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Soaked in Success
In just six months four young students from four Australian universities devised a potentially revolutionary software system to help drought-affected farmers manage their water resources – and won the coveted Microsoft Imagine Cup for software design in Paris.
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MobileMe: iPhone push lacks mail status changes
Apple's torrent of complaints regarding its new MobileMe internet suite are now gearing towards inherent flaws in the system, rather than accessibility issues which seem to have subsided. A forum post on Apple's discussion boards revealed that "read" message status changes, delete, reply-to, and move commands do not function with Push, with a techn...
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Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer
NEW YORK - Best Buy Co. will start selling the iPhone on Sept. 7, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple Inc.'s and AT&T Inc.'s own stores.
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Technology Briefing
Amazon debuts its online bilingual store ... Microsoft issues fixes for 26 security holes ... UW spins out new clean technology firm ... Dendreon reports second-quarter loss ... EMarketer lowers its Internet ad projections ... Belgian court hands eBay win in counterfeit case ... Facebook doubles users after overseas expansion.
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Videos: Patriotic youth, abandoned children and China's long march to modernity
WSJ: Olympic protestor VS Patriotic youth MSNBC: Parents of quake victims in Sichuan still in shock NTDTV: Sun Village, on the outskirts of Beijing, is home to over 100 abandoned children who have been orphans of men and women executed by the state or are currently in jail. MSNBC: Veteran reporter Tom Brokaw on China's long march to modernity MSNBC: 30 minute ...
Shanghaiist |
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Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band To Play Super Bowl?
The reports are flying, but so far at least, the NFL's denying. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are playing the Super Bowl? The reports are flying, but so far at least, the NFL's denying. According to several published reports circulating on the Internet today, including the New York Post (who apparently first broke the story, quoting mysterious and unnamed "spies"), Bruce Springsteen ...
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US broadband growth and speeds disappointing
Two pieces of research have painted a grim picture of the US broadband industry..
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Has Al Qaeda shifted focus from Kashmir to West?
'Al Qaeda is identifying, training and positioning operatives for attacks in the West, including in the US. These operatives include North American and European citizens and legal residents with passports that allow them to travel to the United States without an American visa,' said Ted Gistaro, National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats in the Office of the Director of National ...
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School board approves $2.3m to roll out laptops
TARBORO – After more than a year of planning, Edgecombe County Public Schools has received the green light to start its 1:1 Laptop Program.
Rocky Mount Telegram |
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Prosecutors: Cyber law applies to suicide case.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal prosecutors are defending their use of a cyber crime statute in the case of a Missouri woman charged with using a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide.
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Australia's Rice wins gold in medley
Australia's Stephanie Rice has won the gold medal in the women's 200m individual medley at the Beijing Olympics in world record time. (More to come.) Ads from Yahoo!
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Prosecutors: Cyber law applies to suicide case.
Associated Press - August 12, 2008 11:34 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal prosecutors are defending their use of a cyber crime statute in the case of a Missouri woman charged with using a...
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BigPond unlocks new music store
BigPond is stepping up its presence in the digital music business with a new MP3 music download store that does away with restrictive copy protection locks.
The Age |
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Obama's email revelation
Barack Obama is offering supporters the chance to be "the first to know" his choice for vice-presidential running mate by subscribing to an email service.
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Blog of the day
Is Kim Kardashian hot? She may not have been famous until her sex tape started making its rounds on the internet, but Kim Kardashian now joins the ranks of fellow socialites Paris Hilton and Kimberly Stewart who are celebrities for no apparent reason at all.
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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 American fans track their favorite sports.
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Urban planners get virtual community
Cisco Systems is hoping a custom virtual community built using its WebEx software will impact future urban design and planning.
iTNews |
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Booster for cloud computing
KUALA LUMPUR : Microsoft has developed the building blocks that software developers will need when writing cloud computing applications.
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Narragansett man charged in roommate's death
NARRAGANSETT — With his roommate bleeding and slumped over a computer, 65-year-old Karl R. Ek called the police Monday night and told a dispatcher that he’d just fired a gun and blown his friend’s “head off,” a prosecutor testified yesterday in District Court.
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Prosecutors: Cyber law applies to suicide case.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday defended their use of a cyber crime statute in the case of a Missouri woman charged with using a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide. Read comments
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Eastern Jackson County Community Calendar August 13-19
COMPUTER CLASSES-BEGINNING WINDOWS XP: Classes limited to 6. 9-11 a.m. Aug. 12-13, Vesper Hall, 400 N.W. Vesper, Blue Springs. $35. Register. (816-228-0181)
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iPhones to be sold at Best Buys
Best Buy Co. will start selling the iPhone on Sept. 7, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple Inc.'s and
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Gates foresees software-writing revolution
HONG KONG Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the growth of the Internet would eventually spark a software-writing revolution.
The Kansas City Star |
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Gates says computers will interact with touch, speech in a software revolution
HONG KONG - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Internet would eventually spark a software-writing revolution.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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MSN Taking the Brunt of Google's US Search Blitz
Google increased its U.S. Internet search market share in July, while MSN has been the biggest loser.
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