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Crimes against Children Conference Opens
How do we keep children safe in a world that's changed so drastically with computers, cell phones and related dangers? That's the focus of the 20th Crimes Against Children Conference Meeting in Dallas. FOX 4's Shaun Rabb attended and joins us now with details.
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Child-pornography teacher 'a broken man'
A former Brighton Grammar teacher who used words such as "pre-teen Lolita" to scour the internet for child pornography was a broken man whose reputation was in tatters, the County Court has heard.
The Age |
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Product Reviews
We offer our picks for Wi-Fi appliances that can pull music from Internet Radio stations around the world. Not a member?
ARNnet |
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Gmail does down, bloggers go nuts
AUSTRALIANS may have missed it, but Google's Gmail service went down for an hour or two overnight.
The Mercury |
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Virginia man runs for president online
A 60-year-old man from Norfolk, Va., is among the more than 70 people who have filed campaign papers to run for U.S. president, officials said.J.D. Criveau, a retired former Navy technician, urges people: Don't vote Republican, Don't vote Democratic, Vote American, The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported Monday.Criveau's campaign for the White House began about a month ago. His campaign effort ...
Moldova.org |
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Adam Art Gallery forum series underway this week
This Saturday 16 August the Adam Art Gallery presents the first of three forum discussions associated with its current exhibition The Subject Now. This forum will explore the idea of ‘online subjectivity’.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Olympics spur record Web numbers in US
NEW YORK - American sports fans are turning to the Web to follow the Summer Olympics in droves, setting as many records as have the Olympic swimmers over the first four days of the Beijing Games, according to Nielsen Online and NBC Universal.
Khaleej Times |
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E-waste recycling drive to help build environmental garden in Roseville
The city of Roseville and SIMS Recycling Solutions today kicked off a business-oriented e-waste collection drive that will help fund construction of a public environmental learning garden.
The Sacramento Bee |
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Virginia man runs for president online
NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A 60-year-old man from Norfolk, Va., is among the more than 70 people who have filed campaign papers to run for U.S. president, officials said.
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Gmail is down, no wait it's up, no wait .... [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
For a while this afternoon, both Apple and Google mail servers were out of whack. Kick back and watch tech pundits race to blog about how this is a big day for Twitter. Update: Google says it has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Amazon's Kindle seen as hot holiday seller
Amazon.com's Kindle is projected to be a hot holiday seller this year.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Dial-up users cling to slow Internet [Broadband]
Broadband growth has fallen by half in a year. Cable and telephone providers of high-speed Internet signed up 887,000 net new customers last quarter — half of the number of signups in the same... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Related Stories
Malaysia to hold inaugural testing certification forum to upgrade practices. By AvantiKumar 16 Jul 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, 16 JULY 2008 - Malaysia’s national software testing board (MSTB) has said that software testing in the region is 30 years behind the times.
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More Yahoo layoffs coming [Valleyspeak]
Yahoo's Aikido and Judo projects, briefly mentioned in a New York Times story, "are, in fact, yet another round of navel-gazing strategy overview efforts," Kara Swisher reports. Translation: more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Rocketboom-Rielle Hunter links exposed [Fred Baron]
What do Rocketboom's Andrew Baron and John Edwards's fling Rielle Hunter have in common? They're both videobloggers who live off of trial lawyer Fred Baron's largesse. Financing from Fred, Andrew's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Yahoo deal lets Google sell ads all over the Web [Online Advertising]
Google and Yahoo have published a highly redacted version of their search-advertising deal. Even most of the definitions have been censored, making it hard to follow. But this much is clear: This is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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How 15 minutes of shame can save your company [Security]
The Wall of Sheep is a tradition at the annual Defcon computer-security conference. Hackers at the event post information that other attendees have accidentally placed unsecured onto the conference's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Averatec to inevitably pump out a netbook
Filed under: Laptops Averatec reliably cranks out stylish-but-generic takes on most new hardware trends, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the company is prepping a netbook. Although nothing's been locked in, it sounds like we should expect an Eee 1000 -class machine, with a 10.2-inch screen and an Atom processor -- but it'll also have a "real" Shift key, a 120GB drive, and ...
Engadget |
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Zune seeks a few good studios
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 01:25:00 Struggling player sniffing for content deal Microsoft is said to be on the hunt for studios to provide exclusive content for the Zune media player. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Microsoft officials have been visiting with...
vnunet.com |
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The cloud of unreliability
It's not clear why anyone should be surprised that Gmail, Amazon.com's cloud service, Salesforce.com, or Netflix have periods of instability or downtime.
CNET |
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Travel: Holidays
Microsoft founder Bill Gates (right) with his wife Melinda during the men's badminton singles match in Beijing. (AP Photo)
The Times of India |
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Zune seeks a few good studios
Microsoft is said to be on the hunt for studios to provide exclusive content for the Zune media player.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Google resolves Gmail access problems
(Updates with information that problems are resolved)
Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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Libraries find patronage up amid penny-pinching
As everything gets more expensive, the region’s public libraries – and their free services – are becoming more popular. In everything from book checkout to Internet usage, libraries in Spokane, Spokane County and Coeur d’Alene say they’re seeing significant increases.
The Spokesman-Review |
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Another reason to stop buying CDs. It ain't green.
Tossing old CDs, DVDs, jewel cases may be bad for environment Downloading is better for the environment: CDs, DVDs and jewel cases are “difficult-to-recycle materials [that] can pollute groundwater and, in turn, contribute to a whole host of human health problems.
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