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Providers back net piracy crackdown
Britain's six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have signed up to a government-backed drive to clamp down on illegal downloading of music and films.
Press Assoc. via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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SanDisk unveils metric for solid-state drives
SanDisk will announce today a metric that reduces to a single number the expected lifetime of a flash disk, hoping the industry will adopt its Longterm Data Endurance approach as a de facto standard for solid-state drives.
EETimes |
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The Fives: Kitsch soars in big cans of SPAM, huge Jackalopes and the mysterious Carhenge
For those who read Monday's installment of the The Fives, I apologize for taking something as gleeful as a family vacation and turn it into a dirge exploring the dread of rising gas prices.
Rapid City Journal |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 12:05 UTC, submitted by Magnum
"So how's that look-like-Windows thing working for the Linux community? Is the wave of desktop adoption far ahead of where it was in 2001 and 2002 when this started? And, if not, why don't we stop doing it?
OS News |
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Broadband lures Kiwi talent
Early in his career Steve Lowe was a Post Office engineer in the pre-Telecom era.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Sharpen your ... laptops?
Hand sanitizer. USB flash drive. Magenta Sharpie. Clean socks. Quick -- what do they have in common?
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Wisconsin / Firing upheld in teacher's porn case
MADISON, Wis. — In a case closely watched by public employees unions, a Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday upheld the firing of a teacher who briefly looked at pornography on his work computer.
Pioneer Press |
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Centrelink replaces backup batteries
in brief Welfare agency Centrelink has revealed plans to replace hundreds of ageing Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) units that provide emergency back-up power for computers scattered all around the nation.
ZDNet Australia |
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Want to find Mitch Albom’s latest book? Better get a Kindle
NEW YORK -- Mitch Albom has a new book out — well, not really a book, but a commencement speech in book form. And not in traditional book form, but as an e-book, published exclusively through Amazon.com’s Kindle reader.
The Pantagraph |
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Man wins divorce from angry wife in YouTube video
NEW YORK (AP) — A Broadway mogul whose wife trashed him in a widely viewed Internet video was granted a divorce from her Monday.
The Globe Gazette |
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Billionaires Fight 'Tobacco Epidemic'
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their millions in a bid to cut the number of smokers in developing countries like China and India.
Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance |
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Broadband Innovations, Part 2: Fiber Optics Reaches the Tipi
In Part 2 of our four-part Broadband Innovations series, see how the Ktunaxa Nation of Canada uses fast broadband to save its indigenous language and culture from extinction.
PC World |
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Facebook expands winning open platform formula
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Facebook expands winning open platform formula
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..
AFP via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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Facebook expands winning open platform formula
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..
AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Fire damages deputy's home
MADDOCK (AP) - Authorities say a fire that damaged the home of a Benson County sheriff's deputy was caused by an overheated computer tower.
The Bismarck Tribune |
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Someone found your camera and they want you to have it back
Imagine you lost the camera that had those one-of-a-kind vacation photos, or images of a keepsake moment. Now imagine a stranger finding it: Would you feel happy, or somehow that your privacy was invaded, if that stranger put some of your images on the Web to track you down?
The Pantagraph |
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Satyam, Infospectrum partner to enhance MRO services
Satyam will add value to the alliance through its global implementation and support capabilities, as well as its skills in system configuration and installation, functional and technical training, integration, and remote hosting in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.
CIOL |
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July 24, 2008
Jessica Simpson performs at Country Thunder in Randall on Saturday. A story in Sunday's Kenosha News about Simpson's performance has generated worldwide buzz via the Internet.
Kenosha News |
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Dave Moskovitz Joins The Bookhabit.com Team
The multi-talented Internet Entrepreneur and Company Director Dave Moskovitz has joined the Bookhabit.com team as Business Strategist.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Facebook To Help Some Programmers, Punish Others
Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.
CBS News |
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Question over watchdog funds
Tom Young, Computing , Wednesday 23 July 2008 at 12:21:00 Additional 10 per cent of funds cannot be used to police data security An MP is demanding an explanation from the Cabinet Office after it emerged that an extra 10 per cent funding for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) would do nothing to...
Computing.co.uk |
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New computer virus infects key government and consumer websites
London, July 23 : Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, which including key government and consumer websites, in the past two weeks.
New Kerala |
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Sistema Chooses NDS Technologies to Deliver Converged IPTV and Mobile TV in Russia
NDS (Nasdaq:NNDS), the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that Russian media giant Sistema Mass Media (SMM) has selected the NDS Unified Headend(TM) to manage and protect TV content delivery to subscribers across both IP and mobile networks.
Centre Daily Times |
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OKI Offers Polluxstar(R), a Text-to-Speech Software That Reproduces One's Real Voice
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) today announced it has launched "Polluxstar(R)(1)" a text-to-speech (TTS) software that enables reproduction of a user's real voice complete with that individual's unique intonations and tones. By using Polluxstar on a computer, users can communicate using their own voice, instead of a mechanical non-human voice.
Centre Daily Times |
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