Open Systems Journal

The smart grid is rapidly becoming a reality in the US, as utilities have been installing networked monitoring and control equipment, both in their own facilities and in their customers’ homes. The pace of these installations should accelerate due to recent initiatives from the Department of Energy and the state of California; across the [...]

AP - EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service.,EBay completes sale of Skype for $2 billion
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Watch video of six of the most spectacular and costly rocket explosions in history.

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The smart grid is rapidly becoming a reality in the US, as utilities have been installing networked monitoring and control equipment, both in their own facilities and in their customers’ homes. The pace of [...]

The Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) team announced today the release of Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP, a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This is a production-ready release that is provided under an open source BSD license, with the source code hosted [...]

AP - Dell Inc. said Thursday that its net income dropped 54 percent in the latest quarter and amid signs the company isn’t fully benefiting from the computer industry’s fledgling recovery.
,Dell profit falls 54 pct; report pulls shares down
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Twenty-four thousand training vouchers will be made available to state residents.

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Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Not when that imitation takes horrific video with terrible sound. Meet the Memorex Mini camcorder, a pale and warped copy of the Flip Mino.

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YouTube clips have previously allowed for captioning, but it was a system that was a little buggy and only worked from YouTube’s site. That’s all changed with the advent of machine-generated captions and auto-timing.
Google’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology has been paired up with YouTube’s caption system to create automatic captions for the [...]

Internet search giant Google previews its Chrome OS operating system, to be available to users by the end of 2010.
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