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Web-initiated harassment of grandma continues
Web postings urging online and telephone harassment of Herald-Zeitung employees appeared Saturday morning on the Internet hours after an article was published describing similar attacks toward a New Braunfels woman.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Gas cost ignites surge in online college classes
More college students in the Philadelphia region had been opting to take some or all of their courses online even before gas topped $4 a gallon.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Vets Home server held personal data
The computer server was stolen last week. Officials don't think the thieves mean to use the information.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Mar 2007 22:44 UTC
"Haiku co-developers Bruno and his associate Axel talk about the new OS that has been in development for several years. Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing.
New Mobile Computing |
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Rights group flays Internet crime bill
TEHRAN: The rights group headed by Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi yesterday condemned a draft bill on Internet crime, warning that it could boost the number of executions in the Islamic Republic.
Gulf Times |
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Board of Supervisors Meeting
Video of Tuesday's Calaveras County Board of Supervisors. Video streaming allows most viewers to watch video while it is downloading to their computer. Viewers with landlines may not be able to view video from our site.
Calaveras Enterprise |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Dec 2007 06:34 UTC
"Many people are looking to Ubuntu to be something that it is not: A mass market ready operating system designed to work with the same level of compatibility as Microsoft Windows.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 20:54 UTC
Microsoft has hit back at critics , including IBM, which voted against approving the company's Office OpenXML format as an Ecma standard, claiming it is nothing more than a vendor-dictated specification that documents proprietary products via XML. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general assembly and said it will begin the fast track ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 8th Oct 2005 18:57 UTC
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite. "We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle. However Brin left the door open a little.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft is making key communications protocols available for license , so that third parties, including competitors, can link into the company's newest enterprise products. Some are available immediately.
OS News |
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Sharpen your ... laptops?
Hand sanitizer. USB flash drive. Magenta Sharpie. Clean socks. Quick -- what do they have in common?
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Bringing out the best in VN’s bloggers
VietNamNet Bridge - The Thao Van Hoa (Sports and Culture) Newspaper has launched a writing competition entitled "Your Entry – The Life Around Us" to create a playground for Vietnamese bloggers to test their writing skills and share their thoughts and feelings about social issues and everyday life.
Vietnam Net |
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Library confrontation during search for girl heats up privacy debate
RANDOLPH, Vt. -- 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 ...
The Pantagraph |
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Pool, landscaping add to curb appeal
North Jersey Media Group: NorthJersey.com, the Online Edition of The Record and The Herald News is your local source for the latest coverage of local news, local sports, and local entertainment, with stories, photos and videos, as well as regional, national and world coverage, including obituaries, weather, traffic and complete classifieds listings for Northern New Jersey.
The Record |
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Alleged racism attracts online attention
A local woman who said a racist hate-group targeted her grandchildren earlier this week claims to have received hundreds of anonymous phone calls since her story hit the airwaves and the Internet.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Trend watch: Really big time
Big watches translate to big style these days. Fashion-conscious celebrities first started flashing their super-size watches a couple of years ago. Today, the trend is catching on with women and men who think big is better. "Larger watches in general, for men and women, have become a fashion-forward trend that seems to be finding its way into the mainstream,” said Daniel Gordon of Samuel Gordon ...
The Oklahoman |
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Someone found your camera and they want you to have it back
Imagine you lost the camera that had those one-of-a-kind vacation photos, or images of a keepsake moment. Now imagine a stranger finding it: Would you feel happy, or somehow that your privacy was invaded, if that stranger put some of your images on the Web to track you down?
The Pantagraph |
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Business briefs: BlackBerry maker hit by threat from iPhone
BlackBerry firm hit by iPhone concerns BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., whose shares got hammered recently after it missed earnings expectations, has also been hit by concerns that Apple’s latest iPhone could cut into its leading share of the smart-phone market. Apple (ticker: AAPL ) has less than 1 percent of the overall cellphone market, but its share of U.S. smart phones — ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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A MOBILE MARKET
Strange as it sounds, David Crary's lawn sprinkler business helped get him into the mobile software business.
Pioneer Press |
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Business briefs: BlackBerry maker hit by threat from iPhone
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., whose shares got hammered recently after it missed earnings expectations, has also been hit by concerns that Apple’s latest iPhone could cut into its leading share of the smart-phone market.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Just how do we know what’s true online?
Oklahoma City sports reporter Jake Trotter can see why people fell for that fake story the other day on the Internet. The story, about two Sooner quarterbacks getting arrested on cocaine distribution charges, had his byline, and people know he’s the OU beat writer.
Lincoln Journal Star |
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Man hacked over row with neighbour
KOTA BAHARU : A row over a cow that strayed into a neighbour’s compound led to the bovine’s elderly owner being hacked to death. The incident happened at Kampung Lundang Paku, near Mulong on Friday.
The New Sabah Times |
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Colleges see increase in Internet enrollment as gas prices rise
With gasoline in the "arm-and-a-leg" price range, more students are going online for classes to avoid the expensive commute to college.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Top Brown aide caught in honeytrap during China visit: report
London, July 20 A top aide of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was a suspected victim of a "honeytrap" operation by Chinese intelligence agents during the leader's two-day visit to China in January this year.
Chennai Online |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Jul 2005 17:32 UTC
Mike Nash, Microsoft's security business and technology unit corporate vice president, has said Longhorn would accord end-users certain rights and privileges apparently ending the concept that everyone using their PC is also the PC's administrator.
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