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Programmer pops question on girlfriend's video game
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn't enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question. Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.
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Facebook ban at work 'betrayal of trust'
Employers should think twice before blocking social networking sites such as Facebook because many workers see it as a "betrayal of trust", a leading law firm says.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Sep 2005 14:47 UTC
Some prominent figures in the Linux community believe that as enterprises increase their use of Linux on the desktop, Microsoft will be forced to consider offering a version of Office for Linux . "When the [Linux desktop] market share gets to a certain point, Microsoft will, just as it did with Apple in the past, make Office available on Linux," CEO Stuart Cohen of OSDL said in an interview.
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A new Huckaventure!
LOS ANGELES ( Map , News ) - A splinter group of Republicans with ties to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and financed by six-figure donations will recruit candidates with hopes of reversing the party's disappointing record in recent statewide elections.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Reunion.com sign-up strategy causing rifts
The social-networking site uses members' e-mail address books in a misleading way to try to boost its roster. Discuss The name of the game for social-networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook is to draw as many users as possible into the fold. Typically that's done by creating a community and features so irresistible that people feel they just have to join.
Los Angeles Times |
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Oh holy site: Catholics online
It was 60 years ago in Montclair, another Sunday morning on Pine Street inched nearer to 9 a.m. Walking to church past the meat markets, inhaling the smell of fresh bread wafting from the neighborhood Italian bakeries in the 4th Ward, Frank Cardell yelled out to his boyhood friends, “Hey cuz!”
Montclair Times |
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Google's Great American Wireless Auction 'game' annoys US lawmakers
'Duping the FCC' Several US lawmakers are annoyed that Google was allowed to "game" the recent 700-MHz wireless auction .…
The Register |
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Firm's Contests Attract High-Rolling Sponsors
Since 2001, TopCoder Inc., the privately owned Glastonbury company, has summoned some of the world's best programmers to its website with the lure of online glory -- and cash.
Hartford Courant |
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Facebook ban at work 'betrayal of trust'
Employers should think twice before blocking Facebook because many workers see it as a "betrayal of trust", a leading law firm says.
AAP via Yahoo!7 News |
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Red Hat may drop plans for Windows rival
Software maker Red Hat may abandon plans to introduce software that would compete directly with Microsoft's Windows software for personal computers, a company executive said on Tuesday.
iTNews |
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Bloggers Find Something Fishy In McCain Site's 'Family Recipes'
Ahh, the home cooking of Sen. John McCain's wife, Cindy. You can almost smell her Ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw or her rosemary chicken with warm spinach salad as you peruse the recipes on her husband's campaign Web site.
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Recent Original Stories
Google lost its recent antitrust battle with Microsoft on Tuesday when a US District Court judge overseeing latter company's antitrust settlement declined to accept Internet search giant's request to extend the US government oversight of Microsoft's antitrust efforts.
New Mobile Computing |
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Starbucks offering free iTunes downloads
Starbucks Corp. is offering free digital music and videos to drive foot traffic into its stores.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Kapil Ohri
agencyfaqs! New Delhi, April 16, 2008 Times Internet, which owns Indiatimes.com, has recently forayed into the social networking space by launching a site called www.iTimes.com.
Agencyfaqs! |
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SAN FRANCISCO - The hard feelings between Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg and a former college classmate have boiled over into another legal dispute, this time over the popular online hangout's trademark.
Brandon Sun |
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Mapping Crime in Pasco
Action News has checked out all the online technology tools that track crimes at each police department. Last week, it was Richland. The week before that, Kennewick. This week, we dug a little deeper into where crimes are going on in Pasco.
KEPR Pasco |
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Neo explore 'Netbook' for kids
Last March 29, Intel Philippines and original design manufacturer Neo jointly launched the Neo Explore X1 at New Orleans in Bonifacio High Street. The Explore X1 is a rebranded model of the more popular Classmate PC from Intel.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology's third-quarter profit jumped 62 per cent from a year ago, but the company missed revenue forecasts and acknowledged weakness in sales of drives used in notebook computers.
Brandon Sun |
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Previous coverage: Feds investigating retired UT professor: Office Searched, Laptop Seized
A retired University of Tennessee professor is under investigation of potentially violating a federal law barring the transfer of sensitive technology to other countries, according to interviews and documents obtained by the News Sentinel.
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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Family Recipes, Passed Down From One Site to Another
Three recipes, listed on the McCain campaign Web site as favorite family recipes of Cindy McCain, were taken verbatim from the Food Network.
New York Times |
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Adobe Acrobat 9 Features Surface
Acrobat 9 will include functionality Adobe now delivers separately, sources said.... Check Out The #1 Technology Research Tool! SEARCH The Most Massive Development White Paper Library In The Industry.
eWeek |
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China urges France to reflect upon Chinese public's opinions and sentiments
China on Tuesday urged the French side to consider and reflect upon opinions and sentiments of expressed by some Chinese people on the internet, noting there must reasons for them.
China Economic Net |
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IPtimize, Inc. Announces Late Filing of 2007 Fiscal Results
IPtimize, Inc. (Pink Sheets:IPZI) ("IPtimize" or the "Company"), a provider of turnkey broadband data management and voice (VoIP) services to cable operators, announced today that the Company will file its Annual Report on Form 10-KSB on or before May 15, 2008.
Centre Daily Times |
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ZAINUL ARIFIN: When blogs hold you spellbound
Some of those at the KL Freeze in Unison event at the Pavilion Kuala Lumpur shopping mall. The event was initiated by the web social networking group Facebook.
The New Straits Times |
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Evernote: Software to help you remember everything, forever
By photographing and saving all that you encounter, you can build a search engine for your life.
Salon.com |
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