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Three Top Internet Providers To Crack Down On Child Porn
(New York, NY) -- Three of the nation's largest Internet service providers have agreed to step up their efforts to crackdown on child porn.
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Samsung Launches iPhone Lookalike
Timed to coincide with the launch of the new version of Apple's iPhone, Samsung has unveiled a touchscreen alternative, the Omnia (model name: SGH-i900). Although the phone will be launching in Korea first, Europe will start seeing it in shops from July. The Omn...
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Apple seeding Safari 4 to developers
Developers are already receiving a seeding of Apple's Safari 4 web browser, according to reports. The build is listed as 5526.11.2, and represents an early version of the same browser intended to ship with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The software is expected to make a variety of enhancements, namely a 53 percent speed boost for JavaScript, which shoul...
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Google wins Spain's Asturias award for communications
Internet search giant Google was Wednesday awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for Communications and Humanities.
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InFocus launches projectors with USB video
InFocus started Wednesday by introducing two Work Big DLP projectors that are the first projectors anywhere to use DisplayLink's USB video technology. The portable IN1100 series and the larger-sized IN3100 series can both use USB for video output. The approach lets users relay video from a notebook even when the computer lacks a free traditional ...
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New iPhone locks out hackers
Apple's new business model will make it more difficult to use the product on networks other than AT&T. The new iPhone and the way it will be sold look set to shut down a small industry that arose to make the first version of the iconic phone available around the world.
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Fake ImageShack site serving malware, links distributed over IM
In a combination of domain typosquatting next to spoofed image files, malware authors managed to successfully impersonate ImageShack, the 5th largest image hosting website on the Internet, the result of which is a malware campaign circulating over MSN, enticing users into infecting themselves by clicking on the spammed links to...
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U.S. Fighting For Web Porn Law Like It's 1998
Government lawyers are trying to revive the 10-year-old Child Online Protection Act in a Philadelphia courtroom. Free speech groups say the law is now significantly outdated -- embracing none of the innovations of the past decade -- would have no impact on content posted overseas, and stifles too much legal behavior.
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Banks bid for customers on MoneyAisle auction site
A new Web site where banks competitively bid against each other for customers through secure live auctions has been launched in the US.
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FunnyorDie Gets Investment From HBO
Entertainment industry publication Variety reported late Tuesday evening that Will Ferrell's FunnyorDie.com Internet web start has sold a small stake in the firm to HBO. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Variety, the deal includes the two sites partnering on future products, including possibly comedy tours or Funny or Die programming on HBO's channels. Funny or Die is ...
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The Millennium Prize Foundation : 2008 Millennium Technology Prize Awarded to Professor Robert Langer for Intelligent ...
Helsinki, June 11, 2008 - (ACN Newswire) - The 2008 Millennium Technology Prize was presented to Professor Robert Langer today in Helsinki for developing innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release.
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Toshiba Goes to 5400RPM with 1.8-inch 160GB Hard Drive
Toshiba gave the portable hard drive market a speed boost on Wednesday with the introduction of its new MK1617GSG 1.8-inch 160GB hard drive that spins at 5400RPM. The company claims that the drive does not have a negative impact on battery life, and that it is more shock resistant than...
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Open Text Enhances Web 2.0 Solutions, Offers New Social Computing Tools
Open Text Corporation , a global leader in Enterprise Content Management , today announced enhancements to its portfolio of Enterprise 2.0 solutions, including a powerful offering that lets customers manage compliance rules for social computing capabilities, such as blogs, wikis and forums on websites, and a set of collaboration tools for more dynamic employee interaction within the enterprise.
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Father's Day Internet TV Auction To Be Followed By Global Wi-Fi TV Delivery News
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.----After a novel three hour live Internet TV auction this Sunday, June 16 at 3 PM to 6 PM Pacific, 6 PM to 9 PM Eastern at www.Wi-FiTVAuction.com, Wi-Fi TV Inc. will be doing a two-part webcast next week to announce its new infrastructure relationship to deliver Wi-Fi TV globally.
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Sex offenders register provides limited protection for children
Researchers say that while police are using their resources to combat Internet sex offences - which are much easier to secure convictions for - the majority of men alleged to have directly sexually abused a child are still avoiding prosecution.
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Jacada Signs Second Material Agreement with UK Telecommunications Customer
Jacada Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA), a leading provider of unified desktop and process optimization solutions for customer service operations, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with a large mobile communications services provider in the UK by signing the second material contract in the past nine months, for a different functional area within the client's customer service operations.
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Scenes of Nature Trump Technology in Reducing Low-level Stress
Technology can send a man to the moon, help unravel DNA and let people around the world easily communicate through the internet. But it can't substitute for nature in relieving low-level stress.
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Disney Puts Movies Online For Free Streaming
A Disney spokesman said the decision to stream movies for free marks an "evolution" in the company's online strategy.
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Obama sets up cell to fight rumours on Net
Barack Obama is in the final stages of putting in place a crack team of cybernauts that will respond aggressively to rumours that the presumptive Democratic candidate for the US presidential election is "unpatriotic and a Muslim."
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Safari 'carpet bomb' attack code released
A hacker has posted attack code that exploits critical flaws in the Safari and Internet Explorer Web browsers. The source code, along with a demo of the attack, was posted Sunday on a computer security blog. It can be used to run unauthorized software on a victim's machine, and could be used by criminals in Web-based computer attacks, security experts say. Now that there is a public ...
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People and Places (June 11, 2008)
A pre-opening event for the Eldersburg branch of Provident Bank was held May 28; and a grand opening to the public was held May 31. This branch features new technology in banking, including a computer kiosk for customers and instant access to accounts with the click of a mouse.
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Sonic Solutions posts Q4 lower revenues, issues Q1 guidance below the Street
Computer software developer Sonic Solutions after Tuesday’s close posted fiscal fourth-quarter revenues just shy of analysts’ estimates and issued fiscal first-quarter...
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2008 Millennium Technology Prize Awarded to Professor Robert Langer for Intelligent Drug Delivery
The 2008 Millennium Technology Prize was presented to Professor Robert Langer today in Helsinki for developing innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release. The world's largest technology prize is awarded by Technology Academy Finland for a technological innovation that significantly improves quality of human life and promotes sustainable development.
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IBM Announces Next-Generation Storage Virtualization Software
As part of IBM's "Project Big Green" offerings, IBM today announced new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications.
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Wherify Wireless Announces Appointment of Two New Directors
WFYW.OB) - Wherify Wireless, Inc., home of the award winning Wherifone GPS Locator Phone and the Springboard Location Based Services Platform, today announced Doug Hajjar and Hugh Regan will join the company's board of directors.
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