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It’s a ’Net gain for W-B
WILKES-BARRE – Some people like their coffee with cream and sugar at Gonda’s in the morning and others like it with the Internet.
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Escambia to sue software maker, end contract
The county claims that CTS America failed in its attempt to install a 911 dispatch system.
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Montgomery Co. weekly faces plagiarism accusations
A small weekly newspaper in Montgomery County has been accused of plagiarizing dozens of articles from a raft of other publications, from the national online magazine Slate.com to a Houston writer's riff on barbecue.
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TECH CHRONICLES / / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Tech-savvy tally Barack Obama beat John McCain by a 5-to-1 ratio Thursday in a mock election held at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. In a tally of people who attended the conference and bothered to stop by the voting booths, Obama won 545 votes,...
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Reporters booted from conference for hacking
LAS VEGAS -- 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.
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Improved state voter registration system now working
Madison - After 2 1/2 years of delays, a lawsuit and a troubled contract with a software vendor, Wisconsin's voter...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Obama campaign unveils GOTV Internet program Posted on August 7
HELENA n 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.
Missoulian |
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Senator's calendars will be studied
The Louisiana Senate has until Aug. 18 to turn over copies of calendars stored on the computer of state Sen. Derrick Shepherd.
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Beer not for baby
A video from Twin Falls on the Web site YouTube shows a man giving beer to a baby.
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Man charged with sexual advances with boy, 12
Police charged a Cary man Thursday with abducting and making inappropriate sexual advances toward a 12-year-old Sanford boy he met over the Internet, court records show.
The News & Observer |
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BlogTalkRadio: For Business
The two-year-old Internet radio site aims to profit by offering a service for companies to broadcast to employees and the world
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NBC, sister networks to offer 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage
With more than $1 billion invested in the Beijing Olympic Games, NBC Universal will be offering an unprecedented 3,600 hours of coverage — the largest media project ever — through eight entities: NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo, USA Network, Universal HD and NBCOlympics.com. Viewers can watch every sport on their personal computer or cell phones through NBCOlympics.com, which will offer ...
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IBM Launches Open Source Initiatives
IBM has introduced a series of new open source products, services, and initiatives.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Google Upgrades Enterprise Search Appliance
Google has released a new version of its search appliance for businesses with enhanced end-user features such as personalized alerts and results ranking.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Siemens Planning to Pull Out of PC JV with Fujitsu
Siemens plans to pull out of Fujitsu Siemens Computers, its nine year-old PC joint venture with Fujitsu, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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Microsoft and BearingPoint Form Compliance Partnership
Microsoft and BearingPoint have jointly launched a risk-based compliance offering for organizations to identify risk, remediate control deficiencies, and strengthen compliance through alerts and analytics including email notifications and audit trails.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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AMD Upgrades Desktop Chipset
Advanced Micro Devices has upgraded its desktop platform to include advanced clock calibration technology and integrated performance tuning for Phenom processors and ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics.
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Records loss by Harris Co. worker may violate U.S. law
A low-level Harris County Hospital District administrator probably violated federal law when she downloaded medical and financial records for 1,200 patients with HIV, AIDS and other medical conditions onto a flash drive that later was lost or stolen, legal experts said Thursday.
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Police beat
Lisa M. Clayton, 37, 11325 274th Ave., Trevor, Wis., was arrested around 5:50 a.m. Aug. 2 and charged with battery after she punched a 47-year-old woman in the face several times during an argument.
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Study determines most trusting faces
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said they are using a computer program to determine which faces are trustworthy or fearsome.
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Libraries step into the age of iPod
NEW YORK, USA: It may be about time to dig out that old library card. Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have vastly expanded their lists of digital books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by their patrons to a computer or MP3 player -- and it doesn't cost a cent, unlike, say, media f...
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TV/Radio Notebook: NBC to offer Games in multiple media
It would be theoretically quite clever to note that Dick Ebersol, David Neal and their army of 3,000 announcers and technicians in Beijing and New York will follow the Beijing Olympics from Australia to Zambia over the next 17 days.
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Is this the end of the blogger?
THEY write about everything from their toddler’s first steps to politics, the credit crunch and the state of Amy Winehouse’s tattoos.
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Opinion: Vector -- By Sonny Coloma: "'It takes a village'"
Global climate change has reached the top of the agenda of the family of nations. Some analysts go as far as saying that this is the new Y2K. Remember how people from all over the world scrambled to replace or reengineer computer systems at the turn of the millennium on Jan. 1, 2000.
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Cyber-security experts warn of Olympics spam
Singapore, Aug 8 : Cyber-security experts warned Internet users of a deluge of viruses and spam during the Beijing Olympic Games, with those reading Chinese at a higher risk, news reports said Friday.
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