Despite being only 15 years old, Debian is more mature than any of the other operating systems. And it is available for free to download and use.

The most popular and stable GNU/Linux operating system Debain has turned 15 today. In these last 15 years Debian has established itself as the most stable operating system. Most of the popular GNU/Linux distributions, like Ubuntu and Knoppix, are based on Debian.
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Deskstar 7K1000.B is a 7,200 RPM hard drive that improves idle power consumption up to 43 per cent over its 1TB predecessor.

Hitachi has introduced its second-generation one terabyte hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000.B. The energy-efficient 7,200 RPM hard drive boasts three-disk design that improves idle power consumption up to 43 per cent over its 1TB predecessor. The drive also includes Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) (an optional feature), and uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), to deliver data security protection.
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Samsung Electronics Co, a global leader in consumer electronics, continues to develop market-leading technology in the home appliances sector with the launch of its latest state of the art washing machines; the Poseidon Big and Frontier.

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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Google Inc.’s YouTube is setting up a virtual screening room to bring the work of independent filmmakers to a global audience.

Struggling filmmakers already use YouTube to kick-start viral marketing campaigns.
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BEIJING: China has begun an anti-monopoly investigation into US software giant Microsoft and lawsuits by local companies could follow, state media reported Wednesday.

China’s State Intellectual Property Office and some research institutions have targeted Microsoft and several other global software firms over suspected monopoly activities, the Shanghai Securities News said.

Firms will be organised to file lawsuits against the software giants after China’s debut anti-monopoly law comes into effect on August 1, unnamed sources told the newspaper.
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Market Forces May Lead to Surprising Results as 10-Year Partnership Pans Out

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Yahoo is outsourcing search monetization to Google in a 10-year deal, the companies officially announced tonight. But advertisers see less competition and higher prices.

Of course, Yahoo describes it as a non-exclusive deal that gives it the ability to display paid search results from Google, Yahoo’s own Panama search market or other third parties, presumably Microsoft, which is the only other search player with any significant domestic business. The deal also covers contextual text ads.

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Time Warner Inc’s AOL is set to expand Platform-A, its integrated ad buying platform, in Europe with an aim to further its business opportunities in the field of global display ad.
AOL (formerly America Online, Inc.), an American Internet services and media company, has a publishing network in Europe that includes owned and operated sites in 13 countries in the region.
The company has named Brendan Condon as the head of Platform-A’s International operations, based in London. Condon will report to Platform-A president Lynda Clarizio.

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The country is on the verge of taking off in the information technology (IT) field, following the telecom revolution, says Microsoft Pakistan Country Manager Kamal Ahmed. “I am very hopeful that the explosion in the IT sector will be just like the one we have seen in the country’s telecom sector,” he told a TV news channel.

He said that it had been observed in many countries that the telecom sector developed ahead of the IT sector. The telecom sector provides the bandwidth, which is the backbone for the IT sector to flourish, he added. He said that software, hardware and technologies are also getting cheaper day by day. So, people are buying more and more personal computers (PCs).
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LAHORE: Samsung Electronics consolidated its presence in the global colour laser printer market by releasing the world’s smallest colour laser printer.

“The newly-released personal colour laser printer CLP-315 is about 20 percent smaller than the world’s previous smallest model CLP-300. With black and high glossy edges, the CLP-315 is based on Samsung’s NO-NOISTM technology, there by reducing the printer noise to 45dBA, lower than those created by general dialogue (50dBA). The CLP-315 is capable of printing as many as 16 sheets (black and white) and 4 sheets (colour printing) per minute. Compared with its previous version CLP-300, the cutting-edge model boasts a great improvement in photo printing capability,” said Samsung Head of Marketing Shahid Khan.

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Study Confirms Growth in Demand for Managed Metro Ethernet, Virtual Private Network, Voice and Security Services

SAN JOSE, Calif. Cisco announced the latest results of a multi-year market study of the global adoption of managed IT and communication services. The study, performed by Ovum and commissioned by Cisco as part of its on-going commitment to enabling service providers, confirmed that businesses are increasingly looking to managed service providers for managed metro Ethernet, managed Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), managed IP voice and managed security. The report notes that the market for these managed IP-based services continues to see strong growth at a current compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18 percent over the forecast period and is expected to deliver revenues of US $66 billion by 2012.
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A growing number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide are taking online social networking to the streets, research conducted by Nielsen reveals.

The findings, released by Nielsen Mobile, a service of Nielsen show that the UK leads Europe in mobile social networking on a percentage basis — with the US boasting comparable numbers.

In the UK, approximately 810,000 mobile subscribers, or 1.7 per cent of all mobile subscribers in the country, visited social networking websites on their mobile phones in the first quarter of 2008.
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In order to maintain its growth, NetSol Technologies has planned further investment.

CEO NetSol Saleem Ghauri told this to investors of the stock market while delivering a presentation to them.

Ghauri said NetSol was a multinational provider of global business intelligence services, applications integrator of ERP solutions. It aims at high quality solutions for client-specific needs and enhancing return on investment while mitigating risks.

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