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Enterprise Computing
My article today talks about how more and more companies are rethinking the face-to-face meeting — when it makes productive sense to travel for that essential in-person experience and when that is no longer necessary, mainly because of advances in computing and telecommunications technology.
New York Times |
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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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DC Universe Online Unveiled by Sony Online Entertainment to the Masses at Comic-Con
Choose to fight for or against iconic heroes and villains at the world premiere demonstration of DC Universe Online.
IGN PC |
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Study: Future Doctors' Online Postings May Haunt Them
A study finds that the Facebook postings of future doctors may prove to be career embarrassments.
Fox News |
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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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Yahoo 2Q profit falls 18 pct, below analyst views
Yahoo Inc.'s second-quarter profit fell 18 percent, the latest sign of the financial decay that has frustrated shareholders and raised doubts about the Internet company's future. But while the results released Tuesday missed analyst expectations, the...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Government strikes out on COPA—ruled unconstitutional again
A federal court once again struck down the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) today, ruling it unconstitutional, overbroad, and vague. It has been 10 years since the law's introduction and it has yet to be enforced thanks to the courts ruling repeatedly against it, despite the government's continued appeals. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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Embarq defends Web tracking program
Responding to congressional concerns, Embarq Corp. is defending its testing of technology that tracks customers' Web history for advertising purposes, saying it protected consumer privacy and the service could ultimately benefit Web users.
The Kansas City Star |
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Researcher Spills Beans on DNS Flaw Specs
Details about the massive Domain Name System flaw revealed less than two weeks ago were made public on the Internet Monday. Halvar Flake, a reverse engineering expert, posted a hypothetical theory about the vulnerability on his blog. A few hours later, a researcher at Matasano Security who knew the specifics about the bug posted a response to Flake's blog, confirming his hypothesis.
LinuxInsider.com |
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CHINA:
New York , July 22, 2008 —Chinese police arrested prominent dissident and Internet writer Du Daobin on Monday, according to his defense lawyer, Mo Shaoping. CPJ is concerned that the arrest is part of the government’s ongoing campaign to suppress criticism prior to the Olympic Games.
CPJ Press Freedom Online |
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Companies log on to social networking sites
The fastest-growing U.S. companies are turning even more to the Internet to get their message out, according to the latest study developed by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Fall River Herald News |
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Apple’s MobileMe could be a headache for IT managers
Macworld |
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Third Annual Cox Communications National Summit on Internet Safety Provides Key Information for Protecting Children ...
WASHINGTON , July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC) held the third annual Cox Communications National Summit on Internet Safety today in Washington D.C. Sixteen students from Cox communities nationwide participated in discussions on Internet safety led by children's advocate John Walsh and Lauren Nelson, Miss America 2007.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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MySpace support bolsters OpenID, but the logins won't be portable
Popular social networking site MySpace said Tuesday it will join the open source authentication platform OpenID, further bolstering the idea of a unified system to carry online identities between Web sites. But for now, MySpace's OpenID accounts cannot be used elsewhere.
BetaNews |
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Newsletter Subscription
E-Gold, an Internet-based payment service, and three owners have pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to money laundering, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.
ARNnet |
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ISP responds to lawmaker concerns about ad tracking
Embarq , an Internet service provider based in Kansas, has suspended its test of a targeted advertising service that tracks subscribers' Web habits as a way to deliver relevant ads.
IT World |
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Tue 26th Jul 2005 17:22 UTC, submitted by Ben Jao Ming
A blog entry by Jure Repinc tells us about some of the new features in KDE 3.5 which according to this schedule isn't quite finished yet. Amongs other things, there will be a Storage Media Notification dialog and some more eye candy in Kicker.
New Mobile Computing |
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Yahoo second-quarter profit falls 18 per cent, below analyst views
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc.'s second-quarter profit fell 18 per cent, the latest sign of the financial decay that has frustrated shareholders and raised doubts about the Internet company's future.
Canadian Business |
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Former Wurld Media executive indicted
BALLSTON SPA — A former executive at a Saratoga Springs Internet startup company was indicted on a new grand larceny charge in Saratoga County Court today.
The Post-Star |
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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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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Jul 2006 16:26 UTC, submitted by James Arthur
IBM plans to unveil this week a version of its Lotus Notes desktop collaboration software for Linux. Lotus Notes on Linux 7.0.1, which will be generally available July 24, is based on the Eclipse open-source framework.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 14th Nov 2005 18:50 UTC
If a certain US senator and a certain EU commissioner are to be believed, the internet is five days away from total collapse as governments are finally forced into a corner and told to agree on a framework for future Internet governance.
OS News |
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QUEST Camp Takes Kids Back to the Outdoors
They call it the Kids' Outdoor Amazon Adventure Day Camp. And this camp definitely lives up to its billing. Twelve-year-old Perri Harmon, of Bloomsburg, said, "I just love the outdoors and doing stuff like this that challenges me.”
PAHomePage.com |
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 17:54 UTC
David Williams over at iTWire has done a comparison of Windows vs Linux . It is performed by doing functionally identical tasks in both the OSes. This comparison is not a fair one by any measure.
OS News |
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Video on Demand
Instant video service Qik.com lets you broadcast your cell phone videos online -- from anywhere, in real time
Time Magazine |
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