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Yahoo's Fire Eagle takes flight for location services
Yahoo on Tuesday announced general availability of Fire Eagle, which enables users to their mark their location on the Web and is being leveraged in applications such as travel and messaging systems.
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Internet sting nabs man trying for teen sex
PEKIN - An East Peoria man was arrested at a Washington restaurant Sunday when he went there allegedly to have sex with a teenaged girl he'd met on the Internet.
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Yahoo near naming Biondi, Chapple to board: source
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is in the process of okaying the appointments of former Viacom Inc CEO Frank Biondi and former Nextel Partners CEO John Chapple to its board and is expected to name the appointees by Friday, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
EARTHtimes.org |
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Telstra profits up 13.5 pc
Telstra Corp Ltd, Australia's biggest phone company, has reported a 13.5 percent rise in year profit, driven by strong sales growth in high-speed Internet to homes and mobile phone services.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-08-12 23:55 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.
Interactive Investor |
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Yahoo near naming Biondi, Chapple to board: source
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is in the process of okaying the appointments of former Viacom Inc CEO Frank Biondi and former Nextel Partners CEO John Chapple to its board and is expected to name the appointees by Friday, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Reuters.co.uk |
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CNN adds reporters in 10 cities, including Houston
LOS ANGELES (AP) - CNN is adding journalists in ten cities -- from Philadelphia to Houston to Seattle -- to bolster its TV and online coverage.
KXAN 36 Austin |
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DNS creator: It's time to add security
Paul Mockapetris has called on ISPs (Internet service providers) to boost Domain Name System security following the exposure of a fundamental flaw. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
ZDNet Asia |
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Virtualization / Cloud Computing - Nvidia Hits the Wall
Nvidia fiscal Q2 revenues were down and that’s why it lost $120.9 million, 22 cents a share, in the second quarter. Well, that and the $198 million one-time charge it took to cover costs stemming from those previously admitted defective notebook chips coupled with – its CEO said – a supposedly weaker worldwide PC market and Nvidia’s miscalculations of AMD’s pricing pressures on its desktop GPU ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Google's Keyczar designed to make cryptography easier
This open source project is meant to help developers implement secure and simple cryptography.
ZDNet Asia |
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Gartner: Web 2.0 set to transform business
The analyst predicts technologies such as SaaS, mashups and online services will have a change-inducing impact on business within the next two years, despite current user disillusionment.
ZDNet Asia |
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Average Issue Readership General Public PARC Media Index 1997, Saudi Arabia
With technology opening the new doors of communication and the distribution of news and information, ArabNews Online is not bound by physical limitations. ArabNews Online is published by ArabNews from its offices located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is now available to readers around the globe.
Arab News |
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Two Nebraska wrestlers dismissed for 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.
Asbury Park Press |
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CNN adds reporters in 10 cities, including Houston
Associated Press - August 12, 2008 6:55 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - CNN is adding journalists in ten cities -- from Philadelphia to Houston to Seattle -- to bolster its TV and online...
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Local classic car dealer, son arrested in multi-agency raid
Multiple agencies converged on a Conroe car dealership Tuesday afternoon where they arrested the owner and his son, seized files and computers and contacted car owners to retrieve their vehicles, officials said.
The Conroe Courier |
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Sheriff: Clear program laptop at SFO was stolen, then returned
The Transportation Security Administration announced a week ago that it had suspended new enrollments to the program, known as Clear, after the unencrypted computer went missing from a locked office at San Francisco International Airport.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Recycling seen as money saver
BISBEE - There are strong reasons for developing a countywide recycling program.
Arizona Range News |
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Thieves Target Items of Value by Browsing Craigslist
There's a new warning about what you post on the internet. A distinctive fireplace was stolen from a south Minneapolis home, and the thieves targeted the property manager by browsing home listings on Craigslist.
FOX 9 News Twin Cities |
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CNN adds reporters in 10 cities to expand coverage
CNN said Tuesday it's adding journalists in 10 cities from Philadelphia to Seattle to provide broader, more nimble TV and online coverage of news nationwide.
Bradenton Herald |
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GOL Implements New Ticket Sales System
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. , the parent company of Brazilian airlines GOL Transportes Aereos S.A. and VRG Linhas Aereas S.A. , announces that it implemented at GTA a new ticket sales system, New Skies, developed by Navitaire.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Microsoft updates Mac Office 2008, 2004
Microsoft Tuesday released updates for Microsoft Office 2008 and 2004 for Mac . Office 2008 v12.1.2 contains "several changes to improve stability and performance" and includes "fixes that an attacker might use to overwrite the contents of a computer's memory by using malicious code." Office 2004 v11.5.1 also includes bug fixes and security improv...
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Microsoft Releases 11 Updates for Patch Tuesday, 6 Critical
In the biggest security bulletin release since February, Microsoft issued 11 updates, six of which were critical, repairing glitches that affect multiple versions of Windows, including Vista.
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CNN adds reporters in 10 cities, including Houston
Associated Press - August 12, 2008 6:55 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - CNN is adding journalists in ten cities -- from Philadelphia to Houston to Seattle -- to bolster its TV and online...
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Yahoo near naming Biondi, Chapple to board: source
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is in the process of okaying the appointments of former Viacom Inc CEO Frank Biondi and former Nextel Partners CEO John Chapple to its board and is expected to name the appointees by Friday, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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CNN adds reporters in 10 cities, including Houston
Associated Press - August 12, 2008 6:55 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - CNN is adding journalists in ten cities -- from Philadelphia to Houston to Seattle -- to bolster its TV and online...
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