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This video surveillance system includes a 320-gig hard drive, infrared night vision and component video ports. Archived video can be backed up through FTP
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Editor’s picks: Washable keyboard and Calliflower
The J84-2800 Series keyboard is targeted at institutions requiring strict disease prevention measures, while Calliflower lets conference callers see other participants’ names and pictures. Find out what Aventiv has in store with Noma Desk 2.4
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Google’s guilt by association
Through no fault of its own, the search giant takes a reputation hit. Why staying off the front page requires you to police your partners too
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8 Reasons a developer would NEVER want to be a CIO
The hassles of corporate politics, including meetings and death by PowerPoint, are some of the reasons programmers would not want to become chief information officers. Do you aspire to suck up to the CFO?
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D-Link Canada sets sights on SMB storage market
With small-to-medium sized businesses expanding their needs to store and backup critical data, D-Link has launched a new 8-terabyte SAN array that it says will fit the bill at the right price. An IDC Canada analyst weighs in on whether you should buy into the hype
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Newegg Names New CEO
City of Industry-based Newegg, an online electronics retailer, said today that the firm has shuffled its executive staff in a major change. According to the firm, Tally Liu, current President of the firm, has been promoted to Chairman and CEO of the company. Liu replaces Fred Chang, one of Newegg’s founders. According to the firm, Chang will continue to serve on the firm’s board and executive committee, as well as President of Newegg’s China operations. Liu has been at Newegg for almost three years, and had previously served at Knight Ridder Inc. and its subsidiaries. Newegg said that it is the second-largest online-only retailer in the United State, with $1.9B in annual sales.
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NovaDigm Therapeutics Raises $4M
Torrance-based NovaDigm Therapeutics, a stealth biomedical firm developing vaccines and therapeutics for the treatment of infections, has quietly raised $4M in funding. Backers of the firm include Domain Associates; it also appears that the firm has previously received funding from KPCB Pandemic and Biodefense Fund from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The funding amount was disclosed in quarterly funding numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree survey earlier this month.
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Nirvanix Hires Executive To Focus On Entertainment
San Diego-based Nirvanix said Wednesday that it has hired on Ezra Davidson as its new Managing Director of Media Entertainment Services, focused on the entertainment industry. Nirvanix, which provides storage-as-a-service for Internet and other companies, said Davidson will report to the firm’s VP of Sales, Daniel Havens. Davidson previously served as co-founder of SyncCast, as well as serving at Metromedia International Group, The Brown Organization, and a consultant at Deloitte. Nirvanix provides storage on the Internet which is accessible via application programming interfaces, and competes against Amazon S3.
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Intel Collaborates with Government of Portugal on a Comprehensive New Education Initiative
LISBON, Portugal, July 30, 2008 In one of the most comprehensive educational technology programs in the world, the Portuguese government is providing educational PCs to school children receiving basic education — equivalent to elementary school — in a memorandum of understanding with Intel Corporation.
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Leap Wireless, FIM Sign Content Deal
San Diego-based Cricket Communications, a wireless service provider owned by Leap Wireless, and Fox Interactive Media said this morning that they are in a content distribution agreement. Details of the agreement were not disclosed, but the firms said that the deal will enable Cricket customers to access FIM’s portfolio of web sites. Cricket is an flat-rate, unlimited wireless service; FIM’s web sites include MySpace, Photobucket, and other properties.
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