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NEWS ABOUT: hardware

hardware stories: 4 news summaries

Jokey Bush Applies for, Turns Down Job

Former prez could have had free parking, discount in greeter gig

Feb 22, 09 1:03 PM CST
(Newser) - George W Bush made a surprise visit to the hardware store that published a job offer for him in a Dallas paper, joking that he was "looking for a job." The owner provided him with a jacket and nametag ("W"), and the former president spent... More »

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Dallas • joke • hardware • part-time jobs • job • George W. Bush

Vista Stumped Microsoft Bosses

Company emails reveal execs struggled to get OS working on PCs

Feb 29, 08 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Many Windows Vista users have struggled to make the operating system work with their hardware, and emails released this week reveal that even Microsoft bosses had a tough time, PC World reports. The emails have been made public as part of a lawsuit that claims Microsoft deliberately misled consumers by... More »

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Microsoft • Microsoft Vista • lawsuit • hardware • operating system • computer

Google's Build, Don't Buy Ethos

CNET blogger looks at the Internet giant's increasing vertical integration of its tech

Nov 19, 07 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Is Google moving in the direction of writing its own platform software and building its own hardware? That's what Gordon Haff argues on CNET's The Pervasive Datacenter blog, citing recent news about Google designing its own network switches and writing its own virtual machine for its cellphone platform, on top... More »

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Yahoo • Google • software • hardware • vertical integration • computer

Prankster's 1st Computer Virus Turns 25

'Dumb little practical joke' led to $38 billion security industry

Sep 2, 07 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A prankster who wrote the first computer virus 25 years ago says only, “It was some dumb little practical joke.” Yet Richard Skrenta’s desire to infiltrate other Apple II’s with a poem (“It will get on all your disks; it will infiltrate your chips”)... More »

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Microsoft • Apple • Windows • software • computer virus • Elk Cloner • spyware • hardware • virus protection • Richard Skrenta

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