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Italy blocks Swedish file-sharing site
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 (10:27 a.m.) An Italian judge has ordered the country's Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, as part of a probe into copyright law violation, officials said Thursday.
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Fayette man sells online but fails to deliver, feds say
A Fayette County man is accused of taking money for things he said he was selling on the Internet but failing to send the items to buyers
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Intel Announces Availability of USB 3.0 Host Controller Specifications
Intel spreads USB 3.0 love to everyone...
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Google's street view catches a man passed out in yard
A man caught sleeping off a binge got caught on Google's street view. The Australian man was dropped off at his house after a night of partying. He said he couldn't quite make it inside his house, and passed out in the yard.
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Swift 3D v5.0 adds universal binary, rendering speed
Electric Rain has released a Universal Binary of Swift 3D 5.0 and also added performance gains to the 3D-rendering application. Swift 3D imports and renders Flash content and exports Flash 3D content via Papervision3D export. Version 5.0 adds low-level changes that triple rendering speeds for vector and raster renders on Intel chips. The update als...
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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Fly Me to the Moon'
"Fly Me to the Moon" is the first feature-length computer-animated 'toon made specifically for 3-D. This is a good thing, because the movie would be unwatchable without it.
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Sprint to discontinue its PCS Mail service
In another apparent effort to streamline its services to focus on revenue, wireless carrier Sprint will stop providing the servers for e-mail service for its PCS phone customers, although it will let customers pick their own providers.
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Cordell Crane from Microsoft and Michael Materie from Diskeeper Corporation to Be Featured on Let's Talk Computers (R)
NASHVILLE, Tenn.----Guests from Microsoft and Diskeeper Corporation will appear on radio talk show Let's Talk Computers. Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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Attacks continue on Russian and Georgian Web sites, but who's to blame?
Armed conflict between Russia and Georgia has been paralleled by what many in the media have classed a "cyberwar," where Georgian Web sites have been crippled by DDoS attacks and defaced.
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A woman scorned turns to the Internet
An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by auctioning his mistress's "huge" panties and his "size small" condom packet on eBay.
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Italy blocks Swedish file-sharing site
An Italian judge has ordered the country's Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, as part of a probe into copyright law violation, officials said Thursday.
Tri-City Herald |
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Iraqi brothers arrested for Internet videos
US troops have arrested two brothers on suspicion of posting videotapes on the Internet showing rebel attacks on coalition forces in Iraq, the military said.
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Your Movie Is in the Mail. Or Not.
Netflix has recently been making a big push into streaming movies over the internet. But its main business, rental movies by mail, is experiencing a serious problem at the moment. The company says it has had a severe disruption to ...
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New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications
( University of California - Berkeley ) Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical communications, miniature lasers and optical computers.
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Pacers will play in Fort Wayne
Greg Schenkel, vice president of corporate and public relations communications for the Indiana Pacers, confirmed Thursday multiple Internet reports that the
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Italy blocks Swedish file-sharing site
An Italian judge has ordered the country's Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, as part of a probe into copyright law violation, officials said Thursday. Since last week, Italy's anti-fraud police have been informing providers they must heed the order of a judge in the northern city of Bergamo, police Col. Alessandro Nencini said. Nencini ...
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Google Reader becomes more discreet when sharing
Google has increased the options for sharing feeds in its Reader product, giving users more control over this feature. With the changes, Google addresses a privacy controversy that erupted in December when the company, trying to simplify the feed-sharing process, made all users' shared feeds automatically visible to their Google Talk contacts. Many Reader users objected to this ...
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Apple Expected To Sell 4.5 Million iPhones This Quarter
By comparison, Apple sold about 1.12 million units of the first-generation iPhone during the same period last year.
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Settlement cost Texas Lottery almost $100 grand
AUSTIN -- The Texas Lottery Commission paid nearly $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former employee who said he was fired for going public about problems with a vital computer...
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Intel to Add Wake-on-VoIP Technology to Mobos
On Thursday, Intel said that four new unspecified motherboards would include a capability called Remote Wake, an improved version of the Wake-on-LAN or Wake-on-WAN technology that has been around for about a decade.
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Fargo hospital testing home health monitors
Fargo's MeritCare hospital has been testing home health care monitors that send readings through a computer to a hospital nursing station. It means nurses can monitor their patients' vital signs without going to their homes. Officials say
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AT&T Considering Its Behavioral Advertising Options
AT&T has not yet deployed a system for targeted, behavior-based online ads, but is considering its options regarding the technology, according to a letter the provider sent to congressional leaders.
PC Magazine |
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Research Explorer: discover the German research landscape online
( Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ) With the Research Explorer, an internet application developed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service), a unique directory of German research institutions has now gone online.
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iPhone News: Palringo Releases First Multi-IM Client for iPhone... Sort Of
Since AOL's Instant Messenger has been available for iPhone and iPod touch since the launch of the App Store, there has been a lot of chatter about the availability of clients for other IM networks, such as Yahoo! and ...
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Manhunt for McCain
Towleroad, the popular gay blog run by Andy Towle, is reporting that just as Out magazine is posing the question whether manhunt.net is destroying gay culture, one of Manhunt's founders, Jonathan Crutchley, might be trying to destroy gay politics.
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