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Police reports
The following are excerpts from the Walnut Creek Police Department log:Monday, July 14THEFT — Two laptops were reportedly stolen from a building that was under construction between July 12 and July 13 in the 100 block of North Civic Drive.
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Sex sells, but not enough for Time Warner
A healthy dose of Sex and the City failed to disguise a slide in internet revenues at Time Warner, prompting the media conglomerate to press ahead with a plan to split up its AOL online arm. Time Warner's second-quarter profits dropped by 26% to $792m (£405m) - though the comparison figures a year ago were boosted by an exceptional gain on asset sales. Its underlying performance was largely ...
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Texas landfill search for computer fruitless
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- After a two-week search, Texas authorities have stopped looking in a landfill for a computer allegedly containing child pornography and other evidence connected to...
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Letters and blogs
Dirty electricity Electricity is a highly polluting form of energy. It is clean at the point of use (which is why you, Panorama and lots of other people presumably think it is environmentally friendly) but mostly it is generated using fossil fuels - and this is the problem (What is going to power our cars, July 31). Somewhere, typically miles away from the user, is a power station belching out ...
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Ask Jack
Capturing cassette tapes Is there a cheap device to copy cassette tapes direct to PC? Paul Niemiec JS: You don't need one. Using the traditional method, all you need is a cassette deck, a cable to connect it to your PC's sound card, and Audacity software, which you can download free. You can find instructions on the Lifehacker blog . Obviously you will get better sound if you start with ...
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Charles Arthur: Apple is turning its friends into enemies
Good design is really rare. From this I think we can conclude that it's really difficult. I was thinking about this as I watched the comments pile up earlier this week on the Technology blog post pointing to a rant about the usability - or otherwise - of free software. But as the commenters pointed out, it's not only free software that suffers from this problem, which implies logically ...
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The Herald-Zeitung Mobile Edition
The Herald-Zeitung provides a text-only version of its daily web edition for readers using cellular telephones or handheld computers. Registered users of AvantGo can create their own custom channel to download regular updates.
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Google attacked over Knol's spam potential
Google's new Knol system has come under fire for making itself open to spammers seeking to push their products up the search engine's rankings - in effect with the blessing of the company, which has previously sought to exclude them from its listings. Knol, which was announced in December but only opened for wider use last month, is already being targeted by people who have realised that ...
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Restructuring costs widen VeriSign's 2Q loss
(AP:MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) VeriSign Inc.'s second-quarter loss widened as the Internet infrastructure company absorbed the costs of a sweeping reorganization.
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Time Warner second-quarter earnings fall 26%
Time Warner Inc.'s second-quarter earnings fell 26% on declining subscriber fees at its AOL online unit and lower ad revenue at the Time publishing business, the media conglomerate said Wednesday.
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Montreal teacher faces 17 more sex charges in internet case
Prosecutors in Virginia unsealed another 17-count indictment against a Montreal private-school teacher Tuesday, bringing to 27 the charges against him in a child-sex sting set up by police.
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Facebook: Children evade social websites' age limits
Nearly a quarter of children between the ages of eight and 12 are evading the age restrictions imposed by social networking sites Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, a poll of young people revealed last night. The results suggest that more than 750,000 children are illicitly using the sites - which are supposed to be limited to teenagers and adults - potentially exposing them to risky communications ...
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Nbc - Reruns Headed To The Web Chernin Predicts
News Corp COO Peter Chernin predicted Tuesday that eventually the Internet will be the place TV viewers will go for reruns. Speaking about the Hulu website which News Corp ...
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Making History Becomes Impulse Driven
Muzzy Lane's Making History Gold Edition joins the lineup of quality games at Stardock's Impulse digital download platform.
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NHN Profit Rises to Record on Online Ad, Game Revenue (Update1)
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- NHN Corp. , operator of South Korea's most-used Internet search engine, reported record quarterly profit on higher sales from online advertising and games.
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Apple Issues iPhone 2.0.1 Firmware Update
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL - message board ) this week rolled out a firmware upgrade for its iPhone family to fix apparent bugs within the smartphone's software.
Unstrung.com |
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Restructuring costs widen VeriSign's 2Q loss
(AP:MOUNTAIN VIEW, California) VeriSign Inc.'s second-quarter loss widened as the Internet infrastructure company absorbed the costs of a sweeping reorganization.
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Time Warner profit dips on lower AOL fees
n Company says higher revenues in film unit allow it to affirm forecast
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Atlee Baseball Juniors advance to World Series
The Atlee Baseball Juniors All-Stars defeated Florida 3-1 today in Cartersville, Ga., to win the South Region championship and advance to the Junior League World Series Aug. 10-16 in Taylor, Mich. Atlee's first game in the competition will be against the U.S. Central Region champion at 8:15 p.m. Sunday. A live audio broadcast of the game will be available on the Internet at ...
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Indictments in Massive ID Theft
Federal officials bust an international identity theft ring that hacked into TJX and other Massachusetts-based retailers. The Department of Justice delivered indictments in Boston yesterday.
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Farm-fresh produce in Maryland is a click away
In an effort to support local farming, the Maryland Department of Agriculture has released an Internet database that lists the locations and specialties of farmers markets and stores in the state.
Cumberland Times-News |
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Could a Little Indecency Save Network TV?
Network TV's viewer base is dwindling, thanks to fierce competition both from the internet and cable TV. And while the major broadcast networks must comply with the FCC's rigid decency standards, cable channels have healthy ratings thanks to a large supply of racey content.
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Overwhelming majority of public siding with sheriff, but Times-News poll far from scientific
As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, 1,830 votes had been cast in response to the Times-News Internet poll question, "Should patrol activities be relinquished by the Allegany County Sheriff's Office and taken over by the new Bureau of Police?"
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Pew: Daily Search Usage Approaching Email Levels
According to a new report from The Pew Internet & American Life Project, daily use of search engines is growing and starting to approach email usage levels. New research conducted by telephone among 2,251 US adults, age 18 and older, found that 49 percent of internet users use a search engine on a typical day, compared with 60 percent for email. In 2002, Pew's data showed that about 30 ...
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 6, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google StreetView Coverage Grows: Australia, Japan, More US Cities The Google LatLong Blog announced the expansion of imagery for Google StreetView to include Japan and Australia. The post also said that images have been released for 30 new US ...
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