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Almanac (The State)
MEETINGS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COLUMBIA CLEMSON CLUB: Noon Wednesday at Seawell’s on Rosewood Drive. Guest speaker will be Will Merritt. Tickets are $20; to make a reservation, send a check payable to the Columbia Clemson Club, P.O. Box 2242, Columbia, SC 29202 or e-mail mtaylor@mcnair.net PALMETTO PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB: 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, at Capital Senior Center, 1650 ... Microsoft's Initiative Spawns Software to Improve Worker Productivity (HispanicBusiness.com)
Microsoft Corp. 's Matt Dyor will be paying close attention Tuesday to how computer users react to the program that he and another employee have been developing for the past year. Hardball: Jerome Holtzman remembered on Monday (Chicago Tribune)
In a twist, Microsoft lawyer helps create software prototype (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The latest experimental prototype from Microsoft's Office Labs group was created not by hard-core developers but by a Microsoft patent lawyer and an employee from the company's IT department. Couple’s computer center in Taiwan a friendship hub (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
TAIPEI—ROY AND HEIDE VILLUNA are two unassuming Filipinos accomplishing feats in Taiwan. As the heart and soul of the 5-year-old e-PC Data Processing and Learning Center in Taipei, this couple has been quietly and steadily promoting computer literacy among Taiwan’s overseas Filipino workers. Solzhenitsyn, Literary Giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89 (The Lexington Dispatch)
The Nobel Prize-winning author, whose literary struggles revealed the afflictions of Soviet Communism, has died. Where Can You Find Jewelry Making Patterns? (BellaOnline)
Places to find patterns for jewelry making. Brian Taylor on the Scottish cabinet's away-days (BBC News)
Blether with Brian Cuil: Good, But Not Great (ReadWriteWeb)
Last night, the new search engine Cuil launched out of stealth-mode. As some had predicted, it seems Google's announcement about the size of its search index was a preemptive move to take some momentum away from one of Cuil's main features: the size of its index with 120 billion pages. As Cuil's team features quite a number of Google alumni, comparisons with Google's search are inevitable. ... Students can enroll in public school courses offered online | By Lisa Coalwell Loveland Reporter-Herald (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Nathan Jones may move from home school to public school this fall, but he won’t have far to travel. The 13-year-old Loveland boy’s commute will be the distance to his computer.
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