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Chat Room Death Soliciter Back In Court
(9/25/08) A Klamath Falls man who tried to organize a Valentine's Day suicide party' three years ago is headed back to the state hospital. Gerald Krinekrein was found guilty, but insane two years ago for using Internet chat rooms to solicit women to take part in the event.
KOBI - KOTI Medford-Klamath Falls |
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Bail granted to alleged computer hacker charged in Calgary fraud
CALGARY - A man charged in an alleged Internet scam that saw nearly $2 million siphoned from a Calgary company has been granted bail.
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Judge: Microsoft doesn't owe Alcatel-Lucent $1.5B
Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled Thursday, in what may be the last word on a long-running digital music patent lawsuit. In February 2007, a jury in district court in San Diego determined Microsoft infringed on two patents that cover the encoding and decoding of audio into the digital MP3 format, a popular ...
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Free computer class Saturday for seniors filling up
Ask some older people if they use computers and they'll recite the adage, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."
Tucson Citizen |
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German held over games fan’s killing
A 21-year-old man was being questioned by police in Germany yesterday over the murder of a British computer games enthusiast he allegedly met over the internet.
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Yahoo Rolls Out APT Ad Platform
After a long wait and constant delays in the development process, today Yahoo, Inc. finally released APT, its brand new ad serving platform which aims at providing publishers and advertisers with a unified, simple and intuitive interface to make the Internet advertising business much easier to manage for both parties.
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Computer science curriculum at MES
DOHA • MES Indian School recently introduced Computer Science to the Kerala Board stream 12th standard curriculum. The Board of Secondary Education, Kerala-India, has granted permission to MES Indian School to start this new section.
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Computer gamer held over student's killing
A German computer gamer is being held in connection with the murder of a British university student after an apparent cyberspace dispute escalated into a killing. The 21-year-old from a town near Frankfurt is accused of travelling to the UK to murder Matthew Pyke, 20, who was found last Friday. Police are exploring the possibility that the two men fell out over Wars Central, Pyke's ...
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Computer, Electronics, Appliance, Textile and Bicycle Recycling Drop-off Day
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) - County Executive Chris Collings has announced that Erie County in cooperation with the Northeast Southtown Solid Waste Management Board (NEST) will conduct a free Computer, Electronics, Appliance, Textile, and Bicycle Recycling Drop-off Day on Saturday, September 27, 2008, at Erie Community College South Campus in Orchard Park.
WIVB Buffalo |
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Google phone makes debut
SAN FRANCISCO — T-Mobile USA unveiled on Tuesday the first Google-powered handset, a stylish device that mimics many of the iPhone’s features and adds a few new wrinkles.
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Advocates Demand Congress Put Bailout Details on Internet
We've heard it so many times on the campaign trail this year: We'll make government more transparent and accountable, and the internet will play a starring role. Why don't we start with the Wall Street bailout bill?
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Internet connectivity topic at meeting held Monday in county
A regional meeting was held Monday at the Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation conference room on U.S. 21 in Sparta to discuss ways to increase Internet access and usage in North Carolina.
Alleghany News |
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Google rolls out rival to iPhone
T-Mobile has rolled out Google's answer to the iPhone as the Web search giant makes its biggest stab yet at leaping from consumers' computers into their pockets with a device cheaper than rival Apple offers.
TVNZ |
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NYT Ponders the Future of Solaris In a Linux/Windows World
JerkBoB links to a story at the New York Times about the future prospects of Sun's Solaris, excerpting: "Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris ...
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Microsoft's Africa Chairman Tackles Access
The story "Microsoft's Africa chairman tackles access problem" used confusing wording to describe a theoretical exchange...
PC World |
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MySpace Music Could Shake up Digital Music
MySpace Music represents a promising next step in the tumultuous integration of the Web into the music business, but its...
PC World |
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Adobe's CS4 Message
As part of this week's Creative Suite 4 launch, Adobe taped a launch event Monday night that it broadcast on the Web to...
PC World |
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After Password Glitch, Firefox Patch Due Next Week
Mozilla hopes to release a Firefox 3.0.3 update early next week to fix a password bug affecting some users.
PC World |
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Microsoft's Africa Chairman Tackles Access Problems
Microsoft's chairman for Africa met with African heads of state to discuss ways to bring technology to people across the...
PC World |
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Wall Street Beat: IT Investors Eye Buybacks, Earnings
As the U.S. financial crisis roiled markets, stock buybacks from Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard and earnings from Red Hat and...
PC World |
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Man pleads guilty to using Internet to find boys
Associated Press - September 25, 2008 1:54 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A suburban Kansas City man pleads guilty to one federal count of transporting a minor across state lines for...
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Sky jam over Britain as supercomputer crashes causing chaos at airports
Tens of thousands of passengers had their plans thrown into chaos last night after a computer glitch brought airports to a standstill.
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Man arrested in Germany by police hunting murderer of British internet gaming fan
A German was being held in his homeland yesterday on suspicion of the murder of a British website administrator found stabbed to death in his own flat.
Daily Mail: World News |
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At last, the year of mobile computing is here
Experts have been predicting that next year would be the year of mobile computing for more than a decade. But that next year is finally year. My personal experience demonstrates just how much this will change our lives.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Google’s End Run Around the Wireless Carriers
In a recently published patent , Google describes a vision for an open wireless world, one in which mobile devices (and smartphones in particular) are no longer married to particular cellular service providers. When you buy a phone in the United States today, you typical have to sign a contract that prevents you from using that phone with more than one provider for a predetermined amount of ...
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