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Halifax adds online comparison tool to home insurance site
Householders considering which home insurance policy is right for them can now compare Halifax Home Insurance to alternative home buildings and ...
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Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail
(AP) -- A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.
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Hackers target Google Gadgets
(AP) -- One of the biggest problems with the so-called Web 2.0 movement has been its encouragement of oversharing - which often means underestimating security risks. Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizazz, but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers.
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Nigeria: Police Nab Three Burglars With 36 Laptops
A three-man syndicate which specialises in house breaking have been nabbed by the police with 36 laptops belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Gusau, Zamfara state capital.
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Oracle rushes out WebLogic patch
Out-of-cycle emergency patch hits the streets. Oracle has released an emergency patch for the serious flaw in its WebLogic server, which it warned users about in a rare security alert last week.
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Juniper expands network management software
Centralised control of acquired technologies. Juniper Networks is expanding its network and security management software to include more of the company's product line, making it easier for customers to set security policies across their infrastructure rather than doing so using several product-specific platforms.
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Ägypten verliert, Griechenland gewinnt
Bei den Lieblingszielen der deutschen Online-Bucher hat sich wenig geändert. Nur einzelne Top-Five-Destinationen tauschen ihre Plätze, stellt der Verband Internet Reisevertrieb (VIR) in seiner Quartalsauswertung fest.
FVW.com |
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Minister holds online communications Q&A
HA NOI — Minister of Information and Communications Le Doan Hop held an online Q&A session yesterday on strategies to develop information and communications.
Việt Nam News |
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A look at the conclusion of Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' series
The final book of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling "Twilight" vampire book series hit shelves at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. In the following days, mixed customer reviews poured onto the internet, almost evenly split between five-star raves and one-star vitriol. Check out one fan's take on the book.
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Students Save 25% at MoGo Back-To-School Sale
NATICK, Mass.----Newton Peripherals, the developer of the revolutionary MoGo™ family of Bluetooth-enabled products, today announced its 2008 back-to-school special: 25% off all purchases of MoGo Mouse products, the fully functioning Bluetooth wireless mouse with a sleek integrated design that stores and charges inside your Laptop card slot.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Back-To-School Advertisers Cast Online Net
----For kids and teens, back-to-school season every fall means the chance to reinvent themselves with a fresh new wardrobe, the hottest backpack, and colorful school supplies. For marketers, this crucial retail season means the launch of new advertising campaigns.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Teachers Love This Video Game - Parents Will, Too!
NEW YORK----A young boy peers intently at a laptop screen as he uses the keyboard and mouse to navigate through a 3-D landscape and defeat enemies that threaten to thwart his mission.
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Seminole man receives 5 years in child-sex case
A 27-year-old Seminole County man was sentenced Wednesday in Sanford to five years in prison for sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl, and, after undercover agents took over her online identity, using the Internet to set up another meeting with her.
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PRIVATE JET OPERATOR VISTAJET SAYS IT IS LESS AFFECTED BY HIGH FUEL PRICE
PETALING JAYA, Aug 7 (Bernama) †Private jet operator VistaJet Holding SA, which uses the latest fuel-efficient aircraft, says it does not feel the pinch of high fuel price which has hit the commercial plane industry.
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Man fights 'injustice,' lands in jail
A customer at the Eastridge Movies 4 theater told police he threw a computer monitor through a glass door Tuesday evening after being refused a refund.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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Virtualisation hems in costs
Angelica Mari, Computing , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 09:16:00 Fashion retailer trims upgrade costs by opting for virtualised servers Online fashion business Asos has opted for server virtualisation to keep down the cost of a major IT upgrade to improve site functionality and availability....
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Culture key to filling IT posts
Janie Davies, Computing , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 09:15:00 Candidates are becoming increasingly demanding when it comes to selecting an employer Employers are having to sell themselves to IT candidates, as a firm’s culture becomes an increasingly significant differentiator, according to a survey of 5,000 UK IT professionals by recruitment group...
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All systems go for Beijing Olympics
Janie Davies, Computing , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 09:15:00 One day ahead of the start of the Olympics, the IT systems are up and running As the Beijing Games kick off tomorrow, the 4,000-strong IT team will be working to communicate competition results to the rest of the world within 0.3 seconds....
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Google Goes Gaudy With YouTube Ads
YouTube clips embedded in blogs now can be covered with ads, creating a look that is far more clustered than the clean aesthetic that Google usually aspires to.
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AMD Ditches Close-To-Metal, Focuses On DX11 And OpenCL
Reykjavik (Iceland) - Considering the big news coming out of Intel this week (Larrabee) and the expected big News from Nvidia within the next two weeks (x86 CUDA), AMD is under pressure to match its rivals: AMD is making substantial changes to its GPGPU..
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Internet flaw lets hackers target e-mail
A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only lets hackers force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.
Orlando Sentinel |
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Kim Kardashian in EA's FaceBreaker News by
American reality TV "star" Kim Kardashian will be included in EA Sports' boxing game FaceBreaker as a playable character. That's according to GameDaily , which has dug up screenshots and video of her in action - not that she's any stranger to that judging by the Google results when we tried to work out who she was.
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Culture key to filling IT posts
Employers are having to sell themselves to IT candidates, as a firms culture becomes an increasingly significant differentiator, according to a survey of 5,000 UK IT professionals by recruitment group Computer People.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Hacker researchers shrug off indictment
LAS VEGAS — Federal authorities are calling it the largest hacking and identity theft case yet. But this week’s indictments of 11 people who allegedly plundered millions of payment card numbers might not seriously dent the underworld where such crimes occur.
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DELL/EMC CX4 family unveiled
BANGALORE, INDIA: Dell has unveiled the fourth-generation Dell/EMC CX family of storage systems with multi-protocol flexibility and doubling the number of drives up to 960 in a single array. The Dell/EMC CX4 family offers four models that form the foundation of an enterprise storage architecture.
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