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City worker arrested for child porn
A Lafayette Consolidated Government employee who allegedly used his work computer to collect child pornography was arrested Monday by local police and the FBI.
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Rally for freedom: Strangers join drive seeking commutation for escapee
Supporters of a former Saginaw woman who was a fugitive for 32 years are waging an Internet-fueled campaign to prevent her from serving the rest of her prison sentence.
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Dell delving deeper into virtualization
Dell Inc. will roll out a new set of products and services today aimed at providing commercial customers with an easier end-to-end program for the rapidly growing virtualization technology.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Initiated-in-India online venture faces up to global disasters
Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis reminds us that we can't stop nature's fury. But a group of techies and communicators believe they can help people cope with such tragedies - via cyberspace.
Calcutta News |
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Hackers harpoon top executives with phony e-mail subpoenas
SAN FRANCISCO: US federal court officials have warned that hackers are e-mailing phony subpoenas embedded with malicious software to high-ranking executives to steal valuable corporate information.
Gulf Times |
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It's Truthy: Colbert Wins a Webby
NEW YORK, May 6 -- Stephen Colbert's use of the Internet to connect with fans earned the Comedy Central host special recognition as the annual Webby awards for Web sites and online achievements were announced Tuesday.
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Microsoft adds TV shows to Zune players in software update
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft began making television shows available for viewing on its Zune MP3 players on Tuesday as it continues a campaign to wrest market share from Apple's globally popular iPods.
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"There are several possible reasons why you might choose to use the command line interface as your desktop environment
. For one thing, it uses less electricity, so you could maximize battery life on your laptop computer.
New Mobile Computing |
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ASIA MARKETS: Glum Mood Cuts Tokyo Gains; Oil Shares Pumped Up
Asian stocks traded broadly lower at midday Wednesday, with resource shares such as BHP Billiton and Inpex Holdings among standouts after crude oil prices hit a record in New York.
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3,000 km range Agni-III missile test fired
The intermediate range ballistic missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from the launch complex (LC-4) of the integrated test range (ITR) at about 0956 hours, defence sources said. Agni-3 missile is fitted with on-board computer for its guidance system.
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High-speed academic networks and the future of the Internet
With names like Internet2, it would be easy to conclude that high-speed academic networks represent the future of the Internet. To find out how accurate that impression is, Ars spoke with academic network providers about their existing networks and how they're preparing for the flood of data that will be pouring out of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Read More...
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AP sources give inside look at Microsoft's raised Yahoo bid
Just how serious was Microsoft Corp. about raising its bid to $47.5 billion for slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.? The answer is taking on greater importance as more outraged Yahoo shareholders threaten to sue the company's board - or try replacing the 10 directors - for the way they responded to Microsoft's sweetened offer. With shareholders up in arms, Sunnyvale-based Yahoo has been trying ...
The State |
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Yahoo still open to Microsoft offer
YAHOO’s chief executive officer Jerry Yang defended his handling of failed takeover negotiations with Microsoft and said he remained open to an offer from the US software giant, in an interview published yesterday in the Financial Times.
Daily Dispatch |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Mar 2006 11:53 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Mandriva subsidiary Edge-IT has been selected to participate in an EU-backed project that aims to create a next-generation computing approach known as the 'Social Semantic Desktop'.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Oct 2005 17:56 UTC
Microsoft has confirmed plans to bundle anti-spyware protection into Windows Vista , a move that is sure to raise eyebrows among competitors and possibly antitrust regulators.
OS News |
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Apple's Board: Still Room for Schmidt?
The Google CEO's spot on Apple's board could go from awkward to untenable as the search giant's mobile push brushes up against the iPhone
BusinessWeek |
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Technology Report / Sprint Nextel nears funding for new WiMax network
Sprint Nextel Corp. is close to finalizing a deal to get financing for its new wireless broadband network from a group that includes Comcast Corp. and Google Inc., according to a person close to the talks. The group, which also includes Time Warner Cable Inc., Bright House Networks, Intel Corp., and Clearwire Corp., is expected to announce as early as this morning a $12 billion deal to create a ...
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New point of view for Chick Lanphier's telescope
PLEASANT PLAINS — A 1960s-era custom-built telescope and dome donated by the Lanphier family to a local astronomy group have been transplanted and revitalized into a new observatory. The C.H. Lanphier Observatory — named for the late Charles “Chick” Lanphier III, a Springfield business and civic leader who had the telescope built — will be dedicated Saturday. WEB EXTRA: View photo gallery
The State Journal-Register |
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Intel, Google, Cable Co's Give US WiMax A New Lease On Life (In The Form Of $3.2 Billion)
A bunch of the worst kept secrets in the wireless broadband world have finally come together. No one ever really believed that Sprint and Clearwire would fully break off their WiMax agreement.
Addict 3D |
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Microsoft may yet own Yahoo, analysts say
Yahoo hasn't escaped the clutches of Microsoft, not by a long shot. Ignore what Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said in his Saturday letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, concluding that given Yahoo's recalcitrance, the proposed merger was clearly...
Addict 3D |
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Ubuntu for My Boss
Works With U: "For as long as I can remember, Linux was 'marketed' and pushed towards the younger crowd--the computer-savvy, self-described 'geeky' community that had no problem getting Linux to work on their system..."
Addict 3D |
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People close to talks give inside look at how Microsoft raised Yahoo takeover bid to $47.5B
SAN FRANCISCO - Just how serious was Microsoft Corp. about raising its bid to $47.5 billion for slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.?
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Study panels to take up public notice fight
ATLANTA - Two legislative panels will look at whether to move at least some public notices online instead of requiring publication in the local newspaper, a proposal that has sparked sharp criticisms from cities and publishers.
Savannah Morning News |
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Auditor: Beware Web site similarities
Pennington County Auditor Julie Pearson is warning voters that a Web site address similar to that of the Pennington County Election Web page is not associated with the county's Web page.
Rapid City Journal |
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HTC expands the successful HTC Touch Family
HTC Corporation (TAIEX: 2498; "HTC"), the world's leading provider of Microsoft® Windows Mobile® smart devices, today launched the HTC Touch CruiseT, the third member of the HTC Touch product family and the first to feature built-in GPS for personal navigation.
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