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E-mail allegedly from UPS delivers a computer virus
An e-mail informing recipients that they have a package that the United Parcel Service could not deliver is actually a new computer virus, company officials said.
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BMO: Apple Likely to Continue Low-Ball Investor Guidance
Apple has provided conservative investor guidance in seven of eight previous quarters, and BMO Capital believes that that Apple will do it again in the Earnings Report forecast for the quarter ending in September. The uncertain state of the economy, a gap in iPhone sales between May and July 11, and economic stimulus checks all play a role
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Judge frees teenage hacker despite guilty plea
A teenager from New Zealand who was accused of stealing millions of pounds has been let off without a conviction, despite pleading guilty to hacking into computers around the world. 18-year-old Owen Thor Walker, known online as "AKILL", was ordered to pay just £5,500 in costs and damages after a high court hearing in Hamilton, New Zealand, and could even end up working with local police to ...
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EU attacks roaming costs and ringtone charges
Europe's mobile phone companies are braced for a clash with EU regulators this week as telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding calls for the cost of sending texts when abroad to be more than halved. The EU is also set to announce a clampdown on mobile ringtone services that offer "free" downloads to snare teenagers into signing expensive monthly contracts. The EU's consumer protection chief ...
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U.K.'s BT Invests $3B in 100 Mbit/s FIOS Plan
Britain's BT plans to invest 1.5 billion pounds ($3 billion) to roll out super-fast broadband to up to 10 million UK homes by 2012, enabling services such as video conferencing and interactive gaming.
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"Most voters won't care that John McCain doesn't use e-mail or surf the web."
Recently, just about everyone online has been bashing John McCain in light of the Presidential hopeful's candid admissions about his computer illiteracy. He doesn't use email or a Blackberry, he needs the help of his wife or his aides to get online, and he has no intention of ever writing a blog. McCain's failing are even more apparent when contrasted to his younger rival ??? Obama is well ...
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San Francisco City Hall Technie Arrested for Withholding Password
Terry Childs, 43, City Hall's computer network administrator, was arrested and charged with four counts of computer tampering this past weekend. Why? Well, according to the Chronicle , he "tampered with the city's new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), where records such as officials' e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates' bookings are stored." That ...
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New Linux kernel expands virtualisation support
A longer-than-usual release cycle results in improvements for virtualisation, wireless mesh networking, multimedia and other features
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Symantec Releases NIS 2009 to Public Beta
PC Magazine has reported on Symantec's vision of a faster, smarter Norton Internet Security. With Friday's release of NIS 2009 to public beta testing that vision comes one step closer to reality.
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Newspaper sues Nebraska fan over bogus article
OKLAHOMA CITY - The publisher of Oklahoma's largest newspaper and one of its sportswriters have sued a University of Texas employee who admitted posting a bogus article on the Internet about two University of Oklahoma football players.
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Acer pitches Aspire One at Euro cellcos
Talking to T-Mobile, Orange and Vodafone Acer is said to be talking to T-Mobile, Vodafone and Orange in a bid to persuade the carriers to bundle its Aspire One Small, Cheap Computer with a USB 3G modem and subsidise the price through airtime subscription takings.…
The Register |
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Calyx adds five mortgage service providers to network
Calyx Software, the mortgage industry's leading provider of loan marketing, originating and processing software, has expanded the Calyx Network with ...
Finextra |
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 21st Jan 2002 04:10 UTC
QNX is an operating system that all of us have used, but few of us realize it when we do.
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Newspaper sues Nebraska fan over bogus article
The publisher of Oklahoma's largest newspaper and one of its sportswriters have sued a University of Texas employee who admitted posting a bogus article on the Internet about two University...
KJRH-TV Tulsa |
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Autopsy: 985-foot fall killed Webroot founder
"This is beyond sad," says former colleague at Boulder-based computer security firm.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Jun 2007 09:36 UTC, submitted by Deron
Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista in an effort to assuage Google and head off a further antitrust battle with U.S. regulators.
New Mobile Computing |
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Lenovo Launches Complete PC Solution for Small Businesses with New ThinkPad SL Notebooks, Software and Services
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.----Lenovo today unveiled a complete computing solution for small-to-medium business users that includes the new SL series of ThinkPad notebooks, value-added software and unique new services.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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DNS Vulnerability Overview and Suggested Mitigations
On July 9th, 2008 a massive effort was made among software and hardware vendors to release a simultaneous patch to their products. This patch was created to mitigate or minimize the effects of a vulne...
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Lawyers in YouTube lawsuit reach privacy deal
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Defendants and plaintiffs in two related copyright infringement lawsuits against YouTube have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers during evidence discovery, a spokesman for Google Inc said on Monday.
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Lawyers in YouTube lawsuit reach privacy deal
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Defendants and plaintiffs in two related copyright infringement lawsuits against YouTube have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers during evidence discovery, a spokesman for Google Inc said on Monday.
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Aiken man charged after online investigation
The Aiken County Sheriff's Office arrested an Aiken man late Monday who they say after chatting online with someone who he thought was a 13-year-old girl, drove to meet investigators on Gun Range Road.
WIS News 10 Columbia |
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Government Computer News
The Defense Department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program has procured an IBM supercomputer for the Navy. The Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center will manage the machine, located at Stennis Space Center, Miss.
Government Computer News |
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eBay Verdict is Egregious Injustice to the Consumer
According to the Luxury Institute today's ruling in favor of eBay by the U.S. District Court in Manhattan fails to protect consumers' rights and addresses the critical issue that luxury brands and internet retailers, by and large, must take responsibility for the authenticity of goods sold to consumers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 23:02 UTC
When it comes to launching online attacks, criminals are getting more organised and branching out from the Windows operating system, says eBay's security chief. eBay recently did an in-depth analysis of its threat situation, and while the company is not releasing the results of this analysis, it did uncover a huge number of hacked, botnet computers, said Dave Cullinane, eBay's chief information ...
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Myah OS: Not quite ready
Myah OS is a desktop-oriented distribution built from the ground up around a custom package manager. When things go right, it has the potential to be an easy to use, simplistic deskop operating system. As you will see, however, not everything always goes right.
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