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Wireless Telephone Laws FAQs
Two new laws dealing with the use of wireless telephones while driving went into effect July 1. Below is a list of frequently asked questions concerning these new laws.
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Citibank ATM breach reveals security problems
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- 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.
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Teacher getting noticed for online course
A typical school day for Miramichi Grade 12 teacher Allan Trueman sees him saunter into James M. Hill Memorial, sit down at his desk and open three online chat rooms where he will spend the day, type-talking away.
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Wood density explains sound quality of great master violins
The advantage of using medical equipment to study classical musical instruments has been proven by a Dutch researcher from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). In collaboration with a renowned luthier, Dr. Berend Stoel put classical violins, including several made by Stradivarius, in a CT scanner. The results are published in the July 2 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. ...
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Naperville woman to be guest on radio show
Edna C. Groves, M.S., of Naperville will be interviewed from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday on www.healthylife.net, a talk Internet radio station.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd May 2007 09:01 UTC
" PCLinuxOS is a live CD distribution that enables users to test Linux without actually having to install it. The highly anticipated new version, PCLinuxOS 2007, was released on Monday.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 26th Dec 2007 09:50 UTC
There is a controversy in the Linux world. It doesn't have to do with Microsoft, or anything overtly technical. It may seem, to the outsider, the open source equivalent of the question, "Boxers or briefs?" But it's much more serious than that.
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Barclays gives online users free Kaspersky software
The bank already offered its two million online customers free antivirus software, but has now beefed up the package to protect against other threats
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Is it cheating if there's no sex?
We used to know what infidelity was: sex with someone other than your mate. But is having lunch every day with a work friend of the opposite sex a breach of marital trust? What about a flirtation online? If there's no sex, is it really cheating?
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A week without Google? Not as simple as it sounds
I am a broken man — spirit crushed, confidence destroyed, self-worth shattered. And it's all because of Google. One of the editors...
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Hands on: Autotext unmasked
One of the fundamental features of any word processor is the facility to insert often used or ‘boilerplate’ text. I could do this in 1985 on my first business computer – an Amstrad PCW (no relation).
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CYBER CORNER Where to draw the line?
You remember the children’s game Telephone? The one in which everybody forms a line, and the person at one end whispers a sentence to the person standing next to him, who repeats it to the person next to them and so on until the sentence reaches the end, and everyone sees how the message was skewed as it passed along.
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QLogic unveils 8Gb Fibre Channel for SANbox 9000 Switch
QLogic Corp., a provider of networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), announced Monday the 9008V 8Gb Fibre Channel I/O blade for the QLogic SANbox 9000 modular chassis switch, along with a road map that includes support for 16Gb Fibre Channel.
Computer Technology Review |
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HP Launches Personal Workstation
At a starting price of $599, HP said the Opteron 1000-powered computer is ideal for the government and education sectors.
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Microsoft to buy search start-up Powerset
Microsoft announced plans to buy Powerset, a promising search start-up, that focuses on "natural-language search," a form of artificial intelligence that seeks to understand the meaning of both user queries and Web pages.
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U.S. Army Seeks Help Watching The Internet
The job involves monitoring and analyzing Web pages, blogs, chat rooms, and the like that may be of interest to the U.S. government.
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Reuters Technology Summary
Sony's U.S. gadget demand good despite rising costs SAN FRANCISCO - Sony Corp <6758.T> is seeing little or no sign of softer demand among U.S. consumers for its range of digital TVs, cameras and computer goods despite a weakening economy, a top regional executive said on Tuesday. But Sony is having to manage pressures on margins that are coming both from spiraling costs for ...
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09:30 (BST), 02/07/2008 NARUTO at Anime Expo 2008 Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS TOMY Corporation and ...
TOMY Corporation and D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3P), publishers of interactive entertainment software, have announced plans to provide playable demos of two highly anticipated NARUTO titles at the upcoming Anime Expo 2008. Show attendees will be able to go hands-on with NARUTO: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2, the first NARUTO title for Wii™ created specifically for North America, and NARUTO: ...
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09:39 (BST), 02/07/2008 Swirve.com acquisition Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS 1/7/08 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OMAC ...
OMAC Industries today announced that they have completed the acquisition of Swirve.com, publisher of widely known Persistent Browser Games (PBGs), Utopia and Earth: 2025.
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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.
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First Rock Band 2 songs spotted News by
The Internet has spotted what appears to be a tracklisting for Rock Band 2. Among the songs making the cut are "Pinball Wizard" by The Who, "Kids In America" by Kim Wilde, "Give It Away" by Red Hot Chili Peppers and "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead.
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Northern Ireland News
The NI Government is facing criticism as news of arrears of £130m in the rates system has emerged. The huge sum has built up because a new multi-million pound computer system is said to be "inadequat..
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 20:52 UTC
Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of Ubuntu, and Linspire Inc. the developer of Linspire and Freespire, on February 8 announced a technology partnership to integrate with each other's Linux distributions . Linspire/Freespire will be based on Ubuntu, rather than Debian, and Ubuntu will integrate with Linspire's CNR package installer/updater.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Jun 2006 22:24 UTC
The One Laptop per Child scheme is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of UK charity Computer Aid International.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 3rd Dec 2006 23:35 UTC
After my previous short first impressions 'review' of Windows Vista Build 6000, the final build, I promised you a full review which would look a bit deeper into the system, focussing on less obvious matters than appearance alone.
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