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Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobe
Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems Inc's encryption on all television shows and movies found on its site, software maker Adobe said on Monday.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Tech Stocks Fall Hard As Economic Immunity Doubted
Microsoft called on Congress to strongly reconsider the bailout package to "re-instill confidence and stability in the financial markets."
InformationWeek |
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Breath New Life into Your Aging MP3 Player with Rockbox [Mp3 Players]
Since the birth of the iPod in 2001, Apple has released generation after generation of new iPods packed with exciting feature updates. The problem is that your not-so-old iPod probably feels like...
Lifehacker |
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Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobe
Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems Inc's encryption on all television shows and movies found on its site, software maker Adobe said on Monday.
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News |
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Servers buckle as Congress rejects $700bn Wall Street bailout
Microsoft assumes voice of reason Following the US House of Representatives rejection of a $700bn the financial bailout bill and the ensuing stock market carnage, it's easy to overlook the unspoken victims of today's Wall Street meltdown.…
The Register |
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Apple shares plunge as America's shoppers end their buying spree
Fears that the global economic downturn is curtailing consumer shopping habits sent Apple's shares plunging 16% as analysts took a red pen to previously robust forecasts for sales of iPods, iMacs and iPhones. At one point, the drop was the biggest one-day fall for Apple in seven years. It was a marked change of sentiment towards one of Silicon Valley's most profitable companies, which had ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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Saved by SaaS
Data backup via software as a service means so long to tapes -- if you've got the bandwidth.
PC World |
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paidContent.org - Bailout Bill Dies: Weakness Hits Everyone; GOOG Closes Below $400; AAPL Off Nearly 20 Percent
Apple: Down 18 percent. Google: Down 9 percent. Yahoo: Down 9 percent. Amazon: Down 12 percent. Yeah, that was a pretty ugly day in the market, as the House of Representatives stunned the world by killing a bailout deal that everyone assumed was a given. Then again, it was ugly even before the voting started, perhaps on murmurs that the deal would fail, though maybe investors felt it wouldn't ...
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Google Has Gone and Redefined 'Beta'
What's up with a four-and-a-half-year-old product that's still in beta?
PC World |
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The Devilish Details of Desktop Virtualization
Early adopters of virtual desktop infrastructure report compelling benefits, significant hurdles, and a cloudy view into ROI.
PC World |
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The Ever-Dynamic John Lam on Iron Ruby, Open Source and Microsoft
John Lam, who heads the Iron Ruby effort at Microsoft, stopped by to tell O'Reilly News all the exciting work going on with dynamic languages at Redmond. John spent some time discussing what makes a language dynamic, what the benefits of dynamic languages are, and how Microsoft is trying to leverage the power of lanaguages such as Ruby inside their CLR framework.
O'Reilly Media |
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Is Adobe Still Sleeping Well?
Last May, Tim O'Reilly posted a piece on whether or not Adobe was worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft. In a nutshell, the answer was no. From a book sales perspective, that was true and remains true today. But there is more to that answer than what...
O'Reilly Media |
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Apple Should Reset All App Store Reviews
With its decision to change the commenting system at the App Store to require customers to buy iPhone software before they...
PC World |
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Lawmakers Call on DOJ to Approve Google-Yahoo Deal
Eleven lawmakers call on the U.S. Department of Justice to approve a proposed advertising deal between Google and Yahoo.
PC World |
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Tories would decentralise NHS IT
The party's NHS Improvement Plan , released on 29 September 2008 by shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley, says the party will replace "Labour's centrally determined and unresponsive national IT system".
KableNET |
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Black Market Little Big Planet Keys Surface on Ebay
We know you're tired of waiting for our Little Big Planet beta key giveaway , but spending upwards of $60 on eBay probably isn't the brightest alternative. Still, that's exactly what many gamers are resorting to. We've even heard horror stories of people being suckered into paying shipping and handling for the email-delivered beta keys -- perhaps victims of the King of Town's ...
1up.com |
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Clearfield sex offender can be anonymous online, judge rules
Posted: 5:36 PM- A federal judge has ruled that a state law requiring sex offenders to reveal their Internet screen names and passwords to the Utah Department of Corrections violates the constitutional rights of a Clearfield man.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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Synaptics Adds Two Innovative Advanced Gestures to its Growing Library of TouchPad(TM) Gesture Recognition
Synaptics Inc. , a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications and entertainment devices, today announced the availability of two new advanced gestures -- ChiralRotate and Two-Finger Flick.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Asia is the World's Leading Regional Internet Market in Terms of Subscribers
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2008 Asia - Internet, Broadband and Convergence Statistics " report to their offering.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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FBI: Firefighter Bought Online Child Porn
Authorities say a Stickney firefighter not only surfed for porn, he hid it in a drop ceiling in his basement.
NBC 5 Chicago |
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TiVo TV recording now available on a PC
WASHINGTON -- US digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. and Germany's Nero AG unveiled a product on Monday that allows the popular TiVo capturing of television shows on a personal computer.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Class action settlement money helps fund UCSC video game major
SANTA CRUZ — A new major at the University of California, Santa Cruz has received more than $450,000 from a class action lawsuit against Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. related to overtime practices, the university announced.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Free event set for recycling computers
Renew Computers will have a free computer recycling event from 10 a.
Marin Independent Journal |
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Sprint debuts WiMax broadband in Baltimore market
Sprint Nextel Corp. opened its new wireless network to customers in Baltimore on Monday, offering Internet service for laptops for $45 per month. It's the first commercial network in the U.S. to use so-called WiMax technology for mobile customers.
The Daily Record |
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Apple hits 52-week low after analyst downgrades
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of Apple Inc. plunged to a 52-week low Monday and flirted with the $100 line after analysts downgraded the stock because they believe slowing consumer spending will hit its computer business.
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