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Millions of Us Brings National Geographic Channel to Lively by Google
National Geographic Channel's New Series "L.A. Hardhats" First Brand to Build Virtual Room with New Google Technology.
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Real Software, Veryant bolster dev tools
Real Software and Veryant are upgrading development tools this week, with Real Software focused on its RealBasic platform and Veryant on Cobol. Real Software is shipping RealBasic 2008 Release 3 on Tuesday, featuring an Attributes capability in which developers can specify compile-time metadata. RealBasic is a cross-platform development environment for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It ...
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Lively: Google Launches Virtual World
While IBM and Linden Labs are cozying up to each other, Google has just released its own virtual world: Lively . Lively is available through a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer. It is Windows only for now. Lively does not feature one coherent world like Second Life but splits worlds up into different rooms. Lively was originally developed as a 20% project my Niniane Wang. ...
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Features and Case Studies
In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.
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E-Book Readers: Paperless at a Price
Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader cost too much for what they deliver.
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Australian students win global software competition
A group of Australian students have just been crowned winners of the Imagine Cup, a global competition in software design.
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Major fix to DNS vulnerability impacts Windows, Debian
A very serious flaw in the Internet's DNS servers may have been ripe for a significant exploit, though a familiar security researcher might have sounded the alarm just in time. Now, Microsoft and Linux vendors are responding urgently.
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Youngsters know their Daleks but can’t tell a bee from a wasp
London Television-obsessed children are far more likely to recognise a Dalek than a magpie, research shows. They spend so much time cooped up playing computer games and watching TV that some have no knowledge of wildlife, experts say.
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NebuAd to come under spotlight at Senate hearing
Executives from major Internet players -- Microsoft Corp. , Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. -- are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc.
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DJIA Leaders & Laggards: BAC AA C CAT AIG HPQ
Shares of Bank of America Corp. rose Tuesday, leading the Dow Jones industrial average higher.
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Rosetta Stone Sues Competitor Over Google, Yahoo Ads
A maker of language software is suing a smaller competitor for alleged trademark violations in an effort to combat what it claims is "piggybacking," a practice in which companies use major players' brand names or other trademarked words in the text of search ads to lure Web surfers to their own sites.
GigaLaw.com |
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Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08
It would seem there's a bigger story to that MS08-037 flaw that came out for Patch Tuesday today. From Dave Lewis over at the Liquid Matrix security blog: Today Dan Kaminsky released a first, as far as I can recall. A coordinated patch was released today...
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Google Using New Tool to Block Fake eBay, PayPal E-mails
Google said it is now using an e-mail authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords. The technology, DomainKeys, uses cryptography to verify the domain of the sender of an e-mail.
GigaLaw.com |
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Thieves Steal PC with Data on Google Employees, Others
Copyright © 2000-2006 Dolesco LLC. All rights reserved.
GigaLaw.com |
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Closing Glance: Internet software, services stocks
Internet software and services stocks finished mostly higher Tuesday along with the overall market, with shares of online auctioneer eBay Inc. rising ahead of the sector.
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New Top-Level Domains Expected to Increase Cybersquatting
Intellectual property lawyers and industry groups say a global Internet body's decision to allow more generic top-level domain names will boost cybersquatting and related arbitration and litigation.
GigaLaw.com |
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Recent Original Stories
"As one of our readers has pointed out to us, the latest (3.5.6) release of the KHTML rendering engine passes all of the tests in our CSS selector testsuite - making the Konqueror 3.5.6 browser the most CSS3-compatible of all.
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Nielsen: TV viewing up overall, but not last week
You wouldn't necessarily know it from last week, but Nielsen Media Research says TV viewership is on the rise. The company said Tuesday that the average American watched 127 1/4 hours of television in May, or the equivalent of more than five full days. That's up from 121 hours and 48 minutes in May 2007. The typical person also spent 26 1/2 hours using the Internet in May, up from 24 hours, 16 ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 22nd Apr 2006 16:48 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, the Linux world's very own Thurrot-before-he-lost-his-faith, writes: "People tell me I bash Microsoft too much; that Microsoft's products really are great. OK, so I won't bash Microsoft this time around.
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Select Flickr photos to sell via Getty license
Yahoo's photo-sharing service offers a way for selected members to offer up their shots as microstock photography on Getty Images. They'll just have to wait to be contacted.
CNET |
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Cisco releases its DNS patches
Tuesday release is coordinated with those from Microsoft and others.
CNET |
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FCC Has 4 Months to Justify Rule on Payments for Dial-Up Internet Access
Dial-up Internet connections often require larger phone companies to transfer the connections to smaller competitors who contract with ISPs. In a non-Internet context, the original carrier of a phone call is required to pay the second carrier for use of its facilities. A federal appeals court on Tuesday has given the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 4 months to explain its rule governing ...
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Government Computer News
In the past, when a local police force wanted to check the identity and past criminal activity of a suspect, the process involved transmitting fingerprints to the FBI for comparison with the bureau’s biometric records.
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posted by Michael Fraser on Sat 29th Mar 2003 03:21 UTC
When I first started playing with Linux (RedHat Distribution -- Version 5.2 Deluxe), it was a present from a father's friend in Boston.
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Government Computer News
Upgrading a data center is a big job under any circumstances, but managers at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) division have a real challenge — overhauling a 100,000-square-foot data center while the facility continues to provide around-the-clock data services to police agencies, civil organizations and private companies.
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