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U.S. Stocks Fall as Analysts Say Slowdown Hurting Cisco, Intel
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks declined after oil rose, Fannie Mae's borrowing costs climbed and analysts said a slowing economy may hurt sales at Cisco Systems Inc. and Intel Corp.
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Solar-powered asteroids make their own moons
Most asteroids with moonlets started off as solitary bodies that split in two while sunbathing, new computer simulations suggest
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Police blotter Myrtle Beach
Information/suspicious person On July 1 at the Myrtle Beach International Airport, a victim, 22, said she met the suspect, 47, of Surfside Beach on the Internet while living in Montana. He offered her a job for $1,000 per week and room and board as an executive assistant, working out of his house/office, and paid her airfare to Myrtle Beach. For six days, he asked how she would feel about ...
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Mooresville commissioners approve $12.5 million additional funding for cable upgrades
Officials for Mooresville and Davidson’s cable and Internet system are likely breathing a sigh of relief this morning. At their monthly meeting Monday, Mooresville commissioners voted 4-2 to approve $12.5 million in additional borrowing for upgrades to the system.
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Senate Commerce Committee Examines Online Privacy
Senate Commerce Committee holds hearing on "Privacy Implications of Online Advertising."
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Data disposal does not require a big hammer says disposal firm
TAKING A LARGE MALLET to your old computer to destroy any sensitive data on it before ridding yourself of it for a brand new one, may not be the most effective or environmentally friendly approach.
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Google opens its 3D MMO; Facebook's in, almost
Google yesterday launched Lively -- its own version of the 3D, Avatar-based virtual world -- as an embeddable gadget. But social data barriers remain between Google and Facebook, which is granted separate but equal access to Lively rooms.
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The iPhone 3G reviews are in: It's pretty good
But battery life suffers, and the GPS isn't as great as you hoped.
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Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Some 30 people lined up on Wednesday in front of Softbank Mobile Corp’s flagship store in Harajuku, two days before the nationwide launch of Apple Inc’s iPhone. The iPhone will go on sale at this store at 7 a.m. on Friday, five hours earlier than any other Softbank store in Japan.
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Canadian Provider Lowers iPhone Price After Outcry
Rogers Communications Inc, the exclusive service provider for the Apple iPhone 3G in Canada, has added a lower-priced plan for sending and receiving data over the handset after a wave of criticism over its original pricing options.
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Danvers, Massachusetts Residents To Benefit from Verizon Wireless Network Expansion
In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in Essex County, Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site. The new site increases high-speed wireless data coverage and capacity along Routes 35 and 62, Maple Street, and Poplar Street in Danvers, Massachusetts, as well as Danvers Square and the surrounding area.
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Narcotics Sold Online, No Rx Needed
Scores of web sites do not require a prescription to buy narcotics, stimulants, and other controlled substances, a study shows.
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Report: Yang believes Microsoft simply trying to 'destabilize' Yahoo
Jerry Yang says Microsoft Corp. has no real desire of a deal with Yahoo Inc. but is simply trying to destabilize the company, according to a report Wednesday. (YHOO) (MSFT)
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posted by Nathan J. Hill on Tue 24th Oct 2006 10:43 UTC
In the midst of the busy semester here at school, my fiancee's laptop, running Windows XP SP2, picked up some friends - adware, trojans, etc. It was a pretty nasty sight. I worked on it for at least two hours every couple of days, wiping it clean, doing my best to lock it down, and so on.
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doing better overall
Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is than its leading commercial competitors.
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Recent Original Stories
Starting Monday, Google will offer Google Apps for Your Domain , a free package of programs for businesses, universities and other organizations. Workers will be able to send e-mail with Gmail, Google's two-year-old Web-based mail service, but messages will carry their company's domain name.
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Recent Original Stories
LinuxCertified today announced its next generation laptops optimized for engineering and scientific community. Powered with Ubuntu 7.04, these laptops focus on high performance and scalability. The laptops come pre-configured with many of the common tools used by technical users.
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Recent Original Stories
One benefit to open-source applications is they can run on any operating system you want. But getting open-source software developed for the Mac is -- depending on whom you ask -- slow as molasses or quick as lightning.
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Google Ventures into Virtual Reality with 'Lively'
SAN FRANCISCO -- In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web.
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Congress Studies How People Track Your Online Use
WASHINGTON -- 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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Internet Use Classes at Elsie S. Hogan Community Library
Elsie S. Hogan Community Library is pleased to announce that Doraluz Sotelo Aldridge will be teaching Internet use classes in Spanish at our location, 207 W. Maley, from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 8 and Wednesday, July 9, and on Tuesday, July 15 and Wednesday, July 16.
Arizona Range News |
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One-stop info for newcomers
In the pre-Internet days, newcomers to communities had several ways to get to know the services in their new surroundings — talk to their neighbours, grab a bunch of pamphlets from the local city hall, or explore the city by car.
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Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 09:08:24 PDT
Advanced Google searching: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Newport Public Library. Free computer class, registration required. 265-2153 Friends of the Waldport Public Library book sale: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Waldport High School multipurpose room, Lower Crestline Drive, Waldport. 563-5880.
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Google lets people create custom virtual realms
SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Tuesday rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant Second Life with free software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds that can be embedded on websites and melded with other online functions.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Oct 2006 20:44 UTC, submitted by jasper
Red Hat has an NDA cooperation with Marvell for the wireless chips that they want to use for the One Laptop per Child-project. The idea of this is that both parties think Marvell will be more open in the future, but this is absolutely not the path they should walk , according to OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt.
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