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Computer Crime is Here to Stay; So Are Jobs to Combat It
(ARA) - What do a recent global crackdown on Internet child pornography and the arrest of Dennis Rader, the infamous "BTK" serial killer have in common with the Sept. 11 attacks on America?
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Nigeria: Digital Disaster - Roadmap to 21st Century Digital Economic Security (11)
DIGITAL Disasters come in shape and sizes. The entire nation may be plunged into a national emergency if her Central Bank Data is wiped off or infected by incurable worms and virus.
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Recent Original Stories
"As a network professional, I have used various Linux-based systems for many years in troubleshooting and monitoring networks. However, Linux has never been my operating system of choice for my office desktop.
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High-Tech Pet Innovations and the People Who Love Them
(ARA) - The Internet or their pets - which could Americans live without? No need to live without either, thanks to some particularly enterprising participants in the pet industry - a market the American Pet Products Manufacturers' Association estimates at $40 billion a year.
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Fri 22nd Jul 2005 06:10 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Is the official new name for the Longhorn operating system is Microsoft Windows Vista ? Flexbeta seems to think so, and has posted a domain registration from MS that seems to support this idea.
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Referral club establishes Salem chapter
SALEM — The Salem-Capitol chapter of My Referral Club has been established. The club generates its referrals through the Internet and meets for lunch twice per month. The club is accepting applications for new members in categories not currently occupied.
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Video Rental on Xbox 360 and PS3 in U.S., but what about the rest of the World?
Microsoft partnered with Netflix to bring movie rental to the Xbox 360 and Sony launched their own video rental and download for the PS3 yesterday. Both offerings are only available in the United States. I just tested if I can access the video downlo...
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Squeezed by Sluggish Economy, Many Find Charity Begins at Home -- On the Computer
(ARA) - The downturn in the economy and rising food and gas prices are taking a toll on charities and non-profit organizations. Soup kitchens, churches, international aid organizations and schools report donations of all kinds are down as folks struggle to make their own ends meet.
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Avoiding the most common software development goofs
Finding defects in code has been the bane of developers' existence since the earliest days of computer programming. Maurice Wilkes, the British computer scientist best known for his work on the EDSAC , said in 1949:
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Intel Profit Jump A Good Sign
San Francisco - Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 25 percent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates
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NZ teenage hacker charges dropped
A New Zealand teenager who admitted to taking part in an international cyber-crime network is freed without a conviction.
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What Does a DIYer Really Want? Tools that Do More
(ARA) - From smart phones that also function as computers to green practices that reduce waste and generate energy at the same time, multi-tasking is in vogue.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Ex-museum director pleads guilty
The former director of the North Bay museum pleaded guilty Tuesday to unlawfully possessing" more than $13,500 of his employer's cash, a television and computer monitor. Ed Driedger, 38, who worked for the museum for 12 years as it relocated to the former CP Rail station as Discovery [...]
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Microsoft Updates Servers With Latest Search Features
Microsoft released three bundles of fixes and new features for its server products on Wednesday.
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Microsoft blasts Yahoo-Google ad deal
A proposed online search advertising deal between Yahoo and Google came under fire at a US Senate hearing as Microsoft claimed that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang had himself admitted that the agreement would hurt competition.
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Sony aims Rs 4,000 crore sales this year
Japanese electronics giant Sony today said this year it is aiming to clock a turnover of Rs 4,000 crore and is doubling its advertising and marketing campaign budget for LCD televisions.
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At Your Library: Maine's virtual library is MARVEL-ous
Contrary to popular opinion, you can't find everything there is to know on the Internet. Much of what is found on the World Wide Web is neither edited nor refereed. Information found in a Google search may be untrustworthy and or even flat-out incorrect.
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Games developers to sue file sharers
Thousands of people who swop computer games on file-sharing sites are the latest consumers facing court action for breach of copyright. Following law firm Davenport Lyons’ successful prosecution of four people in the High Court last month (acting on behalf of German games publisher Zuxxez), four further major games developers have instructed the company to obtain more disclosure orders.
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Facing up to security perils of outbound traffic
The security risks associated with outbound IP and mail traffic are rarely discussed in the information...
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Judge acquits man of child porn charges
A Sudbury judge has acquitted a man facing child porn charges because he can't determine with any degree of certainty how the images got onto the Chelmsford man's computer early last year. The man was reported to police by his wife, who said she caught him viewing the [...]
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Computer specialist locks city out
A network administrator for San Francisco's internal fiber optic network who appeared in court Tuesday was a "rogue employee" who became so "full of himself" that he locked every city employee out of the recently installed system, Mayor Gavin Newsom said.
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Games developers to sue file sharers
Dinah Greek, Computeract!ve , Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 11:09:00 War declared on gamers who breach copyright Thousands of people who swop computer games on file-sharing sites are the latest consumers facing court action for breach of copyright....
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Supply issues hit Seagate's fourth quarter income
Martin Courtney, Computing , Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 10:51:00 Notebook hard drive supply problems and falling prices take their toll, but annual income up Hard drive maker Seagate saw net income drop to $160m (£80m) in the fourth quarter of 2008, down from $541m a year earlier, though last year's figure was inflated by...
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Rock Unleashes 'Killer' Gaming Laptops
The new laptop line up from Rock should bring your gaming to life. Marrying raw power from the generals of the microprocessor world, Intel, and cutting-edge gaming technology from nVidia, the new lineup boasts a serious combination of killer components for compu...
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Twenty Experts Define Cloud Computing
It is the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world, but how is it best defined? I refer of course to 'Cloud Computing' - the phenomenon that has as many definitions as there are squares on a chess-board. To try and narrow it down we bring here a round-up of some recent attempts to bring welcome precision where there risks being unnecessary vagueness.
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