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Oxford: Two Indian students turn millionaires overnight
Two cousins of Indian-origin at the University of Oxford have overnight become millionaires after a free online service they started for students was sold for 2.5 million pounds within months after its launch. They started their company 'Auctomatic' as a free online service while studying and working in the university's student society -- Oxford Entrepreneurs. They had set up their first ...
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Man admits to cyberstalking Playboy Playmate
AURORA – An Aurora man was sentenced Wednesday to jail time and will be placed on probation after admitting to cyberstalking a Playboy Playmate.
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Residential Web Site Grows Despite Absence of Big Names
Listings are increasing at ResidentialNYC.com eight months after its launch, even though two of the city's largest brokerage firms are not yet participating. The free Web site, which is funded by membership fees and is a competitor to the online classified listings of the New York Times, provides access to condos, co-ops, townhouses, and homes for sale and rent. With 5,000 listings from 75 ...
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Recent Original Stories
"KDE 4 is coming. It's starting to look and behave in a mature enough manner to use it on a normal desktop. This article is a little introduction as to what you should expect from the brand new KDE that is due out later this year."
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Ex-coach gets jail time in child porn case
ST. CHARLES – A man that used to coach gymnastics in St. Charles will serve jail time after admitting Wednesday to storing images of child pornography on his computer.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft will launch several projects around Linux and other open source technologies for allowing Indian customers the option to run its products on different operating systems and technologies.
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Bill Gates says Microsoft deals on back burner
TOKYO -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday that the company wasn't pursuing other deals after the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo.
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Samsung Glyde multimedia phone review
Samsung's new touchscreen phone on Verizon Wireless is here to compete. Is it in the right game?
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Microsoft mulls purchase of Facebook: report
San Francisco, May 8 : 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.
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Japan's Softbank posts 13 pct fall in Q4 profit
TOKYO, May 8 - Japanese telecoms and Internet group Softbank Corp posted a 13 percent fall in quarterly profit on Thursday, although it lured more mobile phone customers away from bigger rivals.
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ONLINE EXTRAS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Her money drained and her options dwindling, a resolute Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to press on with her presidential bid even as she and top advisers were hard-pressed to describe a realistic path for her to wrest the nomination from Barack Obama.
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Softbank says to seek approval for share issue
TOKYO, May 8 - Japanese Internet and telecoms group Softbank Corp said on Thursday it would seek shareholder approval for a preferred share issue.
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Papa John's surpasses $1 billion in online pizza sales
Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas' pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers. That's because orders are rolling in through the Internet. "It's pretty amazing not to hear a phone ring on a... .
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Sprint, Clearwire again try to boost broadband / They intend to offer high-speed mobile Internet service, helped by ...
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have resurrected their plan to offer a high-speed mobile Internet service that could dramatically reshape the U.S. wireless industry. The two companies announced Wednesday they will combine their wireless broadband units to create...
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Reading, writing and recycling
To help curb the growing number of waste contributed by bottled water- and soda-drinkers at the schools, Madison County Recycling this year began providing bins for recycled plastic bottles and Highland Recycling agreed to pick up recycled plastic at schools. Plastic is an enormous source of waste along with the cardboard.
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New NCAR computer redefines term 'super'
IBM-built machine will aid in climate prediction
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Climate models miss mark
Armed with newly synthesized logs of Antarctica's temperature over the last century, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research found that a computer simulation for the same time-period predicted a too-warm continent.
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LCPS personal info posted online
LAS CRUCES — A school district employee has been placed on paid administrative leave after unintentionally posting personal information about students and staff from a confidential special education database to an unsecured Web site.
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Health briefs
• Today at 4 p.m., Prescription for Health will discuss searching reliable health information on the internet. A librarian from New Mexico State University will teach listeners how to tell good information from the bad.
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Clearwire, Sprint Nextel try again on WiMax deal
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have resurrected their plan to offer high-speed mobile Internet service with the help of some deep-pocketed supporters. The two companies announced Wednesday that they will combine their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55 billion communications company, to be called Clearwire, that will continue developing a mobile network based on WiMax technology. WiMax ...
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Lab employees get preview of super-powerful data center
BAR HARBOR — Once all of the computer equipment has been installed in the new data center at Jackson Laboratory, the place will be as secure as a NASA control room.
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MacBook Air 1.8GHz - 80GB PATA Review
Macworld’s initial review of the MacBook Air was based on its stock £1,199 configuration, which features a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 80GB of storage provided by a 1.8in traditional hard drive.
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Microsoft won't pursue other partnerships, says Gates
Microsoft won't be pursuing tie-ups or takeovers to replace its failed Yahoo bid, Bill Gates said in Tokyo on Wednesday. Gates, who cofounded the software maker and serves as its chairman, said Microsoft had "put a lot of effort into talking to Yahoo."
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EconAds: Registration Opening Tomorrow Night; NYC Mixer At IAC Building
We are about ready to open registration for our EconAds seminar...the ticket sales for the half-day seminar will start this Friday. As we have done with our previous seminars, this will be a smaller, more intimate experience. The in-progress program is here. The seminar will focus on key sectors in the online advertising market. The topics include: -- Ad Networks & Beyond -- Agency 2.0 ...
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"Remember when I promised you all that I'd tell you all about the Fedora/Mono decision
when I could? Well, now I can. It has to do with a little organization called OIN. Allow me to quote from Mark Webbink's article, 'The Open Invention Network', in the April 2006 edition of Linux Magazine: "The OIN commons is created by having all participants in OIN, whether members or licensees, cross-license any owned patents that affect the Linux kernel, key components in any Linux ...
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