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DCCCD ventures into virtual reality
Recently the DCCCD purchased an island in the online world Second Life so faculty and students would have new media for teaching, learning and interacting.
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News Corp not in talks with MS, AOL, Yahoo
NEW YORK, USA: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has opted out of the current round of Internet consolidation for now, even as Yahoo Inc investors pine for a white knight after Microsoft Corp dropped its bid. The media conglomerate is not in deal talks with Yahoo , Microsoft or Time Warner Inc'...
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Booming Indian travel firms ride on cyberspace
MUMBAI, INDIA: Booming demand from Indian tourists as well as rising tour costs are forcing travel firms to increase their services on the internet to remain competitive, top company officials and analysts said.
CIOL |
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Interpol gets 200 tip-offs over paedophile suspect
LYON, France: Interpol says it is following up more than 200 leads as it tracks a Western man accused of molesting Asian boys and sharing pictures of the abuse over the Internet, 24 hours after launching a global hunt for the suspect.
Gulf Times |
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Mini-computer gives Berlin Wall tour
Berlin has introduced a high-tech mini-computer that navigates the path of the Berlin Wall, explaining to tourists its past using multimedia technology.Berlin's government launched the hand-sized Mauerguide along with a plan to retain historical information about the Berlin Wall, which separated East and West Berlin from 1961 until it was torn down in 1989, Der Spiegel reported.The device, ...
Moldova.org |
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Booming Indian travel firms ride on cyberspace
MUMBAI, INDIA: Booming demand from Indian tourists as well as rising tour costs are forcing travel firms to increase their services on the internet to remain competitive, top company officials and analysts said. Indians traveling overseas rose 16 per cent to 8.3 million in 2006, according ...
Chennai Online |
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Computers give students, teachers instant feedback
Associated Press - May 8, 2008 1:14 AM ET CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Test time in some classrooms at a Clarksville school look a bit like a TV game show, with student's answers instantly recorded...
WLFI Lafayette |
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Protect your identity--and your money--online
We've all heard of people falling victim to an Internet crime. But many of us assume it'll never happen to us. It's easier for the bad guys to take advantage of you than you might think.
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Mastodon Regional Fair organizers to host tailgate sale
Starting its fund-raising efforts early, the Mastodon Art and Science Regional Fair (MASRF) is hosting a tailgate sale and recycling day this weekend.
Jefferson County Journal |
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Carphone Warehouse, Microsoft, Northern Rock
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Charles Dunstone, the multi- millionaire founder of the Carphone Warehouse retail group, will today unveil a £1bn investment from Best Buy, a US company, in an attempt to become one of Europe's dominant retailers, the Telegraph has learned.
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Murdoch's Internet wing to miss ambitious revenue goal
News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media will reportedly fall $100 million short of its $1 billion annual revenue goal.
CNET |
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Nearly half of RP's broadband users are "entertainment, social fanatics," study says
MANILA, Philippines - Nearly half of all urban broadband consumers in the Philippines are categorized as Entertainment and Social Fanatics, a new study by a US-based global research company said.
GMA News |
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Microsoft mulls purchase of Facebook: report
Microsoft's bankers have approached Facebook about a purchase of the social networking site as an alternative for its failed takeover bid for Yahoo, an American business journal has reported.
Hindustan Times |
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Yahoo Testing Search Mash-Up Glue Page In India
From our sister site ContentSutra.com: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has unveiled a new beta search-related product in India called "Glue Page" that adds context to search results by mashing up content from multiple outside sources including Wikipedia, YouTube, HolidayIQ, TrainEnquiry, LastFM and some Yahoo sites - Answers, Local, Flickr and Images. It's like a more visual Wikipedia, and then some.
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Club notes
Flag contest Lansing The Lansing Historical society invites Village of Lansing citizens of all ages to participate in a flag design contest. Research material on the village is available at the Lansing Public Library. General flag design information is available from the North American Vexillological Association Web site at http://www.nava.org. The Lansing Village Clerks office, 18200 ...
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'Flash' attack targets epilepsy website
Computer attacks typically do not inflict physical pain on their victims. But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's website with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
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Recent Original Stories
Christopher Blizzard, one of OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) developers posted on his blog the picture of the working OLPC prototype running a stripped Fedora Core 5 and the test board provided by Quanta Computers . More pictures available.
OS News |
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Manager knew of hacking claims
A SENIOR manager at a News Corporation subsidiary company has told a court he continued to employ a hacker for six years after learning of claims the man broke into a competitor's security system, in a $US900 million ($960m) corporate espionage lawsuit.
Perth Now |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 21st Apr 2007 16:25 UTC
Macaulay, a software engineer, was able to hack into a MacBook through a zero-day security hole in Apple's Safari browser. The computer was one of two offered as a prize in the 'PWN to Own' hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference.
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Hackers' posts cause migraines, seizures
Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims. Not in this case...
Independent Online |
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Google looking golden again
On the eve of Google's annual shareholders meeting, the company looks stronger than ever.
Independent Online |
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08-05-2008: Hynix shares up on talk it seeking ProMOS stake
SEOUL: Shares in Hynix Semiconductor Inc and Taiwan's ProMOS Technologies jumped more than 3% on Thursday on market talk the world's No 2 memory chip maker may buy a stake in its smaller Taiwanese rival.
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Colbert, will.i.am among special Internet Webby award recipients
NEW YORK -- Stephen Colbert’s use of the Internet to connect with fans earned the Comedy Central host special recognition as recipients of the annual Webby awards for Web sites and online achievements were announced Tuesday.
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Sensex drops 284pts; Satyam slips over 4%
The Sensex is now down 284 points at 17,055. The NSE Nifty is down 68 points at 5,067. Satyam Computers has plunged over 4.4% to Rs 468, and Infosys has slumped 3.7% to Rs 1,774. ICICI Bank, Wipro and ITC have shed over 3% each to Rs 882, Rs 484 and Rs 220, respectively.
Business Standard India |
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Catching ’em with the Web
"The complete printed edition, page by page, online." Several Klamath Basin families challenged themselves this week to go without watching any television shows and movies. They also eliminated computer games.
Herald and News |
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