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Police nab Shadow creators, force botnet to commit suicide
The Dutch High Crime Tech Unit has arrested two brothers behind the creation of the Shadow botnet, and now intends to use the malware distribution engine for a good cause—Shadow will now distribute the means to eradicate its own existence. Read More...
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Yahoo! OKs Two Icahn Allies to Board
The company accepts Frank Biondi and John Chapple to the board.
TheStreet.com |
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Autodesk Easily Beats Estimates
The company benefited from exchange rates and sales of 3-D design software.
TheStreet.com |
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Yahoo picks former chief executives from Viacom, Nextel for board
Associated Press - August 14, 2008 7:55 PM ET SEATTLE (AP) - Yahoo says it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors.
KPAX Missoula |
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Harry Potter and the Unexpected Summer Premiere
He may have passed his O.W.L. exams, but Harry Potter is being held back. Despite the recent Internet premiere of a certain highly anticipated trailer, Warner Bros. has announced that...
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Carbonite Online Backup Filters Out Some Binary Files
Like many people, my backup scheme is still pretty basic. I keep multiple copies of important files (family photos, documents, etc.) on multiple hard drives and burn a couple of DVD-R discs now and then to store offsite. The better way would be to use one of the inexpensive backup services available. I’ve been considering [...]
Geek.com |
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You May Now Comment on J.Love's Body
Late last year, the Internet started calling Jennifer Love Hewitt fat, and she got mad. So mad she blogged an empowering cry to women everywhere with "butts, boobs, hips and a waist" to...
E! Online |
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Jedi Knights Find New Life in Animation
Dave Filoni was a mere 3 years old when the first "Star Wars" film came out. Today, he's the supervising director on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," both the computer-animated film opening today and the series debuting this fall on Cartoon Network.
The Lakeland Ledger |
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Share location with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle
With GPS-based phones and the frenzy of social networking that has taking place over the web it has become very common for people to want to make their location available so that friends and family know just where they are. Also, if you are out on a Friday or Saturday night it might be nice [...]
Geek.com |
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JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley settle securities probe; Yahoo selects Biondi, Chapple as new board members
AUCTION-RATE SECURITIES
Austin American-Statesman |
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Miley's an Easy Rider
With all the scandalicious Miley Cyrus headlines lately—the Internet pics that just won't stop, the alleged feud with Selena Gomez—we sometimes forget she's just a young teen...
E! Online |
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US video game sales rise 28 pc in July
US 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.
The Economic Times |
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Maximizing Bandwidth, Minimizing Capex with DOCSIS 3.0 and an Integrated CMTS
Pando Networks, which specializes in commercial P2P content delivery services, will leverage Intel's newly announced Remote Wake technology for its P2Pcontent delivery service. Intel's Remote Wake technology makes the personal computer an always available extension to content distribution networks.
Converge! Network Digest |
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Icahn fund discloses stakes in Yahoo, Motorola
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reported on Thursday that he owned 55 million shares in Yahoo Inc as of June 30 and that he had increased his stake in Motorola Inc to 144.1 million shares from 115.6 million shares the prior quarter.
The Economic Times |
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Xbox to sell Warner Music videos for $1.99
LOS ANGELES - 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.
Canoe Technology |
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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. The two fill seats on the board created after the company struck a deal with investor-activist Carl Icahn.
Infomatics |
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Gang rape suspects arrested
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT : Three teenage boys and two ordained novices were arrested yesterday in Muang district after they allegedly drugged and gang-raped a girl in a computer game shop last month.
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news |
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Tasmanian jailed for child porn
A Hobart man caught in an international internet child pornography sting has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years jail.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Sheriff's Blotter
Three vehicles were stolen from a garage sometime between July 26 and Aug. 2 at 150 Majestic Court. Stated value of the vehicles was $1 million. On July 28 a man was arrested on battery charges on East Quail Summit Road.
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Virility Foods
Like this list? Buzz Up on Yahoo! Forget Viagra, eat these virile foods for a natural lift Sex is good for your health. A 1997 study by randy researchers at Queens University in Belfast found that men who had more orgasms had half the death rate of, ahem, flaccid guys.
AskMen |
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Sony Rebrands Mylo Personal Communicator as Mylo Internet Device, Probably Won't Help Sales [Portables]
Sony took the radical step of renaming their "Mylo Personal Communicator" the "Mylo Internet Device." Though it's unlikely to affect the five of you that actually bought a Mylo, you have to wonder if...
Gizmodo |
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First Peek Under Windows 7's Hood in October [Windows 7]
Sure we know about some of Windows 7's more eye-catching features like multitouch and sweet maps, but Microsoft hasn't reveal a whole about what's under the hood, other than that it'll use Vista's...
Gizmodo |
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TuneWiki Audio For Google Android Looks Very Impressive [Tunewiki]
newVideoPlayer("/tunewiki.flv", 300, 448,"");This is TuneWiki, the music playback app that shows Karaoke-like lyrics and album art on almost all the music on your phone. It's been officially ported...
Gizmodo |
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Proof Nvidia Desktop G86 Graphics Cards Affected by Materials Defects? [Rumor]
The extent of the problems plaguing Nvidia's graphics cards is still controversial, though the company has confirmed that "weak" materials have caused "higher-than-normal" fail rates in certain...
Gizmodo |
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Quebec municipal leader decries lack of Internet connections in regions
The head of Quebec's federation of municipalities says the provincial government has fallen down on its promise to hook up remote regions to the Internet.
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