By Jamie Monday Oct 26, 2009 12:00pm

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If you have gone to whitehouse.gov since Saturday you may not have noticed any real changes. On the outside this is true, but underneath the hood they just replaced the entire engine and drive train.

After the switch from daylight saving time back to standard time in Europe eBay's auction system apparently ends all auctions one hour early, while the remaining time for each auction still shows 60 minutes.

This means that many auctions got a low price, because many bidders customarily bid late because of the peculiar auction method eBay uses. (eBay auctions end at a predefined point in time, rather than being extended until there is no new bid for a certain time, as is usual in normal auctions.)

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CNET News
Many Macs run Windows faster than PCs do. My Mac mini (yes, mini) outpaced a similarly graced Acer laptop both running Windows Vista... and once I installed ...

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TechRepublic
In last week's TR Dojo Challenge question, I asked TechRepublic members how to say “no to all” replacements when copying files in Windows XP? This problem ...

iPhone's Bad Business

Millions of users of the Apple’s wildly popular phone just found out it no longer works with office email systems. Did Steve Jobs’ company betray its users?

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What a difference a little update makes. Users of Apple's iPhone models 3G and earlier got a rude awakening at work this past week: Their phones no longer work with their office's email systems.

The Mainframe: The Dinosaur That Wouldn't Die

By Michael Neubarth

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This year marks the 45th anniversary of the IBM mainframe. As Tanapong Ittisakulchai wrote in the Nation in May, "Forty-five years ago, on April 7, 1964, the introduction of the IBM System/360 sparked a revolution in computing and business."

New Key Features in PCmover for Windows 7 Announced
PR Web (press release)
When Microsoft® releases Windows® 7, many XP users will have a serious problem - no upgrade path provided by Microsoft to Windows 7. ...

Some articles that compare these two programming languges:

• Extensive comparison
• Wikipedia article
• Java vs. C# (German)

A short conclusion is that C# is a newer, considerably more powerful language that does not have the many straightjacket-like limitations of Java.

Supercomputers pitted against one another in a high-stakes battle of attack and counterattack over a global network where predatory algorithms trawl the information stream, competing every millisecond to gain an informational advantage over rivals. It sounds like Hollywood fiction, but it's just an average trading day on the stock market.

By John Stokes | Last updated July 27, 2009 11:12 PM CT

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For Some, Move To Windows 7 Will Be Tough
Wall Street Journal
The new edition, called Windows 7, is a big improvement over both Vista and the sturdy, 2001-vintage Windows XP still widely in use. ...
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