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Next space tourist spending bulk of fortune to fly
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The world's next space tourist says he'll be spending the bulk of his fortune to rocket into orbit this fall. Richard Garriott, a computer game wizard, will fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station.
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Intellectual Delinquents
This last weekend of the month I find myself in Mission Valley, poolside at the Promenade luxury-resort condominiums, across the street from Sears. I’m with my son at the home of my high school friend Dr. Jon Venn, for the past year a professor of psychology at San Diego State.
San Diego Reader |
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Network virtualization stack adds HA
— Jul. 21, 2008 — VirtualLogix is shipping a High-Availability (HA) version of its carrier-grade virtualization software.
Linux Devices |
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New grain clearing house
AUSTRALIAN grain producers will have access to a new marketing product to sell their grain, with the launch of an online trading house – Clear Commodities.
Stock & Land |
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ComChart debuts iPhone-ready medical app
ComChart has released v9.3g3 of EMR, its medical records software. The program is designed to reduce the amount of paper used in a clinic or hospital, providing access to patient information such as medications and test results. Users can additionally schedule future appointments and fax or print out prescription requests for pharmacies....
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Verizon invests $78M in Tenn.
Verizon Wireless has spent over $78 million to enhance voice and data services and coverage throughout Tennessee in the first six months of 2008. Verizon now covers all 95 counties and approximately 41,898 square miles across the state due to an investment of nearly $634.5 million in Tennessee since 2003, which is part of Verizon's multibillion-dollar nationwide network investment
BizJournals |
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Yahoo To Reimburse Customers Of DRM-Protected Music
People who purchased from Yahoo's soon-to-be-closed online music store will be offered coupons for MP3s from Rhapsody.
InformationWeek |
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Microsoft Prepares For Post-Windows Era With 'Midori'
The operating system is being designed from the ground up to support Internet-based computing and multi-core architectures.
InformationWeek |
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Suspect in "biggest military hack" loses extradition case
British hacker Gary McKinnon illegally snooped around computers across multiple US military departments in search of proof that aliens exist. After taking his fight against US extradition to Britain's highest court and losing, McKinnon will be tried in the US for his crimes. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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British Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal
UFO fanatic Gary McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 U.S. military computer systems in 2001 and 2002 and may face as many as 70 years in a U.S. prison.
InformationWeek |
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Man gets 30 months for selling counterfeit computer equipment
A Briarcliff Manor man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison today for selling millions of dollars worth of computer equipment that he falsely claimed was made by Cisco Systems Inc.
The Journal News |
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Computerworld: Deploying the iPhone 3G for business
In part one of a three-part series on enterprise iPhone deployment, Computerworld’s Ryan Faas looks at how best to activate, configure and deploy the iPhone 3G.
Macworld |
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Media Services Unveils Showbiz Budgeting 8.0
Media Services, a leading entertainment accounting, payroll, and software provider, today unveiled Showbiz Budgeting 8.0, the newest version of the first budgeting and actualization software developed for film, TV and commercial productions. New to Showbiz Budgeting are important features such as an overtime calculator to project daily overtime costs, intuitive Spanish and German language ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Verizon?s Industry-Leading FiOS Services Now Available to More Than 700,000 Consumers, Businesses in Maryland
BALTIMORE , July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 700,000 homes and businesses in five Maryland counties now can choose unmatched broadband speeds and some much-desired competition for their pay-TV services, via Verizon's transformational, reliable all-fiber-optic network.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Storm Worm is latest e-mail virus
Yet another round of spam e-mails that instructs recipients to click on a link that downloads a virus is making the rounds. This time the e-mails include a link that contains an article about the FBI and the popular social networking site, Facebook.
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Iberia adds command center for parents
Big Brother might not be watching Iberia Parish students, but Mom and Dad can. The Iberia Parish School Board is launching a new program that gives parents up-to-date access on their children’s school performance via the Internet.
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Next space tourist spending bulk of fortune to fly
Wed, Jul 30, 2008 (12:18 p.m.) The world's next space tourist says he'll be spending the bulk of his fortune to rocket into orbit this fall. Richard Garriott, a computer game wizard, will fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 9th Oct 2006 01:31 UTC
Most people haven't heard of QNX Software, though they've likely come in contact with it. The real-time operating system is used where software failure can lead to catastrophic consequences, even death - from high-speed trains to air traffic control towers to highway toll systems.
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AT&T: P2P Apps on Mobile Phones, Laptop Cards Not Allowed
AT&T has written a public letter to the FCC stating that it expressly forbids the use of peer-to-peer applications on its mobile phones and laptop cards. It said that its network is built to enable short bursts of high-speed ... (follow link to read)
Phone Scoop |
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Imaging Techniques Yield New Information on How HIV Infects Cells and Provides Clues to Vaccine Design
The use of advanced imaging techniques has allowed researchers to visualize how a key part of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) changes shape after binding to immune system cells or to infection-fighting antibodies.
National Cancer Institute |
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Broadband study: 600,000 NYers not connected
Only 26% of low income households use high speed Internet connection.
Crain's New York Business |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Dec 2005 00:52 UTC
GNOME 2.13.3 has been released . As with the Linux kernel, odd-numbered releases are developmental releases; meaning that 2.13 is the developmental branch for 2.14. You can compile it using these jhbuild modulesets.
OS News |
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Fake FBI e-mail infects PC's with Storm Worm
The FBI says e-mails alleging to contain information about the bureau and Facebook are allowing criminals to gain access to victim's computers.
KING5 Seattle |
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Top UK court allows extradition of hacker to US
LONDON - Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment.
GMA News |
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Storm Worm is latest e-mail virus
Yet another round of spam e-mails that instructs recipients to click on a link that downloads a virus is making the rounds. This time the e-mails include a link that contains an article about the FBI and the popular social networking site, Facebook.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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