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Brooklyn rappers PNG score with new dance
Rap trio Persona Non Grata are part of a wave of hip hop in which Web-savvy teens with an ear for catchy music can create and control their own fame. In this case, fame centers on a song that begat a dance that begat an Internet sensation.
New York Daily News |
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Foundation funds help school district
Thanks to grants from the Washington County Riverboat Foundation, the Highland School District will be able to equip every classroom with a new computer for the upcoming school year.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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Recent Original Stories
The Ubuntu team announced the release of Ubuntu 6.10 , codenamed 'Edgy Eft'. Highlights for the desktop include GNOME 2.16, Firefox 2.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, Gaim 2.0 and two new applications, F-Spot and Tomboy.
OS News |
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City budget includes goal to hire more police officers
Approving the alignment and design of the Farm-to Market Road 543 connector route north of U.S. 380, addressing police staffing needs and building the IESI Recycling Center are some of the top priorities included in the 2008-2009 city of McKinney budget.
McKinney Courier-Gazette |
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Affinium NetInsight Provides Highest Business Value for Enterprise-Class Web Analytics, According to Leading Online ...
Unica Corporation (Nasdaq: UNCA - News), a leading global provider of enterprise marketing management (EMM) solutions, today announced it has been positioned as a “definitive industry leader for large enterprises using analytics” in the July 2008 JupiterResearch “Web Analytics Buyer’s Guide: Assessing Vendors’ Competencies and Value.”
CRM Today |
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Emmet O'Neal Library considers Wi-Fi policy
Months after adopting a new Internet policy, the board of Mountain Brook's Emmet O'Neal Library is considering one for wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, use.
Birmingham News |
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State Roundup
CAMDEN -- A Camden County woman is suing her orthopedic surgeon for putting a temporary tattoo on her stomach while he operated on her in April.
Daily Journal |
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Octopus porn man escapes jail term
A TASMANIAN computer technician who considers himself a beast has been given a suspended jail sentence after being caught possessing bestiality images including octopus porn.
Adelaide Now |
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Online library always open
The MyLibraryDV service is available 24 hours a day and allows library patrons to log on to osceolalibrary.org to view on-demand DVD-quality features such as Rick Steves' Europe, workout and exercise shows, documentaries, cooking shows and movies. A one-time installation of a download manager is required.
Orlando Sentinel |
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Mothercare Sales Rise on Early Learning, Internet (Update2)
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Mothercare Plc , Britain's largest specialist retailer of baby and infant products, said first- quarter revenue rose 21 percent on last year's takeover of the Early Learning Centre chain, Internet sales and overseas growth.
Bloomberg.com |
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HP crams data centre into shipping container
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Thursday 17 July 2008 at 00:37:00 Pod offering shrinks server footprints HP has unveiled an entire data centre that fits into a standard shipping container. The Performance-Optimized Datacenter (Pod) replaces the equivalent of a 4,000 square-foot data centre with a container-based...
vnunet.com |
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Eager consumers camp out for new iPhone release
The launch of Apple’s new iPhone 3G brought eager consumers to The Shops at Willow Bend hours before the store opened at 8 a.m.
Plano Courier |
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COTA riders get help from Google in planning trips
Google helps millions of people find things on the Internet. Now, it's helping COTA riders find their bus.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Enroll in online class, win an iPod Touch
VINELAND -- Enrolling in an online college course could win you an Apple iPod Touch.
Daily Journal |
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Online library always open
The MyLibraryDV service is available 24 hours a day and allows library patrons to log on to osceolalibrary.org to view on-demand DVD-quality features such as Rick Steves' Europe, workout and exercise shows, documentaries, cooking shows and movies. A one-time installation of a download manager is required.
Orlando Sentinel |
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'Simpsons': In 2-D animation, eyes have it
Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons," says one thing drives him crazy about the computer-generated imagery (CGI) used in hi-tech animated movies these days: "It's the eyes."
New York Daily News |
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New EU antitrust charges against Intel imminent
Charges relate to tactics used in battle with AMD The European Commission is about to slap new antitrust charges on Intel, this time for trying to squeeze rival chip maker AMD out of some of Europe's most important technology retail stores, according to a person familiar with the situation.
PC Advisor |
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United Online, Inc. Announces $60 Million Financing Commitment from Silicon Valley Bank and Election to Substitute ...
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.----United Online, Inc. , a leading provider of consumer Internet and media services, today announced that it has received a commitment from Silicon Valley Bank to provide to United Online, on the terms and subject to the conditions therein, a $60 million senior secured term loan facility to be used to fund a portion of the cash merger consideration for the acquisition of ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Microsoft Live Mesh takes on Appe's MobileMe
Microsoft lets more people use Live Mesh Microsoft is opening up its Live Mesh service to more people in the US, just days after Apple launched its similar, but broader, MobileMe service.
PC Advisor |
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AOL spammer gets 30 months in prison
250k spam messages sent to AOL customers A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.
PC Advisor |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Aug 2005 20:47 UTC, submitted by anonymous
AppleInsider is reporting that Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console will support Apple's Mac OS X Tiger operating system.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Aug 2006 16:11 UTC
MSDN's Channel 9 has two videos in their 'Going Deep' series which dive, well, deeper into Singularity , the operating system in development at Microsoft's research department.
New Mobile Computing |
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Encrypted hard drives may not be safe
Researchers find that encryption is not all it claims to be. PC users employing encryption software to keep part of a computer's hard drive private, may not be as safe as they think, according to researchers at the University of Washington and BT.
TechWorld |
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Companies ignoring unified comms security
Companies are leaving their unified communications (UC) systems wide open to hackers, newly published research claims. The biggest problems arise from the improper or incomplete use of security features, according to the latest report from Light Reading's VoIP Services Insider.
Infomatics |
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Say goodbye to the computer mouse
Gestural interfaces could spell the end for the humble computer mouse says analyst company Gartner.
BBC News |
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