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Three shot at Phoenix college
PHOENIX -- A man shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring two of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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Caldwell offers online access
CALDWELL -- Locals on the go can now access the Internet anywhere in downtown Caldwell.Redevelopment Coordinator Dennis Cannon said workers continue to tweak equipment to optimize coverage, but wireless service is online.Service extends from 5th to 10th Avenue and from Cleveland Boulevard to Main Street.The Caldwell City Council approved the purchase of equipment and installation last month. ...
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Microsoft: What Web Strategy?
The software giant left some analysts wanting more detail on plans to turn around its limping online operations after failing to acquire Yahoo
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VCs Have Their Heads in the Clouds
Cloud computing—computing power in the form of services from companies including Amazon—is drawing VC attention from Web apps back to infrastructure
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Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
PHOENIX (AP) -- A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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Wall Street Beat: Some Companies Shine Amid Gloom
When Samsung Electronics, a giant in chips, mobile phones and LCD panels, reported earnings on Friday, it noted worsening...
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3 charged with selling body-building drugs
Three Massachusetts residents have been indicted in New Hampshire on federal charges of importing prescription drugs from overseas and selling them illegally through the internet.
Concord Monitor |
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FBI Agent: Social Networks Can Reveal Private Information
Student use the Internet for almost everything, but the increase usage of the Internet also puts them in danger, said a special agent with the FBI.
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Screen test: Parental guidance on this week's movies
By JANE HORWITZ Space Chimps (G, 1 hr., 21 min.) Walking out of a showing of Space Chimps, The Family Filmgoer overheard a father and daughter — she appeared to be 7 or 8 — debate the computer-animated film. She thought it was funny and he thought it was the dumbest thing he’d ever seen. That sums it up for this ’toon about NASA chimps who are way smarter than their human handlers know. ...
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Health care grants go to Western Slope agencies
Fruita will get a full-time public-health services office, and emergency health-services workers in western Colorado will get laptop computers they can use to help with patients.
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Microsoft defends costly quest to tap into rich Web media vein
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended his company's large and so far unrewarded investment in online search and advertising, arguing that Microsoft is the only real threat to Google and that a major "ante" in search is the best shot at...
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Major shareholder advisory firm backs Yahoo directors / It supports board while another wants 3 members to leave
An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.'s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the company's directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid during the spring. Although the...
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China says it has No. 1 Internet population with 253 million users
BEIJING -- China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.
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Ex-Japanese Internet mogul found guilty in appeal
TOKYO -- A Japanese appeals court upheld the conviction of flamboyant former Internet mogul Takafumi Horie on Friday in an ongoing case that has come to symbolize this nation’s effort to deal with white collar crime at emerging dot-coms.
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Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby. The shooting at South Mountain Community College was part of a running dispute between the suspect and one of the victims, said Sgt. Andy Hill, a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department. ...
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Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby. The shooting at South Mountain Community College was part of a running dispute between the suspect and one of the victims, said Sgt. Andy Hill, a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department. ...
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Dismissal of federal Internet suicide case sought
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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Business
China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported today.
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News
China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported today.
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Welcome to my office in the sky
BEADS of sweat run down Goodman Mbela’s forehead as he frantically presses the buttons on the computer screen in his office 37 metres up in the air. A slip of a finger could mean instant death for him or those working below him.
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Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency
MechEMark writes with this excerpt from a hope-inspiring article at the IEEE Spectrum, which says "Researchers from Microsoft say they've built a prototype of a display screen using a technology that essentially mimics the optics in a telescope but at the scale of individual display pixels. The result is a display that is faster and more energy efficient than a liquid crystal display, or LCD, ...
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Iranians seeking life abroad look east to M'sia
TEHRAN - IRANIAN computer specialist Sina Rahati left his home country for Kuala Lumpur three years ago and says he misses neither Tehran's polluted streets nor the bureaucracy needed to set up a new business.
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Thieves striking flooded UI buildings
Some University of Iowa faculty returning to their once-flooded buildings are finding their offices have been ransacked, computers and electronic equipment stolen.At the Voxman Music Building, faculty have lost at least five computers, six camcorders, a handful of recording devices, many tools, a flute and a piccolo in addition to some personal items, music school Associate Director Mark Weiger ...
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Container ship crewmen face child porn charges
Two Filipino crewmen on a container ship that was in the Port of Halifax this week face charges for smuggling child pornography. Local border services officers arrested two men after discovering child pornography on a pair of laptops Monday. The men will appear in Dartmouth provincial court for a bail hearing today. Laurie Gillmore, a spokeswoman for Canada Border Services Agency, says ...
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Report: Favre, Packers Reach an Agreement
Yahoo! Sports reports a compromise resulting from a conference call between Brett Favre and Ted Thompson.
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