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Three Teens Arrested Following fight seen on YouTube
LITTLE FALLS, N.Y. (WKTV) - A fight between two Little Falls students was captured on a cell phone, and later posted on Youtube.Police saw the incident online, and now three people have been charged.
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Two robotics designs developed at KTH
In addition to encouraging collaboration between universities and embedded industries, the ICES intends to better integrate KTH's own industrial engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and information and communication technology schools.
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T-Mobile, HTC and Google introduced the first Android phone on Tuesday at a launch event in New York.
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Apple deals: Macs under $1000, refurb peripherals
Apple's online store is currently offering a selection of refurbished Macs for under $1000. First off is the 20-inch iMac with 1GB of memory and 250GB hard drive. Two processor speeds are available; the 2.0GHz model is $949 while the 2.4GHz model is $999. Next up is the 2.1GHz MacBook in white for $899 with 1GB of memory and 120GB hard drive. Last is the Mac mini for $679 with 1GB of memory, ...
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FLASHBACK: Our definitive Meet Matt Millen story from 2001
We know the obvious, that he is the man tapped as the latest architect to remove that awful phrase: The Lions have won just one playoff game since their NFL title in 1957. But what about the other things, the stuff away from football? What don't we know about this former Pro Bowl linebacker who at age 43 has been given the job of rebuilding the Lions into a thing of envy -- the kind of proud ...
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Big Blue Adopts Anti-Shenanigans Standards Policy
IBM has announced a new corporate strategy regarding its participation in the hundreds of standard-setting organizations relevant to its products. Simply put, it only wants to work within an environment that is open and transparent. "There is simply no justification for standards to be created in nontransparent ways," said Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards.
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Michael Dell talks Netbooks, services, green IT
The smallish devices known as Netbooks may be all the rage, but the CEO still needs some convincing.
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Intuit, H&R Block end separate fees for e-filing
Two companies with big roles in preparing tax returns are giving their customers a small break. Intuit Inc., which makes TurboTax software, and H&R Block Inc. said separately they both eliminated fees for filing federal returns electronically using their desktop software.
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Boaz touts recycling habit
Boaz City Council members hope by proclaiming October as Cans for Cash month citizens will get into the habit of recycling. During October, residents are asked to gather aluminum cans, bring them to any city department for recycling and help save the environment.
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Congress To Make eBay A Rat
Taken together, three bills in Congress would require online marketplaces and auction sites to secretly police affiliates suspected of selling stolen goods. In addition to requiring extensive record keeping on sellers using the site and turning over that information to authorities upon request, the legislation prohibits resale sites—like eBay or craigslist—from informing suspected sellers they ...
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TechBits package
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) Digg Inc., an Internet startup that specializes in rating news stories, is making a little news of its own with a $28.7 million round of financing. The investment announced Wednesday should squelch recurring rumors of a sale to Google Inc. or Microsoft Corp.
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 24, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Debuts APT, Its "Unified Digital Advertising Platform" At various times it's been called AMP or APEX, but today Yahoo introduced its new "unified digital advertising platform," which the company is now calling APT. With the platform it ...
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Creating an ISO Image
Reader Forrest Bourke seems lost in the woods in regard to making disk images compatible with Windows. He writes:
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Yahoo Debuts APT, Its "Unified Digital Advertising Platform"
At various times it's been called AMP or APEX, but today Yahoo introduced its new "unified digital advertising platform," which the company is now calling APT . With the platform it gained through the Right Media acquisition at its core, Yahoo is positioning APT as a dynamic, open marketplace (dispensing with the term "exchange"). Click to continue reading... ...
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Don't Drive IPhone Developers Away, Apple
One of the presenters at the recent C4 Mac developers conference made a point about Apple that is incredibly relevant to how...
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MEMC shares jump after company updates outlook
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., which supplies silicon wafers used in making computer chips and solar cells, jumped Wednesday after several analysts reiterated bullish positions despite the company's revised sales forecast.
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The New Biology of Biometrics
To a lot of computer users, the concept of biometric authentication is limited to thumb drive reader devices, eye scanners and voice pattern recognition. Such technologies still face stiff competition in most enterprise circles, where passwords and user tokens seemingly work well enough and are quicker and cheaper to deploy.
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10 Great Wi-Fi Gadgets for Work and Play
Add these Wi-Fi devices to your network for a new world of wireless productivity and entertainment.
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Cisco Ready to Mix It Up With Microsoft
Cisco has made countless billions selling switches and routers -- the network equipment that monitors and directs Internet traffic and keeps data flowing smoothly. Now, the hardware giant is moving into another market: corporate communications software. The move is part of a larger strategy to increase revenue and profit growth over the next several years.
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Google's Page: White Spaces Test Was Unfair
Google's Larry Page calls on the U.S. FCC to approve white spaces devices.
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Pew on Networked Workers: Connected, Distracted, Ambivalent
The Pew Internet Project has just put out its latest survey of technology adoption and usage: "Networked Workers." Conducted in March and April of this year, among 2,134 US adults, the findings are not explicitly about search. The data concern use of the Internet and mobile devices at work and at home and the bridging of those worlds. It has some interesting findings reflecting that these ...
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Ten years on, Google cofounders' homepages frozen in time [The Way We Were]
Say what you will about Hubert "Third Google Founder" Chang, at least he dropped some links to the old homepages of Sergey Brin and Larry Page back when the pair were teaching Computer Science 349 at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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EU Calls for Telecom Ref to Kick Up Competition
The European Parliament called Wednesday for a new independent telecom regulator group to help open up competition for Internet and phone services across Europe. But their choice of a group of national telecom agencies does not go as far as the European Commission's demand for a tough EU-wide body to weaken the grip many former state-owned telecom monopolies have in EU nations.
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Feds Aim to Tighten Net Around Online Predators
Cooperation between law enforcement agencies is essential in the fight against online sexual predators, the U.S. attorney general said Tuesday. Michael Mukasey announced the signing of an agreement between four federal agencies to share criminal intelligence on child predators.
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WTO Puts Japan's Chip Tariffs Under Microscope
The World Trade Organization will examine whether Japan is complying with a ruling against its punitive import charge on South Korean computer chips. The WTO has twice ruled against a 27.2 percent charge Tokyo levies on dynamic random access memory made by South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor. Earlier this year, the WTO gave Japan until Sept. 1 to bring the tariff in line with international trade ...
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