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Only the goats get to know
Your outdoors article on GPS collars on mountain goats was fascinating. The idea that biologists can track goats without ever leaving their office sounds like Oregon government at work. The article says the GPS readings are e-mailed to the biologists' computers. Well, can I get on that e-mail chain, too?
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Internet addictions increasingly common
Marco knew he was in trouble when the character he played in online fantasy game began to infiltrate his dreams.
SouthtownStar |
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Sharing a world via online video
Ammar Haq had never paid attention to the message underlying a neighborhood's lack of banks and proliferation of currency exchanges until he took an honors course at Elmhurst College.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Lenovo's Yang at global crossroad
HONG KONG--Rock star, hard-driving salesman and card-carrying Communist party member. Lenovo Chairman Yang Yuanqing is the key driver of the No. 4 personal computer maker's growth that has seen it enter the Fortune 500 for the first time this year.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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For kids: Olympic history lesson
'One World One Dream," the slogan of the 2008 Olympics, may sound grand, but today's news concerns air pollution in Beijing, censored Internet access for journalists, alleged underage Chinese gymnasts, and even high-tech swimsuits.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Games chiefs to Chinese: Website blocking for your own good
BEIJING--Olympic Games organizers have claimed that the controversial decision to block Internet sites was taken to protect Chinese youngsters.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Review: 'Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World' by David Maraniss
Anyone with a computer, a newspaper subscription, a TV, a radio or even the most tenuous link to the outside world will be inundated with reports about the just-begun Olympic Games in China.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Microsoft among leading names set for GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK 2008
Microsoft among leading names set for GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK 2008
MENAFN |
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Trend Micro Announces Email Encryption Solution Portfolio
Trend Micro Announces Email Encryption Solution Portfolio
MENAFN |
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Wanna buy wine on the web?
Indiana residents must first make face-to-face contact with a wine merchant before they can place wine orders over the phone or the Internet, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Post-Tribune |
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Why polls aren't worrying Obama's team
Finally, for John McCain, a week to smile about. "Obama fatigue," a virus that's afflicted the GOP presidential candidate for sometime now, was discovered in a new Pew survey to have spread to 48 percent of the populace.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Fossett faked death over debt? Not so, lawyer says
An attorney for Steve Fossett's widow pleaded for an end to speculation circulating in Internet reports that the millionaire adventurer may have faked his own death, possibly because he was heavily in debt.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Hooked on the Web
Marco knew he was in trouble when the character he played in an online fantasy game began to infiltrate his dreams.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Turn on, tune in Wi-Fi favorites
What are you going to listen to? Norway's 24-hour folk music channel Allttid Folkemusikk? The public hearings of the California Integrated Waste Management Board? Radio Banadir -- the Most Trusted News in Somalia? It's a big world out there, and radios that grab their sound from the Internet rather than the airwaves can bring it home.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Search engine's shares climbing back after disappointing quarter
Google shares have been clawing back toward the $500 mark since plunging nearly 10 percent on July 18 after the Internet search leader's second-quarter earnings missed analysts' expectations.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Enduring love thaws Cold War wall
SEOUL, South Korea - Renate Kleinle and Hong Ok-geun met in 1955, when they attended the same freshman chemistry class at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, in what was then East Germany. Hong was an exchange student from North Korea, then East Germany's communist ally.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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In Hindsight: Yahoo, a 9.375% sales tax and other innovations
Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports. Monday After Yahoo's annual meeting the week before, the math didn't add up for Capital Research Global Investors, one of the Sunnyvale Internet content powerhouse's largest shareholders.
San Jose Mercury News |
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AT&T launches TV service
AT&T Inc. has launched the company's integrated suite of U-verse services in Wichita, a frontal attack on its cable competitors. U-verse, which includes television, high-speed Internet and telephone services, is highlighted by the nation's only Internet-based television service. It's available in pockets of the greater Wichita area where fiber-optic cable has already been placed, said Kris ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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OLYMPICS MURDER
A knife-wielding lunatic hacked an American Olympic visitor to death and critically injured his wife at a popular Beijing tourist site yesterday, then jumped to his death, leaving a black mark on the Games. Former Olympic volleyball star Elisabeth...
New York Post |
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Read more from Eric Seals' Olympics blog
If a survey was done of Olympic fans and athletes asking who is the most popular here in Beijing I’d venture to guys most would say The Redeem Team, also known as the USA Men’s Basketball.
Detroit Free Press |
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Businesses invest in immigrants
WASHINGTON - Jose Trivelli, a graying engineer from Peru, spends his days fixing Internet connections at a Tysons Corner, Va.
San Jose Mercury News |
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How to move data between computers
QI need to move an enormous collection of music and photos from an old Mac to a brand-new one. The old Mac doesn't have a DVD burner and I don't have a home network. How can I move my stuff?
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Typing is SO last week
Of all the high-tech fantasies with which sci-fi movies tantalize their escapist audiences, surely that bit about giving your computer spoken orders is one of the most alluring. Ever since "Star Trek," we've dreamed of being able to say, "Computer, display all known sources of dilithium crystals in the Kraxon Nebula!"
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Our online selves could live forever
Online, Tim McLean still smiles defiantly from his MySpace page, boasting about his tattoos and rock-hard body, more than a week after the 22-year-old was brutally murdered and beheaded on a Greyhound bus to Winnipeg.
Toronto Star |
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Technology changing education
In at least one area school district, parents can not only check their children’s homework assignments online, they can even check what their children bought for lunch.
The Scranton Times-Tribune |
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