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MySpace joins OpenID alliance
MySpace has signed up to the OpenID initiative aimed at allowing internet users to employ the same accounts and passwords across the web.
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Aleks Krotoski, gamesblog: Capturing game data is the future
They're watching you frag. Every excessive potshot you take at an ill-programmed sentry, every curb you mount during a badly-timed turn, every dragon you slay in a fantasy world, they're documenting your actions, crunching them to make way for a new society. It may sound batty, but mark my words: the future will be determined by what you do on your home console or via your PC. Now, before you ...
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Cold callers target O2 users with false Bluetooth security warning
Customers of mobile network O2 are receiving cold calls offering insurance to cover unauthorised calls that the network claims could be made by "Bluetooth hackers" - despite there being no evidence that this can be done. The calls, which target new subscribers and originate from a withheld number, start with a polite welcome to the O2 network. The customer is greeted by name and asked how ...
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Stuart Jeffries: Technophobia - the sign of a born leader?
Hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn, who has this week been given three seats on the board of internet company Yahoo, does not, it has been revealed, have a computer. Email, Icahn suggests, is a distraction. Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn't email or know how to use the net. He told the New York Times recently: "I am learning to get online myself." Instead, the senator ...
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Technophile: The Skype Phone
The WP-S1 Skype Phone from 3 ( three.co.uk ) is not what most people would initially expect a Skype phone to be. As much as I wish it was, it isn't a Wi-Fi based VoIP phone that surfs the net for free and allows you to make extra-cheap calls to any friend's number miles and miles away. It's a 3G handset that allows you to call and text other Skype users who are signed onto their Skype ...
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YouChoose: Technology videos we love
This is no time to reboot! It was 39 years ago that Apollo 11 touched down - using a computer that ran at a princely 0.043MHz, lost a minute's guidance due to the radar and finished with 30 seconds' fuel. Phew! You'll believe a man can walk Though it couldn't have helped Christopher Reeve, who was quadriplegic, this "exoskeleton" looks promising for paraplegics, giving back ...
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Microsoft Announces Reorganization of Windows and Online Services Business
Microsoft Corp. today announced that the Platforms & Services Division will be split into two groups: Windows/Windows Live and Online Services, with both groups reporting directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.
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Ask Jack
Picking an MP3 player I have tunes bought from the Apple site, but I also use Windows Media Player and have music that isn't iTunes compatible. I would like to get an MP3 player that will let me play all my songs. I also want it to have a radio. Meriel Whale JS: I don't know of any player that can handle music protected by Apple's digital rights management (DRM) and also Microsoft's. ...
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Early leak exposes DNS flaw details
Security researchers are rushing to patch a flaw in the domain name system (DNS) servers that direct internet traffic, after details of how it worked were revealed online where they could be exploited by hackers. The researchers had thought that their own agreement to allow a 29-day "blackout" period during which the software vulnerability - which may allow hackers to misdirect innocent ...
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Wanting a Day Off of Work Allegedly Prompts Terroristic Threat by Man
Allegedly used company's computer, police said.
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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.
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Wheels come off eSure's Direct Line battle
Direct Line has claimed a landmark legal victory after its trademark red telephone on wheels won a Court of Appeal hearing against an upstart computer mouse on wheels that its rival eSure had hoped to use in its own advertising.
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Yahoo CEO Upbeat Despite 2Q Results; Shares Higher
With Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid off the table and his company's stock price down 20 percent during his 13-month reign as Yahoo's CEO, Jerry Yang has a message for his exasperated shareholders: Things aren't as bleak as they look.
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Local Golf Notebook: A.C., Poconos offer discounts
As disposable income dwindles amid rising gas prices and floundering investments, many golfers are facing difficult decisions about how much and where they'll play.
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Big crime IT projects fitted up
In his Review of Criminality Information , released on 16 July 2008, Sir Ian Magee says that the expertise of the National Policing Improvements Agency, the Home Office chief information officer and other government IT experts should be used to improve the management of information on criminality.
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Robbery at computer store on Central Ave
Sylvania Township police are looking for whoever broke into the computer discount store on Central Avenue.
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amiando Joins Facebook Connect as first European Company, Leverages Power of Social Influence for Event Organization
amiando, the leading tool for online event organization in Europe, today announced plans to implement Facebook Connect to boost the power of amiando ViralTickets, its recently released social promotion system for events.
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New Technology Advances in Data Protection Software Allow Users to Recover Data in a Flash
Accounting pros, human resource managers, and legal eagles alike can all be subject to the worst feeling one can have while looking at a computer screen, the pain of an accidentally deleted file.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Facebook targets German 'fakebook'
Ehssan Dariani, founder of German social network studiVZ, never made any secret of his admiration for Facebook, which is now suing studiVZ for copying its ideas and look.
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Retirees lead the charge online
The web may be thought of as a young person's game, but older people are leading the charge in internet take-up in Australia, embracing a technology that has only become pervasive in the years since many of them retired.
Stuff |
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The HUB explores some of the hottest social networking sites on the block
You have MySpace, Facebook, Ning and Twitter. These are four of the fastest-growing social networking sites on the World Wide Web that keep people in touch with friends, colleagues and even to listen to music. Social networking is quickly becoming a way for people to find old friends and make new ones who have similar personal and professional interests.
Hattiesburg American |
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The Mac keeps driving Apple
All people seem to talk about these days is the iPhone, but as Monday’s quarterly earnings announcement proved, the Mac is still very central to Apple’s business.
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Alleged SF Computer Saboteur's Bail Request Denied
A judge on Wednesday refused to reduce the $5 million bail of a San Francisco technology expert accused of rigging the city's computer system to malfunction during routine maintenance.
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Stylist found guilty of straighteners' theft
A HAIRDRESSER has been found guilty of stealing almost 1,000 pairs of hair straighteners from an award-winning Edinburgh salon and selling them on the internet.
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Setting the Regulatory Framework for the Next Generation Radio Technologies
PHOENIX----On October 29, 2008, as part of the SDR 08 Technical Conference and Product Exposition "SDR 2.0 - Entering the Mainstream" being held in Washington, D.C., the SDR Forum will host a workshop to explore the regulatory challenges inherent in software defined and cognitive radio and look at ways for better regulating the technology to benefit both the industry and the end-users the ...
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