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Average Issue Readership General Public PARC Media Index 1997, Saudi Arabia
With technology opening the new doors of communication and the distribution of news and information, ArabNews Online is not bound by physical limitations. ArabNews Online is published by ArabNews from its offices located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is now available to readers around the globe.
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Teacher accused of soliciting girl online
Authorities say a high school social studies teacher in Ontario has been accused of soliciting sex with a 13-year-old who was really an adult acting as a decoy.
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Cyberwarfare Escalates Between Georgia, Russia
Further fanning the flames of conflict between Georgia and Russia, hackers from both nations continue to launch attacks on the news and governmental Websites in each others countries.
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EIF: Bartle Criticizes Gaming And Academia Divide
Veteran designer Richard Bartle, co-writer of the first multi-user dungeon, says the best undergraduate degrees for game development in the UK come from Abertay, Covernty, Derby, Nottingham Trent, Portsmouth, Sheffield Hallam, Staffordshire and Teeside. Notice anything unusual? "All of the top computer game courses are at modern universities -- former polytechnics and institutes," he says. Of ...
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Google Lively's Guymon To Keynote Worlds In Motion Summit
Think Services, organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and Gamasutra parent have announced that Mel Guymon, Product Manager for Google Lively, will be presenting the opening keynote to the Worlds in Motion Summit (WiMS), taking place at the Austin GDC from September 16-September 17 at the Austin Convention Center. In his keynote, Guymon will provide a full overview of Lively, ...
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Calumet Introduces New Line of Photo Backpacks
CHICAGO, August 11, 2008 – Whether you are a globe trotting photojournalist or an outdoor shutterbug enthusiast, Calumet’s new backpacks combine the comfort and protection necessary for transporting your digital SLR camera system and laptop computer anywhere in the world.
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Yahoo selects Biondi, Chapple as new board members
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors as part of the company's deal to ward off a proxy fight with billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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Pasco teacher arrested for online sex crimes
Joel Matthew Cupp, a teacher at Trinity Oaks Elementary School, was arrested for exposing himself and soliciting two undercover cops, believing he was talking to three young teenage girls.
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Court says copyrights apply even for free software
By JORDAN ROBERTSON SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material.
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Newsletter Subscription
Microsoft's latest version of Office for Mac adds some nifty interface improvements and a bunch of new features. Should you switch? It has been almost four years since the last revision of Microsoft Office for the Mac, and Macintosh users can be forgiven for getting a little impatient.
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The Investment Column: New chief has IT group Logica singing in tune
Our view: Buy
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'ITunes Tax' Back From the Dead in California
The proposal for a so-called "iTunes tax" in California was widely criticized and promptly shot down this spring. So why is it back on the table? One state assemblyman reintroduced a bill that would levy an additional tax on digital download purchases, potentially driving more paying customers to use file-sharing sites.
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We all love this Olympics, right? Not Adobe
How on earth could Adobe blow its big shot at the gold? The company's 2nd place finish to Microsoft is a boon for Silverlight just when it's most needed
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Court says copyrights apply even for free software
In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material. Read comments
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Video game sales rise 28 percent in July
SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware, software and accessories rose 28 percent in July from a year earlier, boosted by continued strong demand for Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii console, according to data from research firm NPD on Thursday.
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Class action suit hits Facebook and affiliates with breach of privacy
The biggest and most significant legal action against now-leading social network Facebook was filed on Tuesday, and will actually test the theory of whether its Beacon behavior sharing program constituted a criminal conspiracy.
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We all love this Olympics, right? Not Adobe
How on earth could Adobe blow its big shot at the gold? The company's 2nd place finish to Microsoft is a boon for Silverlight just when it's most needed
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Microsoft: More Details Coming On Windows 7
Microsoft launched a new blog that gives customers and partners a timetable for when they can expect to hear detailed technical information on Windows 7.
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Where on earth are these Microsoft patches?
Lost in the shuffle of this month's Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player WMP was not fixed "because of a last minute quality issue." Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but,...
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PDC, WinHEC will be Windows 7 coming-out parties
Microsoft has been fairly reticent about the development of the next client version of its Windows OS, code-named Windows 7. But in a blog entry Thursday, Microsoft said it will finally give developers their first in-depth look at the OS at its forthcoming Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October. The PDC, and the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) the ...
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Legal milestone for open source
Supporters of open source software are claiming victory after a US court ruled copyright protection applies to their work.
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Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos
There are dozens of flavors of clever applications aimed at the office productivity market, often spawned as a result of the Web 2.0 explosion. Where the Web 2.0 application market is driven by eyeballs and their resulting advertising monetization, the enterprise 2.0...
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Intel Develops Wake-Up Feature For VoIP-Enabled PCs
Users will also be able to program their computers to accept only pre-authorized calls, thereby blocking unwanted calls.
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Microsoft may lift VM licensing restrictions next week
Don't tie me up with those ties, Ty It may have finally dawned on Microsoft that its current software licensing restrictions kill one of the major benefits of virtualization — the ability to move a virtual machine freely about physical servers.…
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Legal milestone for open source
Supporters of open source software are claiming victory after a US court ruled copyright protection applies to their work.
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