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Yahoo will let customers skip ads
Yahoo will allow consumers to opt out of targeted advertising on Yahoo.com amid increasing congressional scrutiny of consumer privacy on the Web.
The News & Observer |
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Online game for Trekkies coming, Cryptic Studios says
"Star Trek Online" is finally going at warp speed.
The News & Observer |
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Local researchers in China to observe total solar eclipse
A group of area researchers are in Weinan, China to video capture and broadcast to the Internet a total solar eclipse, observable only from a small narrow corridor on the Earth.
Crookston Daily Times |
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Daily Digest 08/09/08
Daily Digest for Aug. 9: NEWS IN BRIEF Registration taken for literacy programs NORMAL — The GED adult literacy program is accepting registrations for the next session of free GED, pre-GED, English as a Second Language, learn to read and pre-employment/computer literacy classes that begin in September.
The Pantagraph |
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Middle Village Resident Charged With Murder
A Middle Village man allegedly shot and killed two drug dealers last month, then hacked up their bodies and dumped the parts near his parents’ Coram, L.I. home, according to police.
Queens Chronicle |
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Couple plans for shoestring wedding
A couple will marry on a shoestring budget of £407 after trawling the internet and picking up bargains for their wedding. Christopher May, 21, and 19-year-old Odette Fenwick, from Ilfracombe, north Devon, will tie the knot at Barnstaple Register Office on August 16.
Channel 4 |
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'Walking With Dinosaurs' maker behind new drama TV series
CHERTSEY, England — Dinosaurs can be challenging co-stars, especially when you can't see them. "Basically, it's a man in a very colorful jumpsuit with something attached to a long pole going, ‘It's swooping, it's swooping, it's coming around, it's coming down. Araaagh!'” says Ben Miller, mimicking an on-set stand-in for the beasts, which later will be fully realized by computer-generated special ...
The Oklahoman |
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Simple steps to protect yourself from ID theft
It is the largest case of identity theft in the country. More than 41 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by an international ring that hacked into the computer networks of nine national retail chains, including Barnes & Noble, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, DSW Inc. and TJX Cos.
Austin American-Statesman |
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China's strong march
Marius Kloppers made a family gamble on China seven years ago, well before its industrial machine began to shake the world. "I took a view that China was going to be a world power," said the BHP Billiton chief executive. "My kids started learning Mandarin when they were four years old."
The Star |
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Device kills litterbox odor
The bane of cat ownership is the litterbox. One way to clear the air is the CatMouse, an odor eliminator shaped like a computer mouse and powered by "green" technology: It replicates the environment's natural blend of beneficial ions and activated oxygen.
The Record |
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Someone found your camera and they want you to have it back
Imagine you lost the camera that had those one-of-a-kind vacation photos, or images of a keepsake moment. Now imagine a stranger finding it: Would you feel happy, or somehow that your privacy was invaded, if that stranger put some of your images on the Web to track you down?
The Pantagraph |
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College football notebook
Big Ten: No evidence games compromised The Big Ten's investigation of two games involving an official with a history of financial troubles and casino gambling turned up no evidence to suggest the integrity of either 2007 football game was compromised, the conference announced Friday. Yahoo! Sports reported in December that Stephen Pamon , a Big Ten football official since 1988 and chief of a ...
The Oklahoman |
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Don't take your laptop on your holiday: psychologist
London: Though laptops and wireless Internet connections are considered inseparable tools for the new-age executives, they are spoiling their holidays and increasingly ruining their family relationships, a psychologist has warned.
SiliconIndia |
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Clay Aiken is a father
Former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken is a father. The 29-year-old crooner from Raleigh, N.C., announced the birth of Parker Foster Aiken on his Web site's blog Friday. "No hyphens. One first name," he wrote. "One middle name. One last name." Aiken was a favorite of fans during the second season of "American Idol," where he finished second to Ruben Studdard. His album "Measure of a Man" ...
Pioneer Press |
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Computer glitch taxes budget makers
Number crunchers at most of the 20 taxing entities in the county are playing a waiting game because a computer programming error is keeping them from calculating their budgets for the coming fiscal year.
El Campo Leader-News |
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No news is good news
PRINCETON — So far, so good. On Monday, Christopher Gabrys, environmental health assistant with the Bureau/Putnam County Health Department, announced no mosquito samples collected so far this year in the two-county area have tested positive for West Nile virus.
Bureau County Republican |
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Global Warming Forecasts Not Taking Into Account Nanoscale Atmospheric Aerosols
Researchers say brown carbons -- a nanoscale atmospheric aerosol species -- are being overlooked when scientists put together computer models for climate studies. They have developed a new technique to precisely determine optical properties of brown carbon nanoparticles over the entire visible light, ultraviolet and infrared spectrums. The method promises to provide more accurate prediction of ...
Science Daily |
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Oklahoma Briefs: Saturday, August 9, 2008
CABLE Bartlesville services disrupted BARTLESVILLE — Cable One subscribers in Bartlesville lost communication services for about five hours Thursday after a crew doing road work cut a fiber optic cable, a Cable One official said. The fiber optic cut disrupted television cable, Internet and telephone services for Cable One customers in Bartlesville, Dewey and Nowata, Cable One manager Dick ...
The Oklahoman |
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Entry blanks due
PRINCETON — Entry blanks for the upcoming Bureau County Fair are due by Monday. Entry blanks are due a week before the fair so the entries can be entered in the computer and the exhibit tags can be printed.
Bureau County Republican |
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Taking fantasy football to Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO -- By the time he graduated from MIT, Jeff Ma already had led a life many guys dream about.
Colorado Daily |
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Canine Ventriloquist
L-N Photo by Quala Matocha Melissa Rivera is ready for a puppet show! She and fellow classmates at Faith Lutheran Pre-School created the canine critters Wednesday before practicing their sight words. Other children at the facility were making watermelon and string art, as well as completing educational lessons on the computer.
El Campo Leader-News |
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National And International Report / USB settles $18.6 billion auction-rate securities case
Swiss banking giant UBS AG agreed Friday to buy back nearly $20 billion in auction-rate securities from investors, a day after Citigroup Inc. reached a similar settlement with regulators for $7 billion as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the collapse of the market for the bond-like investments. UBS will repurchase all $18.6 billion of the securities it sold and pay a fine of $150 ...
Pioneer Press |
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Cruise fans meet year-round online
The Dream Cruise may parade down Woodward just one day each August, but the world's largest automotive event lives on year-round on the Web, where bloggers, fans and enthusiasts chat about everything from classic cruisers to traffic patterns.
Detroit News |
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Google, Yahoo partially disclose terms of ad pact
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) and Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) released on Friday excerpts of a pact covering their search advertising partnership that keeps secret financial terms and the extent of other ties between the two.
MSN Money Canada |
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Garage-sale junkies: Local folks addicted to garage-sale shopping share their tips
By MALCOLM MAYHEW Put on your hustling shoes, fill your tank up with gas (hey, gas is only $3.65 a gallon; go nuts!) and click on MapQuest — it’s National Garage Sale Day. To honor this holiday that, to be honest, we didn’t even know existed until we were goofing around on the Internet, we, too, went on the prowl — for the garage-sale kings and queens of Tarrant County. And after wading ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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