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Ft. Collins Man Arrested for Internet Luring
A Fort Collins man has been arrested in Fort Morgan for allegedly trying to lure teenage girls on the Internet.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-04-30 23:58 Court rules Internet cos. to pay up to $100M in music license fees: ASCAP
SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - A U.S. District Court said Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, RealNetworks Inc. and Yahoo Inc. should pay license fees that could amount to as much as $100 million to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and its membership for the companies' use of music in the ASCAP repertory, ASCAP said late Wednesday.
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Report: Microsoft Board Meets Over Yahoo Bid
Microsoft's board is meeting on Wednesday to decide how to proceed in the company's bid to acquire Yahoo, The Wall Street...
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Google Responds to Adwords Quality Score Variable Leak
Yesterday on Search Engine Journal, Eric Lander posted some screen shots of Google openly serving confidential advertiser information in their AdWords results, such as the max CPC and quality score variables such as thresh and Pscore. The sharing of max cost per click numbers by Google has sparked concern from some advertisers, fearing that their competitors [...]
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Microsoft Willing To Sweeten the Yahoo! Deal
The Wall Street Journal, which has become Microsoft's official leak site, says that the Microsoft board is meeting now, as we speak, to consider what to do about Yahoo. Word of their deliberations is expected after the meeting. The Journal says Microsoft is now willing to pay $32 or $33 a share for Yahoo, up from $31 (or $29.12 thanks to the post-Yahoo stock hit), but Yahoo's major shareholders.
SYS-CON Media |
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Laptop concert linking Stanford and Beijing signals world has changed
Do you remember that Jefferson Airplane tune, "Fat Angel," from 1968? It was recorded live at the Fillmore (whether in San Francisco or New York wasn't clear from the album jacket), and the lyrics went like this: "Fly Translove Airways, gets you there on time.
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Computer store owner faces charges
By Johnny Green Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 6:51 p.m. An Horry County man who owns a chain of computer stores faces charges. Horry County police tell us they arrested Robert Hussey last Thursday.
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Stanford, tech giants team up to enable software for parallel computers
Stanford and many of the biggest companies in computing will announce Friday, May 2, a joint effort to address a major missed opportunity in information technology: the dearth of software that can harness the parallelism of the multiple processors that are being built into virtually every new computer.
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Child Pornography
It's a growing trend on the internet among teenagers: posting pictures and videos of themselves performing sex acts. It's also happening here locally.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Mar 2007 21:56 UTC
"The Sony UX1XN is quite possibly one of the smallest laptops ever. Think of the smallest laptop you've ever seen, and this will be smaller. Probably.
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Rotten neighbors? There's a website for that
RottenNeighbor.com markets itself as "a real estate search engine." But the people who post comments on the site are not real estate agents. Posts are mostly complaints against neighbors with descriptive titles like "mean old lady," "smelly hippies" and worse.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Jul 2006 22:31 UTC, submitted by Tom Magnum
The Mono debate over on the GNOME desktop developer mailing list is heating up again. Philip Van Hoof makes a compelling argument about the need for GNOME decision makers to take into consideration future developers and the over-reliance of C and GObject in GNOME. At what point does a general-purpose, high level framework and runtime become a necessity for GNOME?
New Mobile Computing |
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BRANGELINA AND KIDS IN FRANCE FOR 'LONG DURATION': REPORT
LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2008 (AFP) - Megastar couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and their four children have traveled to the south of France where they will stay for some time, People magazine reported online Wednesday.
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Memristor — 4th Basic Element of Circuits
esocid writes "Researchers at HP Labs have solved a decades-old mystery by proving the existence of a fourth basic element in integrated circuits that could make it possible to develop computers that turn on and off like an electric light. The memristor — short for memory resistor — could make it possible to develop far more energy-efficient computing systems with memories that retain ...
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Google Analytics will finally integrate blog tracking
With all that Google has had on its plate over the past two years, you can imagine some projects have been shoved to the very back of the back burner. But only now is a February 2006 acquisition starting to heat up.
BetaNews |
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Report: Microsoft board meets over Yahoo bid
Microsoft's board is meeting on Wednesday to decide how to proceed in the company's bid to acquire Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal reported. Quoting anonymous sources, The Journal reported that the meeting could yield a concrete announcement. Microsoft's next move is something that all parties with a stake in the deal have been waiting for since Yahoo failed to agree to a deal by ...
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Wayne State starts online degree program for librarians
DETROIT -- Students seeking a master's degree in library science from Wayne State University can earn one while sitting in front of their home computers, starting this fall.
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Microsoft Hands Cops a Crowbar for BitLocker
Microsoft has given law enforcement officials a new tool known as "Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor," or COFEE, to aid in the pursuit of crimes involving computers. COFEE is a framework of customizable and common forensic tools for law enforcement. Microsoft made the announcement at this year's Law Enforcement Technology conference.
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Microsoft Willing To Raise Bid, But How Much Is Enough?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft's directors are collectively willing to authorize the company to raise its bid for Yahoo to up to $33 per share but perhaps not to the levels that Yahoo has signaled it wants to be acquired. If such a sweetened bid did occur it would put further pressure on Yahoo to negotiate and make it harder for the company to argue that it was being ...
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UK music Mafia threatens kiddies
MUSIC INDUSTRY FAT CATS have gone one step beyond with a nauseating campaign, hiding behind the skirts of legitimate children's charity, to stop kids from downloading music which isn't lining their own bulging, hand-stitched pockets.
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Intel's Atom Chip Faces Supply Squeeze
Low-cost computer makers are predicting a shortage later this year.
TheStreet.com |
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Backup Contact Information with USB SIM Card Reader
We've seen all kinds of memory card readers for our computers, backing up the data that we have stored on CompactFlash cards, Secure Digital Cards, and so on. One memory module that has largely been left out in the cold is the SIM card that accompanies GSM cell phones.
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HP discovery could lead to beefier memory
For nearly 40 years, scientists have speculated that basic electrical circuits have a natural ability to remember things even when the power is switched off. They just couldn't find it.
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Police: Man Raped Girl He Met On MySpace
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Police have arrested an Alabama man who they say raped a 14-year-old Greenville girl who he met online. Jared Heath Gaskey, 21, is charged with second-degree rape and soliciting a child by computer.
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School Boys Allegedly Sexually Assault Other Boys, Girls
10 boys allegedly sexually assaulted three pre-teen girls. The boys were putting into practice what they had watched on the Internet and cable TV. Some of the young male assailants were first sexually assaulted by other boys. Then the boys, both assailants and victims, sexually assaulted girls.
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