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Al-Qaeda claims attack on Danish embassy in Pakistan--report
WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaeda Wednesday claimed in Internet statements to have carried out a suicide attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad which left at least six dead, SITE monitoring services said.
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Tortured ex-cop's story hits Internet
The story of a New England man who reports he was imprisoned in Canada in violation of an international treaty on trumped-up charges and tortured after he uncovered an alleged police-run drug ring has hit the Internet.
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State’s gator hunts are starting in cyberspace
The creatures look prehistoric. The process for applying for a permit to hunt them is high-tech. South Carolina’s first alligator hunting permits also represent the S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ first fully online application process for a public hunt. “We hope to conduct a lot of our business this way in the future,” said Derrell Shipes, chief of statewide projects for the agency. ...
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Child porn crackdown nets 70 in Australia
SYDNEY -- Seventy people in Australia have been arrested in a global crackdown on Internet child pornography and more will be detained, police said Thursday.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Glam Media rides high, but glare of spotlight may be harsh
NEW YORK, (MarketWatch) - Glam Media may be getting high on buzz this week with the fortunate timing of "Sex and the City," but the women-targeted Web network may learn that the glare of the spotlight is not always flattering.
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Battle for Yahoo gets ugly as Icahn steps up attack
The battle of control for Yahoo took another nasty turn on Wednesday as billionaire Carl Icahn accused top management of the Internet giant of deceitful actions to sabotage a takeover bid from Microsoft.
TurkishPress.com |
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Al-Qaeda claims attack on Danish embassy in Islamabad: report
Al-Qaeda Wednesday claimed in Internet statements to have carried out a suicide attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad which left at least six dead, SITE monitoring services said.
TurkishPress.com |
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Crackdown on predators
EASTON The Northampton County District Attorney's Office has joined forces with a Delaware County task force on Internet crimes against children to combat child pornography and Internet predators.
The Express-Times |
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'Kung Fu Panda' a visual black belt, if nothing else
'Kung Fu Panda" is one beautiful-looking movie. If only the story and comedy were half as absorbing. With the latest computer animated feature from DreamWorks directors Mark Osborne and John Stevenson have delivered an entertainment in which it's obvious that attention has been lavished on the composition of each frame. The colors are subtle and enticing. The lighting sublime. The character ...
The Post and Courier |
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Commercial Channel Partners Embrace the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) Series 1300 Processor
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced significant support for the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 1300 Series processor from channel partners focused on enterprise and small and medium businesses as well as high performance computing (HPC) markets. ...
Finanzen.net |
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How to customize Sliding Panel in Windows Mobile 6.1 without touch-screens
June 05, 2008 [MS Smartphone] By Edward J. R.
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Intel Launches Low-Power 65nm 4 Series Chipsets for the Desktop
With the release of their X48 Express performance chipset just a few short months back, many are asking why Intel is releasing another round of new chipsets so soon. We've got our ideas behind what's pushing them out the door so quickly and once we explain why you make look at the Intel P45 Express chipset in a whole new light....
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Battle for Yahoo gets ugly as Icahn steps up attack
WASHINGTON : The battle of control for Yahoo took another nasty turn on Wednesday as billionaire Carl Icahn accused top management of the Internet giant of deceitful actions to sabotage a takeover bid from Microsoft.
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Yahoo Denies 'poison Pill,' Icahn Accusations
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock rejected charges by Carl Icahn that an employee retention package was designed to discourage a...
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Meetings
PALMETTO PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB: 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Capital Senior Center, 1650 Park Circle, Maxcy Gregg Park. Guest speaker will be Jeremy Hill, district sales manager for Hewlett-Packard. SIGs meet before the main meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. www.palmettopc.org TRENHOLM ARTISTS GUILD: 7 p.m. Monday at Forest Lake Recreation Center, 6820 Wedgefield Road (near ...
The State |
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Baldr Force
In a future where people are increasingly spending time in The Wired for entertainment or to escape their dissatisfaction with life in the real world, elite hacker group Steppen Wolf decides to pull one last job before retirement.
Anime News Network |
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Paul Allen opens collection of vintage warplanes to public
Ten years in the making, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen's collection of vintage fighter aircraft will open to the public Friday.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-06-05 04:44 Icahn tells Yahoo board to scrap severance plan
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Dissident investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo Inc.'s beleaguered board lobbed insults at each other Wednesday in dueling letters likely to provoke even more rancor as the battle to determine Yahoo's fate escalates.
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South Korean regulator orders Intel to pay fine over antitrust probe
(AP:SEOUL, South Korea) South Korea's antitrust regulator said Thursday it will order Intel Corp. to pay 26 billion won (US$25.4 million) for violating fair trade rules.
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Employee of DOT contractor charged in use of passwords
PROVIDENCE — Shire Corp., a state contractor whose employee is accused of ransacking the state Department of Transportation’s computer system, had the passwords of the top DOT officials in charge of project design and construction, according to a state police affidavit filed in court yesterday.
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Homeless man pulls of 'millionaire' web dating scam...13 times
SOUDERTON - A homeless man accused of duping 13 women by posing as a millionaire on an internet dating service was arraigned in Philadelphia today. Paul Krueger, 50, used a laptop computer to meet the women on Millionairematch.com, prosecutors said.
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case, a court in Manchester sentenced a man described by police as a terrorist "sleeper" to nine years’ jail for possessing a trove of al Qaeda-related computer material.
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P&G boosts Morgan Stanley and Blackstone after Yahoo!
Morgan Stanley and The Blackstone Group are acting for Proctor & Gamble on the $3.3bn (€2.1bn) merger of the conglomerate’s coffee business providing a boost to the rankings of both advisors, which dropped after the collapse of Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!.
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Disney Merging WDIG Group With Games Unit; Forming Disney Interactive Media Group
Disney (NYSE: DIS) is merging its digital media unit Walt Disney Internet Group with its video gaming unit Disney Interactive Studios, into a new unit called into a new unitDisney Interactive Media Group, we have learned. This new unit will be led by Steve Wadsworth, who was the president of WDIG prior to this. According to an internal memo from Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, the existing management ...
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Features and Case Studies
An analysis by representatives of Australia's two largest IT industry groups shows that neither political party in the federal election has come up with a comprehensive policy around technology.
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