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Two Europeans Charged for DDOS Attacks in U.S.
A British man and a German man have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to intentionally cause damage to the computers of two U.S.-based retail satellite companies by launching large-scale distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks that shut down the companies' websites.
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Family of girls flashed by Publix employee sue store chain
Two years after Chad Srogi flashed two young girls at the Weston Publix where he worked, his victims are fighting back -- in court.
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Apple rebounds after false report of Jobs heart attack
Cupertino-based Apple Inc. rebounded in Nasdaq trading after the computer maker said an unconfirmed report this morning that Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs had a heart attack and was hospitalized is false.
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Ky. Ranks 7th Most Tech-Savvy
The Commonwealth knows a thing or two about the Web, computers and tech. Kentucky has been recognized as the seventh most tech-savvy state government in the nation, according to the Center for Digital Government’s (CDG) 2008 Digital States Survey.
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Super Tough Portable Hard Drive is Absolute Fortress (Video)
Some people may complain that their portable hard drives are rather delicate devices and that they have to be really careful with them. Such isn't really the case with the appropriately named Fortress Hard Drive.
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CERN Officially Unveils Its Grid: 100,000 Processors, 15 Petabytes a Year
CERN today officially unveiled the massive computer network that will crunch the enormous amount of data coming from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CERN expects that the LHC will produce around 15 petabytes of data every year. While the LHC was in its planning stages, CERN's IT department decided that the only realistic way to handle this amount of data would be by relying on the then ...
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World's biggest computing grid launched
( DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory ) The world's largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centers from 33 countries to analyze and manage more ...
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Family of girls flashed by Publix employee sue store chain
Two years after Chad Srogi flashed two young girls at the Weston Publix where he worked, his victims are fighting back -- in court.
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British trucker suspended for behind-the-wheel TV viewing
LONDON - A British 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.
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Sunil Sethi: Why not gripe on Skype?
If you ask computer addicts what they’re up to they sometimes reply, “Skyping” or “Been on Skype”. Skype is the handy Internet-driven computer programme that, with the addition of a pair of earphones, can help you to talk to Skype-enabled friends overseas indefinitely and at no cost.
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iPhone Goes to Washington: Obama Campaign Launches Mobile App
The Barack Obama presidential campaign has tapped Apple's iPhone to help deliver news and information about the candidate. It's also giving Obama's supporters a new way to help swing the campaign to Obama's favor: a Call Friends feature organizes and prioritizes contacts by key battleground states, making it easier to place grassroots political calls.
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iPodObserver - Researcher Fed Up, Reveals iPhone Vulnerabilities
Back in July, Aviv Raff, told Apple about two iPhone issues that he considered to be vulnerabilities. Updates 2.0.1, 2.0.2. and 2.1 came and went with no fix, so Mr. Raff went public with the details
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Microsoft updates desktop management tools
MDOP 2008 R2 includes new application virtualization and asset management tools.
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Government Computer News
Jetsetting federal workers should be careful about how they use the Internet connections supplied by hotels, as most are not secured properly, according to a new study from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
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Man prosecuted over Girls Aloud blog
LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A man accused of blogging about the fictional rape and slaying of the pop group Girls Aloud is being prosecuted under Britain's Obscene Publications Act.
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Man prosecuted over Girls Aloud blog
A man accused of blogging about the fictional rape and slaying of the pop group Girls Aloud is being prosecuted under Britain's Obscene Publications Act.The Daily Mail said the case involving Darryn Walker, a 35-year-old civil servant, is considered the first real test of the 1959 law since pornographic material has become widely available on the Internet.Walker is accused of posting a ...
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Detienen a ex ministro de la Defensa en Venezuela
El ex ministro de la Defensa, general retirado Raúl Isaías Baduel, fue detenido el viernes por una comisión de la Dirección General de Inteligencia Militar (DGIM) en el estado centro costero de Aragua, se informó oficialmente.
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Commission approves new time clock system
CHARLESTON -- Mississippi County Sheriff's Department employees will soon be punching the clock. County commissioners approved the purchase of a $3,000 computer-based time clock system from Scheffer's Office Furniture and Business Machines during their regular meeting Thursday.
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Labor report indicates squeeze on tech sector
Fri, Oct 3, 2008 (11:21 a.m.) 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.
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HandshoeMouse is not what You Think
One of the worst things for people who suffer from repetitive stress injuries is typing and moving the mouse. Users who spend most of the workday working on a computer move the mouse for a long period of time leading to strain and tension n the hands, fing...
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UFSD chosen for FCP Digital Cinema Package drives
Paragon Software's Universal File System Driver (UFSD) has been chosen for use in the QuVIS Wraptor Digital Cinema Package for Apple's Final Cut Studio. The Mastering plug-in for Final Cut will allow users to create a digital cinema content distribution Ext2/3-formated hard drive. UFSD technology was developed by Paragon to provide cross-platform access to volumes of major file systems (ext2/3, ...
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EIC podcast: Tech economy turmoil; Cloud computing; Citizen journalism fails
On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk about the economy's impact on the tech sector, cloud computing and citizen journalism following the fake Steve Jobs heart attack story. On the economy Dan and I covered a lot of waterfront. We talked about technology spending and how the earnings barrage that comes later this month will be a key indicator. The House had just passed a big bailout ...
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Solution Providers Say $700 Billion Bailout Is No Panacea
Following passage of the House's economic rescue plan, solution providers are preparing for a slowdown as customers grow more cautious in their IT spending.
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Internet Commerce Association to Participate in Emergency Summit on the State of Kentucky's Domain Seizure Order
The Internet Commerce Association, a non-profit trade organization representing domain name investors and developers and the direct search industry, today announced it will be participating in an emergency Summit on the State of Kentucky's unprecedented, wrongful seizure of 141 Internet gambling Websites. Hosted by the Blue Grass Institute, the panel discussion will include representatives from ...
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US News and World Report released their list of America's best colleges, and the web went nuts
Is UT Austin on the list?Is your favorite on the list? Did your school get better after you left? Sent your kid to college - is it on the list? US News and World Report publishes this list every year and it is always a big deal when...
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