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Verizon to Buy Alltel, Form Top Wireless Carrier
Verizon Wireless agreed yesterday to buy the rural carrier Alltel for $28.1 billion, a deal that would vault Verizon past AT&T to create the nation's largest cellphone service provider, with 80 million customers.
Washington Post |
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FCC chief's free broadband plan delayed
A plan by the nation's top telecommunications regulator to provide free wireless high-speed Internet service hit a snag this week over concerns about possible interference and a proposed censoring feature that upset free speech advocates. Federal...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Call to tighten rules of Facebook
Nine out of ten internet users say they want fresh guidelines about the type of personal information they should publish on social networking websites.
Contractor UK |
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Former High School Principal Facing Child Porn Charges
A former high school principal and swim instructor was arrested for having thousands of images of child pornography on his computer. FOX25's Adam Pellerin reports from Dedham with more.
FOX 25 Boston |
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Satyam revamps workforce
New structure expected to help it expand global footprint, innovate faster. Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth largest IT business and services provider, has reorganised its workforce to create almost 4,000 leadership positions - 8 per cent of its 50,000-odd workforce.
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Controversial blogger spreads the gospel of science
One of the world's leading science bloggers, PZ Myers, returns to Seattle to visit his mom, attack religion and declare the Discovery Institute "irrelevant" in the debate between evolutionary scientists and creationists.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Los Angeles Sues Time Warner Cable
The suit brought by the city of Los Angeles says that the company has subjected subscribers to delayed repair appointments, deceptive pricing and Internet outages.
New York Times |
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Smoke bomb empties Harding High School
BRIDGEPORT — A smoke bomb triggered in a first-floor computer lab at Harding High School early Thursday afternoon forced evacuation of the school.
Connecticut Post |
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Former Clerk Gets 6-Month Term For Stadium Attack Hoax
NEWARK, N.J. -- A former Wisconsin grocery clerk was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison for making bogus threats on the Internet warning of terrorist attacks on NFL stadiums.
WISC-TV Madison |
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BBB Warns Of Internet Escrow Scam
HONOLULU -- If you are shopping online for a big ticket item like a used car, the Hawaii Better Business Bureau issued an alert about a new scam costing consumers millions of dollars.
KITV Honolulu |
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Recent Original Stories
This opinion piece gives 8 reasons as to why HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) is in its stone age. It talks of screen corners, visual attention, the spatial paradigm (oh my...) and much more.
New Mobile Computing |
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Jason Hall Discusses His New Online Show
Including a 1UP exclusive outtake reel.
1up.com |
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SOA RIA News - Appcelerator to Shake Up Rich Internet Application Market
'I'm looking forward to helping Appcelerator shake up the rich Internet application market,' said Bearden. 'Companies are struggling with how to take advantage of all the money and time they've poured into SOA. Appcelerator answers the question once and for all by enabling them to build rich applications on top of that SOA infrastructure.'
SYS-CON Media |
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Customer Service
NEW YORK - A Canadian company has agreed to pay $9.1 million to resolve charges that it facilitated illegal Internet gambling by processing payments for U.S. customers, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Brandon Sun |
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Audio books available online
Davenport Public Library card holders no longer have to wait for the library to open to check out audio books. Access to a Web site allows patrons to download books and listen on home computers or Mp3 players.
Quad-City Times |
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Recent Original Stories
Considering how many industry giants have partnered with Microsoft in WMA and PlaysForSure it would appear that Microsoft is a leader in successful consumer electronics technology. That's not the case.
OS News |
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No Nvidia Chipset for Via Yet, but Watch This Space
No Nvidia chipset for Via processors was launched at Computex, but the partnership between the two companies is just getting...
PC World |
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Instead of installing viruses, today's smileys plague is an entirely open, above-board attempt to enmesh your children in a web of crap
The Globe and Mail |
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MyToons site offers HD animation
Online animation is taking a leap forward as San Antonio-based Mytoons.com launches a platform for animation in high-definition.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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AT&T laptop containing sensitive info was stolen
San Antonio-based phone giant AT&T Inc. said Thursday that a laptop containing names, Social Security numbers and salary information of some of its management employees was stolen from a worker's vehicle.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Prentice's Wikipedia bio locked 'due to vandalism'
A skirmish has been raging for days over the online Wikipedia biography of Industry Minister Jim Prentice, with anonymous government workers airbrushing out controversial details or buffing Prentice's image, while others just as quickly revised the revisions.
CTV.ca |
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YouTube bashing girls tracked down
CANBERRA police have tracked down three teenage girls seen bashing a woman on a video posted on the internet.
Herald Sun |
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Quantum computing advance—diamonds are a qubit’s best friend
Entanglement using the nitrogen vacancies in diamond proves to be long-lived and robust. The discovery marks another step towards usable quantum computers. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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Man Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charges
TAMPA A 35-year-old Tampa man pleaded guilty Thursday of receiving child pornography from others online then sharing the images, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
The Tampa Tribune |
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