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Don't let spammers get your cell number
OTTAWA -- Canadians have learned to live with the nuisance of e-mail spam but they aren't likely ROTFLing when cellphone bills arrive with hundreds of dollars of charges for text-messaging spam. Text messaging has become a huge phenomenon, with upwards of 45 million text messages flying between cellphones and BlackBerrys every day.
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Facebook not worth USD15 billion
Court papers have told the world what it already knows: Facebook is not worth USD15 billion.
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Arrests follow `settler beating`
Israel, 08/07 - Israeli police have arrested two Jewish settlers suspected of involvement in the beating of a Palestinian man. In the incident, which was filmed by Israeli human rights activists and posted on the internet, a Palestinian was tied to a post.
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Qwest blocks access to known child porn sites
Qwest Communications will now block customer access to known child pornography Web sites through a voluntary agreement with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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HIV protection gel helps men more
Gels aimed at helping women protect themselves from the AIDS virus may end up helping men as much or more, researchers predicted. Computer models predict that if and when such gels or creams are perfected, they would reduce the risk that men could get the incurable virus from women.
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Red faces at Daily Mail after data loss
The publisher of the Daily Mail, which has spent months lambasting the government on data security, has admitted that a laptop containing the personal information of thousands of staff and contributors has gone missing.
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Al-Falak acquires major distributor of IT products in Saudi
Al-Falak Electronic Equipment & Supplies Co, a leading provider of technology-based solutions to the Middle East, has recently completed the acquisition of Mishaal Al-Sudairy Office for Commercial Services (MSO) as part of Al-Falak's expansion strategy across the Middle East.
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Access users warned over ActiveX exploit
Microsoft says cybercriminals are targeting bug Microsoft has warned that cybercriminals are exploiting a bug in software used by Microsoft's Access database program in a new online attack.
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Your Next President: "I have a son I haven't seen nor paid child support for in 17 years." [From The Mailbag]
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I've switched to a new write-in candidate for president after receiving the following very important email on our tips line! I admire Leonard F....
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Icahn: Yahoo won't 'botch up' new Microsoft deal
MS would re-open talks with new Yahoo board Microsoft has confirmed that it would be interested in resuming talks with Yahoo with a new board of directors, both to buy the search business or the entire company.
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A massive threat to national security may be in your computer
A National Counterintelligence official tells WTOP the United States needs to have a "serious national discussion" about the country's dependency on foreign-made hardware and its effect on national security.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 6th Nov 2007 00:47
Interested in entering our competition and winning a (sealed) brand new copy of Xandros Business Desktop 2.0? (priced at $129 USD). All you have to do is write an article that could interest OSNews readers (might be an interview, an editorial, a tutorial, a feature, a review etc). Read more for details.
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posted by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Mon 7th Jul 2008 18:18 submitted by Dale Smoker
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. will announce tomorrow world's first consumer priced ATX form-factor PowerPC motherboard with full Linux support. Terra Soft, also creators of Yellow Dog Linux , will be selling both the PPC motherboard and a fully equipped computer that will be capable of running YDL 2.3. This will give a new face to the consumer Linux landscape, as Linux effectivelly gets its own ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Jun 2006 18:30 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Vista and Office 2007 have many new fonts. NeoSmart takes a look at the ten most popular Vista and/or Office 12 fonts with screenshots, sample usages, and a critique of each font, one-by-one. These 10 fonts are the latin-based scripts that ship with Vista and/or Office 2007.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Dec 2005 15:38 UTC
Microsoft is banking on enhancements to what it has dubbed the fundamentals to entice enterprises to upgrade to the next version of Windows, known as Vista.
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Recent Original Stories
"On June 15, Bill Gates announced that he would be retiring from Microsoft in July 2008, and everything changed. It may be two years away, but when a giant the size of Gates moves, the world moves with him.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Apr 2006 14:18 UTC
A RealNetworks executive has claimed that Linux risks being excluded from the consumer market if it does not add support for copy-restriction technologies.
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A private dance? Four million Web fans say no
"Dancing," which more than four million people have viewed on YouTube, is the online equivalent of a platinum hit, seeping from one computer to the next like a virus.
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What speeds up communication and exchange?
We bet you know that, in fact, those words are quite passé.Being on the internet and shipping your products out of the country isn’t just enough to say:“Hey! I’m here!” A typical Juan dela Cruz probably wouldn’t notice it and hearing “ka-ching! ka-ching!” sounds doesn’t mean money is coming in.
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Linked by Eli Gottlieb on Wed 28th Dec 2005 13:29 UTC
Right now the situation for developers of minor operating systems seems somewhat bleak. Windows and the Unixes compete in the server world, and Windows and MacOS X compete on the desktop.
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Mind games: computer headset lets brain control action
It's mind over machine: a US high-tech company has created a headset allowing computer game lovers to use their thoughts to move mountains and make objects disappear on screen.
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Midland College inks agreement with new flight school
By Ruth Campbell Staff Writer Mike Shepherd is one step closer to his dream of flying for Southwest Airlines having just completed the Airline Transport Professionals flight simulator course in Arlington.
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Wikipedia opens online library on human genes
A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Schoolbooks on the Web
From August this year, school textbooks will be available for students through the Internet. This is a commendable idea.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Aug 2007 22:10 UTC, submitted by anonymous
It is not too surprising that Ubuntu came in first in DesktopLinux.com's 2007 Desktop Linux Market Survey , or that Firefox was the topmost browser by far.
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