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Bill To Ban Laptop Dances At Strip Clubs Fails
Sponsor doesn't expect to re-introduce the bill this session. Opponents felt local communities could make their own decisions. more
KALB Alexandria |
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Online hunting applications coming back?
The Arizona Game and Fish Department's online hunting-permit application process, favored by hunters and the department alike, has been out of commission for nearly two years, but it could be reinstated by next year.
The Arizona Republic |
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Riesel Police Chief Designs Departments Computer Program
The Riesel Police Chief has gone from law enforcement to a high tech specialist and it's paying off, making the small town force one of the most advanced in Texas.
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Facebook making profile pages quicker, less cluttered
PALO ALTO, California (AFP) - Facebook on Wednesday unveiled revamped profile pages overhauled to make the hot social-networking website faster, less cluttered and more spam-resistant.
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Facebook making profile pages quicker, less cluttered
Facebook on Wednesday unveiled revamped profile pages overhauled to make the hot social-networking website faster, less cluttered and more spam-resistant.
AFP via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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Web politics
How Obama gained an internet edge in the political battle
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Internet key to Obama victories
The Democrats seem to have a decisive advantage in using the internet as a campaigning tool in the presidential election.
BBC News |
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Beetle may hold key to superfast computers
Posted: 8:01 PM- The ultrafast computers of the future will process data using light rather than electricity, but science has yet to synthesize the "photonic crystal" necessary to manipulate visible light for this purpose.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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The computer helper: Safer surfing
Washington - Almost every week we hear about a new security concern online - one that threatens to put your privacy or personal information at risk. Some of the most alarming involve programs that you think you are installing to protect you from harm ...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Recent Original Stories
If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo. The software maker detailed the new image format Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
"KDE 4 is coming. It's starting to look and behave in a mature enough manner to use it on a normal desktop. This article is a little introduction as to what you should expect from the brand new KDE that is due out later this year."
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 23rd Oct 2005 03:30 UTC
In the few short years of its existence, Google has come a long way, simultaneously striking fear in the hearts of major players in the computer industry and also arousing their curiosity.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 23:21 UTC
Bah. This silly web page had me install an ActiveX control, only to tell me *afterwards* that i am "outside the geography" for the test drive. Well who cares, really.
New Mobile Computing |
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FOR BLOGGER AND TECH EXPERT Bob Arkow, the road to an obscure but powerful Internet über-court in Switzerland began on his ride home to sunny, middle-class Santa Clarita aboard Metrolink’s Antelope Valley Line Train No. 213 in August 2006.
LA Weekly |
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Check It Out
(IsraelNN.com) Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer opened a new research and development center in Herzliya Pituach Wednesday. Microsoft plans to employ 750 workers at the new center.
Israel National News |
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Island facing numerous upgrades: infrastructure agreement
SUMMERSIDE – Broadband Internet to cover the Island and much-needed water projects were among the plans unveiled Wednesday as part of a $270-million funding initiative.
The Journal Pioneer |
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Computers, Internet access are necessities
DALAT: Having computers and access to the Internet are no longer a luxury nowadays but are necessities as people around the world are all using them, Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department Datin Fatimah Abdullah said.
The Borneo Post |
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Microsoft not bidding to buy Yahoo: CEO Ballmer
Microsoft is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo but is in talks about other types of deals with the US No. 2 search engine, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said.
Stuff |
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Microsoft lures search traffic with cash rebates; Time Warner to reap $9.25 billion in cable spinoff
INTERNET
Austin American-Statesman |
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Mackey revives blog with an apology
Whole Foods Market Inc. chief executive John Mackey went back to blogging Wednesday, starting with an apology for his online candor last year that created controversy and problems for the company he founded.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Recent Original Stories
"What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach. He had the temerity to make Redmond's software better.
OS News |
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Tenafly killer confesses
Kang-Hyuk Choi grabbed the 8-inch knife from a fruit plate. He moved toward the back of his friend Sean Kim - who was sitting at his computer — and plunged the steel blade into Kim's neck “without warning and without mercy,” authorities said.
The Record |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 20:39 UTC
"In a fairly short time, Novell has transformed itself from a firm that had next to nothing to do with Linux into one of the Penguin's most visible and aggressive flag-bearers.
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Speed limiting computer chips could become mandatory for BC's big trucks
BC big rig drivers who do trips across Canada will likely have to install computer chips to limit their top speed to 105km per hour. Ontario and Quebec are about to make the chips mandatory. Paul Landry ...
News 1130 |
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National Get Outdoors Day Encourages Kids to Play Outside
Kids today spend an average of 6.5 hours a day in front of TVs or computers, and studies have repeatedly shown that they are spending less and less time outside.
IMBA |
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