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First Look at Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Beta [Screenshot Tour]
The next version of Ubuntu's free Linux operating system, dubbed "Intrepid Ibex," is due out Oct. 30, but the beta release is up for grabs. Although the desktop hasn't been reshaped, the features...
Lifehacker |
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Bailout Snap: Large Web stocks up
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of large Internet companies headed mostly higher Friday afternoon after Congress passed legislation authorizing $700 billion in government money to bail out the financial industry.
INO News |
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Security expert warns against online family trees
SALT LAKE CITY -- An Internet security expert says posting a family tree online can be a dangerous move that sometimes results in identity theft.
Standard-Examiner |
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IBM takes workers across the world
Stamford resident Tom Agoston left today for Vietnam on a tour of duty to help businesses in the emerging country.
Norwalk Advocate |
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Exploring Best Practices for Building and Monetizing Mobile Social Networks
This is a guest post written by Dave Sloan, Marketing Director of Avot Media . Avot Media is the innovator behind tipMotion, the high performance video transcoding and near-real-time streaming appliance enabling video delivery to Web-enabled mobile devices. Social networking is quickly taking hold among mobile users. Juniper Research believes there will be as many as 54 million mobile ...
Mashable |
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Mobile Edge ScanFast Backpack - notebook carrying backpack
The Mobile Edge ScanFast Backpack provides everything you'd need to comfortably carry your 17-inch laptop and travel accessories, with the added benefit of a butterfly zipper that may help you speed through airport security checks.
CNET |
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Caught off guard: Journalist details journey on way to a safer Internet
STAMFORD - "Dateline NBC" journalist Chris Hansen admits he was slightly unprepared for perhaps the most famous scene from his "To Catch a Predator" series.
Norwalk Advocate |
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The Bailout Reader
Statism has so permeated our culture that even the games we play reflect the popular belief in omnipotent government. For example, one of the most successful computer games of all time is the SimCity series, which requires the player to plan a city in exhaustive detail from uninhabited terrain.
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Skype claims no knowledge of privacy breach
After word begin to spread across the Internet yesterday that China was monitoring and filtering conversations in Skype, the company’s president addressed the issue stating that Skype was unaware of any privacy breaches that were affecting their Chinese users.
TG Daily |
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Apple Denies Report of Steve Jobs Heart Attack
Citizen journalism site, run by CNN, ran a falsehood. Stock manipulation?
InternetNews.com |
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Cloud Computing Journal - Top 20 Open Source Packages
The Open Source Census, the catch-as-catch-can opt-in attempt to discern trends in open source adoption that OpenLogic started, has collected six months worth of data on some 300,000 installations on about 2,000 machines and from this very narrow and probably unrepresentative slice of life has deduced that government and the financial sector are the biggest users of open source “per machine ...
Linux World |
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CERN, Scientists Test Big 'Crunch' Theory
Lab that created the Web has linked thousands of scientists around the globe to crunch data.
InternetNews.com |
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Googling Security: Mapping, Directions, and Imagery
Editor's Note : This article is based on Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You? , by Greg Conti. Greg is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Courtesy of Addison-Wesley Professional, All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Dobb's Journal |
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Bailout Snap: Large Web stocks up
Shares of large Internet companies headed mostly higher Friday afternoon after Congress passed legislation authorizing $700 billion in government money to bail out the financial industry.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Computer gaming cafe opens downtown
Clyde Rood and Doug Young both had the idea of opening an Internet gamers cafe for several years, but it wasn't until Rood's wife, Xunaln, owner of Rock the Caffe in downtown Lebanon, introduced them two months ago that the dream jelled into reality.
Lebanon Express |
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Apple stock recovers after denying latest Jobs health rumor
Stock in Apple Inc. recovered Friday after falling as much as 5.4 percent on a refuted Internet report that said CEO Steve Jobs had a heart attack. (AAPL)
Atlanta Business Chronicle |
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IE Loses Browser Market Share
October 3, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Chances are you're looking at this website through Microsoft Internet Explorer; however, it's less likely than a year ago according to Market Share statistics from online software developer Net Applications.
Web Host Industry Review |
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Monitor teens’ activity online
Parents cannot give up being involved with and monitoring their children’s behavior, especially online, says columnist Corrie Lynn Player.
Saint George Spectrum |
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Microsoft doesn't matter anymore
"Tickets" for Live Search? Huh?
Salon.com |
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It’s Going To Be A Grinch Christmas: Slowdown Forecast For Online Holiday Sales
With credit tightening and consumer confidence shaky, you know this is going to be a tough year for holiday sales. A forecast that came out this morning from Lehman Brothers (now Barclays Capital), puts Internet sales over the upcoming holiday season growing at just 8 percent, compared to 19 percent growth last year (and 26 percent in 2006). That's still better than the one percent growth in ...
TechCrunch |
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Andover’s town Web site shut down
ANDOVER — The town’s Web site became a thing of the past after the Board of Selectmen voted to abandon it Wednesday night, in the face of a new state law requiring municipalities to post meeting minutes within a week.
Journal Inquirer |
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Trucker Suspended For Behind-the-wheel TV Viewing
A court has suspended the license of a truck driver who careened down a highway while watching episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" on a laptop computer atop his dashboard.
CBS News |
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Labor report indicates squeeze on tech sector
The economic slowdown has started to squeeze the technology sector. So far this has not led to wide-scale job cuts, but a slowing demand for computers and other electronics may already be weighing on some payrolls. Computer and electronics manufacturers did...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Man Arrested For Internet Stalking Of A Child
White County Sheriff's investigators arrested a Florida man after an undercover on-line investigation. Detectives say late Thursday they began chatting with a male suspect who believed he was talking to a juvenile female.
KTHV Little Rock |
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Man Arrested For Internet Stalking Of A Child
White County Sheriff's investigators arrested a Florida man after an undercover on-line investigation. Detectives say late Thursday they began chatting with a male suspect who believed he was talking to a juvenile female.
KTHV Little Rock |
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