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What's all the hoopla?
Fifty years after the Hula-Hoop became a summertime sensation, the hippest toy for kids is enjoying a renaissance among adults. Fueled by YouTube and social networking sites, an underground community of adult hoop dancers — or hoopers — has blossomed.
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New Businesses
Asbury Park, Radiant U X, 527 Bangs Ave.; nonclassified establishment. Asbury Park, Garner's Computer Sales & Service, 1022 Main St.; computer and equipment dealers.
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Educators debate Web reading habits
BEREA, Ohio — Books are not Nadia Konyk's thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows interest. Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet.
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Lawsuit spells death knell for Scrabulous
Game-making giant Hasbro has filed a lawsuit against Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous and sent a notice demanding Facebook remove the popular game from its website.
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The World: Private school education takes hold in Sweden
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Private school education takes hold Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students? It may sound out of place in Sweden, that paragon of taxpayer-funded cradle-to-grave welfare.
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Students hi-tech profile
SCHOOL students will be able to build an online work profile that they can access at any time from any computer in a trial of new technology.
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Turkish jets strike Kurdish separatist targets in Iraq
Ankara - Turkish warplanes on Saturday night bombed suspected Kurdish separatists' positions in northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced on Sunday. The General Staff said in a short statement posted on its internet website that 12 positions in t...
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Recent Original Stories
Just in time for the new year, the PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD version 1.3 for public download. You may download this release and view the change log . The team is also launching a web design contest for the new web site of 2007.
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Guitarist greats like Nils Lofgren offer instruction via computer
Nils Lofgren doesn’t have to do this: sit in front of a video camera trained on his face and hands as he talks guitar neophytes through the rudiments of playing a simple G chord. He’s the guitarist in the E Street Band, for heaven’s sakes, a man Bruce Springsteen turns to when he wants a searing solo at a pivotal point in one of his epic concerts. Lofgren’s a true master of rock guitar, and ...
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ICAP keeps eye on futures
In a nondescript office building off Ormsby Station Road, dozens of employees at ICAP Energy huddle around computer screens while they track the price of natural gas, coal and electricity.
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Resumania
Avoid putting your digital footprint in your mouth Given the wealth of information that can be found on the Internet, it should come as no surprise that some hiring managers research job applicants online before scheduling interviews with them. So pay as much attention to your "digital footprint" as you do to your resume and cover letter. Exercise discretion when posting to Web sites and ...
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Career & Education
LATELY, there has been a lot of talk about opportunities for advertising that abound on the Internet.
The Jamaica Observer |
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Bargain-buyer myths disputed
Toss out what you thought you knew about grocery shopping on a budget. Forget the truisms about items placed at eye level costing the most or products on the end of an aisle being on sale. No more, said Phil Lempert, editor of the Web site Supermarket Guru.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Sep 2005 20:28 UTC
The pressure is growing on Novell Inc's management to make major strategic changes after a regulatory filing revealed a Novell shareholder has joined Credit Suisse First Boston in calling for change at the identity management and Linux vendor.
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Recent Original Stories
MIT has unveiled its $100 hand-cranked laptop computer to the United Nations technology summit in Tunisia and said that it hopes to make millions of the devices to give to the poorest people in the world.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Sep 2005 11:15 UTC, submitted by Sansta
The commonwealth of Massachusetts has finalised its decision to standardise desktop applications on OpenDocument , a format not supported by Microsoft Office.
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In Hindsight: Is the Microsoft-Yahoo saga finally over?
Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports. Monday This should make for some exciting board meetings: After months of drama (and accusations) over the possibility that Redmond, Wash.
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You’re not alone with Comcast woes
WASHINGTON – Kenneth Bayes’ request to Comcast was routine. He was moving his family from Fairfax, Va., to a new town house in Haymarket, Va., and wanted to transfer his bundled television, Internet and phone services.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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O'Brien: Web 2.0 start-ups, show us the money
Last week, I attended the Facebook developers conference to hear founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg discuss the future of the social-networking site.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Reminder for schools to tap into technology
ELIGIBLE schools in the area have been encouraged to take part in the second round of the Rudd Government's National Secondary School Computer Fund.
Mandurah Mail |
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STOCKHOLM - Sweden Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students?It may sound out of place in Sweden, that paragon of taxpayer-funded, cradle-to-grave welfare. But a sweeping reform of the school system has survived the critics and 16 years later is spreading and attracting interest abroad.
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Does giving big green to Big Blue pay off?
States throw money at IBM, but company shifts jobs around the globe It was December 2004, and Tulsa, Okla., was abuzz with excitement.IBM, which already employed more than 1,200 in Tulsa, had made a deal with Oklahoma to add another 1,000 jobs by 2009. In return, Big Blue would get $35.2 million in rebates over 10 years. Calling it "great news for Tulsa and for all of Oklahoma," Gov. Brad ...
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INFOBOXES Where can I buy cables and how much do they cost? You can find common cables, such as VGA, S-Video, ...
The Internet is full of great free TV shows and movies, but viewing them on a laptop screen can be uncomfortable.
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Halifax Health Medical Center broadcasting surgeries over the Internet
Operating rooms used to be places with limited access, the domain of medical professionals and their patients. Now operating rooms are opening up, offering the world invitations to watch when surgeons go to work.
Orlando Sentinel |
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Where can I buy cables and how much do they cost?
You can find common cables, such as VGA, S-Video, mini-stereo audio and DVI to HDMI at electronics stores such as Best Buy or Circuit City. For more obscure cables, such as S-Video to RCA video, check CompUSA, Radio Shack, Internet sites such as Amazon.com and Newegg.com or Skycraft Parts & Surplus in Winter Park.
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