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Oracle taps Cloudera for Hadoop partnership

...made on Tuesday, sees Oracle opt for a Hadoop distribution that was snubbed by storage rival EMC, which opted for MapR's technology instead. "The... Read more

10 January, 2012
The Velveteen Rabbit HD 1.2

The Velveteen Rabbit HD 1.2

...A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas. The Velveteen Rabbit is snubbed by other more expensive or mechanical toys, the latter of which fancy... Read more

21 July, 2011
KUCI 1.5

KUCI 1.5

...are the voice of freedom for all the independent music that gets snubbed by the major labels. We are the defenders of the faith for... Read more

20 July, 2011

NCI scores big deal for interactive TV in UK

Network Computer Inc. snubbed rival Microsoft Corp. in the U.K. by beating out the software... Read more

11 March, 1998 by Robert Lemos

HP snubbed over blade server standards call

Hewlett-Packard has been snubbed by other server manufacturers in its call for a standard for blade... Read more

6 February, 2002 by Matt Loney

Disabled jobseekers snubbed by employers

Over one million disabled people are looking for work, but employers say they are unaware of it Read more

15 March, 2002 by Kimberley Rothwell

Microsoft vs Google returns to court

The battle over Kai-Fu Lee is to continue, after Google snubbed a Microsoft settlement offer Read more

14 October, 2005 by Alorie Gilbert

Itanium wins limited support

...of tech heavyweights toeing the Itanium line, many leading server makers have snubbed the newly formed Itanium Solutions Alliance Read more

27 September, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Americans went overseas for war news

During the Iraq war, Americans snubbed local online news sources such as Fox and USA Today in favour... Read more

25 April, 2003 by Dawn Kawamoto

Infiniband -- old before its time?

Infiniband, the new storage/server interconnect, has been snubbed by Intel and Microsoft -- but that's no reason to count it... Read more

18 September, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

BugTraq tiff 'a slippery slope'?

After being snubbed by Microsoft, the popular BugTraq security list gets a cold shoulder from... Read more

14 December, 2000 by Robert Lemos

Netscape skips CDF for Netcaster

Netscape Communications today snubbed Microsoft by taking a rain-check on support for its arch-rival... Read more

16 April, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Pilots may bring legal challenge against ID card plan

...ID card project ran into more trouble today, as the scheme was snubbed by airline pilots and the Scottish government. Lawyers for the British Airline... Read more

17 February, 2009 by Nick Heath

Gates falls from top of world's rich list

...only led to the ignominy of public rejection when the search giant snubbed the offer, the rejection also rippled loudly and publicly through Microsoft's... Read more

7 March, 2008 by Natasha Lomas

Isle of Man snubs iSoft

The Isle of Man has snubbed medical software that is central to the NHS's National Programme for... Read more

23 March, 2007 by David Meyer

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J.A. Watson

@apexwm - You are basically right. GIMP is not included in the Fedora 17 base distribution, but it can be installed from the Add/Remove Software...

17 minutes ago by J.A. Watson on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
Moley

@pjc158 Unfortunately our government signed away any such possibility in a entirely unequal treaty with the USA, purportedly in response to...

28 minutes ago by Moley on Judge orders US to share MegaUpload evidence
J.A. Watson

@Thomas - Thanks for the tip, based on what you said I went back and downloaded the KDE spin, and installed that one another netbook (NF310). You...

32 minutes ago by J.A. Watson on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
apexwm

JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

1 hour ago by apexwm on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
SoapyTablet

'Cut Price' Data Roaming? The price has been cut, but it is certainly not 'cut price' in the sense of the phrase, and nowhere near local EU data...

3 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Cut-price data roaming gets all-clear for July
apexwm

BrownieBoy: "Such crashes are normally down to the OS and/or a rogue application, which could be fixed by re-imaging. Everybody knows how Windows...

4 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

4 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
pjc158

Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

4 hours ago by pjc158 on Judge orders US to share MegaUpload evidence
Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

6 hours ago by Dean Talboys via Facebook on Assange loses extradition battle in Supreme Court
SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

7 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

10 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

17 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

18 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

19 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

21 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

22 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

23 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

23 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

1 day ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC