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Talk of Apple's new box of tricks has the analysts purring
It is a sad reflection on our society that all it takes to distract Wall Street's attention from economic Armageddon is the barest whisper of a new gadget from Apple. We don't even really know if Steve Jobs, he of the black polo neck and the nice phones, actually has a new product up his skin-tight pima cotton sleeve or not. We just think he might. Last Monday during a fairly dull conference ...
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Briton faces 60 years in US prison after hacking into Pentagon
When he wakes up this morning, Gary McKinnon will be 72 hours from learning whether he is on the fast track to a 60-year prison sentence, thanks to his obsession with aliens. McKinnon, 42, from Enfield in north London, is accused by American prosecutors of illegally accessing top-secret computer systems in what they claimed in one legal document was 'the biggest military computer hack of all ...
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WILL OPRAH CHAMPION THIS INJUSTICE ?
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH FEDERAL APPEALS !!! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
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College textbook publishers fight growing piracy threats
Faced with soaring prices for textbooks, cash-strapped students have discovered a tempting, effective but illicit alternative: pirated electronic books, available for free over the Internet.
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Amnesty urges Egypt to free Facebook militants
Egyptian Esra Abdel Fattah, 26, is pictured at her home in Cairo in April 2008, after she was freed following a month's detention for forming a group on the Facebook internet social networking site that called for protests over price hikes.
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Syed Hamid to counter sue to ‘stop spread of lies on Internet’
KLUANG: Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar will counter sue the individual who filed a defamation suit against him at the Johor Baru High Court.
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Zune Guy calls Microsoft 'liars,' says Zune situation is 'f***ing bulls**t'
Filed under: Portable Audio , Portable Video You've probably heard by now that the infamous Zune Guy ("Microsoft Zune") was so disappointed with Microsoft that he's elected to have his ink removed in place of something more in line with his shifted priorities. In addition to the reconstructive work he's going to have, ZG claims that Microsoft actually lied to him about his free ...
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Recent Original Stories
"One result of the US government's battle with Google over a week's worth of searches is an increased awareness over the data kept by all of the major search engines.
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Online Voting for "TitleTown USA" Ends July 27
Kansas Jayhawk fans now have a chance to help Lawrence become "TitleTown USA". Fan voting on ESPN.com will determine the winning community. Voting begins Wednesday, July 23 at 6 p.m. CST and runs through Sunday, July 27.
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SourceForge Award Winners Announced
Open source software projects took center stage at a ceremony to honor the best and brightest of free software.
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Dont go by the looks of it
Though India's PC penetration is far from reaching saturation point, yet it's fast being replaced by laptops, at least in the urban scenario.
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Talk of Apple's new box of tricks has the analysts purring
The iPod maker's next big thing may, or may not, be on the way, writes James Doran in New York
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Theft of Internet connections becoming more common
Mike Phillips, the agent supervisor of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Florida Computer Crime Center, said most Internet theft occurs in residential areas and apartment complexes.
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The browser - Amazon kindles a blue flame
It happened with the internet. It happened with the VHS video. It even happened with the Mutoscope (now better known as the "What The Butler Saw Machine"). So
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Linked by Adam S on Sun 8th Apr 2007 18:13 UTC
Gaim, the ubiquitous open source instant messaging program, in order to settle a lawsuit with America Online, was renamed "Pidgin" last week . The derivative projects, libgaim and gaim-text will be renamed libpurple and Finch respectively.
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The browser
Orwell blogging, murderous dictators and poetry, and starving writers
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Banks warned of computer 'super bug' that can change identity
UK BANKS and other financial institutions are being warned to be extra vigilant following the release on the internet of a new so-called "PC super bug" designed to ste
The Scotsman: Business |
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How to make $4bn without really managing
Simon Caulkin: You can love Google or hate it, but you can't deny its extraordinary effectiveness
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Recent Original Stories
"Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.0 is a slimed down version of Windows (hence all the MiniNT references) that used to be the exclusive domain of OEM's providers.
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Sat 24th Sep 2005 10:35 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Google.... I don't think google uses LAMP...it just uses a modified linux kernel to power the cluster.
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Voodoo Eaten By HP's Consumer Division
When PC maker Hewlett-Packard bought boutique gaming rig builder Voodoo PC two years ago, many loyalists feared that HP would eventually just slap the Voodoo moniker on any average computer and market it towards the gaming segment - complete with the higher "gaming" price tag. Those fears may be much closer to realization, as HP has announced that Voodoo PC has reached the end of the line as a ...
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EU internet proposals raise civil liberty fears
Civil liberty groups claim the new "telecoms package" due to go before the European Parliament in September will result in the loss of individual freedom on the internet, and breach the fundamental principles of human rights in Europe.
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Child porn pervert spared prison term
A “respectable and decent” businessman who led a double life as an internet pervert has been spared prison - despite having more than 350 indecent photographs of children on his computer.
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Rebels threaten more attacks during Olympics
WASHINGTON • An Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring threats by extremists on the Internet said late on Friday.
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Yahoo to compensate music store refugees
Yahoo will compensate customers of its Yahoo Music online store once the company shuts down its servers and prevents customers from renewing their copy protection licenses, the company says. The firm now says that anyone who purchased tracks in addition to their monthly subscriptions to Yahoo Music will be refunded "for whatever [was] paid" for th...
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