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Sentencing in cyber crime cast today
15 July 2008 The Whitianga teenager at the centre of an international cyber crime ring will be sentenced in the High Court at Hamilton today. Eighteen-year-old Owen Walker was arrested after an 18 month investigation by New Zealand, Dutch and American authorities.
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Google Search Security Mistaken For Censorship
By warning users of a hack on a Net neutrality opponent's Web site, Google was accused of trying to silence critics of a policy it supports.
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Convio Hosts CASE Panel on Social Networking, Media
David Lotz, Convio's Director of Higher Education, hosted a session directed at senior-level advancement professionals looking to explore creative ways to advance their programs and to forge ahead in new directions today at the 2008 CASE Summit. As a participant in a four-person panel that included representatives from LinkedIn, the Caltech Alumni Association and the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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''Virtual Greats'' Enters $1.5 Billion Virtual Goods Market
Millions of Us LLC, an agency specializing in virtual worlds and large online communities, today announced that it has launched a new company, "Virtual Greats," to take advantage of the rapidly growing market for virtual goods. In connection with today's launch announcement, Millions of Us also announced that Virtual Greats will have distribution rights for virtual goods associated with the ...
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Cineplex Entertainment Chooses ATG
ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG), the premier provider of e-commerce software and platform neutral optimization services, today announced that Cineplex Entertainment, Canada's largest motion picture exhibitor, has selected ATG's Commerce Suite to power its e-commerce website. The new site will showcase an improved and more personalized online experience for Cineplex Entertainment ...
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Skyhook Wireless Launches in Europe
Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System and XPS 2.0, the hybrid positioning system, today announced its formal launch in Europe. The launch includes a massive coverage expansion throughout the UK and Europe and the establishment of sales and operational offices in the region. Skyhook's launch will be showcased at tonight's Mobile Monday London event, "Enabling location based ...
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Icahn Says Yahoo Board Will Rue Rejecting Microsoft (Update1)
July 14 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. directors made a ``grave mistake'' in rejecting Microsoft Corp.'s latest advances, billionaire investor Carl Icahn said as he pressed shareholders to oust the Internet company's board.
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Desktop software in your browser via Adobe toolset
Adobe researcher Scott Petersen is working on an interesting set of tools that ultimately will allow applications developed using C/C++ code to run in a browser. The tools will be open source, allowing anyone to use them either to develop new applications or port over existing code to work through a browser.Petersen has apparently already [...]
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eBay beats Tiffany in court case over trademarks
(AP:NEW YORK) EBay Inc. scored an important victory in court Monday, as a federal judge said companies such as jeweler Tiffany & Co. are responsible for policing their trademarks online, not auction platforms like eBay.
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Immigration training to help with backlog of cases
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 2:41 p.m. DALLAS (AP) -- Some 48 students fill each of the auditorium-style classrooms, their bulky Immigration Law Handbooks tabbed with dozens of colorful stickies and laptop computers within reach.
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Canadian porn site settles with Facebook
SlickCash hands over $500,000 for allegedly hacked social networking site's computers, sought to contact members
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Convio Hosts CASE Panel on Social Networking, Media
David Lotz, Convio's Director of Higher Education, hosted a session directed at senior-level advancement professionals looking to explore creative ways to advance their programs and to forge ahead in new directions today at the 2008 CASE Summit. As a participant in a four-person panel that included representatives from LinkedIn, the Caltech Alumni Association and the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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SWAZILAND: Siphiwe Hlope, "Today women are so courageous"
Source: IRIN Siphiwe Hlope is a pioneer. She was one of the first Swazi women to publicly declare her HIV status, in 2001, at a time when stigma against people living with the virus was intense. She went on to form Swazis for Positive Living (SWAPOL) to advocate awareness and the rights of HIV-positive people in a country with an adult HIV-prevalence rate of 26 percent, the world's highest.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Feb 2007 17:44 UTC
"Windows Vista includes an array of 'features' that you don't want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems.
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Linked by Quentin Hartman on Mon 14th Jul 2008 09:58 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
So you thought Linux was the key to the Eee PC's success? Not so, according to ASUS . "The bulk of the requests and requirements we see in the marketplace are for the model with Windows rather than Linux," says Henry Lee, Acer's senior product manager.
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Recent Original Stories
At last week's Guadec meeting, Kristian Rietveld delivered the GTK+ "state of the union" report. GTK+ is the multi-platform toolkit behind a number of popular applications and, perhaps most well known, the Gnome Desktop environment for Linux.
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Icahn blasts Yahoo, details Microsoft deal
NEW YORK, Jul 14 (Reuters) Activist shareholder Carl Icahn blasted Yahoo Inc on Monday for rejecting his joint proposal with Microsoft Corp, saying management was more focused on who would run the Internet company than on the details of the offer.
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Transient steals identity, goes on shopping spree
SPOKANE, Wash. - A 48-year-old transient was living the good life Saturday as he used stolen cash and checks to buy a large-screen television, movies, a laptop computer, a cellular phone, a Sony PlayStation and new clothing and shoes, all the while driving a car he received to test drive using the theft victim's identity.
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Priceline's Asian Travel Experts Offer Tips For Attending The 2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing
There's sure to be plenty of excitement at the events surrounding the August 8-24, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. But visitors to the Games should also allow time to explore Beijing and all it has to offer, according to Michael Kenny, Chief Executive Officer of Agoda.com, priceline.com's (Nasdaq: PCLN) Asian online hotel reservation service.
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LHC Group to Broadcast Its Second Quarter 2008 Conference Call Live on the Internet
LAFAYETTE, La.----LHC Group, Inc. , one of the largest providers of home nursing services in the United States, announced today that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its second quarter 2008 earnings conference call on Thursday, July 31, 2008.
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eBay wins key ruling in Tiffany trademark suit
Internet auction giant eBay cannot be held liable for trademark infringement for counterfeit items sold through its website, a US judge ruled Monday in a case brought by luxury retailer Tiffany.
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Truephone Low Cost International Calls for iPhone
Low-cost international calls are now available on the iPhone via the Truephone beta service. The Truephone application is available from the Apple App Store now. The application allows users to connect to the Internet for calls rather than the GSM network....
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Oct 2005 15:55 UTC
"Today [14-10-05] just so happens to mark the third birthday of Microsoft's Media Center Edition of Windows XP, which is likely why the company is rolling out a major update to the MCE product. Dubbed Rollup 2, the update is available to current WMC customers via Windows Update.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Feb 2007 21:31 UTC, submitted by IdaAshley
"Portland is a new open source project that promises to simplify the deployment and commercialization of Linux applications by helping them run on multiple desktop environments, including Gnome and KDE. Although still young, Portland is available today, and it looks to be improving rapidly.
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eWeek Newsbreak, July 14, 2008
Storage vendors are scrambling to keep up with the demand from Hollywood special-effects houses and surveillance companies. Digital video storage is the single fastest-growing sector in the storage industry and it is being driven by the demand from filmmakers and security companies, both producing thousands of hours of video that needs to be held indefinitely; Google Lively was just released as ...
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