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Most Spam Is Now Malicious
Cyber criminals are using ‘blended attacks' to distribute malware and links to hacked Web sites via e-mail on an unprecedented scale. These are the key findings of the Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) report for the first half of 2008. Un...
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DreamWorks to buy back $21.8M in shares
Computer animation company DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the creator of "Kung Fu Panda," said Wednesday it agreed with The Wunderkinder Foundation to buy back 706,330 shares of the company's stock held by the foundation for about $21.8 million.
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Are Google's StreetView drivers humans or robots?
A heartless Google StreetView driver filmed a grieving, unconscious drunken man in Australia but didn't stop to help.
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Swedish eavesdropping law violates EU law: complaint
(STOCKHOLM ) - A new law in Sweden that allows cross-border emails and phone calls to be monitored in the name of national security violates European Union law, a legal expert who has filed a complaint to the European Commission said on Wednesday.
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Digital Containers' Next-Generation 'Superdistribution' Software Will Generate Real Profits for Digital Entertainment ...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.----A breakthrough system of 'superdistribution' to freely share copyrighted material over the Internet via 'digital containers' is rolling out today, aiming to change the way content owners deliver and profit from distributing television, games, books, movies and music entertainment over the Internet.
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Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer
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. Wednesday's announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores.
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TubeMogul Teams with imeem in Online Video
Content owners can now upload and track their videos on imeem through TubeMogul.
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Jaspersoft Delivers Business Intelligence Development Platform for NetBeans and MySQL
Jaspersoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence , today announced the full-production availability of Jaspersoft's iReport for NetBeans Integrated Development Environment , which has been certified for NetBeans 6.0 and 6.1, and also supports the new beta version 6.5 announced today .
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New CareerBuilder Test Finds Correlation Between Favorite Colors and Careers
It's long been understood that color can affect your mood, but what about your career choices? What do the colors you are drawn to say about your suitability for certain careers? The Color Career Counselor, a new online personality test offered by CareerBuilder, is the World's only validated color-based personality test that looks at the relationship between colors and career compatibility.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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SPOT LLC Expands Consumer Social Networking Capabilities by Launching Yahoo! Fire Eagle Integration
MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 13, 2008 -- SPOT LLC, the pioneer behind the award-winning SPOT Satellite Messenger, today announced its integration with Yahoo! Fire Eagle further enhancing the mainstream consumer appeal for the SPOT Satellite Messenger.
PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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New Apple Certified System Administrator (ACSA) Certification Courses and Tests Now Available
SAN DIEGO----Starting this month IT professionals can now get trained and certified as an Apple Certified System Administrator on Mac OS X Leopard through the Certified Training Alliance , a network of independent Apple Authorized Training Centers in the U.S.
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Ekit Travel Journal Integrates Yahoo! Fire Eagle
SAN FRANCISCO----Ekit, the leading travel telecommunications provider, and the creator of the ekit Travel Journal , today announced the integration of the ekit Travel Journal with Yahoo!
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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ADC Signs Wireless Distribution Agreement with Canadian Distributor
MINNEAPOLIS----ADC today announced that it has signed a wireless distribution agreement with Crossover Distribution, a major Canadian distributor of wireless, telecom and CATV solutions based in Mississauga, Ontario.
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Prosecutors: Cyber law applies to suicide case
LOS ANGELES---- Federal prosecutors 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.
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Dell sees industry computer sales higher in 2nd half
Dell Inc, the world's second-largest personal computer maker, sees global industry computer sales in the second half of this year exceeding those in the first half, Chief Executive Michael Dell said on Wednesday.
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Systems and cars always crash
Our management consultancy columnist, Mick James, this week takes another look at the NHS IT programme and the criticism it continues to receive. "Well, it hardly counts as a breakdown, does it?"
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Snoop just isn’t the word
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS proposed yesterday that it should be mandatory for people’s internet information to be kept readily available for investigation – for at least 12 months.
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Dell sees industry computer sales higher in 2nd half
Dell Inc , the world's second-largest personal computer maker, sees industry computer sales worldwide in the second half of this year exceeding the first half as slowing economic growth globally drives demand for efficiencies.
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Delphi Digital's Vital Information Manager (Delphi VIM(TM)) a Breakthrough Online Resource for Storing and Managing ...
LOS ANGELES----At a time when instant access to information has never been more critical, Delphi Digital announces Vital Information Manager www.delphivim.com the first comprehensive online tool for storing and managing an array of key personal information: family, legal, medical, financial, household, insurance, veterinary and more.
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Google unblocks Scamp blog after 'hate speech' suspension
Google has unblocked Scamp, the UK's most popular advertising industry blog, following the removal of comments containing "hate speech". The comments, in a post on dating in the advertising industry, were removed after complaints were made to Google's hate crimes division. Scamp, which is run by advertising executive Simon Veksner, had been blocked since Friday by Google-owned blogging ...
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Internet giants in Indian gender dispute
India's top court has asked Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to respond to charges that they illegally advertise gender selection products, an activist and a lawyer said Wednesday.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Dell launches 12.1" E4200 notebook among new Latitude E Series range
Dell launched a whole bunch of fairly grey laptops yesterday in the shape of the new Latitude E series of notebooks designed primarily for the business world. To be fair to the world's biggest flogger of reasonably priced computers, they have started offering the new Latitudes in five colours, although one of them is metal and another black.
Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Ex-Davison Wrestler Accused Of Posing Nude
Two Nebraska wrestlers have been dismissed from the team after allegedly posing naked on an gay Internet pornography site.
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Facebook Users Struck by New "Court Jester" Malware Attack
Posts on your Facebook wall may lead to Trojan horse infection
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UMass, DEM reach settlement on water data
BARNSTABLE - The University of Massachusetts and the state Department of Environmental Protection have settled a disagreement over who owns data and a computer modeling system...
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