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Texas landfill search for computer fruitless
Associated Press - August 6, 2008 9:15 AM ET MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - After a two-week search, Texas authorities have stopped looking in a landfill for a computer allegedly containing child...
KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls |
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Ring Busted In 'Largest Ever' Identity Theft Case
With a swipe of a debit or credit card, thieves quietly, efficiently and electronically swiped the identity of an unknowing consumer. Federal investigators say between 2003 and 2008, the now-busted international crime ring at the heart of the operation stole more than 41 million card numbers from open or unsecured wireless networks at several retailers. "As far as we know, this is the single ...
WCBS-TV New York |
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2008 Summer Olympics Shortcuts from Yahoo Search
Yahoo has rolled out a series of their famous Yahoo Shortcuts specific for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games being held in China. The Opening ceremonies for the Olympics will be on August 8th and Yahoo Search will then be serving real time results in their Olympic shortcuts. For example, a search for ‘Olympics medal count’ will [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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Man Agrees To Plea For 'Degrading' MySpace Page
A city man who made a sexually explicit MySpace page targeting his brother's friend because of perceived snubs by her received a suspended one-year jail sentence Tuesday and was restricted in his use of computers during his year-long probation.
Hartford Courant |
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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - Whole Load of Apps Going On
"Zimbra has also been building on their success recently, and are delivering their Zimbra Desktop Client to the Ubuntu repository this week. When it is released in a few weeks, we will have that too...
Linux Today |
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11 charged in nation's largest identity theft case
Federal authorities said Tuesday that they had cracked the largest case of identity theft in U.S. history, charging 11 people in the theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card account numbers from computer systems at such major retailers as TJ Maxx and Barnes & Noble.
AM New York |
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Software tool to cut PC's energy use offered for free
More than half of the energy used by computers is wasted, and an industry group says a simple piece of software will help solve that problem.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Seapine Software Raises Funds for the Freestore Foodbank
MASON, Ohio----Seapine Software, Inc., a Cincinnati-based global software provider, and its employees recently donated over $3,000 to the Freestore Foodbank.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Production Paradise Launches New Online Directory for the Photo and Film Industry in Beijing
Production Paradise, the leading online resource for the international visual media industry, is to release its latest Production Directory to coincide with this summer's Olympic Games.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Crocker's principal quits before he even gets started
The Education Report covers a last-minute principal resignation, computer recycling and Oakland's new teacher salary tax
Oakland Tribune |
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Google Triples Search Appliance Capacity
An upgraded version of the Google Search Appliance can handle up to 10 million documents, more than triple the previous maximum of 3 million documents.
InformationWeek |
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E-waste poisoning environment in Ghana 6 Aug 2008, 1823 hrs IST,AFP
LAGOS: E-waste from European, US and Japanese manufacturers is contaminating the environment around the sites where it is dumped for recycling and disposal in Ghana, Greenpeace said in a statement received on Wednesday.
The Times of India |
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Technology Crossover Ventures Completes $43M Minority Stake in Intelligent Beauty
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.----Intelligent Beauty Inc., the beauty industry leader in advanced e-commerce technology and internet marketing, announced that it has raised $43 million in total from Technology Crossover Ventures for a minority investment.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Delta Air Lines To Offer Wi-Fi Access On U.s. Fleet
Delta Air Lines said yesterday it will offer broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic mainline fleet by the middle of next year. Continental Airlines previously announced plans to offer similar service across a majority of its mainline fleet.
Hartford Courant |
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Revised Tally Increases ‘No’ Votes for Yahoo Directors
A new tally of its board of directors’ election shows that five Yahoo directors, including the chief executive, Jerry Yang, were re-elected with much higher protest votes than initially released.
The Hendersonville Times-News |
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Patricia Handschiegel: The Fatal Flaw Of Internet Business: Traffic. Why We Need to Adjust What Constitutes Size And ...
There's something that needs to be made blatantly clear regarding the internet: One million unique visitors that spend less than one minute on a website...
HuffingtonPost |
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Google’s New Tool Is Meant for Marketers
The company is introducing a free service, intended for marketers, but which will allow anyone to track the popularity of various terms in Google’s search engine.
The Hendersonville Times-News |
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Cisco IP Video Technology to Enable Groundbreaking NBC Coverage of Beijing Olympic Games
SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/06/08 -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today it has been selected to provide Internet Protocol (IP) video network infrastructure and video-encoding solutions to NBC during the network's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Aug. 8-24.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Dell's plan to help save Earth
Dell is announcing Wednesday that it has become carbon neutral by turning out the lights in its offices, buying wind power and protecting endangered forests in Madagascar.
CNN Money |
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Essent Trading deploys Asset Control data management software
Asset Control, a world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, today announced that Essent Trading has implemented Asset Control's data ...
Finextra |
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VMware's New Global Virtualization Services
VMware, Inc. announced new educational services and certification programs designed to help IT professionals build world-class virtual environments. The programs are designed for varied positions, including systems administrators, design architects, operators and managers who are interested in enhancing their knowledge and skills of VMware Infrastructure for datacenter and desktop environments. ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Earlier Treatment Of HIV Could Help HIV-Positive People Avoid Long-Term Complications, Recommendations Say
A panel of the International AIDS Society-USA in the Aug. 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association issued new recommendations for when doctors should begin antiretroviral treatment for patients with HIV, AFP/Google.com reports. The recommendations also were presented Sunday at the opening of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City (AFP/Google.com, 8/3).
Medical News Today |
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Airports Offer Checkpoint-Friendly Laptop Cases
TSA to allow laptops to remain in special cases when passing through security.
ABC News |
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IBM Pushes Linux on the Desktop
IBM announced yesterday a push to expand Linux adoption in the SMB market. Hoping perhaps to compete better against smaller and more nimble PC makers, IBM is now joining the anti-Microsoft bandwagon and pushing the concept of the "Microsoft-free" PC .
IT World |
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Nick the Webguy: Online coupons follow up
Here's a follow-up to a report I did a while back online coupons. Printing out coupons from the internet to a save money at the grocery store.
WINK TV Southwest Florida |
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