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A Living-Room Crusade via Blogging
A New Jersey stay-at-home mother has become an outspoken advocate for a Yemeni journalist, Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani, who is facing execution for sedition.
New York Times |
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Microsoft-Yahoo talks driven by specter of Icahn, Google
Just two weeks after breaking off merger talks, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have been pulled back to the bargaining table by their fears about what might happen if they don't work out a deal.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Researchers teach 'Second Life' avatar to think
Web site is a frontier in artificial intelligence research
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Christians targeted in Gaza
JERUSALEM – A building in Gaza with an Internet cafe that reportedly was bombed is owned by a Palestinian Christian, WND has learned. The media widely reported the target of Sunday's bombing as perceived symbols of Western influence.
WorldNetDaily |
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School Fights Online
Videos of kids fighting make it on the internet for other's entertainment.
WMBB TV Panama City |
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More police resources in SA Budget
More than $11 million will be allocated in the coming South Australian Budget for a new police computer system and more forensic scientists.
ABC via Yahoo!7 News |
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Statement by Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie on President Bush's Interview with Richard Engel
NBC News responded to our objection to their editorial decision to misleadingly edit the President's interview with Richard Engel as aired on NBC Nightly News and The Today Show by noting it was available in its entirety on the MSNBC website. This misses the point.
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Cyber Safety
Tips for parents on helping keep their kids safe on the internet.
FOX10 Gulf Coast |
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Dell CFO Carty resigns, will stay on firm's board
DALLAS -- Donald Carty, who became Dell Inc.'s chief financial officer less than 18 months ago when the computer maker's accounting was under scrutiny, is stepping down and will be replaced by a longtime General Electric Co. executive.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Features and Case Studies
Security professionals say they're making computing safer, but are they doing more harm than good? We find out what industry experts have to say. Security expert Bruce Schneier looks at how cryptography has blossomed from a secretive NSA technology to a global public tool.
ZDNet Australia |
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Sony's Echochrome will bend your mind
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Echochrome: Puzzle game. Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment. Developer: JapanStudio. (For PS3 and PSP. $9.99 (download only). ESRB rating: Everyone.) At a time when even the simplest puzzles are dressed up with flashy lights and a...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Dell?s Finance Chief to Step Down
Dell, the computer maker, said Monday that Donald J. Carty, hired as chief financial officer a year and a half ago to help lead a turnaround, would resign in June.
New York Times |
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Wetpaint Gives Web Sites Social Publishing Injection
Wetpaint's embeddable social publishing platform looks to improve search engine optimization and ad sales.... SOLVE SUPPORT ISSUES on the First Call! REMOTELY CONTROL AND CONFIGURE SYSTEMS. Easily install applications, updates. All from your Desktop!
eWeek |
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Cable Show ’08: Cablers Reject All-Free Content
New Orleans -- When a tech-industry speaker on Monday’s The Cable Show ’08 general session here said media will be forced to give away content because the Web is killing existing business models, other panelists responded, “Not so fast, my friend.”
Broadcasting and Cable |
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Google launches online health service
Sharing your medical records online. Google Health puts you in control of your data.
KGO-TV Bay Area |
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Japan Hot Stocks-Property firms, Yahoo Japan, trading houses
TOKYO, May 20 - The benchmark Nikkei average shed 0.1 percent by the midday break on Tuesday.
Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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Recent Original Stories
I dont think mp3 is much of a challege for any distro. I use debian and stock gnome-desktop-environment will play mp3s if I remember correctly. Sorry for being OT!
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Google launches online medical records service
Google on Monday launched Google Health, a long-anticipated medical records service letting US users store and manage their health care information online.
AFP via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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INTERNET: Microsoft, Yahoo consider new deal
SAN FRANCISCO ---- Microsoft Corp. is once again trying to team up with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., although at this point the renewed talks haven't escalated to another attempt to take over Yahoo.
North County Times |
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Time Warner executives charges with inflating earnings
U.S. regulators said Monday that eight former Time Warner executives fraudulently inflated the company's online advertising revenues by more than $1 billion between 2000 and 2002.
International Herald Tribune |
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MySpace invite creates havoc for town
Ipswich City Councillor David Pahlke wants people to respect the country town atmosphere of Rosewood. $ Waves of drunken teens rioted through Rosewood's main drag Friday night after a party was advertised on internet site MySpace.
Queensland Times |
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U.S. Supreme Court upholds child pornography law
The Supreme Court upheld the latest congressional effort to curb the spread of child pornography on the Internet.
International Herald Tribune |
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Features and Case Studies
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said.
ZDNet Australia |
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Details of Microsoft Offer to Yahoo
Under its latest proposal to Yahoo, Microsoft would buy its search business and take a stake in the company, people briefed on the negotiations said Monday.
New York Times |
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Lieberman Wants Terrorist Content Yanked From YouTube
U.S. senator calls on Google to yank videos; critics say move won't stop videos.
ABC News |
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