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Certiport Announces U.S. Qualifiers for Championship Round of Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office
Certiport today announced Anthony Lewis, 17, and Justin Wainscott, 18--both from Reno, Nevada--are the 2008 U.S. Champions for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, respectively. These Country Champions and more than 56,000 students from 47 countries participated in multiple rounds of local, national, and regional competitions in the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office from October 2007 to ...
Centre Daily Times |
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The Day After: Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google
We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol home page that I tested ranked in the top results. I came away feeling that being on Knol does indeed give pages an advantage they might not get ...
Search Engine Land |
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Sophos: Google's Blogger hosts 2% of world's malware
Security research and analysis firm Sophos has released its cybercrime report for the first half of 2008 and found Blogger, a property of Google, to be the prime distributer of malware today.
BetaNews |
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Ballmer distances Microsoft from Yahoo deal
Talks with Yahoo are for now off, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday, but he left the door open just a crack.
IT World |
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Microsoft products tops at E3 Media and Business Summit
Every competition has winners and losers.
Macon Telegraph |
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Ex-Mary Baldwin Professor Faces Child Porn Charges
A former Mary Baldwin professor has been charged with possessing child pornography after a student allegedly saw images on his college computer.
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Thursday's sports shorts
SAULT STE. MARIE - Jamie Groos of Escanaba has received a post-graduate scholarship to attend graduate school at Western Michigan University. Groos, who played volleyball at Lake Superior State, graduated in spring with computer science/computer networking degrees.
The Escanaba Daily Press |
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A Casting Breakdown
Breakdown Services sues controversial Internet company. The words "seeking actor" or "auditions by appointment," written by reputable producers, may seem innocuous no matter where they are posted.
Backstage.com |
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Recent Original Stories
"While this release isn't perfect, it's very, very good. I've tried a lot of Linux distributions over the years, and Ubuntu is definitely one of the best . If you're already using Ubuntu , the new release is worth the upgrade.
OS News |
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Once media-shy Taliban go hi-tech in propaganda war
Source: Reuters By Jonathon Burch KABUL, July 24 (Reuters) - The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicise their exploits and lambast ...
AlertNet |
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Recent Original Stories
"I followed the debate about a successor for the C/C++ combination as the primary language for developing the GNOME core desktop platform very closely last month. There has been discussion about a number of options.
OS News |
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Stuart woman's laptop, cell phone stolen from her birthday party
A Stuart woman’s 19th birthday got off to a rough start Tuesday after her cell phone and $2,000 dollar laptop computer were stolen from her home during her birthday party, according to a report released by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office Thursday.
Stuart News |
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Wireless city steps closer
Milledgeville took a giant technological leap forward Tuesday when city council voted unanimously to contract with Internet provider Clearwire for the city’s proposed wireless Internet system.
The Union-Recorder |
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Google Knol Launches
Google went live with Knol , a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subjects. Knol was being tested privately since some time and had been pre-announced back in 2007. The address is knol.google.com, but notably not knol.com or knol.org or even googleknol.com. This project is somewhat reminiscent of Wikipedia, though there are many differences as well. read more ...
WebProNews |
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Yahoo Music Is Shutting Its Doors
There had to be a better way. It's no surprise that Yahoo! Music is shutting down its download store and pointing customers to Rhapsody. But did they have to pull a Microsoft and stop supporting the retrieval of license keys or authorize playback on additional computers? Here's the email that came last night: read more
WebProNews |
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Ballmer Distances Microsoft From Yahoo Deal
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touched on the talks with Yahoo during the company's annual analyst meeting.
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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Facebook expands winning 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.
Canada.com |
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Bad banking site design endangers customer accounts
SAN FRANCISCO — Many U.S. banks are unwittingly training their online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, research shows.
Dallas Morning News |
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Google launches Wikipedia competitor that uses ad money to attract subject experts
SAN FRANCISCO — Google 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.
Dallas Morning News |
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Net-savvy before age 6
Children in one in five Australian households are surfing the net before their 6th birthday and 30 per cent of young people are never supervised online, says a report on internet use…
The New Zealand Herald |
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Can Steve Ballmer Organize Microsoft to Succeed?
I also don’t know how much it is Mr. Johnson’s choice to leave. But here is one clue: With $2.8 billion in revenue last year, Juniper is about one-tenth the size of the divisions he ran at Microsoft.
New York Times |
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eBay auction fraudster jailed for four years
Hammer to fall An Oregon man who auctioned counterfeit Adobe software on eBay under a variety of false identities has been jailed for four years. Jeremiah Mondello, 23, of Eugene, Oregon, was also sentenced to a further three years on probation following his release and 130 hours of community service a year for three years at a sentencing hearing this week. In addition, Mondello was fined ...
The Register |
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Microsoft Windows Exec Kevin Johnson Jumps To Juniper
Microsoft won't replace Johnson but will split Platforms and Services into two groups that will report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.
InformationWeek |
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Broadband to reach 77% of U.S. households by 2012, Gartner says
The United States will close its digital divide significantly within the next four years, with 77% of US households having a broadband Internet subscription, according to a new Gartner study.
Network World |
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Apple, Psystar Reps To Meet In Court
Apple filed its copyright infringement suit against Psystar earlier this month, charging that Psystar has been selling Macintosh clones in violation of Apple's software license.
InformationWeek |
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