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Watchdog wants global drive against online abuse
LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of child abuse Web sites around the world could be shut down if countries worked together to tackle the problem, an Internet watchdog said in a report on Thursday.
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Just Your Average $42,000 Digital Piano (With Net Connection)
Disklavier’s Mark IV is the first piano with an Internet connection and includes a variety of tricks.
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Agora's interest in Bankier.pl's sends its value soaring
On Wednesday, shares of business portal Bankier.pl rose 12.6%, in reaction to the morning report of Wood & Co. suggesting that Agora might be interested in purchasing the company.
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IBM Profit Tops Analysts' Estimates as Sales Gain (Update3)
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 2.4 percent.
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Watchdog wants global drive against online abuse
Hundreds of child abuse Web sites around the world could be shut down if countries worked together to tackle the problem, an Internet watchdog said in a report on Thursday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Dec 2005 14:53 UTC
"I would like to announce a VMware Player image for Syllable 0.6.0a available in the normal VMware images location . This works fine with VMware Player on Linux. I haven't tried it yet on Windows, but I assume it works fine there, too.
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Microsoft said it plans to release a third service pack for SQL Server 2005.
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Curl Wednesday announced support for Ubuntu Linux, which will allow desktop Ubuntu users to easily see Curl-enhanced Web content on their computers without having to manually configure a player.
ARNnet |
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UH Professor Offers Online Instruction
HOUSTON -- Some students at the University of Houston are learning and earning class credit while logging on the Internet, KPRC Local 2, Your Education Station, reported Wednesday.
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Comcast Wants File-Sharing "Bill of Rights"
Telecom giant Comcast, under fire for attempting to assert more control over consumers' access to the Internet, is proposing a P2P Bill of Rights "to clarify what choices and controls consumers should have when using P2P applications." Many aren't buying the company's apparent benevolence, though...
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Google adapts copyright-ID technology for child-porn fight
NEW YORK - THE fight against child pornography is getting an assist from technology designed by Google. to help identify copyright-protected clips on its YouTube video-sharing site.
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French luxury brand LVMH denies Tibet support
PARIS - LVMH has so far not been affected by any boycott of its products in China, the head of the French luxury group said in an interview, denying accusations by Chinese Internet users that it supported Tibet's Dalai Lama against China.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Jan 2007 18:41 UTC, submitted by Sandro Hartley
Andrew Tanenbaum has introduced his latest metric: LFs - Lifetime Failures to describe the number of times software, particularly the operating system, has crashed in a user's lifetime.
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YouTube Divorce Video Causes Internet Stir
When it comes to pain and suffering, going through a divorce is right up there, and now a former actress is using YouTube to take it to a whole new level. Divorce is painful enough, but imagine hundreds of thousands of strangers knowing all the intimate details of your relationship. It's the new weapon in divorce wars.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st May 2006 15:31 UTC
"In this mini-writeup, we will be discussing from a fairly objective position how Internet Explorer 7 now stands compared to the latest offerings from it's biggest competitors: Firefox and Opera. This isn't a comparison, there will be no 'winner', not in this article at any rate!"
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Economy Could Slam PC Shipments in US
Though PC shipments grew in the first half of 2008, the economic slowdown in the U.S. could rear its ugly head on desktop and...
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The sky is falling on the number of global IP addresses, executives from major technology companies said Wednesday.
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Computer data celebrated 9/11 terror attack
AN ARTICLE rejoicing in the actions of "The Nineteen Lions" who carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks was found on the computer of a man accused of helping the 7 July
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Must have: DriveSentry GoAnywhere
Although the floppy disc was ubiquitous in the Eighties, and the Nineties had the CD-ROM, it is the USB stick that dominates the Noughties. Suddenly we can carry gigabytes of data around in something smaller than a box of matches.
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Smart phone threats yield opportunities
David DeWalt, chief executive officer of computer security company McAfee Inc., knows that wherever the Internet goes, viruses and malicious code are sure to follow.
The Globe and Mail |
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Intel Looks to Gain Back Market Share
Within the server market, Intel looks to gain at AMD’s expense.... Check Out The #1 Technology Research Tool! SEARCH The Most Massive Development White Paper Library In The Industry.
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Can Tesco topple iTunes?
The launch of a music download service from the supermarket giant could shift Apple's position at the top, says Claudine Beaumont. Not a chance, says Matt Warman, unless teenagers find a taste for chart pop.
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EDITORIAL: Restoring standards
HOW refreshing it is to hear Datuk Seri Najib Razak speak out against the deteriorating command of language in society. He is not alone in lamenting the rising sub-literacy among us; the creeping rot of language incubated in the fractured atrocities of "SMSese" and the grinning, winking "emoticons" of email and other Internet-based forms of what passes as "communication" these days. But how ...
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SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums is being awarded a prestigious South African government honor for leading the struggle in Congress for the economic sanctions that helped end South African apartheid.
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