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Opinions: This Stanford Life: Worshiping the Stanford Idle
It is all too common a sight anywhere on campus: students hunched over their laptops, completely absorbed, staring straight ahead at an Internet browser. In the thick of finals or on a typical Saturday night, Internet surfing has become a way of life.
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Microsoft has experimented with 3D games, reveals Satchell
Computer games offer an exciting and engaging way of helping older people with dementia keep their brain active and learn new skills according to a study conducted by researchers at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Microsoft Hopes Office Subscription Plan Will Counter Free Software
Microsoft is counting on Equipt's convenience factor to help it fend off threats from Google, IBM, and others that are offering free desktop productivity suites.
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Arxan joins European piracy war
Kayleigh Bateman, CRN , Thursday 3 July 2008 at 17:57:00 US-based application hardening vendor agrees to help The Federation Against Software Theft fight piracy in Europe Application hardening vendor Arxan Technologies has announced its presence in Europe as a member of The Federation Against Software Theft (The Federation)....
vnunet.com |
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Firefox Grabs Official World Record for Most Downloads in a Day
Firefox download record was previously non-existent...
AnandTech |
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Expect iPhone, Fourth of July scams, security firm says
4Apple's launch of its new iPhone 3G will produce a flurry of spam and scams, a security company warned Thursday. Users should also expect a Storm botnet campaign this weekend that touts the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., said MX Logic in its monthly threat forecast. The Englewood, Colo.-based security firm said "significant spam, scams and malware campaigns" touting the ...
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Asia Internet Growth Soars
The region's Internet audience grew 14% during the first half, to 319 million users, according to Internet research firm comScore
BusinessWeek |
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CNA partners with Yahoo!
A new partnership has been formed between Creston News Advertiser and Yahoo Hot Jobs online employment listing service. “The partnership allows us to give our customers a chance to put their employment ads on Yahoo,” said CNA Advertising Manager Roger Lanning.
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Buyers lose $25,000 in Trade Me scam
A series of Trade Me auctions for laptops has left buyers scammed out of at least $25,000.
Stuff |
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Viacom Will Know What You've Watched on YouTube
Should Viacom be privy to the fact that you've watched "Cat Playing Piano" 57 times on YouTube since March? Yes, according to a district court, which ruled that Google must provide Viacom with YouTube user histories in Viacom's ongoing $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit.
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Previously in EuroBlog
FT and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier have struck a partnership "covering strategic technological and marketing fields," including home networking, content acquisition and distribution, international roaming, and joint investments in submarine cables.
Light Reading |
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Arxan joins European piracy war
Application hardening vendor Arxan Technologies has announced its presence in Europe as a member of The Federation Against Software Theft (The Federation).
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Arxan joins UK fight against piracy
Arxan Technologies has thrown its weight behind the Federation Against Software Theft (The Federation) after announcing an assault on the UK market.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Sun urges Filipino programmers to become software entrepreneurs
Sun Microsystems is urging Filipino software programmers to seriously look into the opportunities of becoming entrepreneurs, saying that business opportunities abound, particularly in the global market.
Manila Bulletin |
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AT&T Launches 3G Wireless Service In Chattanooga
AT&T's third-generation (3G) wireless service is now available in Chattanooga, AT&T officials said Thursday. Gregg Morton, president, AT&T Tennessee, said with the service, "You can watch video on the go, surf the wireless Internet at lightning speed or share live video during a wireless call."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Oct 2005 19:52 UTC, submitted by Sean
Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 products, previously known by the code names Whidbey and Yukon respectively.
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Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail CAPTCHA In Need of Urgent Fix
It's one thing to start efficiently registering thousands of email accounts at reputable email providers by automatically breaking their CAPTCHA authentication, and entirely another to build a business model on the top of it next to the opportunity to abuse if for your own malicious purposes. Which is exactly what we have here, an underground service that's selling registered accounts at Gmail, ...
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ECS Factory Tour
I was invited by Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) to tour two of its factories. The first factory on tour was the PCB production facility. The second was the motherboard assembly plant. We were shown the many steps a motherboard goes through from inception to final product.
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Angry Motata disrupts court proceedings
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. An outburst by an angry Judge Nkola Motata on Thursday in the Johannesburg Magistrate's court earned him a rebuke from the magistrate in his drunk-driving trial.
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Holidaymaker charged £31,500 for downloading episode of favourite TV show while in Portugal
Iayn Dobsyn's pleasure at being able to download an episode of Prison Break while staying in Portugal turned to horror when he returned home to a bill of... £31,500.
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"Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage ...
. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user even said that his installation was invalidated by the service.
OS News |
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Flash video Web search to get easier
Internet users will now have an easier time finding sites that rely heavily on Adobe's popular Flash video format.
MSNBC |
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Free lessons for logging on
'G enerations On-Line," a Web site dedicated to making the Internet more accessible to new users, is now available on all computers at the Secaucus Public Library and Business Resource Center.
The Jersey Journal |
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Google Has To Give Up Personal YouTube Data
Just yesterday, I had a conversation, agreeing that the only thing that could topple Google, would be privacy. The same day, a judge presiding over the Google/Viacom case issued a court order requiring Google to turn over your personal data. read more
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Probe Begun on Yahoo! and Google Deal
WASHINGTON (UPI via COMTEX) -- The U.S. Department of Justice is looking at Google and Yahoo! Inc.'s joint advertising agreement for possible antitrust violations, sources said.
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