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Stolen jeep returned to soldier
The dog tags were still there, but the camera along with the hard drives of digital family pictures, music and movies were gone. The stereo had been ripped out. The ignition was broken.
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Microsoft Warns Of Security Vulnerability Arising From Apple's Safari
Unless the default Safari download location remains unchanged, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a maliciously crafted Web site, Microsoft said.
InformationWeek |
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Laptop-Embedded Wireless Broadband Closer To Mainstream
New technologies and pricing due by the end of 2008 have the potential to eliminate the problems of embedded, wireless 3G notebook purchases, Gartner now suggests.
InformationWeek |
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PlayStation 3
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai has said that the era when download distribution of games takes over from disc media is "way off" because, by and large, the internet isn't ready.
Games Radar |
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Ben Goldacre: Determined bloggers who blew whistle on Dore 'miracle cure' for dyslexia
Ben Goldacre: In this case it seems the bloggers win as branches of Dore close across the world
Guardian Unlimited |
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Don't let remodeling get best of you
The time has come to remodeling that kitchen and you can't wait. You've devoured magazine articles, visited decorating sites on the Internet, checked out shiny commercial stoves at the high-end appliance store around the corner and gotten misty...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Watch whales frolic in your browser
AFTER THE successful experience doing a yearly webcast of the Magellan penguins, the Chubut state government in Argentina now brings whale-watching to the Interweb.
The Inquirer |
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Intel Atom measured, weighed
THERE’S SOME INTERESTING news on the web today, with some numbers that may keep some Intel marketing beings up all night thinking what to do next. Fudzilla has posted its preliminary review of a pre-production Atom.
The Inquirer |
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REAL MEDICINE: What hospitals teach doctors and nurses
Dozens of the top nurses in the New York Area march into Montefiore every day. They are bright, seasoned veterans of nursing, and they’re armed with laptop computers as they walk into the hospital. They are there to review charts, and to teach nursing staff, and physicians.
Ridgefield Press |
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Overstock.com Challenges Constitutionality of New York's Internet Tax Law
Overstock.com, Inc. announced today that it has filed a lawsuit challenging New York's new tax law that requires internet retailers to collect and pay to the New York state tax on their New York sales despite the fact that the retailer has no physical presence or nexus in New York.
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Recent Original Stories
"Is Ubuntu an operating system? Last week at EuroOSCON, Mark Shuttleworth gave the closing keynote outlining what he believes are the major struggles faced by the open-source/free-software community.
OS News |
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Survey: Open source is entering the enterprise mainstream
Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source tools than to get an IT budget"). That's no longer the case, according to a survey of IT and business executives and ...
InfoWorld |
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Sourcefire says no to Barracuda's takeover bid
Open-source security software maker Sourcefire has rejected a $186 million unsolicited takeover offer from Barracuda Networks . Late Thursday, Barracuda offered to pay $7.50 per share, a 13 percent premium on the company's current stock price, but about half of what Sourcefire shares fetched a year ago. Barracuda, a maker of security appliances that include some of Sourcefire's ...
InfoWorld |
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Texas has the sixth slowest Internet in the U.S.
LONGVIEW - Computers.....fast and convenient technology....right? Not if you live in Texas! A new survey by Akamai shows Texas has the sixth slowest Internet in the United States.
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Eds: UPDATES throughout; ADDS byline, Internet note.
Hays Daily News |
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2 Miami officers charged in FBI corruption probe
Two veteran police officers were charged Friday with providing protection for purported shipments of cocaine and stolen goods in what was actually an undercover FBI operation. Officer Geovani Nunez and Detective Jorge Hernandez are accused in court documents of helping protect shipments of what they thought were stolen televisions and computers and at least 12 kilograms of cocaine - sometimes by ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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What To Do If You're Microsoft Or Yahoo?
Some high-powered tech industry professionals have suggestions for the two companies, whose inability to make some kind of deal left the tech industry wondering why they could not reach some kind of accord. read more
WebProNews |
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Saravanan goes dotcom
KUALA LUMPUR: Federal Territories Deputy Minister and MIC information chief Datuk M. Saravanan has joined the bandwagon and launched his own website and blog.
The New Straits Times |
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Video: Smart Card Hacker's Tools Include Acid, Red Nail Polish
Fresh from a high-profile civil trial that cleared his former employer of piracy charges, satellite TV hacker Christopher Tarnovsky opens the door of his private lab to show Wired.com how he circumvents security on smart cards. Please don't try this at home.
Wired News |
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Privacy commissioner launches Facebook probe after law students file complaint
TORONTO - The federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after University of Ottawa law students complained the site breaches Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without obtaining proper consent.
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News |
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Beijing is suspected of tapping computer
Instead of this guy shilling for open borders and the importation of illegal alien slave labor for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Catholic Church to exploit ............ maybe he ought to be protecting the interests of the American people.
Tulsa World |
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Google to host JavaScript libraries for developers
Google this week launched its Google AJAX Libraries API, enabling developers to use the company's global infrastructure to host and serve major JavaScript libraries. "What it is really about is being able to make life easier and faster for developers," said Dion Almaer, Google engineer for developer programs. The API serves as a content distribution network and loading architecture. ...
InfoWorld |
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Google defends open source from 'poisonous people'
The Case of the Self-Centered Date Parser Google I/O Once upon a time, there was an open source project called Subversion, and it needed a new date parser.…
The Register |
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Time Warner Cable Plans to take Web to TV
Time Warner Cable plans to offer subscribers an easier way to bring Internet video to their television screens as part of an overall home networking system, Chief Executive Glenn Britt said on Friday.
PC Magazine |
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Shop online, and you get the chance to drive a hard bargain
How do you fancy getting paid to shop? It sounds too good to be true, but for canny consumers who shop online, there are a growing number of sites that will pay you cash every time you make a purchase.
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