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Greenville County Councilman Trout faces hearing
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Greenville County Councilman Tony Trout was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on charges that he illegally accessed a computer belonging to County Administrator Joe Kernell.
Live 5 News Charleston |
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Microsoft Unveils Plan for 3 Labs in Europe
Microsoft described the move as a vote of confidence in the European economy and in the companys ability to close the gap with Google.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Intel helps Kingston corner the SSD market
MEMORY MODULE MAKER Kingston Technology has been looking at teaming up with Intel to flog Solid State Drives to businesses.
The Inquirer |
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Tiffany&Earl
Dear Tiffany and Earl, What do you do when you have to tell your parents you've done something stupid? (And I mean, really stupid.) I For reasons that are probably best left unsaid, my brand spankin' new laptop is currently in two halves. I'm dead, dead, dead. What should I do-break it to them gently, lie through my teeth, straight up confess, or something else? Please help! -One Who is ...
The Cowl |
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Anheuser-Busch consultant pleads guilty to theft
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A former consultant for Anheuser-Busch Cos. in St. Louis pleads guilty to charges tied to stealing more than $400,000 of computer equipment from his employer.
Jefferson City News Tribune |
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Florida Internet abuzz with voting rules rumors, mostly false
You can't wear a campaign T-shirt when you go vote. Your driver's license must exactly match your voter registration card. New voters who run afoul of Florida's new ''no-match'' law can't vote at all.
McClatchy Washington Bureau |
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DMV, VTrans Web sites off-line this afternoon
MONTPELIER — Internet connections to both the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Vermont Agency of Transportation will be unavailable from noon to 4:30 p.m. today so that network upgrades can be completed. The upgrades will allow both VTrans and the DMV to better serve their customers, said Vermont Agency of Transportation officials. The temporary outage will affect all Internet connections ...
The Burlington Free Press |
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Future football stars start here
A new online game aims to let people live the life of a top footballer both on and off the pitch.
BBC News |
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You Tube post raises concerns
Boca Raton police notify Swedish police about school shooting post online.
WPTV West Palm Beach |
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Nokia takes on Apple's iTunes, iPhone
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.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Key Players Lauded In Bergthold Conviction
BELLA VISTA -- A special agent in charge of investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement visited Bella Vista on Thursday to acknowledge contributions made by law enforcement officers in the conviction of child pornographer Brian Bergthold.
The Morning News |
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Vendors fixing bug that could crash Internet systems
Internet infrastructure vendors are working on patches for a set of security flaws that could help hackers knock servers offline with very little effort.
Network World |
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TV-viewing lorry driver sentenced
A lorry driver who was watching a TV show on a dashboard laptop as he drove along the M6, is sentenced to community work.
BBC News |
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Windows to enter the Cloud next month, claims Ballmer
One of the current tech buzzwords is "Cloud Computing", which basically means using web applications rather than software stored on the computer (it's more complicated than that, before someone gets pedantic with me, but that'll do for now).
Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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MI5 palmtop stolen from open window
Tom Young, Computing , Friday 3 October 2008 at 12:43:00 Device believed to contain information on terrorism was encrypted A palmtop MI5 computer believed to contain information on terrorism has been stolen from a house in Greater Manchester. A burglar took the device from the open window of a...
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12:00 (BST), 03/10/2008 360Zine Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS Issue 23 of 360Zine is now available for free ...
Issue 23 of 360Zine is now available for free download from GamerZines.com, the portal for free digital magazines for gamers. It includes an exclusive hands-on preview of Gears of War 2, along with confirmation of an upcoming digital magazine dedicated to the game.
gamesindustry.biz |
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12:04 (BST), 03/10/2008 Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS Psyonix ...
Psyonix Studios announced today that Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars has gone gold and will be released on October 9 for the PlayStation®Network on the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Pete Doherty posts video tribute to ex
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 previously-unheard song over footage he apparently shot at his Wiltshire home.
Stuff |
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Computer imaging to read face to detect threat
Toronto:An Indian-origin computer scientist at Concordia University in Montreal is developing a computer imaging process that will read expressions on a human face to know that person's motives and intentions.
SiliconIndia |
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Dangerous Fakes
The American military faces a growing threat of potentially fatal equipment failure -- and even foreign espionage -- because of counterfeit computer components used in warplanes, ships, and communication networks. Fake microchips flow from unruly bazaars in rural China to dubious kitchen-table brokers in the U.S. and into complex weapons. Senior Pentagon officials publicly play down the danger, ...
BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News |
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The Threat Posed by Fake Cisco Parts
The prosecution of an American company called Syren Technology offers a tantalizing hint of the espionage threat posed by fake Chinese computer parts. But so far neither U.S. law enforcement nor industry has publicly produced evidence of this kind of high-tech spying.
BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News |
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China found to snoop on Skype users
NEW YORK - A Canadian researcher has discovered a Chinese version of eBay Inc.'s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy."
Boston Globe |
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Didiom Launches Public Beta Test of New Mobile Music Placeshifting and MP3 Download Service
The free, all-in-one Didiom application allows music fans to wirelessly access their home computer's iTunes® library from over two hundred mobile devices, including BlackBerry® and Windows Mobile® phones. (PRWeb Oct 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1415624.htm
PRWeb |
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MI5 palmtop stolen from open window
Tom Young, A palmtop MI5 computer believed to contain information on terrorism has been stolen from a house in Greater Manchester. A burglar took the device from the open window of a...
vnunet.com |
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EDS, an HP Company, to Manage Computing Environment in Nine Countries for Posten
EDS, an HP company (NYSE:HPQ), today announced that it has signed an agreement with Posten, one of the Nordic region's largest messaging and logistics operators, to host the company's end-user computing environment. The contract will begin in July 2009. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Centre Daily Times |
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