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Over 300 Senior Executives Sign up to Hear Orbitz, Expedia, Priceline and Travelocity Debate the Future of Online Travel
In the last 6 weeks over 300 travel executives have signed up to attend the Travel Distribution Summit North America, being held on October 1-2 in Las Vegas. And with another two months before the event, hundreds more senior-level travel suppliers and intermediaries are expected to register.
eyefortravel.com |
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Internet Security - DNS Flaw: "Every Network is at Risk," Says Dan Kaminsky
"We have anticipated these flaws in DNS for many years and we have basically engineered around them," Ken Silva, chief technology officer at Verisign, told a reporter as Dan Kaminsky, the man who discovered a loophole in the DNS system that allows web users to be redirected to fake sites even when they have typed in the correct URL, spoke out yesterday publicly for the first time about his ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Computer tech involved in Fumo corruption case expected to plead guilty
A former computer technician charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice in state Sen. Vince Fumo's federal corruption case has agreed to plead guilty.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Symantec redefines its endpoint virtualization offering
Symantec Corp. announced Tuesday this week that the company is delivering expanded endpoint virtualization solutions to further protect and manage endpoints, whether physical, virtual or hybrid.
Computer Technology Review |
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Homegrown marijuana cases surge in Japan
Police investigations of marijuana use have surged this year in Japan, the result in part of the easy availability of seeds on the Internet for home cultivation, authorities said Thursday, raising concerns in a country long considered immune from the drug abuse problems of Europe and the United States.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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HP-developed degree aims to close UK's IT skills gap
Thames Valley University and HP have created a two-year, part-time foundation degree aimed at providing sought-after tech skills
ZDNet UK |
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Beijing Games: Where sports meet technology
May the Games Begin? From television channels to internet sites, Beijing Olympics is being covered in every angle possible and China has revamped the way the world looks at it and joins the list of a few Asian nations to host the Olympics.
CIOL |
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Dulcimers tuning up at Shrine
The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows will be alive with the sound of music this weekend when the Gateway Dulcimer Society hosts its 11th annual festival there.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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New Guide Helps Organizations Understand HIPAA and Fundraising
A new downloadable guide from two of the leading companies in the nonprofit sector aims to assist healthcare organizations thinking about the ramifications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in fundraising. The HIPAA Effect: Considerations for Fundraising After the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, created by Changing Our World, Inc. and Convio, ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Microsoft Wields Updated Webmaster Tools
Microsoft's Live Search behavior should yield more information to site publishers as the company took its Webmaster Tools out of beta and tweaked them with some new features. read more
WebProNews |
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Jerome Osborn sentencing today
SOUTH BEND — A man who shot a South Bend police officer will be sentenced today. A jury found 74-year-old Jerome Osborn guilty of attempted battery in the shooting of Corporal Kelly Waite.
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Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail
Thu, Aug 7, 2008 (4:06 a.m.) 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.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Chinese government unlikely to be involved in hacking pro-Tibet blog
The hackers who inserted text into a web page written by a pro-Tibet protester are probably nationalist campaigners acting on their own initiative, claims expert
Guardian Unlimited |
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Spherical camera mimics eye
Clive Akass, Personal Computer World , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 11:51:00 Provides wide angle or view with minimal distortion using single simple lens US researchers have developed a spherical camera with some of the advantages of the human eye. The camera sensor is curved to fit the interior of the sphere, like the...
vnunet.com |
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Government Computer News
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturers, as well as an evaluation edition for subscribers to its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services, the company announced late yesterday.
Government Computer News |
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Spanish speakers struggle to find web content
Clement James, vnunet.com , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 11:40:00 ¿Hablas inglés? Users whose native tongue is not English are having a particularly hard time evaluating the credibility of websites, according to new research....
vnunet.com |
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DT places hope on mobile internet
Deutsche Telekom , Europe’s largest telecoms group, on Thursday said it would stick to its full-year profit forecast because of growth in its mobile phone business, which it expected to remain insulated from a global economic downturn as more customers switch from using fixed lines to access the internet.
Financial Times |
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London Ambulance Service suffers computer crash
The computer crash earlier this week occurred in the busy control room of the capital's NHS ambulance service. In a statement to GC News a spokesperson for the service said: "We identified the cause to be an isolated hardware issue. The faulty part was replaced and the system has been restored.
KableNET |
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NuRide launches car-pool program
On the webwww.nuride.comBy HOLLI L. ESTRIDGEEagle Staff WriterAn Internet-based ride-sharing program linking cost-conscious commuters and trip-takers ...
The Bryan-College Station Eagle |
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Morris Area Public Library: Public gets better computers, newer Office
A significant upgrade in the public computers was approved, as was the tentative budget, when the Morris Area Public Library Board met Tuesday.
Morris Daily Herald |
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Tourism chief waits as panel discusses fate
Three key board members of the Hawai'i Tourism Authority plan to meet again today to discuss what action to take regarding president and CEO Rex Johnson, who has admitted to receiving and forwarding "adult-oriented" e-mails on his government computer.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Spam attack on U. e-mail
Penn has been a target of a recent round of spam e-mail attacks - known as phishing scams - that are mimicking official University messages to obtain private account information and passwords from users.
Daily Pennsylvanian |
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The Secret Lives of Supercomputers, Part 1
Since the first supercomputers came online in the 1960s and '70s, they have earned a reputation as high-powered workhorses helping researchers conduct complex calculations. Typically found at major universities and research facilities, the massive machines -- which at one time could occupy more than an acre of space in a data center -- were often used in science.
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Aberdeen: Lean business conference set INTERNET
Local and regional businesses and health--care facilities are invited to an interactive video conference on the lean business practice....
Aberdeen American News |
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Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail
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.
Modesto Bee |
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