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Basketball Team Will Play In Beaumont In December
An internet sports website is reporting that on Monday, the American Basketball Association (ABA) announced that Beaumont would be added to its expansion teams for the upcoming season starting in December.
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Business calendar
• Business After Hours, a networking event for local businesses is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Venture Computer Systems, 3416 Lakeridge Place N.W. The Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors this monthly networking event. • The
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WPost Admits Bungling Obama Quote
August 10, 2008— T he Washington Post’s ombudsman says the newspaper’s original source for a quote that was used to portray Barack Obama as a megalomaniac now disputes the Post’s negative interpretation that has spread across cable TV, the Internet and even into a John McCain attack ad.
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Hackers hacked at infamous DefCon gathering
In the end, it was hackers at DefCon that got hacked.
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Citrix Systems' Simon Crosby: Xen and the Art of Cloud Computing
In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company's plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that will help migrate virtual machines between different hypervisors and virtualization platforms. I sat down with Crosby, who joined Citrix from XenSource, where he had been chief technology officer.
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Live From Beijing: Computer-Enhanced Fireworks
Millions of people thought they were watching live fireworks as part of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. It turns out, some of those vivid fireworks were computer graphics created by a team of hundreds of Chinese visual-effects specialists who worked nearly a year to pull it off.
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European Court Delays Extradition of Hacker McKinnon (Update1)
Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The European Court of Human Rights will hear an application to halt the extradition of Gary McKinnon , a British man accused of hacking into almost 100 U.S. military computers, his lawyer said today.
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Global Trail of an Online Crime Ring
Prosecutors say their own informant stole millions of credit card numbers in a case that reveals how the Internet is enabling new crimes on a vast scale.
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Apple's MobileMe mail, Google's Gmail go dark
Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail online e-mail services suffered hours-long outages Monday, leaving millions of users unable to access their accounts. Google restored service within about two and a half hours, but it took Apple approximately seven hours to restore full access to its online mail service. Apple users first reported trouble accessing the service's servers from ...
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New AnyTrack GPS-120 Helps Equipment Rental and Construction Companies Lower Fuel Costs and Fight Theft
AnyDATA Corporation, a global leader in the design and manufacture of wireless communications devices, has introduced the AnyTrack GPS-120, a real-time theft prevention and inventory management tracking solution that minimizes the fuel costs, operating expenses and downtime caused by unauthorized use and theft of heavy equipment.
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Crying Foul over Online Junk Food Marketing
At age 2, Zameen Rashid is well acquainted with Lucky, the leprechaun who lists the marshmallow clovers, moons, and stars in boxes of General Mills' Lucky Charms cereal. Maybe too well, says his mother, Fahmida Rashid, who frets that too-frequent exposure to food ads in video games, TV shows, and the Web will foster unhealthy eating habits. "Just as you wouldn't expect to see a tobacco ad on a ...
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Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?
Google's Gmail outage on Monday was the latest stumble for nascent cloud computing services, which are becoming the lifeblood for small businesses and startups. The Gmail outage--along with Amazon's stumbles of late--raises a few key questions: Where's the offline synchronization capability? Can we depend solely on the Web? Is Microsoft's...
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Beijing's Computer-Generated Fireworks
Millions of people thought they were watching live fireworks as part of the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. It turns out, those vivid fireworks were really computer graphics created by a team of hundreds of Chinese visual effects specialists who worked nearly a year to pull it off.
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New Services Infiltrate Free 411 Market
A handful of companies are infiltrating the multibillion-dollar 411 market. Free 411 was pioneered by Jingle Networks, a company that runs ads before giving you the number you're looking for. With very little marketing, they now get 20 million calls a month and are profitable. The 411 market is evolving into something that operates a lot more like Internet searches.
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Boxwood Capital Partners Acquires Coffee Wholesale USA
Boxwood Capital Partners forms eBeverage Wholesale, LLC to acquire leading internet distributor of coffee, tea and sports drinks
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Police officer investigated over Hajduk clashes
Photos of the clashes between Croatian fans and local police during the UEFA Cup match between Birkirkara and Hajduk Split are surfacing on the net, eased by the electronic communication of the internet era.
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Piecing Together Mobile Video Tech
In July, Nielsen Media Research reported "watching video on the Internet is no longer a novelty; 119 million unique viewers viewed 7.5 billion video streams in May 2008. In addition, as of Q1 2008, 91 million Americans owned a video-capable phone." As content owners look to mobilize their video content to reach these mobile users, they'll need to consider more than simply how many users are on ...
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ZipForm Available to Members of New Castle County Board of REALTORS
FRASER, Mich., Aug. 12, 2008 -- RE FormsNet today announced that members of the New Castle County Board of REALTORS in Wilmington, Delaware, will be able to purchase ZipForm, the real estate industry's leading brand of real estate forms software.
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CCID Consulting: Intel 45nm Products Gradually Recognized in China
CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong , recently released an analysis on Intel 45nm products.
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Micrel, Inc. Announces Dan Artusi Has Agreed to Join Board of Directors
Micrel Inc., , an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today announced that Dan Artusi has agreed to stand for election to Micrel's board of directors at the Company's upcoming annual meeting.
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Boeing Selects AT&T for Multimillion Dollar Network and Wireless Services Contract
AT&T Inc. announced today that The Boeing Company has selected AT&T to be its primary telecommunications provider. The contract calls for AT&T to provide advanced network and wireless services to help Boeing enhance its business processes and increase productivity.
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LatCel and Netbiscuits Enhance Spanish-Language Mobile Web Surfing for U.S. Customers
LatCel, the leading provider of wireless content services in the U.S. Hispanic market, is bringing culturally relevant content to Latino customers in the United States and Puerto Rico by creating a series of Latino portal products developed using the Netbiscuits Mobile Web platform.
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Smalltown(R) Announces Reseller Program for Distribution and Sale of Webcard(TM) Universal Business Listings
Smalltown, the company redefining online local advertising through technical innovations, publicly launched their Reseller Program today. The opportunity to easily display and sell Webcard universal business listings is now available to any Internet-based company.
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Norton Safe Web Beta Now Available
Symantec Corp., makers of Norton security software, announced the availability of Norton Safe Web beta, a Web site rating service that makes the Internet a safer place, whether shopping, watching video, downloading music or just surfing the Web.
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ABBYY Announces New Branch in Taiwan
ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced the opening of its new office, ABBYY USA Software House, Inc. Taiwan Branch, which officially began operation on Friday, August 8, 2008.
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