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Bus-powered hard drives and older Mac laptops
Macworld Lab tests a plethora of older Macs to see how they handle bus-powered USB portable hard drives.
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Man jailed over chatroom grooming
A Darlington man who travelled to Tyneside to sexually assault a girl he met in an internet chatroom is jailed.
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New Computer System Still Causing Problems
A South Dakota official says more than dozen people are working 18-hour days to fix problems that have plagued the state's new license plate system.
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Microsoft vis-a-vis the App Store
Where exactly is Microsoft when it comes to the iPhone? Will there be Microsoft applications for the iPhone? News.com's Ina Fried sorts through the hype.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 17:03 UTC, submitted by Carondelet
An observing poster at the Ubuntu forums unearthed what he says are screenshots of the upcoming Novell Linux Desktop 10. "I was snooping around for details about Novell Linux Desktop 10 and stumbled upon an internal Novell Desktop Design wiki.
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Internet Providers Remove
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says two of the nation's largest Internet providers have removed newsgroups that featured child pornography.
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UMPCs and Linux: made for each other, and coming soon
Who knew that the biggest desktop Linux show of 2008 would turn out to be the June Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan, where the next generation of Linux desktop hardware was put on display? In fact, Linux was at the heart of no fewer than four different ultra mobile PCs (UMPC).
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Making the classroom a playground for learning
Playing computer games in school may sound like the kids rule the classroom. But European researchers have shown that such games can be used to boost learning. What`s more, the special computer games developed by the eMapps.com project could help build communities of creative, networking children across Europe, especially in the new Member States.
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EzBackup101 Makes Automatic Backup Easy Enough for Beginners
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.----With the introduction of EzBackup101 backup software, Data Protection Solutions by Arco now offers even the most non-technical computer users the ability to backup their data automatically.
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The Impact of Google's Virtual World
Google's just-debuted virtual world is clunky right now, but expect it to grow into a monster success – and play a leading role in business as well a social networking.
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iPhone rage boils over
Apple's iPhone makes its long-awaited Canadian debut tomorrow, but the firestorm of controversy surrounding its release has threatened to become a bigger story than the hi-tech gizmo itself.
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Wisconsin newspaper will publish mainly online
MILWAUKEE - In a bid to offset slumping ad sales and rising costs, The Daily Telegram in Superior, Wis. said today it would publish the majority of its 118-year-old paper...
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Cuomo cuts deal to scrub child porn sites
AT&T, the nation's largest Internet service provider, and AOL agreed today to purge their servers of child pornography, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced.
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More Internet companies to remove child porn sites
AT&T Inc and Time Warner Inc's AOL unit have agreed to purge their Internet servers of Web sites that traffic child pornography, New York state's attorney general said on Thursday.
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Coach Gets Probation In Internet Sex Talk Case
The former athletic director and baseball coach at St. Bernard School in Montville has been given probation on charges involving Internet sex chats.
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Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008
Come see a no-slides, code-only presentation that starts with a blank directory and builds a data-driven, AJAX enabled, ASP.NET web application from scratch that implements common AJAX patterns with the rich set of AJAX Control Toolkit, accesses data with LINQ, and implements standards-based styling and layout using CSS and clean HTML. Learn the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Visual ...
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PCmag.com: 6 reasons not to buy an iPhone 3G
As the iPhone 3G prepares to launch, there are six reasons not to buy Apple's new phone according to PCmag.com. Despite early, mostly positive reviews from the New York Times, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal, the blog has taken the iPhone 3G to task for its AT&T-only availability in the US and AT&T's pricing structure, which, over the two-ye...
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Sector Wrap: Major Web stocks mostly rise
Most major Web stocks rose Thursday, with IAC/InterActiveCorp increasing after the company set a date for its annual meeting, at which shareholders will be asked to approve a reverse stock split related to the spinoffs of several businesses.
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Harris Connect Partners with Heller Consulting to Develop "Best Practices" Integration Tools for Their Raiser's ...
BREWSTER, N.Y.----Harris Connect, the market leader in alumni and membership affinity solutions today announced a strategic partnership with Heller Consulting, the nation's top fundraising software consulting firm for nonprofits, according to Carmen Delessio Jr., Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Harris Connect.
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PC Mall, Inc. Names Brandon H. LaVerne Chief Financial Officer
TORRANCE, Calif.----PC Mall, Inc. , a leading provider of IT hardware, software and solutions, announced today it has named Brandon H. LaVerne its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. LaVerne had previously served as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, a position which he was appointed to in June of 2007.
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CORRECTING and REPLACING Belkin Adds CushTop Hideaway and Laptop Cooling Hub to Laptop Accessory Offering
COMPTON, Calif.----In subhead and first graph, fourth sentence of release, product name should read Cooling Lounge .
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Photonic Switching to Enhance Internet Speed Dramatically
Researchers at the University of Sydney's Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), have developed technology that is reported to boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without added costs to consumers, and it's all because of a scratch on a piece of glass. Professor Ben Eggleton, The director or the research center says that those optical fibers have a ...
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Poll: Pet Owners Favor McCain Over Obama
Pet owners favor John McCain over Barack Obama, a recent AP-Yahoo News poll finds.
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New iPhone debuts to lines in Japan, elsewhere
NEW 11:55 a.m. TOKYO -- Gadget lovers worldwide are already camped out ahead of Friday’s global rollout of the new model of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, which is also the first iPhone to go on sale in many countries. Video Archived video: First iPhones arrive in B-N
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Yahoo to build on search power
SAN FRANCISCO — Unable to beat Google in the Web search business on its own, Yahoo is trying a new approach. Yahoo wants to enlist a small army of search start-ups as allies in the hope that collectively they will be able to stop the Google juggernaut, whose share of Web searches keeps growing.
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