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Parra pleads guilty: 1 count is conspiracy to bribe county officials
A politically connected computer technician pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of taking and receiving obscene pornographic videos and to one count of conspiring with others to bribe members of the El Paso County Commissioners Court. Public corruption section Related story
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Iomega Gets Cozy with Mozy
Now part of the EMC family, storage vendor Iomega is working to help people back up their data, offering EMC's MozyHome online backup with EMC Retrospect backup software.
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iLink Systems is Presenting a Webinar on "Environmental Management Systems – Defining and Implementing an EMS"
iLink to present Webinar on "Environmental Management Systems – Defining and Implementing an EMS." iLink Systems, an ISO certified software solutions provider, today announced an upcoming interactive webinar on "Environmental Management Systems – Defining and Implementing an EMS". The webinar will be held on Thu, June, 26th, 2008 from 9.30 to 10.30 AM PST, and will discuss a TOP-DOWN [PR.com - ...
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News columnist went too far
It was surprising to me to find an editorial column aimed squarely at me in the July 12 Deseret News. Apparently, a musing I had posted on my blog incited such fury in Utah County bureau chief Tad Walch that he saw fit to write a scathing two-page attack both on me personally and my body of work.
Deseret Morning News |
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Business Glance
Congressional testimony Yahoo, Google, Microsoft paint different picture Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc.
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Villa Park man accepts plea for 2006 incident
WOODSTOCK – A 49-year-old man originally accused of fondling a 15-year-old boy whom he met online avoided prison and registering as a sex offender as part of a plea bargain. Mark Pauga, of 359 N. Mission Ave., Villa Park, received two years of probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to aggravated battery.
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Made in Oklahoma: Oklahoma Vintage Guitar
• Address: 117 S Bickford Ave., El Reno. • Web address: www.oklahomavintageguitar.com . • Key personnel: Owners Bobby and Sandra Boyles. • Employees: Sons, Travis, Sean and Randall Boyles, and Leah Matejka. • Founded: 1998. • Key product: High-end acoustic guitars. • Background: Oklahoma Vintage Guitar is one of the nation's leading suppliers of guitars with more than 3,000 guitars. ...
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J & K: Army officer killed in flash floods
"Lt Col Indranuj Borhain was washed away by flash floods, while he was engaged in repairing work on a causeway at Nagrota," Spokesman Col S D Goswami told PTI. The army had launched a rescue operation soon after the incident around 6 am, but could not save the officer, he said.
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft's next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded . Microsoft Works 9.0 - which will be the new product's name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature - might also debut at some point as Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, as many have been speculating.
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Is Internet privacy a thing of the past?
Credit card companies know what you have bought. Phone companies know whom you've called. Electronic toll services know where you've gone. Internet search companies know what you've sought.
Otago Daily Times |
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New home pages hit the Web
Since June, finance and pre-medicine senior Mark Scolaro has been focusing on launching College Homepages, a network of Web sites linking students to the sites, events and institutions specific to their universities. The Web sites are customized for each college, providing students with local information on college registration deadlines, sporting events, concerts and restaurants, as well as ...
The Daily Texan |
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UT students' personal info found online
A Washington D.C. Web site that documents illegal online disclosures of personal information has accused UT of posting the private data of 2,500 UT students. Aaron Titus, spokesman for SSNbreach.org, said his group discovered 63 files in January posted by UT professors as early as 2002.
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Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Signs Multi-Million Dollar Contract for Redknee's Turnkey Converged Billing ...
Redknee Solutions Inc. , a leading provider of mission-critical software and services for communications service providers, today announced that its Turnkey Converged Billing Solution has been selected by Botswana Telecommunications Corporation , a government owned communications service provider in Africa.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Authentic or not, 'Elvis Meat loaf' a tasty dinner
Anne Cohen of Missoula, Mont., was looking for a recipe for Elvis Presley's favorite meat loaf. She said she used to have a recipe, published in her local newspaper some years ago, that supposedly came from Presley's longtime cook. After an extensive Internet search, I managed to find a recipe for Elvis' meat loaf on trackworksinc.com, a site for food from "moving pictures." It is a copy of an ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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VIEWPOINT: "Where's your private information?"
UT students should consider themselves lucky that Aaron Titus works for the good guys and not the bad. In January, Titus discovered the information of more than 2,000 UT students online, including social security numbers, addresses and tax information, using simple search techniques.
The Daily Texan |
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Videogame console giants jockey for throne
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are waging battle at the Electronics Entertainment Expo, each claiming to be the true king of videogame consoles in a booming multi-billion dollar industry.
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Know your online enemy: new data shows structure of Cybercrime organizations
Finjan, a supplier of secure web gateway products, has announced the latest findings by its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC). In its latest trends report for Q2 2008, the MCRC identifies and analyzes the latest Crimeware business operations, and provides a first-of-its-kind insider’s look at the organizational structure of Cybercrime organizations.
PublicTechnology.net |
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Les Crane, 74; former late-night TV host also founded software company
Les Crane, called the "bad boy of late-night television" when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s, died of natural causes Sunday at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, north of San Francisco. He was 74.
Los Angeles Times |
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Videogame console giants jockey for throne
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are waging battle at the Electronics Entertainment Expo, each claiming to be the true king of videogame consoles in a booming multi-billion dollar industry.
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Husband stabbed in drunken row with wife
A "DELIRIOUS" woman threw a computer at her wounded husband, saying he "deserved to be stabbed".
News Interactive |
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Intel's Happy Earnings Surprise
Record orders for Intel's PC chips raised hopes of solid second-quarter earnings news from Google, IBM, and Microsoft
BusinessWeek |
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Teenwire stays on library site, but moves to adult section
BATAVIA – A controversial Web site regarding teen sexuality will remain a link on the Batavia Public Library Web site, officials decided late Tuesday.
Kane County Chronicle |
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Apple's iPhone: Give Us the Nav
Apple's iPhone: Give Us the Nav
BusinessWeek |
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Joss Whedon's Wacky Web Experiment
Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer likely will flock to Whedon's new Dr. Horrible online project. His business plan may be just as interesting
BusinessWeek |
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Yahoo, Google deal is examined
WASHINGTON — Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company’s advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft Corp., raises antitrust concerns.
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