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regain its former stature .
After just over a year as chief executive, Jonathan Schwartz is moving into a new phase as the leader of Sun Microsystems. Much of his opening months was spent emerging from the shadow of the highly visible Scott McNealy, boosted by Schwartz's high-profile blog.
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JOURNAL WEBSITE HACKED, AS BOSEMAN STAYS MUM, WEEK OF JUNE 26- JULY 2, 2008
As state Sen. Julia Boseman maintains her six-month-old silence about explosive allegations that she used highly derogatory racial slurs in the presence of her adopted minor child, the website of The Wilmington Journal is hacked and vandalized one day after a story and editorial critical of the District 9 two-term Democrat is posted.
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Steve McIntyre visited the LiMux team in Munich and has posted a small report
about the visit on his blog. LiMux is the specially tailored Debian distribution City of Munich deploys. "I'd like to talk some more about LiMux, the project being run within the City of Munich to replace all of their desktop Windows systems with Linux.
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Microsoft to cut price of Xbox 360?
Microsoft plans to cut the price of its best-selling Xbox 360 Pro model by US$50, to US$299 in the next few weeks, the Hollywood Reporter reported citing anonymous sources.
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Analysis: U.S. military to patrol Internet
by Shaun Waterman Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web.
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French court orders eBay to pay Vuitton $61 million
PARIS - A French court ordered eBay Inc. to pay more than $61 million to a high-end fashion company Monday because counterfeit goods were sold on the auction site.
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'Dogs lose to Trenton
(Trenton, NJ) - Trenton starter Eric Hacker (3-1) fired seven strong innings on one run, leading the Thunder (50-32) to a 6-1 victory over the Sea Dogs (44-36) in the series opener on Monday night at Waterfront Park. Portland has lost three straight to the Thunder and trail the defending Eastern League Champions by 5 games in the Northern Division.
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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #158: Bad RAM, iSights, Drive Speeds, and Startup Shortcuts
Before heading off on vacation next week, Dave joins John for an all-out Geek fest, discussing what to do about bad RAM, bad hard drives, how to find speed bottlenecks, and more. Plus, listeners share tips on iSights, batteries, finding files, and a great startup shortcuts printout
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jul 2007 14:06 UTC
"OpenSolaris is possibly Sun's most significant attempt to garner relevance in a market that increasingly demands the freedom and flexibility of open-source software.
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Congress still afraid to define 'internet gambling'
Whatever it is. It's illegal The intellectual haze that envelopes American internet gambling policy thickened the past week, as lawmakers failed to define what exactly constitutes "unlawful" internet gambling. As absurd as it sounds, two years after the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), Congress still can’t make up its collective mind as to what behavior the ...
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
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Missouri: Cyberbullying Law Is Signed
Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill outlawing cyberbullying in a ceremony miles from where a 13-year-old girl committed suicide after being harassed on the Internet.
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Autodesk hosts An Afternoon With Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Cambridge Studio
Tom Jones will give an exclusive insight into the making of Heavenly Sword at events taking place during 7-18 July in Moscow, London, Stockholm, Frankfurt and Warsaw.
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NBA trade impact report
Yahoo! Sports' fantasy NBA analyst Matt Buser breaks down the trades that went down around draft time.
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Mobile Me FAQ, Me.com addresses working
As Mobile Me nears its unveiling, Apple has written an FAQ support document for current .Mac customers who are curious about the impending transition, while a user has informed MacNN some unofficial good news regarding "@me.com" email addresses. The FAQ addresses many questions from users regarding whether or not services will be available, or whet...
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Yahoo questions how serious Microsoft was on deals
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO--Yahoo Inc on Monday sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy battle with billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist investor had an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the Internet company.
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Top Scoops
KiwiRail / Questions For Oral Answer / Rest Home Controversy / Child Health / ERMA & Highly Toxic Pesticides / Bus Operators & User Charge Increase / Cold Snap / Climate Outlook / Fairfax & Sub Editors / Internet Scams & TradeMe / London Bombings.
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Are You Ready to Outsource to a Search Engine Optimization Company?
So, you are the marketing manager of your firm, and you've finally decided to pull the trigger and hire the search engine optimization company that you've been talking to for months. The budget has been cleared, the SEO firm is ready to start, and it should be just a matter of time before you start seeing a huge uptick in business. Right? Not so fast.
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IIJ Innovation Institute's Second Round of Technologist Recruitment
TOKYO, July 1, 2008 -- Internet Initiative Japan Inc. , one of Japan's leading Internet access and comprehensive network solutions providers, today announced that IIJ Innovation Institute Inc. -- a business incubation center for technology development and commercialization of the next generation Internet, and a 100% owned subsidiary of IIJ -- will issue a call for new technologists on August 1 ...
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North Georgia Group Warns Parents About Internet Dangers
Sexual predators are not the only danger that needs to be on parents radar. read more
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Bag Helps Laptop Pass Air Security
New laptop bag approved by the Transportation Security Administration makes it possible to go through X-ray inspection without having to take the laptop out.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 26th Jan 2006 02:52 UTC
OS X contains unpatched security flaws of a type that were fixed on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago, according to a security researcher credited with finding numerous bugs in Apple's increasingly popular platform.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th May 2006 18:57 UTC
Linux.com reviews SUSE 10.1 , and concludes: "With SUSE 10.1, Novell has embraced and extended its role as the leading desktop distribution.
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Counterfeit Luxury Goods Cost eBay $61.7 Million in Damages
PARIS — The Internet auctioneer eBay was ordered yesterday to pay almost $62.9 million to luxury goods companies, including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, for allowing fake copies of their products to be sold via its Web site. A court in Paris found that eBay had committed "serious errors" and awarded damages of about $30.2 million and $25.6 million, respectively, to the two companies owned ...
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Kangaroo could end up in court
The video on demand system Kangaroo has been referred to the Competition Commission (CC) by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Kangaroo is a joint venture by BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 to offer their media over the internet, and eventually to make it available to television users as well.
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