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Key Microsoft Exec Jumps Ship to Take Juniper's Helm
Juniper Networks, a provider of networking systems, has tapped 16-year Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson to be its CEO. Johnson led Microsoft's platforms and services division, which oversees product development, marketing and strategy for the Windows and online services businesses. Johnson was also a key voice at Microsoft in urging the company to make a bid for Yahoo.
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Police Must Determine Who Sent Messages From Pol's Computer
A former Democratic Party chair faces some serious allegations, but he’s not the only person under investigation.
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Symbian and Android to make love, not war
The launch of Android, Google's open-source OS for mobile phones, was postponed. As a consequence, a majority of carriers and handset vendors have pushed the launch of their Android-powered smart phones to the end of the year or beginning of next year. In the meantime, Nokia acquired Symbian and then released this dominant mobile OS in open source. Many believed that this was a prelude to a ...
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Bayport teen missing, considered 'endangered'
Police in Bayport are searching tonight for a 15-year-old girl who they believe is with a Florida man she met over the Internet.
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FBI: Coach created online alias
There are new details in the case of a former high school swim coach who admits to secretly videotaping girls in locker rooms.
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Mae Vion Meyer announces for Bandera County Tax Assessor/Collector
In 1977 I was hired by Tax Assessor Collector Marguerite Stevens and worked for her until 1989. Then in 1989 Bandera County saw a need to automate the county with computers and installed me as the Director of the IT department where I worked under the County Judge.
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From Trash to Electricity
The trash you toss in the garbage could now end up powering your lights, computer and washing machine. Thursday Veolia Environmental Services and the Energy Systems Group reached an agreement to develop a landfill gas-to-electricity project in Pike County.
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Scots boy must give up Narnia website: U.N. judge
GENEVA - A Scottish schoolboy must surrender a Web address tied to the Narnia fantasy world, which his father said was a birthday present, after a ruling by a United Nations arbitrator, an official report said on Thursday.
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solidThinking 7.6 updates rendering engine
solidThinking has updated one of the only CAID (computer-aided industrial design) packages offered for both Mac OS X and Windows. solidThinking is a design program that allows users to render photorealistic 3D product designs in stunning environments or. solidThinking, which according to Architosh, has gained significant market share by pulling in ...
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Former East Tennessee judge sentenced on child porn charges
A former Sevier County judge will spend almost four years in federal prison after federal agents found more than 100 child pornography images on his computer hard drive last year.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Google has launched its own version of communally constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which consistently ranks among the most visited websites in the world.
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CBS 6 Investigates City Print Shop Audit
Online dating and porn sites. Is this more money wasted at Richmond City Hall? The City Auditor says "yes!" As we reported earlier this week, four employees are accused of surfing the web instead of taking care of Richmond's printing needs.
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Intel's dual-core Atom 330 processor to ship in Q4 2008
Filed under: Laptops Bad news, Atom fans. That dual-core nugget of netbook-powering goodness that you were so looking forward to seeing in Q3 won't begin shipping until Q4. According to some data picked up by Fudzilla , the Atom 330 will only be debuting in Q3 (September 21st, to be precise), but it isn't scheduled to get a shipping label until a few months later. Also of note, we're ...
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Microsoft shakes up online division and deepens Facebook ties
Microsoft is shaking up management of its online division and strengthening its tie to Facebook in the aftermath of a failed bid to buy Yahoo to bolster its lagging Internet business.
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Recent Original Stories
Mark Shuttleworth today urged development of Linux models to rival what Apple has done on the desktop and mobile devices . Certainly on the desktop experience, we need to shoot beyond the Mac, but I think it's equally relevant [in] the mobile space, Shuttleworth said, outlining the challenge as figuring out how to deliver a 'crisp and clean' experience, without sacrificing the community process.
New Mobile Computing |
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All Major U.S. Senate Democratic Challengers Announce Support for Net Neutrality
Eevery single U.S. Democratic challenger with more than $500k in cash on hand has announced their support for net neutrality, reports Matt Stoller of OpenLeft—"This is a milestone for the fight for internet freedom."
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Yahoo shareholders advised: 're-elect the board'
SAN FRANCISO -An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo's entire board, reducing the chances that the internet company's directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Aug 2006 21:49 UTC, submitted by anonymous
DesktopLinux.com has launched its 2006 Desktop Linux survey , asking users of Linux desktops to identify what distributions they use, as well as their choice of windowing environment, web browsers, email clients, and Windows-on-Linux solutions.
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Nashville area gets triple pollution whammy, maps indicate
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Middle Tennessee — not North Carolina — has received the brunt of pollution from many of TVA's coal-burning, electricity-generating plants, maps from a TVA consultant indicated in U.S. District Court today. The consultant, Thomas Tesche, a computer air dispersion modeler, also called North Carolina's projections that the state receives a significant amount of pollution from TVA ...
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Facebook will Extend Social-Networking Across the Net
Facebook on Thursday displayed its site redesign and demonstrated its upcoming Facebook Connect at the second annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco.
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'No stone unturned' in sanitary sewer issue
When Kim Johnson, BV County Environmental Health and Zoning Director met with the Buena Vista County Board of Supervisors Tuesday she reported that the County has received five engineering proposals for the 'Time of Transfer' Sanitary Sewer project.
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House Panel Quizzes ISP on Data Gathering
A House subcommittee chairman on Thursday expressed concern that a Kansas-based broadband provider, Embarq, gathered data on its customers Web activity by employing an "opt-out" system rather than "opt-in."
PC Magazine |
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Scots boy must give up Narnia website
A Scottish schoolboy must surrender a web address tied to the Narnia fantasy world, which his father said was a birthday present, after a ruling by a United Nations arbitrator, an official report said on Thursday.
TVNZ |
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Is Plurk the MySpace of Microblogging?
In the past few weeks Plurk has released a number of updates in preparation for its upcoming API launch . Improvements include, a new customizable sidebar widget, new starter verbs such as “wonders” and “needs,” a cleaner “All Plurks,” and “My Plurks” navigation, along with a custom search feature. Plurk has even enhanced their competitive ranking system, also known as “Karma” to make the ...
Mashable |
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Ask Haruki Murakami Anything [The Internets]
This is what happens when publicity-shy authors let someone talk them into doing something on the Internet. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's agent or publisher was probably going on and on about...
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