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CMS elementary grades, records going online
Families of about 66,000 elementary students will be able to check their children's grades, attendance, class schedules and homework assignments beginning next week. 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 into the ...
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Sarah Palin email hacker indicted
The 20 year-old son of Democratic state legislator Mike Kernell has been indicted for hacking into the email account of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Windows Cloud to Compete With Google
Microsoft will be launching a new cloud computing service later this month to compete with the Google App Engine
Tom's Hardware |
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Synaptics to Report First Quarter Results on October 23
Synaptics® Incorporated , a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, announced today that it will report financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 on Thursday, October 23, 2008 after the close of market.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Multi-National Oil and Gas Company Chooses Accelrys to Increase Efficiency in Catalyst Discovery and Optimization
SAN DIEGO----Accelrys, Inc. , a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced that one of the largest multi-national oil and gas companies has chosen Accelrys to develop an integrated solution which would enable this company’s catalyst research scientists to both accelerate catalysis research and discovery and to improve the performance of the ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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3 women found guilty of prostitution
Three of seven women accused of being part of an Internet prostitution ring were found guilty Wednesday, according to the Henderson County General Sessions Court clerk's office. Two other women did not show up for court and had their bonds forfeited.
The Jackson Sun |
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U.S. Stock-Index Futures Climb; IBM, Intel, AIG Gain in Europe
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock futures rose, indicating the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will rebound from a six-day drop, as International Business Machines Corp.
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Laptops track sex offenders
Until recently, when Florida probation officers went out to check on sex offenders wearing ankle bracelets, they had to leave an important tool in the office: the monitoring software that tracks the offenders.
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Cyber-Surfing Gives Everyone Easy Access to History
(ARA) - History is making history on the World Wide Web. With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. Both companies announced their services, which use graphic images that represent players called "avatars," Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show. Sony Corp.'s twice delayed online "Home" virtual world for the PlayStation 3 console will be available sometime later this year, while U.S. ...
The State |
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U.S. Stock-Index Futures Climb; IBM, Intel, AIG Gain in Europe
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock futures rose, indicating the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will rebound from a six-day drop, as International Business Machines Corp.
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Hacker takes down Chamber Web site
The North Platte Telegraph If you attempted to see what was new with the North Platte Chamber of Commerce between late morning and early Wednesday afternoon, you were probably greeted by the images of Turkish symbolism related to one of the world's most notorious hackers.
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10:39 (BST), 09/10/2008 Tekken 6 Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS – Leading video games publisher NAMCO BANDAI ...
– Leading video games publisher NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe., today announced that it’s highly anticipated fighting title, , is scheduled to be released worldwide in Fall 2009 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Plea pending for Uxbridge man charged in connection with 2006 Internet sex sting
A plea agreement is pending in one of the few remaining open court cases against alleged Internet predators caught in an online sting two years ago. .
The Patriot Ledger |
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Plea pending for Uxbridge man charged in connection with 2006 Internet sex sting
A plea agreement is pending in one of the few remaining open court cases against alleged Internet predators caught in an online sting two years ago. .
The Brockton Enterprise |
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Web traffic jam as people search for financial news
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The financial crisis has people flocking to the Internet for the latest money news along with tips on how to salvage investments and save on the routine costs of living.
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Web traffic jam as people search for financial news
The financial crisis has people flocking to the Internet for the latest money news along with tips on how to salvage investments and save on the routine costs of living.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Internet Resources Empower Long-distance Caregivers
(ARA) - John is 82 and lives in Manhattan. Since the death of his brother, he regularly checks on his 87-year-old sister-in-law who lives about 90 minutes away. She has dementia and needs help with daily needs. An aide lives with her, but John is concerned the help is getting burned out.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
(AP:CHIBA, Japan) Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. Both companies announced their services, which use graphic images that represent players called "avatars," Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show.
INO News |
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40 laid off at software company as execs arrested
(AP) -- Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk.
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Microsoft backs using videogames as teaching tools
Microsoft's research arm and a set of US universities are creating a first-of-its-kind institute devoted to using videogames to teach math, science and engineering to school children.
PhysOrg |
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Nobel prize laureate finds winning news on internet
US scientist Martin Chalfie went on the internet to find out he was one of three co-winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry, he said, after he ignored a telephone ring early Wednesday he thought came from next door.
PhysOrg |
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Mozilla adds location tagging to Firefox
I know where you are. Mozilla has released an add-on to Firefox that enables the browser to automatically pinpoint a user's location by communicating with Wi-Fi signals so websites can provide customised content to users.
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