland. Blake Ross, who draped his suit coat over a nearby chair and sported an ...

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Virtual private networks (VPN) let remote users connect back to corporate networks over encrypted links. Many VPNs are built with proprietary technology and can be tricky and expensive to set up. For a small business or an individual who needs a simple way to securely access remote networks, setting up ...

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For years, the Web browser was a technology that seemed frozen in time. While the Web itself exploded with new types of content and virtual communities, the way users accessed that material changed hardly at all from 1997 to 2004 (not coincidentally, the years when Microsoft's Internet Explorer had a ...

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AOL was set to announce on Monday that it is opening up its AIM Software Development Kit to Linux, Mac OS X and Pocket PC developers. In addition, the company is providing the ability for developers to build customized plug-ins and other software that work with AOL's location-based services, PC-to-PC ...

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Google develops browser sync tool for Firefox - Network World In another boost to Mozilla, Google has created a tool that lets users synchronize the settings of their Firefox browsers across multiple computers. Related links Google upgrades toolbar for Firefox 04/06/06 Google: Building a brick at a time 08/29/05 Google readies toolbar for Firefox 07/06/05 Community Microsoft enlists the help ...

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NTFS for Linux comes in two versions. The first, the Personal Edition, includes a bootable recovery CD with Paragon's own NTFS for Linux driver built in. When booting from this CD, the user can access NTFS and Linux volumes with complete read and write access. In addition, they can change ...

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Everyone knows AJAX (Asynchronous Java and XML) is the Next Big Thing. By combining programming with tagging, you can do amazing things. You can embed applications inside tiny bits of hypertext, and get a lot done in the background with minimal user action. Right now there's a rush to make all this ...

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Most people believe that the future will be powered by hydrogen, but that affordable fuel-cell vehicles are decades away. Hugo Spowers's engineering degree and MBA were sufficient to convince him that the barriers were neither technical nor financial but human. He formed a consortium with BOC, Morgan Cars, QinetiQ and ...

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PORTLAND, Ore., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software, a leading provider of easy-to-use, open-architecture, enterprise collaboration software, today announced it will license its Spark IM Client application under the LGPL Open Source license (the "GNU Lesser General Public License"). Spark, based on the open IETF standard XMPP (Jabber) protocol, is ...

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