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Two held after fake software seized
More than £100,000 worth of pirated computer software, DVDs and music CDs were seized during an operation in West Yorkshire. (01/07/2008 09:44:58)
Yorkshire Post Today |
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Adobe offers Google, Yahoo tools to search Flash
Adobe Systems has a new plan to ensure Flash files are indexable by search engines.
Macworld UK |
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Apple patches 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities
Apple has issued its fourth security Mac OS X update of the year, patching 25 vulnerabilities, nearly half of them considered critical.
Macworld UK |
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EBay ordered to pay $61M
PARIS - A French court on Monday ordered the online auction giant eBay to pay 38.6 million euros, or $61 million, in damages to the French luxury goods company LVMH, in the latest round in a long-running legal battle over the sale of counterfeit goods on the Internet.
San Jose Mercury News |
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TradeMe scam uncovered
Internet watchdog group ScamBusters has issued an urgent warning for TradeMe members. Anyone who has purchased a laptop from a trader known as n_sale_z may have been scammed.
TVNZ |
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Southwest finds success with hedging
Dallas- The computer screen on Scott Topping's desk at Southwest Airlines flickered with row after row of dates and numbers, but they had nothing to do with arrivals and departures.
The Plain Dealer |
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UK’s ALCB Protects Online Bill Payments ePaynews.com
Jul 01 2008 : The UK’s Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank (ALCB) has started using 3D Secure to protect cardholders using its BillPay online bill payment service.
ePaynews |
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Girl found; Amber Alert canceled
An Amber Alert issued by the Michigan State Police at the Brighton post on Monday afternoon for a missing 16-year-old girl was canceled after she was found safe in Georgia, visiting a 19-year-old man she met on the Internet.
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus |
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Our Heroes: I Love Stoke website produces smiles
A website which has brought together volunteers dedicated to bringing a smile back to faces in Stoke-on-Trent has created a group of heroes. The internet site, Love Stoke, was set up last year with the idea of bringing together people who wanted ...
Sentinel |
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Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint ...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/72e99e/professional_share) has announced the addition of the "Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007" report to their offering.
Centre Daily Times |
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eBay fined £36m for selling fake Louis Vuitton
Ebay has been ordered to pay French luxury goods company LVMH Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton £32m (€40m) for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods. The landmark victory took place in a French court today (June 30).
Mad.co.uk |
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Ericsson to provide mobile broadband modules for Toshiba business laptops
Ericsson has become partner of choice for the integration of HSPA mobile broadband modules into Toshiba's business laptop range in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. HSPA is the world's most widely deployed mobile broadband technology, with 198 commercially deployed networks available in 86 countries worldwide[1 ]
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Toys'R'Us and Lucasfilm Join Forces to Celebrate Star Wars(TM): The Clone Wars - The Latest Chapter in the Star Wars ...
To celebrate the highly anticipated August 15 theatrical release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Toys"R"Us, U.S. and Lucasfilm Ltd. have partnered to create the ultimate Star Wars destination in Toys"R"Us stores nationwide and online at www.Toysrus.com.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Centric and Hokura Enter Agreement Focused on Fashion Industry Services Delivery
CAMPBELL, Calif.----Centric Software, a leading provider of product lifecycle management solutions for fast moving consumer goods industries, today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Hokura LLC, a leading provider of retail supply chain automation and compliance management software and services.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Governors seek new tools to protect wildlife from development
JACKSON -- Three-dimensional computer programs similar to Google Earth could help humans better "co-evolve" with wildlife, and could assist state and federal officials in protecting critical habitat and migration routes while still developing vital energy resources, speakers said Sunday at the Western Governors’ Association meeting.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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CHP vet called 'em like he saw 'em
South Bay motorists who ignore today's new hands-free law, be thankful. Sgt. Wally Snyder is no longer on the job.
San Jose Mercury News |
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"Microsoft deliberately damaging PC gaming?"
"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.
EuroGamer |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Dec 2007 16:27 UTC
Microsoft is serious about getting Windows XP to work on OLPC's low-cost laptop , but the company still isn't sure it will be able to make a go of it.
OS News |
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Feds: Teen made computers 'zombies'
CHEYENNE -- A local teenager has been charged in connection with an elaborate computer virus scheme that officials say turned thousands of personal computers into "zombies" and used them to rip off banking and credit card information.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Nov 2006 17:14 UTC, submitted by Weevle
"Microsoft finally launches the long-awaited Windows Vista today, promising better security and improved search and claiming it will be the fastest ever adopted operating system it has released.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Sep 2005 11:08 UTC
" Another interesting announcement here at PDC is that Microsoft is creating a subset of their cool, fancy pants UI layer (formerly code-named Avalon, now WPF) on other platforms, including the Mac! In fact, one of the demos involved showing vector graphics rendered in Safari using a Microsoft plug-in."
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight CD3 has been released. I haven't received the email on ubuntu-devel yet, but the .iso files appear to be up ( Ubuntu Kubuntu ). Improvements in this release include an updated installer CD boot splash, X11R7, GNOME 2.13.4, improved and simplified menus, new default desktop panel configuration, some new applications such as XChat-GNOME, a faster live CD, live CD ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 28th Jul 2006 01:34 UTC
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrapped up a meeting with financial analysts Thursday by promising that the company would make sure it releases new Windows versions more quickly.
New Mobile Computing |
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'Lindependence 2008' aims to Free Felton from Microsoft Windows
Why pay $650 for Adobe Photoshop when you can have 97 percent of the functionality of Photoshop for free?
Santa Cruz Sentinel |
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THE WAY IT WAS: 'The way tennis should be'
Ride your surfboard along the Internet and you will discover multiple DVDs for sale of the Wimbledon men's singles final July 5, 1980. It figures. All these years later, that duel between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe remains arguably the most epic tennis encounter ever.
The Washington Times |
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