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Tech Ticker
IPhone3Gs for RussiaApple's iPhone 3G will go on sale next week in Russia, Europe's biggest wireless market by subscribers, at Eldorado Group and other local retailers.
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Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free
webax writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "[An Adobe security hole] exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience. 'It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly,' said Bruce Schneier ... The flaw ...
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WEATHER FOR STROUDSBURG:
TANNERSVILLE — Northampton Community College will help scores of downsized and out-of-luck workers retool themselves for computer-based jobs.
Pocono Record |
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UK cricket fitness coach jailed for porn
A New Zealand-born fitness coach with the England cricket team was jailed in Britain for six months for downloading "disgusting" child porn movies.
The West Australian |
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Software makes iTunes accessible to blind
Jim Denham, the assistive technology coordinator at the Perkins School for the Blind, is looking forward to spending this rainy weekend, at home, on his computer. Thanks...
Boston Herald |
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UK cricket fitness coach jailed for porn
A New Zealand -born fitness coach with the England cricket team was jailed in Britain for six months for downloading "disgusting" child porn movies.
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Business Briefing
New York broadens inquiry into short selling ... AT&T and DirectTV launch satellite service ... Regulators again delay decision on blood thinner ... Apple agrees to make iTunes store more available to blind ... also, new top officers and shipping news.
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Linux Today - Red Hat Gets Serious About Virtualization
"While VMware still dominates this nascent market, Red Hat sees the real competition coming from Microsoft and is positioning itself as the open-source alternative to Hyper-V.
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Central Plains News
The difficulty with cyberbullying is while most conventional bullying takes place at school, it occurs in the home. “It can stem from something that happened at the playground, move into the home, move onto the computer.
Portage Daily Graphic |
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Burmese dissident websites shut down
TWO leading dissident Burmese websites have been shut down by a sophisticated cyber attack believed to have been initiated by the military junta a day before the first anniversary of Burma's so-called Saffron Revolution.
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England cricket coach jailed after downloading child porn on ECB laptop
Marques Church, 31, an England cricket coach who ran up a £23,000 bill in a month after downloading 'disgusting' child porn movies was today jailed for six months.
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Files on RAF staff stolen from base
Thieves have stolen files containing the personal records of thousands of serving and former RAF staff, the Ministry of Defence said. The information was stored on computer hard drives at the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency at RAF Innsworth, Gloucester.
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Teen charged with stealing laptop
A city teen stole a laptop from a friend's home, police reported Friday. ...
The Nashua Telegraph |
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Lawmakers: Domestic abuse bill "cowardly"
TRENTON - A man comes home from work and locks up his wife's cell phone and computer while she watches on in horror. The wife is too scared to walk out of the house and has no other means of calling for help. Is this domestic abuse?
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News
A Brisbane man has been stripped of $20,000 and left red-faced after his female friend turned out to be a man, in an online romance scam. A 23-year-old man was arrested in Nigeria and charged with fraud over the incident which left 45-year-old Ralph Thomason thousands of dollars out of pocket.
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Local New Media players to host conference
Valerie Head and Joe Kromer live in the world of New Media -- a world in which technology intersects with art and both intersect with commerce. It is a world lively with ideas, frequently shared over the Internet, but also presented in conferences in places such as New York or Toronto.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Brisbane lonely-heart fooled in online dating scam
A Brisbane man has been stripped of $20,000 and left red-faced after his female friend turned out to be a man, in an online romance scam. A 23-year-old man was arrested in Nigeria and charged with
The West Australian |
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Coakley, Apple agree on iTunes access for blind
After a gentle nudge from Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, Apple Inc. is redesigning its popular iTunes music software to make it easier for blind people to use.
Boston Globe |
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Hamilton County: Some electronic court records list wrong information
A January switch to a new computer program for Hamilton County Criminal Court may have caused some electronic records to transfer incorrectly, leaving a few parts of the electronic database with wrong or repeated information, officials said.
Chattanooga Times Free Press |
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Defense wants Web info curbed in sex case
The former Buhler High School teacher accused of molesting a foreign exchange student filed motions ...
Hutchinson News |
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English cricket coach jailed
A NEW Zealand-born fitness coach with the England cricket team was jailed last night for six months for downloading child porn movies.
Herald Sun |
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DVD bootlegger sentenced
BRIDGEPORT -- With the help of a few computers, printers and DVD/VHS recorders and players, Stephen Singarella made more than 8,000 copies of TV shows and movies, which he sold on eBay for more than
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Teacher beams in lesson on caterpillars
Beamed up on the screen in Wilson Middle School's auditorium, eighth-grade science teacher Cathy Longley-Cook smiled and waved at the school's entire sixth-grade class. Her image came via video conference from her computer in a dorm room in rural Louisiana. She's staying there while she takes part in an Earthwatch Fellowship to collect caterpillars in an effort to measure the effect of ...
The MetroWest Daily News |
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SMIF grants access to books, computers
A recent grant from the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation has given money to donate over 4,000 books and 35 new computers.
Mankato Free Press |
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Hudson man indicted in stalking case
A 34-year-old Hudson man was indicted by a Middlesex grand jury on multiple charges including witness intimidation, criminal harassment, unauthorized access into a computer system and identity fraud.
The MetroWest Daily News |
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