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Video game's user content spawns naughty Web 'Sporn'
When makers of one of the most anticipated video games of the year invited users to help design part of the game, the gamers jumped at the chance to create animated characters.
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31.07.2008 - DJ DGAP-Adhoc: Valor Computerized Systems Ltd. Announces Option Grant
Release of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Feb 2007 21:48 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Another Patch Tuesday and Microsoft comes out with a variety of patches , and this series is more critical than a month ago. The critical vulnerabilities are in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Antivirus. All of them could allow remote code execution.
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Government considers file-sharing law
The Government is considering legislation to stop people downloading copyrighted music and movies.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Sep 2006 22:31 UTC
Microsoft will release just one more build of Windows Vista for testing before the code goes gold, said Brad Goldberg, the general manager for the Windows client business group.
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Microsoft hits the beach with Water Watch
Microsoft and the European Environment Agency (EEA) today announced the launch of the Eye on Earth online environmental observatory.
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Garnter dismisses $100 laptop claims
Analyst group Gartner has poured scorn on claims by the One Laptop Per Child group, that it will be able to produce a laptop costing £50 ($100) within the next three years.
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Getting East Tennessee connected: Group discusses bringing broadband to rural areas
The Connected Tennessee program was featured during the quarterly meeting of the Smoky Mountains Area Workforce Board on Wednesday, hosted by Walters State Community College in Morristown.
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Al Qaeda says Bagram escapee killed in U.S. bombing
An al Qaeda field commander who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan in 2005 was killed in a recent U.S. bombing, an al Qaeda leader said in a statement posted on the Internet on Thursday.
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LG’s new Blu-ray player gets netflixed
LG today said that it will introduce a new Blu-ray player that will come with Netflix streaming capability out of the box. LG lately has been much more aggressive than most of its rivals in adopting new and bridging multiple technologies, so this new player makes a lot of sense for the company. But, we wonder, does this new player also offer an offlne-online HD format battle in a box and what ...
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China will Censor Internet During Olympic Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Chinese government confirmed Wednesday what free-speech advocates loathe to hear: Reporters covering the Olympic Games won't be able to access Web sites that China deems politically sensitive.
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Gaming N ews
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Card Player Media today announces the launch of Card Player TV on Joost, the world's first broadcast-quality Internet television service. Card Player TV shows can be found on the Everything Poker channel on Joost at Joost.com/34q8rlx.r.
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Olympic official: I didn't know about Web reversal
An Olympic official said Thursday he felt like the "fall guy" after promising reporters at the games they would have uncensored Internet access, only to find that the Chinese had blocked certain Web sites.
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Can you 'report freely' on Olympics with Net restrictions?
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Can you 'report freely' on Olympics with Net restrictions? --International Olympic Committee admits it acceded to Chinese government demands to some Internet censorship during the games. How much of a problem will it really be? Surviving a week without micro-communicating --Can a tech-obsessed business guy enjoy vacation without incessant ...
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LG Blu-ray Player Offers Netflix
LG Electronics has announced it will start selling a new Blu-ray DVD player that will allow Netflix customers to watch movies and TV shows streamed directly from the Internet to their TV sets. read more
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Computer games could get cinema-style ratings
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could give all computer games cinema-style age ratings to protect children from increasingly realistic and violent titles, the government said on Thursday.
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BEIJING - An Olympic official said Thursday he felt like the "fall guy" after promising reporters at the Games they would have uncensored Internet access, only to find that the Chinese had blocked certain websites.
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Up 's Story Came First
Pete Docter, who is directing Pixar's upcoming computer-animated feature Up , told SCI FI Wire that he concentrated on the story first before considering any of the technical aspects of the film.
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DealNN: $999 MacBook, $12 for 4GB flash drive
Today's deals at DealNN include the 13-inch MacBook in white with a 2.1GHz processor, 1GB of memory and 120GB hard drive for $999 with a FREE Mobile Edge carrying case (after mail in rebates) from MacConnection.com, also at MacConnection is the Western Digital 320GB My Passport Essential in blue for $115....
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China rejects censorship outcry
China has refused to reverse plans to censor internet access ahead of the Beijing Games, despite mounting international pressure.
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PandaWare updates Simple Help Editor to v3.0
The PandaWare Company has released a major update to its Simple Help Editor. Simple Help Editor is a program designed to help developers easily create help systems for both Mac and Windows applications. Version 3.0 adds the ability to add custom HTML to help content pages, giving users a lot of flexibility in formatting and styling. There are a few...
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Google Street View does not breach privacy, says ICO
Tom Young, Computing , Thursday 31 July 2008 at 16:50:00 Google will go ahead with plan to photograph streets A plan to three-dimensionally map streets in Britain has been given the go-ahead by the UK privacy watchdog. The Google Street View scheme aims to take pictures of streets and...
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Red River Hosts Charity Golf Tournament to Benefit Newly Established Technology Scholarship
Red River Computer Company of Lebanon is pleased to announce our second annual charity golf tournament was a great success. It was held at Lake Sunapee Country Club on July 10th. We were able to raise $25,000.00 to benefit our new Technology Scholarship.
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EDS results exceed expectations
Angelica Mari, Computing , Thursday 31 July 2008 at 12:57:00 Outsourcer reports positive results and confirms dividend payoff to unhappy shareholders IT outsourcing company Electronic Data Systems (EDS) surpassed market expectations by releasing positive results for the second half of 2008....
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OPEC 2.0
If we aren?t careful, we?re going to repeat the history of the oil industry by creating a bandwidth cartel.
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