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Computer helps jailers understand dogs
(AP) -- Israeli jails are using a custom-built computer program to interpret the barks of guard dogs and distinguish warnings of a breakout from everyday woofs, a prisons official said Monday.
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38 charged in international phishing scheme
(AP) -- Thirty-eight people were charged Monday with stealing names, Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information from unsuspecting Internet users as part of a global crime ring.
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Pursuing Yahoo, Microsoft Shows Need for Web Franchise
Fighting Google, Microsoft has approached Yahoo with a narrower aim: a collaboration on Internet advertising.
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After Forays With ABC and HBO, a Video Blogger Returns to Video Blogging
Feeling a little burned by big media, Amanda Congdon, the former host of “Rocketboom,” has returned to online blogging, hosting and producing on “Sometimes Daily.”
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Dell CFO Carty resigns, Gladden named as successor
(AP:DALLAS) Dell Inc. said Monday that Donald J. Carty, hired as chief financial officer a year and a half ago to help lead the computer maker's turnaround, will resign in June and be replaced by a longtime General Electric Co. executive.
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Clear Channel Radio broadens streaming reach with Reciva deal
Clear Channel Radio has struck a deal with Reciva, the largest provider of Internet radio modules for use with broadband applications, to stream all of its stations on Reciva-powered receivers. (CCU)
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THE AUTHORITY ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND LOSS PREVENTION
ADD OH ISSUE HEADLINES ON YOUR DESKTOP! You can now add HLR headlines to or or any other RSS reader by using our feed. Also receive a custom newsletter on just the industry you are interested in.
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Banks turn to spyware over rogue-trader fears
Fears about internal security are increasingly driving banks to software that can monitor employees' electronic communications, say analysts
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Banks using more e-surveillance
If you work for a bank, a computer may be reading your e-mails, listening to your phone calls or analyzing chat conversations as you type.
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Fujitsu Offers 250GB 2.5-inch SATA Drive with Continuous Operation
Most hard drives in typical desktop and notebook computers don’t operate continuously 24-hours per day around the clock. Even if you leave your computer on all the time for the majority of that time it is sitting idle and the disk isn’t being accessed. ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Jan 2007 22:43 UTC
With holiday PC sales apparently unscathed by the lack of Windows Vista, Microsoft reported quarterly earnings Thursday that topped expectations and its own forecast . The software giant said it earned USD 2.63 billion, or 26 cents per share, on revenue of USD 12.54 billion, for the three months ended December 31. That compares with earnings of USD 3.65 billion, or 34 cents per share, on revenue ...
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HCL holds internet safety seminar
The subtext of a Huntington County Leadership seminar was not "beware of the Internet," but it could have been.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 10th Dec 2006 19:52 UTC
Matthew David provides a tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, a feature of .NET 3.0 that simplifies adding 3D, video, data, and vector designs to your applications.
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by re_re (3.88) on Sat 14th Jan 2006 18:31 UTC
Contrary to what most people on osnews seem to think, the vast majority of apple users are not tech savy, they just know they have a "cool" computer that looks pretty and works well, that's about it.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th Jun 2006 19:19 UTC, submitted by Yadav Ji
"Over the years, I've had a number of people asking me what I believe the problem was with further migration over to Linux by the public at large. To be frank, I don't believe that there is a simple answer to this.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:59 UTC
"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle.
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Survey: Leading Business Needs and Unmet Expectations Are Leading Causes of Technology Project Failure
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.----Nearly half of respondents stated that their organization recently "killed" an IT-related project before it was fully implemented, according to a survey of IT experts at the North America Computer Audit, Control and Security conference sponsored by ISACA.
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Music industry faces downloading issues
Times staff writer PEKIN - Co-Op Records is learning to evolve to stay competitive in a world in which the growing tide of music downloads from the Internet is making survival harder for some dealers.
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HP extends mobile thin client range
Gareth Morgan, IT Week , Monday 19 May 2008 at 16:52:00 Smaller, lighter laptop alternatives HP has introduced a smaller and lighter version of its mobile thin client device as it ramps up its desktop virtualisation offerings.... > Read the full article
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38 arrested in international phishing scam
Prosecutors say phishers based in Romania snagged information about thousands of credit and debit card accounts and other personal data from people who answered spam.
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Microsoft Launches SharePoint Planning Services
Customers using Microsoft's SharePoint enterprise portal can now get deployment help if they subscribe to the Software...
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General Dynamics wins $83M FBI computer job
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has given General Dynamics Corp.'s information technology division an information technology management contract. (GD)
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Computer Helps Jailers Understand Dogs
Israeli jails are using a custom-built computer program to interpret the barks of guard dogs and distinguish warnings of a breakout from everyday woofs, a prisons official said Monday.
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Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with SP1
Soon after VMWare released their virtual server technology, free of charge, Microsoft quickly gave away Virtual PC 2004 with Service Pack 1, as a free download. Now Microsoft have gone one stage further and have launched their latest version, Virtual PC 2007, as another free download.
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Dell CFO Carty resigns, Gladden named as successor
Dell Inc. said Monday that Donald J. Carty, hired as chief financial officer a year and a half ago to help lead the computer maker's turnaround, will resign in June and be replaced by a longtime General Electric Co. executive.
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