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Missing laptop found; firm eyed
A laptop computer containing the personal records of 33,000 customers in the Registered Traveler program that disappeared recently at the San Francisco International Airport has been recovered, but Homeland Security officials have suspended the company from enrolling new passengers pending an investigation and new security measures.
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In California, Retro-Tech Complicates Budget Woes
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s executive order terminating thousands of part-time and temporary California state employees has run into computer problems.
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Kids learn about technology at Geek Squad Summer Academy in Orlando
When he was younger, 11-year-old Connor Neiberlein accidentally infected his family's computer with viruses by visiting unsafe Web sites.
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Reuters Business Summary
New Yahoo election tally reveals big protest vote SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday released a recount of the vote for its board that revealed a strong protest vote against five of nine directors, including Chief Executive Jerry Yang. The Internet company said revised vote tallies showed 33.7 percent of votes withheld for Yang, the company's co-founder, or more than twice ...
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Reuters Business Summary
New Yahoo election tally reveals big protest vote SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday released a recount of the vote for its board that revealed a strong protest vote against five of nine directors, including Chief Executive Jerry Yang. The Internet company said revised vote tallies showed 33.7 percent of votes withheld for Yang, the company's co-founder, or more than twice ...
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Reuters Business Summary
New Yahoo election tally reveals big protest vote SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday released a recount of the vote for its board that revealed a strong protest vote against five of nine directors, including Chief Executive Jerry Yang. The Internet company said revised vote tallies showed 33.7 percent of votes withheld for Yang, the company's co-founder, or more than twice ...
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Tech podcast: the Great Firewall of China
What is internet access like behind the Great Firewall of China now restrictions are being lifted? And we speak with UK Sport about the technologies that will guarantee a haul of Gold for Team GB
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YAHOO! ADMITS ERRORS
Yah-oops! Internet icon Yahoo! acknowledged yesterday that its vote counters at Broadridge Financial Solutions goofed when counting the votes at the company's Aug. 1 annual meeting. The new results show much more shareholder dissatisfaction with...
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11 charged with massive ID theft
A ring of people spread across the globe hacked into nine major US companies and stole and sold more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers from 2003 to 2008, costing the companies and individuals hundreds of millions of dollars, federal law enforcement officials said yesterday.
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Kids learn about technology at Geek Squad Summer Academy in Orlando
When he was younger, 11-year-old Connor Neiberlein accidentally infected his family's computer with viruses by visiting unsafe Web sites.
Orlando Sentinel |
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Progressive Poultry Producer Simmons Foods Chooses Discovery By IRM Business Intelligence Tool
Simmons Foods of Siloam Springs, AR has selected best-in-class Discovery by IRMT to serve as its new Business Intelligence solution
FoodserviceCentral.com |
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Jobs admits failure with MobileMe launch
Apple CEO: MobileMe needed more time & testing Apple CEO Steve Jobs has admitted that the company made numerous mistakes during the launch of its MobileMe internet service, saying that the service "was simply not up to Apple's standards" and that it "clearly needed more time and testing".
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Mozilla Firefox growth slowed in July
IE holds steady after Firefox 3.0 release Firefox's growth in the web browser market slowed in July, after climbing in June following the release of Firefox 3.0, according to web metrics firm Net Applications.
PC Advisor |
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Google targets open-source for low-cost laptops
Web apps and Linux are the perfect partners Google is actively working with open-source developers to integrate its applications in the OS, a Linux developer said at the Linuxworld conference.
PC Advisor |
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Orr's heart remains with Canadian team
The reminders will be everywhere the next two weeks for Pete Orr. They will come via satellite TV, wireless Internet, cellular phone and Orr's own organic sense of pride for the Canadian national baseball team.
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Children’s Impact Center web profile links to pornography
The Community and Children’s Impact Center’s is being promoted on a biker website (www.bikerornot.com/index.asp&userID=54363). In the web profile is a link to a message board that contains images and postings that many would consider pornographic.
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Taiwan's Asustek posts lowest profit in eight quarters
Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc booth is seen at Asia's biggest computer show in Taipei, n June. Asustek Computer Inc., the world's largest motherboard maker by shipments, posted Wednesday its lowest quarterly net profit in eight quarters for the April-June period.
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Logitech Keyboard Gives Mac Users an Edge
Logitech (SWX:LOGN) (NASDAQ:LOGI) today announced the perfect keyboard to complement your Mac(R) computer. The Logitech(R) diNovo Edge(TM), Mac(R) Edition is the newest addition to Logitech's line of award-winning diNovo keyboards and the first diNovo keyboard specially designed for the Mac.
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Zend Further Expands Its Line of PHP Training Courses
Zend Technologies announced today the addition of two new PHP training courses: "Migration from PHP 4 to PHP 5" and "Zend Studio for Eclipse". These courses further expand the portfolio of Zend training courses, which include PHP from introduction to advanced levels, as well as courses about PHP Security, creation of Rich Internet Applications, and the use of major Zend products.
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Data for over 190,000 at risk
Anheuser-Busch employees' personal info was on a stolen laptop. The number of people nationwide affected by the theft of laptops with personal information about current and former employees of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. has grown to more than 190,000.
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Recent Original Stories
Jasjeet Sekhon benchmarked Linux and MacOS X on the MacBook Pro using his statistical software , and finds that "Linux is found to be much faster than Apple's OS X for statistical computing. For example, in one benchmark Linux is more than twice as fast."
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Web security hole slowly fixed
The bug enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. A giant vulnerability in the Internet's design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk.
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11 charged in connection with credit card fraud
Hackers breached major retailers, stealing customers' information. Eleven people, including a U.S. Secret Service informant, have been charged in connection with the hacking of nine major retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
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Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths [Mythbusting]
As a tech writer, one of my biggest pet peeves is the plethora of bad advice littered across almost every web site dedicated to system tweaking. Besides the tweaks that simply don't work, some of...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Aug 2008 23:12 UTC
The Windows 7 craze is barely over, and yet the internet is already buzzing with the next big thing from Microsoft: a project called Midori. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents detailing what Midori actually is , and they say it's the clean-break from Windows many of us have been waiting for.
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