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Huskers dismiss 2 wrestlers accused of posing nude
Two Nebraska wrestlers, including one who won an NCAA championship in 2007, have been dismissed from the team after posing naked for videos and photographs on an Internet pornography site.
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Dell Updates Business Laptops For 'Digital Nomads'
The PCs include a security subsystem to protect data and prevent unauthorized network access, and technology to extend battery life to as much as 19 hours.
InformationWeek |
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Gates Marks Anniversary Of Microsoft Research Arm
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Internet would eventually spark a software-writing revolution.
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Air Force beefing up nuke, intelligence jobs
The new leaders of the Air Force say the service lost its focus and must work to mend fences after a slew of contracting and nuclear-related missteps. Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, who is the new chief of staff, told Pentagon reporters on Tuesday that he plans to use the reinstatement about 14,000 jobs in the service to bolster its nuclear staffing and beef up intelligence and surveillance. ...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune |
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To gain more exposure, some retailers have begun reaching out to bloggers
Retailers with blogs say blogs should not be used as overt sales tools. Rather, retailers’ blogs should educate and entertain readers while gently dropping in occasional references to products relevant to the subject of a blog post.
InternetRetailer.com |
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American Apparel leads in online display ads among retailers, study says
A new study from comScore Inc. based on data from comScore’s Ad Metrix service shows that many of the largest apparel retailers are noticeably absent from top online advertiser rankings.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Circuit City juices up social networking tools and ratings resources
Circuit City Stores Inc. has added social networking tools that enable online shoppers to connect with each other and Circuit City associates when researching electronics gear on CircuitCity.com.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Hurricanes and climate change: A sharper view
Figure shows an example of a hurricane computer simulation generated by the Rosenstiel School team. The colors indicate water vapor in a vertical column of the atmosphere, where the dark...
EurekAlert! |
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World Wrestling e-commerce sales are up for Q2, but down for first half
Wrestling fans bought more memorabilia and gear online from World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. in the second quarter. In Q2 World Wrestling, No. 325 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide , posted e-commerce sales of $3.9 million, an increase of 8.3% over web sales of $3.6 million in the prior year.
InternetRetailer.com |
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'Twilight' Lexicon Blog Hacked By 'Breaking Dawn' Haters
Stephenie Meyer's "Breaking Dawn" has prompted haters to hack the Twilight Lexicon blog, shutting it down for more than 48 hours.
MTV Music Television |
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Nokia Give Out N810s to KDE Hackers at Akademy
Posted by jospoortvliet on Tuesday 12/Aug/2008, @15:41 from the Gadgets-everywhere dept. During the Emsys-sponsored Mobile and Embedded day at Akademy 2008 Nokia distributed 100 N810 internet tablets among the KDE hackers, and gave another 50 for the project to decide who to give to.
KDE News |
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Letters 8.13.08
Waugh, waugh, waugh! Re Ella Taylor's 'Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited ' [Tracking Shots, July 23]: Sorry, was this a review of the movie or the writer's contempt for Waugh? J. Wright via internet What an extraordinary hack! ...
The Village Voice |
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Turn Your Mac into an Internet Jukebox with Jinzora [Music]
Weblog Simple Help details how to install and set up the free, open-source internet jukebox Jinzora on your Mac. Gina already showed you how to install Jinzora on your Windows PC so you can listen to...
Lifehacker |
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Task Contexts Keep You Productive [Getting Things Done]
Productivity blogger Merlin Mann says he wasn't nearly as ruffled by yesterday's Gmail outage as many folks were because he organizes his tasks using GTD-style contexts. Any given project he is...
Lifehacker |
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Do You Trust the Cloud? [Ask The Readers]
While web-based applications promise gigabytes of storage, anywhere-access, easy backup, and no software requirements beyond your browser to use them, becoming dependent on webapps can leave you high...
Lifehacker |
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Australia's Telstra year profit up 13.5 pct
MELBOURNE, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Telstra Corp Ltd , Australia's biggest phone company, reported a 13.5 percent rise in year profit on Wednesday, driven by strong sales growth in high-speed Internet to homes and mobile phone services.
Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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Gates marks anniversary of Microsoft research arm
Tue, Aug 12, 2008 (3:21 p.m.) Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Internet would eventually spark a software-writing revolution.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Dell unveils new line of laptops
Amid big fanfare, Dell Tuesday unveiled its new line of ultra-thin notebook computers. It's Dell's attempt to regain its position as the country's personal computer leader by getting out front on laptops and not just desktop sales.
KVUE-TV Austin |
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Gates marks anniversary of Microsoft research arm
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Tulsa World |
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Nvidia Has First Loss in 6 Years; Buyback Lifts Stock (Update2)
Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Nvidia Corp. , the second-largest maker of computer-graphics chips, posted its first quarterly loss in six years. The shares jumped in late trading after the company said it boosted a share buyback program by $1 billion.
Bloomberg.com |
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Neb. wrestlers dismissed, accused of posing nude
Associated Press - August 12, 2008 6:13 PM ET LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Two Nebraska wrestlers have been dismissed from the team after allegedly posing naked on an Internet pornography site.
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Oncore Power wants to charge every MacBook battery all of the time
Filed under: Laptops , Peripherals If you find yourself burning through your MacBook or iBook batteries at an alarming rate, perhaps you require a charging solution that's, shall we say... more robust. That's where Oncore Power's psychotic 6-bay charging station comes into play. Never again will you have to suffer the indignation of a powerless laptop with the company's all-in-one ...
Engadget |
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Soviet Internet Domain Survives – in Obscurity
13 August 2008 By Anna Yukhananov / Special to The Moscow Times In the culmination of a decades-long debate, the international community has finally recognized the Soviet Union — online, that is.
The Moscow Times |
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Microsoft Stages 'Mammoth Patch Tuesday'
Counting vulnerabilities rather than bulletins, 17 of 26 are critical, the most since August 2006, according to Symantec researchers.
InformationWeek |
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Toshiba samples largest density embedded NAND flash
The eMMC and eSD embedded memories combine up to 32GB NAND flash and a controller in a single package.
EETimes |
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