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Facts on New Cell Phone Law
Wireless Telephone Laws FAQs
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Report: 637 million Web surfers using old browsers open to hackers
Updated your Web browser lately? Ever? If not, you and 637 million other Net surfers with outdated, insecure browsers are inviting criminal hackers into your computer, researchers warn. Using Internet Explorer? You're likely to be one of the biggest offenders....
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Hackers breach ATM network and gain access to PINs
n Scam targeted Citibank's ATMs located inside 7-Elevens, netting millions for thieves
Contra Costa Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 19:29 UTC
Jeff Atwood explains why Vista uses so much memory. "You have to stop thinking of system memory as a resource and start thinking of it as a a cache . Just like the level 1 and level 2 cache on your CPU, system memory is yet another type of high-speed cache that sits between your computer and the disk drive.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
"Mandriva Linux has a history of inconsistency; one release will be superb, and the next one will be so bug-ridden and feature-weak that it's unusable.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Jan 2007 20:56 UTC, submitted by John Mills
When Microsoft introduces its long-awaited Windows Vista operating system this month, it will have an unlikely partner to thank for making its flagship product safe and secure for millions of computer users across the world: the National Security Agency.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 20:49 UTC
Charles Torre again sits down with some of the people behind MSR's Singularity research OS. This time, they drill down into the architecture of Singularity and discuss design decisions, usage of safe code, Channels, SIPs, etc. They even manage to get Galen Hunt, the OS Guy, up to the white board to map out some of Singularity's architecture.
OS News |
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Bennett Case Thrusts Internet Safety into Spotlight
The search for Brooke Bennett has parents and educators taking a closer look at internet safety.
WCAX-TV Vermont |
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Microsoft buys Powerset, gets foot in semantic search door
Microsoft announced today that it has purchased natural language search startup Powerset in hopes of adding its team and technology to Live Search. The move is yet another attempt by Microsoft to chip away at Google's market share, but at least this one is centered around staying ahead of the competition... for now. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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Apps: ShareTool, Tri-BACKUP, Audicorder
ShareTool 1.2 ($20) remote access solution for Mac OS X. ShareTool lets users access all of the Bonjour services on their home network from anywhere in the world. This includes iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, and more. With ShareTool, users can listen to their entire iTunes music library at work, control the screen of any of the...
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Two cities offer Wi-Fi access 07/02/08
Officials in two Downriver cities are hoping that a little something extra in the air will bring visitors to their business districts. Trenton has rolled out free Wi-Fi access in its downtown area, and Lincoln Park is working on developing a similar system.
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Billboard.com -- Billboard Bits: Zune/New Era, Megadeth, Nokia
Microsoft's Zune, as part of a marketing campaign with hat manufacturer New Era, will be releasing a series of Webisodes featuring artists such as Nelly, Linkin Park and N.E.R.D.
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Intel disappointed with Apple over iPhone chip choice
Apple will not be incorporating Intel chips into its iPhone in the near future, according to Intel's digital enterprise group general manager Patrick Gelsinger in a discussion about the company's shrinking x86 platform. Forbes reveals that Gelsinger is disappointed that Apple "chose not to take that road map at their next generation platform," noti...
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Blogfights: A 100-word history [Feuds]
Nearly ten years before Violet Blue vs. Boing Boing, the Internet's early bloggers discovered their new medium's killer application: Personal spats. Radar Online blogger Choire Sicha, angling for his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Move Networks CEO John Edwards Named Ernst &
AMERICAN FORK, Utah, BUSINESS WIRE -- Move Networks, the leading Internet television services provider, today announced that the company's chief executive officer, John Edwards, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Award in the Technology category in the Utah Region.
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PIN-nicking hackers steal millions from ATMs
SAN JOSE - Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores 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 New Zealand Herald |
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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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Microsoft Buys Linguistic Web Search Firm
Microsoft said it had agreed to buy Powerset, a start-up that is working on a new class of Web search that relies on insights from linguistics rather than simple keyword strings.
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Lockheed gets $23.3M deal from Air Force
Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Tuesday it received a $23.3 million contract from the Air Force to provide simulators and training for crew members learning to fly on the C-130 at Little Rock Air Force Base.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Hackers breach ATM network and gain access to PINs
n Scam targeted Citibank's ATMs located inside 7-Elevens, netting millions for thieves
Inside Bay Area |
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Celartem Creates New US-Based DjVu Sales and Operations Center in Seattle to Support Its Growing Customer Base
SEATTLE----Celartem Technology Inc., a provider of software solutions for storage, access and distribution of rich media content, today announced that it has created a new US-based Document Express with DjVu Sales and Operations Center in Seattle.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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An end to forced services for 3G phones
The Communications Ministry has decided to block cellular phones from conditioning third-generation cellular services on acquisition of Internet content portal services.
Haaretz Daily |
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Intel inaugurates new Israeli fab
Intel inaugurated its new plant in Kiryat Gat with much fanfare yesterday, but celebration of the new $3.5 billion Fab 28 took place under a cloud of concern that the weak dollar could put the flow of future investment in jeopardy.
Haaretz Daily |
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A Requiem for Windows XP
InfoWorld's contributors remember the pros, and a few cons, of the most popular version of Windows to date.
PC World |
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Viewer numbers drop substantially for cable news networks
Maybe there wasn't enough post primary election drama to keep viewers hooked. Prime-time ratings for the second quarter showed viewers dropped off significantly from all cable news networks — Atlanta's CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC and CNN's Headline News — from the first three months of the year. No. 1 overall news network Fox captured 1.6 million prime-time viewers during the second ...
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