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Video-game news: Xbox aims for role-playing fans
- TOKYO DRIFT: The Xbox 360 is doing just fine in most of the world, but Japanese gamers - known to prefer homegrown products - have remained resistant to Microsoft 's machine.
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Chinese online shoppers spend 16.2 bln yuan in 1st half
Online Chinese shoppers spent 16.2 billion yuan (2.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 19 major cities in the first half of 2008, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said on Monday. The findings were based on a survey carried o ...
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Chip and bin farce: Pilot scheme is axed after fly-tipping soars and computers crash
The first trial of microchips in bins was a disaster and has been scrapped, it was revealed yesterday. In a devastating blow to Whitehall plans for pay-as-you-throw taxes, the scheme was sunk by computer failings, residents' anger at increased surveillance and a 250 per cent jump in fly-tipping.
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Free & 'green' computers for Idaho students
One local non-profit is giving computers to kids who may need them for schoolwork and they're doing it while keeping it green, that is, by using recycled and refurbished parts.
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Not guilty plea in web suicide case
A US woman who prosecutors say drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide with a cruel MySpace hoax has pleaded not guilty.
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Chip and bin farce: Pilot scheme is axed after fly-tipping soars and computers crash
The first trial of microchips in bins was a disaster and has been scrapped, it was revealed yesterday. In a devastating blow to Whitehall plans for pay-as-you-throw taxes, the scheme was sunk.
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AP To Meet With Blogging Group To Form Guidelines
The Associated Press, following criticism from bloggers over an AP assertion of copyright, plans to meet this week with a bloggers' group to help form guidelines under which AP news stories could be quoted online.
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Application Developers Swarm to iPhone
LOS ANGELES (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Apple's soon-to-open online App Store has triggered a scramble among software developers to write business plans aimed at making money off Apple's iPhone, a mini-computer that doubles as a phone, a networking service said on Monday.
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Nuclear designs found with smugglers spur US fears
WASHINGTON - A nuclear watchdog's report that sophisticated warhead designs were found on the computers of Swiss smugglers has spurred fears in the Bush administration and elsewhere that atomic secrets may be quickly spreading.
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Extradition appealed in Kansas porn model killing
Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model is appealing his extradition from Mexico.
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Extradition appealed in Kansas porn model killing
Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model is appealing his extradition from Mexico. The Kansas attorney general's office says a higher court in Mexico will review the case against Israel Mireles. That could take three to four months. Mireles was arrested in December at a relative's home in Melchor Muzquiz, Mexico. He is ...
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Extradition appealed in Kansas porn model killing
WICHITA, Kan.—Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model is appealing his extradition from Mexico.
Las Cruces Sun-News |
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Jennifer Openshaw: Will Starbucks be great again?
It’s been a tough ride for stocks and some of the biggest blue-chip names, including General Electric and Microsoft. But I think one name – Starbucks -- is different.
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Judge's wife derides media on Web site story
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court judge under scrutiny for sexually explicit videos and photos posted on a personal Web site is the victim of distortions and "outright lies" published by the Los Angeles Times, his wife charged Monday.
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Google’s Joe Kraus Speaks At Supernova Conference
Google’s Director of Product Management Joe Kraus (the guy behind Open Social and other Google products) is talking today at the Supernova Conference in San Francisco on the topic of “social computing.” The live stream is below. CrunchBase Information Joe Kraus Information provided by CrunchBase Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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KOREA: Sleepless nights watching webcasting of candlelit vigil
Countless Koreans have been up all night these days. No, they're not watching Portugal trouncing Czech Republic at Euro 2008. Rather, they're glued to their computers watching demonstrators and police confront each other at candlelit vigils on various Web sites.
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Twidox Is Like Scribd For Academics - Get 500 Beta Invites
Back in January Google launched a huge repository of science data at research.google.com. The idea is to create a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets built on the data visualization technology from Trendalyzer. Storage and access to the data is free and documents have YouTube-style annotating and commenting features. But they aren’t the only [...]
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MySpace has been awarded $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
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Antigua, US Set Friday Deadline For Internet Gambling Dispute
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP)--Washington and this tiny Caribbean nation have set a new deadline of Friday to resolve their dispute over Internet gambling, according to the islands' top finance official.
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Application For GM Horse Flu Vaccine
The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA New Zealand) has received an application from the equine industry to use a genetically modified (GM) vaccine, to protect New Zealand horses against the equine influenza virus.
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No Charges Filed In Upper Arlington School Threat
A 15-year-old whose Internet threats canceled classes at Upper Arlington High School last month will not face charges. Find out why.
WBNS-10TV Columbus |
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Apple Licenses Klausner Voicemail Patents
Klausner Technology said on Monday that Apple, eBay and AT T have agreed to license its patents on & visual voicemail& technology and settled Klausner's lawsuit against them....
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Popular business directory searches
Sometimes it takes a child's uncompromised view for us adults to realize just how absurd the world is. We adults have become numb to much of the world's silliness, so we don't notice it like kids do.
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Clarification of Cedar Rapids Waste Pick Up
CEDAR RAPIDS - For customers who are not in the original flood evacuated areas: The Cedar Rapids Solid Waste and Recycling Division will continue garbage, recycling and yard waste operation as normal. Place items at your normal collection point on your normal collection day.
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Judge's wife derides media on Web site story
LOS ANGELES ( Map , News ) - A federal appeals court judge under scrutiny for sexually explicit videos and photos posted on a personal Web site is the victim of distortions and "outright lies" published by the Los Angeles Times , his wife charged Monday.
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