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Bank robber finds getaway on Craigslist
A man is being sought after he successfully used Craigslist to cover a bank robbery he carried out. He posted an advert on the popular classified web site offering landscaping work on a road maintenance project in Monroe, Washington for $28.50 an hour.
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Symbian takes on Apple and Google with new Series 60
As expected , Symbian has released the latest version of its Series 60 (S60) mobile phone operating system, and has added features to make it more competitive with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android.
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Fujitsu may leave hard drive market
Japanese computing giant Fujitsu is reportedly looking to sell off its hard drive business to rival storage specialist Western Digital. According to a report by Japanese news agency Nikkei, the deal could run as high as $945 million.
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China's Suntech solar plans to triple U.S. sales
Chinese solar company Suntech Power said Thursday it will triple sales in the United States next year through large megawatt and commercial projects and an aggressive expansion in the residential market. Suntech is broadening its reach into commercial sector by acquiring EI Solutions, the California company that helped convert Google"s headquarters to run partly on solar power.
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Will Metro & Google Transit Ever Happen?
Using Google Transit, a trip from Union Station to Chatsworth on a Metrolink Train Last week, vowing to help make NYC transit less complicated, New York City and Google officially launched Google Transit's ability to help people navigate the city. So it got us thinking. If New York City has it and Chicago has it in addition to Orange County, San Diego, Burbank, Irvine, Metrolink ...
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Senator urges DOJ to monitor Google, Yahoo deal
A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its investigation into the antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google and Yahoo plan to launch this month.
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Pete’s YouTube tribute to Kate
Pete Doherty has posted a romantic tribute to Kate Moss on the internet. The clip on video sharing website YouTube, which is posted under the heading ‘Gracewastelands’, features the rocker singing a
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US insurer using computer games to sharpen driving skills
Allstate corporate campus in Northbrook, Illinois. Allstate set out to prove that playing computer games can sharpen the minds of older drivers so much that they deserve discounts on their auto policies.
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Google shares fall along with Wall Street
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of Google Inc. retreated Thursday along with the broader market after a Jefferies analyst lowered his estimates for the online search leader, predicting its international revenue growth will likely to be hurt by the strengthening dollar.
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Cell Chip Coming To the PC Via a PCI Express Card
arcticstoat writes with an excerpt from Custom PC: "After developing a brand new CPU architecture from the ground-up, you'd expect that Toshiba, Sony and IBM would have more uses for the Cell architecture than the PlayStation 3, and Toshiba has been quick to make use of the architecture's HD video transcoding abilities in its new Qosimo laptops. However, Leadtek is now taking Toshiba's efforts a ...
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Web site to name restaurants with unsatisfactory inspections
According to the Centers for Disease Control Internet Web site, foodborne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year. No state, county or municipality is immune from this problem, according to a press release from Monmouth County.
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2010 Olympic tickets go on sale online Friday
Seats for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver go on sale Friday, but fans won't have to worry about getting a wristband or camping out all night to get a space in line.
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Teens and Technology
(Springfield, MO) -- Even if they're safe at home, kids could be traveling to dangerous places, all through the Internet.
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Fujitsu may leave hard drive market
Japanese computing giant Fujitsu is reportedly looking to sell off its hard drive business to rival storage specialist Western Digital.
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Fifa give Poland deadline
WARSAW: World football's governing body Fifa has issued Poland an Oct 6 deadline to reinstate the country's scandal-mired football federation (PZPN), the Polish PAP news agency reported on Wednesday.
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Who’s fretting the most over Nintendo’s DSi?
Nintendo today unveiled the second update to its massively successful DS video game system. What’s new this time around? Bigger screens. Slimmer build. Two cameras (one inside and one outside its clamshell design). A memory-card slot. Music player. Web browser. Wi-Fi download store for games, videos, and applications. And, of course, it still plays past [...]
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Chinese snoop on Skype, but are they alone?
A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.'s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy."
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Children's Hospital gets prestigious award
The 2008 Leapfrog Hospital Survey named Children's one of its "Top Hospitals" for fully meeting its standards for such things as computer entry to prevent medication errors and complex high-risk procedures. The survey is voluntary.
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Dear Anna: Anna Tims on tour operators that can't cope with women doctors
Anna Tims: Airtours, explained that its computers only recognised men as doctors and that if the passenger wanted to reclaim her femininity she would have to be a 'Mrs'
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Observations: A joyful day in the company of the Great Gatsby
At 3pm an actor enters a stage that is fastidiously designed like a 1980s office and sits at a desk. When his computer won't start, he rifles around the cluttered desk and happens across a copy of The Great Gatsby. He begins reading it aloud, in a flat tone: "In my younger and more vulnerable years..." At about half past 10 the same evening he reaches the book's immortal conclusion. The ...
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Protest convoy in Hamilton today over Transfield
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Telecom broadband contractor Transfield will be holding a protest convoy through the streets of Hamilton today to protest redundancies caused by the two companies’ failure to sort out their contract.
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Tech M&A spending takes steep hit in third quarter
Tech mergers and acquisitions fell by a third in the September quarter, fueled by credit tightening and havoc on Wall Street, according to a report by The 451 Group. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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"Nintendo Conference on the 2nd of October"
Can't they just release a hard drive for the Wii then and put all these games on Wiiware where they should be. Xbox Live Arcade has released some amazing games that walk over disk released games, with some amazing graphics. And the 360 doesn't have a HDD as standard.
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"Nintendo of America event today?"
Eurogamer's computer and video game discussion forum
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Estonia posts its cybersecurity strategy
Report seeks to establish good cybersecurity practices within the country while urging global condemnation of all cybersecurity threats in the future.
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