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Micron Plans to Cut 15 Percent of Its Work Force
The chip maker said the move was part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations.
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Community News Briefs for Thursday, Oct. 9
Singles club welcomes members NORTH COUNTY ----The North County Singles Social Club (55 and up) is open to new members. The group meets at the Vista Elks Lodge on Friday nights for dinner and dancing to live music. People can come three times before deciding whether to become a member. Cost is $14. Reserve to (760) 942-2719.
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Upstate NY pastor faces child pornography charges
Associated Press - October 9, 2008 3:05 PM ET CANTON, N.Y. (AP) - Police are charging a northern New York Baptist pastor with possessing child pornography on his computer.
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Will the next MacBooks be better gaming systems?
Peter Cohen hopes that the next MacBooks will include the robust graphics processing needed by modern games.
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CWU activates alert system
Central Washington University Lt. Mike Luvera holds up a phone with the CWU Alert! Web page displayed on it. The alert is a new way to warn the campus community in case of dangerous situation or emergency.
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Upstate NY pastor faces child pornography charges
CANTON, N.Y. (AP) — Police are charging a northern New York Baptist pastor with possessing child pornography on his computer. The Rev. Merton Parks resigned this week as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Oswegatchie after learning he was under investigation.
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New notebooks to be focus of Apple event
Apple emails invitations for an event at its headquarters, in which the company is likely to unveil new notebook PCs.
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Calling All Social Do-Gooders - Submit A Story for a Year Grant of the Web-Based Social Technology Software From ...
Nationwide Call for Entries - Top Three Social Good Organizations To Be Granted One Year Subscriptions to Central Desktop (PRWeb Oct 9, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1451364.htm
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Envizions' "System of Tomorrow" Smart Console Is the First of Its Kind
Envizions announced today that the EVO Smart Console, tagged the "System of Tomorrow," will soon be open to pre-orders on all Envizions websites. The EVO Smart Console is the first open source hybrid Linux gaming system that will provide system of tomorrow applications.
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What is RSS?
RSS is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on Web sites you like. Instead of checking your favorite Web sites to see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell you every time they have something new.
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The five products Apple must make
What ought to be Apple's next leap of faith? Here are a few ideas for where Apple should go next. What are your ideas? Apple made its latest big move into new territories last year with the launch of the now ubiquitous iPhone, expanding beyond the desktop and...
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Microsoft Kicks Off Competition for Developers Who 'Dare to Dream Different'
Microsoft Corp. today announced a call for entries for the Microsoft Dare to Dream Different challenge, a skills-based competition for software developers to design and build innovative devices on the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, Microsoft's smallest embedded platform for resource-constrained devices.
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Palin Hacker Allegedly Involved in Another Computer Intrusion
A 20-year-old Tennessee student who was indicted this week for gaining unauthorized access to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo account, was involved in another computer intrusion years ago while in high school, a former teacher says. David Kernell and a fellow classmate guessed the password to a system storing lesson plans and got detention for it, the teacher says. Wired.com
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Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses
SAN FRANCISCO -- Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.
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Software that gives you perfect look
Is the woman pictured on the right more attractive than the woman on the left? Do her wider-set eyes, the longer distance between her hairline and the bridge of the nose, and the rounder shape of her face make her more beautiful?
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Photographer uses new technology to bring landmarks to life
Peter Horn is a persistent man. The Frisco resident spends his spare time taking hundreds of pictures n moving just inches at a time n of landmarks around town to piece them together in Photosynth, a new program by Microsoft that turns digital images into 3-D explorations.
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Calling All Social Do-Gooders - Submit A Story for a Year Grant of the Web-Based Social Technology Software From ...
Nationwide Call for Entries - Top Three Social Good Organizations To Be Granted One Year Subscriptions to Central Desktop
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Flat Q2 likely for IT firms
The July-September quarter, historically a strong one for most Indian IT firms, will be different this year, with many firms likely to issue a downward dollar guidance or post figures that could hover along the lower band of the guidance they have provided.
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Slipping Away?
CHICAGO, Oct. 9 -- After watching Barack Obama hit his stride at a boisterous Indiana rally Wednesday, I fired up the old laptop and came to a realization.
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Geode Firefox Add-On Lets Your Browser Know Where You Are
Those at Google Labs have been busy again and today introduced Firefox users to Geode , an add-on which can allow websites you visit to detect your location and then provide you with information more tailored to your needs. Example cited are a website you might visit both at home and at work being able to tell the difference between the two and serve up content suitable to each location, or a ...
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Time for Fall Cleanup Day in Little Elm
The Town of Little Elm will hold Fall Cleanup Day from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 11. Enter the Service Center on Brenda Lane. The following items will be accepted: Computers and anything used along with a computer, hazardous waste materials, including old paint, household chemicals, cleaners, used motor oil, any unused or unwanted household items.
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Microsoft to improve Vista's problematic UAC in Windows 7
Microsoft plans to improve the much-maligned UAC (user account control) feature in the next version of its Windows client OS, acknowledging that the new security feature it built into Windows Vista has caused unnecessary problems for users. On the company's Engineering Windows 7 blog , Microsoft called UAC one of the "most controversial" features of Vista and said it will tweak UAC in ...
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11 Microsoft security updates due next week
Next week will be a busy one for system administrators as Microsoft is planning to ship 11 security updates -- four of them rated critical -- for its products.
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Apple expected to unveil new laptops Oct. 14
Apple Inc is expected to unveil new laptop computers next week, issuing invitations on Thursday to an October 14 event that say "The Spotlight turns to notebooks."
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Cyberscams exploit consumers' financial unease
The rippling financial crisis has sent consumers scurrying to the Internet for answers and advice. Online fraudsters are right behind, devising ways to steal personal information. Cybercrooks are creating fake websites, spam, phishing attacks and malicious software code to take advantage of anxiety during the economic calamity. Like other extraordinary news events, the crisis has heightened ...
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