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Computer stolen
EDMOND — A guitar and laptop computer were stolen from the Church of the Nazarene of Edmond, police reported this week. Youth Pastor Timothy Robert Click told police the theft occurred sometime between July 15 and Sunday while he was out of town. The items are valued at $1,800. Officers are investigating a video of man who came to the church last week asking for work in order to pay his bills, ...
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Study warns about online banks / Many not doing enough to thwart Internet scams
Many banks are unwittingly training online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows. The result is that even the most security-conscious Web surfers could...
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Facebook retools for growth spurt
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg stood before a roomful of software developers Wednesday and told them what they wanted to hear: The social networking giant hopes to hit the 100 million-user mark by the end of the year and plans to extend its reach...
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Google goes public with encyclopedia / Users can post on Knol service and share ad revenue
Google Inc. is taking the wraps off an Internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off - and profit from - their expertise on any topic. The service, dubbed "Knol" in reference to a unit of knowledge, had been limited to an invitation-only...
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Study warns about online banks / Many not doing enough to thwart Internet scams
Many banks are unwittingly training online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows. The result is that even the most security-conscious Web surfers could...
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Billionaires Gates and Bloomberg open anti-tobacco effort
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.
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Qualcomm, Nokia Reach New Licensing Agreement, Settle Lawsuits
July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. reached a new licensing agreement with Nokia Oyj , the world's biggest maker of wireless phones, ending global litigation that raised questions about the future of Qualcomm's licensing program.
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Facebook expands on open platform formula
Facebook this week rolled out revamped profile pages and will launch a "Great Apps" program to give priority to programs that are "meaningful, trustworthy, and well designed".
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Spammers put a spanner in the works
South African small- and medium-sized enterprises need to be more vigilant about computer and Internet security threats that are slowing down networks.
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Key exec parts with Microsoft
Kevin Johnson, who as president of Microsoft's largest business division spearheaded the company's pursuit of Yahoo, is leaving the software maker.
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Website claims to help drivers avoid speed traps
NEW YORK, USA: Drivers in most of the United States and some of the UK can find out where the police speed traps and so-called red-light cameras are on the Internet -- for free.
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Private social network Facebook to go Web wide
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web, even while apologizing for past excesses.
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Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google Inc opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity.
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Amazon shrugs off high gas prices, weak economy
By RACHEL METZ NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. doesn't seem to be bothered by high gas prices or the sputtering U.S. economy.
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Netflix-Roku Box Has Pushed 100K Units?
The Roku-Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) movie delivery box, which went out of stock soon after it was launched, has apparently sold close to 100K units since its launch in May, a seemingly high number considering its limited application and selection of Netflix movies for now..that number comes from Dan Rayburn on his blog. The price point of the box is $99 (and then Netflix movies are free on its for ...
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Google Knol launched for Everyone
Google opened its new Knol service to the public today. The company announced Knol last December. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Eve...
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NeoSmart has a review of the just released Internet Explorer 7 and screenshots to match . The review focuses on the user interface, security, and compatibility of Internet Explorer 7 compared to IE6, Opera, and Firefox.
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Proprietary software vendors, movie companies and the music industry aren't the only businesses that don't like pirates stealing, copying and reselling their CDs and DVDs.
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Sistema Chooses NDS Technologies to Deliver Converged IPTV and Mobile TV in Russia
LONDON----NDS , the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that Russian media giant Sistema Mass Media has selected the NDS Unified Headend™ to manage and protect TV content delivery to subscribers across both IP and mobile networks.
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OKI Offers Polluxstar(R), a Text-to-Speech Software That Reproduces One's Real Voice
TOKYO----Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. today announced it has launched "Polluxstar®" a text-to-speech software that enables reproduction of a user's real voice complete with that individual's unique intonations and tones.
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Fair Goers Make Movies Video
Fairgoers can be internet stars this week. The North Dakota State Fair rolled out a new program this year. Fairgoers can rent a flash video camera for two hours and record their experiences. The video will then be edited down to a five minute clip and put on youtube, the internet video website.
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Bill Gates, Bloomberg Pool Riches to Fight Smoking
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg want to snuff out smoking and are pooling their piles of money and pouring $375 million into a global effort to get people to kick the habit. The billionaire philanthropists, who have a combined worth of more than $70 billion, said Wednesday that the money from their foundations will go toward efforts in developing countries where ...
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Recent Original Stories
According to Andy Updegrove, Microsoft seems to be reconsidering support for OpenDocument. A quote from the blog: "So there is no line drawn in the sand, nor (to put it another way) has Microsoft painted itself into a corner.
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Google to buy social news site Digg: Report
San Francisco, July 24 : Internet search leader Google has signed a letter of intent with Digg to purchase the social news site for around USD 200 million, the influential technology blog TechCrunch reported Tuesday.
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