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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 two of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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ATTLEBORO - She kept whacking away and by the time her golf ball landed in the cup on the No. 9 (backside) par-4 280-yard hole at the Highland Country Club Monday, Elizabeth Laverghetta discovered that she had hacked an "11" on her scorecard.
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Wairarapa 'too slow' for high-speed Internet offer
Wairarapa may have missed out on a chance to share in a $500 million broadband offer, says a key member of an inter-council working group. Expressions of interest in the government fund, which aims to roll out broadband across the country, are due by August 30.
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Facebook Wants to Power Web-Wide Apps
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for his company's social networking site: serving as the platform to enable applications to run almost anywhere their developers want.
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Bill Gates Buys a Stake in Auto Nation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Microsoft founder Bill Gates has acquired a 5.5 percent stake in Auto Nation, the country's largest group of car dealerships. The shares, which were acquired through Gates' Cascade Investment and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are worth an estimated $90 million.
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by JACQUES BILLEAUD and CHRIS KAHN Associated Press Writers
PHOENIX (AP) - A former student 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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MONROE COUNTY: Fair rooted in youth accomplishment
Before the trucks and tractors roared, before the flying fender pieces filled the air at the derby-even before the county queens flashed their winning smiles-there were the tomatoes, squash, bell peppers and animals.
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Bloggers: the new power behind the throne
Bloggers have ‘arrived' at the table traditionally occupied by journalists and analysts. For example, at SAP's recent annual conference for 10,000 users in Berlin, there was a special room for bloggers to touchdown, plug in portable PCs and blog away.
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Hackers' bid to control Web
Hackers have caught on to how to control traffic on the internet, so test your computer now!
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Egypt: Internet Activists Detained in Alexandria, No Explanation Given for Arrests
According to ANHRI's information, on 23 July 2008, security officers arrested a number of young Internet activists, who form part of the "6th of April Youth" group.
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CU building cleared by smoky odor
A defective computer caused a building at the University of Colorado to be evacuated briefly Thursday afternoon.
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Reuters Business Summary
Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, "done" with Yahoo REDMOND, Washington - Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc. "There's nothing under discussion between the two of us," Ballmer told investors of how six months of various ...
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Samsung Q2 profit jumps 51% on higher margins, sales growth - Update
(RTTNews) - South Korean conglomerate Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (SSNLF.PK) said late Thursday that second quarter profit jumped 51% from last year, boosted by higher margins as well as strong sales of flat-panel displays and mobile handsets, partially offset by weak performance at its computer chip division.
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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 two of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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Mini Office makes management manageable
An El Paso company has created a new business-management software tool for small or medium companies and has big plans to take the Web-based system national and global.
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Personal info for 20,000 found
Officials say a back up computer tape that could contain personal information for more than 20,000 people in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park has been found.
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Accused Man Discusses Canadian Model Murder
A Chinese man accused of stabbing a Canadian model to death in her apartment building told police in a televised interview the attack began when the woman caught him trying to steal her laptop computer.
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ATTLEBORO - Lawyers sparred Thursday over access to a computer evidence on a child pornography case pending in Attleboro District Court.
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High court upholds prison term to former Livedoor president
Tokyo - The Tokyo High Court Friday upheld a lower court ruling that found Japanese internet tycoon Takafumi Horie guilty of breaking a securities law and sentenced him to two years and six months in prison without suspension, media reports said. The...
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Linked by Adam S on Sat 30th Dec 2006 16:32 UTC
Since it's year end, I thought I'd post one more "fun piece" for everybody. After Thom posted an article on his customized KDE desktop , I thought it might be interesting to compare desktop screengrabs and see what other OSNews'ers desktops look like. Are you cluttered or clean? Are you minialist?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Sep 2007 21:01 UTC
It does not happen every day that news related to computer technology - news we report on every day - makes its way to the headline news programs and newspapers here in my home country, The Netherlands.
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Frykman Technologies still takes care of low-tech typewriters
For people of a certain age, the rat-a-tat of a typewriter in action is an unmistakable sound. But as personal computers superseded typewriters as indispensable pieces of office equipment, those machine-gun-like bursts of typebar hitting paper became less and less familiar.
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People today in pursuit of the best of the best - be it the highest rated car, appliance or even nearby restaurant - have all turned to the utility of the World Wide Web to find it.
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Microsoft executives say they've given up on buying Yahoo
The software leader will find other ways to gain ground in online search and advertising, investors are told. Microsoft Corp. executives ruled out an acquisition of Yahoo Inc. on Thursday, even as they acknowledged that the Internet company would have provided a needed boost in online search, where the software giant trails leader Google Inc.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Jul 2008 22:04 UTC
As someone who uses Windows Vista practically daily, I've always wondered where all the negativity in the media comes from. Sure, Vista isn't perfect (as if any operating system is), but I just don't see where all the complaints are coming from.
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