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Public Meetings
Today 5:30 p.m. Fayetteville Internet Policy Subcommittee - Room 111, City Hall, 113 W. Mountain St.
The Morning News |
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Crowd-sourcing the e-car
Jul 23, 2008 12:37 PM "eCars - Now!" is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year.
TVNZ |
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FOOTBALL: SEC MEDIA DAYS
The preseason magazines arrived in bookstores months ago, and Internet message boards have started buzzing with excitement lately.
The Morning News |
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Improved Web access is good
Most of us take for granted the ability to pop into an Internet cafe or library to check our e-mail or log on to a hotel computer terminal to verify the status of a flight.
The News-Herald |
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Mindware and Wyse Technology launch 'EarthSmart Computing' initiative
Mindware, an IT distributor in the Middle East, and Wyse Technology, the global leader in 'thin computing', have partnered to launch the 'EarthSmart Computing' initiative in the Middle East.
AME Info |
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Internet television service Joost enters China
An internet cafe in Beijing. Internet television service provider Joost said it launched a Chinese service Wednesday with local portal TOM Online to tap the world's largest online market.
TODAYonline |
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S.F. mayor gets keys to city's computer
"The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." Those words - delivered to Mayor Gavin Newsom by imprisoned city computer tech Terry Childs in a small, fourth-floor room at city jail...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Law to bar kids from Web sex is rejected
WASHINGTON - The Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals agreed yesterday with a lower-court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Yahoo second quarter profit erodes
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.’s profit slipped again in the second quarter, a recurring theme that has frustrated shareholders and raised doubts about the Internet company’s future.
San Mateo Daily Journal |
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Man sentenced to four years probation in child porn case
RACINE — In 2006, a Burlington man stole a laptop from Wal-Mart and used it to download child pornography.
The Journal Times |
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Privacy breaches on the rise in B.C.
The number of privacy breaches in B.C. is on the rise, partly due to a spate of stolen laptops and personal records swiped from employee cars last year, according to the provincial privacy commissioner.
Vancouver Sun |
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Linked by Kroc on Thu 24th Aug 2006 20:26 UTC
GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the original Mac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. It wasn't an OS written to run on a generic x86 chip on a moving hardware platform.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Nov 2007 23:14 UTC
There's absolutely no reason you should be waiting the three-plus minutes it takes your computer to boot up Windows, says Woody Hobbs, CEO of Phoenix Technologies.
OS News |
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More than 10,000 students to get ICDL certificates during summer training camps in the GCC
ICDL GCC Foundation, the governing body and certification authority of the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) program in the Gulf States, has recently announced that more than 10,000 students are set to receive ICDL certificates during the ICDL summer training camps that will be held across the GCC region.
Zawya |
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Cleaning up your desktop matters
Q I usually have papers and documents on my desk, including confidential materials. The other day, one of my employees picked up a couple forms from my desk and asked me about them.
Los Angeles Daily News |
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What you missed
• Go ahead, Yankees fans. Slather on that SPF 45. Sunscreen is now permitted in Yankee Stadium. The team has lifted a ban on plastic containers of sunscreen at its ballpark after deciding "not to be as stringent," team spokesman Jason Zillo said Tuesday. Sports teams around the country started restricting what fans could bring into stadiums after the 2001 terrorist attacks. The Yankees' Web site ...
Arizona Daily Star |
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Emily Mortimer - Mortimer Im No Action Star
EMILY MORTIMER is convinced she is Hollywood's worst action star - because she relies on computer editing to make her moves look believable. The actress landed her ...
ContactMusic |
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Internet citizen posses investigate some sellers
Auctions of supposed Hollywood memorabilia on eBay provoke an angry response from some buyers. The pieces of Hollywood history were priced to move, even by the discount standards of EBay. Ten bucks put a bidder in the running for a dagger purportedly used in the filming of "Gone With the Wind," a decanter from "I Love Lucy" and a birdhouse from "Lord of the Rings." Bidding for other ...
Los Angeles Times |
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Yahoo profits fall amid company turmoil
Buffeted by a souring economy and Microsoft Corp.'s failed courtship, Yahoo Inc. said that second-quarter profits fell 18 percent. The results highlight the slowdown in the U.S. online advertising industry and keep the pressure on the Sunnyvale Web portal's...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Comeback buzz: Jibjab.com presents 'Time for Some Campaignin', Internet goes nuts
It's time for some campaigning, and our friends over at JibJab.com are set to bring the lighter side of the battle to the presidency to you in the same hilarious manner they did back in 2004 when they made international headlines. Please enjoy...
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Internet citizen posses investigate some sellers
Auctions of supposed Hollywood memorabilia on eBay provoke an angry response from some buyers. The pieces of Hollywood history were priced to move, even by the discount standards of EBay. Ten bucks put a bidder in the running for a dagger purportedly used in the filming of "Gone With the Wind," a decanter from "I Love Lucy" and a birdhouse from "Lord of the Rings." Bidding for other ...
Los Angeles Times |
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Medpedia Project aims to create an online encyclopedia of health information
Internet entrepreneurs are teaming with medical professionals to build the comprehensive clearinghouse. Internet entrepreneurs are teaming with doctors, researchers and other medical professionals to create what they hope will be the Web's largest body of health information.
Los Angeles Times |
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Yahoo's earnings avoid a 'disaster'
Legal wrangling weighs on the firm, which misses Wall Street expectations. Still, the Internet company's shares rise after hours. The corporate drama that has weighed heavily on Yahoo Inc.'s managers also cut into the Internet giant's second-quarter earnings report Tuesday. Investors were braced for worse.
Los Angeles Times |
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Appeals court affirms that online content law is unconstitutional
A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.
Los Angeles Times |
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Broadcom reports fourfold profit increase in second quarter
Broadcom Corp. said Tuesday that profit jumped almost fourfold on higher sales of wireless chips.
Los Angeles Times |
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