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China opens up Internet restraints
China on Friday opened major cracks in its Great Firewall, allowing Internet users in the nation's largest cities rare glimpses at foreign Web sites that censors have blocked for years.
The News & Observer |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Oct 2005 11:28 UTC
The group behind the OpenDocument standard has submitted the document format to a key standards organization , a move that could make open-source desktop applications more attractive to governments.
OS News |
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Reading, writing and recycling
To help curb the growing number of waste contributed by bottled water- and soda-drinkers at the schools, Madison County Recycling this year began providing bins for recycled plastic bottles and Highland Recycling agreed to pick up recycled plastic at schools. Plastic is an enormous source of waste along with the cardboard.
St. Clair County Journal |
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Keller Williams covers all-Dead material
Keller Williams covers all-Dead material with his new, Internet-only album, “REX.”
Vail Daily |
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IBM's eco-friendly building plan revealed
IBM on Friday revealed more details of its plan to spend $360 million to build a sophisticated data center on its local campus.
The News & Observer |
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Questions tame at Yahoo annual meeting
Yahoo Inc.'s board emerged largely unscathed from the Internet company's annual meeting Friday as a subdued crowd of shareholders raised few questions about the directors' rejection of Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid.
The News & Observer |
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2 arrested in data theft
A Pasadena man was arrested Friday and charged with illegally accessing computers containing the personal identification information of Countrywide Home Loan customers and selling the data, federal officials announced.
Pasadena Star-News |
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How to search for a story
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Southwest Iowa News |
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Yahoo board emerges unscathed from annual meeting
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc.'s board emerged largely unscathed from the Internet company's annual meeting yesterday as a subdued crowd of shareholders raised few questions about the directors' rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid.
The Journal News |
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Becoming a locavore
Lisa Sherrodd’s habit of eating locally started 10 years ago when she traded a computer for a goat.
Rapid City Journal |
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Alibaba Is Ready to Possibly Buy Yahoo's Stake in It If Offered
Aug. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Alibaba.com Corp., the Chinese Internet company whose biggest shareholder is Yahoo! Inc. , is prepared to possibly buy the U.S. company's stake in it if the shares are offered.
Bloomberg.com |
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Web site chronicles El Paso's music history
Rick Kern didn't set out to be the publisher of a local music history Web site.
El Paso Times |
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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 government incapable of rooting out terrorism?
NDTV |
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More than 1.5mln homes hooked to net
More than one and a half million New Zealand homes are now hooked up to the internet, and most have broadband. Broadband subscriptions have grown nearly 11% in the past six months, according to Statistics New Zealand.
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China opens some Internet sites blocked to the media
Beijing, Aug 2 : Chinese organisers and not the International Olympic Committee were to be blamed for this week's Internet controversy over blocked websites at the Beijing Games, the IOC's media director Kevan Gosper said here Saturday.
New Kerala |
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Music-copyright lawsuit targets MSU golf coach
GRAND RAPIDS -- Michigan State University's women's golf coach -- a Kentwood native -- allegedly illegally downloaded and distributed copyrighted music, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week against Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll.
The Grand Rapids Press |
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IOC brass at odds over censorship issue
BEIJING - Dissension has erupted in the senior ranks of the International Olympic Committee, with the head of its press commission suggesting that IOC president Jacques Rogge acquiesced to Chinese plans to censor Internet access during the Beijing Olympics.
TSN |
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Some websites unblocked for Olympics, but not all
BEIJING - Olympic organizers unblocked some Internet sites at the main press centre and media venues Friday while others remained off limits for journalists covering the Beijing games.
TSN |
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Wi-Fi *Hotspots* Not Always Secure
With many of us doing business on the go nowadays, it's extremely convenient to sit down at what's called a "hotspot" and enjoy a latte while accessing the internet. Though, you do so at your own risk. Washington Attorney General, Rob McKenna, says hotspots are not 100% secure.
KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities |
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MPC ends contract with exec in sales and marketing
MPC Corp., the Nampa computer maker, has terminated its employment contract with Ross Ely, the company's former executive vice president of sales and marketing.
The Idaho Statesman |
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MormonTimes.com: Internet offers ways to self-publish family histories
The Internet offers a plethora of ways to publish family histories, a self-publishing expert said Friday. Fran Jensen, a consultant for FamilySearch, said a variety of companies offer either soft or hard-bound books that folks can create themselves.
Deseret Morning News |
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China using Games as 'warfare', says stadium designer
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. China is wasting international goodwill with an Olympic security operation that makes the country look like a police state, according to the artist behind Beijing's spectacular new stadium.
Mail and Guardian |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 05:52 UTC
Yesterday (well, CET in any case), Apple posted its financial results for the second quarter of the 2008 fiscal year (which ended 29 March).
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Apr 2006 14:20 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Vista will run on just about any PC available today, but it will only show its true colors on about half of them , according to a new report from Gartner.
New Mobile Computing |
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Saturday
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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