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Comcast And Plaxo Invite You To The Marriage Of Set-top Box & Social Software
Just got off the phone from a tandem interview with Plaxo CEO Ben Golub and Comcast Interactive Media's Sam Schwartz. They weren't willing to talk money but answered just about everything else and talked at length about the vision of marrying set-tops and social software. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) plans to integrate Plaxo's technology across its platformsincluding, eventually, to WiMax. In the ...
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Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites
FRAMINGHAM, 14 MAY 2008 - A botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher.
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Prince (Less) Charming: Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic
"Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, popping his computer-generated shaggy head briefly into The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian to pep-talk a bunch of discouraged Brits into fighting the good fight again. As in life, so in s ...
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Family photos stolen from dying woman
A dying woman's family members said photos of the woman's loved ones were stolen at a San Jose, Calif., hospital while relatives were there visiting her. With Elizabeth Johnston of San Jose dying of cancer, her husband Faber came to visit her on Mother's Day, leaving a digital camera and laptop computer outside in a car in the hospital's parking lot. The gear contained irreplaceable snapshots of ...
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Dallas Diocese board to investigate McKinney pastor about gay Web site
A review board of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas will investigate complaints about the past participation of the Rev. Arthur Mallinson on a Web site for gay priests.
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Report: Investor to lead fight against Yahoo board
Wed, May 14, 2008 (6:22 p.m.) Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly plans to try overthrowing Yahoo's entire board to clear the way for Microsoft to renew its attempt to buy Yahoo.
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Last week the opening line of
TS Eliot - Google's Most Popular? The Waste Land , T.S. Eliot's most famous poem, became "one of most explosively googled phrases in America.
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Recent Original Stories
"With little fanfare, Microsoft just announced that the x64 version of Windows Vista will require all kernel-mode code to be digitally signed. This is very different than the current WHQL program, where the user ultimately decides how they want to handle unsigned drivers.
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Ericsson and Dell connect on HSPA in next-generation laptops
Dell will offer built-in HSPA mobile broadband modules from Ericsson beginning in Q2 2008. Ericsson's mobile broadband modules provide the end user with a simple and cost effective solution for broadband access while on-the-go.
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Connecting Game Players to Build a Sense of Loyalty
On Thursday, Disney?s video game division will open an online service and social network meant to connect players of Disney games across North America.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Feb 2006 18:29 UTC
At first blush, the past two weeks have not been good for the image of Apple's Mac OS X: Public descriptions of two worms and a trivial exploit for a serious software issue in the operating system appeared on the internet.
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Lions pummel Hawks in HR derby
G.G. Sato and Hiram Bocachica hit two home runs apiece Wednesday night as the Seibu Lions crushed the Softbank Hawks 11-4 at Yahoo Dome. In the fourth inning, Sato hit a solo homer off Hawks starter Rick Guttormson (1-2).
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AMS Services announces transit server support
With Microsoft SQL Server widely utilized throughout the insurance industry, AMS Transit Server provides a necessary and robust, standards-based platform for connecting insurance carriers, agencies and MGAs.
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ADSL providers compete harder in shrinking market
Amid the race for ever-faster broadband connections to the Internet, super high-speed fiber-optic technology is fast overtaking asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology across Japan.
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Washington DC
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. ( Map ) - BASKING RIDGE, N.J. , May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Business will deploy and manage a secure global IP network linking thousands of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sites under a new Networx Universal task order awarded by the agency today.
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Comcast to Buy Plaxo for Social Networking
Comcast will acquire social-networking company Plaxo to power upcoming community features on its TV, broadband data and phone...
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IT Day 2008
KENNEWICK -- Kennewick hosted the eighth annual IT Day. In tonight's top story, KAPP-KVEW's Hau Kuiang gives us an all access pass. Like a scene from their show, Mythbusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage appear from a plume of smoke.
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Report: Computer crash delayed help for tree victim
Because of a computer network crash, more than 10 minutes passed from the time the Gwinnett County 911 call center was first alerted that a tree had fallen on a 19-year-old woman to the time paramedics were dispatched to the scene, according to a police report.
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groupSPARK Senior Executive Officer To Speak At ISPCon Spring 2008
- Ravi Agarwal will address leading internet industry executives, service providers and Web hosts on the explosive growth in the Software as a Service market and how Microsoft’s entry into hosted services need not be an obstacle to service providers’ success.
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Customer Service
SAN FRANCISCO - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly plans to try overthrowing Yahoo's entire board to clear the way for Microsoft to renew its attempt to buy Yahoo.
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Ants Swarm Houston Area
Voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
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Class action overtime lawsuit filed against Sun Microsystems
Dani Hoenemier says she worked long days as a technical writer for Sun Microsystems, sometimes spending over 60 hours a week at her computer when the company was preparing a new product release.
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Harptallica
Unlike corn or that long-overdue Scott Baio retrospective on The Biography Channel, the world is not running low on Metallica cover bands. After performing a quick Internet search, we found some with predictable names (Holland-based The Unforgiven, the online-only Sad But True), other generic outfit ...
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Recent Original Stories
"The performance of desktop computers increases year by year. This gives the programmers great opportunities to further improve the desktop experience of the users. However, what should you do when you have an old computer that is not capable of running the latest and hottest software?
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Recent Original Stories
"The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 is the first-ever desktop motherboard supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS , thanks to AMD engineer Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month. This state-of-the-art motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset and AMD's latest Socket AM2."
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