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Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom
After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks, and here's what I've found in my everyday use of it. The Boom is the size of a traditional tabletop radio, ...
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Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer
Anti-Globalism notes a large study out of the UK indicating that computer-aided detection can be as effective at spotting breast cancer as two experts reading the x-rays. Mammograms in Britain are routinely checked by two radiologists or technicians, which is thought to be better than a single review (in the US only a single radiologist reads each mammogram). In a randomized study of 31,000 ...
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Popular business directory searches
Front Desk Clerk Must have computer experience. Apply in person at Ramada Inn 3005 W. Garriott, Enid ... >MORE AWESOME BUSINESS SUIT!! At StarTek, we make careers fun.
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Bloomfield Apple Festival Scenes from Saturday
By Shad Cox Elizabeth Meyers (at right) is crowned the 2008 Little Miss Apple Festival by last year's Little Miss Claire Sims during ceremonies held on Saturday afternoon.
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Detainee?s Death Inspires a Video Game
The story of Boubacar Bah, a Guinean tailor held in a New Jersey jail for overstaying his visa, is being retold in an unusually public way: in an online video game.
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Tweak geek goes for the big gig
SOME toil for hours in a garage suped up their cars. Dino Strkljevic tries to build the world's fastest computer in his home with the help of liquid nitrogen.
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I'm off to Britain, great
So finally I'll be a migrant. I wasn't going to tell anyone I'm moving to Britain. I figured with the Internet, I could write as if I was still here and nobody would ever find out.
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eDay diverts 873 tonnes of computer waste
With 90 more tonnes expected tomorrow.
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Golfers play a round on indoor cyber-screens
THWACK - thump!
East Valley Tribune |
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NDP Candidate Quits In Wake Of Obscene Comments
Andrew McKeever, who was to have represented a Durham riding, resigned after the online comments raised a furor.
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Apple threatens lawsuit over B.C. school's logo
A small Vancouver Island computer school is battling for its identity after computing giant Apple threatened to sue, arguing the two companies' logos are too similar.
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HOTEL AT CENTRE OF VIDEOCLIP DRAMA TO GO ON MARKET
KHON KAEN : The owner of the hotel at the centre of the Four-Mod video clip scandal has announced he is putting his property up for sale. He has also threatened to sue a senior policeman for defamation.
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Improved problem-solving
I READ your column titled “Vow of silence” with great interest. Every day our mind runs through tens of thousands of thoughts and some of them are not so healthy. It’s like a CD-ROM spinning around non-stop in the computer’s CPU. The computer needs rest and will crash if it doesn’t.
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15+ Sites for Backyard Astronomers
The stars have always fascinated mankind. Telescopes aren’t exactly cheap though, so how do you know which ones are worth the money? Where do you find charts that show you which stars are which? How do you know when the weather will be best suited for viewing? Luckily there are numerous resources on the Web to help you find all the astronomy answers and recommendations that you need. We’ve ...
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Cyberbullying Will Stop When Adults Level With Their Kids
Were you bullied in school or out of school by classmates or students from warring institutions? Would you tell a parent or guardian about it? Some of you would answer Question #1 in the affirmative, and would give a “probably not” or a “definitely not” to the followup. In part because the only thing worse than dishing those details to your folks is to have your folks talk to their folks ...
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Game Devs Using One-Time Bonuses to Fight Used Game Sales
ShackNews reports on an emerging trend which sees game publishers offer one-time bonus codes to unlock extra content for certain titles. Rock Band 2, for example, comes with a code which will allow free 20-song download, but is only usable once. NBA Live '09 has functionality to update team rosters on a daily basis, but will only do so for the original owner. "'This information and data is very ...
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"What are the 3.2 ghz AMD dual core cpus??"
and anyone know what a 8600gtx is?
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Kinnear's swearing rant stuns English game
LONDON: Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear's extraordinary, expletive-laden attack on sections of the British press brought mixed reactions on Friday as the 61-year-old's rant became an Internet hit.
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Spoofers who have been brought to book
2000: Jason Garon pleads guilty to a charge of forgery in a New York court, in the first Internet forgery prosecution in the United States. Garon sent spam advertising pornography and get-rich-quick schemes, disguised to appear as if sent by IBM's Internet provider, IBM.net.
The New Straits Times |
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Spammers face the brunt of the law
amounted to a breach of the UK's Computer Misuse Act. Judges found that when a person caused a computer "to record that information came from A when it in fact came from B, that manifestly affected the reliability of that information".
The New Straits Times |
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Report: At Least 75 USC Students Fall Ill With Gastrointestinal Virus
At least 75 University of Southern California students are being treated for a contagious gastrointestinal virus centered around a cluster of dormitories at its downtown Los Angeles campus.
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Ministers 'plan to spend £12bn' to track all e-mails and phone calls
UK MINISTERS are planning to spend up to £12bn on a system that would track, tag and store the internet history, e-mail records and telephone calls of every person in Britain,
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Apple To Shut iTunes? Get Real
What is all the bullshit this week that Apple is about to shutdown iTunes? What a load of rubbish.
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Blog on meat plant was astroturf, not grassroots
As Agriprocessors Inc. was getting stung by criticism after a federal immigration raid snared hundreds of its workers, "a blog by people who live and work in Postville" appeared in its defense in May. But just who exactly were those people?
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Around the Ivies
Brown University is currently in the process of creating a webpage to help its students reach their peaks, literally. While Yale may offer a workshop on the female orgasm during Sex Week, Brown has decided to up the ante by broadcasting its information on the internet.
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