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'Several' Government Computers Attacked by Chinese Hackers
Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) today called for better measures to protect government computers and cellphones from cyber attacks by foreign governments, after revealing that computers in his office and those of "several others" on Capitol Hill have been targeted by hackers in China.
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The doctor is ‘in,’ live from Nova Scotia: Internet hookup allows former local physician who moved away to maintain ...
FORT MCKAY -- The first regularly scheduled inter-provincial telehealth sessions in the country are currently taking place in this hamlet every Monday.
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US appeals judge shares porn stash with world +dog
Maverick libertarian presiding over obscenity trial Seven years ago, Alex Kozinski, one of the highest-ranking federal judges in the US, helped lead a successful insurrection after discovering court administrators had installed web filters that prevented jurists from accessing pornography.…
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Trend Micro brings solutions for web threats; eyes 37% mkt share
New Delhi, June 11 (UNI) Targeting a 37 per cent market share of the country's Rs 1,000 content security market, Trend Micro today unveiled products that will protect small business and eCommerce site owners against a broad array of web threats.
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Fla. man pleads guilty plea in VA. Tech-type threat case
MIAMI -- A Florida man who possessed an arsenal of weapons when he was arrested has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of threatening on the Internet to stage a Virginia Tech-type massacre.
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by jayson.knight (3.92) on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 09:03 UTC
And how many times did the almighty Gartner predict that the Vista ship date would slip dramatically? At last glance, they were predicting a ship date some time in May.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Mar 2006 18:35 UTC
I ain't no BSD expert, but why will they release FreeBSD 5.5 next monday then? It seems the freebsd 5.x branch is well alive on the server side. And now on the desktop too with DesktopBSD.
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House committee's computers hacked by Chinese
A House committee spokeswoman says the panel's computer was among those targeted in 2006 by a hacker working from inside China.
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VeriSign enters into sale-leaseback deal
(AP:NEW YORK) VeriSign Inc., which runs many of the Internet's core systems, said Wednesday it has signed a deal to sell and lease back a portion of its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
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Microsoft flirts in Vegas
Microsoft flirts with its latest Surface tabletop deployment.
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Google's cloud courts Web developers
USA: Google held its first ever developers conference - Google I/O - in San Francisco earlier this month. The message was clear and simple: the Web is the new platform for application development.
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Twenty-one trees hacked down at Roseville High
Roseville police are asking the public for information to help find and arrest vandals who cut down 21 trees around the Roseville High School quad late Monday night or early Tuesday morning.
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TMO's DealsOnTheWeb.com - Mac Pro 2.66GHz Xeon Tower: $1999 Delivered
Our DealsOnTheWeb.com site note that Apple has the factory certified Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz Intel Xeon 1GB/250GB/16x DL SuperDrive/NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT for $1999, $200 less than their last mention. Shipping is free, and the systems include a 1-year warranty
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Firefox 3 And Safari 4 In Browser Speed Race
Safari 4 has just been seeded to the developers at Apple's developer conference.
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Wordpress Security Issues Lead To Mass Hacking. Is Yours Next?
Due to its popularity as a blogging platform, Wordpress has become a prime target for hackers looking to take over blogs for search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites they control, traffic-redirection and other purposes. Recently there have been a spate of automated attacks which take advantage of recently discovered security vulnerabilities in Wordpress. To date, Wordpress [...]
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Russia's President Calls for Cyrillic Internet Domain
The Kremlin is concerned that Russian is losing ground to local languages and to the creeping influence of English....
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"Shake, Shake, Shake" Gets Soil into Phoenix TEGA
When Bill Boynton announced at a Phoenix lander team meeting earlier today that the troublesome, clumpy Martian soil now sits, finally, within the TEGA "oven" on Phoenix, the room erupted with cheers and a standing ovation. Boynton then launched a rendition of "Shake, Shake, Shake" he had cued-up on his laptop, and started dancing. [...]
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Internet Week New York: Let it blend
Media companies big and small pitched in for the city's first-ever digital culture festival, but there wasn't enough of the cohesion and collaboration that the industry needs.
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Kevin Rose no longer single -- but who's he dating? [Geek Love]
San Francisco's Web 2.0 playboy, Kevin Rose, has been laying low since his much-publicized affair with Internet notoriety provider Julia Allison in Miami (shown here, in a previously unpublished... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Jefferson County Deals With Storm Aftermath
While National Grid crews work to restore electricity, the people at Ferrel Gas in Carthage are working the old fashioned way - with no lights and no computers. Seven power lines were knocked down around Ferrel.
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Review: Sprint's phone is iPhone clone done right
(AP) -- This is a review of the 3G iPhone. No, not the one Apple announced on Monday. The other one. You know - the one from Sprint and Samsung? Amid the buzz surrounding Apple Inc.'s new iPhone model, coming out July 11, it's been easy to miss the news that Sprint Nextel Corp. is bringing out a phone on June 20 that is the closest thing so far to an iPhone made by someone else.
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Research firms boost forecast for PC shipments
(AP) -- Two research firms on Wednesday said growth in computer shipments worldwide will be more robust than they had previously forecast for the year, driven by continuing strength in sales of portable computers.
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Yahoo fights a two-front war in battle for survival
Besieged by Team Icahn on the proxy campaign trail and by angry investors in a Delaware courtroom, Yahoo Inc. is fighting a two-front war in what appears to be a battle for its survival.
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Google co-founder reserves seat to outer space
The company that sends wealthy tourists into space announced plans Wednesday for a private flight in 2011 to the international space station on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket and said Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to reserve a seat on a future flight.
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Plaxo Moves to Support Google Friend Connect
Plaxo, which is now under the Comcast umbrella, now supports Google’s Friend Connect. With Plaxo’s integration, you’re able to see which of your Plaxo contacts are also on sites that support Friend Connect, and invite Plaxo friends to join the site as well. There’s Plaxo Pulse integration too, so any activity that occurs [...]
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