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Google's Street View Cameras Hit Tri-State
Specially-equipped Google, Inc. vans have been driving through neighborhoods throughout the country for the past year. Now, they're in our area – stirring-up privacy issues along the way.
The Kentucky Post |
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Sue Decker Under Scores Yahoo’s Strategy as She Explains EVP Weiner’s Departure
In what could be another blow in Yahoo’s fate, Yahoo EVP Jeff Weiner unexpectedly bolted out from the Yahoo camp due to personal reasons as explained by Yahoo President Sue Decker in email (via Techcrunch) to Weiner’s team. I wouldn’t question why instead of CEO Jerry Yang, it was Ms. Decker who was addressing the matters [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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Intel explores floating-body cells on SOI
At the 2008 Symposium on VLSI Technology in Hawaii this week, Intel Corp. is expected to revisit its research on floating-body cells (FBCs) for advanced cache designs in microprocessors.
EETimes |
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Parascale Hires CEO Out of NetApp
Parascale, the four-year-old firm with the Cloud Storage system software layered on the Linux XFS file system, the Linux operating system and the Internet Protocol networking protocol stack, has hired Sajai Krishnan out of NetApp to be its CEO. He ran NetApp's mid-market StoreVault business focused on network storage appliances and used to be a Booz Allen VP and a partner in its Communication, ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Bogue Chitto Man Facing Online Sex Charges
A Lincoln County man arrested for trying to solicit sex from a young girl is facing 25 years in prison.
WJTV Jackson |
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MySpace wins $6 mn in lawsuit against alleged spammer
MySpace can collect USD 6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
Express India |
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Blizzard of Snow Leopard Scat
Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, was announced last week at Apple's developer conference and there are few details creeping out from under the developer non-disclosure agreements. Mac enthusiast sites are busy posting conjectures that fill in some of the blanks, including which processors that will run it, its...
ZDNet |
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Web stalker 'had sex with teen'
A 35-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the District Court in Perth to 11 sex charges against a 14-year-old girl he had courted over the internet.
Perth Now |
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Brightcove Rolls Out Upgrade
Online television technology provider Brightcove today announced a revamped version of its service, dubbed Brightcove 3. This latest beta version has been in use for a few months by select customers, including Fox Entertainment Group's Beliefnet, Lifetime Networks and Showtime Networks.
TV Week |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Oct 2006 21:13 UTC
PC Linux distributor Terra Soft has announced plans to release its Yellow Dog Linux distribution for Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 gaming console. Featuring the experimental e17 desktop environment, Terra Soft's upcoming distribution release is surprisingly unconventional.
New Mobile Computing |
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IGA: Most Gamers Cool With In-Game Ads
The report includes responses from nearly 1,300 gamers surveyed using IGA’s proprietary software while playing games in their homes
Mediaweek |
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Angry Spring Township man bites mother, police say
A 19-year-old Spring Township man bit large chunks of flesh from his mother's hands after he became enraged when his computer stopped working, police said Monday.
Reading Eagle |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Oct 2005 20:25 UTC
Macromedia on Monday opened the doors to a new incubation site that hosts unfinished technology and early software releases. The goal of Macromedia Labs is to involve developers in the creation of new products, enabling them to provide feedback that can shape the company's future moves.
New Mobile Computing |
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GET A VIEW
How to use Google Street View: Go to www.google.com/maps In the search box type: Columbia, SC Look for the “street view” button displayed in the top center on the map. Click it. A new map will appear. Blue lines indicate areas where Street Views exist.
The State |
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Zoey Zane Murder Suspect Fights Extradition
A man arrested in Mexico on charges of killing a Wichita, Kansas, college student who turned out to be a Internet porn model is fighting extradition back to the...
About.com |
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GOOGLE GETS PERSONAL
It trolled our streets for months. An innocuous mid-sized car with a periscope camera on top cruised through the Vista, up and down Harbison Boulevard and through the cul-de-sacs of Columbia’s suburbs. The 360-degree eyeball was capturing street-level views of our area for use in Google’s latest map function called Street View. First premiered on May 25, 2007, with San Francisco, Las Vegas, ...
The State |
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Newsletter Subscription
In 1999, US road warriors will connect to enterprise networks using wireless links that provide bandwidth-on- demand more economically than wireline connections.
ARNnet |
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Virtual fitness program has possibilities
When my fiance asked me to work out and get in shape with him this summer, I immediately responded with enthusiasm. I began to look at gyms online.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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PC and Components
AMD is targeting Hollywood with the new Radeon 4800 series graphics chips, which can render lifelike images in real time.
ARNnet |
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Gather.com connects with over-35 crowd
Gather is fine-tuning other ways to continue building what has become a leading social networking site for adults, with a half-million registered members and twice as many "unique visitors," or casual viewers, each month.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Linked by alcibiades on Tue 30th May 2006 20:40 UTC
Dell and its business model has been the focus of a lot of comment on Apple oriented forums in recent months. The Dell model is said to be unviable, and Dell's recent news is said to prove this.
OS News |
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Celebrity people in the news
Sara Evans has married former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker. Lori Genes, the country star's publicist at Sony BMG Nashville, told The Associated Press yesterday the couple had married, but she didn't provide details. People magazine reported on its Web site that the outdoor ceremony took place Saturday in Tennessee. Evans' hits include "Perfect," "Suds in the Bucket" and "Real ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Yahoo to announce new Asian partners
Yahoo, the world's biggest mobile search provider, will today announce six new Asian partners for its search function. David Ko, managing director and VP of Yahoo Connected Life Asia, said the cellcos would exclusively carry the Internet firm's OneSearch function.
telecomasia.net |
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New Details Emerge with Suspected Child Molester
A Las Vegas father is behind bars, accused of sexually assaulting his two adopted daughters. He wouldn't have been caught if it weren't for a vigilant computer repair tech. Reporter Travell Eiland has the details.
KLAS Las Vegas |
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First look at Omnia
Samsung gave the world the first glimpse of its new Windows-based smartphone, the Omnia, at CommunicAsia yesterday.
telecomasia.net |
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