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Court Backs Firing Of Teacher Who Viewed Porn
MADISON, Wis. -- A teacher fired after briefly looking at pornography on his school computer will not get his job back anytime soon. The District 2 Court of Appeals said the Cedarburg School District does not have to reinstate Robert Zellner.
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Hunting pervs on the Internet
On the very same day the war on child sex predators claimed a major victory, a former Far Rockaway man was arrested for allegedly engaging in sexually explicit electronic communications with three young girls - all of whom are between 9 and 14 years old.
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City helps teens on MySpace
In an effort to support youths coping with depression, drug abuse and dating violence, the Health Department announced on July 7 an online campaign, NYC Teen Mindspace, operated on the social networking web site MySpace.
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Recent Original Stories
Linux is the clear winner out of a dispute between the Russian legal authorities and schools over who should carry the can over the use of pirated Windows software, The Inquirer magazine reports.
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Podiatrist gets prison in Internet drug scam
DALLAS -- A federal judge in Dallas has ordered nearly 3 years in prison for a podiatrist convicted in an Internet-related drug scheme. The U.S. attorney's office said 58-year-old Dr. Salvatore DeFrank, formerly of Plano, must report to prison Sept. 2.
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Court backs firing of teacher for one-minute peek at porn
MADISON — A teacher fired after briefly looking at pornography on his school computer will not get his job back anytime soon.
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Netmagic unveils its largest data centre in India
By Fakir Balaji, Mumbai, July 23 : Leading managed IT service provider Netmagic Solutions Ltd has unveiled its largest data centre in Mumbai to enable Indian and global enterprises deliver a host of applications and solutions to their customers from multiple locations.
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Ubiquity For Firefox Is Not An Add-On - It's a Whole New UI
Is This Future for the Firefox UI? You may remember a project called Enso , a software program developed by Humanized - the same folks who brought you Songza . The program is an application launcher which provides you with a different way to navigate and interact with your computer through the use of keyboard shortcuts and typed commands. As we noted before , Enso appears to have ...
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Man hacks his father to death in Jharkhand
Ranchi, July 23: A man hacked his father to death over a property dispute in Chatra district of Jharkhand, the police said Wednesday.
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Too Bad for These Web 2.0 Failures
The Web is an extremely fickle place. A Web service can be hot today, and dead in the water tomorrow. While there's no true science for determining exactly what makes one stick while another languishes, there's a lot to be learned after one fails. Considering a startup?
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The Divnich Tapes: Getting The Most Out Of Sony's Trophies
[Continuing his Gamasutra-exclusive NPD analysis following the release of June's game sales figures, EEDAR's director of analytical services Jesse Divnich examines how the quantity and diversity of accomplishments available with achievement systems, such as Sony's Trophies, can affect a game's revenue and Metacritic score. Previously: Disappointing Xbox 360 hardware results and software ...
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Maoists planning to expand activities to 22 states: IB
Upbeat over their two major successful attacks against the police on Andhra-Orissa border in less than one month, in which more than 50 policemen were killed, the Maoist rebels are now gearing up to target the police stations to loot the arms. This warning has been issued by the central intelligence agency -- the Intelligence Bureau -- in its report assessing the overall situation of the ...
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Yahoo Considers Its Options as Profits Sink
Yahoo reports a week quarter, but refuses to believe that its yearly financial plan is off course...
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Joost, Tom Group Launch China Venture
Joost and Hong Kong Internet company Tom Online launched a beta Chinese [ version ] of the...
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Yahoo Misses
A year into Jerry Yang's turnaround strategy - and 10 days before a potentially ear-boxing stockholders meeting - and Yahoo has produced second-quarter results that missed Wall Street's reduced expectations. And, as the AP observed, its market value is now about $18 billion below Microsoft's last offer.
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Design Flaws, Besides Vulnerabilities, Hurt Banking Sites
Banking Web sites suffer from design flaws that can undermine their security exclusive of software vulnerabilities, according...
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'Spam King' Soloway given 47-month prison sentence
Robert Alan Soloway, dubbed the "Spam King" by investigators, was sentenced Tuesday to 47 months in prison on a variety of charges.
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Femaleadvertising.com Promotes Products with Marketing and Advertising Campaigns as Female Buying Power and Online ...
ATLANTA----Today, CEO/Founder Suzanne Burge-Taylor announced the launch of Femaleadvertising.com. The company executes customized marketing and advertising campaigns for the female market.
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Sources speak on health of Steve Jobs
Anonymous sources have come forward to talk about the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, writes the New York Times. In a recent conference call Apple's CFO refused to discuss the state of Jobs, except to call the issue a "a private matter" and say Jobs would stay on as CEO. This has done little to assuage cancer fears however, triggered by an unusua...
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No Big Surprise — Yahoo Profits Fall
After a quarter of being buffeted around, it comes as no real shock for Yahoo to announce that its profits have fallen by 19%.
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Japanese Sleipnir browser coming to the West
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari are the four web browsers most people would mention if asked to name the ones they’ve heard of. A Japanese company hopes to add an extra name to that list though, as it brings its browser to the Western market. Fenrir is a company based in Osaka, Japan and has [...]
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National Geographic Channel Launches Robust Online Game Site - Featuring Debut of Exclusive New Game In Partnership ...
'Habitat Rescue! With National Geographic Channel' Joins Extensive, Fully Interactive Line-Up of NGC Themed Games Powered by Real at www.natgeotv.com/games
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Next-Generation Home Gateways Will Leverage Verizon FiOS Capacities, Enable Dynamic Networked Services Inside the Home
NEW YORK , July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move that will make the FiOS experience even better and more exciting for residential customers, Verizon is upgrading the capabilities of its in-home network equipment to provide more capacity, higher speeds and many other benefits.
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VMware to offer low-footprint ESX hypervisor free
VMware Tuesday said it will offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualization software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware 's lead in the virtualization market.
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San Francisco's mayor gets back keys to the network
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the city's multimillion dollar wide area network.
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