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Japan court upholds prison term for Internet mogul
TOKYO: Flamboyant dotcom tycoon Takafumi Horie yesterday lost his appeal against a two-and-a-half year prison term for fraud in a scandal that rocked Japan’s stock market.
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Artist pipes up for Internet radio
WASHINGTON -- Like any musician, New Orleans jazz clarinetist Michael White says he would love to collect royalty checks every time an Internet radio station plays one of his recordings.
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Mays did not snub Rangers’ Hamilton
An ill-timed camera shot has created a buzz in some Internet circles that Rangers center fielder Josh Hamilton was snubbed by baseball legend Willie Mays during introductions before the All-Star Game on July 15. Fox TV cameras showed Mays turning away from Hamilton as the American League’s starter ran to his position at Yankee Stadium. The most popular Internet conspiracy is that Mays ignored ...
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Fujitsu's Lifebook U2010 gets new pics, specs
Filed under: Laptops We've caught a few glimpses of Fujitsu's Lifebook U2010 in the past, but now we've got a whole handful of new shots of the crazy-versatile device, plus some fresh video and actual, honest-to-goodness specs. According to a Vietnamese forum, the miniature laptop / tablet will feature an Intel Atom CPU (at 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz), a 5.6-inch 1024 x 768 display, an 80GB ...
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Recent Original Stories
"Versora's Progression Desktop migration tool gets better with every release. Now on version 2.0, the developers have expanded the capabilities of the software and qualified it with many more operating systems. It's never been easier to transfer your settings from Windows to GNU/Linux."
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"The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. At the Mix '07 conference on Monday, Microsoft touted the ability to write Silverlight Web applications that run on Internet Explorer, Firefox and the Safari browser on Mac OS. Next up for Silverlight is an edition for mobile devices, ...
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Home Notes: Saturday, July 26, 2008
Finding new uses for wine barrels This is sustainable gardening with class. TerraCycle Inc. is recycling wine barrels from Kendall-Jackson into composters and rain barrels. The oak barrels are clean and safe for outdoor household use, the winemaker says. The rotary composter holds grass clippings, leaves and other yard waste while they decompose into nutrient-rich compost. A roller system makes ...
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FCC poised to punish Comcast over Web blocking
Fri, Jul 25, 2008 (10:27 p.m.) A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
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Business Briefs: Saturday, July 26, 2008
NATION AOL shuts down some services to cut costs NEW YORK — AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet's earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its advertising opportunities. AOL Pictures, the year-old media-sharing site BlueString and the online backup service Xdrive will likely shut down by year's end. Company officials ...
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ymcaFocus
The Portage Township YMCA, 3100 Willowcreek Road, offers the following programs. For information, call (219) 762-9622 or visit the Web site at www.ymcaofportage.org.
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FCC poised to punish Comcast for traffic blocking
A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
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Sparks fly as PM meets the press
26 July, 2008 - What started as a media briefing of their first 100 days in office soon extended into a spirited marathon session lasting almost five hours that, at times, saw temperatures rise, with the government answering questions, defending allegations, which had emerged in the local media, including Internet fora.
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China tops in Internet users
With an estimated 253 million people online, nation has lots of room for growth.
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Tax to Take a Holiday
You may want to hold off on your back-to-school shopping. That's because Missouri's "Sales Tax Holiday" is next weekend. You can buy school supplies, clothes, even computers tax-free.
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Recent Original Stories
Dell began polling customers about their software preferences on Tuesday as part of an effort by the struggling PC vendor to meet a popular request for desktops and notebooks that run on Linux instead of Windows.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Nov 2005 21:04 UTC
The release of the software giant's new operating system will be one of Microsoft's most important product launches this decade, when it goes live next year.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Oct 2005 20:55 UTC
Microsoft is poised to release to testers the second Community Technology Preview release of Vista, paving the way for a second full-fledged beta, which is now expected in December.
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Group threatens Olympics attack
group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party released a video threatening the Beijing Olympic Games and claiming responsibility for recent deadly explosions on two Chinese buses, a terrorism monitoring firm said on Friday. IntelCenter, a US-based terrorism monitoring firm, said the group had released a video entitled "Our Blessed Jihad in Yunnan," featuring a statement by the group's leader, ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jan 2006 14:40 UTC
Corel bills its WordPerfect Office software as 'the world's leading alternative to Microsoft Office'. But when it comes to US retail sales, Corel lost the no. 2 spot in 2005 to a somewhat unlikely competitor : Apple Computer's iWork.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 14th Aug 2006 16:47 UTC
OneStat today reported that Microsoft's Windows dominates the operating system market with a global usage share of 96.97 percent.
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Don't start school without the top 10 must-have supplies
The words that most children dread hearing are about to be said by parents’ everywhere – it’s time to get ready for school. School starts in almost three weeks, and department stores are quickly pulling out their stock of pencils, notebook paper, crayons and protractors.
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Customs brokers grapple with additional $10 stamp tax
The government moved yesterday to tab on a $10 stamp tax to all freight shipments entering the country, from food to furniture to computers — the last item supposedly "tax free".
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Seizure of N.J. State Computer Brings Call to Filter Web Sites
TRENTON, N.J., July 25 -- After a veteran New Jersey assemblyman's computer was seized for allegedly containing child pornography, legislative leaders sought Friday to install Internet filters to block inappropriate material from being viewed on state computers.
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Comcast faces penalty for blocking Web traffic
WASHINGTON — A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday. Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, was accused of violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. The decision will not be final until all five ...
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