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Sheriff's Dispatchers Relocated Briefly After Smoke Complaint
SEBRING - Severe weather Tuesday forced eight Highlands County Sheriff's Office dispatchers to leave their second-floor computers and telephone consoles when, according to Sebring Fire Chief Brad Batz, "an odor of smoke" circulated in the room. Batz said a smoke alarm went off in the sheriff's radio room as a burnt electric odor spread from a utility room through the air conditioning system and ...
Highlands Today |
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Sheriff's Dispatchers Relocated Briefly After Smoke Complaint
Severe weather Tuesday forced eight Highlands County Sheriff's Office dispatchers to leave their second-floor computers and telephone consoles when, according to Sebring Fire Chief Brad Batz, "an odor of smoke" circulated in the room.
Highlands Today |
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AOC says its 22-inch 2218Ph LCD monitor has that Mac flair
Filed under: Displays Hey, at least it's not being secretive about it. AOC has just introduced its new $429.99 2218Ph LCD monitor, which -- among other things -- claims to bring PC users "the element of style Mac users have enjoyed for the last few years." Judging by the image above, we're not too sure what exactly it's getting at, but we are told that it relies on "state-of-the-art ...
Engadget |
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Search War: Yahoo! Opens Its Search Engine to Attack Google With An Army of Verticals
Yahoo! is taking a bold step tonight: opening up its index and search engine to any outside developers who want to incorporate Yahoo! Search's content and functionality into search engines on their own sites. The company that sees just over 20% of the searches performed each day believes that the new program, called BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) , could create a cadre of small search ...
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Oklahoma football Internet drug story a hoax
The father of an Oklahoma quarterback says he plans legal action against a Nebraska football fan who posted a bogus story on an Internet message board claiming two Sooners had been arrested on cocaine distribution charges.
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He Has The Stars At His Fingertips
Steve Nipper made his living as a computer programmer, banker and insurance agency owner, but he's dreamed of the stars since he bought a dime-store telescope as a boy.
The Tampa Tribune |
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Meetings
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS C.A. JOHNSON CLASS OF 1976: Meet and greet, 7 p.m. Friday, July 18, at Bailey’s, 115 Afton Court (Harbison). (803) 786-1400 PALMETTO PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB: 6-8:30 tonight, at Capital Senior Center, 1650 Park Circle (Maxcy Gregg Park). Special Interest Groups meet before the main meeting; SIGs include Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Windows, Advanced Users and ...
The State |
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Bradley County teacher faces firing over Internet posts
The attorney for a Bradley County history teacher said he’ll ask immediately for a hearing on allegations his client used a school computer to post inappropriate and malicious messages in a local Internet chat room.
Chattanooga Times Free Press |
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Amid Hype, IPhone Growth Runs Risks
Apple Inc.'s iPhone has had a remarkable run over the past year, shaking up the stodgy design of cell phones and securing Apple a lucrative slice of the wireless business.
The Tampa Tribune |
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Obrem Capital Management has formally withdrawn its attempt to replace the board of computer products manufacturer ...
Obrem Capital Management has formally withdrawn its attempt to replace the board of computer products manufacturer Micrel as hedge funds are waging a smaller percentage of US activist shareholder campaigns for the third straight year.
eFinancial News |
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FTC: Privacy best protected by industry
The Federal Trade Commission indicated Wednesday that it would leave it to data-mining Web companies and Internet marketers to decide how best to protect users' privacy. “Self-regulation may be the preferable approach for this dynamic marketplace,” Lydia Parnes, the director of the commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, told a Senate committee. The FTC's decision not to step in – even as ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Sep 2006 21:50 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Vista RC 1 is done . Now it's up to the estimated 6 million testers to which the company is planning to release the code to determine if it really is ready for prime time.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 9th May 2007 00:53 UTC
Ubuntu 7.04 - also known as Feisty Fawn - shines for its excellent software management tools and large catalog of ready-to-install free software applications.
New Mobile Computing |
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OU quarterbacks targets of Internet hoax
The father of Oklahoma freshman quarterback Landry Jones says he plans legal action against a Nebraska football fan who allegedly posted a bogus story on an Internet message board claiming that two Sooner quarterbacks had been arrested on cocaine distribution charges.James W. Conradt, a Nebraska football fan living in Austin, Texas, said he did not mean to hurt Oklahoma quarterbacks Sam Bradford ...
The Norman Transcript |
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Google venturing into virtual reality
SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world’s information, Internet search leader Google hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web. The company unveiled a free service Tuesday in which three-dimensional software enables people to congregate in electronic rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real life. The service, called “Lively,” ...
The State |
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Yahoo Games to Partner With Double Fusion, NeoEdge
Yahoo said plans to roll out more than 400 free ad-supported casual games on its own gaming site and multiple partner sites by the end of this year—and to facilitate that rollout, it’s partnering with the in-game advertising firms Double Fusion and NeoEdge.
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Cool Gadget / Invention Of The Day
The Time Capsule is a 500 GB or 1TB wireless hard drive that works with the Time Machine (a built-in recovery feature with the Mac OS X Leopard) to constantly and automatically back up your computer, even when you don’t have the forethought to remember yourself.
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Suit Says Man Was Arrested for Nasty E-Mail Message He Didn?t Write
A man says what began as an innocent exchange of e-mail messages quickly spiraled into an Internet nightmare.
New York Times |
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New KODAK Wireless Digital Frames Take Photo Display and Sharing to New Heights
Eastman Kodak Company today announced a feature-packed wireless digital frame series boasting innovative capabilities and accessibility to online content. Available in 10-inch and 8-inch versions, these frames will wirelessly connect consumers to photo-sharing sites including KODAK Gallery and Flickr, and Internet content manager FrameChannel, a service of Frame Media, Inc.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Catch 'The Office' gang online
Thank goodness for summer webisodes. They are those mini episodes you can catch on the Internet. They are only a few minutes long, but they give you a fix for the show you’re missing and shine a light on supporting characters who don’t normally get a lot of screen time.
The Fayetteville Observer |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Jan 2006 17:53 UTC
The very first Apple computers, distributed nationwide in 1977, had a hood you could pry off to reveal the CPU, the memory, and the motherboard. But almost three decades later, the company that pioneered "open architecture" with the Apple II, even with thousands of admirers looking on, was reluctant to pry the back panel off its new Intel Core Duo-based iMacs and MacBook Pro portables.
New Mobile Computing |
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Researchers Find It's Too Easy To Buy Prescription Drugs Online
A study finds that drugs that are not supposed to be sold over the counter are sold over the internet all too easily.
KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities |
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Recent Original Stories
The article ' Understanding the Common User ' points that "everything should be as simple as it is... Or even simpler" and warns that converting a common user to Linux without giving him enough protection leads to a imminent failure.
OS News |
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Chinese internet users "huge potential e-commerce market"
Chinese internet users spend about 570 million hours online per day, making the country a huge potential market for e-commerce, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said in a report released in Beijing on Wednesday.
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Web Site Dishes a New Form of N.Y. Gossip
Ever wanted to hear a celebrity's answering machine recording, or know which prominent New Yorker has a twin? A new Web site, Cityfile.com, is putting such information at easy reach. Founded by a former Radar magazine online editor, Remy Stern, 33, Cityfile.com made its debut earlier this week. The privately funded site is part database and part Web log, featuring in-depth profiles of the city's ...
The New York Sun |
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