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U.S. Stocks Advance, Led by Retailers, Banks; Amazon Climbs
Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose, adding to the biggest weekly gain since April, after oil's drop to a 14-week low boosted retailers and credit card companies.
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LAPD Switches to Google Maps & Other New Features
All the reported crime on August 7, 2008 within a 5-mile radius from 200 N. Fremont Street LAPD's interactive crime maps have been helpful since they launched a couple years ago. Today, they relaunched the tool, now using Google Maps instead of the old city map they were using. The new maps also let you double click on an area to browse crime in neighborhoods and also toggle between ...
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Entertainment, sports writing still hard journalism
I was sitting in front of my computer in the news room of the Daily Nebraskan a week ago Sunday. I was writing my falsely labeled "Required Listening" column about the Boris album "Smile." One of my coworkers, Mr. Jeremy Buckley, was having a Facebook chat conversation with one of our regular year reporters, who will remain nameless to protect their reputation, about the greater virtues of ...
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TheLadders.com Appoints Steve Berkowitz to its Board of Directors
TheLadders.com, the world's largest online platform for $100k+ jobs, announced today the appointment of Steve Berkowitz to its Board of Directors. Most recently, Berkowitz served as senior vice president of the Online Services Group at Microsoft where he was responsible for the marketing, sales and business development related to Microsoft's online services, including MSN.com and Windows Live. ...
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3G auction modalities by Sept
New Delhi, Aug 11 The Department of Telecom on Monday said it would finalise the modalities of auctioning third generation mobile spectrum by September 30. This will include appointing an independent agency to conduct the online auction and also bring clarity on the quantum of spectrum available in each circle.
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Television losing viewers to cyberspace media
PEOPLE are spending more time on the Internet than television, the Malaysia Media Conference 2008 was told last week.
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Microsoft service packs boost developers
Microsoft on Monday released the first service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 programming framework, offering improvements for building client, Web, and data-driven applications.
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MFs hike, FII pare stake in Satyam in June quarter
Hyderabad, Aug. 11 Mutual funds, including UTI, have hiked their holdings in IT services provider Satyam Computer from 4.88 per cent to 5.56 per cent while foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have brought down their total holding marginally in the June quarter as against previous quarter.
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Halo 3 Wins Edge Award For Innovation, Online Integration
Bungie's Halo 3 earned Edge's 2008 Award For Interactive Innovation, announced the publication's deputy editor Alex Wiltshire at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival today. "In the year since it came out, it's still showing itself to have innovated deeply in what it means to have a game on the internet," said Wiltshire. "It has the party system, the theatre, there's Forge, which pre-empted even ...
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uBid.com Holdings, Inc. Selected as the Exclusive Host of the John T. Petters Foundation's Online Charity Auction
uBid.com Holdings Inc. , the leading asset recovery solutions company for the world's most trusted brands, today announced the John T. Petters Foundation has selected uBid.com as the exclusive host of its annual charity gala held on in Minneapolis, MN.
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Feds consider recycling program for electronics
OTTAWA -- Newly released documents say the federal government is considering a $35-million recycling program to keep its stockpile of obsolete and unwanted computers and such out of the country's landfills.
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Intel Challenges AMD With i7
What's inside the seventh-generation chip platform?
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Small System Software Update Released for Nokia Internet Tablets
Nokia has introduced a small "bug fix" update for the software on its Internet Tablet line.
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Citibank supports recycling
IN a response to the government’s call to go green and reduce wastage, Citibank Malaysia started its first recycling project in conjunction with Earth Day last Tuesday.
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A friendly notebook
LONGING for a Sony VAIO notebook of your own or searching for that one notebook to fulfil your basic PC needs?
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New player on the Net
INFOLIENT Broadband is a young and dynamic Internet service provider with access to the largest wireline network coverage in Malaysia. "Infolient Broadband rides on the Streamyx platform," said group managing director Eric Chong. "The difference is that we have total control of it.
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GameStop Launches New Female-Driven Microsite for Madden NFL ´09
GameStop, Corp. (NYSE:GME), the world´s largest video game and entertainment software retailer,
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DigitalBridge Communications expands service
DigitalBridge Communications Corp. has expanded its high-speed wireless Internet network to South Dakota.
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MTS second-quarter profit drops
TORONTO (Reuters) - Regional communications firm Manitoba Telecom Services reported a lower quarterly profit on Monday even as it continued cutting costs and had strong growth in its wireless, high-speed Internet and digital television services.
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Did the big boys really kill OLPC?
The UK's Timesonline is running a story today showing us that, despite internal strife, questionable morals and ideals, and now, the inclusion of Windows XP on a computer that was supposed to embody all that was good in open source, OLPC remains a media darling. The article...
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Video archive project can record lectures for posterity
A new video service on University of Michigan's campus can capture presentations, classes and training workshops, post them online within 24 hours and archive them indefinitely in a high-quality universal format.
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GameStop Launches New Female-Driven Microsite for Madden NFL '09
GRAPEVINE, Texas----GameStop, Corp. , the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer, today announced the launch of its “Girls Night In” Online Playbook and Web site in conjunction with highly anticipated release of Madden NFL ‘09 All Play for the Nintendo Wii by Electronic Arts on Tuesday, August 12.
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Related Stories
Stolen medical, airline and business data included. By AvantiKumar 15 Jul 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, 19 JUNE 2008 - Secure web gateway provider Finjan has found more than 500 Mb (Megabytes) of stolen medical, business and airline data on crimeware servers in Malaysia and Argentina.
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Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the founders of Flickr, are the latest high-profile officials to leave Yahoo. By Juan Carlos Perez 14 Jul 2008 MIAMI, 18 JUNE 2008 - The high-profile departures at Yahoo continue with the news that Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are leaving.
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Invisibility Cloaks and Bad Ideas
The trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince debuted on the Internet a couple weeks ago and created some buzz unsurprisingly, and you can bet that as the movie nears its November 21st release date that the Internet buzz will be at full capacity. read more
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