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Australian teacher kills self after child porn bust
SYDNEY: An Australian teacher killed himself and another attempted suicide after they were caught up in a major police swoop on internet child pornography, reports said.
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Female Hormone Oestrogen Could Help Prevent HIV Transmission In Men, Study Finds
The female hormone oestrogen when applied to the penis boosts a defensive protein that acts as a "living condom" and could reduce a man's risk of contracting HIV, according to a study published online Wednesday in PLoS One, the AAP/New Zealand Herald reports.
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Amazon.com goes down for nearly two hours
(AP:SEATTLE) Online retailer Amazon.com's Web site went down for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday. Around 10 a.m. PDT, the Web site shut down, giving an error code to anyone visiting it, according to Keynote Systems Inc., a California-based company that measures Internet activity.
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House Panel Hearing Focuses On Health IT Privacy, Cost Concerns
Lawmakers, patient-privacy and health care advocates, and information technology experts on Tuesday "debated ... how Congress can strike a balance between accelerating the adoption of a nationwide system of electronic medical records while protecting patient privacy," CongressDaily reports (Noyes, CongressDaily, 6/4).
Medical News Today |
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Student inventors win $10K with creative, realistic plans
At the 16th annual ExploraVision awards, science teachers, Toshiba executives and students in grades K-12 discussed plans for the inventions of the future: a football game for the blind, a tongue spray to make healthy foods taste sweet, a plan for new bioplastics.
USA Today |
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Understanding Grid Computing vs Cloud Computing vs Utility Computing
There seems to be a lot of debate as to what Grid computing really is. In fact, the blogosphere seems to be throwing around terms like Grid, Cloud, Utility, Distributed and Cluster computing almost interchangeably. And rather than clarifying things, I feel that the waters are just getting muddier.
SYS-CON Media |
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DFS and File Virtualization: A Rivalry or a Partnership?
The Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) has provided virtualization at the file share level for years, but with file virtualization solutions entering the data center, the managed target shrinks from a share that may contain thousands of files, to a single file. We discuss DFS and its value in environments where file virtualization is present. We compare and contrast DFS and file ...
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Workspace Virtualization
Workspace Virtualization takes a suite of standard Windows applications, and creates a virtualized application workspace on top of an existing Windows OS installation. Workspace Virtualization creates a seamless separation between the application workspace and the OS, optimizing the manageability, performance and deployment aspects of the enterprise environment. In this session, we will examine ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Chat Transcript: Dallas Morning News Tech Team discusses the new iPhone
On Friday, members of the Dallas Morning News Tech Team discussed possibilities for the next-generation iPhone, which is widely expected to be unveiled at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference Monday.
Dallas Morning News |
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A smart ad buy
Apple ad on InfoWorld.
CNET |
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June Newsbits
Eye-Fi and Wi-Fi help woman recover stolen camera; ABI Research says that more than half of broadband users in the United States today have some form of home network; JetBlue expands its in-flight Wi-Fi service.
Wi-Fi Planet |
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Icahn Proposes Price for Yahoo Sale
Icahn urges Yahoo to dangle a $49.5B sales price before Microsoft
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Microsoft patents how mobile phone users should behave
June 06, 2008 [General] By Edward J. R. Not that we are bashing Microsoft or anything but we are just saying how it is: previously Microsoft has removed ability to synchronize Windows Mobile phones over WiFi with PC computers due to alleged security problems.
MS Mobiles |
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Microsoft MD joins HP
In a major setback to IT giant Microsoft, its India Managing Director(MD) Neelam Dhawan has decided to call it quits and will join Hewlett-Packard(HP).
The Times of India |
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Real babies? No, they’re really dolls
EDINBURGH — Their chests rise and fall and you can hear a tiny heartbeat, but these babies for sale over the Internet are not alive. “Reborn babies” are disconcertingly life-like baby dolls made of vinyl that have become popular with collectors, nostalgic grandparents and grieving parents.
The Natal Witness Group |
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Online retailer Amazon.com's Web site goes down for about 2 hours
SEATTLE - Online retailer Amazon.com's Web site went down for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday. Around 10 a.m. PDT, the Web site shut down, giving an error code to anyone visiting it, according to Keynote Systems Inc., a California-based company that measures Internet activity.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Amazon.com goes down for nearly two hours
Online retailer Amazon.com's Web site went down for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday.
Seattle Times |
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Amazon.com goes down for about 2 hours
SEATTLE (AP) - Online retailer Amazon.com's Web site went down for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday.
Sharewatch |
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Recent Original Stories
An open-source alternative, Beagle provides fast indexing and searching of all your files. Kevin of the LinuxForums.org content development team has used it, abused it and reviewed it.
OS News |
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Amazon outage knocks out store, Kindle
Amazon has been suffering an ongoing shortage that has both affected its main business as well as hurt its Kindle e-book reader, according to user reports. The outage began earlier this afternoon and has left Amazon's main page nearly, blank, with only a "service unavailable" message at the front. Kindle users in turn note an inability to access ...
MacNN |
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Tranzeo Wireless to Equip Mexico’s Largest Home Builder with Wireless Communications System
Canadian company to be exclusive supplier of broadband wireless mesh equipment for 40 communities under construction. [PR.com - May 15, 2008]
PR.com |
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Microsoft readies new Producer for PowerPoint rich-media add-in
Microsoft has launched a private beta for the Producer add-in for PowerPoint 2007. Producer enables PowerPoint users to "capture, synchronize, and pubish audio, video, slides and images to create engaging rich media presentations that can be viewed in a web browser," explained Microsoft Senior Technical Account Manager...
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Steve Jobs writes:
"Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players.
New Mobile Computing |
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Indie Filmmakers Hit Their Target
Taking cues from musicians' Internet business models, filmmakers are transforming the movie biz by handling marketing, distribution, and DVD sales
BusinessWeek |
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The World Wide Web of Quilts
WHITEFISH – You’d be surprised by what Jan Shanahan sees when she looks at a quilt. She sees flow and balance, woven stories and forgotten art forms. She sees their origins. And with some quilts, she sees a worthy candidate for her new online artisan business, Quilt Keeper.
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