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Revealed: How High Street bank Lloyds TSB dishes out debit cards to children as young as 11
A High Street bank is giving children debit cards that could let them buy cigarettes, alcohol and porn videos over the internet. Lloyds-TSB is mailing the cards direct to children as young as 11.
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Fewer students entering computer science programs
Associated Press - June 29, 2008 6:34 PM ET SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - Officials at LSU are trying to get students interested in jobs in computer science to help buck a national trend.
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'Grand Theft Auto gang' arrested
A gang of teenagers who went on a violent two-hour crime spree told police they were trying to emulate the hero of the computer game Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Recent Original Stories
Gstreamer developer Christian Schaller explains why he thinks Phonon ( announced a few days ago by the KDE project) is a broken wheel . "I have held back blogging about Phonon for some time to avoid flamewars, but I don't want to have efforts like OSDL delayed due to setups like Phonon being promoted or thought of as a workable solution for the issues faced.
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WA man's life sells for only $400,000
A Perth man says he's committed to moving on and trying something new, after selling his life and belongings for just under $400,000 on eBay.
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Increase of Couples Coming to Sussex County for Marriages
GEORGETOWN , Del. - Beth Cashman and Jason Jones met on the internet. Six months later, they were engaged and they made a beeline for Sussex County's Clerk of the Peace.
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Ham Radio Field Day
Imagine this nightmare: something terrible happens and suddenly your phone, your TV, your computer, everything stops working: you're in danger and you can't notify anyone. That's the kind of scenario local ham radio operators have been training for all weekend.
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Facebook poses prickly sex question
SAN FRANCISCO - Social network site Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual users as "they" or "themself."
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Online Tunes, in Service to Africa
(RED), a nonprofit organization that arranges for companies to contribute a share of profits on certain products to fight AIDS in Africa, is starting a digital music service for that purpose.
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Group Suggests an Exchange to Trade Internet Capacity
There are exchanges where you can buy and sell stocks, pork bellies, wine and even pollution allowances. Why not an exchange for the trading of digital bits and bytes?
New York Times |
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Online Encyclopedia Gets New Push From Discovery
Last fall Discovery spent $250 million buying the United States portion of HowStuffWorks; now it is striving to make the site more appealing to users and advertisers.
New York Times |
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A Movie on Your TV at Home, Before You Can Rent It
In an industry first, Sony Pictures? movie ?Hancock,? will be available after its theater run over the Internet, directly to Sony Bravia TVs with a Web connection.
New York Times |
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Intel?s Dominance Is Challenged by a Low-Power Upstart
Intel, might do well to be alarmed by the computer chips being designed by Qualcomm, a maker of chips for cellphones.
New York Times |
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Google and Creator of ?Family Guy? Strike a Deal
Google will syndicate a new animation series using its AdSense advertising system to Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for the show?s target audience.
New York Times |
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Farmer's photo of rare South China tiger is exposed as fake
China has sacked 13 officials for publishing fake photographs of a South China tiger in a scandal that has sparked a passionate online debate about conservation and local government corruption.
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Popular business directory searches
Entry Level Position Part-Time Entry Level Position with future full time placement opportunity in a busy oil field services office org ... >MORE Computer Skills Required. Must Live In Parker County.
The Weatherford Democrat |
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Banks takes on board Code of Practice concerns
The New Zealand banking industry has revised its Code of Banking Practice following an in-depth period of consultation with InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) and advocacy group Consumer NZ.
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Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft
REDMOND - Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp , the software maker he built into the world’s most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home.
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Ballmer becomes lone voice at Microsoft's helm
SEATTLE, June 29 (Reuters) Steve Ballmer has been CEO at Microsoft Corp for eight years, but he will finally get to move into the corner office vacated by Bill Gates, the college friend who brought him to the company nearly three decades ago.
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Recent Original Stories
"The Symphony OS Project is pleased to announce the release of Symphony OS 2007.06 . This is our first release based fully on Ubuntu and even though many improvements have not yet made it into this release, we hope to speed up the release schedule over the next couple months to help us settle into our new Ubuntu base system."
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Dead at 92, Business Computing Pioneer David Caminer
Brooklyn Bob points out this "fascinating obituary of David Caminer, the first systems analyst. The tea company he worked for developed their own hardware and software — in 1951! Quoting New Scientist: 'In today's terms it would be like hearing that Pizza Hut had developed a new generation of microprocessor, or McDonald's had invented the Internet.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...
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Hyper-V launches without management tool
Microsoft finally launched its hypervisor technology, Hyper-V Friday, 144 days after the February launch of Windows Server 2008 (WS 2008).
iTNews |
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Microsoft to acquire mobile services developer
Microsoft has announced plans to acquire a firm specialising in mobile data, particularly in providing phone users with mobile access to content. The move will extend the capabilities of Windows Mobile and Windows Live, Microsoft said.
iTNews |
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Hams show slice of technology
RAYNE - Herman Campbell remembers the early days of ham radios, when equipment was larger than most modern-day computers and the technology could be hit-or-miss.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 17th Jul 2005 14:21 UTC
1) If Sun went bankrupt tomorrow, Java would continue to exist. Lots of companies participate in the JCP, and there are competing implementations of the Java components. Java also works on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, and others, in addition to Windows.
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