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Smart signs next-gen deal with ESB Telecoms
Smart Telecom has signed a multi-million-euro deal with ESB Telecoms that will enable it to target 1.5 million users with fibre-based broadband services.
ElectricNews.Net |
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How the AP-Yahoo News Poll was conducted
The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The fifth wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,759 people between June 13-23 who were originally interviewed in November or early December.
KOB-TV Albuquerque |
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EBay Loses French Court Ruling in LVMH Counterfeiting Case
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- EBay Inc. , the world's largest Internet auctioneer, lost a second French court ruling over claims the company doesn't do enough to stop the sale of counterfeit goods.
Bloomberg.com |
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Police track predators into cyberspace
By EMILY STRANGERThe Brunswick News Glynn County police are trying to keep children in the Golden Isles safe from Internet predators.
The Brunswick News |
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Sex diseases among over 45s rocket
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Britons aged over 45 has more than doubled in less than a decade with Internet dating and drugs that counter erectile dysfunction partly to blame, a report said on Monday.
Times of Malta |
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Saturday police news
In recognition of June as National Internet Safety Month, the Michigan State Police is reminding parents that the Internet can be a dangerous place for children without proper supervision.
Midland Daily News |
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PopTok lets movie clips do the talking in online messaging
SAN FRANCISCO--Israeli startup PopTok on Monday began inviting people to test a free service that weaves snippets from memorable films or hot music videos into instant messages and email.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Province to help fund broadband service
One day after a group of area residents appeared before Renfrew County council demanding it do something about high-speed internet, the provincial government announced a $30-million broadband investment. The four-year Rural Connections Broadband Program is designed to reduce infrastructure gaps in rural southern Ontario. Although Petawawa Mayor [...]
Pembroke Daily Observer |
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Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, IBM and Juniper Networks form security consortium
Five IT vendors have formed an organisation called the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet....
Computer Weekly |
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Man in Australia sells "life" for $383,000
A man in Australia who has been selling his "life" over the Internet since June 22 said Sunday he had settled the deal for 399,000 Austrian dollars (383,230 U.S. dollars).
Vietnam Net |
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Current Newswire:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]The execution of a full-text query failed. "The content index is corrupt."
Linux Today |
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NSW signs on for computers scheme
Kevin Rudd has avoided an embarrassing delay to his computers in schools program.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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US data swap 'will not include surfing history'
Clive Akass, Personal Computer World , Monday 30 June 2008 at 11:05:00 But EU will provide details of spending, banking and travel under controversial proposed pact Reports that the browsing records of Europeans would be made available to US authorities under a proposed pact have been denied by EU officials....
vnunet.com |
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The last chance to save Windows XP
Last Friday, we FedEx'd the Save Windows XP petition to Steve Ballmer. I have to say that sliding the memory stick into the envelope was an emotional experience: Over 210,000 users have made their voices heard to the world's largest software corporation. I think there's still a slim chance that Microsoft will change its mind about making XP available after today, particularly if we get more ...
InfoWorld |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 12:05 UTC, submitted by Magnum
"So how's that look-like-Windows thing working for the Linux community? Is the wave of desktop adoption far ahead of where it was in 2001 and 2002 when this started? And, if not, why don't we stop doing it?
New Mobile Computing |
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AP-Yahoo News poll: 9 in 10 hit hard by gas prices
Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline has stolen a beach vacation in South Carolina from Julie Jacobs' family and exotic bath washes from Angela Crawford. Phil English had to sell his beloved but fuel-guzzling red pickup.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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AP-Yahoo News poll: 9 in 10 hit hard by gas prices
Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline has stolen a beach vacation in South Carolina from Julie Jacobs' family and exotic bath washes from Angela Crawford.
AP via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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GLOUCESTER COUNTY: Library offers video downloads
WOODBURY -- The Gloucester County Library System is offering free video downloads on a daily basis. This service includes hundreds of movies from Hollywood and international studios, in addition to nonfiction programs.
Daily Journal |
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Now, just move your tongue to power a wheelchair
Washington, June 30 : Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a novel system that can enable individuals with disabilities to operate a computer, control a powered wheelchair, and interact with their environments simply by moving their tongues.
New Kerala |
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Mystery of supermodel's New York suicide: Vogue star, 20, threw herself from 9th floor flat
Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova wrote a series of heartbroken internet messages about love in the weeks before she leapt nine floors to her death. The striking beauty from Kazakhstan appears to have left no hints to her closest friends that she was depressed, let alone suicidal.
Evening Standard |
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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?
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Online Tunes, in Service to Africa
, 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.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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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.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Need Press? Repeat: ‘Green,’ ‘Sex,’ ‘Cancer,’ ‘Secret,’ ‘Fat’
Strategic word selection can catapult an announcement about a product or a “breakthrough” onto the evening news instead of to the spam folder or circular file.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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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.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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