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24 hours a day is more than enough time for Dracut mom
DRACUT -- The calendar next to Karen Merrill's computer tells the story. Every square is full of events. Coaching volleyball at the Brookside School at 4 p.m., high-school council meeting at 6 p.m., and a seven o'clock meeting with the Community Preservation Committee and the Open Space Committee, which she chairs.
Lowell Sun |
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Local government failing to harness the web
Phil Muncaster, Computing , Monday 13 October 2008 at 11:57:00 Self-service tools not being sufficiently promoted, says survey Local authorities are failing to tap the potential of their web sites to reduce costs and create more efficient ways to serve citizens, according to new research from IT operations management firm Avocent. The survey found that, although citizens are ...
Computing.co.uk |
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Election Day Ad Buy for Animal Planet
Network targets politically-engaged viewers with major ad buys on CNN, MSNBC, Huffington Post for Whale Wars.
Broadcasting and Cable |
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Law and the Internet, Part 1: A Little Self-Help
The Internet often has the effect of eliminating the middle man and enabling consumers to complete tasks directly. While these changes have occurred swiftly in some markets, they have been evolving more slowly in the legal profession. In fact, the process of finding legal advice is quite similar to how it was before the dotcom boom.
E-Commerce Times |
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APPLAUSE
Betsy Craig has joined Front Range Internet Inc. (FRII), as a strategic accounts manager. Craig brings more than 20 years of sales experience including spending the last few years working for Privacy Networks, a local e-mail archiving company. She will focus on FRII's growing education sector, as well as local commercial businesses.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan |
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ProSiebenSat.1 Buys Majority Stake in Germany's Webnews.de
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG , Germany's biggest private broadcaster, purchased a 67.6 percent stake in online news company Webnews.de to expand its Internet business.
Bloomberg |
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UK university holds artificial intelligence test
Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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Local burglaries on the rise, police say
Thieves in the Richmond area are taking a heartless, though not new, approach to selecting their victims. They target the recently deceased, often breaking into homes after reading obituaries in the newspaper or on the Internet.
Palladium-Item |
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"Make a Difference Day" set for Saturday
WEST LONG BRANCH: The borough is celebrating its eighth annual "Make A Difference Day" by offering a free recycling program for items residents find difficulty in dumping, for various reasons.
Asbury Park Press |
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Cranes Software Announces the Release of the NISA/CIVIL Version 16
BANGALORE, India----Cranes Software International Limited, a provider of Enterprise Statistical Analytics and Engineering Simulation Software Products and Solutions today announced the launch of NISA/CIVIL Version 16 - the latest version of its industry leading FEA package 'NISA/CIVIL'.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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The Apple notebook guessing game
Will the company make the price drop plunge on Tuesday when it rolls out its new notebook lineup?
CNET |
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Investors incur $ 20 bn loss in US-listed Indian cos
The 16 Indian companies listed on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange have collectively seen a value erosion of $ 19.45 billion, led by ICICI Bank which lost $ five billion. Reflecting the acute credit crunch in the banking sector, leading lender HDFC Bank lost $ 3.39 billion. Leading software exporter Wipro saw its market capitalisation tumble by $ 3.59 billion, while Infosys Technologies' ...
rediff.com |
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New site matches tenants and landlords
Upad, a free online property rental service that matches landlords with potential tenants, has gone live.
Netimperative |
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Professional Society Web Sites Free Of Commercial Sponsorship Provide Patients With Reliable Information Before Having ...
New research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows unsponsored and professional society Web sites provide significantly higher quality information about common elective surgical procedures compared with commercially sponsored Web sites.
Medical News Today |
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Reader wants fugitive info posted online :BBB issues warnings about debt collection service, lottery scams.
Can you check into the possibility of getting active arrest warrants in St. Joseph County (Ind.) made available to the public online? They have thousands and new ones are issued every day.
South Bend Tribune |
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Leading Drug Database To Be Housed At U-M
The University of Michigan received $5 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop the world's leading resource of high-quality experimental data sets of drug-making compounds that will ultimately take computer-aided drug design to a new level.
Medical News Today |
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Apple cider demonstration comes to library
Scott Crispin, a Wilmington resident, will be on hand at that the Fall Apple Festival on Saturday, Oct. 25 to demonstrate how apple cider is made.
Wilmington Advocate |
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Minority Report: Low-cost MacBook on the way?
Blog: Apple could be headed down market
Silicon.com |
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At 17, Is Linux Still Wet Behind the Ears?
It was a big week for our favorite technology last week, as true believers no doubt already know. Not only was Linux 2.6.27 released -- causing no small amount of discussion on Slashdot -- but the operating system itself also turned 17 years old. The Linux Journal article noting that momentous day had already received well more than a thousand Diggs by Friday.
LinuxInsider.com |
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LINK Development unveils Facebook CRM
Application will allow companies to integrate MS Dynamics CRM with Facebook for improved customer communication
ITP.net |
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Just A Minute With: Paulo Coelho on digital media
PARIS (Reuters Life!) - The promotional power of piracy and artistic merits of blogging are among the themes to be discussed by bestselling author Paulo Coelho in his opening address to the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
Reuters |
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OLO promises Foleo-style iPhone-Air laptop combo
Just as doomed as Palm's product? Is Apple's iPhone 3G about to gain a full-size screen and keyboard courtesy of a device reminiscent of Palm's ill-fated Foleo? One French company is offering a tantalising glimpse of just such a system.…
The Register |
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Ad campaign to make online shopping safer
APACS, the UK payments trade body, is launching an advertising campaign to raise awareness on how customers stay safe while shopping online. The “Be Card Smart Online” campaign has been created by Saatchi & Saatchi and begins on 20 October.
Mad.co.uk |
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Little Big Disk Quadra 500GB review
LaCie’s Little Big Disk Quadra is a portable, bus-powered hard drive featuring two 250GB mechanisms striped in a RAID 0 configuration. The built-in connectors include a pair of FireWire 800 ports, a USB 2.0 port and an eSATA port.
Macworld UK |
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Sync 'Em 1.00 released
Sync 'Em helps sync Microsoft Exchange, Google and Address Book contacts and calendar information between multiple systems. At present, Sync 'Em syncs Exchange, Google and Address Book contacts and can also work across multiple accounts.
Macworld UK |
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