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Biologist fired for 'gross misconduct'
OTTAWA -- Confidential documents insecurely posted on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's computer network laid out sensitive plans to turn over food inspections and labelling to industry and also led to the firing of the scientist who stumbled upon them.
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DreamWorks switches chipsets from AMD to Intel DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., maker of the "Shrek" movies and "Kung Fu Panda," said Tuesday that it will switch from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. computer chips to Intel Corp.'s as it moves toward making all 3-D...
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Couch, Internet and cell phone potatoes Americans are watching more television than ever, in addition to spending more time on the Internet, a Nielsen report said Tuesday. Americans spent 127 hours and 15 minutes watching television in May, up 4 percent from...
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Israeli troops raid Nablus city hall, mosques
NABLUS, West Bank - Israeli troops raided the city hall of the West Bank town of Nablus on Wednesday, confiscating five computers in what appears to be part of an ongoing crackdown on institutions the military believes are linked to Hamas.
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Scrabble seeks big score on Web against unauthorized Scrabulous
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Google decides to try a 'virtual experience'
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Recent Original Stories
AmigaWorld.net (by the way, check their brand new mobile site too) reader Olegil demonstrates how to read Windows' clipboard, by using the IE 5+ clipboard API. IE's clipboard API is a known design-decision feature which allows for better interoperability with Office/VBA. But as Olegil shows, the rules of the game are too loose and information can be stolen and stored on a remote server.
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LG Display Q2 net surges on TV Sales, tight Supply
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean flat screen maker LG Display Co Ltd reported on Wednesday its net profit more than trebled thanks to strong demand for flat-screen televisions and tight supplies of PC panels. ...
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How to best use Bluetooth technology in a small business
It seems that every new electronic device on the market claims to be Bluetooth enabled. But what exactly is Bluetooth? How can it make your business more efficient? And why is it called Bluetooth? Bluetooth is a wireless technology that uses short-range radio...
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DAILY DIGEST
DreamWorks switches chipsets from AMD to Intel DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., maker of the "Shrek" movies and "Kung Fu Panda," said Tuesday that it will switch from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. computer chips to Intel Corp.'s as it moves toward making all 3-D...
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Google Introduces a Cartoonlike Method for Talking in Chat Rooms
Google’s new online tool allows people to embody a cartoonish online avatar and have text-based conversations with other Internet users in virtual chat rooms.
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Senators likely to scrutinize NebuAd / Redwood City startup's ad tactics create privacy issues for legislators before ...
Executives from major Internet companies - Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. - are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee today, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Redwood City startup called NebuAd...
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Couch, Internet and cell phone potatoes Americans are watching more television than ever, in addition to spending more time on the Internet, a Nielsen report said Tuesday. Americans spent 127 hours and 15 minutes watching television in May, up 4 percent from...
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Wholesale Inventories Rise, Led by Computers, Metals and Farm Goods
While consumer borrowing increased in May, a decline in stockpiles puts distributors in a good place for scaling back production slowly in the face of a struggling economy.
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For iPhone, the ‘New’ Is Relative
Apple’s iPhone 3G, which will go on sale on Friday, comes with just a few new bells and whistles.
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Police could get powers to seize and search laptops and iPods for illegal downloads
The UK is negotiating an international legal framework for protecting intellectual property that will criminalise copyright infringement and the use of peer-to-peer file sharing for copyright material.
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Justin Long and Drew Barrymore calls it quits
Hey, Mr. PC -- be kind to Mr. Mac. Actress Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, the hip Mac computer in those Apple commercials who always one-ups Mr. Personal Computer, have broken up. It sounds like less than an idyllic parting.
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Exclusive: The Creators of August
ComingSoon.net talks with director Austin Chick ( XX/XY ) and screenwriter Howard Rodman ( Joe Gould's Secret ) about their new drama August , starring Josh Hartnett as Tom Sterling, the young CEO of a start-up internet company who gets caught in the collapse of the first internet bubble in August 2001. Opening in New York and L.A. on Friday, July 11, the movie co-stars Adam Scott, Rip Torn, ...
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World’s Fastest Supercomputers Employ AMD Opteron? Processors to Reach Unprecedented Performance
At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced that its AMD Opteron? processors have helped deliver many of the top performing supercomputers in the world. For the first ti
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Synchronised, multi-vendor DNS patch released
Companies including Microsoft and Cisco have released patches for a fundamental flaw within the Domain Name System
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Apple: iPhone setup is quick
Apple will start selling its new iPhone at 8 a.m. local time nationwide on Friday and plans to activate U.S. customer accounts with AT...
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Ex-Microsoft exec is CEO of VMware
VMware abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded...
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Sideshow: Drew and Mac guy kaput
Goodness knows, I have nothing against the lanky lad. 'Fact, I think Justin Long, the computer-ad "Mac guy" whose native charm landed him a juicy role in Live Free or Die Hard, is a sweet guy. But he's never been a match for edgy chick Drew Barrymore.
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posted by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the ' BeOS Bible ' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX.
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Google decides to try a 'virtual experience'
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