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Philadelphia man arrested over anti-police video
Thu, Jun 26, 2008 (10:39 p.m.) A man who authorities say posted an Internet video showing himself waving a gun and claiming to rejoice whenever a police officer is shot in the city was arrested Thursday.
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A recent security advisory announced today by Rapid7 explains, "the NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root.
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Easley, legislature honor black students who broke color barrier
When Girvaud Roberts Justice's son searched Google to learn more about his mother, he came upon a surprising history lesson: She took some courageous steps 51 years ago to integrate North Carolina's public schools.
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End of an era as Bill Gates leaves Microsoft
It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure Friday as Microsoft's leader. But as Gates bones up on epidemiology at his charitable foundation, the software c ...
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Bill Gates to exit Microsoft today
Type verification code in the box and submit. San francisco: Macintosh computer fanatics won't have Bill Gates to kick around anymore.
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ICANN approves domain name big bang
Web regulators have voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history.
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Yahoo tries to quell possible rebellion
Yahoo has announced a corporate overhaul in the face of stockholder rebellion and front-office desertions.
Independent Online |
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Intel weary of Windows Vista rollout
Microsoft business partner Intel has no immediate plans to roll out the software giant's Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.
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Watch out, Larrabee: Radeon 4800 supports a 100% ray-traced pipeline using DirectX 9
It appears that the buzz about 3D graphics has been focused on a feature that is not even integrate din today’s games – ray-tracing. Intel is beating the RT drum for its upcoming cGPU, which is still 18 months away. But it appears that Intel may be defeated in its own game, as AMD’s graphics chips are supporting a 100% ray-traced pipeline, TG Daily learned.
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Christiansburg, it seems, has gone to the blogs. - roanoke.com
In the past year, four blogs have appeared to offer opinions on local issues. Christiansburg, it seems, has gone to the blogs. Blogging -- the Internet activity that evolved in recent years from the online diary -- has swept the country. Blog World Expo, an international blogging conference, estimates that more than 12 million Americans currently maintain a blog and that more than 120,000 new ...
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New Flavors for Addresses on the Web Are on the Way
Icann voted to permit the introduction of Web addresses ending in words like .paris and .sports, making the most sweeping changes to the network’s address system since its creation.
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A Company Computer and Questions About E-Mail Privacy
A lawsuit involves an unsettled area of the law, where changes in technology create tension between expectations of personal privacy and companies’ rights to monitor equipment.
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Coming next year: Hundreds of new Internet domain names
NEW YORK -- 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 addressing system.
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Philadelphia man arrested over anti-police video
A man who authorities say posted an Internet video showing himself waving a gun and claiming to rejoice whenever a police officer is shot in the city was arrested Thursday. Andre Moore, 44, of West Philadelphia, faces charges of aggravated assault, terroristic threats, corruption of morals of a minor and harassment, police Lt. John Walker said. In the video posted on YouTube, a man authorities ...
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Candidates use Web to reach voters
It's early summer and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has more than 1 million friends on his Facebook site. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has just over 150,000 friends. The fact that the two presidential candidates have Facebook pages would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Throughout U.S. history, especially in the past century, technology has changed how Americans lived and participated in ...
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Philadelphia man arrested over anti-police video
A man who authorities say posted an Internet video showing himself waving a gun and claiming to rejoice whenever a police officer is shot in the city was arrested Thursday.
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JumpTV and NeuLion Sign Definitive Agreement to Merge
JumpTV Inc., a leading provider of live and on-demand sports and international programming over the Internet and NeuLion, Inc., an end-to-end IPTV service of live and on-demand sports, international and religious programming over the Internet and through set top boxes, today announced the execution of the definitive agreement in respect of their previously announced merger.
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Taiwan ends modest military drill as China ties warm
Taiwan quietly wrapped up a week of computer-simulated military exercises on Friday, keeping the annual island-wide training event low-key this year as relations improve with its old rival, China.
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Philadelphia man arrested over anti-police video
By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man who authorities say posted an Internet video showing himself waving a gun and claiming to rejoice whenever a police officer is shot in the city was arrested Thursday.
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Following dollar reveals pain and profit
Global economy leaves few immune to drop in value Men in rubber boots are swinging axes in the ice mist of the Tsukiji fish market. Advertisement: MAYVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY Get full credit for your A.A.S. degree. A.A.S. to B.A.S. Get full credit for your A.A.S. degree in Mayville State's ONLINE B.A.S. in Business Administration program. For more information on this high-quality, ...
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The Xfce project has released the first beta in the 4.4 release cycle. "Xfce 4.4 beta1 (4.3.90.1) is now available for download . Xfce 4.4 features new tools such as the much anticipated ' Thunar ' file manager as well as several huge improvements of its core components."
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Oakland Wi-Fi project on hold
A sputtering economy and skittish investors have derailed Oakland County's campaign to provide free wireless Internet to all of its households -- for now.
Detroit News |
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Business
Australian telecommunications company Telstra Corporation has expanded its interests in internet advertising in China, acquiring a majority stake in two businesses.
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Technology Report / Yahoo redraws management chart in bid to regain mojo
Yahoo Inc. is setting up a new chain of command in hopes of restoring order after it snubbed Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid. Under the Internet pioneer's reorganization, announced Thursday, Yahoo executive vice presidents Ash Patel and Hilary Schneider are being promoted to oversee most of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's products.
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They say this move is to prevent "bandwidth hogs" from slowing Internet speed for average users. They say this change - they call it "Internet metering" - will make cable bills more like other utility bills.
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