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Also opening: 'Stealing America: Vote by Vote'
The documentary follows a handful of disturbing trends in election-day procedures, including the ability to alter thousands of votes in seconds via computer.
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Japan's Showgate Warns Alleged Singaporean File-Sharers
The Electric New Paper of Singapore reports that the local law firm Rajah & Tann has been sending warning letters to alleged anime file-sharers on behalf of the Japanese production company Showgate . According to a copy of a letter that the newspaper-affiliated website obtained, the letters say that the users have been using the BitTorrent file-sharing system to download anime and infringe on ...
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New Yahoo board members confirmed
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 15 August 2008 at 01:50:00 Biondi and Chapple join Icahn Yahoo has confirmed the appointment of Frank Biondi and John Chapple to the company's board of directors. The two fill seats on the board created after the company struck a...
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Intel talks up wake-up calls
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 15 August 2008 at 01:49:00 Remote wake could cut energy costs, says chipmaker As Intel gets ready to bring its newest chip designs to life at its developer forum next week, the company is touting its ability to put its processors to sleep....
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Netflix reeling from outage
Online video service Netflix is still attempting to recover from an outage that left the company unable to ship DVDs to millions of subscribers.
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New Yahoo board members confirmed
Yahoo has confirmed the appointment of Frank Biondi and John Chapple to the company's board of directors.
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Intel talks up wake-up calls
As Intel gets ready to bring its newest chip designs to life at its developer forum next week, the company is touting its ability to put its processors to sleep.
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Netflix reeling from outage
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 15 August 2008 at 01:47:00 Shipping deadlock enters third day Online video service Netflix is still attempting to recover from an outage that left the company unable to ship DVDs to millions of subscribers....
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New Media Expo 2008 - Ambrosia Intros WireTap Anywhere
LAS VEGAS -- Ambrosia Software announced the immediate availability of WireTap Anywhere at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas on Thursday. WireTap Anywhere is an application for Mac OS X that lets users capture multiple audio input sources and route them into audio recording and editing applications
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Dear Her Royal Highness of Princeton: Here Is What I Really Think About Your Education [Tough Love]
Yesterday some kid named "Stephany" born in the nineties wrote a Facebook message to fellow members of Princeton Class of 2012, and now we have her picture. (There's another after the jump!) Inspired...
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Bloggers, in Their Natural Environment [Goldfish Bowl]
As the risk of being increasingly self-referential, photos from last night's Manhattan Media Meshing event follow. Round up the usual suspects, including bright-eyed young literary woman Jessica Roy,...
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Xbox to sell Warner Music videos for $1.99
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 (5:45 p.m.) Gamers with a hankering to watch music videos will have more choices after Warner Music Group Corp. announced Thursday it is adding its library of videos to Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game console.
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Blackhawk down in Nowra?
LOCAL emergency services tested their skills in a hypothetical disaster on Wednesday. Titled ‘Albatross’, the event was a desktop scenario focussed on response to a downed Blackhawk helicopter with 12 personnel and 40 kilograms of explosives on board.
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SIGGRAPH Announces 2008 Computer Animation Festival Winners
ACM SIGGRAPH announced the Computer Animation Festival's Best of Show, Jury Award, Student Prize, Audience Prize, and a special Well Told Fable Prize for SIGGRAPH 2008, the 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
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Yahoo selects Biondi, Chapple as new board members
SEATTLE (AP) - 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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MobileMe phishing scam dupes hundreds
A phishing scheme targeted at MobileMe users has duped hundreds into releasing their credit card or other personal information according to Computerworld. Dan Clements, president of identity protection company CardCops, claimed hundreds of people were scammed with mac.com in a single day. CardCops uses investigators and automated bots to find inf...
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VA. LAW: Judge hears arguments in privacy advocate's lawsuit
RICHMOND — A federal judge said Thursday that it won’t be easy deciding whether a new Virginia law barring individuals from posting Social Security numbers on the Internet is unconstitutional.
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Autodesk beats Wall Street estimates for fiscal 2Q
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 (2:42 p.m.) Autodesk Inc., a maker of computer-aided design software, posted fiscal second-quarter results late Thursday that handily beat Wall Street's expectations.
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Court says copyrights apply even for free software
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 (3:39 p.m.) 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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SIGGRAPH Announces 2008 Computer Animation Festival Winners
LOS ANGELES----ACM SIGGRAPH announced the Computer Animation Festival's Best of Show, Jury Award, Student Prize, Audience Prize, and a special Well Told Fable Prize for SIGGRAPH 2008, the 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
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Yahoo selects Biondi, Chapple as new board members
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 (1:21 p.m.) Yahoo Inc. says it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors. Frank Biondi Jr. is former chief of Viacom Inc., and John Chapple was once the head of Nextel Partners.
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TCC receives contract for secure communications system expansion
The order, valued at $600,000, is aimed at providing and deploying Technical Communications's (TCC) CSD-3324SE secure telephone, fax and data desktop system and DSP-9000RA (Radio Airborne) system to the government's critical communications locations.
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Ex-Apple top attorney settles with SEC for $2.2M
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 (5:21 p.m.) The former top attorney at Apple Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators' charges that she altered company records to conceal improper backdating of stock options for senior executives including Steve Jobs.
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