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Attorneys General reach children’s safety agreement with Facebook
JEFFERSON CITY — Facebook, one of the world’s largest social networking Web sites, has reached an agreement with attorneys general from across the country, including Jay Nixon of Missouri. “Building ...
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Google execs hope for long-term ad deal with Yahoo
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
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VeriSign swings to 1Q loss on charges
(AP:MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) VeriSign Inc., which runs some of the Internet's core systems, said Thursday it swung to a first-quarter loss, hurt by asset impairment and restructuring charges.
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NASA Flips for Petaflops
NASA is collaborating with Intell and SGI to create one of the world's fastest supercomputers whose power will be measured in petaflops. By 2009 the US space agency wants to develop a computational system that will be able to do 1,000 trillion calculations per second. And by 2012 it hopes to have boosted the power [...]
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Akademy 2008 Embedded and Mobile Day - Call for Participation
Posted by Bart Cerneels on Thursday 08/May/2008, @16:08 from the embedded-gets-bigger dept. The EmSys research group is hosting an "Embedded and Mobile Day" at Akademy 2008, this year in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium at Campus De Nayer . We welcome you to join the presentations and panel discussions about Open Source and Open Desktop technologies in embedded systems and mobile devices on Tuesday ...
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Radio Host Pleads Guilty To Child Porn
Former radio talk show host Bernie Ward offered a guilty plea in federal court in San Francisco Thursday to one count of sending child pornography over the Internet in December 2004.
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South Korean internet geeks trigger panic over US 'tainted beef' imports
Tens of thousands of young internet-obsessed South Koreans, whipped into a frenzy by alarmist television programmes, a complex scientific paper on genetics and a hyperactive online rumour-mill, have held candlelit vigils protesting against imports of American beef.
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ID theft bigger threat offline
n Identity theft more likely to occur in the real world than online world
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Libraries celebrate Matariki with interactivity
Christchurch City Libraries is offering a star-studded programme, and introducing a high level of online interactivity this year, to celebrate Matariki next month.
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Google to fight human rights proposals
AT ITS ANNUAL general meeting today, search engine giant Google is having to fight off two shareholder motions that will try to force the company into taking more of an anti censorship stand, as well as standing up more for human rights.
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Intel re-affirms commitment to Middle East
CHIPZILLA CHAIRMAN , Craig Barrett, spoke at the U.S.-Arab Economic Forum in Washington, D.C. today, to promote his vision for digital transformation of the Middle East by spreading technology and education.
The Inquirer |
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125W o’Phenom on 780G made possible
HTPC AND MOTHERBOARDS – again – we know it’s been a launch-fest of motherboards these last few weeks. But that isn’t at all surprising considering Nvidia, AMD and Intel are fighting it out like World War I, neither part willing to give up an inch of their market share and each deeply entrenched.
The Inquirer |
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Schmidt hints at coming YouTube ads
Google is closer to extracting more revenue from its YouTube video site, with new ad options opining up in the next few months.
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Microsoft disbands board slate for Yahoo
SAN FRANCISCO - MICROSOFT has dissolved its proposed slate of nominees to Yahoo's board, according to a source familiar with the situation, after deciding not to launch a hostile takeover.
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Data Mining In Law Enforcement
jcatcw points out a blog entry by Scott McPherson, CIO for the Florida House of Representatives. McPherson condemns the state of data sharing and data mining in law enforcement, saying that the US causes itself a great deal of trouble by focusing more on "antiterror armor and nuke-sniffing devices" than a useful information distribution network. He discusses a few such projects, and how they ...
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Shop like your favorite star on this Web site
Launched on Wednesday, the site helps you identify — and eventually to buy — virtually any product featured in your favorite shows and movies or used by a celebrity.
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What's Microsoft's next move for search?
Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer.
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Elisa: Bray: Caught in the Net
These days you don't need a commission from a television company to broadcast gigs. You just need a camcorder, a musician, perhaps a crowd for atmosphere and a computer to upload the material on to a website. And if you're lucky, the television companies might then make the approach to air a show.
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SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Award Nominees Announced
ACM SIGGRAPH announced today the award nominees for the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival to be held in Los Angeles this summer. Nominees were chosen from more than 900 submissions from around the globe, presented by both professional studios and students alike. An esteemed panel of jury members reviewed each submission to compile some of the greatest works submitted this year.
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Top 10 links for the Sony Radio Academy Awards
Use the internet to join the wireless revolution, writes Damian Noonan.
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Worries on the Web
Despite all the antivirus software, all the extra security features in your computer?s operating system, and all the government regulations intended to make the Internet a safer place, your PC and your personal data are as threatened as ever.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Mar 2007 22:44 UTC
"Haiku co-developers Bruno and his associate Axel talk about the new OS that has been in development for several years. Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing.
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Recent Original Stories
"This is extraordinary news for all nerds, computer scientists and the Open Source community: the source code of the MULTICS operating system (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), the father of UNIX and all modern OSes, has finally been opened [get it here ]. Multics was an extremely influential early time-sharing operating system started in 1964 and introduced a large number of new ...
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Recent Original Stories
Yellow Dog Linux 5 has been announced . Surprisingly, it will first be released for Sony's Playstation 3, and then later for PPC Macs. Yellow Dog Linux 5 for the Playstation 3 will use E17 as its desktop environment ( YDL's page on E17 ), which will be a boost to E17's adoption rate.
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VeriSign swings to 1Q loss on charges
VeriSign Inc., which runs some of the Internet's core systems, said Thursday it swung to a first-quarter loss, hurt by asset impairment and restructuring charges.
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