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Court Upholds Ruling on Internet Content Law
A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, is the latest twist in a decade-long legal battle over the law, the Child Online Protection Act. The court ruled that ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th May 2007 03:14 UTC
Vernor Vinge, 62, is a pioneer in artificial intelligence, who in a recent interview warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.
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Blogs » Salt
The last couple of days have been quite interesting. On Saturday morning, while we were still in time, we set out to Circular Quay for filming with the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge flanking us.
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Yahoo profit down, outlook intact
Yahoo Inc's net profit fell 19% but investors took heart that it did not change its outlook despite a weakening US economy and the distraction of Microsoft Corp's failed takeover bid.
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Daily Mail Sales Rise 5%; Says Economic Downswing Has Impact
July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Daily Mail and General Trust Plc , the publisher of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, reported a 5 percent increase in fiscal third-quarter sales growth on the expansion of its tradeshow management and Internet businesses.
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Taiwan's Powerchip posts Q2 loss as DRAM prices fall
TAIPEI, July 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan's top DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor Corp <5346.TWO> posted its fifth straight quarterly loss on Wednesday as the company struggled with falling computer chip prices.
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KT CEO says merger with mobile unit KTF desirable
SEOUL, July 23 (Reuters) - The head of KT Corp <030200.KS>, South Korea's top fixed-line and broadband firm, has said full integration with its mobile service unit KTF Co Ltd <032390.KS> would be "desirable", a KT spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Trend Micro Enterprise Security Minimizes Time To Protect Against New And Unknown Web Threats
Dubai, UAE - Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704), a global leader in Internet content security, announced today new products, services, and solutions to help enterprises minimize the time to protect against new and unknown Web threats.
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National ICT Careers Week held to encourage more women
Women will be encouraged to work in the ICT sector to offset the current skills crisis in the workforce, Jenny Eagle, CRN online ditor reports...
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Taiwan's Nanya Tech posts 5th straight qtrly loss
TAOYUAN, Taiwan, July 23 (Reuters) - Nanya Technology Corp <2408.TW>, Taiwan's No.2 DRAM maker, posted its fifth straight quarterly loss on Wednesday as weaker demand pulled computer chip prices lower.
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Bring It On
Listen to Steve Charles' tribute to those farmers blockading BHP Billiton at Tim Duddy's Caroona district property. Having trouble seeing or hearing this media file?
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Oman's Nawras launches fastest mobile broadband service
Oman's Nawras launches fastest mobile broadband service
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Man tells jury wife stabbed him after divorce talk
Michael Bautista said he was sitting at his computer at his home in Golden, preparing a property list for his divorce, when he felt a sharp pain in his back and realized his wife had stabbed him.
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`Spam king' gets 4 years
Former Palos Verdes Estates resident Robert Soloway was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Tuesday for sending hundreds of millions of spam e-mail messages worldwide.
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Social Gaming Firm Zynga Gets Its Big Round; $29M From KPCB; Buys Fbook App
Just when Fortune did a long story on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not investing in the Internet and Web 2.0 world anymore, the venerable venture firms unleashes a major one: San Francisco-based Zynga, which makes casual games for social network has received a big $29 million second round, led by KPCB, and includes Institutional Venture Partners and previous investors Union Square Ventures, ...
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Nawras offers fastest mobile service
Nawras, Oman's second mobile operator, said it has launched the fastest mobile broadband Internet service in Oman with the introduction of its 'Platinum Plan'. The scheme offers downlink speeds of up to 7.2Mb/s for RO99 per month including 30GB of free data usage, the company said.
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The healer on the bus -- Europe's most wanted man
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. The old man on the 73 bus looked like a monk.
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HL:Alberta man ordered extradited to U.S. to face child pornography charges@
EDMONTON _ An Alberta man wanted in the United States on child pornography charges following a police undercover online investigation was ordered extradited Tuesday.
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Recent Original Stories
LXer compares Ubuntu, Mac OSX, and Windows XP . "All three desktop operating systems have admirable qualities. Each has some weaknesses. Attending a recent User Group Fair, I had another chance to see them at work. Having used and programmed on each platform provides some unbiased insights."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 9th Dec 2006 23:03 UTC
According to Google Trends , but also according to Distrowatch, our own statistics here at OSNews and overall sense of the industry during 2006, Ubuntu has a big leap in mind share ahead of its competition (please note that we don't dare to say "market share", although we are pretty confident that it's the most used Linux desktop out there today).
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Capgemini Study Links Customer Experience at Car Dealerships with Vehicle Manufacturer Loyalty
NEW YORK----Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, in collaboration with the Car Internet Research Program of the University of Ottawa, today released the findings from its consumer survey on the role negotiation preferences and tactics play in the car buying process.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Oct 2005 17:54 UTC
Sun and Google today announced an agreement to promote and distribute their software technologies to millions of users around the world.
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Hard drive industry shrugs off economic concerns, posts double digit growth rates
Hard drive makers are quickly learning to deal with the economic downturn by lowering their cost. The increasing mass storage threat from NAND flash devices is answered with perpendicular magnetic recording technology, which enables the industry to stay at least one step ahead of NAND capacity levels and protect its most important markets.
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Biofeedback helps restore balance to mind and body
LAS CRUCES — John Matthews and Corie Lane attached bands around my head, wrists and ankles. Wires tethered each band to a computer.
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Snoopers spying on us 1,400 times a day
More than 1,400 'spying' operations were instigated every day last year by councils, police and other officials, it has been revealed. There were 519,260 requests from public bodies to 'communications providers' such as telephone and internet companies.
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