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Irish people log on in greater numbers
THE number of Irish people who are online is expected to outnumber those who are not by the end of the year.
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Privacy advocate to avoid charge (7:08 pm)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A privacy advocate who posted Social Security numbers on a Web site to show that the government had failed to protect individuals' privacy will not be charged under a new Virginia law, state officials said Monday.
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Ashlar-Vellum offers updates, Grasshopper coming
Ahslar-Vellum is preparing updates to its line of CAD software tools and 3D-tool Grasshopper is progressing towards the Mac platform. Ashlar-Vellum has announced Graphite v8 SP1 Beta, which has new features, and it is about to release Cobalt, Xenon and Argon v8 for PowerPC-based Macs according to Architosh. Also, Grasshopper is coming to Mac OS X, ...
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Safari 3.1.2 fixes critical security flaws
Apple on Monday released Safari 3.1.2 for Mac OS X v10.4.11, which fixes an issue that could lead to arbitrary code execution and patched another flaw that was previously corrected in the Mac version The company also released a slew of security fixes in Security Update 2008-004 and Mac OS X 10.5.4. The critical Safari flaw for Tiger -- which also a...
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PS2 full-game downloads coming to PSN?
Convincing screenshot appears online indicating software for PlayStation 3 predecessor will be available for purchase later this summer in Europe.
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Court fines eBay €40m for selling fake luxury goods
A PARIS court yesterday ordered Internet auctioneer eBay to pay €40 million in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods online.
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XP is dead; long live XP
news analysis Windows XP was supposed to be discontinued on Monday, but a series of concessions by Microsoft have ensured that is no longer the case.
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GamesRadar Ultimate Character Battle! - Day 1
It's an argument that's dominated schoolyards for millennia: If you were to somehow pit Fictional Character X against Fictional Character Y, who would win? And nowhere is that argument fought more frequently, or with more passion, than on the internet.
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Contrary to news reports, Windows XP isn't dead, a US-based systems builder said today.
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Veteran CHP officer retires from the road after three decades
South Bay motorists who ignore today's new hands-free law, be thankful. Sgt. Wally Snyder is no longer on the job.
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Hearings begin on laptop border searches
Miffed that, if you return home from travel overseas, U.S. Customs can decide to search, and even seize, all the files on your computer , your camera, and even your cell phone? So is Senator Russ Feingold, who opened Congressional hearings on the matter last week with a scathing indictment on the practice. In Feingold's published opening remarks ( full transcription here ), he begins by ...
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Gateway Upgrades Retail PCs To Up To 6 GB Of Memory
Gateway announced its updated retail notebook and desktop PC offering for the back-to-school season with prices ranging from $549.
Tom's Hardware |
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Startup Puts Unified Communications On One Box
Unison, a company bringing a Linux-based unified communications technology to market, released pricing and channel program details.
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Cosmic Log: Rocketeers try, try again
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: PlanetSpace may not have kept up with its original spaceship-building plans, but it's moving ahead with concepts for a new suborbital spaceship as well as an orbital launch system.
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French Court Slaps eBay With $63M Judgment
Auctions of fake Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey (LVMH) goods that a French tribunal believed eBay should have prevented resulted in a verdict against the online marketplace. read more
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Darzi points to broader NHS Choices
While the headlines have focused on plans for a new NHS Constitution and patient choice around the type of treatment, the detail of High quality care for all includes a number of measures to give patients more information online.
KableNET |
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Apple Posts Safari 3.1.2, Fixes WebKit Security Issue in Tiger
Late on Monday, Apple posted Safari 3.1.2 for OS X Tiger 10.4.11 which fixes a security issue related to Webkit handling of JavaScript arrays that could lead to arbitrary code execution. The identifier is CVE-2008-2307
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Kage roi table does your web searches for you
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets , Household Only recently we told you about a table that monitors who is dominating a conversation and deemed it potentially disruptive. This time, however, we're looking at the "Kage roi" which looks to add to the coming together of wits and intelligences. Using voice recognition, Kage roi grabs keyboards and performs internet searches, displaying the ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 14th Aug 2006 16:42 UTC
Every skilled trade has its secrets -- those little tricks, techniques, and tools that make light of even the most complex task. Programmers, system administrators, and other UNIX computer professionals have their own kind of specialized tools.
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eBay fined £31m over sales of fake luxury goods
In a potentially landmark judgment, the auction website eBay was found guilty by a French court yesterday of failing to prevent the sale of fake luxury goods on the internet.
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Customer Service
O'FALLON, Mo. - Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill Monday outlawing cyberbullying, mere kilometres from where a 13-year-old girl committed suicide nearly two years ago after being harassed on the Internet.
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Families show anger in court
SHAH ALAM: There was high drama at the High Court here yesterday when family members of a computer technician lashed out at two men who were sentenced to seven years' jail for causing his death in a road attack.
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No siesta for inflation
Arnulfo Barrientos canceled his Internet service after his food bill jumped 50 percent. Jose Luiz Nunez and his wife, Mayela, drive their car two or three times a week instead of every day.
China Daily |
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Broken mug best Yahoo analogy yet? [Caption Contest]
With Jerry Yang and company trying to pick up the pieces, shattered glass might be a better analogy than "systematic rot," but it's been used before. Have a better analogy? The best one will become... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft
recoiledsnake writes "We have heard about lots of talented developers jumping ship from Microsoft to Google, but is the trend beginning to turn? Dare Obasanjo (a Microsoft employee) writes about a few high-profile people picking Microsoft over Google — either making the jump directly, or choosing Microsoft after receiving offers at both. Sergey Solyanik is back to Microsoft and he primarily ...
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