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Cell tower falls and hits truck on Lemont Road
A chain reaction accident caused a 300-foot tower used for Internet communications to fall on a tanker truck Wednesday morning on Lemont Road near the Darien and Woodridge border, stopping traffic between Internationale Parkway and 103rd Street. The tower straddles the road, and the tanker stopped traffic as officials evaluated on how to move the crippled truck, which contains benzene, a ...
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Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine
Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries, perhaps even finding a cure for HIV.
UW News |
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VIDEO: Northbound lanes of Lemont Road open after 300 foot Internet tower topples in accident
A chain reaction accident caused a 300-foot tower used for Internet communications to fall on a tanker truck Wednesday morning on Lemont road near the Darien and Woodridge border, closing traffic between Internationale Parkway and 103rd Street. The tower had been removed and the Northbound lanes opened by late Wednesday afternoon, but the tanker remains on the closed road as officials ...
Lemont Reporter |
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Leopard at 6 months: Does it live up to the early hype?
It has been just over six months since Mac OS X "Leopard" first shipped , bringing with it a slew of new features, a tweaked user interface, revamped underpinnings, and -- as is often the case -- a healthy batch of complaints from users about problems. At the time, some in the Macintosh community even argued that Apple 's new operating system was released before it was ready for prime ...
InfoWorld |
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Britannica opens kimono, reveals widgets
Free access for bloggers Britannica is opening up its content for use by publishers - including amateurs - but insists it isn't threatened by the world's biggest compendium of unusually-shaped vegetables. *…
The Register |
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IBM hitches a cloud ride with Google
Los Angeles – According to IBM chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano the client PC era is over, dead and buried, and not just because the vendor sold its Thinkpad business to Lenovo.
ITBusiness.ca |
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Teen 'sex slaves' freed
A 51-year-old northern Arizona man hast been arrested on suspicion of running a complex child exploitation and sex-slave operation out of his home north of Ash Fork, advertising his teenage bride for sex locally and over the Internet and CB radio.
Arizona Daily Sun |
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Google looks strong after challenging stretch
Failure of Microhoo deal, robust quarterly results mean today's annual shareholders meeting will likely be a jovial one
The Globe and Mail |
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KHD Humboldt Wedag International Ltd. Announces Date of Its First Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call
KHD Humboldt Wedag International Ltd. announced plans to release its first quarter 2008 results before market on Thursday, May 15, 2008. That same day, at 10:00 AM EDT , a conference call will be held to review the results; this call will be broadcast live over the Internet at http://www.khdhumboldt.com or http://www.earnings.com.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Recent Toshiba Corporation News
Tokyo, May 8, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Toshiba Corp. will try to achieve 10-trillion-yen group sales in fiscal 2010 by boosting its semiconductor, personal computer and nuclear power plant operations, President Atsutoshi Nishida said Thursday.
Japan Corporate News |
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Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game
Multiplayer online gaming brings to mind fabulously successful titles, such as “World of Warcraft” and “Ultima.”
Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
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USB's ubiquity advances MCUsVendor information
Living up to its name, the Universal Serial Bus is supplanting the once-popular RS-232 bus as the standard serial interface in general-purpose microcontrollers.
Embedded Systems Programming Magazine |
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NEW: Web site allows residents to view locations of Hazelwood police calls
The Hazelwood Police Department is now subscribing to an Internet service that allows residents to view the locations of all crime calls received by city police.
North County Journal |
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Life After the IT Department
If you didn't work in IT, where would you go? What could you do?... Build IT Knowledge with Current & Trusted Content Helps Employees Develop & Hone New Technical Programming Skills. Sign Up & Get Full Access.
eWeek |
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RCN revenue grows, loss widens
RCN Corp., which sells Internet, phone and cable services in several cities, boosted sales last quarter but lost more money. (RCNI)
Washington Business Journal |
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iMac 20-inch 2.4GHz Review
Finally, eight months after the aluminium iMac made its debut, Apple has released an update to its flagship consumer desktop model. Under the hood, the new iMacs differ significantly from the original aluminium models – mainly in that they are much faster.
Macworld UK |
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Ariesnet and Ektron Team Up to Provide Clients with a Comprehensive Web Strategy
Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management software, and Ariesnet, a leading Web based business solutions provider, collaborate to offer clients comprehensive Web solutions for their complex, multi-departmental projects. Ariesnet, a Platinum Partner, was also selected as Ektron's partner of the month for April.
Centre Daily Times |
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ShoZu Adds Eight New Destinations to Mobile Social Media Service: Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter & More
ShoZu Inc. announced today that it has expanded its mobile social media service to Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter and four additional Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 communities. With these eight new integrations, ShoZu now enables mobile users to interact with their choice of 36 social networks from a single screen on their handsets -- reducing the time, effort and money required to ...
Centre Daily Times |
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FBI retreats from secret request for data
The FBI withdrew a secret administrative order for data on a patron of a San Francisco digital library as part of a lawsuit settlement, the library said.As part of the settlement, the FBI dropped a gag order against the Internet Archive and the digital library withdrew its complaint, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The case was unsealed Monday and censored related documents were filed ...
Moldova.org |
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Brief: Vietnamese pack infects Firefox users
Vietnamese pack infects Firefox users
SecurityFocus |
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Papa John's Sells $1 Billion in Pizza Online
Papa John's says it has sold more than $1 billion worth of pizza online in the seven years since it has taken orders over the web. In the fierce battle for click orders the nation's third-largest pizza chain says it has spent $15 on fulfillment technology and has seen online sales grow at 50 percent a year, to $400 million last year alone.
Wired News |
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Consumers likely winners in Sprint, Clearwire deal
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. has finally rounded up the financial backing it needs to build a faster wireless network. But for consumers and the electronics industry, speed may be the least important thing about the new network.
CNN.com |
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County to investigate laptops for 2009
County council is going to spend 2008 inves tigating using laptop computers for council and committee mem bers, with implementation of electronic agendas in Janu ary.
The Wellington Advertiser |
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PropertyMaps.com Announces Affiliation with Jeff Fogler of Signature Brokers
PropertyMaps (www.propertymaps.com) today announced an affiliate partnership with Jeff Fogler of Signature Brokers to represent the Denver market for PropertyMaps.com, the national map-based online real estate search.
Centre Daily Times |
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Toshiba aims to double profits over three years: president
Japan's electronics giant Toshiba president Atsutoshi Nishida announces the company's business plan at a Tokyo hotel.
TODAYonline |
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