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Internet traffic soars during Olympic ceremony
Olympics open as China welcomes the world Beijing 2008
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Learn English, software grads told
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday asked software graduates to give importance to communication skills in English besides a good technical knowledge as premier companies like Infosys looked for students with ability to communicate in English well.
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Fascinated with John Edwards
She called it an amazing and "life altering" experience. In the interview recorded before the affair became public, Rielle (RY'-lee) Hunter says she had approached Edwards in New York with an idea for producing Internet videos for his campaign.
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Unwired for sound
The sounds of silence might work for some, but for audiophiles in need of a constant fix, Parrot's DS1120 wireless Hi-Fi sound system could be the answer.
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OHP: Fewer Drivers Dying On Oklahoma Roads
Fewer Oklahomans are dying on Oklahoma roadways in 2008 compared to the same time last year.
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BIND Still Susceptible To DNS Cache Poisoning
An anonymous reader writes "John Markoff of the NYTimes writes about a Russian hacker, Evgeniy Polyakov, who has successfully poisoned the latest, patched BIND with randomized ports. Originally, the randomized ports were never supposed to completely solve the problem, but just make it harder to do. It was thought that with port randomization, it would take roughly a week to get a hit. Using his ...
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BELGRADE --
In terms of the number of internet users per capita, Serbia ranks third-last in Europe, says IT expert Slobodan Petrović.
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NC Wildlife Resources Commission Asking For Your Input
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is inviting citizens to provide input on regular waterfowl hunting seasons through an online comment system.
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees," Jason Kelley reports for Newwin.net.
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Surfing Google may be harmful to your security
When gadgets attack Defcon A well-known researcher specializing in website security has strongly criticized safety on Google, arguing the world's biggest search engine needlessly puts its millions of users at risk.…
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Neighborhood Web Watch
Neighborhood Watch is going digital in El Cajon, where police have launched an interactive Web page to encourage residents to blog and share community concerns with each other and police.
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Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the Sonos BU150 Digital Music System, Logitech's new Mac-specific keyboard, and a flash-based video camera from Canon.
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"Anyone ever used a USB soundcard?"
I've got a Dell laptop, and while its not the most amazing thing in the world, it plays most games good enough. Apart from in one area, and that's the on board soundcard, which is rubbish.
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Hackers Unite At Vegas Conference
Want to break into the computer network in a secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom. Hackers at the DefCon conference here were demonstrating this and other novel techniques for infiltrating facilities Friday.
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Break in suspect identified
Investigators say they have a suspect in connection to a break-in at a Cannifton Road residence Friday evening. Police reported a woman arrived home around 5 p.m. to find someone had entered her residence through a screen door. A computer monitor was stolen, say police. No arrests [...]
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EFF Warns That Email Privacy Is In Jeopardy
MojoKid writes with this excerpt from HotHardware: "According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a dangerous legal precedent has just been set that can potentially unravel existing federal privacy protections for e-mail and Internet usage. The alert from the EFF is not just to sound a general warning, but it also takes the form of an Amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, filed ...
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Teen Accused In Taped Beating Arrested Again
One of the teens accused of beating a classmate and posting the video on the Internet is arrested again, this time accused of threatening, stalking and injuring a former boyfriend.
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Our Supercomputer Loves These Stocks
Revisiting the lessons of Garry Kasparov's historic loss to an IBM computer.
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North West Evening Mail
BUS drivers in Barrow are having their skills judged by a tiny spy-in-the-cab which can cut accidents and save fuel. If they drive badly by accelerating too fast or by braking poorly, turning or lane handling, a small sensor logs it on to a computer.
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Weekly Wrapup, 4-8 August 2008
It's the weekend, so time for our review the past week's web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we showed you how to create a custom search engine using social bookmarks, found out why online video is set for a boost at the Olympics, analyzed a new mainstream RSS Reader, and checked in with Windows Live. On the trends side we answered Mozilla's call for ...
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New Program For Lafayette Parish Students Would Allow Them to Earn Associate Degree
Students interested in the new Lafayette Early College Academy are invited to a question and answer meeting Monday August 11th. At the meeting there will be drawings for free ipods and gas cards for students as well as a chance for parents to win free cable and internet access.
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Apple's iPhone Takes a Toll
Last year, when Apple unveiled its iPhone and made it available in the U.S. exclusively from AT&T, the debut sent ripples throughout the cell phone industry. Handset maker Palm suffered as consumers swooned for Apple's phone, according to surveys by consultancy NPD. AT&T benefited by pulling subscribers from rival carriers Alltel and T-Mobile USA. Will Apple's new phone, the iPhone 3G, have a ...
E-Commerce Times |
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'Whos The Next Open Source Idol?' to Take Place at SF LinuxWorld Conference
GroundWork Open Source is sponsoring a competition amongst four open source mascots: Tux the Linux kernel penguin, Beastie the BSD daemon, Mozillas Firefox, and The Gnu GNU at the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco. ebizQ ...
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O3SIS and Open-Xchange to Deliver Mobile Collaboration Technology
Open-Xchange announced an agreement with O3SIS, a provider of open standards-based, over-the-air data synchronization and push technologies. ebizQ received the following: The companies expect to release in the third quarter software that ...
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Cablevision Joins Cuomo’s Antiporn Campaign
Cablevision Systems became the latest Internet service provider to agree to block customers' access to online child pornography in the state of New York.
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