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Extended Wireless in Brighton
Rochester, N.Y. - Visitors to Brighton's Town Hall or Buckland Park can now open their laptops and surf the internet for free.
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Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes
dstates writes "The Columbus Post Dispatch reports that the State of Ohio is suing Premier Election Systems (previously known as Diebold over malfunctions in electronic voting machines. Election workers found that votes were 'dropped' in at least 11 counties when memory cards were uploaded to computer servers. The same voting machines are used nationwide. The company blames a conflict between ...
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Obama campaign unveils GOTV Internet program
HELENA — Barack Obama’s Montana campaign hopes its Internet program that lets volunteers produce unique contact lists will help the campaign reach nearly all voters in the state.
Great Falls Tribune |
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YouTube to stream Olympics
The Olympics are coming to YouTube. Highlights of the Beijing Olympics will be streamed daily on the popular video-sharing web site to 77 territories where digital rights have not been sold, or have been acquired on a non-exclusive basis, the International Olympic Committee said today.
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HP Funds New CDW Effort To Target SMB Accounts
Hewlett-Packard is set to co-fund 110 new CDW salespeople and feed them leads to go after accounts with 499 or fewer employess, a plan that will add more than 500,000 net new target customers for CDW, according to an internal CDW memo.
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Motorola bullish on potential of 'white spaces'
Citing gains in mobile devices' sensing and geo-location capabilities, Motorola is hopeful that the Federal Communications Commission will soon give device manufacturers the OK to use TV white spaces to deliver high-speed broadband.
Network World |
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Beware hacking of implanted medical devices
LAS VEGAS -- Wireless security experts have another area to worry about: embedded medical devices that communicate with the world outside the body via radio waves, speakers at Black Hat warn.
Network World |
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Apple working on streaming your iTunes library to your iPhone?
Filed under: Cellphones , Portable Audio , Portable Video Apple's experimented with allowing iTunes to stream over the internet as well as your LAN in the past and quickly removed the feature (probably due to RIAA pressure), so we're not placing too much stock in this, but AppleInsider's unearthed a patent that seems to describe a way to stream music over the 'net to your iPhone / ...
Engadget |
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Vermont Anti-Terror Unit Gets Consolidated Headquarters
Vermont joins more than 100 other joint task forces that will zero in on terrorism and major crimes involving computers.
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Blue Coat to Report First Quarter 2009 Results
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Blue Coat Systems, Inc. , the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss results for the first fiscal quarter of 2009 and the outlook for the second fiscal quarter of 2009 on Thursday, August 21, 2008, at 2:00 p.m.
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IPTV providers happy with Pittsburgh customer response
Consolidated Communications Inc. is happy with Pittsburgh area customers' response to the Internet protocol TV service it launched here in April, four months after the company acquired North Pittsburgh Systems Inc.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Dell claims to be carbon-neutral
The company says it has met its target of becoming carbon-neutral five months early, but some industry watchers are skeptical.
CNET |
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CAA launches investigation into 'blown away' plane (+video)
A Civil Aviation Authority investigation has launched a "desktop investigation" after a Pacific Blue Boeing 737 was blown away from a boarding gate at Wellington Airport.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Google says AOL investment may be impaired: filing
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc's AOL unit may be worth less than the $1 billion the Web company paid for it in 2006, Google warned in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
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New Web site makes it easy for fans of farmers markets to find local produce
SALISBURY — In an effort to support local farming, the Maryland Department of Agriculture has released an Internet database that lists the locations and specialties of farmers markets and stores in the state.
The Daily Record |
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As Apple Waffles, Nokia Lurks
Steve Jobs' minions pull a trio of iPhone apps, creating an opening for the Finnish handset maker.
Forbes |
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Anti-virus software might soon be obsolete
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. computer scientists say the time is fast approaching when you can say goodbye to problematic personal computing anti-virus software.
UPI |
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Half of Internet users didn't Google yesterday [Stats]
The latest study from the grinds at Pew Internet Research touts the rise in daily search users to 49 percent. That means of all Internet users, only half use search daily. The killer app? It's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Phisher-on-phisher crime -- not so much victimless as we just don't care [Hackers]
Microsoft security engineer Billy Rios tells the Wall Street Journal that some of the best scams are the ones that phishers play on each other: Hackers write software that automatically designs... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Linux Today - Conversations With My Dad About Open Source
"It is only fair, however, to point out that in 1999, Microsoft’s market cap was north of $500 billion. Today, it is around half that.
Linux Today |
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3 teens arrested in firebombings
Milton police on Thursday arrested three teenagers on 57 felony counts connected to the firebombing of three cars with Molotov cocktails – devices one boy said he learned how to make by playing the Grand Theft Auto computer game.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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Is a major Yahoo shareholder paying for Jerry Yang's sins? [Bill Miller]
Bill Miller, the powerful Legg Mason fund manager who at last count controled 5.4 percent of all Yahoo shares, just became a little less powerful. He's lost a client, Massachusett's $50.6 billion... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Google doesn't care about widget users, security analyst says [Your Privacy Is An Ilusion]
SecTheory CEO Robert "RSnake" Hansen, a security consultant — and therefore a professional fearmongerer — for clients like Microsoft and eBay, says computer fraudsters can insert... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Watch network engineers save the world, one server at a time [Sysadmin Porn]
Last week we learned from Dan Kaminsky that DNS servers — computers that translate domain names into the numerical IP addresses machines use to locate each other on the Internet — had a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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In which we fall for a hip-hop star's Apple-baiting ploy [Gaming The System]
First Bare Naked Ladies, then Weezer, and now a hip-hop performer calling himself AC have marketed themselves by parodying Internet memes. AC takes on Apple's "New Soul" commercial in the video... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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