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Deputy to appeal firing from sheriff's office
FAIRFIELD COUNTY - A Fairfield County Sheriff's deputy has filed a wrongful termination grievance against the department a day after he was fired for violating company policies through an online forum.
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette |
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Is the Desktop PC Making a Comeback?
There are signs the desktop PC may be enjoying a resurgence.
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Recent Original Stories
"The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users . Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Sep 2005 21:02 UTC, submitted by Josh
Klik is a system which creates self-contained packages of programmes installable over the web with a single click. In this article Kurt Pfeifle discusses the potential uses of this technology for helping the non-coding contributors to KDE. He also looks at how the system works and the obvious security issues involved.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
Claims made by Microsoft that Linux violates its software patent have not affected sales of Linux-based hardware , according to Michael Dell. Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando on Thursday, Dell's chief executive officer said his company has seen Linux uptake for servers increase faster than Windows server products, despite Microsoft's claims.
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"Two months ago, the Brazilian Linux community gathered around BR-Linux invited Novell to answer 10 questions
sent and selected by the users, about the company's stance on Linux, open source, licenses, document formats and other subjects." "Novell has been very consistent on this issue and we have publicly stated that we do not believe that Linux infringes on any Microsoft patents.
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Issue 105 - 29th June - 27th July
Jeff Hyman, named 'The Matchmaker' by Inc Magazine in a feature cover story, and whom Recruiter Magazine named one of the 100 most influential executives in the recruiting industry, will be speaking at the Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference & Expo 2008 to be held at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center, in Chicago, on September 9 & 10, 2008.
Online Recruitment |
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The Buzz On Business
BIG 3 GAMERS MIMIC EACH OTHER: One word sums up the announcements made by the Big Three gaming companies at the E3 gaming industry conference in Los Angeles this week: more. During their flashy news conferences, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony announced plans for more games, more sequels, more exclusives, more connectivity and more ways for gamers to use their systems for stuff other than gaming. ...
Modesto Bee |
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Google Tweaks Gmail to Stop Auto-adding Contacts
Google is rolling out a change this week to Gmail that will give users more control over their contacts list.
PC World |
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S.Korea to spurn Japan minister over island row
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has rejected Japan's proposal to hold a bilateral foreign ministers' meeting at an Asian forum later this month, in anger over a territorial dispute, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Thursday.
Reuters.co.uk |
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Scammers prey on desperate renters
With one of the country's lowest apartment vacancy rates, Greater Sudbury is attracting scammers who prey on those desperate to find housing. Ontario Provincial Police are warning area residents of an Internet scam in which sensitive, personal information can be stolen from people inquiring about apartment rental opportunities. [...]
The Sudbury Star |
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Accounting program doctored, Livent trial told
Livent's former IT manager doctored the theatre production company's computerized accounting program so staff could reverse entries without leaving an audit trail, a fraud trial for co-founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb was told.
Toronto Star |
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World's natural resources are being squandered, Pope says
The world's natural resources are being squandered in the pursuit of "insatiable consumption," Pope Benedict XVI warned in a speech Thursday that also slammed television and the Internet for exalting violence as entertainment.
Los Angeles Times |
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Mom reports daughter's beating after seeing it on YouTube
GOSHEN, IN (AP) - Police say a Goshen woman whose 15-year-old daughter was beaten by several other teenagers didn't report the incident to authorities until she saw it posted on the Internet. Police say
WAVE 3 Louisville |
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Hacker Holds Key to City's Network
Alleged hacker won't reveal secret password to unlock San Francisco's network.
ABC News |
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Rainmaker Announces Partner Portal 3.0
Rainmaker Systems, Inc. , a leading provider of sales and marketing solutions combining hosted application software and execution services, today announced the release of Partner Portal 3.0 -- the next generation of its innovative reseller portal solution for service contracts to help its clients increase revenue from contracts sold through their channel partners.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Synaptics to Report Fourth Quarter Results on July 31
Synaptics® Incorporated , a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, announced today that it will report financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 on Thursday, July 31, 2008 after the close of market.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Firefox sweeps away carpet bombing bug
Updates fix several vulns Mozilla has plugged two critical security holes in versions 2 and 3 of Firefox.…
The Register |
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Mixed reception
Technology buffs love to chat about the latest touch-screen cellphones and quad-core microprocessor chips. But talk technology with elderly ladies, and they'll ask you why it's becoming so difficult to watch TV.
Boston Globe |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Jan 2007 21:34 UTC
Tomorrow, Microsoft will release all 6 versions of Windows Vista; some of us will rush out to buy themselves a copy, some of us will, like, not do that.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Jul 2005 11:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Faces for Laszlo makes use of multiple J2EE (Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition) emerging technologies for rich Internet applications, resulting in a rich user experience on the browser.
New Mobile Computing |
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Enjoy Gaming as a Child? Here's Why You Should Make a Career of It
(ARA) - As a kid did you spend all your spare time at the arcade, or playing games on your home computer? If so, your experience as a gamer could end up paying off big. There's a growing need in this country for people with the kinds of skills you have.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Boy dies inside Internet café
A boy died behind a computer keyboard while playing a popular online music game inside an internet café in Hua Mark area Thursday, police said. The unidentified boy, believed to be about 15 years old, was found dead nearly two hours after paying for service to use the computer at 1:40 pm.
The Nation - Thailand's English news |
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FFXIII "opens doors" for 360 in Japan News by
Microsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim believes snaring Final Fantasy XIII "opens doors" for Xbox 360 in Japan. The revelation that Square Enix would bring its renowned PlayStation series (ignoring FFXI) to Xbox 360 was the most surprising part of the Microsoft E3 media briefing on Monday.
EuroGamer |
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India eyes Western IT services companies as skills shortage bites
Swollen with cash from US and European outsourcing deals, but increasingly short of staff as their growth outpaces the supply of new graduates, Indian IT firms are sizing up European IT services companies as potential acquisitions.
Contractor UK |
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