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BUSINESS NOTEBOOK 07.20.08
Sponsored by the Abilene Chamber of Commerce, the Leadership Abilene program for the 29th year seeks to develop the leadership skills and community knowledge of participants via a series of informative sessions.
Abilene Reporter-News |
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Internet Helps Police Bust House Party
Fresno police busted a house party using the help of undercover operators and they say they prevented a possible shooting.
KFSN-TV Fresno |
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The useful role of blogs
POLITICIANS especially YBs, beware. Be always on your toes. Previously their constituents could not get to see or meet them in person or be in communication by phone everyday, but today they can always leave messages for their elected representatives on blogs which everyone can access easily.
The Borneo Post |
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Tuition is just the beginning of bills for college
It was the $40 laptop lock that threw Curt Bauer for a loop. After years of making deposits into the college fund,...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Recent Original Stories
"Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above.
OS News |
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Bonds not playing, and game hasn't missed him
TIME TO INTERRUPT THE latest stream of Internet rumors, agent innuendos and updates from the legal ticker with this bulletin: Barry Bonds is still unemployed.
Contra Costa Times |
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Facebook Pics Used as Evidence at Trials (9:41pm)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (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.
CBS 6 Richmond |
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Recent Original Stories
VMware has released VMware Player version 1.0.0-final for Windows and Linux. VMware Player runs virtual machines (VM's) created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server. It also supports VM's created with Virtual PC and Virtual Server from Microsoft.
New Mobile Computing |
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Data Doctors: Keep an eye on your house while you're away
Q. What is the cheapest, easiest and best way to use video over the Internet to monitor my home when I'm away? - Mike A. The ability to see what is going on at your home or business via the Internet with off-the-shelf products has never been easier or cheaper.
East Valley Tribune |
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NJ beach town mayor says ‘Fuhgeddaboudit!’ to blog
BELMAR, N.J. — To the Staten Island girls who may have been taught to fight dirty in Brownies, Ken Pringle is sorry. To the muscle-bound, tanned-as-coconut-shell visitors he referred to as “guidos,” employing a term widely considered an ethnic slur, the mayor of Belmar offers his apologies.
The Indiana Gazette |
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To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question
theodp writes "The NY Times' Virginia Heffernan confesses to being stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs. For example, Heffernan notes she could quote kavya on Yahoo Answers word for word ('How is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?'), but worries that doing so makes kavya look like an idiot rather that the sweetly earnest 7-year-old that he or she might be. Is it ...
Slashdot |
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Kohjinsha SC3 convertible UMPC hits the test bench
Filed under: Laptops , Tablet PCs Shortly after the Kohjinsha SC3 was removed from the comfy confines of its packaging and exposed for all to see , said UMPC has managed to get reviewed. Initially, impressions were quite positive, as the reviewer noted that build quality was "superb," the size was adorably small and the display satisfied all expectations. As for sheer performance, ...
Engadget |
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The trouble with teens
You want to know what the trouble with teenagers is? It's not with the age group. It's not that they watch too much TV or surf the Internet too much or have unprotected sex or drink or do drugs or fall victim to unfortunate fashions.
Daily Sparks Tribune |
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Antigua, US extend deadline for compromise on Internet gambling feud
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AP): Antigua's finance minister says it could take several more months to resolve an Internet gambling feud with the U.S.
The Star |
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Prosecutors using Facebook as new source of evidence
PROVIDENCE (Rhode Island): Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drink-driving crash which seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner.
The Star |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Aug 2005 12:44 UTC
A senior Palm executive says his company could benefit from building a mobile computing device that runs on the Windows operating system made by once-bitter rival Microsoft but he is stopping short of confirming the maker will do so.
New Mobile Computing |
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Billionaire investor voices support for Yahoo!
Los Angeles, July 19: Billionaire Bill Miller, Yahoo!'s fourth-largest shareholder, has voiced his support for the Internet giant in its battle with dissident investor Carl Icahn, the San Jose Mercury News reported Saturday.
New Kerala |
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Confrontation causes dilemma
RANDOLPH, Vt. — Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds when police showed up. Five state police detectives wanted to seize Kimball Public Library's public access computers as they searched for a 12-year-old girl, acting on a tip that she sometimes used the terminals. Flint demanded a search warrant, touching off a ...
The Oklahoman |
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Betfair, U.S. Horsemen Continue Talks
Betfair, the Great Britain-based online betting exchange, continues to negotiate with officials in the United States and is inching closer to a deal by which it would compensate horsemen for use of their product.
BloodHorse |
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by (Staff) on Sun 9th Oct 2005 17:01 UTC in reply to " Windows is not faster "
Really? How come the desktop is up and running much faster under Windows? (And yes, it's usable.) How come Firefox and OpenOffice.org load faster under Windows? How come I don't see as much tearing and flickering under Windows? How come apps respond immediately rather than with latency?
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jun 2007 20:42 UTC
"I remember the day I was interviewed at VMware. I was asked what I would do to improve Workstation, and one of the things I said was that it would be nice to make a VM go rootless. That is, pull application windows out of the VM and make them integrate well with the operating system.
OS News |
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'Students are not reading the right way'
THE national target is to achieve 100 per cent literacy by 2020, but what type of literacy are we looking at? Students are becoming more digital literate than print literate, replacing their books with the computer, and this is cause for concern.
The New Straits Times |
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College roommates get vetted online before dorms even open
Although the two have yet to meet, Florida State University freshman Alexandra Doan has misgivings about her first college roommate.
The Palm Beach Post |
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Chinese Netizens the most IT savvy
BEIJING: China's digital and online communities are the world's leading users of mobile communication, instant messaging (IM) and web 2.0 applications, according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
The Star |
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HealthMap Gives Lowdown on Disease Outbreaks, Could Save Lives [Web Tools]
Scientists are using the power of the web to track and find real disease outbreaks. Every hour, HealthMap, an infectious disease-tracking website, feeds off of news, public health list serves, and...
Gizmodo |
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