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Hooker: Loss of Nunes won’t end search for QB
Life goes on.That's the mantra Tennessee's recruiters are adhering to a week after their master plan for pulling in two quarterbacks for the 2009 signing class was blown into more bits than Microsoft manufactures.
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Elvis is Alive Museum near certain death
The Elvis is Alive Museum will not live, at least not for now. Andy Key tried to sell the Missouri museum twice on eBay. He received no bids by the time the auction ended Friday.
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This Week's Best Posts [Highlights]
When Lifehacker's churning out posts faster than your brain can absorb them, switch to our trimmed-down top stories feed to skip the extras and get right to the good stuff. Don't care about Mac-only...
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DIY Butcher Block Knife Slot [Weekend Project]
Weblog Ikea Hacker demonstrates a simple but inventive idea for carving a knife slot in an Ikea butcher-block island. The method: simply cut a slot with a circular saw, stick in a few knives, and...
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Card scam moves to the Internet
MASON CITY — A credit/debit card scam that has targeted hundreds of North Iowans has now gone to the Internet.
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Interview with Alexander Kolpin of Berlin Partner (Video)
If you’ve heard about Berlin, Germany a lot recently, it’s because it’s a growing technology hub in Europe that many people are calling Europe’s next “Silicon Valley.” There are a lot of web companies opening offices all over Berlin, like eBay, Nokia, and Wikimedia, and they already have their own “Facebook,” the social networking site studiVZ . Berlin is certainly Germany’s internet capital ...
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Microsoft Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan in September
Microsoft's Xbox 360 outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan in September, beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony's home market, a game magazine publisher said.
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Google, Yahoo delay ad deal over DOJ investigation
Google and Yahoo will further delay their controversial search-advertising deal in the face of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. "When we announced our advertising agreement with Yahoo in June we agreed to delay its implementation until October to give regulators time to look at the details," Google said on Friday. "As we are still in conversation with the ...
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Backstage: Apple + AT&T’s iPhone Antitrust Class Action Smackdown
If I wasn’t busy working on other things at the moment, I would write more about this: Apple + AT&T Lose Early Attempt to Fight Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit. I’ve read through it. Apple and AT&T haven’t lost the case yet, but the language of the court’s decision is pretty brutal. A few of the findings: (1) AT&T can’t force plaintiffs to submit to arbitration rather than a full trial, because ...
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Researcher Claims 200K Web Sites at Risk
Exploiters are offering crime as a service, from the SaaS model.
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EXPOSED
Alex Kava gradually has been getting her rightful due. Those who have followed Maggie O’Dell with regularity and experienced the exponential explosion of Kava’s popularity will be prepared --- almost --- for the brilliance, the excellence, that she exhibits in EXPOSED.
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Final Glance: Internet companies
Shares of some top internet companies were mixed at the close of trading: Akamai Technologies fell $.45 or 2.9 percent, to $14.85.
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Final Glance: Computer companies
Shares of some top computer companies were down at the close of trading: Apple Inc fell $3.03 or 3.0 percent, to $97.07.
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Google, Yahoo delay search ad partnership
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc and Yahoo Inc have decided to delay implementing a controversial search advertising partnership, Yahoo said on Friday.
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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.
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Google agrees to brief delay of Yahoo ad deal
Google Inc. agreed to delay the start of a Web advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc., giving U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal. Under a plan announced in June, Google would provide advertising next to some of Yahoo's search...
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Sony Revamps E-Book Reader, But No Wireless
Battery life for the PRS-700 device is the same as the older model, sustaining up to 7,500 pages of continuous reading on a single charge.
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Death of the database [100-word Version]
PBS pundit Robert X. Cringely says he realized at last week's MIT Technology Review conference that cloud computing means, in short, "No database." Cringely sees it as the end of Oracle's dominance... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Apple Reluctantly Tries Out Transparency
Long known for fanatically controlling information about its products, Apple has recently started showing signs of openness. Wired.com
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Microsoft illuminates new XBL Marketplace
Accessibility will be primary focus of online storefront for 360's Avatar-based dashboard update, due late this fall.
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Will You Be My Virtual Friend?
Social networking is the new cocktail party, but without the uncomfortable shoes, stiff drinks and awkward silences. Humor columnist The Snark has a few tips to maximize your experience and to avoid becoming a Web head, or lose your job for "inappropriate use of firm assets."
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Samsung MV100 and MZ100 Consume Even Less Energy than the Korean Sex Cyborgs Presenting Them [Desktop]
Looks like Samsung keeps pushing for green computing. These computers are Korea-only for now, but the MV100 Tower and MZ100 Slim Tower, running on the Intel G43 chipset, consume only sixty watts in...
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Digital piano adds Linux
— Sep. 24, 2008 — Yamaha has added embedded Linux to the electronic "player piano" add-on it offers with some models.
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Former IT director's jail stay might be short
Convicted Marysville school district embezzler Alfred Richard "Rick" Corl could serve as little as three months of a 16-month prison sentence after being credited Friday with time spent on electronic home detention.
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Security appliance uses Intel SoC
— Sep. 25, 2008 — Portwell has announced a network appliance that uses Intel's EP80579 SoC (system on chip) and targets security and IP telephony applications.
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