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Microsoft hosts its own police academy
Law enforcers from around the world get three days of training from Redmond on how to use technology in fighting cybercrime as well as other types of crime.
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Disney star regrets flashing her flesh for Vanity Fair's Leibovitz
Sitting for Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old television superstar who plays Hannah Montana in the popular Disney Channel show of the same name, is now wishing she hadn't.
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Hillary Draws Paying Crowd at Carolina Theatre
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – After speaking in Graham, presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton drove to the Carolina Theatre downtown. Several hundred people stood in the pouring rain to get inside the theatre, paying between $25 and $2,300 (which included a picture with the candidate) for an appearance titled "Hillary Live." Caron Myers reports.
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On Your Side: Cable Controversy
It's almost hard to imagine in 2008, people living less than a mile from a city's limits and they cannot get cable or cable internet. But that's just what the Mayor of one Richmond County city says happened to people in his town.
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How far off is the CEO Twittering era? Closer than you may think
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz helped popularize corporate blogging. So CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks him about the likelihood he and fellow CEOs will take the next logical step.
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Apple updates iMac range
Apple has updated its iMac range with the addition of Intel Core 2 Duo processors and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics cards – although the latter is an additional option.
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Chinese hackers target CNN
A newly discovered application is attacking news website CNN in what security experts suspect to be an act of information warfare..
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Windows sales drop nearly a quarter
Microsoft has posted revenue of US$4.03 billion from all desktop versions of Windows for the three months ending 31 March, down from US$5.3 billion during the same period 12 months earlier..
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Windows XP lives on through licensing loopholes
Three of the world's largest PC manufacturers are exploiting loopholes in Microsoft licensing terms as a means of supplying Windows XP beyond its official kill date..
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MSFT-YHOO: Nothing Yet; Announcement By Mid-Week?
One thing we know: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) didn't spend this past weekend furiously hammering out a last-minute agreement. As such, we've been deprived of the inevitable Wall Street Journal writeup detailing the negotiations, right down to what topping Jerry Yang ordered on his pizza. Instead, we're left wondering what's on Ballmer's mind. Walk? Go hostile? Depending on ...
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Software engineer found guilty of wife's death
Hans Reiser took the stand during his murder trial and insisted he didn't kill his estranged wife when she dropped off their children at his Oakland hills home. But a jury found otherwise on Monday. At the end of a six-month trial in Oakland, it convicted the...
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Family's dog turns up for sale on internet
A Coopersville family gave their dog away thinking it was going to a good home. But a few days later it turned up on the internet. Amanda McDaniel says she was wiling to give her 1-year old Yorkie-Poodle Mix away for free. A friend suggested putting an ad on craigslist.
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MSFT-YHOO: Nothing Yet; Announcement By Mid-Week?
One thing we know: Microsoft and Yahoo didn't spend this past weekend furiously hammering out a last-minute agreement. As such, we've been deprived of the inevitable Wall Street Journal writeup detailing the negotiations, right down to what topping Jerry Yang ordered on his pizza.
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Jury: Oakland mother's killing deliberate even if she's missing
A jury this afternoon convicted computer programmer Hans Reiser of first-degree murder for killing his estranged wife, concluding that her slaying in 2006 was deliberate and premeditated even though her body was never found. As the verdict was read in...
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Off the blogs
JELUTONG MP Ooi Chuan Aun has plenty on his plate these days as an elected representative as well as Chief of Staff to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
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Movers roundup: STEC, National CIty
Shares of memory-chip maker STEC Inc. soared Monday after a number of analysts commented on the possibility of major contracts for the company's solid-state drives, a technology that seeks to replace conventional spinning computer drives.
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Gothic 4: Arcania
The first details on the new Gothic game have been revealed in a German PC mag, picked up and raped for info by the internet.
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Work At Home Scheme
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Fred Rutledge is unemployed and he knows the job market is tight. "I have done sales, I have done management," says Rutledge. Rutledge was surfing the internet and found a listing for an independent contractor on the Employ Florida website.
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Microsoft picked for Democratic convention
Software giant Microsoft Corp. will be the official software and high-definition web content provider for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. (MSFT)
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iCAD to Host First Quarter 2008 Financial Results Conference Call on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
NASHUA, N.H. , April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- iCAD, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICAD), an industry-leading provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, today announced that the Company's first quarter 2008 financial results will be announced before market open on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 . iCAD management will discuss the results during a conference call ...
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Don't Let Fragmentation End Hard Drive Life Prematurely
You might know that file fragmentation -- the saving of files into multiple pieces (fragments), which a computer does naturally -- slows down system performance and response time dramatically. What you might not be aware of, however, is the toll that fragmentation can take on your computer hardware, specifically your hard drive.
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Google-Hacking Goes To China
A new cyber-attack based in China used the search engine to target and infect a record number of sites with malicious software.
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Free music may cripple Nokia financially
Nokia's "Comes With Music" program, offering those who purchase Nokia phones nearly unlimited free access to a large music database, could cost the company more than it would make. The Register writes that Nokia would be responsible for footing the bill for downloads that exceed the estimated limit of 35 songs per user, charged wholesale per unit. ...
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Warner Bros. pushes shows online with 2 new Web sites
Warner Bros. is launching two Web sites to capture new ad revenue and a younger generation of viewers, the company said Monday. KidsWB.com, geared for children, debuted Monday, featuring animated characters from the Warner Bros. library, which includes Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo and DC Comics heroes like Batman. TheWB.com — with full episodes of shows such as "Friends" and "Smallville" and ...
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by Lambda (2.24) on Fri 4th Aug 2006 00:14 UTC
At least it wasn't a car analogy, but the point is valid and that coupled with no stable API equals users lose out in the end. Once again we have zealots helping out Microsoft.
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