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Ensim to Demo Unify 2.5 at Conference
October 8, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hosting software provider Ensim announced on Wednesday it will be demonstrating its Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition, Version 2.5 platform at TechMentor Conference, held October 13 to 17 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Johnson announces new online election service
Associated Press - October 8, 2008 4:44 PM ET HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Secretary of State Brad Johnson has announced a new service that allows voters look up their polling places online.
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YouTube Launches 'Click-To-Buy' Partnerships
Google wants to turn YouTube’s browsers into buyers, in another attempt to cash in on the site’s immense popularity. The video-sharing site has launched an e-commerce program that will offer YouTube viewers direct links to purchase content from Apple’s iTunes Store and Amazon.com.
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An attractive source for spintronics
Discovery may lead to battery that generates magnetic currents
Science News |
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Shackles on his ankles, student has his day in court
David Kernell faces five years' jail and a $350,000 fine for resetting Republican's email password.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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Self-service set to become the norm
Self-service will soon become the norm for passengers. However, there is the challenge of baggage handling service, according to a survey by Sita, an IT provider for airlines and airports worldwide.
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BlackBerry Storm has touch screen you can feel
NEW YORK -- Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.
The Pantagraph |
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Google gets into video games -- with ads
NEW YORK -- Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory - though it won't exactly be in the form of a shoot 'em up game.
The Pantagraph |
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Democratic legislator's son indicted in Palin Yahoo e-mail hacking case
The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hacking the Yahoo e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
San Jose Mercury News |
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EU proposes increased rights for Internet shoppers
The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide consumers with more competitive prices. EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva said she has proposed establishing a blacklist of unfair contract terms. She also suggested cooling-off periods to give consumers time to back out of a ...
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$236m judgment lands on mom and pop spam shop
Bulk Mailing 4 Dummies An Arizona couple accused of bombarding a small internet service provider with millions of spam messages has been ordered to pay more than $236m in a federal case that documents the heroic measures one man took against the torrent of unsolicited junk mail.…
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Russian authorities blame Internet for inciting ethnic and religious strife
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Russia blames the Internet for the distribution of extremist and racial hostilities in the nation.
Pravda Ru |
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CMS puts more grades, records online
Families of about 66,000 elementary students will be able to check their children's grades, attendance, class schedules and homework assignments beginning this month. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is expanding its Parent Assistant Web site, which debuted in middle and high schools last school year, to include the district's 100 elementary schools. “Parents have real-time data, directly ...
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CMS puts more grades, records online
Families of about 66,000 elementary students will be able to check their children's grades, attendance, class schedules and homework assignments beginning this month. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is expanding its Parent Assistant Web site, which debuted in middle and high schools last school year, to include the district's 100 elementary schools. “Parents have real-time data, directly ...
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Web Surfers Face Dangerous New Threat: 'Clickjacking'
Internet and Web browser security experts are sounding the alarm about a new type of malicious attack called "clickjacking," a technique that can be used to dupe Web surfers into revealing confidential information while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. Among other things, a clickjacking attack can be used to take control of a computer's Webcam and microphone without the knowledge of ...
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Patent awarded for statistical program
Two Penn State scientists have received a U.S. patent for a statistical program that might someday make it easier to search the Internet for photographs.Associate Professors Jia Li and James Wang, said their program -- Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures, or ALIPR -- teaches computers to recognize the contents of photographs, rather than by searching for keywords in the surrounding text, ...
Moldova.org |
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Palin E-Mail Break-In Suspect Indicted By Federal Jury
David Kernell, a 20-year-old University of Tennessee student, was indicted Tuesday by a Knoxville, Tenn., federal grand jury on one count of "intentionally and without authorization access[ing ] a protected computer by means of interstate communication." Kernell is accused of breaking into the personal Yahoo e-mail account of Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
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Democratic legislator's son indicted in Palin Yahoo e-mail hacking case
The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hacking the Yahoo e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Sick internet game – when will Gazza die?
It may be a grave situation, but for many punters it's a dead cert - members of an internet fan forum are taking bets on when England football legend Paul Gascoigne is going to die.
Pravda Ru |
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Best Buy Starts Listening to Consumers With HP and Toshiba "Blue Label" Laptops [Blue Label]
Today Best Buy launched "Blue Label"—a new line of electronic products developed directly from customer feedback. Shockingly, Best Buy discovered that consumers wanted laptops with "longer...
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Opera maverick is still making waves
Trivia quiz: Which browser was the first to implement tabs, integrated search, zoom, saved sessions, and runs on mobile phones and TVs? Hint: it wasn't Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome.
iTNews |
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Start Your WiMax Engines With Laptops From Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba [Roundup]
Sprint's Xohm WiMax network got extra super official today with a party and all, so laptop makers are tossing out confetti in the form of WiMax-enabled notebooks. Here's what you've got to pick from....
Gizmodo |
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RIM unveils touch-screen Blackberry
Research in Motion Ltd (RIM), maker of the Blackberry, unveiled its first smartphone with a touch-screen on Wednesday, its answer to the popular Apple iPhone.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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SolutionSet puts business at Web's forefront
SolutionSet LLC upgrades the Web presence — from A to Z — for companies big and small.
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Iqaluit man who sells Inuit art hailed as eBay entrepreneur
An Iqaluit art dealer who uses the internet to sell Inuit art has won a $5,000 award as eBay Canada's Entrepreneur of the Year.
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