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Thailand cracks down on violent computer games
Thailand's culture minister Somsak Kitsuranont yesterday vowed to reduce the sale of violent computer games by 70 per cent within three to six months, while the Thai interior ministry was urged to impose the same measures on computer-game shops as shops selling alcoholic drinks.
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Police link 3 to area thefts
SUMMERVILLE — A burglary suspect used a roommate's Medicaid card to force open the back door of a neighbor's residence and steal computer equipment, police said Thursday.
The Post and Courier |
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Apple prices are just peachy
I'm always looking for a bargain. I'm in charge of buying technology for a small, rural school district; I don't spend much time deciding between SLI video options for my students. That being said, I still just bought a whole slew of Macs for the K-8...
ZDNet |
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Google sours on $1 billion AOL investment
Search giant warns in a regulatory filing that its "investment in AOL may be impaired," which may lead to a $500 million loss on the investment.
CNET |
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Winzero Offers Tools, Services And Best Practices for Windows Domain Migration
Ottawa, CDN. - In a recent survey of IT executives and managers, Winzero Research analyst Joel Martin reported that 70 percent of the respondents that were involved in company mergers, acquisitions or company reorganizations had never completed or were not actively involved with a domain migration.
CanadaIT.com |
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COLLIGO NETWORKS NAMED 2008 EDITOR'S BEST AWARD WINNER BY WINDOWS IT PRO MAGAZINE
August 5, 2008, Vancouver, BC - Colligo Networks Inc., a leader in desktop collaboration solutions, today announced that its Colligo Contributor Pro Version 3.0 desktop software for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® was named as a bronze medal winner of the '2008 Editor's Best Awards' in the SharePoint category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro magazine.
CanadaIT.com |
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Brice Cherry: Track events give us reason to watch Summer Games
Between its myriad television networks and the Internet, NBC will broadcast a mind-blowing 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage over the next 17 days.
Waco Tribune-Herald |
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Reporters booted from conference for hacking
With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room. But in a case of reporters spying on other reporters, three journalists...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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BBC loses memory stick containing details of hundreds of children for new show
The BBC has lost personal details of hundreds of children stored on a computer memory stick, it has emerged.
Daily Mail |
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Group seeks gator-aid
As founder of Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary in Manheim, Jesse Rothacker takes in a lot of alligators from a lot of people.Usually, those people have the same story to tell, he said."They saw this cute little hatchling that they just couldn't resist, but then they took ...
Lancaster Online |
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Black Hat: Windows Jingle Attack Exposed
The latest scheme steals data by encoding a user's password into audio data and concealing that data into the Windows start-up tone for decoding later, researchers reveal.
InformationWeek |
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Vonage makes a deal with Izod Center
The internet phone company Vonage Holdings will pay more than $1 million to put its name on the concourse of the Izod Center, the Nets and the sports authority announced yesterday.
The Star-Ledger |
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Cut cable leaves residents without phone, Internet and cable service
Charter Communications customers in parts of southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin were without telephone, Internet and cable service for several hours Thursday after a fiber optic cable was inadvertently cut.
Winona Daily News |
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Business complicated by lack of phone, internet
A chase ends but problems linger on, after a van takes out a gas main. Find out what problems resulted from the accident.
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'The Road' is fiction, but the scenery is real -- just ask Pittsburghers
Imagining the end of the world is never easy, especially if you're not going to create one with a computer, but the director and filmmakers of "The Road" discovered it in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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WHAT'S IT WORTH?
Q:I believe what I inherited is an antique settee or loveseat. However, it opens into a bed, and I have never seen anything like it. It is damaged with missing wood on top of the back. What is it worth? -- L.M. Answer: During the late Victorian period, this form often was called a fainting couch. Earlier, it was referred to as a Recamier, a style developed in France during the 18th century and ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Local News
When the Internet started to become more popular, people were worried about the effects it would have on libraries.
Leduc Representative |
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PC/104-Plus SBC sports Atom
— Aug. 01, 2008 — Eurotech announced a PC/104-Plus single board computer (SBC) with Intel's Z500-series Atom processors, and an optional 20-channel GPS receiver.
Linux Devices |
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Computer cops train on Macs to ferret out evidence
Apple systems, less common than PCs, are showing up in more cases and the city police unit that investigates computer crimes are adding those analytical skills to its forensic arsenal.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Reporters booted from conference for hacking
With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.
Tri-City Herald |
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Lenovo moves into consumer PC sector
Lenovo is entering the global consumer computer market Thursday with a new range of laptop and desktop machines.
Financial Times |
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Wipe off your home from Google's Street View to keep voyeurs at bay
Melbourne, Aug 7: People, who want to keep their homes away from the prying eyes of voyeurs on Google's Street View, can now get their house entirely removed from the smart feature that provides 360 degrees panoramic street-level views of the cities.
New Kerala |
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Microsoft announces business availability of SQL server 2008
New Delhi, Aug 7 : Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited today announced the Release to Manufacture (RTM) of SQL Server 2008 - the latest version of its acclaimed database management offering.
New Kerala |
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Faces do reflect if someone is trustworthy or fearsome: Study
Washington, Aug 7: 'Your face is the mirror to your soul', goes the old adage, and now with a new computer program one can tell what exactly makes people's faces look either trustworthy or fearsome.
New Kerala |
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Olympics Notebook: Olympics will be a huge payday for NBC
NBC Universal announced it has garnered more than $1 billion in advertising revenue for the event for which it spent $894 million to acquire the U.S. broadcast and digital rights.
Winston-Salem Journal |
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