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Child Porn Investigation of New Jersey Lawmaker
New Jersey's Deputy Assembly Speaker Neil Cohen is reportedly being investigated for alleged possession of child porn on his office computer. Fox 5's Brenda Flanagan has the story in her video report.
FOX 5 New York |
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Google Says It Now Counts 1 Trillion Web Pages
Google engineers say the company's computers hit a milestone: the counting of a trillion unique web pages.
ChannelWeb |
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Phoenix police: College shooter was punched first
PHOENIX (AP) -- The most seriously wounded of three people shot in a community-college computer lab had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police said Friday.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Q&A: Sojish Krishnan, Bobcares
July 25, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center and hosting support provider Bobcares knows a thing or two about customer support.
Web Host Industry Review |
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Computer virus is circulating in Milwaukee
As a public service, BizTimes Daily is warning readers not to open any e-mails with the subject line of "UPS Packet," because such e-mails are bogus and include attachments that are infected with a computer virus.
Small Business Times |
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21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...
ZDNet |
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16 GB USB Flash Drives Now Middling
Kingston Technology tossed a few new USB flash drives out to the masses as it adds to an already way overcrowded computer accessories category.
Tom's Hardware |
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Don’t Hold Your Tongue: New Assistive Technology Uses Tongue Movement to Control Computers, Wheelchairs
A new technology developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology allows people with severe disabilities to control their environments with their tongue.
American National Standards Institute |
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Letters to the Editor
Thanks to everyone who made a call, sent an email, distributed and/or signed a petition and spoke up against the artificial FieldTurf installation at Tappen Beach.
Glen Cove Record-Pilot |
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GM says $463M center speeds powertrain development
General Motors Corp. says it's turning to advanced math and simulators to chop 40 percent off the development time for vehicle power systems at its new $463 million powertrain development center.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Oyster Bay Historical Society Actively Preserves the Past and Plans their Future
Listeners got a better understanding of the focus of the Oyster Bay Historical Society (OBHS) at their 48th annual meeting on June 20 at the Matinecock Masonic Lodge. Great things are under way at the tidy museum and that includes greater Internet access to their collections.
Oyster Bay Enterprise-Pilot |
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Professor, Whose "Last Lecture" Became a Sensation, Dies
Randy Pausch, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, whose "last lecture" about living life to the fullest despite terminal pancreatic cancer, has died at the age of 47.
TheCelebrityCafe.com |
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China says Web users top U.S. at 253 million
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.
MSNBC |
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Retired St. Pete Officer Admits Creating Denigrating Images
In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. In another, police Chief Chuck Harmon's head has been put on an obscenely overweight body, and the chief is looking intently at a two-layer cheeseburger. Maj. Melanie Bevan appears as both a dominatrix and as the Wicked Witch of the West. These are among more than 180 computer-altered images internal affairs investigators ...
The Suncoast News Pinellas |
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Netflix Second Quarter profits up
SAN FRANCISCO - Netflix Inc.'s second-quarter profit crept up 4 percent, beating analyst expectations as the online DVD rental leader signed up 168,000 new customers while spending less money to attract them to the service. Video: Netflix on Xbox 360
Long Beach Press-Telegram |
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Hewlett-Packard gets European OK to buy EDS
European regulators gave their OK for Hewlett-Packard Co.'s proposed buy of Electronic Data Systems. (HPQ) (EDS) (GM)
BizJournals |
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Channel Vendors Demand Card Makers Recall Faulty Nvidia Products
Taipei (Taiwan) - Due to Nvidia did not clearly explaining the details of the faults reported in its notebook GPUs, some channel vendors have demanded graphics card makers issue a recall for desktop-based discrete graphics cards using the same GPU core, according to sources at graphics card makers.
Tom's Hardware |
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What To Expect In KDE 4.1
andrewmin writes "Recently, Gnome's been gaining a lot of ground on its KDE counterpart in the desktop environment wars. The KDE developers were hoping to change this with KDE 4, the new radical release of KDE, but it was not to be. KDE 4.0 was buggy and unstable, leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers. Mainly, this was because it just didn't work most of the time. However, the ...
Slashdot |
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Asustek To Extend Battery Life And Storage Capacity For Eee PCs In 2H08
Taipei (Taiwan) - Asustek Computer expects to introduce new features for its Eee PC range including "whole-day" battery life and Internet storage.
Tom's Hardware |
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Italy prepares to charge Google
Charges stem from video showing a teenager with Down syndrome taunted by other youths
The Globe and Mail |
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Hays Daily News |
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China's 253 Million Internet Users Surpasses U.S.
The world's biggest country also has the world's most Internet users, according to a new report.
ChannelWeb |
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DNS Exploit Means Quick Patches Are Critical
Researchers have released software that exploits the recently leaked flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) software. That may mean IT admins are in for a long weekend of implementing and testing the patch. IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered the bug earlier this month. The attack code was released Wednesday by developers of the Metasploit hacking toolkit, headed by the ...
Data Storage Today |
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www.wdio.com - CMU prof Randy Pausch, Whose 'Last Lecture' Became a Sensation Dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Randy Pausch has died. The Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor's "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book.
WDIO Duluth |
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Student blogger plans libel lawsuit
An attorney for a high school student who brought a free speech lawsuit against her school district last year said he now plans to file a libel lawsuit against the principal.
Boston Globe |
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