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Briton accused of cyber attacks
A Briton has been charged in Los Angeles for allegedly launching internet attacks to shut down two US retail websites. A federal grand jury returned the indictment against Lee Walker and German Axel Gembe.
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Report: HP to market new smartphone to consumers
Wall Street Journal says Hewlett-Packard will come out with new version of iPaq that aims to reach beyond just businesses.
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Board OKs system
Rolla School Board members Thursday night approved the purchase of a districtwide computer software system for a first-year cost of $75,574 that will enable administrators, teachers and staffers to better track student scheduling, attendance, health issues and academic achievements.
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Ranked teams seek redemption after upsets
The BCS computers are already shaking in their hard drives as last week saw four top ten teams lose, three of them to unranked opponents. Those losses opened the door for teams like Oklahoma, Alabama and Texas to make some headway in the polls.
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Buy your air ticket at shopping portals
Travel portals have started to tie-up with online shopping portals and offline retail outlets to jointly promote their value-added offers as shopping portals gather huge traffic around festival time. They reason it will help them tide over the current lean phase in the economy.
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Sony's Vaio TT gets dissected, found to contain small components
Filed under: Laptops Of course it had to happen sooner or later , but we're a little taken aback that someone at Sony had the temerity to slice open a newborn Vaio TT and put it on display -- in a booth at CEATEC , no less -- for the whole world to see. Righteous indignation aside, the thing is pretty impressive, especially considering that without the Blu-ray drive it would only ...
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Jobless claims reach 7-year high
WASHINGTON . There's no need to explain to Al Lubrano how deeply tight credit has wounded the economy. Lubrano, president of a metal components maker in Lincoln, R.I., said orders from his customers in the automotive, computer, and telecommunications industries have "dropped precipitously" during the past six weeks. "I'm going to have to lay people off," if the economy doesn't ...
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Apple's Jobs Wins BlackBerry Defectors With Business IPhones
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Kevin Willis , the retired basketball center turned entrepreneur, gave up on the BlackBerry and depends on Apple Inc. 's iPhone to stay in touch with buyers, suppliers and the high-profile clients who wear his custom jeans.
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Bull Builds Supercomputer for German HPC Center
Germany's leading high-performance computing center Forschungszentrum Julich and French IT systems company Bull have announced an agreement to build a 200 Teraflops supercomputer.
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High school football blog: State poll is a head-scratcher
Here’s my annual rant on the Associated Press football polls, which could be considered hypocritical because I am a voter, but the need to vent is there nonetheless.
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Police notes for October 3, 2008
Police arrested Raymond Ortiz Sr., age unavailable, 2401 Calmo Court, on Wednesday and charged him with aggravated battery on a household member, aggravated assault on household member and battery on a household member. Ortiz allegedly struck a 19-year-old male with a fireplace poker.
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6 things you should know about the Lincoln Stars
We're road warriors: “Road trips are actually pretty fun. On long trips, coach really doesn’t care what we do, and you can bring laptops and stuff. Usually, we have three guys to a room, so seniority comes into play. If you’re rooming with two vets, and you’re the rookie, you normally get the floor.
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Wahoo man arrested, suspected of enticement
A Wahoo man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly having a sexually explicit online chat with a police investigator posing as a 15-year-old girl. Keith Hurley, 33, chatted with the investigator in a Yahoo! chat room for about two hours on July 29, said Officer Katie Flood.
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Altering technological lifestyle can save money
It's not a good time to be throwing money at things that don't rate as necessities. Inconveniently enough, though, the stuff of a technological lifestyle - the hardware, the software, the services - can add up to a large fraction of your budget.
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Girls get taste of math, science
TROY - Jessica Iagrossi said she became very discouraged to stay interested in math and the sciences when she was the only girl in some of her advanced high school classes, but she stuck with it and got a lot of support in her fields from Russell Sage College's Girls Excited about Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Sciences program.
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New app virtualization products for s/w developers
SEATTLE, USA: Xenocode, an application virtualization technology organisation, has introduced the application virtualization products designed for software developers and publishers.
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Updating communication: CCSD teachers, parents use Web exchange student information
KIRTLAND — Parents with children in the Central Consolidated School District are able to communicate with teachers like never before. The district is implementing a Web-based program called PowerSchool this year.
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How to register
Want to help pick the next president?Want to vote for your favorite legislator?Then make sure your voter registration is current, said Cleveland County Election Board Secretary Paula Roberts.Voters who haven't voted in the past several years should check their status now, she said, by contact the election board or visiting the board's Web site.
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US insurer using computer games to sharpen driving skills
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 3: A major US insurance company on Thursday 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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Updating communication: CCSD teachers, parents use Web exchange student information
KIRTLAND — Parents with children in the Central Consolidated School District are able to communicate with teachers like never before. The district is implementing a Web-based program called PowerSchool this year.
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FBI arrests Indy man on cyber extortion charge
INDIANAPOLIS - The FBI said an Indianapolis man tried to extort more than $200,000 from insurance giant AIG after stealing a computer server that contained personal and health care information for more than 900,000 people.
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Free computer-lab classes
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Calaveras Enterprise |
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Six Reasons Why Linux Is Right for Small Business
It seems that every year is supposed to be "the year" for Linux , but nobody ever manages to define what "the year" really means.
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STATE NEWS: Court decides man caught in online sex sting not guilty
MADISON — An appeals court on Thursday overturned the conviction of a Wisconsin man who had a sexually explicit online chat with an investigator posing as an eighth grade girl.
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College football picks for Saturday The Bottom Line for Fri., Oct. 3
No gang, I haven't bailed on you. Saying that I am experiencing computer problems would be a huge understatement (hopefully this issues will be resolved soon).
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