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Wrestlers dismissed for posing nude
LINCOLN, Neb. -- 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. Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jo
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Fire burns building at Apple HQ in California
Firefighters have contained a blaze that has burned for about three hours at the headquarters of computer maker Apple.
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Analyst: Best Buy's iPhone Sales Impact Minimal
Best Buy's deal with Apple to sell the iPhone 3G will help drive up holiday sales numbers for the combination iPod and smartphone, but not by much, according to UBS analyst Maynard Um. While the increase in iPhone sales will likely be incremental, the Best Buy deal could...
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IPhone to Shake-up Japan Cellphone Industry: Softbank Official
TOKYO (AFP)--The arrival of Apple's iPhone 3G will force Japanese cellphone makers to revamp their handsets to allow increasingly sophisticated software, a senior official at Softbank Mobile said Wednesday.
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Electro Energy is gearing up in the old Alachua Energizer plant
A battery company gearing up for mass production in the old Energizer plant south of Alachua got a pledge from Rep. Cliff Stearns for help competing for federal contracts and research funding during a tour Tuesday.
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South County recycling on par with national average
What you might do out in your garage before garbage day, these guys do for a living.
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Bloggers enraged over "pretty face" fakery
BEIJING (Reuters) - Bloggers were up in arms on Wednesday over China's decision at the Olympic opening ceremony to have a pretty little girl lip-synching for the real singer who had crooked teeth.
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Microsoft gets a 'Blue Screen of Death' medal in Beijing
Microsoft got its brand on the Olympics. Just not the one it would have preferred.
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School district seeks best price on 'mini-notebooks'
School District Technology Director Jim Scarpelli introduced “mini-computers” to the Augusta School Board Monday evening. “It’s time to continue adding computers at the high school and middle school and our goal is not to purchase desktop models any longer,” he said.
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Web firms admit tracking users
WASHINGTON -- Several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers, according to letters released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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TV Networks Rewrite the Definition of a News Bureau
CNN, which will assign to 10 cities journalists who will borrow office space and use laptops, is hardly alone in its approach.
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The Kirameki Pure Gold Keyboard - kill me now.
Sod all this backlit keyboard malarkey that the world and and his wife are adding to their computers. Instead, buy yourself something guaranteed to pick up any ambient light and chuck it right into your face. Buy yourself a gold keyboard!
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Report: Online TV Growing Slowly In The UK
UK advertisers who are fond of broadcast television have nothing to fear from its online counterpart, according to a new report. In fact, the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) found that traditional "commercial impacts" are up, and it seems to believe that any sort of switch is still a long ways off. read more
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More home sellers accepting losses, firm says
Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the past five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth, according to Zillow.com, an Internet provider of home valuations.
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Fire burns building at Apple HQ in California
Associated Press - August 13, 2008 5:23 AM ET CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters have contained a blaze that has burned for about three hours at the headquarters of computer maker...
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Polis claims win in Democratic primary
Election officials reported poor turnout for Tuesday's primary election. EAGLE COUNTY — Internet entrepreneur Jared Polis claimed victory in his bid to be the Democratic candidate for Colorado’s Second Congressional District.
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Daily Link: Olympics rundown
The Internet is a haven for the Olympics-obsessed as well as the casual viewer.
Daily Breeze |
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Firefighters Put Out Blaze at Apple Headquarters
Firefighters have contained a blaze that has burned for about three hours at Apple headquarters in Cupertino.
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5TB NAS Server Runs Linux
"Based on embedded Linux, the TS-509 stores the OS and NAS applications in flash ROM, which Qnap says improves "stability." The device supports Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and all major Windows desktops.
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Teacher accused of child luring now lives in city
A Deer Island community school teacher charged with luring a child under 14 on the Internet faced 10 additional charges when he appeared in court Tuesday.
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Report: Montana's Internet speeds rank 47th
Associated Press - August 13, 2008 10:14 AM ET GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A report by the Communications Workers of America says Montanans are stuck with some of the nation's slowest average...
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Audit finds problems with MoDOT computer security
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A state audit released Monday identified several problems with the computer system security of the Missouri Department of Transportation.
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Fire hits Apple's Cupertino campus
Fire struck Apple's main campus in Cupertino, California late Tuesday night, writes The Mercury News. The blaze is said to have erupted at Valley Green Six, 20605 Valley Green Drive, and produced a heavy amount of smoke, earning a three-alarm rating and more than 60 firefighters. Emergency crews from as far away as San Jose, Santa Clara and Los A...
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Where There's a Web, There's a Way: A Business Guide to Getting Social
Kathleen Gilroy, cofounder of Swift Media Networks in Boston, eats, lives and breathes Web 2.0. Not only is her latest business venture focused on Web 2.0 services for conferences, but she's also used just about every Web-based tool there is to run her own various startups. With five full-time staff members, she has become a well-seasoned user of blogs, wikis and collaboration tools.
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Apple Fire
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