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Goodbye, Fake Steve Jobs
Dan Lyons is giving up the “Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” and the unforgettable character he created, “Fake Steve,” a parody of Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs.
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Post-secondary institutions go electronic
During the euphoric days of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the novelty of the Internet had yet to wear off, educators and businesspeople had predicted the extinction of classroom learning in favour of a new phenomenon known as 'e-learning.'
Ottawa Business Journal |
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Teen sentenced to community service for hacking New Trier files
A Glencoe teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to hacking into the computer system at New Trier High School and was sentenced to one year of supervision, 50 hours of community service and $320 in court costs.
Chicago Tribune |
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Patched Flaw Could Have Broken Internet Backbone
This week, system administrators across the globe are rushing to fix an Internet-wide security flaw. The issue, discovered in the domain name system, would allow a hacker to gain access to domain name records and redirect traffic to an alternate location. That would mean trying to access something like your bank's Web site could take you instead to a malicious page designed to steal your ...
E-Commerce Times |
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High gas prices fuel boom in online classes
BOSTON (AP) — Laurel Ranticelli considered driving 40 miles round-trip to take education classes at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. Then she realized she could take the same courses from her computer at home and save on fuel costs.
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Three ways to stop cell phone spam
Much like everything else, spamming has gone mobile. It used to be that you could expect only your e-mail inbox to be assaulted with unwanted messages. Now your phone can fall victim too. Even if you don't pay for text messaging, you can still receive unwanted solicitations.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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iMagicLab Acquires Assets of 5Square.com to Expand Automobile Industry CRM Product Suite
OWINGS MILLS, Md.----iMagicLab, the nation's leading software provider for automobile dealers, is pleased to announce today that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of privately-held 5Square.com, a provider of Web-based Sales Force Automation and Customer Relationship Management applications for the automobile retailing space. iMagicLab will integrate 5Square's SFA and CRM software ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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NJ GOP Club takes Obama-O.J. slogan off Web site
A local Republican Club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its Web site that read, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole."
Seattle Times |
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Remote Management of Backup and Recovery to Dramatically Improve With Zmanda Running on the 3G iPhone
On Friday legions of early adopters will lineup outside of Apple retail stores around the country to buy the newest generation iPhone. This release represents Apple's first major upgrade to the digital device that is now widely considered to be a vital computing platform.
Centre Daily Times |
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Microsoft expands its response to hosted software
SEATTLE Microsoft Corp. is strengthening its early-stage push to fend off competition by offering more Internet-based software, a change from its traditional method of selling programs that run on individual desktops or corporate servers.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Prescription drugs easily purchased online: study
Despite new efforts to regulate Internet pharmacies, 85 percent of sites selling controlled drugs do not require a prescription, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Internet specialist Iomart energised by sale of Ufindus
Shares in Iomart surged more than 13% yesterday after the Scottish internet specialist revealed the sale of its online business directory, Ufindus, to BT for £20m in cash.
The Herald |
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Broadcom, Qualcomm fight over mobile phone patent
Chip makers Broadcom Corp and Qualcomm Inc sparred in an appeals court on Wednesday over patents used to make cell phones that offer Internet and other multimedia features.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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WiMAX Network Launched in Beijing
ChinaTel Group says that it has completed the installation of the first phase of a combined WiMAX and Wi-Fi network in China's Beijing.
Cellular-News.com |
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Review: Wi-Fi radios bring the world home
What are you going to listen to? Norway's 24-hour folk music channel Allttid Folkemusikk? The public hearings of the California Integrated Waste Management Board? Radio Banadir -- the Most Trusted News in Somalia?
Boston Globe |
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Teen gets community service for hacking New Trier files
A Glencoe teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to hacking into the computer system at New Trier High School and was sentenced to one year of supervision, 50 hours of community service and $320 in court costs.
Chicago Tribune |
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Microsoft chief cites company's search for 'cool'
On a day when most of the technology buzz surrounded Friday's scheduled debut of Apple's new iPhone, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a crowd in Houston his company needs to do more "cool" stuff.
Houston Chronicle |
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11:42 a.m. Lottery blunder puts casino contract in doubt
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Recent computer blunders in the Kansas Lottery Pick 3 game could cost international gaming giant Gtech a contract to run the games at the four state-owned and -operated casinos.
The Joplin Globe |
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Metal Mount RFID Tags Benchmarked by ODIN Technologies Myth Busted: ODIN Engineers Show RFID Works on Metal and Which ...
Today ODIN technologies, the leader in RFID deployments, research and automation software released the industry's first scientific evaluation of passive RFID tags designed to work on metal objects.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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What happens when you patch the Internet?
Well, inevitably you have some issues, don't you? Yesterday's patch Tuesday effectively patched DNS servers and clients across nearly all of the Internet, and there's been at least one hiccup reported. From the bugtraq list: The latest auto update patch KB951748 Windows all versions cuts connectivity...
ZDNet |
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RCN Metro Optical Networks Provides An Assist to B4 Productions - Boston´s Annual Fourth of July Fireworks Goes Off ...
RCN Metro Optical Networks today announced that it provided crucial IP connectivity to B4 Productions
wallstreet:online AG |
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posted by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 8th Jul 2008 19:02
The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft. The new smart phones are are using WinCE, Symbian or Palm. Linux has barely 1% of this new, smartphone market.
New Mobile Computing |
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Some ZoneAlarm users in the dark after Microsoft patch
Tuesday's DNS patch from Redmond conflicts with the popular firewall, leaving some users without an Internet connection.
CNET |
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High gas prices fuel boom in online classes
Laurel Ranticelli considered driving 40 miles round-trip to take education classes at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. Then she realized she could take the same courses from her computer at home and save on fuel costs. "It's gotten out of...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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The iPhone 3G: What you need to know
The iPhone 3G is on everybody’s mind, so we’re here to answer some of the burning questions about the next version of Apple’s popular smartphone.
Macworld |
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