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Govt fast-tracks telecom agenda
The second round of telecom reforms is finally here. India will soon join the US and several European countries, where mobile operators offer third-generation telecom services. Streaming video and megabyte-level data downloads will be possible on mobile phones, opening up a whole new world of business, entertainment and new frontiers like tele-medicine and e-education.
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What's French, Finned, And Flathead V8-Powered? [Retro]
After seeing the Citroën and Peugeot 403 brochures, Franzouse could contain himself no longer. He scoured the tubes of the Internet in search of Simca Vedette manuals, and he hit paydirt in a big...
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Open Wi-Fi network wraps Mumbai man in bomb blast probe
Terrorist threat bears his IP Indian police raided the Mumbai home of an American expatriate after someone used his open wireless network to send an email that took responsibility for a bomb blast that killed at least 42 people.…
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Free webinar to unlock secrets of the Atom
— Jul. 22, 2008 — MontaVista Software will present a free webinar on the Intel Atom processor (pictured). Developed in cooperation with Intel, the July 30 webinar will provide tips on power management and programming techniques for embedded Linux applications using the Atom. ...
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Yahoo Annual Meeting: Q&A: Compensation Concerns, China; MSFT-Yahoo 'Like A Bad Breakup'
Work in progress The Q&A portion of any annual meeting is usually a platform for small shareholders to get a megaphone on their pet issue. Large shareholders get to talk through the media or directly to management anytime they want, and don't even bother showing up (like Carl Icahn). Not surprisingly, director and management pay was a major point of concern.
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Freezing the Cold-Boot Attack
A security expert who helped pioneer some of the research behind the recent cold-boot attack discovery by researchers at Princeton University will reveal next week at Black Hat USA the technical details of methods he developed for protecting an encrypted laptop from the hack.
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Microsoft Access 2003 Introduction
This class covers the essential basics of Microsoft Access 2003. Topics include: opening databases and defining database objects; creating databases manually or using the Database Wizard; planning, creating, editing and printing tables; and customizing the appearance and design of a table.
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Formation Doubles Capacity of ToughDisk 3500 Rugged Hard Drive
Formation has announced that it doubled the size of its rugged ToughDisk 3500 SATA hard disk. The capacity for the drive went from 320GB to 640GB. The rugged ToughDrive is made to bridge the gap between SSDs and the normal HDD in a 3.5-inch form factor. ...
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Gottschalk gone from UVA booth
Adam Gottschalk’s Midnight Barbecue is an Internet hit. PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN Two months after former “Voice of the Cavaliers” Mac McDonald resigned from the Virginia Sports Network, another resignation has been tendered. Adam Gottschalk, 24, joins the ranks of those no longer calling University of Virginia sports events. “I resigned June 26,” says Gottschalk, after he ...
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Indian Bill Gates in the making
A team from India, SKAN, led by a bunch of students in Mumbai, has become the first Indian winner of the Interoperability award at the Imagine Cup 2008 worldwide finals, held at Paris last month. Microsoft is helping this team incubate its business idea into a commercial proposition
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Man, 38, Charged With Assaulting Teenage Boys
A 38-year-old Temecula man suspected of committing lewd acts with two teenage boys he met on the Internet was in custody Friday, police said. A 15-year-old boy told police he was contacted by a Daren Jones on an Internet message board and that Jones met him for sexual activity three times beginning in May 2006 -- when he was 13 years old. He said Jones took him to his home in Corona for sex, and ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Sep 2005 16:10 UTC
Screenshots of Office 12 have been published . You'll be amazed (for better or worse, your call). "As you can see, Microsoft is trying to do away with the 'legacy' menu bar. In newer Vista builds the menu bar is turned off by default (although it can be reactivated temporarily by pressing alt).
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FCC Rules Against Comcast
The Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers. The ruling ordered Comcast to stop cutting off transfers of files among customers who use a type of file-sharing software.
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Yahoo chairman defends merger stance at meeting
Yahoo Inc tried to soothe angry investors at its annual meeting on Friday, insisting it had been serious about talks to sell itself to Microsoft Corp and that it had good growth prospects in the next three years.
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Time Warner says ex-AOL CEO can't join Yahoo board
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc said on Friday a non-compete clause in former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller's contract prevents him from joining Yahoo Inc's board until March 2009.
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GNOME Foundation's Stormy Peters: Trust and empower
Stormy Peters recently became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, where she is already working to raise public awareness of the GNOME desktop environment and user interface, and to attract new corporate sponsors and developers to the GNOME community. She says it was not as much a move away from her old job at OpenLogic and the for-profit business world as it was a move toward the ...
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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Monday
Stocks fell following a rise in oil prices and a disappointing job report. Monday's 7 stocks includes Yahoo! as it attempts to bolster its image with reports of a new web strategy soon to produce results.
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More people taking up broadband
2 August 2008 The latest figures from Statistics New Zealand show 1.5 million subscribers are now hooked up to the internet and most have broadband.
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New worm targets Facebook, MySpace
Kaspersky warns of worm spreading via social networks. It looks like a video clip from a friend but is instead a copy of the worm that will turn the machine into a zombie on a botnet.
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Restrictions on Net Access in China Seem Relaxed
In a reversal, the International Olympic Committee said it never agreed to let China limit Olympic online access.
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UK: Internet firms agree action to tackle piracy
Six of the major internet providers have agreed action with the music industry to address the widespread problem of online music piracy. The agreement, which was brokered by the government, involves letters going to large numbers of net users suspected of illegally downloading or sharing music.
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IOC, Chinese officials discuss Internet
Olympic organizers unblocked some Internet sites at the main press center and media venues Friday while others remained off limits for journalists.
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Roanoke County students getting brand new laptops
Schools out but the work is going on at Roanoke County public schools to make sure every freshman has a brand new laptop computer. It's the sixth year the district has given freshman in all five high schools laptops for use throughout their high school career.
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Next-generation FireWire finalized, but USB 3.0 will be faster
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently approved IEEE 1394-2008, a faster version of the standard known to most simply as FireWire and used for connecting PCs with digital video devices or external hard drives.
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Anheuser-Busch says data loss affects employees
Friday, August 01, 2008 at 3:05 p.m. ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Anheuser-Busch says several laptops containing personal information for current and former employees are missing.
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