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New law bans sale of tobacco online
In an age where almost anything can be purchased with a click of the mouse, there's one thing that, by law, will no longer be available for online purchase beginning today -- tobacco. ... - By DAWSON RASPUZZI Herald Staff
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Video chip may get role in oil search
Repsol, based in Spain, tested IBM supercomputers powered by Cell processors to decipher the complex geology found at greater depths. The technology makes the computing process of searching for oil deposits up to six times faster, the companies said.
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Simi Valley teen puts volunteer talents to work on her Web site
Raised to always give back, Meghan Allen spent most of her early teenage years volunteering with more than 30 charitable organizations, from facilitating blood drives for the American Red Cross to helping nurses in the emergency room at Simi Valley Hospital.
Ventura County Star |
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Google's zoom-in view rankles
Street-level photos raise privacy issue as feature expands in Middle Tennessee.
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Technology Partnership Helps Cut Fuel Use
6/30/2008 Discrete Wireless, Atlanta,and Link It Software of Valencia, Calif., announced their partnership designed to offer vehicle and fleet owners a Web-based software tool to reduce fuel consumption by 15 percent or more.
TruckingInfo.com |
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Microsoft
Q: Which format is your priority in Europe? You have these big Xbox 360 titles such as Mass Effect, but they don't see release on the PC until six months after the console release. Why don't you go for a simulataneous treatment on these titles?
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Microsoft
Microsoft Games Studios Europe has said that while it continues to support the PC and Xbox 360 equally, consumers shouldn't expect to see hit titles released simultaneously on each format as the PC version would take away a significant portion of console sales.
gamesindustry.biz |
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EBay ordered to pay for fake items
A French commercial court ordered eBay to pay more than $59 million to a high-end fashion company because counterfeit goods were sold on the auction site, an Associated Press report said.
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If lightning strike isn't fatal, still problems
A bolt of lightning appears as a green minus sign on a computer program at the National Weather Service. Sift through enough data, and the strike that hospitalized two men Sunday in Damascus shows up.
The Oregonian |
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Yahoo starts to 'defend' case to shareholders
Yahoo is starting to meet with its major shareholders in hopes of fending off activist investor Carl Icahn, an Associated Press report said.
America's Network |
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Google, Tele Atlas seals 5-year map deal
Dutch digital map maker TeleAtlas signed a five-year deal with Google that will see its maps included on new Google services, including cellphones based on its Android operating system, a Dow Jones report said.
America's Network |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Jul 2006 22:07 UTC
Good as well as bad news for Microsoft on the legal front. Their good news is that a judge has rejected Go Computing's claim that Microsoft used dirty tricks to keep it out of the operating system market.
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Recent Original Stories
As part of its three-pronged quest for worldwide Internet domination - via MSN, Live Search, and Windows Live - Microsoft has unleashed a bundled download of its installed desktop Live software: Mail, Photo Gallery, Writer, and OneCare Family Safety.
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Police focus on Bennett's uncle
RANDOLPH CENTER -- A man named Monday as a "person of interest" in the disappearance of a 12-year-old Braintree girl has been linked by police to an alleged Internet ring used to lure underage girls into sex. ... - By PETER HIRSCHFELD Vermont Press Bureau
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 18:48 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Through all the Windows and Microsoft bashing on the intertubes, it's almost easy to forget that Windows does, in fact, have quite a few positive aspects as well.
New Mobile Computing |
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From poetry assignment to national finalist West Valley sophomore BreAnna Jones just wanted to get a good grade; she ...
Sitting in the computer lab last winter, 16-year-old BreAnna Jones, a sophomore at West Valley High School, indifferently searched through hundreds of poems -- from William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" to Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Recuerdo."
Yakima Herald-Republic |
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Cyberbullying ban signed
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill Monday outlawing cyberbullying, just miles from where a 13-year-old girl committed suicide nearly two years ago after being harassed on the Internet.
Denver Post |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 18:48 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Through all the Windows and Microsoft bashing on the intertubes, it's almost easy to forget that Windows does, in fact, have quite a few positive aspects as well.
OS News |
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A-pad convertible netbook joins budget PC market
Another week, another budget laptop - this time, the A-pad convertible netbook.
Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Real Estate by Christie Smythe: Foreclosure-data Web sites becoming big business
Foreclosure filings are public information, free for anyone to see if you know where to find them.
Arizona Daily Star |
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Police focus on Bennett's uncle
RANDOLPH CENTER -- A man named Monday as a "person of interest" in the disappearance of a 12-year-old Braintree girl has been linked by police to an alleged Internet ring used to lure underage girls into sex. ... - By PETER HIRSCHFELD Vermont Press Bureau
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PRO TECHnology and Anevia deploy an IPTV solution for Abu Dhabi Media Corporation
PRO TECHnology, a leading provider of communication, security and storage solutions, and Anevia, a leading vendor of next generation Video on Demand (VOD) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) head-end servers, have partnered to deploy a state-of-the-art IPTV solution within the Abu Dhabi Media Corporation (ADMC).
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Online multiplayer games account for over 60% of revenues on cashU
Young online gamers without access to credit cards account for a majority of revenue on cashU, the largest Internet payment system in the Middle East and Africa.
AME Info |
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Strike shuts Tel Aviv Stock Exchange again
TEL AVIV, July 1 (Reuters) - The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange said on Tuesday it will not be able to begin trade on time as staff did not run the computers used to handle trades and clearing operations.
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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Plummer was beloved Met behind the scenes
You see the Mets all the time, at times in person and almost every night on television. You read about them every day in the newspaper, every minute on the Internet. You talk about them constantly. You think you know everything there is to know about the Mets.
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