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Your correspondence so far
It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...
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Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
Trojans, botnets and other malware are growing faster than ever before, security researchers warn.
PC World |
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Connecting businesses to the buzz
There's a new type of salesperson that is in much demand in the New Zealand market - and that demand is growing as fast as the growth of the internet and other interactive media.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Behavioral targeting: Google puts cookies to work
Google, with its deep reservoir of data about online behavior, is for the first time testing ways to use some of that information to aim advertising at Web surfers who use its search engine.
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Technology company shows US face but still Kiwi at heart
Shaun Ryan prefers not to play the Kiwi card when signing up clients in the United States. It is not necessarily a selling point for his internet search company SLI Systems, he says.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Let's get on with it, says Telecom CEO
Despite a plea by Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds to take broadband off the election agenda, it looks likely to remain a contentious topic. Business Editor Dene Mackenzie reports.
Otago Daily Times |
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Little ISV Sues Google for $1 Billion
A little Chicago ISV called LimitNone is suing Google for nigh on to a billion dollar charging it with misappropriating its trade secrets to beat back Microsoft Office. Seems a year ago March LimitNone shared its mojo for migrating Outlook users and their calendars and contacts to Gmail with Google and according to LimitNone's story the widgetry turned up in Google Apps despite Google's ...
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Page's Wood ahead of the game
PAGE -- As a certain Daily Sun correspondent hacked and topped and shanked and chili-dipped his way to an 11 on the par-5 first hole at Lake Powell National Golf Course recently, Lindsay Wood methodically made par.
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An internet banking code released today limits the circumstances under which customers can be held liable for online fraud losses, but stops short of providing a strings-free guarantee that banks must reimburse customers.
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David Caminer, Computer Developer, Dies, New York Times Reports
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- David Caminer , who helped develop the world's first business computer for British teashop operator J. Lyons & Co., died June 19, the New York Times reported. He was 92.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Mar 2006 23:50 UTC
Apple on Monday released the second set of Mac OS X security fixes in two weeks . Security Update 2006-002 corrects problems caused by the company's previous patch and fixes newly discovered security flaws, some of which could let an attacker run code on a computer with the same privileges as the user, the company said on its web site.
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SCI-TECH IN BRIEF 29/6
Global Cybersoft, the US-based software out-sourcing corporation, yesterday opened two new offices in Quang Trung Software City and at HCM City National University’s Information Technology Park.
Vietnam Net |
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Cyberview: More jobs in the pipeline
CYBERVIEW Sdn Bhd, which has four contracts in hand in Cyberjaya worth in excess of RM200 million, is eyeing more jobs, said managing director Redza Rafiq.
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The US teenager spreading peace over the net
A 16-year-old from New York State harnesses the power of online social networking to try and break a world record.
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Recent Original Stories
Mono project founder Miguel de Icaza claims that Microsoft prevented the open source project from holding a meeting at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
OS News |
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Sunday Talker: Tracing an Email Smear
On Sundays, The Fix tries to catch up with all the reading that got neglected during the week. And, more often than not, we come across something in our own newspaper that's worth highlighting for Fixistas. Last week we noted...
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Indian origin man given key role in Yahoo! restructuring
New York, June 29 : An Indian-origin man has been given a key role in the restructuring at Yahoo!. The new structure consolidates responsibility around two senior executives, Ash Patel, who has been with the company since 1996, and Hilary Schneider, both working under president Sue Decker.
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[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]The execution of a full-text query failed. "The content index is corrupt." [ Thanks to sjvn for this link.
Linux Today |
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Bild: Ballack will play
The usually well-informed German tabloid Bild has headlined its internet edition with the words "Yes - Ballack to play...what a relief for fans".
News 24 South Africa |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Jan 2007 23:33 UTC
With some 24 hours until Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to kick off Macworld Expo, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple's anticipated announcements.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
"What's an ABM'ers?" It means, I believe, "Anything But Microsoft'ers". It is intended (I think) as an insult, and it is normally taken as a fairly reliable sign that the person who used it initially is either a Microsoft fanboy or an astroturfer.
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Microsoft founder Gates steps down to focus on philanthropy
REDMOND, Washington (AP) — On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present.
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US-EU private data sharing agreement at hand: report
The United States and European Union are close to an agreement to share private data of their citizens, including credit card information, travel history and internet browsing information, The New York Times said Saturday.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Gates tears away from Microsoft
Microsoft founder reminisces with friend and present chief Steve Ballmer; starts a new chapter in his life
The Nation - Thailand's English news |
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Indian origin man given key role in Yahoo! restructuring
Ash Patel has been given a key role in the restructuring at Yahoo!. The new structure consolidates responsibility around two execs, including him. MS-Yahoo battle
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