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Web Host Dotster Presents "eBiz" Sweepstakes
Web hosting provider awarding 8 complete Online Business Solution Packages for a full year.
TopHosts.com |
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Google founder pays $5m for space station flight
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, has put down a $5m deposit for a flight aboard a Russian Soyuz space station. Mr Brin has signed up with the space tourism company Space Adventures for priority seating on a mission that would orbit the earth.
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Nortel shares bounce 13% on shift in strategy
Shares in Nortel Networks jumped 13 per cent on Wednesday after the Toronto-based telecommunications equipment maker shifted strategy and said it planned to focus its main wireless research efforts on a wireless broadband technology called LTE (long term evolution) rather than the rival 4G technology, WiMax.
Financial Times |
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Former officer arrested a second time
The Polk County Sheriff's Office has arrested a former police officer after investigators say he tried to solicit a minor over the internet.
FOX 13 Tampa Bay |
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TTCU scam hits cellphones, email inboxes
Scammers have flooded email and cell phone text inboxes with a "phishing" message designed to trick people into revealing their account information
KJRH-TV Tulsa |
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Thirty-something speaks
Computer geeks used to be just that…computer geeks. Now, thanks to our complete dependence on technology, computer geeks can be super heroes and knights in shining armor or whatever brings to mind something or someone coming to the rescue.
Columbia Star |
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William Scherlis is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Institute for Software Research there. He specializes in software assurance, software evolution and technology to support software teams.
ARNnet |
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(UPDATE) First private space flight to ISS in 2011
NEW YORK -- The first private space flight to the International Space Station will blast off in 2011 in a deal with the Russian space agency and could be carrying space tourist Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Judge's Internet sex photos overshadows obscenity trial
LOS ANGELES -- A long-awaited obscenity trial opened amid controversy Wednesday after revelations that the top federal judge hearing the case had posted sexually explicit material on the Internet.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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ISP child-porn deal sparks censorship fears
In a first for the United States, three internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to block access to web sites that show child pornography, however not everyone is welcoming the move, with some groups claiming it raises censorship issues.
ABC via Yahoo!7 News |
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Intel Was Slow to Embrace Low-power Chips, Exec Says
Intel first rejected the idea of a low-power processor before chasing it with Atom.
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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Flood Waters Cause Service Outage to ImOn Customers in Northwest Cedar Rapids
CEDAR RAPIDS - Due to electrical power loss in areas of Northwest Cedar Rapids, some ImOn Communications customers in this quadrant of Cedar Rapids have lost cable TV, Internet, and phone services.
KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids |
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Microsoft's Surface computers hit Las Vegas party scene
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft's touch-screen Surface computers debuted in a Las Vegas casino bar on Wednesday, giving Sin City patrons high-tech tools for flirting and concocting cocktails.
Channel NewsAsia |
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Online medical records offer convenience, may limit privacy
Medical records are now a click away, but some worry about the privacy of such systems.
USA Today |
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Microsoft TownSquare puts web 2.0 in a suit
Microsoft is testing a prototype Facebook-like offering designed to bring social networking features to company intranets..
iTNews |
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Boffins take Wi-Fi security back to school
US academics are to examine live wireless network traffic across a university campus in an effort to learn how best to maintain data security..
iTNews |
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Microsoft goes after 'career pirates'
Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in US Federal courts as part of an effort to stop those who continually pirate its software..
iTNews |
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Microsoft posts June security fixes
Microsoft has issued seven security bulletins covering 10 vulnerabilities in components of Windows and Internet Explorer..
iTNews |
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Feng Chia University promotes high learning through e-Campus initiative
The Australian government's do-not-call register has failed to impact the country's telecommunications industry, an industry study, quoted by a Computer World Australia report said.
telecomasia.net |
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DeviceLock and Lexar Media launch joint bundled protected USB flash drive
DeviceLock and Lexar Media released a multi-layered, centrally-managed endpoint security package. The bundle includes DeviceLock software and the Lexar Media SAFE PSD S1100 USB flash drive.
Computer Technology Review |
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Love, Virtually
Why would a 23-year-old Tauranga woman leave behind her three young children, convert to Islam, and then travel to one of the world's most dangerous countries to marry a man she has never met? Is this the power of something evil - or simply blind internet love?
TVNZ |
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Only two-thirds of Chinese steal software now
China Internet Lab has released its "China Software Piracy Rate Survey 2007" in Beijing.
iTNews |
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Neverfail introduces data protection solution for clustered deployments
Neverfail introduced Neverfail ClusterProtector as the latest enhancement to its Neverfail Continuous Availability Suite. Also launched was Neverfail Version 5.4, designed to support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and is being tested with the latest version of Hyper-V.
Computer Technology Review |
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Google Founder Plans Space Trip
A company that sends wealthy tourists into space aboard Russian rockets announced Wednesday that it has a new client, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and a new plan for the first entirely private flight to the International Space Station.
Hartford Courant |
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Kaspersky sends SOS to crack 1024 bit encryption key
Security research firm, Kapersky Lab, is calling all security and cryptography experts to join forces in an effort to crack a blackmailing virus that employs a currently unbreakable 1024-bit encryption key.
iTNews |
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