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Yahoo launches major upgrade to display ad system
Yahoo Inc. launched a much-anticipated upgrade to its online advertising system Wednesday, one the company termed revolutionary as it bids to emerge from the shadow of search industry leader Google Inc.
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Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Berkman Center Open House 50 Church Street, Cambridge 7pm Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society is having an open house tonight. We may or may not make it, but we did make it to a discussion of two Center pals' new book last night , and we have a couple things to say about it. In their talk, Urs Gasser and John Palfrey discussed their new book, Born Digital: ...
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Teens robbed of laptop, man charged
By John Burman The Hamilton Spectator A 20-year-old Hamilton man has been charged with two counts of robbery in connection with the theft of a computer laptop from two Hamilton teens targeted after leaving the Central Library downtown Sept. 18.
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Those Crazy Internet Security Questions
As Sarah Palin can attest, our online passwords are never as foolproof as we think they are. That's why security questions are getting smarter - and more puzzling
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Seenews: news report of 24.09.2008
Updated news from Balkan Europe powered by www.seenews.com Wednesday 24 September 2008, by Emanuele G. - 0 letture Telekom Slovenije’s Bosnian Unit To Invest 8.1 Mln Euro in Broadband Upgrades Until End-2008 Sep 24, 2008, 15:59 CET Story SeeNews BANJA LUKA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), September 24 (SeeNews) – Telekom Slovenije and its Bosnian subsidiary, Aneks, said on Wednesday they would ...
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Dell confirms high-spec mobile workstation
Precision M6400 17in supports one or two hard drives Further to PC Advisor's report earlier this week that Dell intended to launch a "high-spec mobile workstation", the PC manufacturer has announced the arrivial of the Precision M6400 laptop.
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Ohio man charged with illegal contact with Moon Twp. teen
MOON TWP. — Moon Township police charged a 42-year-old East Liverpool, Ohio, man Thursday with having illegal contact with a teenage girl he met through an Internet chat room.
The Beaver County Times |
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Did MySpace Suicide Mom Brag of Prank?
Mom accused of online hoax told others of "prank," prosecutors say.
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Recycling key to keeping costs down
BY TOBY HENRY Town officials say initial department head requests total some $2.35 million as they begin to look at the expenses in store for 2009-10. The first initial view of next year’s budget began on Sept. 13, as selectmen reviewed the budget requests from the town’s Fire Department, police, road crew and other areas. Selectman Joe Duarte said that the requests total $2,353,339, an ...
The Hooksett Banner |
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Firefox update fixes a dozen flaws
Update spans Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 and will be pushed out to current users to take affect the next time the browser relaunches.
CNET |
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Berliner Communications to Report 2008 Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Year End Results on September 29, 2008
Berliner Communications, Inc. , an end-to-end provider of outsourced services for the wireless communications industry, today announced that it will report financial results for the 2008 fiscal fourth quarter and year-end after market close on Monday, September 29, 2008.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Technology and Creative Communities Unite to Form Arts+Labs, a Groundbreaking New Organization
NEW YORK----In an effort to encourage enhanced development of innovative and creative Internet content distributed over safe and reliable networks, the technology and creative communities today announced the creation of a new advocacy group, Arts+Labs.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Mass merchants deliver web consistency in August
Shoppers with a high broadband connection in August could visit a mass merchandise site in about 5.77 seconds, says Gomez Inc., compared with computer/electronics merchants (6.17 seconds), apparel and accessories retailers (6.21 seconds) and specialty merchants (6.64 seconds).
InternetRetailer.com |
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Staples makes information services a staple for business customers
Two years after making a key acquisition and developing a market plan, Staples Inc. is launching network services for small business. Staples, No. 2 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide , is initiating a range of services, including anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-spyware, patch management, systems and networking monitoring, and platform support.
InternetRetailer.com |
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"It’s under NDA but evidently Apple rejected Microsoft Office for the Mac because it competes with Apple’s iWork. Also, Firefox was rejected because it could confuse users about which to browser to use," Inner Daemon writes.
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British firm expands Internet-directory business
While some mourned last week's announcement that Google Inc. will close its much-heralded Tempe office, an international recruit to the Valley tech scene celebrated its growth at SkySong.
The Arizona Republic |
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Firefox update fixes a dozen flaws
Update spans Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 and will be pushed out to current users to take affect the next time the browser relaunches.
CNET |
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E-commerce now dominates sales at Children’s Wear Digest
With a struggling U.S. economy and higher operations costs, Children’s Wear Digest Inc., a catalog and Internet retailer of children’s clothing and accessories, is responding by shifting resources to its online store.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Sir Roger Moore on James Bond, Bond babes and Bond's drinks
London, Sept 24 : He may be the longest-running James Bond till date, but Sir Roger Moore concedes that he is the 'worst James Bond' - according to the Internet.
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Sears shoppers can ‘build’ themselves and try on clothes online
Sears.com has deployed virtual modeling and soon will add visual search to its full online merchandise catalog. The new virtual modeling technology on Sears.com, Sears Holdings Co.’s e-commerce site, runs on the IBM WebSphere Commerce platform using an application from My Virtual Model.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Apple iTunes 8 assembles playlists based on users’ music
Apple Inc. has added new features to its iTunes music application that assembles compatible tunes from users’ existing iPod tunes. The new iTunes 8 software enables users to build playlists from their music library with one click.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Blockbuster sees the future and it is digital
Blockbuster Inc. is transforming its business model from movie rental stores into a diversified digital entertainment and e-commerce company, CEO James Keyes is telling Wall Street analysts.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Flower and gift sales wilt vs. other Top 500 retail segments in ‘07
2007 was a tough year for online flowers and gifts retailers as their combined sales bloomed by less than any other segment in Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide.
InternetRetailer.com |
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The web and not stores drove sales for Neiman Marcus in fiscal 2008
It was clearly the web and e-commerce that drove sales growth at The Neiman Marcus Group Inc. for the 2008 fiscal year. For the year, Neiman Marcus, No. 37 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide , grew web sales by 13.1% to $564.5 million from e-commerce sales of $499 million in fiscal 2007. In comparison, total revenue increased by 4.8% from $4.39 billion in fiscal 2007 to $4.6 billion in FY ...
InternetRetailer.com |
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Quarter of workers' time online is personal
Most people spend more than 25 per cent of their time online at work on personal activities. And 80 per cent of emails sent by volume in the workplace are personal.
The New Zealand Herald |
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