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Wall-E (2008)
The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers. Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable.
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Judge orders Facebook rivals to accept settlement
Thu, Jun 26, 2008 (3:18 p.m.) Facebook Inc.'s long and embarrassing legal tussle with three men who accused founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their social networking concept may soon end, now that a judge has ordered the parties to accept the settlement they reached.
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Internet body approves new domain names
Web regulators have voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, a French web official says.
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News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
Linux for the self-employed — May 09, 2008 — This paper surveys Linux's suitability for use by owners of very small businesses and the self-employed.
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Military-grade USB key supports Linux desktops
IronKey Inc. has announced that its line of encrypted USB storage keys is now available for all major Linux operating systems (OSes). IronKey devices come in 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models, offer military-grade hardware encryption, and do not require driver installation, says the company.
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Website naming rules may be changed
British web users could find themselves typing ".co.uk" less often in future, after the internet's governing body voted to allow the use of hundreds of thousands of new suffixes for web addresses.
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SPECIAL REPORT: J-School Confidential
NEW YORK Since Claire Harlin became editor of The Daily Texan in June 2007, the University of Texas' student newspaper has added a six-person multimedia team and two more bloggers — and expanded its use of audio and video to at least one offering per day.
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Specific Media to Host Political Targeting Symposium in Washington D.C. on July 8
IRVINE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Specific Media, the largest independent online advertising network, announced today that it will host an insightful evening of political discussion surrounding emerging interactive marketing trends.
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Math Web site adds its own challenge, subtracts boredom
A NEW Web site www.invademath.com has been launched to inculcate interest in mathematics among school children. P S Rao, a former judge with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, officially launched the site recently.
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Online threat after cell theft
Case I: Lopamudra Aich’s husband snapped a picture of her with her cellphone camera and stored it in the phone. Some months later, the phone was stolen on a crowded bus. Lopamudra filed a police complaint and bought a new phone.
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Internet org paves way for hundreds of new domains
The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers unanimously approved the new guidelines as weeklong meetings in Paris concluded. ICANN also voted ...
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Intel Gives Lukewarm Reception to Vista
Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker and decades-long business partner of Microsoft Corp, has no immediate plans to roll out the software giant's Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.
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Homeowner catches burglar on tape
The burglar goes right up to the computer screen. The web camera captures a clear picture of his face and even shows the tattoos on his arms. This is something very few burglary victims have and one homeowner is making it public.
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'White Spaces' Mikes Could Be Tested at NFL Games
The National Football League (NFL) and cable sports channel ESPN on Thursday offered to allow the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to test wireless microphone-based white-spaces devices on the field during the upcoming football season.
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Yahoo shakes up management suites amid turmoil and shareholder unrest
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is setting up a new chain of command amid the turmoil triggered by the embattled Internet icon's snub of Microsoft Corp.'s US$47.5-billion takeover bid.
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Israelis hack Web sites perceived to be anti-Jewish
Arab and Leftist Web sites, or sites that are perceived to be anti-Jewish, are being hacked into by a group of Israelis.
Calcutta News |
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Obama winning over Clinton supporters, short of closing sale
Barack Obama has won over more than half of Hillary Rodham Clinton's former supporters, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll.
The Economic Times |
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Telstra not in store war with Apple, says Sol. GFK Australia managing director, Gary Lamb thinks digital convergence is still some way off. Entry level scanners are now so cheap, they're an ideal SOHO add-on.
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Report: Microsoft to Acquire Powerset Natural Language Search for $100M+
Powerset, we hardly knew ya. The much-hyped natural language search engine has been acquired by Microsoft for north of $100 million according to VentureBeat. The search engine, which presently only lets you search Wikipedia articles, works by allowing users to enter in queries the way they would speak them, for example, searching for [...]
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WALL-E
How does Pixar do it? How has the pioneering computer-animation studio delivered eight consecutive box-office hits beginning with its landmark Toy Story in 1995? Well, along with witty scripts, dazzling designs and wondrous technical craft, the key to Pixar’s success is that the wizards of Emeryville, California almost never repeat themselves ( Toy Story 2 being the lone, welcome exception).
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Lauderdale County Joins Crime Report Web Site
Residents of Lauderdale County may also track crime reports through an Internet Web site.
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Yahoo shakes up management amid shareholder unrestABC 7 News
Please Upgrade Your Browser. This Site Uses I-Frames Extensively
WJLA-TV Washington D.C. |
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Police in Northern Virginia Arrest a Meteorologist
Police in Northern Virginia arrested a veteran meteorologist with the National Weather Service for soliciting a minor over the internet.
WCAV Charlottesville |
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Recent Original Stories
"Two days before the start of Professional Developers Conference 2005, I've received exclusive insider information about the product editions which Microsoft intends to create for Windows Vista."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Sep 2007 04:14 UTC
Here is an interview with Richard Stallman about a range of free software topics including GPLv3 and comment on the Microsoft patent issue. Stallman has a go at Linus Torvalds even suggesting that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds.
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