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Sports administrator pleads guilty to child porn charge
A West Australian man charged as part of an international investigation into pedophile networks on the internet has pleaded guilty to accessing child pornography.
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3 Internet Services To Block Access To Child Porn Sites
Three of the nation's major Internet service providers have agreed to block customer access to newsgroups and Web sites that offer child pornography, according to an agreement announced Tuesday by the New York attorney general's office.
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Big Rock broadcasts on the Net
MOREHEAD CITY - When Bob Simpson suggested back in 1957 that a prize be offered to anyone who could land Carteret County's first blue marlin, the Internet was decades away.
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Google lets users measure the power of words
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Number-crunchers can rejoice as Google Inc (GOOG.O) offers deeper access to the underlying figures for users' Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words.
Muzi |
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Site lets workers discuss employers, salaries
Gossiping about work is a full-time job for many employees. Now they can swap stories about their bosses and compare paychecks online. Glassdoor.com, a Web site unveiled Tuesday night, allows users to anonymously rate their CEO, write reviews about their...
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Yahoo facing possible trial before Icahn showdown
Yahoo Inc. may have to defend its response to Microsoft Corp.'s takeover attempt in a trial that could sway the outcome of the Internet pioneer's August showdown with investor activist Carl Icahn.
Tri-City Herald |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Sep 2005 12:32 UTC
Over at BeBits there's some buzz as people download and try out a modded up version of Firefox titled QuickFox . "QuickFox is a 'mod' of mozilla/firefox bleeding edge. From order of importance: speed, useability, looks, reliability. It runs and loads in a RAM filesystem.
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Net providers to block child porn forums
Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been blocked by three internet providers, including two in the United States.
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Microsoft Publicly Betas ID Lifecycle Management
Pushes control to users, but will that fly?
InternetNews.com |
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Video: Daisy on the Measure of a Web Show
The Internet has always had one big advantage over television: It’s more measurable. This week’s “New Media Minute” takes a close look at how one Web show, MojoHD’s “The Circuit,” is harnessing Web data to fine-tune its editorial and distribution strategy each week.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Oct 2005 15:53 UTC
"There have been a couple of runs at trusted operating systems in the past, but the difference between what's out there now and what we're announcing is that, in the Linux world, we'll have trusted capabilities in a standard distribution," said Paul Smith of Red Hat.
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Hotels not offering the latest technology FREE will lose out
Hotels - including five star establishments - are failing to keep up with the technology and charging their guests, for using internet facilities industry experts have warned.
AME Info |
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Bharti Airtel To Launch Apple's Third-Generation iPhone In India
(RTTNews) - Bharti Airtel announced on Tuesday that it would launch Apple Inc.'s third- generation version of iPhone in India later this year. The company reportedly said that it has already commenced booking for these phones.
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Early adopters of Microsoft's new Vista operating system are reporting problems with its implementation of IPv6
, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's primary protocol. "Vista is showing some serious deficiencies around IPv6 and IPv4 insofar as their compliance or the transparency of their compliance around IP behaviors," says Loki Jorgenson, chief scientist for Apparent Networks, a provider of network assessment and optimization tools.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Dec 2005 12:33 UTC
Hard drive vendor LaCie has teamed up with Mandriva on a bus-powered USB 2.0 hard drive preloaded with desktop Linux. The "GlobeTrotter" boots Mandriva Linux LE 2005, and is available in 40GB and 80GB models priced at $140 [EUR 119] and $199 [EUR 168], respectively.
New Mobile Computing |
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Presented By: Inspirational session with Bill and community leaders
Earlier this week I was in Orlando, Florida for TechEd 2008.  I was able to participate in a few events that were quite memorable for me. The first was participating in the keynote with Bill Gates, the very first Microsoft employee and developer.  A few hours later, I hosted a group of influential community members to chat with Bill Gates over lunch. This group was a set of ...
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Derriere danger
The following is a public service announcement. Hi kids. Your great-grandma cut this out of the newspaper - that's the thing people read before the Internet - and sent it to you through the Postal Service - that's the thing people used before e-mail - because she wants me, a regionally known media personality, to warn you about the terrible dangers of mooning.
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IT salaries defy economic gloom
IT pay is rising faster than at any time in the past three years, according to a salary survey. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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Free Printers Offered To Nonprofit Community Groups
NEW PORT RICHEY -- United Way of Pasco County, computer hardware maker Dell and nonprofit Gifts In Kind International have teamed up to give away refurbished Dell All-In-One printers to eligible community agencies. The donation will provide assistance to nonprofit groups. The help includes educational programs for children from kindergarten to the 12th grade, adult literacy efforts, job ...
Suncoast News Pasco |
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Spying with Google Earth
Google Earth is a mapping product much more powerful than the typical Web-based map service.
Canoe Travel |
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ES 2.0 Graphics Technology Achieves Industry Conformance Khronos(TM) Group Certifies AMD OpenGL ES 2.0 Technology, ...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 11, 2008--AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has reached a new milestone in the mobile graphics industry as the first 3D graphics technology provider to achieve OpenGL(R) ES 2.0 conformance certification.
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S. Korea Cabinet offers to resign as beef with U.S. imports grows
SEOUL, South Korea - About 80,000 protesters gathered in the South Korean capital yesterday in the largest demonstration yet against the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports,...
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Security models failing - Symantec
SYMANTEC chief executive John Thompson said traditional computer security methods were struggling to protect companies new threats.
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Funambol To Offer An Open-Source Competitor To MobileMe . . . As An iPhone App
One of the big announcements yesterday from Apple was that it is replacing its .Mac service with MobileMe, a new service that will sync your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files between your iPhone, Mac desktop, and a Windows PC. It will cost $99 per year. But if you want most of the [...]
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IBM goes modular in 'green' data centers
Project Big Green yields data centers that cut energy use in half and can be expanded in Lego-like building blocks.
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