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Watch Lake Monsters Series at Tri-City at minorleaguebaseball.com
BURLINGTON, VT --- Fans can watch the Lake Monsters upcoming three-game series at Tri-City on the internet at minorleaguebaseball.com as Vermont takes on the ValleyCats Sunday through Tuesday.
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Hit With Social Media Bug, Ex-Fugee Pras Michel Takes Up Vlogging
Musicians starring in Web videos is nothing new. John Mayer’s comedic attempt on Funny or Die comes immediately to mind. And as far as general Internet startups go, M.C. Hammer is only one of many players. 50 Cent, Nick Lachey, and Kylie Minogue are in the fold as well. Perhaps the newest name to arrive on [...]
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Nov 2006 10:55 UTC, submitted by Jean Claude
French députés' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software. There will be 1154 French parliamentary workstations running on an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Nov 2006 21:39 UTC
Source code for a Mac virus has gone public , a security company warned Friday, and although the original doesn't carry a malicious payload, more dangerous variants can be expected. The virus, dubbed 'OSX.Macarena' by Symantec, targets some, but not all, Mac OS X Mach-O executables.
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Open-Source Reshaping the Software Industry
The war for Web browser market share is kicking into high gear.“People in the industry foresee a time in which for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser. ...
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Rage at Hernando Staples: woman flings computer through window
A Hernando County woman was arrested Friday after police say she went on rampage, and threw a computer through the window of a Staples.
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Vietnam vets use Internet age to make reunions happen
YULEE - In 1999, Jerry Nichols watched a documentary on Vietnam. During the show, a reference was made to reunions where U.S. soldiers who served in Vietnam get together to relive memories and reconnect.
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Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack
In the 2008 race, the most attention-grabbing attacks are coming from people outside the political world.
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Chip to enhance credit card security
A new processor chip to be added to credit and debit cards should enhance their security, a Canadian industry official says.MasterCard Canada executive Oliver Manahan said the chip being added to the cards will serve as a state-of-the-art security upgrade that requires a personalized identification number to authorize purchases, The Toronto Globe and Mail reported Saturday.We know fraud is like ...
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Hybrids To Account for 11 Percent of Autos by 2013
With gas above $4 a gallon, hybrid cars are hotter than a laptop battery. But is gas-electric propulsion the future of personal transportation? It's definitely on the fast track. Federal forecasters predict hybrid sales could approach 2 million vehicles by 2013, accounting for 11 percent of the total U.S. auto market, up from 2.5 percent today. By then, we'll have 89 hybrid models from which to ...
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Recent Original Stories
Linked by Andrew Youll on Fri 13th Jan 2006 17:29 UTC, submitted by Tyr. Microsoft has officially halted development of its Windows Media Player for the Mac and plans no future Apple Computer versions of its music-playing software, CNET News.com has learned.
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Great job, great girl – but Microsoft just wasn’t enough for John Wood
Ten years ago, John Wood was a highflyer. As director of business development in China for Microsoft, the computer giant, he lived in expat luxury in Beijing with an equally highflying girlfriend. His rent was paid for him, and he flew everywhere business class.
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12-year-old's disappearance linked to MySpace, authorities say
BROOKFIELD, Vt. -- The search for a missing 12-year-old Vermont girl who triggered the state’s first Amber Alert centered Friday on the social networking site MySpace after divers discovered nothing in a lake near where some of her belongings were found, police said.
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The Smoking Gun
As Bill Gates closed the door for the final time Friday on his ex-office (Ballmer takes over Monday) the rhetoric about continued one day a week doesn’t match the reality. Whether you believe Bill will have an ongoing role in Office and Windows futures, I bet most of Bill’s input is already factored in by [...]
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Firefox3s Firepower
The search engine makes trawling the Net more enjoyable
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GREEN DRIVE
Running on battery and fuel, the environment-friendly Honda Civic Hybrid is now in India. Now if only it was as friendly on the pocket
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User-Generated Content Makes Web the New Sweatshop
When an executive wants to sound humane during a public address to the staff, he or she will trot out the well-worn phrase, "Our most valuable assets leave the building at the end of the day." Clichés are generally true, but this one may not be, thanks to the growth of user-generated content on the Internet. Whether they're creating content for sites like YouTube and Wikipedia, viewer-submitted ...
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NAMING GLOBAL FANTASIES
Some time back I was in a small roadside stationery shop in Bangalore, stocking up on pens, pencils and notebooks. I found the bill surprisingly steep. When I asked the shopkeeper why ordinary ballpoint pens were so expensive, I got a rather sharp answer from him.
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Malibu Beach Calm As Photogs, Surfers Commingle
The combatants of Malibu beach -- namely the paparazzi and the surfers -- took to separate corners Saturday avoiding each other and the fisticuffs and shouting matches that highlighted the Internet last weekend. In fact, officials reported that things were "very quiet."
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Top of the charts
What does the Calcuttan look up most on the Internet? Metro provides some clues What has Calcutta found hot in the past 12 months?
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The reception is clear, recycling is here
DENVER - From old TVs and computers to stereos and DVD players, a parking lot in Denver turned into one large outdoor closet on Saturday.
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NBC offers wide online access for Beijing
NEW YORK-- NBC is making more than 2,200 hours of live competition from Beijing available online, giving Olympic junkies more action than they could ever devour in a day.
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Patil emphasises development of standard software for Hindi
President Pratibha Patil today emphasised on development of a standard software for Hindi language so that uniformity in its use can be established.
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Rage at Hernando Staples: woman flings computer through window
A Hernando County woman was arrested Friday after police say she went on rampage, threw a computer through the window of a Staples, and then went to find a man who she said raped her.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Sep 2006 18:53 UTC, submitted by teigetje
"The new Acorn Computers Limited have sneaked the first details of their range of notebooks onto their website. The new Nottingham-based company will be assembling notebooks locally using current Intel and AMD x86 mobile processors.
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