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Ben Fowkles: Kimbo Slice: Pro, scapegoat or hype job?
It's getting harder and harder to talk about Kimbo Slice, though it's not from a lack of trying. It seems like everybody has an opinion on the Internet-brawler-turned-pro-fighter.
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Microsoft has denied allegations that it offered to guarantee an investment made in The SCO Group, a software company embroiled in a long-standing intellectual property dispute with IBM.
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Facebook sets new porn, pedophile and bully safeguards
Top US state attorneys have announced that Facebook has agreed to get tougher on keeping its young website users safe from bullies, porn, pedophiles and other online hazards.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Feb 2007 15:51 UTC
Forbes takes a look at Vista, and writes: "More than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump . The new slogan is: 'The Wow Starts Now', and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh.
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Monster Camp
For some, fantasy is a place to go when the real world is too much to stomach. It's a temporary portal to other worlds where identity can be rebuilt and victory is within reach.
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Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, is ...
With Microsoft mum, analysts mull next moves for Live 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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Israel.com headed for auction
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., May 8 (UPI) -- A Pompano Beach, Fla., Internet domain-selling business said Israel.com is expected to sell for at least $5.5 million when it goes on the auction block May 23.
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SENEGAL: Villagers mutilated by armed men in Casamance
ZIGUINCHOR, 8 May 2008 ( IRIN ) - Armed men claiming to represent the rebel group Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) attacked twenty villagers from Tampe 15 km east of the regional capital Ziguinchor on 7 May and hacked each of their left ears with machetes, according to the victims and the Senegalese army.
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Radio host admits to child porn charge
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 (UPI) -- A former San Francisco radio talk show host who admitted distributing child pornography on the Internet faces a federal prison term, a published report said.
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Alleged pedophile was beloved Santa
MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey (AP) -- A computer file called "Thai--Luv," seized in Norway and packed with child pornography, had frustrated Interpol investigators for more than two years.
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Seattle teacher caught with child porn might avoid jail
A Whitman Middle School teacher accused of having dozens of sexually explicit images of boys on a laptop computer could avoid jail time in a recent plea agreement.
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Vols appear to be strong leader for Giles
Even with National Signing Day more than seven months away, Jarvis Giles is used to recruiting rumors. That’s why the tailback from Gaither High School in Tampa, Fla., snickered when he heard the latest on the Internet: that he was days away from committing to Tennessee.
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"Thanks to a recent column by my friend Andy Patrizio, I found out that there's 'been an ongoing debate among bloggers and industry observers over one simple question: Where are the open source billionaires?'
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Immigrant tries to reach family in Myanmar
MILFORD — Amid the bustle of his workday at Alarcon Tire, the young Burmese immigrant wiped the grease from his hands and took a moment to check the Internet — his only bridge between his
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Bowling Green Announces Start of Wireless Network
On May 8, the city of Bowling Green announced the start of a wireless network.
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Takes Work To Find Work
SPRING HILL Kendra Rooker is tired of flipping flapjacks. After the 42-year-old Spring Hill resident lost her job as a corrections officer at the Hernando County Jail, she pounded the pavement and explored the Internet for a job with comparable pay.
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A Safer Facebook?
A popular Internet social networking site is trying harder to keep its users safe, particularly young users.
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Israel.com headed for auction
A Pompano Beach, Fla., Internet domain-selling business said Israel.com is expected to sell for at least $5.5 million when it goes on the auction block May 23.Monte Cahn, chief executive of Moniker.com, said bidding for the domain name is expected to drive the price up during the auction, the New York Post reported Thursday.The domain name's current owner, Jean-Noel Frydman, 46, said he did not ...
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Blog floggers need to see the greater good
Recent dust-ups including author Buzz Bissinger's anti-blogging rant on HBO and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban saying he wouldn't give bloggers locker-room access suggests the debate over blogging's Larger Meaning is already tiresome.
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Radio host admits to child porn charge
A former San Francisco radio talk show host who admitted distributing child pornography on the Internet faces a federal prison term, a published report said.Bernie Ward, a former Catholic priest who worked in talk radio for more than 20 years in the Bay Area, made his admission in a plea deal, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Ward, 57, was indicted in December on three counts of ...
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Nancy Gomez: Mother's Day: Hopes, Fears and Plenty of Laughter
The other day I was looking at video clips of my son. At the tender age of five, he has become something of a phenomenon on the Internet. It wasn't something I had intended - I am not a stage mom. It was an accident.
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Tech tools bring big success for small businesses
Millions of U.S. small-business owners are geeking out in the digital bazaar. As online commerce grows and technology gets cheaper and easier to use, small firms especially mom-and-pop shops that had shied away from technology are using tech tools more than ever to sell goods, market themselves and run their operations.
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Horse owners struggling with high hay prices
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Vietnam's New Collaboration Portal Goes Live on IBM Cloud, Accelerating Universities' Adoption of Service Science
IBM announced today that the Vietnam Information for Science and Technology Advance Innovation Portal goes live on an IBM cloud computing infrastructure. The interactive online portal will be used by Vietnamese government institutions and universities to develop education programs for Service Science Management and Engineering, an emerging academic discipline and research area that integrates ...
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Google founders have grown up: CEO
It's official: the guys who founded Google are grown up. That was the pronouncement on Thursday from Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who was hired in 2001 to provide mature, traditional business savvy to the Internet search company founded by whiz kids Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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