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Vonage Loss Narrows, But Subscriber Growth Weakens
Internet-based phone company Vonage Holdings reported a narrower quarterly loss Thursday as customer cancellations fell but subscriber growth was weaker than it expected.
InformationWeek |
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Get Your Kids in Back-to-School Mode With This Fun Software
Computer games that are both educational and fun are an ideal way to get your kids back into a ready-to-learn mode. Columnist Tom Regan, who has four children younger than 13, shares his recommendations.
KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches |
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SureWest income soars on wireless sale; KC buy boosts revenue, costs
SureWest Communications posted second-quarter net income of $20.9 million, a sharp increase driven by a one-time cash infusion from the sale of its wireless division. Income from continuing operations declined, in part because of the costs of acquiring a Kansas City company.
Sacramento Business Journal |
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Report: Islamic Group Makes Threat Against Olympics
IntelCenter is reporting the latest video shows an Olympics logo burning, and an explosion shown over one of the venues.
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"Harold and Maude" at Cain Park's Alma Theatre: A slide show with music
Free-lance photographer Roger Mastroianni sent us a slide-show from the Cain Park production of the musical "Harold and Maude" in the Alma Theatre. Click and enjoy, but plug in your earbuds or fire up your computer speakers: It includes a soundtrack: a song from the show.
The Plain Dealer |
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Crackdown 2 possible, says Realtime
Sandbox action title Crackdown could spawn a sequel, developer Realtime Worlds have revealed, speaking to bloggers VG247 .
Ferrago |
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New UltimateJaguars.com being launched
Beginning this afternoon, the UltimateJaguars.com site will begin transforming into a new look. Overall, the new UltimateJaguars.com contains the same features you've grown to love but in a cleaner layout and navigation structure. You'll have easier access to all the stories, blogs and photos about Jaguars and the NFL. ...
The Florida Times-Union |
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white papers
Hewlett-Packard is considering a range of new technologies for the next version of its popular 2133 Mini-Note netbook, including touchscreens. Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery.
IT World |
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HP considering touchscreens for next Mini-Note
Hewlett-Packard is considering a range of new technologies for the next version of its popular 2133 Mini-Note netbook, including touchscreens.
IT World |
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FARO to Present at Noble Financial Equity Conference
FARO Technologies, Inc., the world leader in portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, announced that President and CEO Jay Freeland and Senior Vice President and CFO Keith Bair will present at the Fourth Annual Noble Financial Equity Conference at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, August 18, 2008 at the Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort, Nevada.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Diane Sawyer Likes a Vibrating Phone, Sam Champion Does Too [VideUhOh]
newVideoPlayer("/vibrate_phone_oops.flv", 506, 423,""); So here's a clip of the Good Morning America team talking about their cellphone ringtones. They have "funky little disco tunes" and "computer...
Gawker |
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Police Arrest Man Accused Of Selling Stolen Golf Clubs On Craigslist
RENTON, Wash. -- A 26-year-old Carnation man was arrested on Wednesday, accused of trying to sell stolen items on the Craigslist Web site. A man said he had several of his rare golf clubs stolen last weekend, then later spotted them for sale on Craigslist.
KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma |
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Get Your Kids in Back-to-School Mode With This Fun Software
As a parent of four children under 13, summertime poses an interesting conundrum: How do I get them out of the house and off the computer? Oh, I have plenty of strategies. I bought them "The Dangerous Book for Boys" and "The Daring Book for Girls," which gave them hours of interesting things to do.
KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches |
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The End of the Listicle [Time Of Your Life]
Seriously, this is it. The nadir. Pack it in, Internet. Someone make sure to turn off Digg on the way out. It's time to go home. [L Magazine]
Gawker |
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Sina shares down after expenses jump
Shares of Sina Corp. fell Thursday after the Chinese Internet portal beat estimates for the latest quarter but revealed an unexpected rise in sales and marketing costs.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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InsightExpress Study Finds the Online Population Increasingly Values Cookies
STAMFORD, Conn.----InsightExpress, a leading digital marketing research firm, announced today the results of the third wave of a study designed to examine consumer thoughts, attitudes and behaviors surrounding cookies and cookie deletion.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Coffee companies get the java jitters as sector slumps
Starbucks looks to revamp operations while coffee experts wonder whether the sector is facing a slowdown
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Chinese Video Portal Video Portal LeTV Gets $7.7 Million Funding
The funding for Chinese online video sites just keep on coming: Beijing-based online video portal LeTV.com has received first round investment of about $7.7 million, lead by Shenzhen Capital Group, Nanhai District Enterprise Growth Investment Trust Fund, and Beijing Huijin Lifang Venture Capital and joined by an unnamed non-venture capital firm, the company announced. It hopes to go public on ...
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iPhone to remotely access iTunes media library, patent filing shows
Apple's latest patent filing may be an indication of a new iPhone feature that could allow the smartphone as well as the iPod touch to remotely access the iTunes library stored on a Mac or PC viua Wi-Fi or a cellular network.
TG Daily |
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Coders' Rights Project
EFF's Coders' Rights Project protects programmers and developers engaged in cutting-edge exploration of technology in our world.
Electronic Frontier Foundations |
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Yahoo! Kicks off Fantasy Football Season with New Draft Application and Mobile Access
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Yahoo! Inc. kicks off the fantasy football season with new game features, mobile access, and Cleveland Browns' wide receiver Braylon Edwards as Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football '08 cover athlete.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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ICEsoft Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo
ICEsoft Technologies is a provider of standards-compliant, AJAX-based solutions for developing and deploying Java EE, rich Internet applications. The company's portfolio of enterprise level Java products includes ICEfaces, an AJAX application framework that enables Java EE application developers to create and deploy thin-client rich Web applications in pure Java. read more
SYS-CON Media |
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Higher Education Bill Opens Door for Improved, Research-Based Software Solutions
PITTSBURGH----The average college student spends almost $900 per year on textbooks, about 20% of tuition and fees at a four year public institution, and student spending on textbooks is growing at almost four times the rate of inflation, according to U.S.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Slopestyle: Tight contest in rail jam tonight
After an intense week of competing at the Burton Open at Snow Park, having my car blow up on the journey home, and with my laptop now lodged in a 10kg bag of rice, I can only hope to see the fruits of my labour in print, and the "rapid absorption method" working its magic on my computer.
Otago Daily Times |
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NEW: DOC worker faces child porn charges
A state Corrections Department worker is free on bail after being charged with having child pornography on his computer at work.Christopher Scott Pansza was arrested last week after investigators discovered graphic pictures of underage girls on his computer.Court documents indicate the investigation began in April when Moore police received a report that Pansza had been sending inappropriate ...
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