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Robotic car parking plan on the way
BAHRAIN's car parking crisis could be solved with a futuristic robotic car parking system, which actually parks people's cars for them. Vehicle owners will simply drive into the entry terminal and leave their car to be picked up by computerised machines, which then park it inside the facility.
Gulf Daily News |
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FBI warns of new Storm worm variant
An email pretending to contain information about a fictitious FBI vs Facebook case contains malicious code for the Storm worm botnet
ZDNet UK |
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Media not told of censorship plan: IOC
The international media should have been told they would not have completely free access to the internet before they arrived to report the Beijing Olympics, IOC press chief Kevan Gosper told Reuters on Thursday.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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MPs tell internet firms to police 'dark side' of web
The web industry must take more responsibility for protecting young people, MPs have warned. By Mark Sweney
Guardian Unlimited |
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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.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
"Mandriva today announced a new partnership with HP to distribute HP computers pre-loaded with Mandriva Linux 2006 to 37 countries in Latin America.
OS News |
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Video-share websites rapped by MPs
Websites like YouTube are being urged to do more to protect children from violence on the internet.
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Hacker will face extradition
LONDON - Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment. Gary McKinnon - accused of breaking into U.S. military and NASA computers in what he says was a search for UFOs, allegedly causing nearly $1 million in damage - has lost his appeal against extradition to the United States.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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China will limit Internet access
The International Olympic Committee failed to press China to allow fully unfettered access to the Internet for the thousands of journalists arriving here to cover the Olympics, despite promising repeatedly that the foreign news media could ''report freely'' during the Games, Olympics officials acknowledged Wednesday.
Miami Herald |
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Gitmo for British hacker?
A British hacker who cracked NASA's computer systems lost his appeal against extradition.
iafrica.com |
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Pure Digital's Flip camcorder No. 1 San Francisco's Pure Digital Technologies has a fair amount to crow about. The maker of the Flip Video camcorder line just sold its 1 millionth camcorder in the United States. By NPD's ranking of camcorder sales in June,...
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Plans almost ready for state; Moss Side Elementary addition, renovation cost nearly $5 million
Gateway School District officials are getting ready to submit their plans for adding onto and renovating Moss Side Elementary School to Pennsylvania Department of Education. read more »
The Times Express |
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Yahoo on hot seat despite truce with Icahn
Yahoo Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting was on course to be a dramatic showdown with investor activist Carl Icahn until the two sides declared a last-minute truce in their battle for control of the Internet giant. But the detente hardly means that the event,...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Cuil - new large search engine
People from AltaVista and Google launch new search engine.
Pandia |
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Yahoo on hot seat despite truce with Icahn
Yahoo Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting was on course to be a dramatic showdown with investor activist Carl Icahn until the two sides declared a last-minute truce in their battle for control of the Internet giant. But the detente hardly means that the event,...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Pure Digital's Flip camcorder No. 1 San Francisco's Pure Digital Technologies has a fair amount to crow about. The maker of the Flip Video camcorder line just sold its 1 millionth camcorder in the United States. By NPD's ranking of camcorder sales in June,...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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An online hoax becomes a source about Karadzic
A fake Web site became a source of information for journalists around the world after the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader charged with genocide and war crimes.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Dec 2005 15:45 UTC
"There are a number of things preventing Windows users from moving en masse to Linux. While the naming of applications is probably not a make-or-break issue when considering a new operating system, it is a legitimate consideration.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 21st Aug 2005 14:35 UTC
Microsoft has once again stirred up a hornets nest in the open-source community, this time approaching the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) to work with it on a joint, independent research project to do some facts-based analysis of Linux and Windows.
New Mobile Computing |
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Comcast second-quarter revenue up 11%
Revenue at Comcast Corp. rose 11 percent in the second quarter as the cable company lost 138,000 pay-TV subscribers, but gained high-speed Internet and phone customers.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Yatra.com receives Intel Capital Funding
Intel Capital is to invest US$17 million in three Indian companies. The chosen companies include online travel portal Yatra.com. The funding will come from the $250M Intel Capital India Technology fund.
eyefortravel.com |
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Decoy computer is recovered after chase, but three-agency search fails to turn up thief
A stolen decoy device from the Roseville Police Department led to a two-county chase, complete with helicopters and police officers surrounding a Citrus Heights neighborhood, but in the end, the suspect escaped.
The Sacramento Bee |
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Photo contest on UK – Vietnam relations launched
Nhan Dan Online – The British Embassy in Hanoi and the BBC Vietnamese are launching a photo essay competition entitled “The UK and Vietnam: People-to-People links”.
Nhân Dân |
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mobile.ndtv.com
To read the biggest stories of the day on your mobile, type on your phone browser. Is the role of locals now the biggest worry for intelligence agencies?
NDTV |
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Child-luring laws need beefing up: Ombudsman
EDMONTON - Canada's federal ombudsman for victims of crime is calling for change to laws that allowed an Internet sex predator to be paroled after serving just one year of a nine-year sentence.
Windsor Star |
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