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Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: FCC should send signal and take action against Comcast
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - On Thursday, all five members of the Federal Communications Commission will make an usual appearance in Silicon Valley, where they will host a public hearing at Stanford University for a debate on managing Internet traffic.
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Broadband connection a slow process
PARKERSBURG - A mapping survey of broadband access in West Virginia shows wide gaps in coverage, with high-speed Internet services concentrated in urban areas and along major highways and much of the Mid-Ohio Valley is without any coverage at all. "It's a lot like cable when it first came out," said Mark Fowler of Fairplain-based Unwired Web.
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Watch Your Back for ISP-Targeted Ads
Advertising delivery tools used by Internet service providers can monitor Web use and review e-mail content to deliver targeted ads to users. While ISPs claim they are careful to maintain user anonymity, legal professionals should still watch their backs when they're on the World Wide Web.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Nov 2006 15:10 UTC
Each day, members of the Windows team gather inside the 'shiproom' to go over the bugs that remain, and to debate which of these can still be fixed in the days left until Vista is declared finished, a milestone that is expected any time now.
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MAILSACK
WAR IS EXPENSIVE As millions of Floridians get ready to file their income taxes, it’s important to bring attention to the tax for the Iraq war, which has cost Florida $28.7 billion and counting. The human and economic costs of the Iraq war have been enormous.
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Ramesh: It's also an electronic device...
PRIME Minister Patrick Manning should seek House Speaker Barry Sinanan's permission to attend Parliament with his pacemaker. This was suggested yesterday by Opposition Chief Whip Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, who pointed out that a pacemaker, like a laptop, is an electronic device.
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Most computer users repeat passwords, at their peril
Using the same password for multiple Web pages is the Internet-era equivalent of having the same key for your home, car and bank safe-deposit box.
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Longtime friends launch Web site offering checklists for just about anything
Need a step-by-step guide on how to throw a party? Live "green"? Prepare for a storm? These two ladies can help.
TCPalm.com |
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PC shipments post big rise in first quarter
BOSTON -- Anemic U.S. growth didn't prevent computer makers from posting another double-digit gain in shipments worldwide in the first quarter, according to two technology research firms that both said the increase beat their forecasts. ... - By MARK JEWELL The Associated Press
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THE CRATE DEBATE
As I write this, Marci Brinker at Insomnia Radio: Orlando is turning me on to an interesting local singer named Timothy Simpson. Simultaneously, a friend is instant-messaging a live Jens Lekman bootleg of a show in Sweden, and my IndieFeed podcast is readying a song by Chi-town battle MC Verbal Kent. Next to that download, Santa Monica’s KCRW public radio wants me to hear a Paul Simon knockoff ...
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New Freedom, and Peril, in Online Criticism of China
HAIKOU, China -- Wang Qianyuan did not realize she would cause such a frenzy last week when she ran into a group of American students, Tibetan flags tied over their shoulders, getting ready for a vigil at Duke University to support human rights.
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Analysts Claim Improved Reliability for Linux Servers
Mainstream Linux distributions for servers have caught up substantially with Unix in terms of reliability over the past year, while Windows Server 2003 downtime has risen by nearly 25 percent, according to a Yankee Group survey.The research firm's survey also noted a significant rise in enterprise interest in Ubuntu, previously known primarily as a desktop operating system.The 2007-2008 Global ...
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Hitachi launches 450GB storage for hard drives
Apr 16 — Hitachi recently introduced the Ultrastar 15K450. The new drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to provide 450GB of storage for 15,000 RPM enterprise-class hard drives.
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Bruce Schneier's Security Matters: Prediction -- The RSA Conference Will Shrink Like a Punctured Balloon
If there's one thing last week's RSA Conference made clear, it's that no one wants to buy security as a stand-alone product.
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Coventry Police aware of ‘smash and grab’ contest
JESSICA SELBY This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Word was that on the Rants and Raves area of Craigslist, Coventry middle school students had put out a challenge to other students to break into cars and steal change and small items.
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Hilton Head Detectives search couple’s personal data
Investigators are searching computers, cell phones and personal digital devices to try to find out what happened to a missing Hilton Head couple. Detectives are going line by line through thousands of e-mails and other information, Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner told The (Hilton Head) Island Packet. Tanner’s comments were the first update on the investigation in three weeks. Tanner says the ...
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IBM's 1Q earnings jump 26 percent; company raises outlook
BOSTON (AP) - Shares of IBM Corp. surged to a six-year high after the technology company surprised analysts by reporting a 26 percent jump in quarterly earnings and boosting its full-year forecast.
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TV takes the online challenge
Australian television has plunged into a trial of web distribution, reports Paul McIntyre.
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MPD Unveils Real Time Crime Center
It's MPD's flashiest new high-tech gizmo, but will it solve crime? Top brass think so and they have proof from other cities.
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Recent Original Stories
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.
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Monaco Coach Corporation Invites You to Join Its First Quarter Conference Call on the Web
COBURG, Ore., April 16 -- In conjunction with its first quarter earnings release, Monaco Coach Corp. invites you to listen to its conference call broadcast live over the Internet at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 23, 2008.
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Alta needs to do better on computer security: auditor general
In the expanding world of cyber-information, Alberta needs to pull up its socks or risk having confidential data exposed, the provincial auditor general reported Wednesday.
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Inferno make mad dash to Texas
INFERNO PLAYERS AND coaches were glued to their computers Wednesday night, awaiting the Game 5 result between South Carolina and Augusta. The Stingrays won 3-1 to clinch the series after losing the first two games in Augusta. That means Columbia, the fifth seed in the ECHL South, will have to hustle to the Lone Star State for a best-of-five division semifinal series against the top-seeded Texas ...
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Popular business directory searches
Assistant Systems Administrator Continental Resources, Inc. (CRI) is progressive, mid-size, independently owned Oil and Gas Exploration Company. CRI is ...
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"A growing number of state politicians are proposing new laws to levy taxes on digital downloads, including music, video, and books, as a way to remedy budget pains," Anne Broache reports for CNET. "Call it the iTunes tax."
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