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Google ad slump spreads abroad
In the clearest sign yet that online ad sales growth cannot outrun a global economic slowdown, Google reported the first-ever sequential quarterly revenue decline in its U.K. business. The dip, as reported in the company's second-quarter earnings Thursday, cut into Google's overall international growth, bringing it down to 52% from 55% in the first quarter.
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Why ISPs' "Stand" Against Child Porn Is Actually Not a Stand Against Child Porn
TechDirt has an insightful article on the recent push for ISPs to turn off Usenet access under the guise of fighting child pornography. Unfortunately, the "stand against child porn" isn't actually a stand at all, it seems more like ignoring the issue while trying to snag some headlines and good will. "Taking a stand against child porn wouldn't be overly aggressively blocking access to internet ...
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Seven Concept Cars You Wish You Could Own
Flashy and innovative, concepts offer auto designers the opportunity to let their imaginations run wild. From beginning to end, designers can spend anywhere from six months to two years bringing a concept to market. Some have already gone into production; others we can only cross our fingers about. BMW GINA Light Visionary Concept
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Fast Talk Question - By reining in its Internet investments, is Kleiner Perkins facilitating its eventual decline?
By reining in its Internet investments, is Kleiner Perkins facilitating its eventual decline?
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US STOCKS-Techs sink as Google, Microsoft disappoint, Dow up
* Nasdaq down 1.3 pct, Dow up 0.4 pct, S&P up 0.03 pct
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 18, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Very Recent & Addictomatic: Finding What People Are Buzzing About Right Now! Tom Churm pinged me about a new tool that he's crafted, Very Recent, designed to pull back top results from "recency search engines," for lack of a better word. Blog ...
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Law raises penalties for child porn
The legislation also bans convicted sex offenders from social networking sites where children are members and imposes civil liability on sites that fail to make efforts to keep registered sex offenders from using the sites.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Dec 2005 13:16 UTC
The omnipresent 'sources' of AppleInsider have told the rumoursite that Apple has ' outsourced ' the design of the next PowerMac's motherboard to Intel.
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Facebook Photos Send Unrepentant Partier to Prison
Prosecutor uses Facebook pics to paint accused drunk driver as habitual partier who lived it up while victim recovered in hospital.
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iRobot Reveals Findings of National Survey on at-Home Work-Life Balance at Blogging Convention
SAN FRANCISCO----Americans are more concerned than ever about the time they spend working inside their homes and the dwindling amount of time spent on leisure activities, according to iRobot Corp.'s "Balance at Home" survey.
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Spam coming from free email providers increasing
After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three fre email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...
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Left Behind
SFist interviewee twice over Julia Wertz is in a pickle: apparently, some guy asked her to watch his laptop for 5 minutes and has been gone more than an hour . Julia's wrapping up her work, but the dude is nowhere to be seen. We'd like to report that this has happened to us, but we've come to accept that we don't have the kind of face that inspires confidence. And we never leave ...
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Take the Amazing Aquifer Adventure - Online!
The program provides an interactive aquifer learning experience for kids.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 22:16 UTC
Almost two years ago, the FSF started work on the first update of the GNU GPL in over a decade. A last-minute hitch, though, is keeping the license from appearing . According to Peter Brown, the FSF's executive director, "We continue to work on the details of the GPLv3 as it relates to the situation presented by the Novell and Microsoft deal.
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More than 650 laptops stolen since 2004: British defence ministry
LONDON (AFP) - The defence ministry on Friday nearly doubled its earlier tallies of the number of its laptops stolen since 2004.
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Hundreds of MoD laptops stolen
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Couples plan weddings with a click 19 Jul 2008, 0110 hrs IST,REUTERS
CHICAGO: Susan and Mark Golebiowski found love on an internet dating site, so it was only appropriate that when the couple started planning their June wedding they turned to the web.
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Missouri woman pleads guilty in plot to swipe baby
INDEPENDENCE, Missouri - A 20-year-old woman pleaded guilty Friday to snatching a pregnant teenager she met online in a foiled plot to steal her unborn child.
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Obama Girl Talks to FOX 7
Amber Lee Ettinger, also known as Obama Girl, became an internet sensation when she posted a video on the website barelypolitical.com during the presidential primaries. Watch FOX 7's Rudy Koski interview Obama Girl at the Netroots Nation convention in downtown Austin.
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Unrepentant on Facebook? Expect jail time
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner.
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Government Computer News
Vizioncore has updated it vCharter Pro virtualization monitoring software and its vRanger Pro virtualized environments backup software.
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Divorce parties celebrate new beginnings
The flip side of America's $120 billion wedding industry is no longer a desolate spot at the bottom of a Haagen-Dazs pint. No, the land of divorce is a hopping place, one that comes with party favors, advice manuals, vast online support and one liberating mix tape.
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Texting Grandma: Technology has changed the way families communicate, but more isn't always better
Kevin Skinner, a freelance sports producer, travels 300 days a year. To keep in touch with his parents in Los Angeles, a sister in Cleveland and another in Dublin, he uses his laptop, a camera and Skype software to beam his image and voice into his relatives' homes.
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Cuba and Venezuela to lay undersea Internet cable
Cuba is teaming up with Venezuela to lay a fiber optic cable to bring high speed Internet access to the tiny island nation, according to recently made public documents.
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Intel Celebrates 40 Years of Innovation
Intel Corporation celebrates a milestone anniversary today by looking 40 years in the past and 40 years into the future. To celebrate this milestone, Intel unveiled the World Mural Project, a digital artwork that captures the vision of young people on how computers will transform the globe over the next 40 years.
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