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Yahoo, responding to Congress, changes ad options for users
Responding to a Congressional inquiry, Web portal Yahoo Inc. will let its users decline to see targeted, customized advertisements on the site. (YHOO)
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NTT Docomo taps Access for FOMA
In April, Japanese mobile phone stack firm Access confirmed an earlier announcement of a tentative deal to adapt its Linux-based, LiMo-compatible Access Linux Platform (ALP) mobile phone stack to work with the FOMA 3G network of Japanese mobile phone marketshare leader NTT DoCoMo.
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Hosting Marketers Adds FFMpeg Video
August 8, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hosting Marketers (hosting-marketers.com) has started implementing the installation of ffmpeg, mencoder and other software on all its servers, offering customers a complete, on-demand solution for uploading videos.
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Netbooks spark Linux redesigns
The sparsely populated floor at Linuxworld was a disappointment, but netbooks made an impact at this year's show, a sign that these lightweight machines may bring the Linux OS to a larger audience. Crowds flocked the booths of companies like Canonical and Good OS, which showed off special versions of Linux designed for netbooks, low-cost laptops designed to run basic applications for Web ...
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Putting dampener on the usual computer games
FORGET Grand Theft Auto 27, teenage computer game aficionados are flocking to Floodsim.com for the latest release from London-based game company PlayGen.
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HP Labs ponders grabbing attention in the age of social computing
Answer: FREE NEW HOT STEAMY SEX Beware social network denizens, you are being watched and your wallets measured.…
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US man faces child porn charge
A Kentucky man is facing child pornography charges after border agents seized a laptop and other items that police allege contained images of child sexual abuse.
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Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world
Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.
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Google Regretting Billion Dollar AOL Investment
Google, it seems, is finally publicly acknowledging what we've all know for some time: AOL just ain't what it used to be
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US intelligence alerts travelers to cyber spies
This 2006 file photo shows a Blackberry unit in Washinton, DC. A US intelligence office Friday warned Americans traveling to the Beijing Olympics or elsewhere to expect cyber spies to surreptitiously compromise their laptops, cellphones, and other electronic devices.
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FedNor contributes to Georgian Bay Visitors Centre: $75,000 will pay for website, information centre computers
SEGUIN TWP. - FedNor handed over $75,000 to Georgian Bay Country Visitors Centre Thursday to help the organization improve its online presence and on-site computer services.
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Yahoo to let visitors decline more targeted ads
(AP:NEW YORK) Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as Congress steps up scrutiny of customized advertising and consumer privacy.
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Yahoo to let visitors decline more targeted ads
Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as Congress steps up scrutiny of customized advertising and consumer privacy. Yahoo has been...
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Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world
(AP:LAS VEGAS) Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.
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O'Reilly On How Copyright Got To Its Current State
Schneed Tweedly writes "William Patry is one of the leading scholars in the world on copyright law. For a long time he maintained a blog, "Patry on Copyright," that discussed new cases as they came out. A few days ago, though, he shut down his blog because 'the Current State of Copyright Law is too depressing.' O'Reilly has a long post up on their news site discussing Patry's retirement from ...
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Recycling seen as money saver
BISBEE — There are strong reasons for developing a countywide recycling program.
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Sony KDL-46Z4100/B (black)
Sony's well-featured, smartly styled KDL-46Z4100 performs well enough, but its picture doesn't match that of the best LCDs.
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EIC Squared: Olympics, LinuxWorld, and Google cookies
In this week's podcast CNET New's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan talk about Olympics and technology, LinuxWorld and Google's new opt-out policy, which has merged its tracking efforts with DoubleClick's.
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Yahoo to let visitors decline more targeted ads
NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as Congress steps up scrutiny of customized advertising and consumer privacy.
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Gigs & Bytes: Not Too Drunk To Leak
At first, Buckcherry's "Too Drunk..." problem sounds all too familiar. The band works hard on its upcoming album, Black Butterfly , only to see a track leak online before the release date. Band speaks out against the leak while fans continue to download it. It's déjà vu all over again.
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Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world
By JORDAN ROBERTSON LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.
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Why US is losing patience with Pakistan
What has peeved the administration most is the civilian government's lack of control of its border areas and failed peace deals with extremist elements. These failed efforts by Islamabad have led to exponential growth of these jihadis. The mounting evidence of the collusion of Pakistani intelligence with the Taliban and Al Qaeda, in launching attacks against American forces in Afghanistan, is ...
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Yahoo to let visitors decline more targeted ads
By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as Congress steps up scrutiny of customized advertising and consumer privacy.
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Journalists Hack Journalists at Black Hat
A trio of French journalists from Global Security Magazine were reportedly kicked out of the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas for targeting fellow reporters in the press room with a WiFi hack. The offending journalists/hackers may have used a network-sniffing tool called "Cain" to capture username and password information sent out in the clear over the WiFi network in the press room.
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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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