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Hacking Case Jolts Affluent California High School
A senior has been arrested on charges that he broke into the high school several times, hacked into administrative computers, changed grades and sent copies of test answers to dozens of students.
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Google plans new Internet measurement tool
New tool aims to help advertisers identify the best places to buy ads that will reach its target audience, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Court agrees to review suit against AT&T
The Supreme Court intervened Monday in a lawsuit by an Internet service provider accusing AT&T of anti-competitive practices. AT&T had asked the justices to step in to the dispute over wholesale prices AT&T charges for high-speed service to Internet service...
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Home net chip does UWB, coax, Ethernet
Sigma Designs has developed a second-generation ultrawideband chip set called CoAir for home networks that can simultaneously run UWB over wireless and coax at rates up to 370 Mbits/second while maintaining a Gbit Ethernet link, aiming to serve set-top boxes, routers and gateway devices on home networks.
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Vendor Plugs Mobile Device Security
New antivirus tool detects malware based on application behavior.
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Silicon Valley, NY still ride high in 'Cybercities' rankings
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Silicon Valley, New York and Washington D.C. are still the nation's top centers of high-tech employment, according to a report published Tuesday.
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Child sex case suspect being held without bond
ATLANTA - A northwest Georgia tennis coach accused of videotaping sexual assaults of a young girl and posting the images on the Internet was ordered held without bond Monday after a judge heard testimony from an FBI agent who described the tapes in graphic detail.
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Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Car owners need the Web to escape information black-out
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- For all the businesses that the Internet has revolutionized, or demolished, a few industries have remained stubbornly resistant to the promises of the Web.
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eVisibility CEO Subsidizes Cost of Gas for All Southern California Employees
eVisibility Inc., an Internet marketing agency with over 35 employees, is launching a new gas subsidy program for all its San Diego and Riverside County employees. The new program will cap the price of gas at $2.25/gallon beginning July 1, 2008. This is being done with the hope of relieving some stress of the daily commute to work. With San Diego gas prices now hitting $4.60/gallon and rising, ...
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Ministry drafting State IT application scheme
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communication said it is in the process of finalizing a draft on the application of information technology (IT) in state agencies in 2009-2010 as well as on the vision for Vietnam’s e-government, which will be submitted to the government for approval later this month.
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Governor Answers Laptop Funding Questions
Legislators questioned the Governor's funding of his laptop program. He's planning to fund it a third year.
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Big bucks for best battery?
Sen. John McCain on Monday proposed giving a $300 million prize to the inventor of the next big thing in electric car batteries, an offer that played well at Milwaukee-area battery-maker Johnson Controls Inc.
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Visa business network boosts Facebook's ad efforts
Facebook Inc.'s quest to lure more advertisers to its popular online hangout is getting an assist from Visa Inc.'s marketing machine.
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Apple named in Typhoon touch lawsuit
Apple on Monday, among nine others, was named in a lawsuit from Typhoon Touch Technologies targeted at Dell, regarding infringement on portable touch screen technology patents. In addition to Apple and Dell, the suit names Fujitsu, Toshiba, Lenovo, Panasonic, HTC, Palm, Samsung, Nokia, and LG, with Typhoon seeking compensation for lost profits, as ...
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When it comes to new jobs, Seattle is the leading cybercity
The Seattle area added the greatest number of high-tech jobs in 2006, outpacing Boston, San Francisco and more than 50 other U.S. cities, according to the Cybercities report from the AeA.
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Q&A: Gates on letting go, the future, the foundation
Bill Gates talks with the Seattle P-I about his plans -- and the past -- during an interview in his Microsoft office.
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Evernote Opens to All: Fantastic Promise, Disappointing Execution
The highly anticipated "memory augmentation" service Evernote opens to the public Tuesday and you'll probably want to check this service out just to see what it tries to do. We may change our minds after more lengthy testing, but so far this combination of a bookmarking, note taking and photo cataloging service with apps for the desktop, web and mobile - not to mention the Optical Character ...
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Ballmer heads the new age of leaders stepping into the breach
What's ahead for Microsoft after Bill Gates?
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Why Nokia Acquired Plazes, a Location-Based Social Network
Buried in Bob Iannucci’s discussion at Supernova 2008 last week was this comment: “Connecting people only through voice communications is limited,” the Nokia chief technical officer said. To us, that sums up everything Nokia is doing, including today’s announcement . Nokia, the world’s largest handset manufacturer, is purchasing Plazes , the location-based social networking service based ...
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Craig Mundie: Searching for 'the next big opportunity'
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, discusses with the Seattle P-I his take on the direction of technology, and on Bill Gates' shift away from the company.
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Key Microsoft executives
These key Microsoft executives will lead the Redmond company as it faces new challenges.
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Tech sector shows strong growth in US cities
High-tech companies are rapidly adding jobs and paying workers more than other industries in metropolitan areas stretching from New York to Seattle, according to a new study looking at the nation's top "cybercities." In a report being released Tuesday, the American Electronics Association found 51 of the top 60 U.S. cybercities - those with the most technology workers - added high-tech jobs in ...
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Visa business network boosts Facebook's ad efforts
Facebook Inc.'s quest to lure more advertisers to its popular online hangout is getting an assist from Visa Inc.'s marketing machine. As part of a small-business network Visa designed for Facebook, the world's largest credit and debit card processor is paying for $2 million of advertising on the socializing site. Visa also will promote the new Facebook service in a multimedia marketing campaign ...
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Lost tribe pics a 'publicity stunt'
THE man behind photos of warriors from an "undiscovered" Amazon tribe that were beamed around the world has admitted it was a publicity stunt.
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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
"All models are wrong , but some are useful." So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant ...
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