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To read the students' blog, track their voter-registration numbers or donate to their cause, see runtovote.com .
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Regulators want CL&P to spread rebilling for blunder over a year
State regulators want Connecticut Light & Power to give 2,400 customers a year to make up $54 million in payments for which they never received bills in January because of a computer error.
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Police: 25th arrest for Mount Vernon man carrying stolen laptop
MOUNT VERNON - The third time is the charm, but the 25th? Maybe not so lucky.
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Rhode Island bills target cyberbullying
PROVIDENCE - Anyone who resorts to bullying or harassment using e-mails, text messages, or other electronic means could face stiff penalties and even jail time under a pair of bills approved by state lawmakers.
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Taiwan war game simulates attack from rival China
Taiwan began Monday its annual computer-simulated war game that anticipates an invasion by China, despite warming ties between the island and its mainland rival.
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Contraceptive pill available online in Britain
Women in Britain can for the first time get the contraceptive pill legally online without having to see medics first, under a new service being launched Monday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Jan 2007 23:42 UTC
Apple may not want the word 'computer' in its title anymore, but it's hard to ignore the impact of the Macintosh on the bottom line . Despite a report of flat shipments, plus all the attention given to the iPod, iPhone and Apple TV in the last month, the Mac had a solid quarter for the period that ended on Dec. 30. Apple reported selling about 1.6 million of its signature product during the ...
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There are currently at least five popular ways of installing software in GNU/Linux. None of them are widely accepted throughout the popular distributions. This situation is not a problem for experienced users - they can make decisions for themselves.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Dec 2005 22:45 UTC
AnandTech has published part II (part I discussed here on OSNews) of their performance preview of Intel's upcoming Yonah.
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The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic . The agency said it was opposed to 'network neutrality', the idea that all data on the net is treated equally.
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The big baby that went on to change the world
THE birth of the one-tonne Baby was celebrated over the weekend. It may sound like the latest shock Channel 4 documentary on childhood obesity but it’s in fact the 60th anniversary of the world’s first modern computer.
icWales |
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Software firms support open source technology
MANILA, Philippines - Software companies have expressed support for Philippine initiatives to adapt open source technology.
GMA News |
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Multi-million dollar martime training upgrade
The Australia's training college for shipping operators has announced a $4 million upgrade of its simulators later this year.
ABC via Yahoo!7 News |
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Bids hit US$2m for man auctioning Aussie life
SYDNEY - A LOVELORN man who put his life in Australia up for sale on the Internet was one step closer to starting over Monday as bids for his house, job and lifestyle hit A$2.2 million (S$2.9 million US).
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Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos?
The 'shoot out' between Microsoft Sharepoint and Lotus Connections, two juggernauts in the enterprise space, played to a packed audience at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The two companies went head to head, squaring off with product demos. I chose to instead attend John...
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City Web Site Expanding
Getting a city building permit soon will be as easy as logging on to the Internet, thanks to significant upgrades to Wheeling's Web site.
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June 23, 1983: DNS Test Sets Stage for Internet Growth
1983: Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel run the first successful test of the automated, distributed Domain Name System. DNS will lay the foundation for the massive expansion, popularization and commercialization of the internet. The fledgling internet of the time (Arpanet and CSnet) relied on a bulky and exponentially growing "phonebook" of addresses called the "host tables." It was a text ...
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Software enables real-time info to mobile users
A new software system which enables mobile phone users to obtain location-specific, real-time information, either actively or passively, from other users across the world has been developed by a team led by an Indian-American professor at Duke University.
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"There are tools available to allow anyone to create and distribute a completely customized Ubuntu Based distribution using the Gnome Desktop.
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Gates-Ballmer Succession Watch
News Analysis. Who should be Microsoft Bill Gates' technical successor?...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Nov 2007 23:05 UTC, submitted by jello
Members of the Linux community have complained that the hot new sub-notebook from Asus, the eeePC, may have violated the spirit of the Linux General Public License . Some Linux advocates claim the eeePC has not included required source code with the installed Xandros Linux distribution and does not easily enable users to install another distro.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Nov 2005 22:50 UTC
GNOME 2.12.2 has been released , as the second maintenance release in the 2.12 series. Download the tarballs of the platform , desktop and bindings .
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Ad Track: Cadbury, 'Halo' ads are Cannes champs; see video
The rivalry of Web vs. TV commercials ended in a tie for the top prize at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
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Open secrets an online lure
I'm not sure why I'm so addicted. I think it's the powerful appeal of learning things you're not supposed to share. Or, maybe I just want to know more about other people's deepest, darkest yearnings.
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