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Revenue software blow-out
A South Australian parliamentary committee has identified a blow-out of more than $20 million in a new computer system for state revenue collection.
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7 Responses to “How The Madeleine McCann Story Was Hijacked By Web Trolls”
One of the most bizarre and troubling aspects of of the Madeleine McCann story has been the way the coverage of the story has itself become the story.
Anorak |
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Job vacancy: IT Services Manager
(Ref: N/A) Bracknell Forest Homes is a newly formed not-for-profit housing association. Following a successful ballot of all tenants, in February 2008 Bracknell Forest Homes took over 5,600 homes from Bracknell Forest Borough Council.
PublicTechnology.net |
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Laptop taken from student
A student had a $900 laptop stolen after being assaulted during a street robbery in Jersey City early Sunday morning, police reports said.
The Jersey Journal |
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Rhapsody to challenge iTunes by embracing the iPod
Digital music seller Rhapsody is launching a $50 million marketing assault on Apple's iTunes, offering songs online and via partners including Yahoo Inc and Verizon Wireless.
The Economic Times |
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Confirmed: Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook’s Board Of Directors
Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Opsware and Ning and the former CTO of AOL, is adding a new notch in his belt: he has joined the board of directors of Facebook, two sources close to the company confirmed to us (speculation about Andreessen possibly joining the Facebook board started last month on the Boomtown blog). [...]
TechCrunch |
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"Family Guy" creator and Google team up
It's unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy". MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising...
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Posted: 30-06-2008 , 00:20 GMT
Jordan Telecom Group (JTG), the leading integrated telecommunications provider in the Kingdom, announced during a press conference held yesterday the reduction of the internet protocol (IP) connectivity costs from 15% up to 52% to the Internet providers.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-06-30 07:15 ASOS FY underlying pretax profit up 176 percent
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - ASOS Plc, the AIM-listed internet fashion retailer, reported Monday a 176 percent increase in full-year underlying pretax profit and buoyant current trading, bucking the deepening gloom in the UK retail sector.
Interactive Investor |
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Online fashion firm ASOS profit surges
Mon 30 Jun, 2008 06:08
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Feb 2006 18:23 UTC
Sun's ambitions have grown another size larger . The server and software company launched its servers based on its own UltraSparc T1 'Niagara' chips in December, a major part of a drive to restore its lost luster and financial strength.
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Recent Original Stories
"A lot of people have heard of GNU/Linux (more commonly referred to as just 'Linux') and are having trouble finding out what the differences are between different versions - or distributions - that are available.
OS News |
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Bloggers put Wales in political spotlight
WALES boasts some of the most fascinating politics in the United Kingdom, according to a man who has transformed the art of blogging in Britain.
icWales |
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Brno animal crematorium offers online cremation shows
Brno, June 27 (CTK) - Brno's crematorium for animals, the only of its kind in the Czech Republic, newly offers on-line cremation for people to watch their late pets being incinerated, Kristyna Sromova from the crematorium has told CTK.
Prague Daily Monitor |
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Personal assistants found cheap on Internet
NEW YORK -- Think only celebrities, high-ranking professionals and the wealthy can enjoy having personal assistants at their beck and call? Not necessarily.
London Free Press |
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Web 2.0 Start-Ups = Social Science Experiments
Recently I had the great pleasure to hear the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, give the keynote at the Tetherless World Conference organized by Rensellaer Polytechnique Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY (see RWW's live blogging of the event ). He is such an entertaining and thought-provoking speaker that it is hard to isolate one nugget, but after a few weeks I am still thinking about ...
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Plzeň town hall clerk contributes to neo-Nazi websites
Plzen, West Bohemia, June 27 (CTK) - A Plzen Town Hall employee has sent anonymous contributions to the websites of some ultra-right organisations from an office computer but he has been uncovered and immediately dismissed, Plzen Mayor Pavel Roedl (senior ruling Civic Democrats, ODS) told CTK Friday.
Prague Daily Monitor |
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Gates Says Yahoo Deal 'not Likely'
A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo doesn't appear likely to happen in the future, Bill Gates said.
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Mobile phones, Internet lead to students’ suicides: IIT
LUCKNOW: The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has blamed constant use of mobile phones and enormous Internet surfing by students for increasing numbers of suicides on the campus, officials said.
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Reshuffle at Microsoft continues: J Allard now will take care also of Windows Mobile 7 ?
June 30, 2008 [General] By Edward J. R. The guy who considers himself so cool, that he legally changed his name to just one letter, now is responsible for user experience in whole Entertainment and Devices (E&D) division, part of which is Windows Mobile!
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US local online video ad market to reach $1.5 billion
NEW JERSEY, USA: According to The Kelsey Group's U.S. Local Video Forecast (2007-2012), local online video ad revenues will experience significant growth during the forecast period, increasing from US$10.9 million in 2007 to US$1.5 billion by the end of 2012, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 167.8 percent.
CIOL |
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Area teachers made examples of what not to do online
A handful of 20-somethings got a staunch reminder last month of a subtler job-hunting lesson — that they need to polish their online profiles before entering the work force.
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Local Volunteers Prep Record Shipment To Troops
Sacramento volunteers are working into the night to help put together the largest shipment of care packages ever for troops overseas. Boxes filled with cookies, beef jerky, deodorant, sunscreen and other items will follow the troops into war zones thanks to an internet fundraiser that went far better than expected.
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Jordan Telecom Group cuts IP connectivity costs by 15- 52%
30 June 2008 AMMAN - Jordan Telecom Group (JTG) on Sunday a reduction of Internet protocol (IP) connectivity costs to Internet providers by 15- 52 per cent.
Zawya |
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Lloyds TSB gives Visa cards to 11-year-olds
Lloyds TSB is sending the cards directly to children raising fears that they are being used to buy cigarettes, alcohol and pornography over the internet.
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