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Yahoo Seeks Indonesian Local Partners To Boost Advertisement
JAKARTA, Aug 2 (Bernama) -- The regional unit of top Internet portal Yahoo is looking for new Indonesian partners to help expand its market in the country, Antara news agency reported Saturday quoting a local daily as saying.
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by (Staff) on Fri 30th Dec 2005 14:15 UTC in reply to " RE: uhh huh "
I'm not blasting it because I want to. Unfortunately, these are real problems for people I'm using myself as an example further in this comment. I've used Linux since the mid-90s and I started with KDE 0.9x. The reason I defected to GNOME was because of KDE's look and feel.
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FCC ruling says Comcast violated Web access policy
A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers and has ordered the cable giant to change the way it manages its network.
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Clearing the air: A first-time visit to the Church of Scientology
Not about the field of Scientology itself; plenty of articles had been written and/or posted on the Internet by ex-Scientologists (including founder L. Ron Hubbard’s son, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., who reportedly changed his name to Ron deWolf in the early 1980s).
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Pitcher Herr to forgo senior year at NU
Left-handed pitcher Zach Herr is listed on the Eugene Emeralds’ active roster, according to the team’s Internet site. This means the 21-year-old reliever will forgo his senior season at Nebraska after signing a profressional contract with the San Diego Padres organization.
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Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
PITTSBURGH — Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.
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Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
PHOENIX — A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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FCC: Comcast can't block Web access
WASHINGTON . A divided Federal Communications Commission weighed in on the net-neutrality debate Friday, ruling that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers. In a precedent-setting move, the FCC's 3-2 vote enforced a policy that guarantees customers open access to the Internet. The commission did not assess a fine, but ordered the ...
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Latest transfer rumours - August 2
All the latest transfer gossip on Wolves, Albion, Villa, Walsall and Blues. We have scoured the back pages and the internet to bring you the latest gossip.
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Hu Jintao pledges press freedom for Olympics
Chinese President Hu Jintao has held a rare press conference to deflect criticism of media restrictions in China ahead of the Beijing Olympics. With just one week to go before the games open, Hu said China would stand by its pledges to lift Internet censorship for the Olympics.
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Man suspected of luring boy for sex
A 38-year-old man from Corona was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of committing lewd acts with a teen boy he met over the Internet.
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U.S. border guards can seize laptops, other electronics, report says
THE SAULT STAR A recently-released Department of Homeland Security policy says U.S. border guards can take your laptop computer, iPod or other electronic device without explanation and with no firm limit on when they must return it. Procedure for searching information in hard copy or electronic form is [...]
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SURF THIS
I received an email the other day offering some suggestions to save about $500 a year through a variety of basically painless financial moves. Most consisted of suggestions like “move this account, which is making next to nothing, to this bank where they’ll pay you 4 percent.”
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FCC rules against Comcast broadband
The Federal Communications Commission ruled Friday that Comcast Corp. interfered with users' ability to upload or download large shared data files in peer-to-peer networks.
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Shareholders reelect Yahoo's board
Despite the drama sparked by Microsoft's takeover bid, the annual gathering of investors is a sedate affair. After six months of fireworks as a takeover battle for Yahoo Inc. raged, the Internet company's annual meeting Friday produced little spark and few questions about the board's controversial decision to spurn Microsoft Corp.'s advances.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:01 UTC
Apple's Boot Camp has stirred things up quite a bit around the net. eWeek states: "CIOs have a lot invested in Windows and aren't going to junk the OS for Apple.
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Yahoo board wins solid shareholder backing
SAN JOSE, USA: Yahoo Inc's board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 percent of the vote in his favor. Investors holding nearly 76 percent of Yahoo's 1.38 billion shares gave solid votes...
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Football: Player's rap sheet ends Sooner dreams
NORMAN — Josh Jarboe won't be getting a third chance at the University of Oklahoma. Sooner coach Bob Stoops dismissed the freshman wide receiver from the team Friday after a video of Jarboe's obscenity-laced rap about shooting people made its way around the Internet. "We are disappointed in this outcome, but our complete review and this final decision is in the best interest of our program,” ...
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doing better overall
Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is than its leading commercial competitors.
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Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) Offers China-Based Reporters Software to Break Through Internet Blockade
The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) announced today that their anti-censorship software tools are ready to help journalists and tourists during the Olympics, to circumvent China's Internet blockade. The software, which is available free of charge, can be downloaded onto a hard drive or USB drive to safely and effectively overcome the Internet censorship in China.
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Christopher Laurie remembered amid tears, laughter
Through laughter, song, videos and tears, friends and family remembered Christopher Laurie's passion for his family, technology, his art, Apple computers and Tabasco sauce.
The Press-Enterprise |
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Ex-AOL CEO can't join Yahoo board: Times Warner
NEW YORK, USA: 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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U.S. agents can seize travellers' laptops
WASHINGTON, USA: US federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Congressional panel focuses on Web tracking
A congressional committee wants telecommunications and Internet companies to explain whether they target online advertising based on consumers' search queries.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Apr 2006 21:31 UTC, submitted by Dylan
"Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure. Well, these images make the point very well . Both images are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture. The same page and picture.
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