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MHS students take honors at congressional art contest
BELLEVILLE — Two Marion High School students received top honors at the 12th Congressional District High School Art Competition May 18 in Belleville, with Elisabeth Choate winning the grand prize and Brandon Trammel submitting the top computer generated art piece.
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NRDC Report on Global Warming: Doing Nothing Comes with a Huge Price Tag
A report released today by researchers at Tufts University, commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), presents two ways of estimating the costs of inaction on climate change, both leading to staggering bottom lines. A comprehensive estimate, based on state-of-the-art computer modeling, finds that doing nothing on global warming will cost the United States economy more than ...
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Google co-founder pushes TV 'white space' plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc co-founder Larry Page was in Washington on Thursday to promote the company's proposal for a new generation of wireless devices to operate on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves.
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Gaming Center Set To Open in Edgewood
By Lee Ross Mountain View Telegraph Video games aren't just for the social recluse anymore. That's according to Diana Ma, who co-owns a computer gaming center called The Duck of Doom with her husband, Quan Ma. The gaming center is opening Friday in Edgewood.
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"Sachio Semmoto, founder of Japanese broadband Internet and wireless company eAccess Ltd, said on Wednesday that WiMax, a new super high-speed wireless technology, will lose the battle to be the fourth-generation mobile standard of choice," Sachi Izumi reports for Reuters.
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Business Weekly blogs
Nick joined BT's research department in 2003, having graduated with a first class degree in Computer Science from Nottingham University. As part of the Multimedia Streaming Group, he worked on the delivery of streaming video over highly resource-constrained mobile networks.
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Judge sentences pharmacist to 18 months in prison
Associated Press - May 22, 2008 1:14 PM ET WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A pharmacist who ran an Internet pharmacy once located in Wichita is facing 18 months in prison for unlawfully distributing...
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Pikom seeks to create 150 PC centres by 2010
KUALA LUMPUR: The Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (Pikom) yesterday rolled out its Projek Menguasai Aplikasi Internet dan PC (MAIN PC) with the goal of creating 150 serviced community personal computer (PC) centres by 2010.
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Google’s Page Fights for White Spaces
Google cofounder Larry Page was in Washington, D.C., Thursday to make a pitch in person and online for allowing mobile unlicensed devices to share the digital-TV spectrum with TV stations.
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Indiana Jones and the computer jungle
The first three Indy films were gritty, sweaty and tactile affairs, largely because everything onscreen physically existed somewhere. Not so with "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" — though that was almost the case.
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Internet Tidal Wave Hits 3G
The mobile data boom is well underway. My recent Heavy Reading report, " Flat IP Architectures in Mobile Networks: From 3G to LTE " pegged the rate of growth for data traffic at between four- and eightfold in 2007, depending on specific market conditions and operator pricing strategies.
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Media General, Apple among big market movers
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks that are moving substantially or trading heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Media General Inc., up $1.21 at $16.02 To reduce operating costs, the newspaper publisher and television station operator will cut nearly 11 percent of its work force by October.
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ACAD ahead of the curve in lifesaving technology
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 12:03 p.m. A boxy build, a bright paint job and flashing lights are familiar sights on the outside of an ambulance. The same adjectives apply to about 150 thousand dollars worth of cutting edge technology inside the ambulance.
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NCI scientists visualize gene regulation in living cells
A research team led by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has applied advanced imaging methods and computer simulations to be able to glance at the regulation of a cancer-related gene in a living cell. They found that the efficiency with which the components of the cell's gene reading machinery come together has an impact on gene ...
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The antitrust regulator in South Korea will begin a crucial hearing on Tuesday (Monday evening US time) to determine ...
the country's fair trade rules by bundling its instant messenger and Media Player programs into its Windows XP platform. Officials have been reticent about whether the regulator, the Fair Trade Commission, will rule on the case after a closed hearing of two days.
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Recent Original Stories
BBC News reports that Microsoft has come up with an interesting strategy to increase usage of its Live Search service: it is "offering " cold, hard cash " to persuade users to shop online using its Live Search engine and help the company catch up to rival Google.
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iPodObserver - OppeheimerFunds Rates AAPL as "Outperform"
OppenheimerFunds has launched its coverage of Apple with analyst Yair Reiner setting an Outperform rating for AAPL and a target price of US$235. He's projecting that Apple will sell 28 million iPhones in 2009
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CNN - Web Creates America's New Drug Crisis
Nancy Fitzpatrick Tried To Kill Herself. A Man Died In A Pool Of Vomit. Both Had Bottles Of Prescription Drugs Shipped To Them Without Seeing A Doctor. Fitzpatrick Blames Online Pharmacies For Being The New Drug Pushers. "They Need To Be Stopped," She Told CNN.
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Media General, Apple among big market movers
Stocks that are moving substantially or trading heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:
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Government Computer News
Despite the potential economic and social benefits of broadband network access, there remains a digital divide between urban and rural communities in the availability of high-speed networks, and state governments are taking a variety of approaches to address the problem, according to a report by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices.
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Alienware Goes Full Bore With 4.0GHz Quad-core Desktop
Alienware takes a 3.2GHz QX9770 processor and overclocks it to 4.0GHz....
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SM recycling market fair set June 6-7
TO PROVIDE the public with ample time to drop off their recyclable and non-traditional waste materials, SM City Bacolod reorganizes its recycling market fair into a two-day activity every first Friday and Saturday of the month.
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Napster MP3 store: great selection, bad interface
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Napster MP3 store: great selection, bad interface --Napster launched its Web-based MP3 download store, and while the 6 million available songs are promising, the company still needs a bit of help designing user interfaces. Peter Gabriel's new audiophile quality subscription site --Famed musician teams up with high-end speaker maker Bowers & ...
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ISIS Papyrus celebrates 20 years with user conference at Southlake center
ISIS Papyrus America Inc. held a user conference at its U.S. headquarters in Southlake May 18-20, part of a celebration of the Vienna, Austria-based software company’s 20th anniversary. It is also part of a push to make the company more well-known in the U.S.
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Lenovo Lifted By Emerging Markets
The world's fourth-largest PC maker said earnings more than doubled on strong demand for notebooks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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