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Thunder nickname is all too convenient
Mr. Monday has issues. Issue No. 1: The Thunder. Mr. Monday will wait until someone besides a computer programmer in a trenchcoat hiding in a parking garage confirms the team name before he actually believes it. Here's what makes Mr. Monday the most suspicious. Thunder is the name that won the jersey contest here at headquarters. That never happens. We can't pick the name of OU's next coach. ...
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This does not compute
Yesterday my laptop was a technological marvel, my portal to the world. Today, it's an expensive paperweight.
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Dell hits all the wrong keys – again
You say tomayto, we throw tomahtoze... Dell isn’t having much luck with keyboards this summer. The computer giant admitted Friday that some of its XPS One machines have been wrongly shipped to the UK with US keyboards.…
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Virtual Attack
A week ago, New Braunfels grandmother Mary Alice Altorfer had never heard of YouTube. Now she’s a hot topic on one of the most influential Web sites in America.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Teacher-student Web friendships restricted by Lamar school board
Teachers and students in Lamar County can't be Internet friends this year after the School Board revamped rules prohibiting them from being friends through online social networks.
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Online contacts leave children vulnerable
A Swiss crime prevention specialist says parents are often unaware of the potential dangers their children face who reveal personal information in internet chat rooms.
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Icann eases on domain names
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has relaxed the rules on internet domain names, which may eventually allow the creation of millions of unique web addresses based on common words, brands, company names, cities or even proper names, Gulf News has reported.
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The Natchez Democrat
NEW YORK (AP) — If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help. Robinson is now 106 — that’s 35 years older than McCain — and she began using the Internet at 98, at the Barclay Friends home in West Chester, Pa., where she lives.
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Analysis: Md. police spied on protests
by Shaun Waterman Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2008 Documents released Thursday show that undercover Maryland state police officers infiltrated three local peace and anti-death-penalty groups, attending organizing meetings and sending reports on their activities to U.S. intelligence and military agencies.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Jan 2006 23:44 UTC, submitted by Derek Newhall
After 2 years of examination the U.S Patent and Trademark Office has reversed its two earlier unofficial decisions and decided that Microsoft's File Allocation Table file system constitutes a "novel and non-obvious" system enabling it to be patented.
New Mobile Computing |
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"There is something fundamentally wrong
with the way we create software. Contrary to conventional wisdom, unreliability is not an essential characteristic of complex software programs. In this article, I will propose a silver bullet solution to the software reliability and productivity crisis.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have "Windows" as part of their name.
New Mobile Computing |
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Toshiba Corporation Joins the G.729 Consortium
Sipro Lab Telecom , the G.729 Patent Pool Licensing Administrator, is pleased to announce that Toshiba Corporation has joined the G.729 Consortium. The G.729 Consortium now represents and pools together the intellectual property rights essential to this ITU-T standard of France Telecom, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Universite de Sherbrooke, and ...
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must be considered
"Not long ago, choosing Linux in the data center meant a tradeoff. You had to give up some capabilities in exchange for freedom from Microsoft lock-in. But that has changed. These days the features of Windows and Linux stack up against each other very competitively.
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Recent Original Stories
Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have "Windows" as part of their name.
OS News |
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Three-day blitz in Cincinnati yields one big idea, 100 entrepreneurs
On a rare dull moment Sunday afternoon, three college students pointed to a whiteboard that showed a chronology of the last three days spent together at In One Weekend, an event that gathered 100 people to create and launch an Internet company by July 14.
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Online donation systems growing part of fundraising at ALSAC and Le Bonheur
Nonprofit health care providers like Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital depend on financial gifts from the public to sustain their operations. Therefore, it is crucial for them to streamline the process of giving and to reach the widest audience possible.
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Businesses on cyberwatch
Companies have used the Internet to varying degrees for more than a decade. And for almost as long, they’ve had to worry about a barrage of Internet threats, each having the potential to cripple a company’s operations, cost it millions of dollars or even lead to business failure. (VZ) (DELL)
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Advertising revenue flows to search engines more than to Web sites
Jamie Poston, media director for Cactus, said the Denver agency's clients spent about 15 percent of their ad budgets online in 2007.
Rocky Mountain News |
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New Web program for blind offered free
Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen- reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation.
Rocky Mountain News |
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iPhone charges: watchdog investigates
The rise of fast web browsing on 3G mobiles sparks watchdog probe.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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Kuwait News
KUWAIT : Microsoft Gulf, in collaboration with Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has announced that it recently conducted raids on two computer shops using personal computers loaded with pirated software in Hawalli, Kuwait.
Arab Times |
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Canadian music mogul takes on China, pirates welcome
HONG KONG : Terry McBride, the Canadian best known as the manager of pop megastar Avril Lavigne said the music industry's obsession with stemming the flow of illegally downloaded material is futile and short-sighted.
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Nerdvana: What was hot (and not) in gaming at E3
E3 was a mixed bag this year. What did we learn? That Microsoft is coming off as a little elitist these days, and Sony a little desperate. And Nintendo … they’re just pissing people off.
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Tech tidbits: Monday, July 21, 2008
USB Beverage Chiller by Coolit Systems • Get it for: $23.95 at www.activeforever.com . This computer accessory keeps your drink cold and looks cool on any desktop. Just seconds after plugging it into your computer's USB port (no external outlet needed), the cold plate chills to 45 degrees Fahrenheit, the perfect temperature for keeping your beverage chilled. InvisibleShield by Zagg • Get ...
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