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Court allows police to pose as children to pursue predators
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Police may continue pose as children and young teens on the Internet to hunt for sexual predators under a ruling yesterday by the Louisiana Supreme Court.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors.
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Microsoft to sell Office and security software for $70 a year subscription
SEATTLE — Microsoft will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software.
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Recent Original Stories
"Intel was surprisingly talkative when it came to future technologies and products this year. As a result, most of the technical audience is up to date regarding the upcoming micro architecture based on the 65 nm Merom design.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 27th Nov 2005 22:00 UTC, submitted by phaceton
"In 2005, Apple announced the Mac Mini. It was the answer to what I was looking for in a computer, so I bought one. This is a report about the early months with my new Mac, and how it compares to a Linux computer (I have never owned a Windows computer).
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Yahoo stock climbs on report of Microsoft's deal talks
Shares of Yahoo rose today as The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's...
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HP offers Parallels virtualisation on Integrity servers
The deal between the companies covers HP's Integrity range, right up to the top-end Superdome, allowing customers to run large workloads on virtualised systems
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Yahoo! Shares Rise on Deal Rumors
Shares of the Internet giant rose sharply on talks of a revived deal with Microsoft and other suitors.
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Sony PlayStation official site suffers phishing hack attack
Even Sony isn't safe from the dark side of the net after news trickles through that their PlayStation US website was hacked in part of a credit card phishing scam.
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Intelligent surveillance system created
British scientists say they've developed technology that will revolutionize the quality of species population data available to ecologists.The University of Bristol researchers said the non-intrusive, intelligent visual surveillance technology can enable biologists to remotely identify and monitor large numbers of endangered animals, from butterflies to whales.The new system using computer ...
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Google-Yahoo Deal Subject of Antitrust Probe
Investigators are planning to demand documents not only from Google and Yahoo, but also from other large companies in the Internet and media industries, The Washington Post reported.
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Microsoft Buys Linguistic Web Search Firm Powerset
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. This emerging approach to Web search, known as semantic search, has fascinated researchers for decades and will be in the hands of Microsoft.
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Tesoro Announces Second Quarter 2008 Earnings Release Date
Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) today announced that it will broadcast, live, its conference call with analysts regarding second quarter 2008 results at 7:30AM (CDT) on Thursday, July 31st, 2008. Interested parties may listen to the live conference call by dialing 1-888-241-0558 (international: 1-647-427-3417) or over the Internet by logging on to http://www.tsocorp.com.
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Trend Micro ScanMail(TM) for Microsoft Exchange(TM) Named 'Best Of Tech·Ed 2008 IT Pro Awards Winner' by Windows IT ...
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in Internet content security, today announced that its ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange was named as a Winner of the "Best of Tech·Ed 2008 IT Pro Awards" in the security category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®.
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Hackers Crack Official PlayStation Site
2 Jul 2008: Careful where you put your mouse...
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Who is Winning the Web Talent War
jg21 writes "Ever since Fortune wrote an article about it, mentions have been occurring hither and yon about how Google is having problems retaining employees, and the latest comes in Web 2.0 Journal, where Dare Obasanjo interestingly tracks and interprets a couple of blog entries that he says leads him to hypothesize that "Google's big problem is that the company hasn't realized that it isn't a ...
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UNK Investigates Security Breach
University of Nebraska at Kearney officials are trying to figure out who broke into their computer system and got private information.
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Relaxed domain laws may fuel legal costs
Neon Kelly, Computing , Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 17:00:00 Experts warn that changes could tempt new cyber-squatters The loosening of restrictions on internet domain names could lead to a boom in cyber-squatting and increased costs for UK businesses, say legal experts....
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Computer Aid ends the headache of commercial IT disposal
Janie Davies, Computing , Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 16:56:00 A west London college is favouring Computer Aid for the decommissioning of end-of-life PCs Commercial IT disposal is time consuming and complicated, but a charity can provide a suitable alternative, says a west London college....
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Cook tables action on mobile computer
A request by Cook Police Officer Dan Nylund for hardware to install a mobile data computer in the city’s squad car was put on hold. Councilors told Nylund at their regular meeting last week that they wanted more information about how data privacy would be secured on the computer system.
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Netgear unveils open source router
Netgear has announced the launch of its WGR614L open source Wireless-G router. The fully-featured wireless router is designed to support a variety of applications created by the open source community.
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Enterprises move into cloud email
A push into the cloud email market by large suppliers will cause a " fundamental restructuring" of the email market, according to a new Gartner report.
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The new child porn whistleblowers
It is a new law aiming to cut down on child pornography, by forcing anyone working on a computer to report any child pornography they may find on it. Proponents say they hope the new law, which went into effect on July 1, will cut down on the number of online predators.
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Broadband Content Bits: Whedon's Web Series; HDNet's Concert Series; PopTok Launch; Bayreuth Opera
-- Joss Whedon to launch vanishing web series : The Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Angel mastermind is set to release his writers' strike-inspired web series, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog , but will only make the 42-minute project available online for three days, at which point it will be taken down from the web. Released in three parts, on July 15, 17 and 19 respectively, Whedon says the ...
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10:25am -- N.M. High Court Rules Against Dell Inc.
AG King calls ruling on behalf of N.M. man's class-action suit a 'victory for consumers.'
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