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'Cyberspace' coiner returns to native SC for honorary degree
The man who coined the word "cyberspace" has returned to his home page.
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Day in the life of a poor yakuza
Kunimoto figures his income for keeping the 10 computer disc drives happily dubbing away, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, would come to around ¥350 per hour. Kunimoto figures his income for keeping the 10 computer disc drives happily dubbing away, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, would come to... Read the full story.
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Net-a-Porter.com plans to Net-a-Fortune
The founder of Net-a-Porter.com, one of Britain's biggest internet success stories, is understood to be conducting a review of the upmarket fashion business that could lead to the recruitment of a major new investor.
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Recent Original Stories
The FSF today released version 3 of the GNU GPL , the popular free software license. "Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Feb 2006 23:31 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Deskbar is an applet which sits in the GNOME panel and which integrates quite seamlessly with different search tools like Beagle and the Google search API to bring the same functionality of OSX's Spotlight to Linux/GNOME. This article explains how one can set up this applet to among other things, provide Google web search on the Linux/GNOME desktop.
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A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone
theodp writes "Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie are listed as inventors of the Guardian Angel, which is described in a most unusual Microsoft patent application that should intrigue privacy advocates. In addition to protecting you from possibly diseased people, by detecting body temperatures, the Guardian Angel's 'monitoring component can take note of the number of conversations occurring in a room (and ...
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Yahoo has nothing to shout about
Investors are running out of patience with chief executive Jerry Wang after the collapse of talks with Microsoft, write Kristy Dorsey in the US and Bill Magee.
The Scotsman: Business |
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Catch up on the week
MONDAY Microsoft abandons its plans to buy Yahoo for $47.5bn (£24.1bn) after adding more than $5bn to the offer price, increasing the bid to $33 a share.
The Scotsman: Business |
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Web fans log on to Ebbsfleet FA Trophy glory
Ebbsfleet United (1) 1 Torquay United (0) 0 It was fantasy football made flesh. Ebbsfleet, the Kent club owned and run by nearly 30,000 internet fans from Maidstone to Melbourne, gave their global following the ultimate interactive experience yesterday by lifting the FA Carlsberg Trophy on their first visit to Wembley.
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Recent Original Stories
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Oct 2006 17:28 UTC, submitted by Tyr. "Leading PC manufacturer Acer has accused Microsoft of ratcheting up the cost of Windows by effectively forcing consumers to opt for the Premium version of Vista.
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Linked by diegocg on Mon 12th Nov 2007 19:45 UTC
Google has finally released Android , the opensource platform that will be used by the Open Handset Alliance . The platform is based in the Linux kernel, freetype, sqlite, webkit, a 2D/3D subsystem and other pieces, but the application framework is built in Java using a embedded-optimized VM called Dalvik.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 20th Mar 2007 10:26 UTC
Windows Vista has had something of a troubled birth.
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Keep-fit video game exhausts supplies
IT WAS billed as the hi-tech solution to the couch-potato culture, but an almost complete sell-out of the fitness computer game Wii Fit is exercising the patience of thousands
The Scotsman |
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When will Microsoft Facebook the music?
The deal with Yahoo! is off - and so the software giant is still an online advertising minnow. James Quinn in New York looks at its options
Daily Telegraph |
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Yahoo! chief searches for some allies
Shareholders are baying for the blood of the web portal's CEO, Jerry Yang, after his failed deal with Microsoft, reports James Doran in New York
Guardian Unlimited |
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State sends 1,000 letters to smokers, warns about Internet cigarette purchases
The state's Revenue Department has sent out more than 1,000 letters this year to smokers who bought cigarettes online telling them to stop buying cigarettes that way or to pay the $1.77-per-pack state tax that's now in effect. The letters could mean the smokers could be billed if their names show up as repeat buyers later. The state said it got the names from Internet cigarette vendors after ...
The Capital Times |
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What's worse than a clever machine? Two clever machines
John Naughton: If you've signed up for a web service recently, you may have been presented with an indistinct image of letters and numbers
Guardian Unlimited |
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What's worse than a clever machine? Two clever machines
John Naughton: If you've signed up for a new web service recently, you may have noticed that a final stage of the enrolment process presents you with an indistinct image of a number of letters and numbers
Guardian Unlimited |
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What's worse than a clever machine? Two clever machines
John Naughton: If you've signed up for a new web service recently, you may have noticed that a final stage of the enrolment process presents you with an indistinct image of a number of letters and numbers
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Being a mom isn't easy in Facebook era
There are some things a mother doesn't want to know about her 21-year-old daughter. She's in college where she's doing well, thank you very much. So I think she may have earned the right to a private life. Technology has other ideas.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Elect one Johnson, and you might get more than you bargained for
A week after the London mayoral election, the capital is still full of people denying that they voted for Boris Johnson and demanding to know who did. Boris himself has had a busy week: he managed to switch on his computer with only minimal assistance, and immediately used it to make a new law banning alcohol on public transport. (So, smoking ban bad; drinking ban good. So much for joined-up ...
Independent |
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The new revenge
Cutting up a cheating man’s clothes or bashing up his car no longer cuts it in the revenge stakes as a more e-vil form of retribution takes over in cyberspace.
The Star |
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Author who coined 'cyberspace' returns to his native SC to receive honorary degree
CONWAY, S.C. - The man who coined the word "cyberspace" has returned to his home page. Author William Gibson was given an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, where he was born 60 years ago and which he last saw when he was 5.
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Engineer recovers Columbia shuttle's hard drive data
Edwards found information among melted metal pieces
Contra Costa Times |
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Ministers increase online flocks
For millions of users, the Web has turned into a devil's den packed with urban legends, pop-up porn, Nigerian get-rich schemes and tidal waves of spam pushing medical products that make sailors blush. That isn't how the Internet Evangelism Day team sees things.
The Monterey County Herald |
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