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Missing Belleville girl found in Florida
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - The father of a 15-year-old Belleville girl found in Florida with a 49-year-old man she met on the Internet says he doesn't know when she will be coming home.
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Sun-watching satellite observes solar eruption in unprecedented detail
Washington, May 24 : A sun-watching satellite has observed a solar eruption in unprecedented detail, revealing new features that are predicted by computer models but difficult to see in practice.
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Spam Checking Tools And Tips To Avoid Your Newsletter Being Filtered, Blacklisted Or Marked As Spam
Sending out newsletters and having them delivered reliably to your list of subscribers has become a greater challenge than I would have ever thought. Problem is, if you don\'t devote yourself to it, everything is set for your newsletter to run into trouble. To not run into such issues you really need to proactively do something about it. The negative consequences are blacklisting of your ...
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'Martian Language' is the latest trend among Chinese teens!
New Delhi, May 24 : "3Q Orz"! Does this ring a bell? No, well, you're not the only one. Among China's younger generation of cyber-citizens however, the so-called "Martian Language" trend is catching on really fast.
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EPA tests plans to protect water from terrorists
Sat, May 24, 2008 (3:22 a.m.) Water utilities would get earlier warning of viruses, bacteria or chemicals that could be introduced into drinking water systems by terrorists under a test monitoring program set for expansion beyond Cincinnati.
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Recent Original Stories
This week, Microsoft is handing out Vista build 5219 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. PC Magazine was able to get their hands on it, trying out a number of new features and observing some slick-looking interface enhancements , such as true 3D windows views (with properly skewed video), thumbnail views for desktop apps, and a semi-transparent Taskbar.
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Frustrated by Computer Problems? There's a New Solution
(ARA) - Recently, in Berlin, Germany, a man's neighbors called the police to report him for disturbing the peace. He'd become frustrated and had thrown his computer out the window.
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A Great Place to Turn When You Need Tech Support
(ARA) - When you're at work and experience a computer problem, you likely pick up the phone and call tech support. But what do you do if your home system crashes as you are working on a report due the next day; or worse, your teenage daughter is putting the finishing touches on a term paper?
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Facebook gets facelift in June
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Having nearly tripled its audience and added about 20,000 new applications over the past year, Facebook Inc.’s popular online hangout is about to undergo a housecleaning.
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Microsoft pursues purchases
Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer said yesterday that buying Yahoo was not a strategy in itself, and dropping the bid meant it now had $50 billion to spend on other acquisitions.
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EPA tests plans to protect water from terrorists
Water utilities would get earlier warning of viruses, bacteria or chemicals that could be introduced into drinking water systems by terrorists under a test monitoring program set for expansion beyond Cincinnati. The pilot program ordered by the Department of Homeland Security in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks uses continuous monitoring of public water for contaminants that could ...
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Young stars put IndyCar on fast track
INDIANAPOLIS – Graham Rahal sat in front of his computer screen, friend requests coming from all over and you could almost see him shaking his head.
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A KEYBOARD INVITES PRESCHOOLERS TO PLAY WITH THE COMPUTER. MOM AND DAD WON'T MIND.
While custom keyboards for children are not new, Computer Cool School from Fisher-Price takes the genre up a notch, with light-up activity keys, a surprisingly sensitive touch pad and stylus, and a software package that can manage settings for up to five children.
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George Cressman; Trailblazing meteorologist; 88
George Cressman, a former National Weather Service director who took the lead in applying computers to meteorology and helped change weather forecasting from a form of cloud-gazing guesswork to a codified science, died April 17 at the National Lutheran Home in Rockville, Md.
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Debate intense over value of rating docs online
LOS ANGELES - Distraught over the results of cosmetic surgery on her nose, Katherine Chen did what many people do when they're unhappy with a doctor. She consulted a malpractice lawyer and filed a complaint with the Medical Board of California.
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Recent Original Stories
This is an overview of the main desktop features in Java 6 that should make it more appealing to desktop users. As with the Windows LAF, the GTK LAF in Java 5 struggled to match fidelity with the GTK toolkit.
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Recent Original Stories
OCAU reviews the new Core 2 Duo line from Intel, and concludes: "Thanks to its new micro-architecture, Core 2 Duo is performing far better than the previous generation dual core Pentium D. An X6800, for example, is between 30% ~ to 40% faster than a Pentium D 955XE. Core 2 Duo is achieving performance in applications and games that has not been seen before with a dual core desktop CPU. In ...
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Jambi ships as a single Java library, or JAR (Java Archive) file, plus a handful of tools, including an interface layout and design tool, and an Eclipse plug-in. Trolltech uses its vaunted Qt C++ library as the GUI engine and puts Java wrappers around it.
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EPA Tests Plans To Protect Water From Terrorists
Water utilities would get earlier warning of viruses, bacteria or chemicals that could be introduced into drinking water systems by terrorists under a test monitoring program set for expansion beyond Cincinnati.
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Games dot list of city-county software
City and county computers are loaded with software to write proposals, manage finances and apparently conquer all of civilization.
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Dell shares the shape of Future of Computing with its customers in the Middle East
Reaffirming its commitment to help customers across the world Simplify their IT infrastructures, Dell stopped in Dubai on its 149-city worldwide Future of Computing Tour to hold an event for its customers in the Middle East.
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Microsoft to end book scanning
The company abandons its effort to scan whole libraries and make their contents searchable.
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ZUNE DROPPED
GameStop Corp., the world's largest video-game retailer, will stop carrying Microsoft Corp.'s Zune digital music players because they failed to sell well. It was the only music player stocked.
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TRACKING UNHAPPY CUSTOMERS BLOG BY BLOG
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words "customer service"? Probably not something suitable for a family newspaper.
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EXPAND THE STORAGE CAPACITY OF YOUR CABLE DVR
Many of the Scientific Atlanta DVR boxes offered by the cable companies allow you to connect an external hard drive to increase the storage capacity of your DVR. To do this, your DVR box must have an external SATA port (eSATA) and it must be active. Most of the DVRs offered by Bright House Networks allow you to do this, but the company says it cannot provide technical support if you run into a ...
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