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Russia launches cyber attack on Georgia’s web-sites
Reportedly, Russia has launched a cyber attack on Georgia’s websites, including of governmental institutions and media outlets, causing temporary shot-down. This forced the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to move the content of its website to a blog: georgiamfa.blogspot.com. Press releases and communiqués on the military conflict with Russia over Georgia's breakaway region South Ossetia are ...
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LVB launches internet banking
CHENNAI: Lakshmi Vilas Bank will focus on funding corporates looking at acquisition of companies abroad. Addressing presspersons here on Saturday, V. S. Reddy, Managing Director of the bank, said companies in mining and trading sectors ...
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Omaha man gets 12 years for having child porn
OMAHA — An Omaha man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for having pornographic videos and photos of children on his home computer. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Bataillon on Friday also ordered 42-year-old Harold Stults to serve probation for the rest of his life.
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Bartolina checks in from China
Editor's Note: Hammond resident Erica Bartolina, who is in China with her coach/husband Mike to compete in the Summer Olympics, has been sending email updates to her fans from time to time. Here is a synopsis of her recent activities as she prepares for the Opening Ceremonies on Thursday and the pole vault competition a week from Friday.)
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Net block 'for our own good'
Olympic Games organisers claim that the controversial decision to block internet sites was taken to protect Chinese youngsters.
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Are App Stores Coming to a Carrier Near You?
There's an interesting discussion going around about the possibility of T-Mobile taking some cues from Apple with an app store of their own. Instead of offering it to a specific phone, T-Mobile wants to take things one step further and open up a platform for all of their mobile devices. Who can blame them? Their current mobile store is equivalent to a mess when compared with Apple's App ...
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NBC earns high rating for Opening Ceremony coverage
NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Beijing scored top performances both on air and online.
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Yahoo Allows Users to Opt Out of Targeted Ads
Search giant lets consumers receive generic advertising instead...
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Massachusetts Transit Agency Sues to Stop Hacker Talk
A Boston area transit authority has sued to stop a defcon talk on hacking its Mifare transit cards.
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Fake CNN Alert Still Spreading Malware
Beware of the spam that is tricking users into clicking malicious links and downloading malware.
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Malice in Wonderland
Today's youth may live to regret sharing their intimate moments on the internet.
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Expect 12 Microsoft Patches Next Week
Microsoft plans 12 updates, including 7 "critical" patches for Windows, Office, and IE.
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Google's AOL Investment Loses Luster
Google has admitted its $1 billion investment in AOL may not be worth what it was in 2006.
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Some internet remains blocked to reporters
BEIJING (AP) -- Some Web sites remained inaccessible to reporters as competition got under way Saturday at the Beijing Olympics.
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Khaleej Times Online - Google
LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted.
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Google, Yahoo partially disclose terms of ad pact
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc and Yahoo Inc 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.
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Microsoft Investing In "Open Source" Lab In Philippines
jaromil writes "Following up its cozying up to OSCON, now Microsoft is launching its first 'open source' lab in the Philippines, paying for a huge media coverage. From the press release it seems they are also advertising the issue of 'interoperability' to outnumber one of the strongest features of open source in Asia: recycling old computers. Any suggestions for good stories about MS ...
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Tourism industry's Web site workshop
The Missouri Division of Tourism, in cooperation with the Missouri Travel Council, is offering a free seminar at 9 a.m. Tuesday designed to familiarize the tourism industry with the workings of the new VisitMo.com. Web site.
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Egypt demanding data from cyber cafe users
CAIRO - An Egyptian NGO on Saturday accused the Egyptian authorities of forcing cyber cafes to gather personal information on Internet users, saying the measure was a violation of privacy.
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There’s gold in them there web links
middle ages, alchemists promised to turn lead into gold, and while no-one is suggesting that Scotland's biggest newspaper brands have become dull and heavy, circulation and advertising revenue figures have certainly not sparkled of late.
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MIT Hacks Charlie; MBTA Gets Pissed
Universal Hub points out that three MIT students who hacked the Charlie Card system are scheduled to give a presentation at Defcon tomorrow about how they went about it. The T, while not interested in its hearing about security problems when the students first brought them to the authority, has now filed a lawsuit designed to stop the MIT students from presenting their findings at Defcon. ...
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Live TV
To read the biggest stories of the day on your mobile, type mobile.ndtv.com on your phone browser. Has the US used its influence for the passage of nuke deal?
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Kiwis lead the world online
New Zealanders may complain about high rates and slow connections but recent studies show we are world leaders in internet use.
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Keep Track of Your Favorite Blogs in Gmail
If you've ever wondered what the headlines at the top of your Gmail inbox are, they're called "web clips", not ads. Gmail has a preselected amount of news headlines from various sites across the web that you can customize to have displayed across the top of your inbox as you check your mail. Now you're no longer stuck with the default selections and can add your own selections. Web Clips ...
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