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Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Australia has the highest incidence of cyber crime in the world, according to a global survey of nine countries by software security vendor, AVG.
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Education database raises privacy fears
Details of every state school student in Queensland will be posted online by December this year, raising fears of privacy breaches.
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Reporter's Notebook: Bill Conroy
Al Giordano's blog on the presidential election has been erased, along with thousands of reader posts and commentary, and visitors are now redirected to a limp version of the Field called the "Back Forty."
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Bill Cheswick: Silly passwords, soft perimeters and Vista
Strong passwords do not necessarily provide better security so why do we persist creating ones that are hard to guess -- and hard to remember -- when a computer can crack them in seconds, asks Bill Cheswick, distributing computing and communications researcher for AT&T Labs.
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Voting commission plagued by problems, limited funds
It was not an auspicious beginning. The year was 2004 and the newest federal agency had no desks, no computers, and no office to put them in. It had neither an address nor a phone number. Early meetings convened in a Starbucks near a Metro stop in downtown Washington. Somehow, Congress had neglected to fund the Election Assistance Commission, a small group with a massive task: coordinating one ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Oct 2005 12:20 UTC
"The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.4.3, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes.
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Software Notebook: This Dream Home comes with a Mouse
Microsoft's Jonathan Cluts, who always wanted to be a Disney "Imagineer," is getting a sense of what it would be like as one of the key players behind a new Disneyland Dream Home that the companies have created.
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Street life
Khalid Bin Al Waleed Road - better known as Computer Street to those familiar with it - remains a vital hub for the resale of IT products in the MEA region. But how is life changing for residents of this busy Dubai district and, more importantly, what does the future hold? Channel Middle East investigates.
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Internet use doubles in White House race
WASHINGTON - THE Internet now plays a central role in United States politics, with nearly half of all Americans using the Web and other new media to follow the presidential campaign, says a study released on Sunday.
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eBay lauds local broadband expansion
WORLD'S leading online marketplace, eBay Inc, views the expansion of Malaysia's broadband infrastructure as a key growth driver for e-commerce.
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Using Craigslist For Garage Sales
The rough economy is forcing some to have garage sales to make some cash...and they're advertising them online.
WSYR 9 Syracuse |
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Recent Original Stories
Dan Kusnetzky, Apple program vice president, spoke to PC Pro News at IDC and said that Apple has no plans to support booting into Vista on the new Intel Macs . However, a Microsoft spokesman said that Microsoft would have no problem granting a Windows licence to Apple, in exactly the same way it currently provides licences to Dell and HP: "Microsoft would support Apple the same way it supports ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Oct 2005 18:58 UTC
Peter Watson, chief security advisor at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand, said that the software maker did not get any pleasure from seeing Firefox suffer a string of security vulnerabilities, despite the open-source browser's growth seemingly being stunted over recent months.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Jul 2006 15:39 UTC, submitted by nedvis
"Millions of Windows users run the OS with an administrator account because Microsoft's never made it easy to do anything different. In fact, you have to work a lot harder to run with fewer rights. Microsoft will push Vista as the solution to the ever-increasing number and ingenuity of attacks.
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Viva Macau Launches Online Casino
Mong Ha Media has announced the launch of its new online casino, http://www.vivamacau.com. Viva Macau features three separate product lines that allow its customers to play casino games, take sportsbook action and connect to a network with thousands of poker players from around the world. Viva Macau is designed to provide all the entertainment found at land-based casinos, and more.
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US abusing extradition says hacker's lawyer
The British computer hacker who cracked the Pentagon system and faces charges that could lead to life imprisonment will take his case against extradition to the House of Lords today. His lawyers claim that the US has abused the process by making threats about what will happen to him if he does not agree to plead guilty. Gary McKinnon, 42, of north London, hacked into the Pentagon and Nasa ...
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Rochester IBM speeds ahead
The team broke new ground to help build the world's fastest computer, called Roadrunner.
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Feng Chia University promotes high learning through e-Campus initiative
South Korean authorities are mulling several possible punishments for No. 2 broadband provider hanarotelecom , which is suspected of disclosing customer information to telemarketing companies, a Reuters report said.
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Two weeks ago, the feds revealed the names of eight people who had used botnets to engage in nefarious activity. Here are their stories When federal agents announced on November 29 that they'd indicted or convicted eight individuals accused of using botnets (networks of computers infected with Trojan horse applications) to engage in criminal activity, the press release barely explained the ...
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Decline and Fall: Julie Hecht's 'Happy Trails to You'
She's kind of a nut job, the narrator of Julie Hecht's collection of short stories, "Happy Trails to You" (Simon & Schuster, 209 pages, $24), but she definitely has a point about Paul McCartney's hair. Even those of us who haven't set up a Paul McCartney Google Alert, as she has, noticed, if we were paying any attention at all, when he abandoned aging gracefully in favor of coloring his ...
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Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Despite assurances from Google and Yahoo that their online advertising deal doesn't need regulatory approval, the two companies should not be too quick to dismiss Microsoft's influence on Capitol Hill.
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Family embroiled in dispute over Narnia name
A SCOTTISH family has become embroiled in an intellectual property dispute with the estate of the author CS Lewis after buying a Narnia internet domain name for their 10-year-old son as a birthday present.
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More Looking To Web For Campaign News, Study Says
A new study suggests Americans are dissatisfied with sound bites and turning to the Internet to get a more complete picture of this year's presidential campaign.
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Voting commission plagued by problems, limited funds
By DEBORAH HASTINGS (AP) -- It was not an auspicious beginning. The year was 2004 and the newest federal agency had no desks, no computers, and no office to put them in. It had neither an address nor a phone number. Early meetings convened in a Starbucks near a Metro stop in downtown Washington.
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Silicon Valley blogger has politicians talking
SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Arrington is such a potent force in Silicon Valley that his name has become synonymous with the current Internet boom.
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