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Microsoft Surface hits Las Vegas party scene
Microsoft's touch-screen Surface computers have debuted in a Las Vegas casino bar, giving Sin City patrons high-tech tools for flirting and concocting cocktails.
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Google awarded Spain's Asturias prize
Internet search giant Google has received Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for Communications and Humanities.
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Web a friend in need for stressed patients
Personal sites are springing up across the Internet, allowing friends to post messages of support to those suffering from illness.
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DSO's '8 Days' fest reflects tech age
Imagine going to a symphony orchestra concert and being able to freeze the event while you go online to Google for the answer to a question that popped up while you were listening.
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Chinese hacked our computers: US pollies
Two US congressmen say hackers working from inside China have accessed their computers and they suggest the cyber-attackers were seeking lists of dissidents.
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BEWILDERED SOCIETY: Technology to change how to use information
There's a lot to be said for the human touch. It comforts, calms, and for about the last year it's operated your cell phone. With Apple's glitzy iPhone 2.0 announcement this week, society dives deeper into a new approach with technological interaction.
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Software glitch leaves utilities open to attack / Biggest hole is now patched, but other risks still remain
Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday. Experts with Boston's Core...
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Web inventor predicts future of online world / Internet could alter ways government, science are shaped
The British scientist who invented the World Wide Web said Wednesday that online social systems could change the way science and even democratic government is conducted. Tim Berners-Lee made the comments as a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute symposium...
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Obligated to make donations
The always-interesting ESWN blog out of Hong Kong translates an internet posting about a high school vice principle sacked for refusing to make a donation for the Sichuan earthquake relief.
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Casino flirts with tabletop computers
Microsoft Corp. is getting into the business of pickup lines. Well, not exactly, but a new version of the Microsoft Surface tabletop computers at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas comes with a software program for flirting with other Surface users...
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Google CEO talks of Good, Evil and Monopoly Fears
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on Wednesday detailed his theory of competition in the Web industry while saying Google's famous mantra of "Don't be evil" is often misunderstood. ...
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N. Bay Website Offers Insiders' Look At Employers
Ever wonder whether you'd be better off working some place else? A Sausalito-based Web site is trying to make it easier to find out by compiling free snapshots of the current salaries paid by hundreds of major employers, along with reviews anonymously written by current and past workers.
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Google founder pays $5m for space station flight
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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IRS warns of e-mail scam
The Internal Revenue Service warns there may be a scam waiting in your e-mail inbox that looks very official but is dangerous to you and your computer.
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
From the mind of Google's Eric Schmidt Users of Apple's iPhone are such search fanatics that they account for the majority of queries from mobile phones on Google. No matter that the iPhone represents just 19.2 percent of mobile phones, according to market...
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Officials unveil new regional crime lab in Lakeville
LAKEVILLE — A magnified partial fingerprint filled the computer screen at the new state police crime lab in Lakeville.
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US Congressmen Accuse China of Hacking Their Computers
Two Congressmen on Wednesday accused China of hacking their offices' computers, possibly compromising information on Chinese...
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New Reebok Global Website Puts Customers in Control
Global sports brand Reebok announces that its new global state of the art website is meeting early performance targets just one month after launch. The site, soft launched in April 2008 in the UK and France after nine months in development, puts visitors firmly in control whilst driving online sales and brand engagement.
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Schmidt: It's Google's duty to help fix ad business
Google's CEO says the company has a "moral imperative" to help publishers with high-quality content find an ad-based business that works on the Internet. 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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Forum roundup: Mac Pro sleep issues, more
Mac Pro sleep issues have been a recent topic of conversation in the MacNN forums lately. Many users have been reporting that the system will go into sleep mode and then when they try to restart it, the computer will reboot causing a loss of any projects that they may have been working on. Some say that they have made upgrades to their systems an...
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Synchronoss loses a 1/4 of business with 3G iPhone
With the release of the 3G iPhone, Apple has clarified that all units must be activated at the store for them to be sold, taking away nearly a quarter of Synchronoss' business ñ the company responsible for home iTunes-based iPhone activations. Silicon Alley Insider writes that as the company confirmed the loss of Apple's business in a filing to th...
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HBO Mines the Web
Coming soon to HBO: programming from the creators of the comedy Web site Funny or Die (funnyordie.com).
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McMahon's money giveaway a big Internet hit
In only one week, more than one million WWE fans have signed up for McMahon's Million Dollar Mania, registering more than two million sweepstakes entries.
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Inc.com Blogs: Blogging the NFIB Summit: McCain Spanks Big Business
There was a lone protester standing outside the H Street entrance of...
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