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TV anywhere, laptop style: USB sticks as DVB-T antennas
Berlin - DVB-T - digital television received using an antenna - is available in a growing number of cities and countries. It's even possible to watch DVB-T on a laptop. The easiest way to do so is using a USB stick as a receiver. There are also card...
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The Week In Review: Five Things You Should Know
• MONDAY New car key keeps your teen driver in line when you aren't there Ford Motor Co.Ford Motor Co. will roll out a new feature, controlled by a computer chip in the key, that allows parents to limit the...
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Public sentiment on school's side in dispute with Apple
A Saanich company’s fight to retain the use of an apple in its corporate logo is reaching to the core of what many computer users feel is a basic right.
Kelowna Capital News |
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IBM builds online version of China's Forbidden City
IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the nation's emperors.
China Economic Net |
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Resource fairs will aid workers leaving HP
A pair of resource fairs are coming up next week for workers caught up in the latest round of layoffs at Hewlett-Packard’s Corvallis campus.
Corvallis Gazette-Times |
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Obama Has Huge Lead Over McCain--In Cyberspace
Obama speaks before nearly 10,000 supporters during a campaign rally in Newport News, Virginia. Photo courtesy: AFP. WASHINGTON DC: If the US presidential election was being held in cyberspace, Barack Obama would win in a landslide.
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Ex-hacker 'Mafiaboy' tells all in memoir
A former hacker, who temporarily shut down several major websites and led the RCMP and the FBI on a manhunt when he was 15, has written a tell-all memoir about his criminal past.
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Still undecided? Internet tools to help you make up your mind: New on the Net
What are McCain and Obama (that's alphabetical order) saying about subjects important to you? Google has a new feature on which you can now look up what each of them has said about particular keywords. You're still somehow an...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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IBM builds online version of China's Forbidden City
SAN FRANCISCO - IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the nation's emperors.
China Daily |
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Studio webcams to broadcast radio hosts on the net
People listening to the radio through the internet are now able to watch hosts in action after the introduction of studio webcams by Newstalk ZB.
NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News |
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This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
Six Slick Windows Themes to Dress Up Your Desktop (Windows) "While fiddling with the look and feel of your computer desktop isn't technically productive, making your workspace something you're proud...
Lifehacker |
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Man Sentenced For Downloading Child Porn
A federal judge has sentenced a South San Francisco man to 10 years in prison for downloading more than 2,000 images of child pornography.
KCRA 3 Sacramento |
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Kenya's elephants send text messages
The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.
MSNBC |
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Inventory Your Home Storage [Weekend Project]
You just know you have some obscure, need-it-twice-a-year item, like a camping lantern or holiday wrapping paper stashed away somewhere—but where the heck did you put it? The Unclutterer blog...
Lifehacker |
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Hackers get inside World Bank computer
Internet hackers have compromised the internal system of the World Bank.
Calcutta News |
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Rumor: Apple Developing Networked LCD With Built-in Apple TV [Rumor]
As we get closer to yet another Apple event, the rumor mill is operating at full speed and everyone has "sources." The latest to offer up a juicy bit of gossip is Jason Calacanis, who went on record...
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Sarah Palin's Fishy Emails to Haunt Her Forever [Sinking]
An Alaska Superior Court judge sided yesterday with that Republican activist who sued Sarah Palin to force her to produce emails from private accounts like Yahoo, which she may have been using to...
Gawker |
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The Rise of the Machines
How artificial intelligence has influenced the philosophies of such diverse thinkers as Freeman Dyson, his son, George Dyson and the Unibomber.
New York Times |
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Sony Ericsson's 8.1MP C905 Cyber-shot cellphone gets unboxed on video
Filed under: Cellphones Oh sure, you've seen the 8.1-megapixel C905 Cyber-shot in the wild and in our very own hands , but have you seen it unboxed entirely on video? No? Well, today's your lucky day. Sony Ericsson's shutterbug-of-a-cellphone is a touch on the thick side and doesn't come with too many extras (you know, like a detachable zoom lens ), but as SE always manages to ...
Engadget |
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Computer system shows decline in drug treatment
A state computer system that measures drug and alcohol treatment statewide has logged a significant decrease in treatment episodes, but observers aren't getting excited that the problem may have peaked.
The Patriot-News |
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Talk On Empowering Visually Challenged
Bandar Seri Begawan - The advancement in Assistive technology, software and hardware has helped empowered the visually challenged persons to accomplish numerous feats that were previously seemed impossible.
BruDirect.com |
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Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?
Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and (naturally) Apple TV. Considering everyone is clamoring to stream digital content into the ...
ZDNet |
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Data Doctor: Low-price laptops can have low-quality batteries
Q: I want to buy a new laptop, but I've heard horror stories about the batteries that come in lower-priced units. How can I tell if a computer that I am considering has a decent battery? - Gary
East Valley Tribune |
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Zaktansky on Fantasy Football: Projecting the value of projections
If only one could predict the future by simply crunching some numbers. Fantasy football, a true numbers game, would be so much easier that way. Take for example many of the major fantasy football Web sites.
The Daily Item |
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The Hacker: Mike can't get past first base with baseball grip as Big Jim joins 100 club
Weather conditions were so wretched in our October medal last weekend that I had plenty of miserable company in my forlorn struggle to break 100. Most of the competitors returned their worst resultsof the year.
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