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Adobe Gets the Press But Does Search No Favors
It is easy to see by all the headlines today that Adobe, Google, and to a lesser degree Yahoo, are getting all the love. As Stan Schroeder posted earlier this morning, Adobe is getting together with Google and Yahoo to put some new technology in place that will make Flash enabled Web sites indexable by [...]
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Pesticide Approved For 'Crazy' Ants In SE Texas
The Environmental Protection Agency has given approval for some southeast Texas homeowners to use a pesticide to deal with a species of ant that has ruined sewage pumps, fouled computers and caused fire alarms to malfunction.
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Recent Original Stories
The release candidate for Ubuntu 7.10 has been released . "The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer.
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PowerSet Poised to Change Internet Searches
Powerset.com has been quietly building on its natural language and semantic search engine. Launched formally on May 12 and having added an optimized iPhone interface, Powerset adds the power of semantic indexing to Wikipedia now and more to come in the future. While that sounds fairly technical, the power and simplicity of Powerset comes from actually using it
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Patrick announces bid for Cyber Command at Hanscom
Gov. Deval Patrick Tuesday announced Massachusetts has submitted a proposal to bring the headquarters for the Air Force’s Cyber Command to Hanscom Air Force Base.
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Sentry(R)Safe Launches 250GB Fire-Safe(R)/Waterproof Hard Drive
Sentry®Safe, the world leader in residential and small office security-storage containers, today announced its next generation 250GB FIRE-SAFE/Waterproof Hard Drive to protect data from fire and water disasters and computer crashes.
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Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems
Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.
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Tattoo artist arrested on sexual battery charges
The owner of the Port Charlotte tattoo parlor was arrested on kidnapping and sexual battery charges.
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AT&T to invest $400M in Tenn. for statewide cable
(AP:NASHVILLE, Tenn.) AT&T Inc. has announced plans to invest $400 million in Tennessee as part of its effort to offer statewide cable television, Internet and phone services.
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Engineers To Monitor Traffic For Red Rhythm And Boom
People who attend Mason's Red Rhythm & Boom celebration will notice police officers will not be directing traffic this year. Instead, traffic is going to be monitored on computers by city engineers.
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7-Eleven ATMs hacked, customers' PIN codes stolen
Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court...
Seattle Times |
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Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems
Tue, Jul 1, 2008 (11:54 a.m.) Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.
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Microsoft Midori Is a Secret Post-Windows Operating System [Windows Midori]
Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 might just be the salve to soothe Windows Vista ouchies, but what Windows fans really want is something that hasn't yet been announced. Mary-Jo of All About Microsoft...
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Entrepeneurs won't embrace Firefox 3.0
BRISTOL, UK: Most business entrepreneurs play it safer when dealing with software than in other aspects of their dealings and the launch of Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 has highlighted the issue.
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Internet Cyclone
Internet Cyclone is a powerful, easy-to-use, Internet Optimizer.
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Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads
jyosim writes "A site called Textbook Torrents is among the many sites popping up offering free downloads of expensive textbooks using BitTorrent or other peer-to-peer networks. With the average cost of textbooks going up every year, and with some books costing more than $100, some experts say that piracy will only increase." Having just completed graduate school, I can attest that quite a few ...
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Mushroom Networks, Inc. Announces a Virtual Leased Line Solution for the Enterprise Market
SAN DIEGO, BUSINESS WIRE -- Mushroom Networks, Inc., the innovator of one-sided broadband bonding technology, today announced their Virtual Leased Line (VLL) solution that utilizes the company's Broadband Bonding(TM) technology and the Internet to create high-speed dedicated point-to-point connections.
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Microsoft Buys Powerset Indeed
Consistent with the rumors last week, Microsoft confirmed today that it has acquired Powerset for an undisclosed amount (speculation put it at around $100 million). The company was reportedly valued at just over $40 million. It appears that Microsoft was motivated to acquire Powerset as much or more by the team as it was any of the search technology. Danny provided his initial impressions ...
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Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems
Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record. The scam netted the...
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Microsoft buys search start-up Powerset
Microsoft Corp. confirms it has acquired Internet search start-up Powerset Inc. for an undisclosed amount, in a bid to expand the software giant's Web prowess in the wake of its failed effort to acquire Yahoo Inc.
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Microsoft Confirms Powerset Acquisition
As was first tipped last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has confirmed the acquisition of semantic search engine Powerset. The announcement was made this afternoon in posts on Microsoft's Live Search blog, as well as on the Powerset blog. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but initial reports pegged the transaction at somewhere above $100 million. The SF-based company has raised $12.5 million at ...
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Microsoft to buy Powerset
Confirming reports from last week, Microsoft says it is indeed buying the semantic search company.
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Nicolas Sarkozy secretly filmed getting angry at TV staff
A film of a tense and tough Nicolas Sarkozy, recorded without his knowledge before an interview on France's EU presidency, has become an overnight internet hit.
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Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems
Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record. The scam netted the alleged identity thieves millions of dollars. But more importantly for consumers, it indicates criminals were able to access PINs - the numeric ...
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It's official: Microsoft acquires Powerset
As expected Microsoft scooped up semantic search startup Powerset. It's not Yahoo search, but it brings in some compelling technology.
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