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Google blurs the privacy issue
Search giant faces fight with privacy campaigners as it prepares to launch Street View service in Europe
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Gone West: Former Astronaut Dr. Ronald Parise
Two-Time Shuttle Payload Specialist Was 56 An astronomer and computer specialist who went on to fly on two space shuttle missions has lost a three-year battle with brain cancer. Former shuttle payload specialist Dr. Ronald A. Parise, PhD, died at his home in Silver Springs, MD on Friday. He was 56.
The Aero-News Network |
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Hostopia launches fax-to-email service
Hostopia.com, Inc. today announced the launch of a private labeled, wholesale fax-to-email service that telecoms and other service providers can sell to their small business customers.
Web Host Directory |
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Computer Misuse Act changes are delayed further
DoS attacks not criminal till October Denial of service attacks will not be criminalised in England and Wales for another six months despite measures lying unused in existing laws since 2006. Changes to the Computer Misuse Act will not be activated until October.…
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Prof says threats altered his life
After receiving a series of increasingly threatening e-mails and phone calls, a worried Kim Mills changed his life. Mills, a computer science professor at Morrisville State College, began to park his car in different lots on campus and to vary routes to his office.
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Computer glitch stalls Ice Classic results
Organizers of the 92-year-old Nenana Ice Classic still aren't ready to announce how many people correctly guessed the exact minute when the ice broke up on the Tanana River, even though that moment happened a week ago. Their computer had "an issue."
Anchorage Daily News |
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Whitehaven News
A BBC computer from the mid 1980s has been added to The Beacon’s museum collection. The donation of a BBC 510 series computer from Mr Clipsham of Gosforth came complete with a monitor, stand, printer, cables, floppy discs and operator manuals.
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"Do you fancy Web-based word processors but aren't ready to leave OpenOffice.org? You can work with your Zoho Writer and Google Docs files from the convenience of OpenOffice.org Writer, courtesy of the OoGdocsIntegrator extension.
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Bayt.com to host regional virtual job fair
Regional job website Bayt.com is to hold its first ever ‘Virtual Job Fair'. The five day event, which will run on the Bayt.com website in June, is intended to provide a platform for job seekers and employers to connect online.
ITP.net |
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Not even sex is recession-proof, finds Playboy; suffers quarterly loss
Alternative content on Net weakens US risqué publication's traditional USP; video cameras, software to upload and share images erode its monopoly.
Express India |
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Vandals tear up CCH school
A Country Club Hills middle school was closed Monday after vandals destroyed at least $70,000 worth of laptop computers, books and equipment over the weekend.
SouthtownStar |
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Macworld Awards 2008
While Windows users face the possibility of viral infection every time they download a file from the internet, Mac viruses are so rare that some doubt they exist. That could be why so many forget that there are other security threats on the net.
Macworld UK |
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Record sales for Office 2008
Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit has confirmed Office 2008 for Mac to have been one of the most successful launches yet, and released an upgrade to the suite.
Macworld UK |
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Sun to clarify JavaFX open-source plan
While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company's nascent rich internet application (RIA) development product family and eventual competitor to Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, will be entirely open source, a FAQ page on Sun's site appears to contradict that.
Macworld UK |
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Wisair's Wireless USB solution secures Korean certification
Together with regulatory approvals already received in the U.S., Japan and Europe, Wisair’s solution now enables Wireless USB worldwide deployments with a single SKU (stock-keeping unit) model.
EETimes.fr |
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Mobile Digital Commerce Services for Premium Content Reached $1.1 Billion in 2007; the Market Set to Reach $1.9 ...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.----The market for mobile digital commerce services grew to $1.1 billion in 2007, according to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence . Digital commerce service providers process the financial transactions that monetize premium content from music, video and gaming companies over the mobile operator's network.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Focus Media to Present at Goldman Sachs Ninth Annual Internet Conference
Focus Media Holding Limited , China's leading multi-platform digital media company today announced that it will present at the Goldman Sachs Ninth Annual Internet Conference which will be held during May 21-22, 2008 at The Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Microsoft now offers tours of the universe
Microsoft has a spacey idea it wants to share with astronomy buffs. The company unveiled some new downloadable software Monday night that gives a picture - and allows users to zoom in on particular areas - of the night sky.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Students accused of making Internet threats
Police are conducting an investigation after students are accused of making Internet threats against other students at Grand Blanc High School.
ABC12 Mid-Michigan |
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SanDisk reigns among global Flash card, UFD makers
TAIPEI, TAIWAN: According to DRAMeXchange , the entire memory card and USB Flash drive (UFD) market in FY07 was valued at US$11.5bn. Among all major vendors, SanDisk lead in terms of sales at US$2.93bn, followed by consumer electronics giant Sony's US$1.73bn.
CIOL |
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How to: Make more from your smartphone snaps
In a tutorial for beginners, Steve Litchfield looks at some practical photo-taking tips for your smartphone when conditions are less than perfect... and explains that adjusting the photo later in software is cheating - but often helps a lot.
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iPhone sold out online; still stocked in stores
The popular iPhone isn't in stock at Apple Inc.'s online stores in the U.S. and Great Britain, but it's still available through brick-and-mortar stores -- including those in the Louisville area.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Putting cell phones to work
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester when he gave them one assignment: Design a software program for cell phones that
San Jose Mercury News |
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Microsoft executive to run Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said yesterday that Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes will take over in September as chief executive of the world's largest charitable foundation.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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WebSpy Wins Prestigious iAward
WebSpy, a global provider of Internet, email and network analysis and reporting software solutions, was awarded the WA iAward for their innovative Vantage platform.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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