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The Clanton Advertiser
I recently had a friend e-mail me a simple link to a place on the Internet called YouTube. I had visited the site before but had never really done any research on the videos.
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Rediff.com invites techies to build Facebook applications
Rediff.com, India's online community portal, launched its developer program at Proto.in (http://developer.rediff.com), inviting all application developers to come on board and build applications for Rediff.com properties which is being made compatible to support Facebook Markup Language (FBML).
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Apple’s
press conference on Wednesday. Lots of rumors about updating the top of the iPod line, which hasn’t been refreshed in quite a while, mixing in some brew of fancy graphics, Wi-Fi and interactivity. Apple wants something sexy to sell at Christmas at a lower price than an iPhone.
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posted by David Adams on Tue 13th Jan 1998 11:33 UTC, submitted by Chris Wenham
Plucky OS/2 users are on the verge of being able to convert Windows 95 binaries into native OS/2 code, eliminating the software gap for their beloved platform.
New Mobile Computing |
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2 men arrested in child porn cases
A hunt for the owner of an abandoned laptop containing child pornography ended with the arrests of two men, including a convicted sex offender wanted in Virginia, authorities said Friday.
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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Italy watchdog probes mobile operator 3's prices
Italy's antitrust watchdog said it was investigating complaints that Hutchison Whampoa's H3G had charged excessively high prices for its mobile Internet services.
The Economic Times |
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Bookmark this: Three Web sites to aid the green cause
"EcoSearch this" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Google this," but the non-profit is hoping to harness the power of the Google search engine to help raise money for environmental non-profits including the Sierra Club, TreePeople, RainForest Alliance, National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child, Healthy World...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Mar 2007 22:46 UTC
Various parts and applications of the ROX Desktop have been updated recently. Firstly, ROX-All 1.1 (a single archive containing launchers for most of the ROX applications) has been released ; the main improvement is that it's now compatible with Ubuntu Edgy. Also, ROX-Filer 2.6 (the file manager at the core of the ROX desktop) has been released . Filer can be updated via the built-in update tool.
OS News |
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Gore: No official Obama role
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Al Gore, speaking to Internet-savvy political activists here on Saturday, said he would not take an official role in a potential Obama administration.
Denver Post |
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CHP: Traffic Cleared After Fatal Bay Bridge Crash
CHP officials say traffic on the Bay Bridge is clear after a fatal crash.
NBC 11 Bay Area |
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Videogames getting more social
LOS ANGELES -- Videogame makers are riding the social-networking wave with a flood of soon-to-be-released titles that let friends play online as teams and even create their own characters.
Nanaimo Daily News |
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Internet simplifies wedding plans
CHICAGO -- Susan and Mark Golebi-owski found love on an Internet dating site, so it was appropriate that when the couple started planning their wedding they turned to the web.
Nanaimo Daily News |
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Coastal cleanup tied up in red tape
A dispute over who owns a computer model used to help design a multibillion cleanup of coastal waters is in mediation. The state Department of Environmental Protection runs the Massachusetts Estuaries Project, intended to stem pollution of coastal beaches.
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Van de Velde crashes (again) at British
SOUTHPORT, England -- While the sun shined and umbrellas disappeared with the rain, the gusting 40mph winds on Saturday turned Birkdale into a course only Mary Poppins could love.
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Recent Original Stories
AMD, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics chip maker ATI for USD 5.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday. Any such deal would shake up the processor industry, which is witnessing a battle over market share between AMD and rival Intel.
New Mobile Computing |
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Carnival of Healing #147
Today's Carnival of Healing is being hosted by T’ai Chi Teacher, Cynthia Quarta at Chair Tai Chi. Cynthia is a relatively new blogger with only a few months of...
About.com |
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Library confrontation points up privacy dilemma
Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds on "Love That Dog" when police showed up. They weren't kidding around: Five state police detectives wanted to seize Kimball Public Library's public access computers as they frantically searched for a 12-year-old girl, acting on a tip that she sometimes used the terminals. Flint ...
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Fed Up With German Copycat, Facebook Unleashes the Lawyers
Logic by numbers would have it that Facebook’s Chinese impersonators would irk the Zuckerberg gang more than any other similar copycat attempt made elsewhere on Earth. In fact, let’s assume they do. China’s Internet market will likely do little else but grow fast for the foreseeable future, so Facebook would have an incentive to combat the spoofs anyway it could. At the moment, however, the ...
Mashable |
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Web networking photos come back to bite defendants
Online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants. Now the sites are proving fruitful for prosecutors, who have used damaging Internet photos of defendants.
KATU Portland |
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Exhibitionist thieves leave evidence
Showy thieves are unwittingly helping police by saving photos of themselves and details of their criminal activity on stolen computer laptops and cellphones.
Stuff |
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Why People Live Second Lives Online
We've all heard the warnings: addiction, isolation, a waste of time. But some 50 million people log on to online role-playing games like The Sims and Second Life—and many of them never log off. The makers of a new documentary called "Second Skin," which hits theaters in September, followed seven hard-core gamers to find out why. Victor Piñeiro, the film's producer, spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jessica ...
Newsweek |
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The cyber star left to shine
There's little sign that Owen Walker, the teenager, even exists in his home town of Whitianga. Ask around the small seaside township about the 19-year-old hacker involved in a multi-million-dollar internet cyber-crime, and it's as though Walker lived in a separate world. Effectively he did.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Bustin' the bot-net brain
When Owen Walker was 16 he began to develop a highly sophisticated system to infiltrate computers and effectively control them without anyone knowing.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Many Systems Open to Attack Through Channels Enabled to Support IPv6 Traffic
It may be years before the new internet protocol IPv6 takes over from the current IPv4, but a security researcher is warning that many systems—corporate and personal—are already open to attack through channels that have been enabled on their machines to support IPv6 traffic, according to the Wired report by Kim Zetter.
CircleID |
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Legal Dispute Delays Work On Coastal Cleanup
A dispute over who owns a computer model used to help design a multibillion cleanup of coastal waters is in mediation.
WCVB Boston |
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