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College graduates %%head%%A roundup of Staten Island students who made the grade in higher education
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Justin J. Gunnell of Dongan Hills graduated from Cornell Law School with a juris doctorate degree. While at Cornell Law, Gunnell served as an associate on the Journal of Law and Public Policy and as a teaching assistant for a course on Internet and E-Commerce Law.
Staten Island Advance |
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Iraq says U.K. captives still alive
LONDON -- Five Britons who were kidnapped in Baghdad more than a year ago are still alive, Iraq's most senior security official told the BBC yesterday. Mowaffak al-Rubaie said the Britons -- a computer instructor and his four bodyguards -- were seized by a Shiite militant group from inside an Iraqi Finance Ministry building in a raid in Baghdad in May 2007.
Victoria Times Colonist |
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Students take initiative to find jobs in tight market
As a young teenager, he started figuring out how to fix computers. Soon he was troubleshooting for his parents, friends and friends' parents.
The Olympian |
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Proposed Anheuser-Busch deal stirs up antitrust suds
Antitrust is back in the news, with Intel under renewed scrutiny, the Yahoo-Google pact getting a review and Missouri's governor petitioning the Federal Trade Commission to investigate InBev's proposed acquisition of Anheuser-Busch.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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CrystalVision, MG&T team up
NEWINGTON — Middlesex Gases & Technologies (MG&T) of Everett, Mass., now offers Internet visitors the ability to purchase welding products and supplies, as well as rent equipment, through its Web site, www.middlesexgases.com. The online store was...
Portsmouth Herald |
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Internet-savvy voters shake up US presidential election
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Videos shared on YouTube and blogs scrutinizing candidates are part of an Internet-age revolution shaking up the US presidential election and sweeping in a new political era.
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MTNL floats Rs 250 cr tender for converged network
State-run MTNL has floated a Rs 250 crore tender for building a network based on Internet Protocol infrastructure to provide convergent services integrating data, voice and video.
Business Standard India |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Nov 2005 18:41 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"I did not write this to say that people who do not know much about computers need to be told what to do, or to assert that Windows is not a good OS for casual users, but rather to point out that Linux is a great choice for this.
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Recent Original Stories
"Does Microsoft's monopoly power extend to government and media? That seems like a rhetorical question given their little power play in Massachusetts.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
Commodore, the company that sold 2.5 million VIC-20's and 25 million Commodore 64's was reduced to bankruptcy less than ten years after it released the computer that was supposed to revolutionize the computer industry, the Amiga.
OS News |
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RATING RELAPSE RISKS
A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER WHO POSES A LOW RISK OF RE-OFFENDING. INFORMATION ON TIER 1 SEX OFFENDERS IS TYPICALLY GIVEN ONLY TO LAW ENFORCEMENT, PROSECUTORS AND COURTS. THE OFFENDER'S INFORMATION ISN'T POSTED ON THE STATE'S SEX OFFENDER WEB SITE.
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
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Report: Yahoo execs jump ship
Yahoo's ranks are thinning as it fends off a shareholder mutiny threatening to culminate in the firing of Chief Executive Jerry Yang.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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In Search of Perfect Harmony, Through Software
New software promises to correct harmonic mistakes in music as easily as other software now fixes the red eyes in digital photographs.
The Florence Times-Daily |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Feb 2007 09:58 UTC, submitted by george
Microsoft is keen to stir up enthusiasm for Windows Vista, but when it comes to the 64-bit edition of the recently released operating system, the software giant is sending decidedly mixed messages.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Dec 2007 22:41 UTC, submitted by Patrik Buckau
"The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 . This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
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Local news briefs
The Weston Municipal Center now offers wireless Internet.
Wausau Daily Herald |
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D-Link network storage device functions as independent BiTorrent media hub
D-Link ME, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumer and business, announced a free upgrade for its best-selling network attached storage (NAS) device to enable BitTorrent file downloads and uploads independent of a PC.
AME Info |
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Cigar box full of personality
This past Christmas, Sam Wood was on the Internet trying to find a recording of a traditional British carol. That search led him to the UTube video site and eventually to a forum for cigar-box guitar fans.
The Huntsville Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Feb 2007 21:00 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The same week that Microsoft issued a press release providing further details about some of the technological advances that will result from the November 2006 technology agreement between Novell and Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street what he really thinks the deal means to Microsoft.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Mar 2007 17:03 UTC, submitted by IdaAshley
"One of the biggest complaints about Linux, particularly from developers, is the speed with which Linux boots. By default, Linux is a general-purpose operating system that can serve as a client desktop or server right out of the box.
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New way to tip the police: texting
CORPUS CHRISTI — Corpus Christi police hope more residents will talk with their thumbs this fall when a new Crime Stoppers program goes online that allows anonymous tips by text message.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times |
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'Oz,' '2001,' 'Vertigo' among top genre flicks
LOS ANGELES -- Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing among the American Film Institute's best genre movies.
The Beacon News |
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Hewitt Crane, 81, early designer of computers
Mr. Crane, an electrical engineer, had a career that traced the arc of the early computing industry, starting in 1949 with a job at IBM's headquarters in New York City.
Seattle Times |
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A Peak Inside Google’s Gmail Usability Lab
Nika Smith wrote a post on the Google blog today showing the evolution of Google chat before it launched in early 2006. Google does extensive testing of new products using employees as guinea pigs (see our post on the pre-launch evolution of Gmail) as well as outsiders brought in to test software and interfaces in [...]
TechCrunch |
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Sun aims open source model at emerging markets
MANILA, Philippines -- For Sun Microsystems, open sourcing its core products like Java and Solaris benefits software developers in emerging markets like the Philippines. The payoff business-wise will come later, according to a top executive.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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