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Private social network Facebook to go Web wide
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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Amazon profit, sales above view and shares rise
Amazon.com Inc said quarterly profit doubled and sales grew 41%, indicating to Wall Street that many cost-conscious shoppers are heading online to save money in a tough economy.
Budapest Business Journal |
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Job vacancy: Helpdesk Team Engineer
(Ref: ISMoL7-2) The Museum of London is looking for a talented, motivated and driven Helpdesk Engineer to work as part of a team of 3 engineers. You will be responsible for managing the day to day IT problems encountered by our c400 users throughout the Museum of London Group.
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Collectors buy Z$100b notes on eBay
Amid Zimbabwe's mind-boggling hyper inflation, a new 100 billion dollar bank note has more value as a novelty item on eBay than on the streets of the capital.
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Facebook expands winning open platform formula
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stepped onstage Wednesday like a sociAl networking evangelist, painting a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul.
Khaleej Times |
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Recent Original Stories
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores is contracting with Microsoft and Novell - Microsoft's preferred Linux partner - to build out the company's Web operations, according to a Wal-Mart executive.
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Beware of Net banking traps 24 Jul 2008, 1203 hrs IST,IANS
WASHINGTON- More than 75% of bank websites were flawed and could expose customers to cyber thieves eyeing their money or their identity, according to a survey by the University of Michigan.
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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.
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Moguls' millions to fight tobacco use
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Wednesday they will provide $500 million to fight tobacco use around the world, especially in developing countries where smoking rates are rising.
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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.
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Patient privacy assured by electronic censor
Newly developed software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential data. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making describes a computer program capable of deleting details from medical records which may identify patients, while leaving important medical information intact.
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AU Optronics Profit Triples on Higher Display Prices (Update1)
July 24 (Bloomberg) -- AU Optronics Corp. , the world's third-largest maker of liquid-crystal displays, reported second- quarter profit more than tripled after demand for screens used in computers drove up prices.
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Gates launches anti-smoking campaign; India on focus
A world without tobacco 'is a world in which people live longer and have happier lives,' Bloomberg, New York Mayor who has a fortune of $16 billion, said at a joint press conference with the Microsoft founder Gates. They said the money would go to anti-smoking groups working with governments to curb the consumption of tobacco and related products, including World Health Organisation and Centres ...
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Australian computer maker and electronics distributor Optima ICM today said it had voluntarily appointed administrator Moore Stephens to several of its ailing divisions.
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Australian computer maker and electronics distributor Optima ICM today said it had voluntarily appointed administrator Moore Stephens to several of its ailing divisions.
ZDNet Australia |
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UI's Rydze diving into Beijing
Iowa men's and women's diving coach Bob Rydze was in a hotel room in Beijing when he felt firsthand the long arm of the Chinese law. The Internet was down, but this wasn't an outage that could be corrected by a call to tech support. The date was March 20, and the People's Republic had shut off the Internet because of protests in Tibet.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Oct 2006 14:38 UTC
"We've gotten some questions here today about public reports claiming there's a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7. These reports are technically inaccurate : the issue concerned in these reports is not in Internet Explorer 7 (or any other version) at all.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Oct 2005 18:58 UTC
Peter Watson, chief security advisor at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand, said that the software maker did not get any pleasure from seeing Firefox suffer a string of security vulnerabilities, despite the open-source browser's growth seemingly being stunted over recent months.
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Dismissal of federal charges sought in so-called Internet suicide case
An attorney for a Missouri woman charged in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide filed motions Wednesday to dismiss the federal case.
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Study suggests Internet, alcohol, sleep tied to girls' weight
Girls and young women who devote much time to the Internet, get too little sleep or regularly drink alcohol are more likely than their peers to put on excess weight, a new study suggests.
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Australian computer maker and electronics distributor Optima ICM today said it had voluntarily appointed administrator Moore Stephens to several of its ailing divisions.
ZDNet Australia |
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British parents to be punished for children's net piracy
British parents are to be punished if their children are found to download music and films illegally under government reforms to combat Internet piracy.
Express India |
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Yell Says First-Quarter Profit Rises on Internet, Higher Sales
July 24 (Bloomberg) -- -- Yell Group Plc , the publisher of the U.K.'s Yellow Pages phone directory, reported a higher fiscal first-quarter profit helped by its expanding Internet business and higher sales.
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Criminal records ruling: Old convictions data to be deleted
Five police forces have been ordered to delete old criminal convictions from the Police National Computer. In dismissing appeals by Humberside, Northumbria, Staffordshire, Greater Manchester and West Midlands Police, the Information Tribunal has upheld the view of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that the retention of the old convictions data is in breach of the Data Protection Act.
PublicTechnology.net |
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Posted: 22-07-2008 , 08:43 GMT
ictQATAR, the Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technology has stated that recent newspaper articles had given inaccurate or incomplete accounts of Qatar's legal position regarding Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
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