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Cameras Help Fight Crime At High School
HONOLULU -- A brutal videotaped beating of a high school girl in Florida reminded many in Hawaii of the dangers harassment and violence posted on the Internet.
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Hallmark taking on e-cards
Looking to follow up on the success of its greeting cards that play music and sound clips, Hallmark Cards is letting customers get into the act. On Monday, in time for Mother’s Day, the nation’s largest greeting card seller is releasing a line of recordable cards that allow the sender to save a 10-second message on a computer chip embedded in the card, followed by a 15-second snippet of music. ...
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Darwin's private Papers get Internet Launch
By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - The first draft of Charles Darwin's "On The Origin Of Species" is among a wealth of papers belonging to the intensely private man who changed science being published on the Internet on Thursday for...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 17:43 UTC
Microsoft has rejected porting its Office productivity suite to Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop. Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Microsoft's head of platform strategy, Nick McGrath, said that the software maker had no intention of porting Office to any of the Linux desktop distributions.
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Criminal Charges for Online Statements
KASSON, MN -- Watch what you write online, or you may have law enforcement knocking on your door if the statement is harmful and untrue. That's what happened to a Rochester man after police say he made defamatory comments about a couple of Dodge County officials.
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IBM, eBay: The Boost from Overseas
A weak U.S. dollar and fast growth abroad are helping tech companies handle the economic slump—and beat analyst expectations
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Tour the Tony Stark House Set
Yahoo! Movies has posted this set visit piece featuring Iron Man director Jon Favreau giving a tour of Tony Stark's house in the movie.
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Heads Up: Worldwide PC sales increase; convicted execs had getaway plan
Worldwide shipments of personal computers increased in the first quarter by 12.3 percent, according to Gartner Inc., and by 14.6 percent, according to IDC. The two technology research firms both announced their estimates Wednesday. U.S. sales increased by only 3 percent, so overseas growth accounted for most of the increase. Hewlett-Packard remained the No. 1 PC maker in the world.
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Facebook, networking sites attracting program developers
Two Scottsdale men are joining the rapidly growing number of developers building special programs.
The Arizona Republic |
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Edward N. Lorenz, a Meteorologist and a Father of Chaos Theory, Dies at 90
Dr. Lorenz was a meteorologist who tried to predict the weather with computers but instead gave rise to the modern field of chaos theory.
New York Times |
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'Expelled' makers go on offensive against 'thought police'
A court challenge to the new movie "Expelled: No Intelligence allowed," by Ben Stein is nothing more than an attempt on the part of the pro-evolution believers in the science community to stifle the free expression and debate of ideas, movie officials say.
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Personal Belongings Of Local Soliders In Afganistan Stolen
They headed off to Afghanistan to serve their country, only to have their personal belongings and valuables stolen enroute; everything from socks, to laptop computers. There's an effort to help them get back what they've lost, and then some. Call it camo for a cause. It's a long way from Afghanistan - but maybe what's happening here will make it all seem a little closer.
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Extra Cost to Buy Yahoo: Retention Pay
Shareholders, to be sure, will collect their payment, but Microsoft will likely need to offer financial incentives to prevent engineers and managers from hopping to other jobs.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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To Cut of What? The World Butts In
An increasing number of Internet users are polling online to decide whether to trim or grow, to shave or cultivate a goatee.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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UWGB Upgrades Warning System for Students
Public Safety has more than a few ways of alerting students about shootings and other emergencies. The latest tool uses every computer on the network as a warning device.
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Plan It
Throwing stuff in the garbage is so common; most people don’t even realize how often they do it. Eating, drinking, working, playing and just living all seem to produce some sort of waste. But there are ways to minimize our trails of trash, through recycling, reusing and reducing.
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Technology trips up thieves
The same GPS-based technology that has been used successfully to track stolen cars, and more recently, stolen laptop computers, now is being used to locate stolen materials and equipment from construction sites, according to Norman police.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Nov 2005 13:41 UTC
Users will be free to comment on the upcoming complex and technical draft versions of the GNU General Public License 3.0 in an easy way, according to Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation.
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Sales in Q1 lift Intel shares
Intel shares jumped more than 6%, a day after the computer chip maker reported first-quarter sales that beat Wall Street expectations and surprised some analysts for how well its core business in microprocessors held up, an Associated Press report said.
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PC shipment growth in U.S. slow, healthy everywhere else
Notebooks continue to drive PC growth and Dell continues its comeback, according to IDC's quarterly report. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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EBay Chief Says Change Isn?t Over
John Donahoe, the new chief of the Internet?s largest e-commerce site, wants eBay to operate less like an unruly flea market and more like a strip mall.
New York Times |
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AMD's Quad-Core Opteron Available in Dell Servers
Five Dell servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' Quad-Core Opteron processors are available on the computer company's Web...
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Saffronart: A case-study for Harvard students
Art analysts believe that other online galleries do not always put prices on works of art because they want to leave room for negotiation. But with access to prices, and archives on the histories of the artists and their works, Saffronart simply swept the market away.
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