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Kolkata police fighting crime in cyber world
As number of cases of obscene emails, credit card fraud, identity theft, stalking at social networking sites and bogus online lotteries have swelled, the cyber crime cell of Kolkata Police has an enormous amount of work on its hands in the virtual world of the internet.
IE via Yahoo! India News |
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Fiberoptic cable cut by Caltrans, causing outage
Category: Local News Topics: Telecommunications A fiberoptic line was inadvertently cut by Caltrans workers on State Route 255 (Samoa Bridge) on Tuesday, causing the Internet to go down in Samoa.
The Eureka Reporter |
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Ofcom sets out agenda for next-generation broadband
Ofcom has suggested the nation's sewers, electric pipes and underground telecom ducts could be used to carry new broadband cables. By Richard Wray
Guardian Unlimited |
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Alternative fiberoptic line considered
Category: Local News Topics: Telecommunications Anyone who has high-speed Internet access on the North Coast has inevitably dealt with service interruption, but overall, AT&T representative John Britton said the North Coast fiber link installed in 2003 has a reliability rate of about 99 percent.
The Eureka Reporter |
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Kuwait Crime News
KUWAIT : The Court of Appeals Wednesday upheld the verdict of a lower court and sentenced a Kuwaiti man, identified as Naif A., to two years in jail for abusing the Amir on an Internet website.
Arab Times |
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Targeted spear phishing attacks
A colleague of mine, Dave Wong, from Ernst & Young's Advanced Security Center in New York, pointed me to a really interesting article on targeted spear phishing attacks by John Markoff of the New York Times.  Phishing has been really interesting to me lately, as I've seen a wave of discussions,...
ZDNet |
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PC factory test tool runs Linux
— Apr. 09, 2008 — [Updated Apr. 10] -- A vendor of software that tests PC system health during manufacture and servicing will demonstrate a Linux-based appliance at the Embedded Systems Conference next week.
Linux Devices |
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Virtex-5 function block diagram
Avnet -- Avnet released its Linux-compatible Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGA Evaluation Kit (pictured at top). The $400 kit includes an evaluation board, ISE Design Suite 10.1 WebPack design tools, evaluation EDK software, power supply, and access to PowerPC 440 reference designs and tutorials.
Linux Devices |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Nov 2005 18:51 UTC, submitted by Josh
Three of the world's biggest electronics companies - IBM, Sony and Philips - have joined forces with the two largest Linux software distributors to create a company for sharing Linux patents, royalty-free.
New Mobile Computing |
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Charity urges online child porn crackdown
Websites featuring indecent images of children could be wiped out if there was a co-ordinated international response, a charity has said.
ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Dell expanding China presence via large retailers
Associated Press - April 17, 2008 2:35 AM ET DALLAS (AP) - Dell says it will expand its presence in China by selling desktop and notebook computers at Suning, the country's second-largest...
KXXV Waco |
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Cyber-bullying common among Japan's children
Japan has more than 38 000 unofficial middle- and high-school websites that are not overseen by the schools, and harassment, sexual content and violent slang are prevalent among them, an Education Ministry survey showed.
Mail and Guardian |
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Tiscali |
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TOTVS Launches Pioneering Model For Sale And Implementation Of ERP Online
TOTVS S.A., the leader in the development and sale of integrated enterprise resource management software and related services to small and medium-sized companies in Brazil and Latin America, recently launched TOTVS up, a new customer service and relationship process involving TOTVS, its customers and channels.
SupplyChainSolutions - SupplyChainMarket |
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Yahoo closer to Google Ad Outsourcing Deal: Report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is looking to turn over Web search advertising to Google Inc following a successful test using Google's service to deliver ads alongside its Web search results, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, ...
I4U |
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Nude Jolie seeker 'chanced on kid porn'
An Adelaide man had only wanted to see actor Angelina Jolie naked when he stumbled across child porn and downloaded it from the internet, a court was told.
AAP via Yahoo!7 News |
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Eurosport To Deliver On Demand Sports Coverage
On2 Technologies, Inc. (Amex: ONT), a leader in video compression technologies, announced today it has licensed its Flix(R) Engine encoding and publishing platform to Eurosport, a leading on-line sports brand. By using Flix Engine, Eurosport will standardize its online video programming to On2 based video for Adobe(R) Flash(R), and will migrate its archive programming across Europe and China to ...
Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News |
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EUROSPORT TO DELIVER ON DEMAND SPORTS COVERAGE
Publishing On2 Technologies, Inc. (Amex: ONT), a leader in video compression technologies, announced today it has licensed its Flix(R) Engine encoding and publishing platform to Eurosport, a leading on-line sports brand. By using Flix Engine, Eurosport will standardize its online video programming to On2 based video for Adobe(R) Flash(R), and will migrate its archive programming across ...
Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance |
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Hitachi to go solo on hard drive business turnaround
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Hitachi Ltd has dropped plans to sell a stake in its troubled computer disk drive business and aims to turn the business around by going after market share and cutting costs, the head of the unit said on Thursday.
Reuters.co.uk |
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NBC U Nabs Dawson's Gemini
Sony Pictures TV International has come aboard to co-produce and distribute the two series internationally on mobile, broadband and traditional TV.
Sci Fi Wire |
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Apple updates its Safari browser to fix security problems
Computer giant Apple Inc. has unveiled a new version of its Safari web browser to solve several security problems. The new 3.1.1. version allows to solve a flaw that was widely publicized after being used to compromise a MacBook Air during a conference on security.
Pravda |
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PC shipments post double-digit rise
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.
East Valley Tribune |
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Tech professor honored for shaping the way Internet is used in classroom
It's a "Top 10" list of a different kind, but no less meaningful to the Louisiana Tech University professor who ascended to the designation.
The News-Star |
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Google and Yahoo looking good?
Yahoo is inching closer to an ad search outsourcing deal with Google, after early returns of their two-week test show favorable results, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
CNET |
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Yahoo closer to Google ad outsourcing deal: report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is looking to turn over Web search advertising to Google Inc following a successful test using Google's service to deliver ads alongside its Web search results, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
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