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Young people have never had to survive an icy summertime thaw
I guess I’m what you’d call a “technophobe.” Then again, you could just call me an “old fogy.” A lot of the technology that’s changing our lives so rapidly disturbs me. I’m not tied by my umbilical cord to a computer or a cell phone.
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Amid hype, Apple iPhone expansion also runs risks
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- 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. Video
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Gas sends class online
College administrators link high prices to enrollment surge.
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Woman charged with using Internet to target informant
A woman once arrested for drug activities is facing a felony charge for allegedly targeting the police informant on an Internet site.
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Net flaw could let hackers take over the Web
SAN FRANCISCO: Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web.
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posted by Corey Holcomb-Hockin on Tue 10th Aug 2004 17:10 UTC
I first started programming C in high school. Most of what I learned was from a book I bought myself. The class itself wasn't very good. The book I had on C didn't teach me everything a beginning programmer needs to know.
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"We recently got in touch
with a few Intel partners and learned that the much anticipated processor from Intel, codenamed Yonah, is expected to debut early next year on January 6th. Intel's Yonah is a dual-core chip based on the 65nm fabrication process.
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Collinsville siblings accepted to Cybercave Academy
Collinsville High School students Alison Howard, 15, and Ryan Howard, 14, will be attending the fifth year of CyberCave Academies at Murray State University.
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Linked 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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Internet story on Oklahoma arrests found to be 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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Nigeria has officially ordered and paid for one million of the One Laptop per Child devices, according to the Nigerian Vanguard newspaper. The deal is the first actual order for the project that aims to provide Linux-powered laptops to children in developing economies.
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Taking Scrabble online, legally
As Facebook has blossomed into a hot internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends - or at least, an unauthorized version of the word game that Scrabble's owners have tried to shut down.
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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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Crime Stats Web Site Inches SFPD Into Information Age
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco residents can now monitor crime in their neighborhoods online in near-real time, though it may be a while longer for police officers to get access to the same system while on the job.
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Drug story about Oklahoma QBs 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. James W. Conradt, a Nebraska football fan living in Austin, Texas, said he did not mean to hurt Oklahoma quarterbacks Sam Bradford and Landry Jones with his Internet hoax, ...
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Software to tackle internet glitch
The major internet companies have been forced to come up with unprecedented security software to tackle an unprecented security glitch affecting the internet worldwide.
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iPhone 3G converts reviewer from BlackBerry
Friday creeps ever closer, bringing the iPhone to dozens of countries worldwide, and the press reviews are thus far turning out well, with one journalist claiming he is giving up his BlackBerry 8300 in favor of Apple's smartphone. Macworld Australia writer Matthew Powell gives the iPhone 3G an overall rating of four out of five, citing its ease of ...
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Remote management with Zmanda on 3G iPhone
SUNNYVALE, USA: On Friday legions of early adopters will lineup outside of Apple retail stores across the USA 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.
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Microsoft invests in SA pupils
Microsoft will supply productivity and server software worth about R750-million to public schools in South Africa.
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Upgraded iPhone arrives with little iHype
More than one year ago, our nation was swept by iPhone Mania. TV news coverage was relentless. Hard-core fans camped out to be the first in line. Bloggers referred to Apple's new product as the "Jesus phone."
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Social Web site users beware: Employers look at MySpace, Facebook sites
Don Owens, director of career services at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, says he knows of one instance of a major local employer turning someone down for a job due to something it found inappropriate on the applicant’s social networking page.
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posted by Kroc on Wed 7th Mar 2007 18:20 UTC
Augmented Reality is the overlapping of digital information and physical environment. Sci-Fi has often portrayed A.R. as interactive floating transparent computer screens projected into the air, or perhaps the most absolute example: standing inside an entirely computer generated world.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Apr 2006 16:57 UTC
"I recently received an iPod Nano as a gift. My Nano is amazingly small, contains a gigabyte of storage, and sounds very good through its ear buds. It didn't take long for me to learn that folks have been putting Linux on iPods for a couple of years now, courtesy of the iPodLinux Project.
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Midtown to star in online drama
Local movie-maker Craig Brewer says he has joined with MTV to create a "groundbreaking episodic serial" set in Memphis and cast entirely with Memphis musicians and actors "as they fight for love, inspiration and the money to pay the rent."
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Story saying two OU players arrested 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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