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Wi-Fi Internet for iPhone & iPod Touch users
Sydney, Aust. & Auckland, NZ 3 July 2008 -- Tomizone, the global company offering innovative Wi-Fi Hotspot services for high-speed wireless Internet access, today announced the first independent Australasian Wi-Fi service for the Apple iPhone to coincide with the planned July 11 launch.
Scoop.co.nz |
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YouTube privacy at risk in Google-Viacom ruling
Google scores a legal victory in keeping its search source code secret from Viacom, but YouTube users are not so fortunate with their privacy.
ZDNet Asia |
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Lezak, Weber-Gale swap U.S. 100-meter freestyle mark
The video of Garrett Weber-Gale's American record-setting swim in the 100-meter freestyle — short-lived as the record was — will probably show up on YouTube. Maybe it will be right next to the clip of him whipping up some shrimp etouffee. The Texas ex wants to have it all; he's aiming to be both an Olympian and an Internet chef.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Google must provide YouTube viewer data
- A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube, the Web's largest video site by far.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Recent Original Stories
This week in Arch Linux's news letter there was an interview with Ion's creator Tuomo Valkonen. Ion is a complete desktop environment built on the tiling windowmanager PWM. It uses Lua as an embedded interpreter which handles all of the configuration.
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Missing Teen Might Be With A Binghamton Man
A missing 14-year-old girl from Wisconsin could be with a man from Binghamton, or heading to Binghamton to meet him. Police say the teenage girl, Rachel Green met 23 year old Kyle Dewolf of Binghamton over the internet. The FBI is asking for the public's help in location the pair. Dewolf is charged with transferring obscene material to a minor, and using interstate travel and communications for ...
FOX 40 Binghamton |
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HSBC loses recordings of 25,000 customer conversations in Hong Kong
Hong Kong - HSBC has lost a digital tape containing 25,000 recorded phone conversations with bank customers in Hong Kong, a news report said Friday. The tape, containing calls made in April mostly about credit cards and internet banking, was one of 5...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Chinadaily.com.cn sharing the Olympic spirit
A trial of Beijing's wireless network program began last week, enabling residents and visitors to access the Internet using the complimentary network.
China Daily |
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SINA Works Wth Cisco to Offer New Online Video Interview Experience
Cisco China announced today that SINA Corp will deploy the Cisco® TelePresence System to create an in-person communication experience for its online interview program with guests around China. SINA Corp will be the first web portal globally to use the virtual meeting solution to transform the way that its online video interviews are conducted.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Gartner: Internet-based e-mail to fuel cloud uptake
The use of Internet hosted e-mail services--such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google Mail--will fuel the business uptake of "cloud services".
ZDNet Asia |
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Brunei Set To Hold First Online Chess Tournament
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Brunei-Muara District Executive Chess Championship 2008 Committee for His Majesty the Sultan and Yang DiPertuan of Brunei Darussalam's 62nd Birthday Celebration and the Brunei Chess Federation (BCF) yesterday announced that the first ever Brunei Internet Chess Blitz will be held on July 15 at 2 pm (GMT +8:00 or 2:00 ICC server time).
BruDirect.com |
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Facebook Games Could Lead To Identity Theft
If your children go on the Internet site Facebook, they may be playing some risky games that could hurt their future finances, and you may not know about it until they're old enough to apply for credit.
WBAL-TV Baltimore |
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HighPoint offers 15K RPM RAID solution for gamers
Power Mac G5 and Mac Pro gamers have a new high-performance disk system available to them, through HighPoint Technologies' RocketRAID 2640x4, a 4x PCI-E SAS hard drive RAID system. The system offers users 56-percent increased performance over 10,000 RPM SATA drives, with 128MB per-second transfer speeds, offering users lower average latency and low...
MacNN |
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Advantate looks to corner bottom half of SEM market
A new start-up venture from Melbourne IT and Fairfax Digital, Advantate, has been set up with the ambitious goal of cornering the low- to mid-end segments of the Search Engine Marketing [SEM] industry.
iTNews |
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Guilty plea on child porn charges
A FORMER Northam man who flew into Cairns with up to 20,000 child pornography images on his laptop computer has pleaded guilty to four amended charges.
Margaret River Mail |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Mar 2006 11:53 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Mandriva subsidiary Edge-IT has been selected to participate in an EU-backed project that aims to create a next-generation computing approach known as the 'Social Semantic Desktop'.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Aug 2006 00:55 UTC
In all appearance of an ad-supported operating system is probably not that far off. This article takes a look at some of the finer points behind an OS which is financed with ad views, and more specifically the logic behind a free version of Windows which could make this a reality.
New Mobile Computing |
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Blog: For a future bigger than Google, just solve RE
Google shares have dropped two hundred bucks since they peaked at $724.80 last November.
CNN.com |
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Asustek to Offer Eee PC With Built-in 3G Wireless
Asustek will offer an Eee PC later this year with built-in 3G connectivity.
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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Man caught with octopus porn
A TASMANIAN whose self-esteem is so low he identifies himself as a beast has admitted to downloading images showing sexual acts with an octopus.
Adelaide Now |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Apr 2006 18:33 UTC
"Steve Wozniak says he never intended to change the world. That was the other Steve, Steve Jobs. He just wanted to build computers. Oh, and he really - really - wanted to spend his career as an HP engineer, a position he reluctantly left.
OS News |
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Apple slashes cost of SSD MacBook Air
Apple has reduced the cost of an SSD-based MacBook Air by around AU$700.
ZDNet Australia |
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Nonfiction review: 'Dirty Words'
Dirty Words A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex Edited by Ellen Sussman Bloomsbury; 291 pages; $19.99 The Google searches in "Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex" are revealing, if not exactly saucy. Author Fiona Maazel reveals, "Number of Google pages [...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly
An anonymous reader writes "eBay's has lost its fight to ban all payment methods except PayPal. When Paypal originally announced the scheme it was to be global, but they began with a dry run in Australia to test the reaction of government and consumer authorities. In the public slanging match that followed between eBay and the regulatory ACCC, eBay spammed users claiming it was fighting for ...
Slashdot |
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Ultimate online embarrassment for internet agency
NEW YORK - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
The New Zealand Herald |
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