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Agent Gets Yearlong Ban for Defamation
Man allegedly linked businesswoman to Russian mob in Web postings.
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AT&T rolls out television product in Wichita
AT&T on Monday launched its Internet-based television service in the Wichita market, posing new competition to cable and satellite providers in the metro.
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Consumers to be getting good deals on LCDs soon
If you have been eying that new large LCD computer monitor or television for a while now, your continued patience could reward you in the wallet. According to financial analysts, the current LCD market could have consumers saving a lot of green if their timing is right. Right now it seems there is an oversupply of [...]
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Two 8GB storage options for the Eee PC
If you are using an Eee PC with an SSD you are probably getting pretty low on storage at this point. The original models came with just 2, 4, or 8GB of storage and the newer ones are bigger, but still far behind hard drive territory. For many people the Eee PC and other netbooks [...]
Geek.com |
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674 Pirivenas to receive computers
Milton DHARMASINGHE - Bulathsinhala spl. corr.
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Online retailer As We Change acquired by parent company of
Blyth Inc. has acquired the assets of As We Change, a site targeting women 40 and over that sells through catalogs and online. As We Change will become part of the Miles Kimball Company, which manages several brands that sell via the web and catalogs.
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Staples Inc. names senior vice president for Quill brand
Staples Inc. has named Michael Patriarca senior vice president of Quill. Patriarca will manage the catalog and online business of Quill, which serves small and medium businesses.
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Zale names new president, chief marketing and e-commerce officer
Multi-channel jewelry retailer Zale Corp. has promoted executive vice president Theo Killion to president and Steve Larkin from senior vice president to executive vice president and chief marketing and e-commerce officer.
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Green Team - Recycling CFL light bulbs
The concern with Compact Fluorescent light bulbs, or CFL's, is the trace amounts of mercury in them. This can pose a threat to humans and landfills. Melissa Quillard with Waste Management says, "There's
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HP introduces new displays and DreamColor calibration kit
Filed under: Displays It's not all DreamColor laptops for HP at SIGGRAPH today -- the company's line of performance desktop monitors got a little bigger as well. The new 24-inch LP2475w (pictured) puts 102 percent of the NTSC color gamut across 1920 x 1200 pixels, while the 22-inch LP2275w lights up 92 percent across 1680 x 1050 pixels, and both sport 1000:1 contrast ratios, ...
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HP gets official with EliteBook 8730w, 8530w and 8530p
Filed under: Laptops Not that these units are a complete surprise or anything, but HP's taking the time to get really, really official with its minty fresh EliteBooks. Up first is the beastly EliteBook 8730w (that's the 6830s pictured), which packs a 17-inch DreamColor display, a quad-core Intel CPU, 8GB of RAM and one of NVIDIA's 1GB Quadro FX graphics cards. Keeping things going are ...
Engadget |
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Estonia, Google Help Cyberlocked Georgia
Georgia's news and government websites are under "permanent attack." They're turning to their Estonian neighbors -- and to Google's Blogspot service -- for help.
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Beaver Co. Man Arrested In Cranberry After Sexual Online Chats
A Beaver County man is accused of using an Internet chat room to communicate with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl from the Cranberry area, who turned out to be an agent from the Attorney General's office.
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59% Indian consumers study nutrition labels: Nielsen
About 71 per cent Indians say they take notice of packaged goods’ labels containing nutritional information compared to two years ago but only 59 per cent Indians mostly understand the nutritional panels and labels that they read on the food packaging, according to findings from a recent internet survey on food labelling and nutrition conducted in 51 countries by Nielsen Company.
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Netbooks everywhere. Do people really want them?
The new sub-$500 laptops, or netbooks, are smaller, cheaper for a reason.
Orange County Register |
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U.S. Broadband growth plummets in 2Q
Cable companies do much better than phone companies
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David Simon and Stars of HBO'S 'The Wire' Speak on Free Podcast at movingimage.us
Museum website has more than 70 exclusive discussions with leading figures in film and television-Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, and morePinewood Dialogues Online at ht...
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Check Point To Offer Free ForceField
August 11, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Security vendor Check Point Software will give away free full versions of its ZoneAlarm ForceField for a 24-hour period starting 9 am eastern time, Tuesday, August 12.
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Google Street View Captures Image of Burning House, Moves Along
According to Nicholas Carlson at Valleywag , Google Street View captured a nifty shot of a burning home while riding through someplace called Eagle Point Drive in some magical land called Sherwood, Arkansas. After coming across the blaze, the driver (allegedly) kept driving. The Google Prius ( presumably ) was "making the rounds in the neighborhood that day," but then drove "past the burning ...
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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. Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 were released last November . The Visual Studio pack and the .Net Framework upgrade service ...
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Intel’s new chip to be called Core i7
SANTA CLARA: Intel Corp. said it planned to sell its new generation of chips for desktop computers under the established ‘Core’ brand, with the first chips of the new line to be called Core i7. The microprocessors are based on a ...
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Brief: Browser toolbar to check site security
Browser toolbar to check site security
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Conexant sells BB media processing to NXP
NEWPORT BEACH, USA: Conexant Systems Inc. has completed the sale of its broadband media processing product lines to NXP Semiconductors.
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Steve Jobs Tries to Downplay the iTunes Store’s Profit
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs repeated Apple’s longstanding assertion that it doesn’t expect to make much money from the iTunes store.
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Southlake Police Department offers accident reports online
Online accident reports are available for purchase from the city of Southlake Department of Public Safety. Accident reports generated on or after July 1 can be accessed at southlaketx .policereports.us.
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