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Will plug be pulled on Wi-Fi plan?
Long Island's ambitious and belated Wi-Fi network is teetering on the price of a pole.
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An un-American feel aids expanding US Web firms
AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated icons.
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An un-American feel aids expanding US Web firms
AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated icons.
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Screen Actors board backs negotiators on new media
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The board of the major union for U.S. film and television actors has backed its negotiators' demands to cover Internet-related work, signaling that contract talks with Hollywood's studios may remain stalled for weeks.
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Outlook and Express ... size matters
Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express are fairly common email programs – most email users utilize one or the other to download email from a mail server to their computer.
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Screen Actors board backs negotiators on new media
The board of the major union for U.S. film and television actors has backed its negotiators' demands to cover Internet-related work, signaling that contract talks with Hollywood's studios may remain stalled for weeks.
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Microsoft shakes up online operation
Microsoft is reorganising its Platforms and Services Division as the head of the group prepares to depart.
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Will plug be pulled on Wi-Fi plan?
Long Island's ambitious and belated Wi-Fi network is teetering on the price of a pole.
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Athletes to blog Olympic Games
Athletes at the forthcoming Beijing Olympics will be blogging their experiences in between competing for medals.
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Romeo and Juliet of the New York subway fail to find true love
A MODERN-DAY love story of a man spotting the girl of his dreams across a New York subway train and tracking her down over the internet has failed to have a fairy-tale ending.
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Recent Original Stories
The FSF today released version 3 of the GNU GPL , the popular free software license. "Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom.
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"A Chinese company called YellowSheepRiver wants to make affordable budget computing a reality with its new $150 Linux Municator , a highly compact and innovative PC built with inexpensive Chinese hardware components.
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Apple has bought
the CUPS code base, and has hired it's lead developer. " CUPS was written by Michael R Sweet, an owner of Easy Software Products. In February of 2007 Apple Inc. hired Michael and acquired ownership the CUPS source code.
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Obituary: Randy Pausch
Obituary: The academic whose Last Lecture became an inspirational internet phenomenon
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Oct 2005 20:26 UTC
The world's richest man talks about developing new drugs to combat AIDS, open-source software and why Microsoft's still cool after all these years. Gates: "We encourage everyone to develop in our environment. Free software's nothing new... There was an early browser, an early mail program.
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Chris Horrie on the New of the World's Max Mosley scoop
The legal cost of the News of the World's Max Mosley scoop may be almost £1m, but the payoff in terms of sales and online hits could mean it was worth every spanking new penny, writes Chris Horrie
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CONSUMER PROTECTION You can stop identity theft by taking precautions
In this week's installment of Consumer Protection, Attorney General Alicia Limtiaco discusses how identity thieves have posed as different bank representatives and Internet service providers to defraud people. She also gives tips on how you can protect yourself from identity theft.
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Man Arrested for Selling Stolen Weapons on Myspace
A man is arrested after he uses the internet to sell stolen weapons. Justin Christoffers was a fugitive wanted on several felony counts after he used the social-networking site Myspace to try to sell stolen weapons. Fox 10's Laura Sambol has more......
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Record breaker: Where can the money-conscious music-lover find the best deals?
After reading about the latest proposed attempt to stop illegal internet downloads and file-sharing by imposing a £30 licence fee on those downloading music, I set about trying out the various ways in which you can buy music – and as cheaply as possible. Since the 12 Mercury nominees will be the names gracing most music-lovers' shopping lists this week, my mission is to purchase the lot for as ...
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Obituary: Randy Pausch
Obituary: The academic whose Last Lecture became an inspirational internet phenomenon
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Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson has killed himself, apparently after murdering his wife and three year-old daughter.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Dec 2005 19:28 UTC
Microsoft has decided which icon it will use for RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7. Now, I hear you say, so what? Well, the funny thing is, Microsoft teamed up with the Mozilla team on this one.
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Software makers threaten to sue eBay over counterfeits
Software association says it is eyeing a lawsuit over counterfeit programs offered for sale. If that does not work, it may ask Congress to rewrite copyright law.
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Researchers redefine the Internet blacklist
A Google-inspired technique could make for far more accurate blacklists, predicting which attackers will target particular networks.
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Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd has secured contracts from Apple Computer for 12 million mobile handsets that also function as music players, the Commercial Times quoted industry sources as saying.
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