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Yahoo's COKE Project Adds Life to Front Page
Yahoo has developed an artificial intelligence system called COKE that has boosted news story clickthroughs by about 25...
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Microsoft Needs a Little more Fixing
A Word zero-day exploit and a problem with a third-party security program prove setbacks, but at least one issue is fixed.
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Feds to expose e-mail schemes in 2-day 'Spam King' hearing
Robert Alan Soloway, only the second person to be convicted of criminal spamming under the 2004 "Can-Spam" law, pleaded guilty in March to single counts of mail and e-mail fraud, and to tax evasion. He will be sentenced Monday.
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9:40 a.m. - MBA to hold training
9:40 a.m. July 11 — The Micronesian Business Association is providing a workplace readiness and computer skills training program for people age 17 and older. Applications are being accepted.
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Apple iPhone goes on sale in Japan amid swirling smoke and chanting
Yuri Kageyama, The Associated Press July 10, 2008 - 7:43 p.m. TOKYO - The new iPhone went on sale at a Tokyo store Friday, making its debut in Japan, amid swirling smoke after a 30-second countdown chanted by hundreds of people lined up, some for days, snaking around the block.
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Syria software pirate lives by own code of ethics
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Apps need easy desktop-cloud migration: Ballmer
The future lies in the platform in the cloud, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th Aug 2002 18:13 UTC
Almost a year after our much discussed Mac OS X 10.1 review, it is time to write down our impressions from the new version of OSX, Jaguar 10.2 . Is Jaguar worth the full $129 USD? Dive in for more.
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Kaukauna Man Faces Child Porn Charges
A Kaukauna man charged with three counts of child pornography was in court for the first time Thursday. Court officials say 23-year-old Michael Mulryan formed a relationship with a 15-year-old girl over the internet and traded nude pictures with her. FOX 11's Cameron Clark was in court and has more.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 8th Oct 2005 18:40 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Programmers agonize over whether to allocate on the stack or on the heap. Some people think garbage collection will never be as efficient as direct memory management, and others feel it is easier to clean up a mess in one big batch than to pick up individual pieces of dust throughout the day.
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Yang does not expect to meet with Microsoft
Embattled Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang says he doesn't expect to meet with Microsoft representatives this week at the Allen & Co. media summit here.
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Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008
When was the last time you heard something in the lines of "We do our best to protect our customers from the threats posed by..." ? In reality though, the statement should end up like "protect our customers from the threats posed by the rest of our customers". China may...
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Intrinsyc revs Windows CE-based software platform
— Jun. 27, 2008 — Intrinsyc Software has announced an upgraded version of its Windows CE-based application software stack.
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Novell plans to release a beta for its Linux Desktop 10 including new features offering better interoperability with ...
. Haeger said Xgl will allow users to jump between screens and multiple desktops. Targeted to CAD software users, Xgl has a practical side that allows users to have better window- and file-sharing capabilities.
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The ReadyBoard 820
Ampro has upgraded its ruggedized ReadyBoard 820 (pictured below), claimed to be the world's smallest PCI Express motherboard when it first shipped in late 2006. The SBC features Intel's 1.4GHz Pentium M 738, which can be swapped out for a low-power Celeron M, says Ampro.
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Future Bleak for User-Generated Digital Video Ads
Dallas, TX, July 15, 2008 - User-Generated Video (UGV) will continue to account for close to half of total online video streams between 2008 and 2013, but disappointingly will produce no more than 4% of ad-related online video revenue at any time during this period.
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New Web Site Helps Parents Learn About Net
A new Web site is designed to help parents educate themselves about the Internet to protect their children from online crime.
KCTV 5 Kansas City |
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Christie Brinkley settles divorce case
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- Christie Brinkley's fiercely combative divorce trial ended Thursday following a week of salacious testimony about her fourth husband's affair with a teenager and his Internet porn proclivities. The settlement gives her custody of their two children and some property. The husband, Peter Cook, gets $2.1 million. "I'm really glad that today we found some peace," ...
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Sex, lies and emails: Court gripped by bizarre internet murder conspiracy
Divorcee found guilty of conspiring to hire hitman through website to kill partner and his two sons
Guardian Unlimited |
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Apple opens online 'extras' shop on eve of iPhone 3G launch
Apple on Thursday threw open the virtual doors of an "App Store" brimming with independently created mini-programs promising to make iPhones even more coveted.
TurkishPress.com |
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AT&T, AOL agree to block Internet child porn
US Internet providers AT&T and AOL have agreed to block child pornography from their servers, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday.
TurkishPress.com |
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Email Story
New York - The voting results are in and it's Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria (lawn-GOHR'-ee-uh) and Milwaukee's Corey Hart going to the All-Star Game.
WJFW Rhinelander |
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Scrap metal thieves blamed for knocking out websites including Sainsbury's
The websites of Sainsbury's and other firms were wiped out for a time today after a computer centre failure that is being blamed on scrap metal thieves.
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posted by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Thu 10th Jul 2008 16:37
I was quite distressed when I read the article in the July 2003 Consumer Reports about the Wal-Mart $300 Computer . I've been a big fan of Consumer Reports for years. But this time I didn't feel that they really did a fair comparison of the Wal-Mart Linux PC's. So I decided to do one of my own.
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Recent Original Stories
An open-source alternative, Beagle provides fast indexing and searching of all your files. Kevin of the LinuxForums.org content development team has used it, abused it and reviewed it.
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