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Ga-Ga Google Employee Proposes in Street View Filming
Google employee Michael Weiss-Malik had been dating his girlfriend, Leslie Moreno, for "some years" when he decided to ask her to marry him in April.
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Latest Technology Headlines
Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. UPDATED: As a commenter pointed out, users can listen to the podcasts on any MP3 player. Ken Carroll, who runs the popular Chinese-lesson podcast ChinesePod , is taking advantage of the world’s sudden need to know how to say “gold medal,” “100-meter backstroke” or “Where is the basketball arena?” in Mandarin, the official language of China.
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Yahoo to Let Users Switch Off Customized Ads
Yahoo announced Friday that it will allow users to turn off the customization of advertising on the pages of Yahoo.com. The opt-out option should be available at the end of August, through Yahoo’s privacy center , the company said.
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Visit the Dell Dome at Virgin Mobile Festival This Weekend!
As we discovered last weekend at Lollapalooza , the Dell Summer Rocks Dome, part of Dell's face-melting, show-stopping road trip to all the biggest music festivals, is the ideal locale to chill out between shows. The Dome not only offers fans solace from the pounding sun, but plenty of activities with tattoo artists, button-making, live painting, loads of computers and much more. And this ...
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Ex-teacher's aide sentenced for Internet luring
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - A former teacher's aide at a Lakewood elementary school is being ordered to serve three years of intensive supervised probation for sex offenders after pleading guilty to Internet luring of a child.
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Google 10Q Filing: AOL Investment "Impaired" And Other Tidbits
Gary Price alerted us yesterday to Google's 10Q filing . There's lots of stuff in there worth drilling into. The headlines this morning , however, concern Google's statement that it thinks it's not going to get full value from its previous $1 billion, 5 percent AOL investment several years ago. Click to continue reading...
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Yahoo To Enable Opt Out Feature For Customized Ads
Yahoo has announced that they will begin giving their users the ability to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. The feature will be added to Yahoo privacy center by the end of August. This is an expansion of Yahoo's opt-out program for third-party networks. This was done in response to the inquiry by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. You can read a bit more about that ...
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E-Commerce: Fertile Ground for Venture Investors
The U.S. economy is in a funk, but that doesn't mean opportunities for venture investors have dried up. E-commerce is one sector that will see continued growth opportunities even in an economic downturn. In fact, industry observers say growth and revenue opportunities for e-commerce ventures are as attractive as ever.
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Bond packet information available on the Internet
Staff Report A copy of the bond packet the San Angelo Independent School District gave the school board Monday night is now available on the Internet. To see the packet, click on the link to the left of this story.
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CSU plans surplus supply auction
If you're looking for a good deal on used scientific equipment, trucks, office furniture or computers and printers, CSU has something to offer.
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Search In Pictures: Yahoo Indoor Golf, Los Lonely Boys Perform & Google Banner Vandalism
In this week's Search In Pictures , here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Click to continue reading...
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National Energy Services Prez on Reducing Business Energy Bills
In a recent article for the E-Commerce Times entitled "Getting Serious About Energy Independence," I outlined what I thought was the general direction the country should take in order to conserve energy and ultimately become energy independent. I was pleasantly surprised to receive an e-mail from the President of National Energy Services Company John Grillo
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Israeli Kids Write Letters To Terrorists
Children and computers are coming together in Kansas to fight terrorism.
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Customers Fail to Flock to Vonage
Vonage Holdings' subscriber growth nearly ground to a halt in the second quarter, as the Internet telephone company said Thursday it gained just 2,000 lines in the period. Chief Executive Officer Marc Lefar said the company made some progress in keeping its existing customers, but a pullback in TV advertising led to lower recruitment of new customers.
E-Commerce Times |
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Yahoo to Offer Customized Ad Opt out
Yahoo said it will start letting site visitors opt out of receiving customized advertising.
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Google Gadgets an Open Door for Attack
Researchers at Black Hat say those who use Google and specifically Gmail are most vulnerable to attack from a 'hole'in Google Gadgets.
PC World |
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Dealing With Common Annoyances
Sleek and capable as Apple's products are, they have their bad days like the rest of us. And when they do, you'll want to know...
PC World |
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Technology, bureaucracy delayed Vt. 911 response
A 911 dispatcher trying to find a Vermont woman being beaten to death was slowed by technical problems and a bureaucratic roadblock at Verizon Wireless, delaying emergency responders' ability to reach the victim, a county official in New York said Friday.
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McCain gives punters points for plugs
WASHINGTON: Spread John McCain's message online and you could win valuable prizes. That's the essence of his campaign pitch for supporters to join an internet effort with "reward points" akin to those offered by airlines and other businesses.
Inverell Times |
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Parents key in protecting children online
Despite improved security features designed to help protect children on social networking sites, Internet safety experts say there will always be flaws.
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North Fort Myers teen charged with transmitting child porn
A North Fort Myers teenager is charged with transmitting child pornography over the Internet to an undercover officer.
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Researchers Crack Medeco High-Security Locks With Plastic Keys
Security researchers figure out how to cut a key from a credit card to open ostensibly ultra-high-security Medeco locks, using just a digital photo of a real key. The researchers are showing off the trick Friday at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas, where last year they showed that different Medeco locks were pickable.
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Cable companies stole telcos’ lunch in 2Q
Fri, Aug 8, 2008 (12:45 p.m.) Phone companies have been feeling the heat from cable companies for years, as those traditional TV providers have expanded their own phone services and fought hard for broadband Internet subscribers.
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Yahoo to offer customized ad opt out
Yahoo said it will start letting users opt out of receiving customized advertising later this month, in an announcement the company made along with its response to a congressional inquiry about online privacy practices.
IT World |
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Editorial - Why Apple is Steering Clear of Blu-ray
Now that the Blu-ray/HD DVD war is long over, customers have been waiting eagerly for Apple to replace the aging DVD optical drives in new Macs with the modern Blu-ray drive. At first, cost seemed a show-stopper. However, in time it has become clear that Apple just doesn't want to go there. If...
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