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Computer saves day for Minnesota Twins pitcher Kevin Slowey
TOM POWERS There was a time in the Grand Old Game when starting pitchers handled their troubles differently. If they had a rough inning early in a
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As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
As the Web has become an irreplaceable part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional outages.
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For Marketers, Viruses Just Won’t Cooperate
Viral marketing is much harder than negative buzz to generate.
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Price cuts, a paint job and they sell
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Bond set for man arrested in South Holland
MARKHAM A Cook County judge set bond last week at $300,000 for a 24-year-old Chicago man charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl he met on the internet.
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Apple's iPhone could find Asia tough to crack
HONG KONG - Mancy Li wants to get her hands on Apple's newest version of the iPhone, but she won't bother to queue up in Hong Kong when it is released in Asia this week.
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Prairie State professors tap into their artistic side
Professor of information technology Shelly Hokanson teaches classes like computer forensics, technology of e-commerce, and introduction to web site development. But she is more than just a "computer geek."
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Qwest launches fiber-based service; steers clear of IPTV
Qwest recently followed up on its announced fiber to the node ( FTTN ) strategy with two high-speed broadband services for residential and small business customers that can offer up to 20 Mbps download speeds.
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Data Doctor: Web sites can aid the mission of the Do Not Call list
Q. I keep getting phone calls from automated telemarketing systems even though I registered my number on the Do Not Call list. Can I look these numbers up on the Internet to find out who these people are and report them? — Allen
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Twins down Indians, 9-6
MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Slowey walked off the mound and went straight for the computers set up in a cranny behind the dugout.
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Career & Education
NIGEL Henry, president of the Jamaica Computer Society (JCS), has reminded Jamaica of the need to make technology work for the island.
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Obama beats McCain as barbecue guest, poll finds
WASHINGTON — People would rather barbecue burgers with Barack Obama than with John McCain. While many are still deciding who should be president, by 52 percent to 45 percent they would prefer having Obama than McCain to their summer cookout, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released last week. Men are about evenly divided between the two while women prefer Obama by 11 percentage ...
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'Rock Band 2' to include new online modes, songs
LOS ANGELES -- "Rock Band" is ready for an encore. A sequel to the play-along music game that redefined the genre last year will be released first for the Xbox 360 in September, according to publisher MTV Games and developer Harmonix.
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Pixar Story
A generation of American kids has grown up watching Pixar's movies in theaters, on TVs and now on portable gadgets like DVD players and iPods. But in The Pixar Touch, David A. Price starts this pop-culture giant's story in neither Hollywood nor Silicon Valley, but the University of Utah's computer-science department.
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NEW: Court forces county to hand over porn found on employeeâ€s computer
Madison County has been told to surrender pornographic images discovered on the computer of a former top administrator accused of harassing his assistant.
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Wed 31st Aug 2005 16:23 UTC
A sentence of roughly one to three years' jail is expected for a man who sold source code for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to selling Microsoft source code over the Internet.
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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
NEW YORK -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
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Portage man arrested in international child porn bust
When Portage resident Mark Ontiveros began lusting over a preteen girl in his neighborhood last year, he broadcast his thoughts to his peers on a child sex Web site, court records allege.
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Candid camera
PULASKI — A Giles County blogger said Wednesday his First Amendment rights are being squelched by a policy that bars unapproved cameras from school board meetings.
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CARD seeks barn-builders
Close your laptop, turn off the television and take a brief respite from work.
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Recent Original Stories
"With the release of Windows Vista, using your PC to watch and record TV has become a whole lot easier. Now, for the first time, Windows Media Center comes bundled with Home Premium and Ultimate versions of the standard Desktop operating system.
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Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will ...
under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution. Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well as those with Linux rivals Xandros and Linspire, were unaffected by the release June 29 of GPLv3 by the Free Software Foundation.
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Bond set for man arrested in South Holland
MARKHAM A Cook County judge set bond last week at $300,000 for a 24-year-old Chicago man charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl he met on the internet.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Prairie State professors tap into their artistic side
Professor of information technology Shelly Hokanson teaches classes like computer forensics, technology of e-commerce, and introduction to web site development. But she is more than just a "computer geek."
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Monster founder sets sights on online obituaries
NEW YORK Fourteen years ago, Jeff Taylor helped set off a tectonic shift in recruitment advertising by founding Monster.com, one of the first online companies to challenge a big profit source of newspapers.
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