Avatar Teaches Social Workers How to Talk With Iraq and Afghanistan Vets

May 17, 2010

Lieutenant Rocco’s recently returned from deployment in Iraq and he’s having trouble acclimating. He sits near the edge of a sofa in his social worker’s office, still dressed in fatigues, and sporting a buzz cut. Even though he says he’s okay, he admits to getting flack from his boss about his lack of productivity and that he’s arguing with his wife. “There are things I don’t want to talk about …

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Microsoft Previews Reinvented Windows Live Hotmail

May 17, 2010

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today previewed the new Windows Live Hotmail® – the next generation of personal email – designed with smart tools that help people manage the clutter in their inboxes, save time on the most common tasks they do with email, take the headache out of sharing large attachments like photos, and view and edit Microsoft Office documents right in the Hotmail inbox using …

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The Global Association for Contact Center Best Practices & Networking

May 17, 2010

New Call Centre Training in Western P.E.I. A new call centre, expecting to hire about 50 people, has already begun training people at a facility in Bloomfield. Virtual Agent Services, which has 17 call centres in New Brunswick and now two in P.E.I., is making a quick job of the launch.

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Union County Prosecutor’s Office gang database helps investigations

May 17, 2010

UNION COUNTY — The Union County Prosecutor’s Office started looking more closely at local gangs about seven years ago because, in the words of Prosecutor Theodore Romankow, “we realized (local police) departments were using intelligence printed on three-by-five index cards.”

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What all developers should learn from EVE Online

May 17, 2010

Inside, it’s life-and-death confrontations, cutthroat competition, conspiracies, betrayals and white-collar crime across the span of a hostile universe. But outside the virtual world, developers and gamers work together to shape the future of EVE Online.

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Citrix Boosts Virtual Desktop With Wyse ‘Zero Client’

May 17, 2010

Wyse Technology has entered what heretofore had been an innovator’s market: the zero-footprint client for virtualized desktops. A zero client is a small piece of hardware to which peripherals and a display may be attached. But it dispenses with everything in a traditional operating system that’s not needed to display virtualized applications. Pano Logic and other startups have produced little …

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Qwest tailors Ethernet offering for SMBs, remote offices

May 17, 2010

Qwest ( NYSE: Q ) has developed a smaller bite-sized Ethernet service with the SMB and remote office in mind. Available in 3, 5 and 7 Mbps increments, the new service will appeal to not only SMBs that want a lower bandwidth alternative service to cable but don’t have the capital to spend on a T1 as well as larger enterprises that have branch offices that may house only a few employees. By using …

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Microsoft Settles Patent Dispute for $200 Million

May 17, 2010

Microsoft ( MSFT ) settled a patent dispute with secure real-time communications firm VirnetX for $200 million on Monday, settling a multi-year patent dispute with the firm over technology found in some of Microsoft’s Office products.

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Providence Equity Partners to acquire Virtual Radiologic for $17.25 per share

May 17, 2010

Virtual Radiologic Corporation, a national radiology practice and a leader in the development of radiologist workflow technology, and Providence Equity Partners, a leading global private equity firm that manages over $22 billion in equity capital, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Providence will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of vRad for …

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Facebook Adds Privacy; Citrix Boosts Virtual Desktop

May 17, 2010

Facebook Adds Privacy; Citrix Boosts Virtual Desktop

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