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WANSTEAD: Police hunt for YouTube boy racers
POLICE have launched an investigation after a group of men posted videos on the internet of themselves racing at high speeds through Redbridge. The short films, in which the men boast about the "crazy speed" of their cars, show them using the borough's roads as racetracks.
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Dell Launches New Optimized Virtualization Servers
Dell on Wednesday launched two dedicated virtualization servers, the PowerEdge R805 and R905. The PowerEdge R805 offers twice the memory and input/output capacity of Dell's previous generation of two-socket servers. The Dell PowerEdge R900 and R905 can deliver four-socket virtualization.
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Microsoft Targets Poor with Fone+
Microsoft has shifted its strategy to bring computing and the internet to those in developing nations. It is ramping up the development of its Fone+ program, which aims to provide smartphones as computing platforms for the needy. Rather than ... (follow link to read)
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
Here on Narco News, we have skewered the transparent attempts by various international players in recent months and years to take cheap shots at the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela and its president Hugo Chávez: New York Timesman Juan Forero, Organization of American States leader Cesar Gaviria, Venezuelan guerrilla-turned-opposition-journalist Teodoro Petkoff, the Wall Street Journal staff, ...
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
Behind the now-demonstrably bogus rumor that SmartMatic touch screen voting machines in Sunday's Venezuela referendum on the presidency of Hugo Chávez had fraudulently imposed a cap on anti-Chávez votes was one man only, and he is known in pockets of América as a siren of sleaze: Political consultant Juan José Rendón, a.k.a. "J.J. Rendón."
The Narco News Bulletin |
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
Inside the Washington DC beltway, one hand washes the other.
The Narco News Bulletin |
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Industry leaders join push for home media networks
Chip and electronics makers Intel, Infineon, Texas Instruments and Panasonic have formed an alliance to promote home networks for movies, music and pictures using domestic wiring.
Canada.com |
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You Hacked an Epilespy Site with Flashing Pix. Really.
Hackers who probably also think that torturing small animals is funny bombed an epilepsy foundation's site with animations and link forwards to sites that serve up pulsating kaleidoscopic images. Severe migraines and near-seizure reactions were reported by the afflicted. The FBI is investigating, and we're wondering what punishment fits this crime.
Wired News |
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
As your publisher, I'm very, very, pleased with how The Narcosphere and the copublishers who make it run has performed in recent weeks.
The Narco News Bulletin |
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Bell's congestion claims unproven: ISPs
The Canadian Association of Internet Providers accuses Bell Canada of advancing a bogus argument of a congestion problem to justify downgrading the services of heavy bandwidth users, in the latest salvo fired at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
Canada.com |
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iBand makes music with iPhone
Six fingers and three iPhones are enough to create a band, and Austria's iBand is living proof, having scored a hit on the Internet by converting the little gadgets into a guitar, a keyboard and a set of drums.
Canada.com |
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Hackers' posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures
In a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
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Microsoft issues final threat to scotch Yahoo deal
Microsoft Corp gave Yahoo Inc no hope of a higher takeover price, saying it was ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo maintains "unrealistic expectations" of a better deal.
Canada.com |
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Students aim to save Earth with tech
College students with visions of using technology to save the planet vied in an historic theater here this week to represent the United States at Microsoft's global Imagine Cup finals in Paris.
Canada.com |
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Yahoo to harmonize user profiles across services
Yahoo Inc is working to rewire the dozens of services across its site so that users can manage all information about themselves in a single place and share it with friends across the Web.
Canada.com |
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Blog: HPCR International launches a Professional Certificate in Humanitarian Law and Policy
Source: IRIN In view of the growing demand for professional development opportunities in humanitarian law and policy, the International Association for Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR International) announced that it will award a new Professional Certificate in Humanitarian Law and Policy to qualified candidates completing the requirements of its professional training program. ...
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Blog: IRIN photographer wins first prize in photo competition
Source: IRIN Our very own freelancer photographer Julius Mwelu IRIN's has won the first prize in the 2008 Friends of the Earth International Dreams, Hopes and Possibilities for a Better Future photo competition! More than 600 photos were received from 62 countries around the world, from amateur and professional photographers. The photos were organized into two categories -- Reclaiming ...
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GPL vs. Skype Back In Court
mollyhackit writes "Hackaday reports that the GPL vs Skype case is going back to court today. This as an appeal to the court's decision Slashdot reported last July. The original case was brought against Skype for the Linux based SMC Skype WiFi phone. The court upheld the GPLv2 and decided that Skype had not gone far enough in meeting section 3 which details how to provide the original source. ...
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Related Games
You see it all the time in eBay game listings. "RARE!!!" Of course, this being the internet, it's usually part of the full listing "GEARS OF WAR FOR XBOX 360 – RARE!!!" but occasionally, it's justified.
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Out of the Gate: Internap shares fall after outlook cut
Shares of Internap Network Services Corp., which manages data centers and routes Internet traffic, sank Thursday morning after the company lowered its 2008 revenue growth outlook, leading two analysts to downgrade the stock.
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Businesses increasingly keen on SaaS
Easier maintenance lures enterprises. Software as a service (SaaS) - which allows organisations to access software over the web instead of locally on a desktop - is rapidly pervading the enterprise space, with nearly 73 percent of large companies saying they have adopted it or plan to adopt it in the next 18 months, according to a recent survey by Kelton Research.
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Hackers create their own social network
Facebook for hackers? Hackers now have their own social network, backed by GnuCitizen, a high-profile "ethical hacking" group.
TechWorld |
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Paedophile actor pictured abusing boys on internet is arrested after global hunt
A suspected pedophile targeted in an international manhunt was today arrested by police in the United States, Interpol revealed
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