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IBM preliminary profit beats expectations
IBM posted astronger-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and stood by its full-year outlook, defying worries that the financial crisis would hurt demand for its computer products and services.
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Mitchell gives Glory players ultimatum
You need Flash Player 8 or higher to view video content with the Flash Player. Click here to download and install it. Perth Glory coach David Mitchell has warned his players to toughen
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Google's Vulcan death grip
Is Google the Mr. Spock of the Internet -- all head, no heart? A new book wonders if the very things that made the company great will bring it down.
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Woman accused of threatening teen daughter's ex
ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) - A woman is accused of badgering her daughter's teenage ex-boyfriend with hundreds of e-mails and text messages and threatening to post nude images of him on the Internet unless he started seeing the girl again, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Accused Palin email hacker in court
David Christopher Kernell has pleaded not guilty to hacking Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's personal email account.
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Oct. 8: Arrest Log
— Anderson police arrested Darnell D. Page, 33, of the 2200 block of Sherman Street, Anderson, on suspicion of battery, a Class A misdemeanor. Bond is $5,000.
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Prison medics, CHP officers get big severance checks for unused leave and OT
A California prison physician made $815,000 just by retiring and cashing out a career worth of unused vacation and on-call pay. Dozens of state workers took advantage of the little-known perk that cost the state $174 million last year. Search database of state salaries
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U.S. 'smart lighting' effort targets LED-based wireless nets
A "smart lighting" initiative being funded by the government seeks to piggyback wireless communications capabilities onto future LED lighting installations to provide more broadband access points.
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Am Law Tech 2008: IT in the Balance
In the early years of law firm tech, staff tried to get lawyers to use the new tools and made sure that nothing blew up when they did. But now lawyers are married to technology and the issues that keep IT directors up at night have changed according to the Am Law Tech 2008 survey.
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Knox Co. Commission goes paperless
The county commission's agenda will be on computer starting at Thursday's meeting.
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Yahoo Rolls out Web Analytics for the Enterprise
Sometime in May, Yahoo has acquired a web service company called IndexTools. Now, several months after Yahoo is making use of their acquisition with a new service Web Analytics for Business websites. This service helps to create a feedback mechanism for e-merchants, website owners, advertisers and developers. It provides data and insights which will be [...]
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Yahoo shares plunge to lowest level in more than five years
Yahoo's shares plunged 9 percent Wednesday to their lowest level in more than five years as its core advertising business weakened and investors increasingly doubted that a proposed deal with Google would get done.
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Was There a FOG Over Advertising Week?
It's becoming nearly impossible to attend a marketing trade show (and there are plenty of them) without someone making a comment about how Google is planning to overtake the industry.
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Soon You'll Be Able to Subscribe to Google SERPs
Accoding to Matt McGee at Search Engine Land, Google will soon start offering RSS feeds for search results as an extension of Google Alerts. McGee writes: read more
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IBM preliminary profit beats expectations
IBM posted astronger-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and stood by its full-year outlook, defying worries that the financial crisis would hurt demand for its computer products and services.
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Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails His Portfolio Companies Over Financial Meltdown
Ron Conway , one of Silicon Valley's most prolific angel investors (and he was also an early investor in Google), wrote an email yesterday to the CEOs of his portfolio companies. In no uncertain terms he outlines a bleak immediate future, and gives advice to his startups. It's the same advice, actually, that he gave in 2000 during the tech meltdown that was then happening in real time. Lower ...
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Hot Seat: Neil Williams, Market Harborough Building Society
Dave Bailey, Computing , Thursday 9 October 2008 at 01:30:00 Neil Williams is head of IT at Market Harborough Building Society, where he concentrates on long-term IT strategy. He manages five staff. What was your first job and how did you get into IT? It was a temporary job doing Basic programming at Birds Eye Walls....
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Scouting the Blogs of Internet Icons
Several superstars of the tech world have started up their own blogs, allowing us to bask in their deep thoughts and cower from the brilliance of their devastating insight. If only some of them would post more often. Wired.com
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About 25 apply for Pamlico schools superintendent's post
BAYBORO - About 25 people have applied for the open superintendent job in the Pamlico County school system. More than 100 Internet comments and survey responses by community and staff members will help the Pamlico County Board of Education select one of those people for the job.
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VR Tells McCain To Fire Connell For Vote Cover-Up
Velvet Revolution today issued a press release calling for Republican candidate John McCain to fire computer expert Michael Connell from his campaign for covering up alleged election manipulations of Karl Rove and others.
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The internet lover who was right up my street.... just seven doors away
When Julie McIlroy signed up for a global dating service, she might have expected it to take her to exotic climes. But instead it pointed her in the direction of a neighbour living just seven doors away.
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Simplified Disk-Based Backup And Recovery
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Oct. 7, 2008 – Dell today announced the industry’s first integrated disk-to-disk (D2D) based backup and recovery solution – the Dell PowerVault DL2000 – that helps customers simplify data protection processes while slashing backup times by up to 52 percent and restore times by up to 77 percent1 compared to tape.
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WiMax - the technology, devices and momentum - finally arrives.
Finally! WiMax is officially here. I know this because executives pulled out the big scissors - in this case, hedge clippers - to the cut the symbolic copper wire (instead of a ribbon) to signify the end of the wired Internet. Whenever there's a ribbon cutting, you know its official. I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this. I first heard about WiMax years ago when it was Intel, not ...
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Feds to use computer chips to foil cactus thieves
TUCSON, Ariz. - Anyone thinking of swiping a stately saguaro cactus from the desert could soon be hauling off more than just a giant plant.
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