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500 - All The Books That Ever Won The GG Prize
For nine years, the John Meier "has been trolling the Internet, used-book stores and libraries, as well as stalking publishing houses, in his quest to collect a copy of every English-language first edition book to win the Governor-General's Literary Award for fiction.
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INiS's Keiichi Yano quiet on Lips DLC pricing News by
Keiichi Yano, co-founder of Lips developer iNiS, was unable to clarify pricing for the ambitious Microsoft karaoke game or its downloadable song content when Eurogamer spoke to him on Tuesday at E3.
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Shutdown of 'lifeline' to hit rural police forces hard
A computer service connecting thousands of rural police to critical Internet access is shutting down, jeopardizing service in at least 20 states, police officials say.
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One Day, City Drivers May Dial 'P' for Parking
New Yorkers could one day turn to their cell phones and PDAs to find available parking spaces. According to a report in the New York Times, San Francisco is moving forward with plans to test a new parking program that tells connected drivers where they can find a parking spot. The new technology relies on embedded-in-the-pavement wireless sensors that detect the presence of a vehicle and relay ...
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Yahoo-Google tie-up attracts scrutiny
Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo, demanding to know whether its partnership with Google, raises antitrust concerns.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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Windows update servers score 100% uptime
Updated: 16 Jul 2008 FRAMINGHAM, JULY 15, 2008— Microsoft Corp.'s Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, a Swedish uptime monitoring company said.
Computerworld Singapore |
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Symantec: Security software needs speed
Updated: 16 Jul 2008 FRAMINGHAM, JULY 15, 2008— Symantec Corp. released beta versions of its flagship Windows software Tuesday, citing significant improvements in performance.
Computerworld Singapore |
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Wait Until You Get Your Hands on Surface Computing!
By taking advantage of people's natural sense of touch, new hands-on computer systems can offer more precise control over what's happening on the screen than by pointing and clicking with a mouse.
WIVB Buffalo |
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'World's Greatest Dad' faces sex-related charges
NOVI, Mich. -- A 33-year-old Clarkston man faces two 20-year felonies after authorities say he arranged a meeting for sex with an online contact he believed was a 14-year-old girl and...
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Ads on Airline Tickets
Six major U.S. carriers are planning on placing advertisements on boarding passes printed online.
WHSV Harrisonburg |
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Symantec Partners Outraged Over Direct Sales For Top Customers
Symantec's decision to solidify sales opportunities for its largest customers elicited a storm of angry comments from partners who threatened to switch vendors if the proposed changes came to pass.
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Blue Bombers shocked by ex-cheerleaders' racy photos
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are scrambling to protect their reputation after racy photos featuring some of the team's former cheerleaders were posted on an Internet sports site.
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Lessons From One Year of Blogging
Guest Post by Craig Stolz (Contribute your post to CyberJournalist.net here) One year ago I launched this blog with a notion but no clue. The notion was that I wanted to make sense of the baffling, bad but somehow occasionally powerful stuff that was emerging under the aegis “Web 2.0.” [It has lately been usefully redubbed "social [...]
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Fiber Optic Cuts
Two 911 outages in the past two weeks, with the latest Monday, cutting Internet and long-distance phone services to areas in and around Billings.
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There is a new edition of the FreeBSD Foundation newsletter .
"The innovation of the past lives on in FreeBSD. From SMP and network scalability to innovations in security APIs and wireless networking, the technology of FreeBSD is making an impact on our world. What future piece of BSD technology will help foster a new public commodity like the Internet?
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IBM will invest $1.5B to expand NY operations
IBM Corp. will invest $1.5 billion to promote nanotechnology research and to create and retain jobs in New York, Gov. David Paterson said Tuesday.
WSYR 9 Syracuse |
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Congress explores Yahoo-Google antitrust questions
Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company's advertising partnership with Google, intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft, raises antitrust concerns.
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Intel 2Q profit jumps 25%, beats Wall Street estimates
SAN FRANCISCO - INTEL says its second-quarter profit jumped 25 per cent. Blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates.
Straits Times |
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Optus apologises for outage
OPTUS has issued an unreserved apology after a contractor accidentally cut a fibre optic cable in Queensland causing loss of all its phone and internet services in the state and severely disrupting business.
Perth Now |
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Women turn to cyber sex 16 Jul 2008, 0039 hrs IST, ANI
Sex is not just confined to bedroom anymore, for women have found their sex haven in the virtual world as well. One in five Aussie women have admitted to having a sexual encounter in an internet chatroom, reveals a new survey.
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'World's Greatest Dad' faces sex-related charges
NOVI, Mich. (AP) — A 33-year-old Clarkston man faces two 20-year felonies after authorities say he arranged a meeting for sex with an online contact he believed was a 14-year-old girl and showed up wearing a T-shirt that read: "World's Greatest Dad."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Feb 2006 22:45 UTC
Aren't you guys being a little too harsh on the author? He's not claiming to be a BIOS programmer or a professional writer, but he wrote this article for a reason - he's clearly got a problem, and Gateway is offering him no solution.
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Bow Wow's Just Teasing Omarion In 'Lookin' Boy,' But He's Serious About Soulja Boy Tell'em Collabo
Bow Wow wants to know how a joke he made on his single turned into an Internet-wide rumor that he has ...
MTV Asia |
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Mileage-boosting devices are bogus, experts say
With record-high gasoline prices, dozens of Web sites have appeared selling conversion kits that claim to improve gas mileage by as much as 100 percent.
Dayton Daily News |
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Intel Rides Microprocessor Demand
The Intel Corporation reported Tuesday that its net income increased 25 percent in the second quarter, helped by higher demand for microprocessors.
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