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Bloggers trashing your company? Online reputation managers are here
Apart from the embarrassment, these "crazy blogs" - as companies term them - force India Inc to spend crores of rupees to repair the damage.
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Nokia takes on Apple in music, touch-screen phones
LONDON, UK: Nokia , the world's top mobile phone maker, launched its free music package on Thursday, issuing a challenge to Apple Inc's dominance of the digital music market.
CIOL |
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Technology Briefing
Microsoft plans search center in Europe ... Sony's newest reader has a built-in light ... Nintendo expects game sales increase.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Online Extras
For a few months now, Beth Hendricks of Richmond has been looking for "creative ways to cut back" on expenses. She's buying off-brand and generic goods. She's juggling bills. Because she has teenagers and a $19.99 unlimited text plan, she urged them not to speak to each other on the phone anymore . just type. They've cut out Internet and cable, turned off the air conditioner, gone to fewer ...
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South Korea's Free Computer Game Business Model Hits the US
Anti-Globalism writes with this excerpt from AFP via Yahoo! News: "Seoul-based 'free-to-play' computer game titan Nexon on Wednesday blasted into the US videogame arena with a 'Combat Arms' online first-person shooter title that makes its cash from optional 'micro-transactions' by players. The game makes its money from players that buy animated helmets, outfits, emblems or other virtual items to ...
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Opposition party in Egypt faces dissent from within
Young members argue against religious rigidity in the Muslim Brotherhood, openly criticizing the group in their blogs. He was a boy in the mosques of Alexandria when the Muslim Brotherhood took him into its fold, inviting him to soccer matches and trips to the seaside.
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Is energy the answer?
In case you've been living under a rock, the United States - and, thus, the world - is in a fiscal crisis. Whoop-di-flippin-do. Are you as sick as I am with hearing the words "Wall Street Bailout," "credit crunch," "mortgage crisis" and "$700 billion?" Ironically, if I want a dose of levity and optimism, I have to go only as far as my computer, where a compilation of "green" reading ...
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Rebecca Jackson stepping down as Crusade CEO
Former Jefferson County Judge-Executive Rebecca Jackson will retire at the end of 2008 as CEO of the WHAS Crusade for Children, according to a news release on the nonprofit organization’s Web site.
Business First of Louisville |
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Virtual world meets reality with Citroen GT
Citroen has brought to life a car designed for the world’s most popular car-based computer game, Gran Turismo.
Stuff |
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Finnish site pulls kindergarten shooting game
An Internet game in which players roam a school and kill kindergarten students with a shotgun has been pulled from a Finnish children's gaming site one week after the country's worst school shooting.
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KTAR Story Archives
Scottsdale has fired one of its employees after he admitted to police that he sold city-owned surveying equipment on the Internet.
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In Tomorrow's Paper
Catch the Gadgets column, where we look at a great backup hard drive. Check out other columns here .
EdmontonSun.com |
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A Tweak on tradition
SINGAPORE - Free online image editors let you conveniently tweak your images via a browser on almost any computer that’s hooked up to the Web. Sure, it might not give you the kitchen sink of features that Adobe’s Photoshop is known for, but if you fancy sprucing up your snaps for flickr or Facebook, these tools we’ve got lined up for you will be enough to get the job done.
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Contractor banned from bidding on jobs
The punishment follows charges that a Shire Corp. employee was illegally accessing the state Department of Transportation’s computer system.
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Exciting tutorials on Web Development technologies to kick off tomorrow
Bangalore: For those of you who are web developers & web technologists, here's your chance to get expert instruction and hands-on tutorials to create the best web applications, tools, and software. The SmartTechie is organizing Web Development Technology Conference on October 4th in Bangalore.
SiliconIndia |
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Microsoft uses search prizes to close Google gap
In a bid to close the ever-widening gap with Google on Internet searches, Microsoft has started offering consumers redeemable points for using its search service.
Hindustan Times |
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St. Joseph School Wrapping Paper Still on Sale
The students of St. Joseph School are still accepting orders for their highly successful wrapping paper fund raiser. The quality of Innisbrook wrapping paper is what keeps their customers coming back year after year and now, ordering is as easy as a click of the mouse on your computer! Fifty-percent of the profits go directly back into the school, so please participate!
Garden City News |
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Maxis to give basic Internet training to rural folk
plans to give basic Internet training to about 30,000 rural folk in Sabah before the end of the year.
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Review of state jobs program now available online
The public can now review online the state's sprawling and costly set of programs to promote business and jobs, state officials announced Thursday.The report — mandated by lawmakers earlier this year — will help make the state more transparent and accountable for the tens of millions of dollars it spends each year to promote Wisconsin businesses, a state Department of Commerce official said. ...
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Bullying Common In Cyberspace
Cyberbullying is common among teens who are frequent internet users, with 72 percent of respondents reporting at least one incident during the past year.
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Step Right Up, Let The Computer Look At Your Face And Tell You Your Age
Like an age-guesser at a carnival, new computer software can fairly accurately estimate a person's age. But, unlike age-guessers, who can view a person's body, the software works by examining only the person's face.
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Facebook to set up international HQ in Dublin
Social network following in the footsteps of other tech companies that have taken advantage of the government's friendly tax incentives. 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
ZDNet Asia |
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Social Media for Business - Who's Doing it Well & How
Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, and former Forrester analyst, has recently launched her own company, the Altimeter Group . This week, she gave a keynote at the Social Media Marketing Summit 2008 , San Francisco. Known for her commitment to social media, and belief that marketing and advertising are fatally flawed, Li started with a Google search on 'Comcast'. The ninth result is a ...
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Police on Thursday arrested a 30-year-old woman for abandoning her newborn baby in the toilet of an Internet cafe in Yokohama, after she gave birth there. The baby was taken to hospital and is in a stable condition, according to police.
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Special children moving into a safe home for care
Volunteers dusted, arranged furniture and decorated a 1905 two-story house Wednesday in the Monte Vista neighborhood. The house is still being renovated, but those finishing touches added warmth.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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