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Developing News: Faulkner County Courthouse Sustains Damage
The courthouse was damaged over the weekend, according to Faulkner County Judge Preston Scroggin. He said crews spent Sunday mopping up water and drying out computers.
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Linux Today - Linux Summit Will Preview New Advanced File System
"The Linux Foundation has pursued a two-pronged approach: (1) an incremental improvement over the current ext3 and (2) adoption of a completely new file system as a long-term remedy.
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Using your voice to pilot your computer
According to The Seattle Times, an interdisciplinary team of scientists of the University of Washington (UW) has developed Vocal Joystick, a software which enables people with disabilities to control their computers using the sound of their voice and without the need to use a mouse. Their virtual computer mouse driven by sound has already been tested at the UW Medical Center with ...
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Experts urge caution on cloud computing
Rosalie Marshall, vnunet.com , Monday 13 October 2008 at 17:32:00 Analysts highlight growing concerns over data privacy A number of leading authorities have been urging caution on the adoption of web-based services as a new wave of vendors unveil cloud initiatives....
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Group: Blogger lawsuits on the rise
The number of lawsuits against online bloggers in the United States is steadily increasing, the Citizen Media Law Project says.The group dedicated to assisting online and citizen media participants said compared with the four 1997 lawsuits against bloggers and online publishers, a total of 89 similar lawsuits were filed last year alone, The St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch said Monday.Nationwide ...
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Driving Network Transformation - by Alcatel-Lucent
Use the play controls and links above (on the right) to play the audio now or download the audio to your computer.
Light Reading |
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OpenOffice 3.0 hits the web
OpenOffice.org has unveiled the third iteration of its open source productivity suite. The software is available as a free download for PC users and as a native Mac OS X application for the first time.
Computer Active |
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Toshiba adds mini-notebook to its range
Toshiba has added a netbook to its range. Netbooks, or mini-notebooks as they are sometimes called, are becoming increasingly popular because they are so portable; Asus and Acer already have models on the market.
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Joost Turns On Its All-Flash Website. Is Anybody Watching?
Without much fanfare, Joost has finally turned on the browser version of its Web video service, as we noted it would last month. The new site is all based on Flash, and lets you watch old Bruce Lee flicks, Sci-Fi movies like The Fifth Element , and clips from Barely Political and Comedy Central. The Flash site comes almost exactly a year after I wrote a post pointing out that Joost's ...
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Wall Street Woe Is Good News for the FT
The Financial Times is seeing some positive effects of all the doom and gloom of the current financial crisis. The paper's U.S. newsstand sales shot up 30 percent in September and online page views doubled their typical ...
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Asus apologizes for Eee Box virus
Asus are hitting the headlines again for all the wrong reasons with news that some models of the Eee Box PC are shipping with a virus on the hard drive. It was only last month that the company was found to be shipping recovery DVDs containing a cracking tool, confidential Microsoft documents and Asus application [...]
Geek.com |
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Call of Duty: World at War Launches Multiplayer Beta for the Xbox 360
A Windows PC multiplayer beta is coming soon. October 13, 2008 - The dogs of war are being unleashed today, as Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and developer Treyarch announced the launch of the multiplayer beta for Call of Duty: World at War on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
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Will ‘Smart Lighting’ Be The Future Of Wireless Comms?
Boston University’s College of Engineering is a partner in the launch of a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless-communications technology based on visible light instead of on radio waves. Researchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on...
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Carmel HS holds internet safety forum Monday night
Internet safety is a big issue with most parents.
WTHR Indianapolis |
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Micron Drops $400M for Stake in DRAM Fab Venture
Micron announced last week it was cutting its workforce and two days later drops $400M for DRAM fab stake...
AnandTech |
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Four invade apartment, take computer, man tells police
Springfield police responded to a burglary late last night on Hampton Avenue when four men forced their way into an apartment and took computer equipment.
The Springfield News-Leader |
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Research and Markets: Available Now - B2B Online Media Report
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "B2B Online Media Report" report to their offering.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Telematch Debuts Data Matching Product That Locates 97+ Million Hard-to-Find Americans
Telematch, a privately held, leading provider of information services, announced today commercial availability of SmartMatch(TM), a data product that identifies wireless, cable and voice-over Internet protocol households along with their current postal addresses within the United States -- contact data that otherwise would be difficult or impossible to find, according to the company.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Boat mistakenly sold for €22.50
A court has ruled that a boat advertised on an internet auction site must be handed over for just €22.50 after the seller forgot to set a minimum price for it. Jakob Kauder had expected to sell his 21ft boat for at least €12,000 when he placed it on a German auction site.
Yachting and Boating World |
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U.S. newspapers see growth in online advertising slow to a crawl
Despite adding blogs, video and other interactive features, newspaper Web sites are losing revenue because they are cutting ad rates.
International Herald Tribune |
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Unhappy with bundled service
My husband and I were promised a deal if we bundled our cable, home phone service, and high-speed Internet. Now we have the cable that we've packaged that we've always had for four years, digital home phone service, but no high-speed Internet.
The Union |
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Unhappy with bundled service
My husband and I were promised a deal if we bundled our cable, home phone service, and high speed Internet. Now we have the cable that we've package that we've always had for four years, digital home phone service, but no high speed Internet.
The Union |
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Judge denies terror suspects' request for Internet access at Gitmo
The government has agreed to give Khalid Sheik Mohammed access to a laptop computer, but a military judge ruled last week that the accused terrorist has no right to access the Internet while preparing for his war-crimes trial. Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann said in the order that Mohammed, who's accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks, and other detainees knew the risks when they decided to ...
USA Today |
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Mobile broadband router now available from 3
IT SEEMS that UK mobile operator, 3, is now shipping a wireless router – the D100 from Huawei – which the company claims can enable up to four people to share a mobile broadband connection.
The Inquirer |
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Dolphin Digital Media Announces Resignation of Chief Financial Officer
TORONTO, Oct. 13, 2008 -- Dolphin Digital Media, Inc. , a developer of unique social networking websites using state-of-the-art biometric identity authentication technology, announced today that Chief Financial Officer and Board Member Enzo Taddei has resigned, effective immediately, to pursue other interests in his native country of Spain.
GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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