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FCC to uphold network complaint vs Comcast: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications regulators later this week are expected to uphold a complaint accusing Comcast Corp of unreasonably restricting Internet users who share movies and other material, a source familiar with the case said on Monday.
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Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale. Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.
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Consumer Update: Northwest Airlines warns customers of phony e-mail
Northwest Airlines today warned e-mail users that an e-mail containing phony ticket confirmation and enrollment information is being sent using the Company’s name. The e-mails are suspected of containing a virus that infects the user’s computer when they open attachments.
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Blog Shut Down by 'Christian' Apologist's Threat
How safe are our blogs? That question was raised again when on the evening of July 26, 2008, a popular religious blog was shut down by an Internet service provider.
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Microsoft readies XP for One Laptop Per Child computer
Windows-only XO timidly opens curtain Microsoft has quietly released to manufacturing a tweaked version of Windows XP to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer.…
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Intel aims T9400, GM45 at device market
— Jul. 16, 2008 — This week, Intel launched five 45nm Core 2 Duo processors under its new "Centrino 2" moniker.
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Government Computer News
When I was a civilian agencies reporter for Government Computer News about 10 years ago, the world was awash in videotape. Whenever I visited an agency to do a story on a new program, it seemed I was either taken to a room to watch or simply handed a VCR tape describing the agency’s efforts.
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FotoMagico 2.5 intros support for iMedia framework
Boinx has released a new version of FotoMagico 2, a presentation app aimed specifically at photographers. Aside from displaying high-resolution images, the software lets users implement pans, zooms and animated transitions, and export them to the web or DVD for the sake of clients. Export options are also present for videos intended to appear on ...
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New contender appears for world’s cheapest laptop at just $129
We are all getting used to cheap Netbooks appearing from different manufacturers, but did anyone think a machine would come out priced lower than the OLPC XO at US$188? Well, that is indeed the case with the website Alibaba.com selling a machine listed as the “World’s Cheapest Laptop” for just US$129. You may be impressed [...]
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WB Took Pains To "Delay" Pirating of Dark Knight
Jay writes "The LA Times is reporting on a new studio tactic — not to prevent piracy, but to delay it, as was the case with special tactics used with Dark Knight. 'Warner Bros. executives said the extra vigilance paid off, helping to prevent camcorded copies of the reported $180-million film from reaching Internet file-sharing sites for about 38 hours. Although that doesn't sound like much ...
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Email Marketing Innovator Ragy Thomas Joins Goodmail's Technical Advisory Board
Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail(TM), the industry's standard for trusted email, today announced interactive marketing entrepreneur Ragy Thomas has joined the company's Technical Advisory Board. Thomas will leverage his proven track record launching highly scalable and profitable B2C and B2B email platforms to provide Goodmail with strategic guidance on product and technology ...
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Kids Increasingly Targeted On Net
Parents need to be more aware of their children's online activities. In line with research from CEOP, which suggests that whilst 61% of British youngsters between 13 and 17 have personal pages on networking sites, the majority of parents remain completely ignora...
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DSL Disillusionment Still Order of the Day
You would think that broadband providers would have gotten it right by now, particularly with so many small and medium sized businesses (SMB) as well as the branch and remote offices of large enterprises adopting DSL and cable modem in high volume.
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Hard-Core Hardware: Green Is the New Black
At a recent IT event, a member of the press prefaced her question to the CEO of EMC saying, "First, I'd like to thank you for making no mention of green IT in your presentation."
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Cyber crime costs companies more than half a million yearly: study
Security breaches like the major Internet threat unveiled last week are costing publicly traded Canadian companies an average loss of more than $637,000, a new study has revealed.
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Everybody Still Hates Vista
Never has 180 million meant so little.
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Verizon Quarterly Profit Gains, Led By Wireless
Verizon Communications Monday said quarterly profit rose on strong wireless sales, shrugging off the impact of a weaker economy and offsetting a fall in landline users.
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Former Googleers Unveil Search Engine Called Cuil
A startup led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.
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New Xbox 360 Dashboard Experience Installable On Hacked Xbox 360s [Xbox 360 Dashboard Update]
Some leaky monkey at or near Microsoft has just dumped the new Xbox 360 Dashboard "Experience", also known as the fall update, onto the internet. For most of us, this means that that we've got new...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Jun 2006 21:57 UTC
Microsoft plans to make several significant tweaks to the next beta of Windows Vista to make a key security feature less annoying to users.
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NeoSynergy's DARWIN XE Dealer Management System to Integrate Carfax and Paychex Data Interfaces
NeoSynergy, a Web-based automotive software firm, announced today that its revolutionary DARWIN XE dealer management system will integrate Carfax Vehicle History Reports and Paychex, a National Payroll Provider.
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China Takes Over the Censored Internet [Internet]
The United States has just fallen to China in that whole I-have-more-people-on-the-internet-than-you battle. Because according to numbers* by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC),...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Aug 2006 21:23 UTC
Consumers now are getting more for less of their money when they buy security software. Microsoft's entry into the consumer security software arena in late May has made PC protection cheaper, according to data from The NPD Group.
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Microsoft's Answer To Google's PageRank Algorithm: Less Privacy?
BrowseRank, Microsoft claims, can deliver better search results by measuring user behavior, including where users go and the amount of time they remain at those pages.
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Autonomy's Lynch in £8m share sale
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Autonomy founder and chief executive Michael Lynch has offloaded 800,000 shares in the data search software giant at an average price of 1,042.7p each, it was announced today.
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