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SEC investigating fake Jobs posting
U.S. investigators are looking into the origins of a false report Friday that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack.The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that just before 7 a.m. EDT, an anonymous Internet poster published a short item on iReport.com, a community site created by CNN for user-generated news, that Jobs had been taken to a hospital suffering ...
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Poll: Fliers want kids in special section
A survey of U.S. air travelers indicates most fliers believe cell phones should be banned from flights and small children should sit in a designated section.TripAdvisor's annual Travel Trends survey of 3,117 U.S. fliers found 80 percent of respondents believe cell phones should be banned during flight, while 69 percent said wireless Internet should be allowed, USA Today reported Friday.The ...
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Alan Wake Comes Out of Hiding
No, it's not canned. It's still coming. After two years of silence, Alan Wake developer Remedy is gearing up to release a new trailer of its game in Finland to coincide with the release of the Max Payne movie (Remedy also developed Max Payne). Remedy granted us an exclusive interview with Sam Lake, the developer's lead writer behind both Max Payne games and the Microsoft exclusive ...
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Spore Expansion Listed by GameStop and Amazon
Gamers looking forward to the inevitable expansion of Spore might not have too big of a wait ahead of them. Fansite Hooked on Spore discovered listings for a Spore Cute & Creepy Parts Pack on both Amazon and GameStop, both of which have since been removed. Fortunately for us, Google keeps a nifty little record of all the internet's screwups. While there's no information other ...
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Linux Netbooks Are Returned 4X More Than Win XP Versions, Says MSI [Linux]
Netbooks were supposed to be this great inroad for Linux development, but it turns out that the XP side of the netbook business is doing a lot better in the area of customer satisfaction: MSI today...
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Dork talk: Stephen Fry explains the principles of cloud computing
Stephen Fry explains the principles of cloud computing and recommends a few services
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County approves purchase of upgrade
In an effort to ensure that 2008 tax bills go out as close to the state's Nov. 1 deadline as possible, Socorro County Commissioners approved the purchase of a software upgrade Friday, Oct. 3.
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CNN hands over info on author of Steve Jobs rumor
A CNN-owned Web site called iReport.com, which publishes reports written by ordinary citizens, said Friday it will give the Securities and Exchange Commission information about the author of an item that claimed Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack.
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SEC investigating fake Jobs posting
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. investigators are looking into the origins of a false report Friday that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack.
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'Mr. X' wins right to argue PS case anonymously
The mystery bureaucrat who is fighting the Public Service Commission to keep his name and other personal details of his life off the Internet won the right to argue his case under the secret identity of Mr. X.
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Google postpones Yahoo online ad deal
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google said Friday it is postponing a planned online advertising tie-up with Yahoo to allow more time for US anti-trust regulators to consider the ramifications of the deal.
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Obama takes campaign to the iPhone
WASHINGTON -- The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, in its latest bid to use Internet Age technology to trounce Republican rival John McCain and connect with supporters, has released free software that turns Apple iPhones into political rallying tools.
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to 8.3 percent, according to comScore Inc. Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, said his organisation was opposed to the pact. "We're gratified that Google and Yahoo are delaying," he said.
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Business improves at remote lodge despite fuel prices
Toad River - Despite the lack of a regional power grid and other local utility systems, high-speed wireless Internet service has made it to the remote Toad River Lodge and RV Park, nestled in a valley surrounded by the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
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Report: Semantic Web Companies Are, or Will Soon Begin, Making Money
Semantic Web entrepreneur David Provost has published a report about the state of business in the Semantic Web and it's a good read for anyone interested in the sector. It's titled On the Cusp: A Global Review of the Semantic Web Industry . After surveying 17 Semantic Web companies, Provost concludes that Semantic science is being productized, differentiated, invested in by mainstream ...
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CERN starts up computing grid to crunch atom-smasher data
GENEVA (AFP) - The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Friday unveiled a massive computing grid aimed at analysing millions of gigabytes of data set to be generated by the world's largest atom-smasher.
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You guys go on ahead, I'm fine [Recap]
Is everyone done blogging about Valleywag's layoffs? I'm still here. I'm the "one other" the New York media deigned to mention. It's exactly like being the 80 percent of Yahoo that won't be laid off,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Electronic gear clean out
It is E-day today, an opportunity to get rid of out-of-date computers and embarrassing old cell phones. Already, more than 200 tonnes of gear has been dropped off at makeshift recycling centres across the country.
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Questionable finger gestures, underage drinking and four-letter word laced group names—even a cursory examination of Fordham Facebook.com profiles yields a plethora of photographs, many from the profiles of student leaders, which Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) administrators said is a reason for concern.
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The new layout of Facebook.com has come under a variety of criticism from some Facebook users. I believe that change isn’t always for the better. I’m not one who adjusts very well, so when things change in a drastic way and in such a short period of time, I begin to panic.
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Aloha Technical Solutions opens IBM center
An IBM Business Partner Innovation Center — the first of its kind in Hawaii — opened last month in Kakaako with “just about every piece of IBM hardware, software, storage units and servers,” according to Aloha Technical Solutions, the company that invested $500,000 in the facility.
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Google, Yahoo eye 'brief' delay in partnership
Google and Yahoo have decided to delay implementing a controversial search advertising partnership, Yahoo said on Friday.
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WRIGHT CITY, Mo.–The Elvis is Alive Museum is going to die, it seems. Andy Key tried to sell the Missouri museum twice on eBay. He received no bids by the time the auction ended today.
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Friendster Hitches Onto Facebook Platform
Social-networking pioneer the latest to support both Facebook Platform and Open Social.
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Electronic gear clean out
It is E-day today, an opportunity to get rid of out-of-date computers and embarrassing old cell phones.
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