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MATC hosts summer camp to get girls interested in tech fields
Two years ago, while attending a conference in Texas, Nina Milbauer and Lori Kelley heard a speaker expound on the dwindling number of women entering the computer sciences field. This was not news to Milbauer or Kelley, information technology instructors at Madison Area Technical College. In fact, Milbauer wrote a thesis on the subject en route to earning a graduate degree from the University of ...
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Focus Enhancements Enters Agreement to Purchase Wireless Audio IP
Focus Enhancements, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCSE) a worldwide leader in Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless technology, video conversion and digital media products, has entered into an agreement on June 25, 2008 to purchase certain intellectual property rights for a prototype wireless audio product chipset developed by AudioMojo, Inc. and owned by Hallo Development Co. The digital wireless audio (DWA) technology ...
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Discover How Developments in Information Technology Are Raising New Ethical Debates With The Handbook of Information ...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/334a92/the_handbook_of_in) has announced the addition of the "The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics" report to their offering.
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Microsoft buying Powerset, a start-up for Web search
Powerset's technology breaks down the meaning of words into related concepts, freeing users from having to type the exact words they want to find.
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Further legal setbacks could shave margins for eBay
The biggest damage from court cases related to protection of luxury brands could be to the eBay brand, which promises shoppers the widest range of goods in a marketplace connecting millions of buyers and sellers.
International Herald Tribune |
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BBC Radio 4 Airs Lost Beatles Tape
Natalie Finn at eonline.com reports: "A 1964 interview with the Fab Four that was only broadcast once has been discovered in a South London garage, where it had been tucked...
About.com |
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Unfriendly Sarkozy not welcome at Olympics
Nearly 90% of Chinese respondents to an online survey said they oppose the French President's attendance at the Olympics.
Express India |
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Wagner Festival Goes Digital in a Search for New Fans
The Bayreuth opera festival will offer streaming video and audio on the Internet for its opening performance. The catch: tickets to the digital show will cost 49 euros ($77).
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Microsoft drives in-car voice systems
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com , Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 11:31:00 Software giant teams up with Svox Microsoft has teamed up with embedded speech and text-to-voice provider Svox to develop speech technology for use in cars. A new generation of in-vehicle speech options will be designed to...
vnunet.com |
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Microsoft powers up search business
David Neal, IT Week , Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 11:30:00 Microsoft will acquire Powerset in a bid to boost search business Microsoft has signed an agreement to purchase Powerset, a semantic web search company. Powerset, in its own words, is "a small company with big dreams"....
vnunet.com |
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Book sale helps love of printed word thrive
In these days of electronic communication, where almost every amusement can be delivered to the computer screen, it's nice to know that words on paper still live.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
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Microsoft seeking new bid for Yahoo: WSJ
Microsoft is considering a new attempt to buy part of Yahoo in a deal with other media companies that would likely see a break-up of the internet firm, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
The West Australian |
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Around the region
Second arrest made in Internet predator sting
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Business Briefs
Time Warner Telcom, which provides voice, Internet and other business data services, changed its name to tw telcom inc. yesterday.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
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Bachner a target of murder-for-hire probe
LAKE IN THE HILLS – A Lake in the Hills man charged with possessing a toxin 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide was investigated in January 2006 for allegedly trying to arrange a Chicago-area woman’s murder through the Internet.
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Orbitz.com, ebookers.com to Become MSN's Travel Provider in the United States and United Kingdom
Orbitz.com, the flagship brand of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE:OWW) in the United States, and its affiliated online travel brand ebookers.com in the United Kingdom, announced today that they have signed a multi-year deal with Microsoft to serve as the online travel agency for MSN.com's travel portal in the United States (http://travel.msn.com/) and United Kingdom (http://travel.uk.msn.com/), ...
Hospitality Net |
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Movers & Shakers: Wednesday's biggest gaining and declining stocks
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday’s session are Circuit City, Huntsman, Microsoft, MiddleBrook, Starbucks Corp., UnitedHealth and Yahoo.
Market Watch |
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County eyes online meetings
McHenry County Board members who stuck around after Tuesday’s meeting got a look at what streaming video of their meetings could look like.
Northwest Herald |
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Man sells his soul in Internet auction
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand man has put his soul up for auction to the highest bidder, noting that is "a merry old soul" rather than a "funk soul brother" but that he would "would like to think there is a bit of funk in there somewhere."
CNN.com |
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Brando USB, eSATA HDD Dock Gets One-Touch Backup Button [Storage]
Previously it was double slots and eSATA, now the cartridge-style HDD dock gets a one-touch backup button. Makes it ideal for backing up your main drive to an old HDD you've got spare, and then...
Gizmodo |
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Experiment Shows Spam Threat
Security company McAfee persuaded 50 people to spend a month online without spam filters, and they recorded an average of 70 spam mail a day.
DesignTechnica |
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Mobile roundtable - the debate about best practice is still wide open
Mobile is not a subject that attracts widespread agreement, as shown by our recent list of analyst forecasts . And it was no different at our recent Mobile Internet Roundtable , where a lot was discussed but I don’t think was necessarily settled.
e-Consultancy |
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PayPal founders mark first decade
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The need was direct: How to facilitate the exchange of money and goods between a consumer and an online merchant. The concept was simple: A service that...
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Net broadcaster appears for jury secrecy probe
HARRISBURG (AP) _ The owner of a Harrisburg-based Internet broadcast news site testified Tuesday before a judge examining whether the secrecy of a grand jury investigation was violated.
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Dr Balakrishnan says Internet will change how politics is conducted
SINGAPORE : Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan has said the Internet will change the way politics is conducted, and the challenge now is how to engage with what he called the "YouTube generation".
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