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Dish makes case to jury for $1 billion in damages for alleged NDS hacking
Dish Network Corp., the second-biggest U.S. satellite-television broadcaster, told jurors they should award it as much as $1 billion in damages over claims that News Corp.'s NDS Group subsidiary used hackers to crack its access-card codes.
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NEWS: Parsons tracks digital innovation
Richard Parsons, the chairman of the board and former chief executive officer of Time Warner, outlined the ways the internet has brought corporate innovation out of the boardroom and into the kitchens and garages of individual entrepreneurs, in a speech on Wednesday. He described Bebo, a social networking site developed in 2005 by Michael Birch out of his home. With only his wife as support ...
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Videocams banned in Philippines hospitals
MANILA: Medical students in the Philippines have been banned from videotaping surgeries after one student allegedly uploaded a clip of a rectal procedure on the Internet, the education department said yesterday.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-08 07:13 India's Patni Computer, Schindler Group to make double deck lifts
MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - India's Patni Computer Systems Ltd. said it partnered with Schindler Holding Ltd.'s elevator unit Schindler Group for the development, enhancement and testing services for Schindler's double deck lifts.
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China will not guarantee Web freedom during Olympics
BEIJING - CHINA will not guarantee it won't censor the Internet over this summer's Beijing Olympics. It also cannot guarantee to stamp out piracy of Olympic-branded goods, officials said on Thursday.
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Microsoft pokes Facebook
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is considering buying the social notworking site Facebook.
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Gigabyte pushes quad-LAN motherboard
HAVE YOU EVER plugged your computer into a network router and thought - "Wow, I wish I had three more LAN connectors on the back of my machine?"
The Inquirer |
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Court rules on auction baby
A baby girl sold in an internet auction will stay with the Dutch couple who adopted her.
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Alibaba.com set to take top spot in India
Alibaba.com, China's biggest business-to-business website, on Tuesday said it was poised to become India 's top online marketplace by number of users as it launches its first major overseas expansion.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st May 2006 22:30 UTC
After a year in beta testing, Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off Windows Live OneCare , its all-in-one security and PC care subscription service. That package includes antivirus, anti-spyware and PC tuning and backup tools, along with free support for $49.95 USD per year.
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Recent Original Stories
Critics who blasted Microsoft three months ago for failing to deliver Windows Vista add-ons have again called the company on the carpet , this time for missing its self-imposed deadline to provide promised extras. In late June, bloggers and users were already panning Vista Ultimate Extras as a bust.
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Household hazardous waste day coming up
Spring cleaning got you wondering what to do with an old computer or a half-empty container of paint or pesticide?
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Business Glance
Mobile Internet Clearwire, Sprint Nextel combine broadband units Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have resurrected their plan to offer high-speed mobile Internet service with the help of some deep-pocketed supporters.
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Facebook users ready to let bosses see profiles
TORONTO, USA: Call it an effort to preclude any chances of social networking sites being banned inside offices over overuse.
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Patni Computers ties up with Schindler
Patni Computer Systems, a leading IT services provider, has partnered with the mobility solutions company Schindler, for the development, enhancement and testing services for Schindler's double deck elevators.
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British Computer Society appoints international director to develop global strategy
The British Computer Society (BCS) has made a determined bid to strengthen its international programme, based around its membership and IT qualification product portfolios, with the appointment of former EXIN (Examination Institute for Information Science) vice president, Michiel van der Voort.
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Hear Clips From the Indiana Jones Soundtrack
Amazon.com has posted clips from all the 19 tracks on the upcoming soundtrack for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , featuring a score by John Williams. The track titles reveal scenes from the movie you might want to know yet, but there is also a button towards the top which you can press to "Preview All" without having to scroll down to the titles. The soundtrack hits stores ...
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New Customer Win in High Growth Flash Market Highlights ARC's Growing Leadership
ARC International (LSE:ARK), a leading provider of consumer intellectual property (IP) to OEM and semiconductor companies, today announced that a new customer has adopted ARC for use in the rapidly growing Flash market. This unnamed company chose ARC because of its recognized leadership in the Flash industry and to leverage the energy efficiency of ARC's solutions. The new customer joins the ...
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Site review: 'visual search engine' Viewzi
Viewzi offers an alternative to the traditional text view of search results. It recently launched in beta, so we've taken a look.
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SKorea may seek changes to US beef pact amid mad cow fears
SEOUL : South Korea's government, under pressure from protesters fearful of mad cow disease, said Thursday it would demand changes to its US beef import agreement if other nations secure better health safeguards.
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Recent Original Stories
"An interesting patent application recently filed by Microsoft may offer a glimpse at the future of the Windows interface . The patent describes a 'method for managing windows in a display' that seems to describe a method of task switching that is neither Taskbar nor Expose, but something in between."
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Recent Original Stories
"Which parameters make software applications high-quality? And which parameters or methods, while desirable, are not directly 'quality'?" This is the question the author of this article asks himself.
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VIDEO: Cyber school students change gears for 'Robo-ball'
Cyber school students from the Commonwealth Connections Academy worked in teams to create robots good enough to lift, throw and just about anything that would give them a step above their competitors.
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STC man sentenced to jail in child porn case
ST. CHARLES – A St. Charles man began a jail stay Thursday after admitting to downloading child pornography on a computer file-sharing Web site.
Kane County Chronicle |
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Sprint, Clearwire polish network plans
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have resurrected their plan to offer high-speed mobile Internet service with the help of some deep-pocketed supporters.
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