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Mutual Funds: A year after Dow record, fund investors are paying a heavy price
One year and about 5,500 points ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 14,000 -- a record. U.S. stocks had staged a remarkable comeback from the bursting of the Internet bubble and the recession following the Sept. 11 attacks. It seemed the worst was over.
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Doctations Applauds US Presidential Candidates' Call For Medical Reform, Greater Health Care Efficiency
GARDEN CITY, N.Y.----Doctations, Inc., developer of DocPatientNetwork.com, a unique Internet-enabled On Demand Healthcare System designed to help doctors and patients form online collaborative networks, applauds our US Presidential candidates, Senator Barak Obama and Senator John McCain in their push for greater government efficiency and significant cost savings using Electronic Medical Records .
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Sphinn Japan Launches: Internet & Search Marketing News, In Japanese
When we launched our Sphinn social news site for search and internet marketers last year, we quickly were hit by a huge number of Japanese-language submissions. Unfortunately, we had to go to an English-only rule, as we had no easy way to moderate those submissions, such as checking for spam. Now, problem solved — Sphinn [...]
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Yahoo falls into $12 range, Dow enters 8,000 territory
The Internet company and the Dow Jones index continue to slip downhill, hitting lows they haven't seen for the past five years.
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Mandriva Linux 2009 Released
Mandriva has today released Mandriva Linux 2009, the new major release of the popular distribution. 2009 is a bold release which brings the new KDE 4 as the default desktop, along with a re-designed installer and Mandriva Control Center and many other new features. Other significant updates include GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Mozilla Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.27. Key features include new ...
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INDONESIA: Internet cafe owner reported to police
Jambi --- A 40 year old internet cafe owner in Mayang village, Kotabaru district, Jambi, has been reported to police for teaching his adolescent customers how to browse pornographic websites.
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Fake YouTube Pages Used To Spread Viruses
The fake YouTube pages are dead-on replicas of the real site that may even fool some sophisticated surfers.
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HP to open PC factory in western China
The Palo Alto company said the new factory will be its second in China; it will make notebook and desktop personal computers for the Chinese market.
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Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir
The ‘seek and solve’ genre is a big deal on the internet, and Nintendo have picked up on its casual-gamer-friendliness with this Touch Generations title. You’re presented with a picture of a densely packed room and a list of objects to find. Find the objects to move onto the next room.
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Microsoft gets off of its Cloud
It looks like Microsoft does not really like the idea of being too literal about the name of its long-rumoured cloud operating system.
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Computer Data Breach at South Tahoe High School
A South Tahoe High School student has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the school's computer system. District administrators say they found a security breach in one of the computers last week, and the 17-year-old boy may have accessed sensitive information regarding staff and students.
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Apple set to announce updates to laptop lineup
Apple will hold a press event next week at which it will apparently unveil updates to its laptop computer lineup.
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HP to expand China’s PC facility
NEW YORK: Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co plans to operate a 20,000-square-metre computer manufacturing facility in China’s Chongqing area, expanding its presence in Western China in order to better serve that local market. ...
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Apple set to announce updates to laptop lineup
Apple will hold a press event next week at which it will apparently unveil updates to its laptop computer lineup.
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Ryan Adams and the Cardinals postpone tonight's show
Audiobaba Generate playlists and get recommendations from this "Personal Music Genie." Coverville Thrice-a-week podcasts of great cover songs. Radio Paradise Free online radio (though they'd appreciate your donations).
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Innovative Silicon Unveils Z-RAM Memory Technology Breakthroughs at 2008 IEEE International SOI Conference
Innovative Silicon, Inc. (ISi), developer of the Z-RAM(R) zero-capacitor floating body memory technology, demonstrated here that its Z-RAM memory technology continues to show considerable advantages over DRAM implementations and other proposed floating body memory designs. Dr. Mikhail Nagoga, a principal member of ISi's technical staff, presented a paper written by Dr. Serguei Okhonin, chief ...
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IBM Plans Its Biggest Bond Sale With $4 Billion in Offerings
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. , the world's largest computer-services company, plans to raise $4 billion in its biggest sale of dollar-denominated bonds.
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IBM Plans Its Biggest Bond Sale With $4 Billion in Offerings
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. , the world's largest computer-services company, plans to raise $4 billion in its biggest sale of dollar-denominated bonds.
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Micron to Cut 2,850 Jobs, Reduce Flash Memory Output (Update4)
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc. , the largest U.S. producer of memory chips, will cut about 2,850 jobs over the next two years and reduce production in an industry glut.
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Yahoo falls into $12 range, Dow enters 8,000 territory
Yahoo fell into the $12-a-share-range Thursday, marking the second consecutive day its stock tumbled to a new low.
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Tapping the IPhone, Courtesy of Yahoo!
tdalek writes "You may remember the recent Slashdot article about Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop exposing authentication information. It turns out that more that other Yahoo! applications are affected, although to a lesser degree. With Yahoo!'s desktop program, it transmitted the usernames and passwords in plaintext. Yahoo! is one of the lucky few default e-mail providers on the iPhone; sadly it looks ...
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India-centric meet in U.K. concludes
LONDON: Where does the Internet go from here? How will it look like in the next ten years? And what about the print media? Are there actually two “media worlds” — one in decline and the other growing despite competition from ...
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arXiv online scientific repository hits milestone
Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million e-print postings -- research articles published online -- now reside in arXiv, which is free and available to the public.
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Computer data breach at South Tahoe High School
Associated Press - October 9, 2008 4:14 PM ET SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - A South Tahoe High School student has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the school's computer...
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Computer data breach at South Tahoe High School
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - A South Tahoe High School student has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the school's computer system.
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