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The great email heist goes unsolved
So police have washed their hands of one of the greatest political whodunits of recent times - the great Don Brash email heist.
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Previously in Raynman
5:30 PM -- All the talk surrounding Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO - message board ) lately has been about Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - message board ) trying to rescue the beleaguered search engine with its $44.6 billion bid.
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Google Crawls The Deep Web
mikkl666 writes "In their official blog, Google announces that they are experimenting with technologies to index the Deep Web, i.e. the sites hidden behind forms, in order to be 'the gateway to large volumes of data beyond the normal scope of search engines'. For that purpose, the engine tries to automatically get past the forms: 'For text boxes, our computers automatically choose words from the ...
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Microsoft ties up Danger acquisition
Microsoft has completed its acquisition of mobile client software developer Danger..
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MyToons.com Delivers Animations to Viewers On New Adobe Media Player
SAN JOSE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- MyToons.com, the premier online animation community, will mark its first anniversary by collaborating with Adobe to deliver content to Adobe(R) Media Player . High-quality, member-created animations from MyToons.com, along with video from television broadcasters and leading content publishers, will now be available on Adobe Media Player .
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IBM easily tops forecasts for quarter
IBM reported strong quarterly profit, as its global reach and its healthy services and software businesses left the company unscathed so far by the weakness of the United States economy.
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New spam site found every three seconds
New figures suggest that 92.3 percent of all email sent globally during the first three months of 2008 was spam..
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Sun launches MySQL 5.1
Sun Microsystems has announced the general availability of MySQL 5.1, the latest version of its popular open source database..
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Medics film anus operation, post it on YouTube
Philippine medical staff who allegedly videoed a man having an operation to remove a perfume canister from his anus and then posted it on the internet are facing the sack.
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IBM raises full year earnings target
IBM posted stronger-than-expected quarterly results on Wednesday and raised its 2008 outlook, boosting shares 3 percent and sending a bullish signal about technology earnings in the face of a weak U.S. economy.
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IBM Profit Tops Analysts' Estimates as Sales Gain (Update2)
April 16 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. posted first-quarter profit that topped analysts' estimates and said earnings this year will exceed its previous goals, pushing the stock up 3.3 percent.
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iPhone Gets Free VoIP App From Fring
The software integrates contact lists for packetized voice, IM communications, and other Web 2.0 sites.
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Chip gets e-paper up to speed for interactive apps
E Ink and Seiko Epson jointly developed a controller chip for electrophoretic displays (electronic paper) that they claim makes the e-paper as responsive as LCDs for interactive applications.
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Enthusiasts find big is not always best with social networks
NEW YORK - Forget Facebook, MySpace or any other online hangout that boasts tens or hundreds of millions of people.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-04-16 22:14 GMT: Movers roundup: Apple, CV Therapeutics
(AP) - Among the stock activity stories for Wednesday, April 16, from Financial News:
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Mackinac Center puts all school district contracts on Web
LANSING — Union contracts for all local school districts in Michigan now can be viewed on the Internet. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has posted contracts covering teachers, janitors, bus drivers, mechanics, secretaries, librarians and other school workers.
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Recent Original Stories
As part of its three-pronged quest for worldwide Internet domination - via MSN, Live Search, and Windows Live - Microsoft has unleashed a bundled download of its installed desktop Live software: Mail, Photo Gallery, Writer, and OneCare Family Safety.
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Facebook trademark caught in legal face-off between ex-classmates
The hard feelings between Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg and a former college classmate...
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Lenoir-Rhyne receives $2.5 million gift
Lenoir-Rhyne College received a $2.5 million gift this week that will be used to endow its computer science and mathematics school. College officials renamed the department last week the Donald and Helen Schort School of Computing Sciences and Mathematics, who left the money to the Hickory liberal arts institution in their estate. The gift is one of the largest donations to the school in its ...
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LifePoint Hospitals to Broadcast Its First-Quarter Conference Call Live on the Internet
BRENTWOOD, Tenn.----LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. , announced today that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its first-quarter conference call on Thursday, May 1, 2008. The Company's results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008, will be released before the open of the market on Thursday, May 1, 2008.
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'The Sims' sells 100 million copies worldwide
NEW YORK -- There are no scary monsters to slay, no enemies to shoot and no cars to hijack. But with more than 100 million units sold since its launch in 2000, "The Sims" is the world's best-selling computer game.
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Better the Windows Vista devil you know than the Windows 7 one you don't?
Forrester Research is advising its clients against skipping Windows Vista when planning their operating system deployments. But one of the reasons Forrester is using -- because Vista's successor, Windows 7, will no doubt will be late -- is not a good assumption, in my book. As crazy...
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IBM's Q1 earnings jump 26 pct, company increases outlook
Quarterly profits at IBM Corp. leaped 26 percent and blew past analysts' forecasts Wednesday, with U.S. operations showing surprising strength given the faltering economy.
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IBM's Q1 earnings jump 26 percent; forecast improves
BOSTON - Quarterly profits at IBM Corp. leaped 26 percent and blew past analysts' forecasts Wednesday, with U.
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Wireless Dynamics Inc. Announces Availability of the SDiD 1212 Low Frequency (LF) RFID Reader SD Card, First SD RFID ...
Wireless Dynamics Inc., a leading provider of NFC and RFID SD products, announces general availability of the SDiD(TM) 1212 Low Frequency (LF) RFID Reader SD Card. It is the first RFID SD Card with embedded 512MB SD Memory in the industry. In addition to the Low Frequency RFID read and write functions, SDiD(TM) 1212 can store user applications and data. This true plug-and-play RFID SD card can ...
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