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Facebook faces class-action suit over Beacon
A class-action suit filed in California charges Facebook and a handful of other companies, including Blockbuster, Fandango and Overstock, with violating online privacy and computer fraud laws related to Facebook's controversial Beacon system.
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For travelers, Microsoft 'Surfaces' in Sheraton hotels cnet.com
On Wednesday, five Sheraton hotels, including locations here and in New York, Boston, and Seattle, started testing the interactive table with their hotel guests. The machines let people use two fingers instead of a mouse to virtually research restaurants, play music, or plot a walking tour. While there is somewhat of a learning curve with the machines--it's not immediately clear where or how to ...
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Intel drops Centrino Atom brand after five month
Intel has dropped the Centrino Atom brand after just five months, opting instead to use just the Atom brand across this part of its product line.
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Former prosecutor: UK hacker's extradition is inevitable
The former prosecutor of the Gary McKinnon hacking case said there's no reason to believe the European Court of Human Rights will ultimately block the alleged hacker's extradition to the United States.
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CTA Adds Three New Apple Certified Training Courses
The Certified Training Alliance (CTA) announced this week the addition of three new Apple-designed training courses for Apple Certified System Administrators (ACSA). The company will offer classes on Directory Services, Deployment, and System Administration, completing the foundation for...
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Groundbreaking Participation for the First-Ever Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk on Saturday, August 23
Scott Kelby and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) are pleased to announce that as of today, 5,500 photographers from 241 cities in 43 countries have signed up to participate in Scott Kelby's first-ever worldwide Photo Walk scheduled for Saturday, August 23. The Photo Walks are organized to celebrate the release of Scott Kelby's latest book - The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Worldly: Gaurav Dhillon
The player : Gaurav Dhillon, founder and chief executive officer of Jaman.com. The play : Mr. Dhillon founded the movie-download service, which specializes in independent and international titles, in 2005. With investor-advisers that include publishing heir Will Hearst, ICM Chief Executive Officer Jeff Berg and former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, the company has an inventory of about 1,500 films and ...
TV Week |
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Must-Have Back-to-School Gadgets
Gary Krakow gives a rundown on the coolest computers, phones and music players that kids want.
TheStreet.com |
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Rakbank's foreign currency long-term rating raised to A- by Capital Intelligence
30 July 2008 Capital Intelligence, the international credit rating agency, today announced that it has raised the Foreign Currency long-term rating of Rakbank Rakbank to A- from BBB+. The support rating was raised to 2 from 3.
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Pando Networks Collaborates with Intel to Achieve Energy Efficient Content Delivery
NEW YORK----Pando Networks, the leading provider of commercial P2P content delivery services, today announced the world's first content delivery service to make use of Intel's Remote Wake technology.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Hawai'i colleges see boom online
Between shuttling her two kids to school, working full time and sitting in rush-hour traffic to and from Pearl City, Kammie Wilson barely had time to think about going back to school, let alone spend hours in a classroom each day.
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Intel drops Centrino Atom brand after five months
Intel has dropped the Centrino Atom brand after just five months, opting instead to use just the Atom brand across this part of its product line. "Basically, we are simplifying and coalescing our efforts around 'Atom' as the single brand for Internet devices," said Nick Jacobs, a company spokesman in Singapore. Centrino Atom was the brand name given to a chip package formerly ...
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Intel PCs to wake up for phone calls
Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Bafta prospect for student gamers
Scots university students are nominated for a BAFTA after triumphing at a prestigious computer game competition.
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Wanted: Writers for D.C. tech lobby group, secrecy mandatory
A shadowy D.C. firm called the LawMedia Group specializes in planting ghost-written op-eds to benefit clients including Comcast and Microsoft. It worked well. Until they get caught.
CNET |
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Nigeria: NIGCOMSAT Partners State Govts on Internet
MR. Ahmed Rufai, Managing Director, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) said yesterday it would collaborate with state governments and banks to provide Internet facilities across the country.
AllAfrica.com |
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BestBuy to Sell iPhone
MINNEAPOLIS -- Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY - message board ) announced today that it will carry Apple's revolutionary iPhone 3G at Best Buy Mobile stores nationwide beginning September 7.
Unstrung.com |
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OGCbs cuts printing costs
The public sector procurement agency said that commonly purchased devices will be available to up to 50% off their regular prices until the end of October through HP resellers on its IT Goods and Associated Services framework.
KableNET |
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Wanted: Writers for D.C. tech lobby group, secrecy mandatory
A shadowy D.C. firm called the LawMedia Group specializes in planting ghost-written op-eds to benefit clients including Comcast and Microsoft. It worked well. Until they get caught.
CNET |
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HP partners pursue public printing pound
HP resellers will battle it out this to supply the public sector with printers this autumn after the vendor inked a deal with procurement body OGCbuying.solutions.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Detailed Global Report on the Fundamentals of Online Video
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bcd106/world_report_on_on) has announced the addition of the "World Report on Online Video" report to their offering.
Centre Daily Times |
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Polis: Another Dem Makes Good Use Of High Tech
Online entrepreneur Jared Polis' victory over longtime state lawmaker Joan Fitz-Gerald in a congressional primary may signal a Democratic Party shift away from traditional roots like organized labor and toward an environment-minded, high-tech base, political analysts said Wednesday.
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10:55 (BST), 14/08/2008 Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS For immediate release – Taking ...
– Taking wireless gaming to new heights, SACRED 2 – Fallen Angel from Ascaron is set to deliver a true notebook gaming experience.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Pentagon hacker wins backing of MEP in US extradition fight
HACKER Gary McKinnon goes to the European courts in two weeks in his bid to avoid US extradition, and has received the backing of an MEP.
The Ham&High Network |
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Fake MSNBC News Alerts Used in Latest Malicious Spam Campaign
CNN gang changes tactics to bypass more spam filters
Kansas City InfoZine |
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