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12-08-2008: Uncertainty hangs over HSBB project
KUALA LUMPUR: Uncertainty now surrounds the RM15.2 billion high-speed broadband (HSBB) project that only a month ago was thought to be safely in the hands of Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM).
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PAKISTAN: High-tech survey tool offers new hope to disaster-hit communities
Source: IRIN The sight of humanitarian assessment teams moving through calamity-hit villages and punching data into small, hand-held computers as they interview villagers may soon become routine in Pakistan.
AlertNet |
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Malaysian firm, German experts to start joint anti-hacking research
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's IT research company Mimos is to begin joint research with Germany's Ruhr-University Bochum in efforts to tackle cybercrime, a news report said Tuesday. Both parties had recently signed a memorandum of understanding to conduc...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Invisibility shield appears possible
A UC Berkeley team finds materials that bend light around an object -- a big step toward a cloaking device. The technology could also be used as a 'super lens' to make smaller computer chips. Long the stuff of fantasy, practical invisibility shields have been brought a step closer to reality by researchers who say they have engineered materials that can hide an object by bending ordinary ...
Los Angeles Times |
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Georgian websites forced offline in 'cyber war'
Georgia and security experts have accused Russian state-sponsored hackers of breaking into Georgian government and commercial websites as part of a cyber war to supplement Russia's military operations in South Ossetia.
Stuff |
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Driven by the internet
Genealogy has become big business, with a plethora of websites dedicated to the topic and regular road shows across the country.
icWales |
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Internet troll claims authorship of Megan Meier blog
The person behind the inflammatory blog "Megan Had it Coming" is a 32-year-old information technology freelancer who lives near Seattle, according to a story about Internet trolls that ran Aug. 3 in The New York Times.
St. Charles Journal |
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India revels over a historic first in Olympics
India's Olympic curse has finally been lifted, by the chief executive of a company that sells joysticks and controllers for computer games.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Coldspring Library announces technology recycling program
The Coldspring Area Public Library has organized a technology-recycling program that is environmentally friendly and free of any disposal fees to both businesses and individuals.
Eastex Advocate |
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Children's Impact Center web profile links to pornography
The Community and Children’s Impact Center’s is being promoted on a biker website (www.bikerornot.com/index.asp&userID=54363). In the web profile is a link to a message board that contains images and postings that many would consider pornographic.
Eastex Advocate |
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Yahoo: Not So Private After All
Now you can opt out of its behaviorally targeted ads, but the search giant can still see what you're doing on its site
BusinessWeek |
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Crying Foul over Online Junk Food Marketing
A new report focuses on advertising methods, such as through social networks, and urges lawmakers to restrict junk food advertising to kids online
BusinessWeek |
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Crying Foul over Online Junk Food Marketing
A new report focuses on advertising methods, such as through social networks, and urges lawmakers to restrict junk food advertising to kids online
BusinessWeek |
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Yahoo: Not So Private After All
Now you can opt out of its behaviorally targeted ads, but the search giant can still see what you're doing on its site
BusinessWeek |
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Olympics: It's a fact! Michael Phelps eats a lot!
Unfortunately, tonight's coverage lacks the lasciviousness of last night. No naked pictures on the internet, no Italian boyfriends, no smack-talking frogs. So how will NBC fill all 387 hours of Olympics coverage? Try to create drama out of a temporarily...
Houston Chronicle |
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Reading, writing and recycling
To help curb the growing number of waste contributed by bottled water- and soda-drinkers at the schools, Madison County Recycling this year began providing bins for recycled plastic bottles and Highland Recycling agreed to pick up recycled plastic at schools. Plastic is an enormous source of waste along with the cardboard.
St. Clair County Journal |
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Review: Online Olympics is ambitious, but not TV
NEW YORK - NBC Universal is running an unprecedented 3,600 hours of Olympics coverage on television and the Internet, most of it live online, letting fans track their favorite sports in a way not possible even if they'd gone to Beijing.
The Journal News |
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NEWS: Disturbing web site reports deaths of MySpace users
The other day while enjoying a late lunch on the Collis porch and perusing my new favorite web site, I learned that 22-year-old Tim McLean had been stabbed to death and beheaded on a Greyhound bus by a fellow passenger. Tim's seatmate blew a psychopathic gasket in the middle of the night on a lonely stretch of the TransCanada Highway, somewhere in Manitoba.
The Dartmouth |
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New broadband users at low
The number of new high-speed Internet subscribers in the United States fell in the second quarter to the lowest level since a research company began tracking the broadband market seven years ago. The 20 largest cable and telephone companies added a net 887,000 residential and small-business subscribers in the three months that ended June 30, Leichtman Research Group Inc. said yesterday. Its ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Obama to SMS supporters on choice of running mate
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Mail and Guardian |
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Online Olympics ambitious, but not TV
NEW YORK -- NBC Universal is running an unprecedented 3,600 hours of Olympics coverage on television and the Internet, most of it live online, letting fans track their favorite sports in a way not possible even if they'd gone to Beijing.
El Paso Times |
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Cuba's pressure-cooker pace of change
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Mail and Guardian |
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Microsoft ups Czech sales by quarter in 2006/2007
Prague, Aug 11 (CTK) - The Czech branch of software company Microsoft raised sales by a quarter to Kc1.234bn in the fiscal year ending in mid-2007, the firm has said in its annual report.
Prague Daily Monitor |
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Broadband growth plummets
NEW YORK -- The number of new broadband Internet subscribers in the United States fell in the second quarter to the lowest level in at least seven years, a research company said Monday.
El Paso Times |
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PROS Announces European Price Optimization Forum Speakers
PROS, a world leader in pricing and revenue optimization science and software, today released the world-class presenters list and agenda for PROS Europe Pricing & Revenue Optimization Forum - 2008. The conference is to be held on 29-30 September, 2008 at the Hilton Frankfurt Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany.
Centre Daily Times |
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