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Earnings fall 26% at Time Warner
NEW YORK: Time Warner Inc.'s second-quarter earnings fell 26 percent 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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Easley trumpets online courses
College study free for high-schoolers.
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MIAC notebook: Wheeler brothers bring their skills and smarts to ice
Lance and Vince Wheeler's teammates on the St. John's hockey team have taken to calling them Einstein because the brothers can often be found burying their heads in books while studying on the team bus as they travel to and from games during the course of the season.
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Gaming
Rare senior software engineer Nick Burton spoke to Videogamer.com and revealed some fresh details on the 'GoldenEye 64' 10th anniversary Xbox/Wii saga...
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Kaminsky: Many ways to attack with DNS
There were 6 a.m. calls from Finnish certificate authorities and also some pretty harsh words from his peers in the security community, even an accidentally leaked Black Hat presentation, but after managing the response to one of the most highly publicized Internet flaws in recent memory, Dan Kaminsky said Wednesday that he'd do it all over again. Kaminsky's full-time job over the past ...
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U.S. alleges AdSurfDaily operates 'get rich quick' scheme, seeks $35M
TULSA — The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington filed a civil complaint this week seeking forfeiture of homes and $35 million in cash from a Florida man who runs a company called AdSurfDaily Inc. The complaint alleges that Thomas A. Bowdoin Jr. operated AdSurfDaily and several affiliated companies that promised get rich quick investments through Internet advertising. In reality, the business ...
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Questions and Answers with Gerald Jackson
Q : What is ESI? A : ESI is Electronically Stored Information and includes any data stored on computers, discs, tapes, gadgets and the Internet. Instead of bulging file cabinets, the majority of a company's data is now created and collected on network servers, laptops, employees' home computers and BlackBerries, as well as other electronic devices. read more
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Greener Pastures For Greenfield
An anonymous bidder offers $17.50 a share for the Internet survey firm, trumping offer from Quadrangle Group.
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Hacker sets off six safety sirens in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK: A hacker armed with radio codes set off emergency sirens in Brunswick early Wednesday. If the blasts didn't wake the city's 35,000 residents, follow-up phone calls to residences probably did the trick.
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How the $100-laptop can transform India
Imagine a world in which every school-going child owns a laptop, no matter how poor his or her family is. In India alone, this would mean well over 300 million units. Sounds like a pipedream, right?
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Sixel: Calls and e-mail tag along on vacations
The view of the Teton Range was spectacular at the Jackson Lake Lodge. But did the spouse notice? No. He was too busy logging onto his laptop and plugging in his cell phone.
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EARNINGS ROUNDUP / VERISIGN: Big reorganization leads to larger loss in quarter
VeriSign Inc.'s loss in the most recent quarter widened as the Internet infrastructure company absorbed the costs of a sweeping reorganization. The Mountain View company said Wednesday that it lost $68 million (35 cents per share) for the April-to-June...
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Cell, online Olympics Forget TV: This summer, Olympic enthusiasts have a variety of choices when it comes to following their favorite athletes. NBC and Microsoft have created nbcolympics.com, a Web site where fans will get live, streaming video as well as...
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For Olympics, China supersizes its snooping
The blocking of human rights Web sites in China leading up to the Olympics is part of an information control and surveillance network awaiting visitors that will include monitoring devices in hotels and taxis and snoops almost everywhere.
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Police Arrest a Man They Say Tried to Arrange Sex With a Young Girl
A Clearfield father is the latest suspect busted for allegedly using the internet to arrange sex with a child. The thirteen year old girl he arranged to meet with turned out to be an undercover cyber cop. Now 32-year old Torrey Jay Copfer faces felony charges, and agents want to know if he has any real child victims out there. Fox 13's Scott McKane has our story.
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Fresno computer store pulls plug on customers
Frustrated customers of a Fresno computer store and repair shop continue to try to get their computers back after the shop closed suddenly last week. Read comments
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Grid awaits secrets of universe
The worlds largest IT grid is due to start work in earnest tomorrow, as the $15bn (£7.6bn) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the Cern nuclear research facility near Geneva begins hurling protons and capturing, storing and sharing data on conditions at the birth of the universe.
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Grid awaits secrets of universe
Tom Young and Ambrose McNevin, Computing , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 16:11:00 Cern scientists hope to use IT to help solve the mysteries of creation The world’s largest IT grid is due to start work in earnest tomorrow, as the $15bn (£7.6bn) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the Cern nuclear research facility near Geneva begins...
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YouLicense.com gets Ofer Media funding
BANGALORE, INDIA: YouLicense.com, the online music licensing marketplace headquartered in Tel Aviv, today announced it has secured 'Series A' funding from Ofer Media, Israel's private equity and investment firm for media, entertainment and Internet companies, and Logia Group LTD, a global provider of mobile content solutions.
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Very real legal issues exist in a virtual world
Charlotte Walker-Osborn, Computing , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 05:15:00 BCS view: Businesses must consider the legal implications of having a Second Life The past few years have seen the entry of major brands such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, BMW and Dell into the virtual world Second Life, alongside millions of traditional individual users....
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Alleged US hackers charged
Eleven people have been charged with hacking major US retailers, including TJX, and compromising the credit- and debit-card details of over 40 million people.
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The geek shall inherit the earth
Mark Samuels, Computing , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 05:15:00 The world seems to have suddenly decided that technology is cool - and woe betide anyone who disagrees Technology used to be the preserve of the geek. The commonly accepted perception was that only boring people liked mucking around with computers....
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YouLicense.com gets Ofer Media funding
BANGALORE, INDIA: YouLicense.com, the online music licensing marketplace headquartered in Tel Aviv, today announced it has secured 'Series A' funding from Ofer Media, Israel's private equity and investment firm for media, entertainment and Internet companies, and Logia Group LTD, a global provider...
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Al Qaeda claims Algeria bomb attack
DUBAI: Al Qaeda’s North Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the Internet yesterday.
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New laptops keep county teachers connected
As teachers return to their classrooms this month to face a new batch of students, they'll also be presented with new laptop computers to keep them plugged in at school and at home.
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