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Sheriff's office: Man arrested after Internet chat
The Curry County Sheriff’s office and Rio Rancho Police Department cooperated on the arrest of a 22-year-old Rio Rancho resident, according to a release from the sheriff’s office.
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Nationwide raids on illegal betting
KUALA LUMPUR: Police arrested 11 men and six women and confiscated 41 computers at a illegal football betting centre here yesterday.
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Comparing Multi-Core Processors for Server Virtualization
"Havoc Pennington wrote recently in his blog about reinvigorating GNOME development and reflects upon the idea of delivering yet another 'desktop system' to the market.
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Toshiba G55 Qosmio Has Gesture Control [Laptops]
The Toshiba G55 Qosmio, great great grandson of those first Media Center lappies that Toshiba put out, can use its webcam to process gestures and remote control your music, movies and powerpoint. One...
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EFiX wants to bring OSX86 to the masses
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops Word in the OSX86 world is that a new product will revolutionize (and simplify) the process of installing OS X on a PC -- and that product is called the EFiX. The USB dongle allegedly pops into a free port and allows you to install the retail version of the Mac operating system on just about any system by automatically locating the proper hacks and ...
Engadget |
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Google daycare now a luxury for Larry and Sergey's inner circle [Perks]
Life inside the Googleplex already resembles a daycare center, with its primary colors, bouncy exercise balls, and free food. But if you're a parent working at Google, daycare has become a nightmare.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Tim Russert's Final MSNBC Report
NEW YORK Less than two hours before word of his death, by a heart attack, this afternoon, MSNBC on its web site posted a Q & A with the "Meet the Press" host concerning yesterday's launching of an Obama site aimed at fighting rumor and gossip.
Editor & Publisher |
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Cosmic Log: No peace over Pluto
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The latest round in the planethood debate may well provoke planetary scientists into a revolt, according to the top scientist for NASA’s mission to Pluto.
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What's New Now: Yahoo's Downward Spiral
Young employees quit over no FaceBook access, Google founder to explore the final frontier and more!
PC Magazine |
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Judge recuses himself from obscenity case
U.S. appeals court Judge Alex Kozinski Friday recused himself from a Los Angeles obscenity case, admitting he had sexually explicit material on his Web site.The case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles was suspended after the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the images and videos were posted to Kozinski's personal Internet site.In light of the public controversy ...
Moldova.org |
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IBM Unveils Portable Data Center 'Pods'
IBM's answer to Sun's Blackbox and Microsoft and Rackable portables is designed to cut way back on power usage....
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Sep 2005 14:25 UTC
"Novell today announced SUSE Linux 10.0 will be available in retail and online stores in early October 2005. SUSE Linux 10.0 is uniquely designed among Linux distributions to create an easy, user-friendly experience, delivering everything that enthusiasts and home users need to get started with Linux."
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Microsoft: 'We will save America from foreign domination'
The Great White Space Hope Innovation 08 Microsoft has a plan for sending high-speed net traffic over America's television white spaces. And it's sure the country will eat some serious foreign dust if this plan gets snuffed.…
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
In response to community comment and interest, ICANN has developed a proposed allocation framework and use of funds from the allocation of single-character second-level domain names (SC SLDs) in existing gTLDs.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Aug 2006 16:45 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The results of DesktopLinux.com's 2006 Desktop Linux Market survey are in, and the roughly 15,000 votes are all tallied. In the first article of a series, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers a perspective on how the various desktop Linux distributions fared, and why.
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Microsoft offered 4.6 bln pounds for Yahoo stake
SEATTLE/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Yahoo Inc turned down the latest offer from Microsoft Corp this week, it walked away from $9 billion (4.6 billion pounds) in cash and $1 billion a year in additional operating profit, Microsoft said on Friday.
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Pixies Album Coming to Rock Band
Third full album download goes early alternative rock.
1up.com |
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Walgreens Accused In Pill-Flipping Scheme
A whistleblower claims Walgreens rigged its computers to automatically switch to the most expensive type of pill when filling prescriptions. The alleged scheme went on for years nationwide and included several prescriptions.
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Denver Detectives Arrest Two For Internet Luring Of Children
DENVER (MyFoxColorado.com) - Denver Police have arrested two men sought on outstanding warrants for Internet Child Sexual Offenses.
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Microsoft Offered to Invest $8 Billion in Yahoo Stock (Update2)
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. offered to buy $8 billion of Yahoo! Inc. shares at $35 each and acquire the Internet company's search unit, a proposal that Yahoo spurned in favor of an agreement with rival Google Inc.
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comment. Another source familiar with the matter said Microsoft had proposed a 10-year exclusive deal to handle Yahoo’s search advertising and only guaranteed higher advertising rates for three of those years. Johnson’s e-mail did not mention the duration of the deal, only saying it was "long term."
Tiscali |
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Candlelit Vigils Expand Into War of Portals
Candlelight vigils over U.S. beef imports are triggering a war of portal sites between the industry leaders, Naver and Daum.
donga.com |
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Analysts to Microsoft: 'Yahoo? Time to Move On'
In the aftermath of its failed bid for Yahoo, analysts say Microsoft needs to quit obsessing over what might have been and get on with business.
InternetNews.com |
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Google surging ahead in fallout of Yahoo-Microsoft deal
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft's abandoned takeover bid for Yahoo appears to have culminated with a disheartening thud for those two companies but amounted to yet another coup for online search leader Google. What began in January as Microsoft's most audacious attack yet on Google instead paved the way for the Internet's most powerful company to gain even more clout through a deal that gives Google ...
Wisconsin State Journal |
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Reuters Technology Summary
Microsoft offered $9 bln for Yahoo stake, search deal
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