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Hackers attack Tibetan govet's website: Tibetan official
NEW DELHI - UNKNOWN hackers on Friday blocked access to the official website of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Tibetan officials said. The website, (www.tibet.net), offered 'blank' as a message or drew Internet surfers to other Tibet-related sites through the Google search engine.
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Child porn crackdown continues with two more raids
Computers seized by detectives
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Recent Original Stories
"As desktop Linux becomes ever more professional, and with Microsoft still a year away from shipping its new Vista version of Windows, could now be the time to go open-source on the desktop?
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IT & Telecoms
JuicyCampus.com is an Internet site that allows the anonymous posting of gossip about college students who at times are specifically identified by first and last names, as well as by dormitory.
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Stream music from iTunes to iPhone or iPod Touch using Simplify Media
The problem with the iPhone and iPod Touch is that their fairly limited hard drives can be used for so much more than just music, that if you've got an extensive collection of songs you can't carry them all around at once.
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Low CTR: Is Google AdSense Encountering a Glitch?
A Google AdSense publisher at WebmasterWorld is reporting that his highest earning day had poor performance. He wonders if it has something to do with a new AdSense glitch or if this problem is just personally impacting him. Fortunately for him, he's not alone. One member reports that the ads were not very contextually relevant. Another reports that it may not be a glitch after all but is ...
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Microsoft exploring Apple-like retail shops?
Microsoft is seriously investigating the prospect of opening a self-branded set of retail stores, according to a new claim. Alleged sources near Microsoft say that the company hopes to boost its brand by launching a retail chain that presents an ideal Microsoft experience, similar to Apple's own outlets. What the store is likely to contain is unk...
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$42B BID SAID TO BE UNDERVALUING COMPANY Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft, open to better deal
NEW YORK —Yahoo Inc, responding to a three-week deadline issued by Microsoft Corp to accept its $42 billion takeover bid, again rejected the deal for undervaluing the Web pioneer.
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Symantec Reports More Than One Million Viruses Worldwide
Symantec Corporation, maker of the Norton family of Internet security products, has announced in its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report that the global number of viruses - including trojans and worms - has topped one million . In what can only be described as a frightening escalation of malware warfare, Symantec claims that it detected 711,912 new threats in 2007 - with 499,811 coming ...
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The Playstation 3 Laptop Mod
Modder extraordinaire Ben Heck , whose previous projects have included laptop versions of the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii has been rather busy (on and off) for the past year and a half working on a PS3 portable to complete the trio of console mods. The project is now complete , with Sony's original 60GB console being shoehorned into a 'portable' format complete with 17" LCD screen, integrated ...
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WD Pimps My Passport Essential Drives
Big, brash colours are definitely in. WD wants a piece of the pie and has introduced ten new colours for its My Passport Essential portable USB drives. Weighing in at less than 142g, the drive puts almost a third of a terabyte of digital storage in the palm of y...
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Child porn crackdown continues with two more raids
Computers seized by detectives (11/04/2008 11:29:53)
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Apr 2006 20:43 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"All too often the desktop operating system market is looked upon as some sort of epic struggle between Microsoft and Linux. This 'versus' mentality is fun to perpetuate, it is not helping anyone in the long run . Since it is clear that each party is going to be around for a long time, what is needed a bit of mannerly coexistence.
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Opinion: NXP 'venture' conceals ST's chip strategy
The headlines are all wrong. STMicroelectronics isn't pooling its wireless business into a joint venture with NXP's wireless chip unit. No. ST is buying NXP's wireless business.
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IBM to acquire Israeli storage firm FilesX
FilesX's software provides continuous data protection for applications and servers as well as supporting business users in remote offices.
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The digital dance begins
Jason Bazinet, a media analyst with Citigroup Global Markets, put it nicely in a research note Thursday: "Who, after all, wants to compete as a sub-scale player - with a less than complete set of Internet assets - in a world dominated by Google and Microhoo?"
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Opening Glance: Web Software, Services
Internet software and services stocks declined Friday morning along with the broader market after General Electric issued a disappointing first-quarter report that added to investors worries about corporate earnings and the economy.
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Appcelerator Integrates RIA Platform with Google App Engine
Appcelerator announced that it has updated its platform to allow applications built using Appcelerator to be deployed to the free new Google App Engine. Used together, the offerings give developers a fast route to developing, deploying, managing and scaling their applications. Appcelerator is an integrated platform that fuses RIA and service-oriented architecture (SOA). With Appcelerator, ...
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Microsoft's Security Bundle Goes Beta
A public beta test starts for Microsoft's 'Stirling' security products.
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New Microsoft Live Maps Rolls Out With Boatload Of Upgrades
A new version of Microsoft's Live Search Maps has rolled out (after yesterday's major traffic and routing upgrade ). There's an enormous range of feature and functionality upgrades, which are explained in some detail on the Virtual Earth blog . There's also a discussion at CNET. At a crude level, what it means is that Live Maps is now more visually rich and more "social" with third-party ...
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Relona CTO, Kumar Ramanathan on Relona, Relevancy and Search
Few days back there was an article at SEJ on Relona, a search technology start-up which used unique technology to add more relevance to results from major search engines like Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask.com. Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Technology Officer at Relona graciously answered a few questions on Relona and search via e-mail. 1. Can you [...]
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Comodo Offers Security Watch Group
April 11, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT security solutions provider Comodo announced on Wednesday that it has recently launched Testmypcsecurity, a new model in security that acts as a "Virtual Security Community Watch Group."
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Google gains from Yahoo-Microsoft takeover drama: analysts
Microsoft's unwanted courtship of Yahoo is spinning into a dramatic soap opera that analysts say is playing into the hands of Internet search king Google.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Naked woman reflected in Dick Cheney sunglasses?
So, the Web sensation of the day is this picture from the White House Web-site of Dick Cheney, wearing sunglasses and flyfishing.
Orlando Sentinel |
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Chinese hackers break into MEA network
No sensitive information is believed to have been accessed during the hacking which was detected during regular checks by the intelligence agencies, official sources said in New Delhi on Friday. Though the government does not have any specific idea about who the hackers were, the IP addresses left behind suggested the hand of Chinese.
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