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Texas landfill search for computer fruitless
MONTPELIER — 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 the kidnapping and killing of a 12-year-old Vermont girl. According to a report by WOIA-TV in San Antonio, the FBI spent two weeks searching a dump for a computer belonging to Raymond Gagnon, the former stepfather of ...
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Rice warns of more Iran sanctions
In a Politico and Yahoo! News interview, the secretary of State says Iran’s nuclear program must halt.
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Number 10 TV: Gordon Brown to star on his own online channel
Gordon Brown is to start his own online TV channel in the latest effort to boost his flagging poll ratings. Number10TV will be accessible via the Downing Street website.
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West Michigan Creation Care collecting electronics to recycle
A Holland-based ministry hopes to make it easier to get rid of old appliances and electronics — without damaging the environment. “When you understand that a TV or a computer monitor can have 8 pounds of lead in it, that’s definitely something we don’t want to see go to the landfill,” said Peter Boogaart, a member of West Michigan Creation Care. Creation Care will hold an ...
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Common ground
WASHINGTON ? For someone so politically impregnable he faces no major party opposition for re-election, it?s surprisingly easy to find negative comments on the Internet about Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor.
Arkansas Times |
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Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail
You might notice a difference with our reader comments. Those who have registered for a tulsaworld.com account can now fill out their new personal web site in the Tulsa World social network. Upload a profile photo that will run next to your screen name in comments.
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Pryor?s ?Family? affair
One of the provocative speculations about Sen. Mark Pryor on the Internet is that he belongs to a loosely knit religious-political organization known as ?The Family? that has connections to the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Arkansas Times |
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U.S. probe into Heath Ledger death closed: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors in New York have closed an investigation into the fatal prescription drug overdose of actor Heath Ledger without bringing charges, People magazine reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
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Mystery kid-porn trove found in Ohio house
Police in a small Ohio town say it could take a month to sort through a cache of child pornography dating back 30 years that was found in an empty house.The pictures, videotapes and computer discs were discovered this week by a crew cleaning out an old house in Cleves, several miles west of Cincinnati, that had been sold at a sheriff's auction earlier this summer.The Cincinnati Enquirer said ...
Moldova.org |
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Stuff we like
Scaling the Chinese wall. This week the Chaos Computer Club, a German-based hacking group, used its website, ccc.de, to launch a toolkit designed to help journalists reporting from the Olympics to get uncensored access to western websites.
Crikey |
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LA Vida
The city of Clamburg is overrun with fiends. In the world of Amy Winfrey’s Web series Making Fiends , the titular fiends are diabolical creatures with a taste for havoc. There are fiends in the school classrooms and on the playgrounds.
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Online slurs lead to flurry of lawsuits
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN/AP) - A defamation lawsuit filed by two Yale Law School students have led to a flurry of claims and counter-claims -- and one very embarrassed Austin attorney.
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Google to offer free music search in China
Service will allow users in China to search tens of thousands of Chinese songs by singer or song title and download them for free.
ZDNet Asia |
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IBM partners Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs
Seizing on slow enterprise uptake of Vista, IBM has teamed up with Canonical, Novell and Red Hat to globally promote PCs without Microsoft software.
ZDNet Asia |
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US probe into Heath Ledger death closed: report
NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors in New York have closed an investigation into the fatal prescription drug overdose of actor Heath Ledger without bringing charges, People magazine reported on its Web site Wednesday.
Khaleej Times |
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Spitz: Turning the table on cyber thugs
A reporter walks into a bar. Setup for a bad joke? Bad enough. Two days after his evening out, my colleague gets a call asking if he's in Trinidad. Turns out his credit card number was having a heck of a time in the Caribbean without him.
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Software giant, Microsoft, has launched local online versions of its new partner business tools.
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No Linux IdeaPad For Lenovo's US Customers
narramissic writes "When Lenovo's new IdeaPad 'S' series netbooks hit stores in October, U.S. buyers will only be given one option: Windows XP on the IdeaPad S10 (making it not so much a series as a single offering). Meanwhile, people in most markets Lenovo serves, including Singapore, China and the U.K., will be offered both of the company's new IdeaPad netbooks (the S10, which has 10.2-inch ...
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Thieves Steal Info From Wireless Computers
If you have a wireless computer, you may be inviting thieves to take your personal information.
KMBC-TV Kansas City |
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P45 Special 8GB and 16GB Memory Kits from OCZ
If you've been following the reviews here on OCC, you've no doubt checked out a few of our writeups on motherboards based on Intel's p43 and P45 chipsets. One of the unique features of these chipsets is the ability to support up to 16GB of memory. If you do the math for yourself you realize that means you'd need 4x4GB memory modules in order to reach that limit. That's where OCZ Technology's ...
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Redefining customer service with web 2.0
Updated: 07 Aug 2008 SINGAPORE, 6 August 2008 -- While traditional communication channels remain, customer service organisations that completely ignore web 2.0 technologies do so to their own detriment, warns Audrey William, senior research manager at consulting firm, Frost and Sullivan.
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Slate tips off helicopter parents to FriendFeed [The Olds]
Slate editor Josh Levin and I explain FriendFeed's Imaginary Friend feature for the Olds: "Setting up a single page of all your kids' Internet accounts is a snap. Even if they haven't signed up at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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CL & P Rate Request Denied
State Regulators Rule The Utility Cannot Recoup Costs Of A Billing Error State regulators rejected Connecticut Light & Power's request Wednesday to raise electric rates to recover the costs of fixing a computer glitch that resulted in nearly 2,400 unsent bills.
Hartford Courant |
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Do Yahoos vote the Yahoo way? [Journalist Math]
Miguel Helft of the New York Times looks at shareholder discontent at Yahoo another way: If one assumes insiders voted their shares for the company's slate of directors, and discounts those, then the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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A grim toll -- of sons and daughters -- has brought back public awareness of the war in Afghanistan.
Not long after Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski was killed by a sniper's bullet last Sept. 23 in eastern Afghanistan, his mother received an e-mail message with a link to a video on the Internet.
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