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Report: NSA Listened In On Personal Military Calls
The Senate Select Intelligence Committee is looking into allegations from two U.S. military linguists that the government routinely listened in on phone calls of American military and humanitarian aid workers serving overseas.
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Brinkley to ex: Shield kids from `20/20' interview
Christie Brinkley wants her ex-husband to shield their children from a televised interview in which he explains his affair with a teenager and his Internet porn proclivities.
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Immigrant death defendant complains about school
A Pennsylvania teen charged with killing a Mexican man has lost a bid to be sent to private school on the taxpayers' dime. Brandon Piekarsky is charged with third-degree murder in the July beating death of 24-year-old Luis Ramirez. Piekarsky's school agreed to provide home instruction and a computer with Internet access while he awaits trial. But the teen says he has been getting only a few ...
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Riverside student hacks secure district computer, district says
A student at Riverside High School told Greenville County School District officials he hacked into the district's secure computer system and accessed confidential information, including students' Social Security numbers, according to a district spokesman.
The Greenville News |
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Eleven Microsoft fixes for October
Microsoft is planning to release at least eleven security fixes next Tuesday. The company released the advance notification information for the upcoming October 'Patch Tuesday' security update.
Infomatics |
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R.E.M., Blind Melon, Metallica, and Classic Rock Anthems Headline Launch Week Lineup for Guitar Hero World Tour
Activision Publishing, Inc. today announced a rich and diverse lineup of launch week downloadable content for the highly-anticipated Guitar Hero World Tour.
GameInfoWire |
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Symantec eyes pay-per-use software
Virtualization may spell the end of expensive long-term software-licensing deals, enabling the monitoring of each software instance use, according to the security company.
ZDNet Asia |
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SonicSwap Puts Your iTunes Library On The Web For Streaming And Sharing
Since the launch of YouTube's API and the release of Seeqpod , we've seen many sites emerge that allow users to create playlists of their favorite songs that can be streamed free of charge. Unfortunately, this can be a tedious task - oftentimes users are forced to recreate the playlists they already have in iTunes because the sites lack an upload function. SonicSwap , a startup that ...
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Tapping Twitter to monitor broadband outages
Australian Internet access provider Telstra is using the microblogging service to monitor service interruptions and contact customers about support plans. Will its rivals follow suit?
ZDNet Asia |
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AMD commits: AMD to pay Stillwater, Malta $5M
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to pay the towns of Stillwater and Malta a combined $5 million for community development. (AMD)
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Look whoâ??s buying Vista Home Basic (hint: itâ??s not home users)
Who???s buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you???d assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered machines for starving students and penny-pinching families. But you???d be wrong. Based on my observations of the PC market over the past year or two, I think consumers have rejected Home Basic in favor of Home Premium. But small, budget-conscious businesses ...
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Amazon Cuts S3 Prices
Amazon will be cutting the price of its S3 hosted storage service come November 1. Pricing will be tiered from now on and favor heavier users. The company’s entry-level price of 15 cents a gigabyte a month in the US will remain in place but only for the first 50TB, the next 50TB will cost 14 cents a GB with the next 400TB after that costing 13 cents a GB. Users of more than 500TB will get a bill ...
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Internet scammers target deaf community
PORTLAND -- Mary Beth Meyer is a smart woman. The 42-year-old has two master degrees and she teaches physical science and geometry at the Washington School for the Deaf.
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Micron Tech cuts global work force by 15 percent
(AP:BOISE, Idaho) Micron Technology Inc. will cut about 15 percent of its global work force as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations, the company said Thursday.
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16:53 (BST), 09/10/2008 MLB Front Office Manager Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS – 2K Sports, the sports ...
– 2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced that MLB Front Office Manager, the next step in competitive fandom for baseball enthusiasts, will be available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC this winter.
gamesindustry.biz |
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IBM Raises $4 Billion in Biggest Bond Sale in 5 Weeks (Update1)
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. raised $4 billion in the biggest U.S. bond sale in five weeks after the company said its profit this year will hold up against the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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Average Issue Readership General Public PARC Media Index 1997, Saudi Arabia
With technology opening the new doors of communication and the distribution of news and information, ArabNews Online is not bound by physical limitations. ArabNews Online is published by ArabNews from its offices located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is now available to readers around the globe.
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Which candidate owns the future?
Unless you stayed up to the bitter end, you missed the last question. It came over the Internet from Peggy in Amherst, N. H., and, as Tom Brokaw...
Seattle Times |
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Adzilla, a Would-Be I.S.P. Snoop, Quits U.S. Market
Another company is giving up on the idea that American Internet providers should be able to watch where their customers surf and sell that information to advertisers.
New York Times |
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Eleven Microsoft fixes for October
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, Microsoft is planning to release at least eleven security fixes next Tuesday. The company released the advance notification information for the upcoming October 'Patch Tuesday' security update....
vnunet.com |
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Peace in the ether for radio royalties
U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee helped broker a bipartisan solution to prevent disastrous royalty-fees increases for radio stations using the Internet.
Seattle Times |
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Adzilla, a Would-Be I.S.P. Snoop, Quits U.S. Market
Another company is giving up on the idea that American Internet providers should be able to watch where their customers surf and sell that information to advertisers.
New York Times |
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Brinkley moves to shield kids from ex's TV intvu
Supermodel Christie Brinkley wants her ex-husband to shield their children from a televised interview in which he explains his affair with a teenager and his Internet porn proclivities.
CTV.ca |
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Belden Announces Dates for Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call and December Analyst Meeting
ST. LOUIS , Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Belden (NYSE: BDC) plans to release its results for the third quarter ended September 28, 2008 , on Thursday, October 23, 2008 . Management will discuss the results of the quarter during a conference call at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time , which Belden will broadcast live, via the Internet.
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Southwest Airlines 'Freedom From Fees' Policy Helps Boost Its Share of Online Tickets Sold Directly By Major Airlines
comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study of online ticket sales at the U.S. sites of leading airlines as well as consumer attitudes toward airline fees.
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