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Consumer Reports: Protect your computer with a suite deal
The right programs for filtering out threats to your home computer are out there — and some are free.
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'Clone Wars' expands'Star Wars' universe
Leave it to George Lucas, or somebody he'd hire, to see Jabba the Hutt's "uncle” as an English-speaking, hookah-puffing blob voiced by a Truman Capote impersonator. But this Clone Wars big-screen preview of the new fall TV series is actually better than expected. With action-packed computer animation featuring long, lean, gaunt characters who look like cartoons El Greco might have whipped up on ...
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FILM REVIEW: 'Fly Me to the Moon'
Fly Me to the Moon ** G (nothing objectionable) 80 min. Every movie studio out there wants a piece of that Pixar-DreamWorks computer-animation pie. Even start-ups like Summit Entertainment covet some of the millions that parents fork over to send their little darlings to this week’s child-safe/family-friendly cartoon. But just because it has that computer-assisted 3-D animated "look" that ...
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Get parental guidance on new movies, including 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' and 'Tropic Thunder'
By JANE HORWITZ Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG, 1 hr., 38 min.) This computer-animated tale marks the seventh theatrical feature in George Lucas’ Star Wars series, but it suffers by comparison to its live-action predecessors. (It is also promo-ing an animated Star Wars series coming to cable TV this fall.) The animation is impressively 3-D and has great depth, yet it feels antiseptic, ...
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Florida House District 67 map
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Payne Park considered for Red Sox stadium
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Ask Jack to get answers to computer problems
Dozens of people turn up every Friday, some with notepad in hand, to ask Jack Beale computer questions.
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Georgia is also under assault in cyberspace as hackers attack
By DAVID HO NEW YORK — As Russia and Georgia teeter between cease-fire and war, combat is still raging in cyberspace as hackers continued an onslaught against Georgian Web sites, e-mail and communication services. About 20 government, banking and media sites were off-line Thursday, said Scott Borg, director of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, an independent research group that advises the ...
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Loose Change: Auto advertising drops, hurting media
The flight of advertising dollars to the Internet is one explanation for the pain felt by traditional media. Another culprit increasingly to blame is Detroit. For all the discussion of new media’s role in hurting profits and revenues at traditional media outlets — newspapers, magazines, broadcast television and radio — the sharp downturn in the auto industry is another big culprit and is taking ...
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Water park shuts pool over chlorine
MASON — An Ohio water park that shutdown a pool after lifeguards noticed people coughing says it will test chlorine levels more frequently. The Beach Waterpark in Mason temporarily closed its 30,000-gallon Splash Mountain pool on Wednesday. A spokeswoman says a first aid team treated 45 people. The park says a computer misread [...]
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Dell Puts the Bite on Apple
Dell's Tim Bucher, a former Apple vet, and his Zing software hope to give iTunes some competition
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Former Officer Pleads Guilty to Sending Porn
A 29-year-old man charged with attempting to send obscene matter over the Internet to a teenager while he was on duty as a police officer has pleaded guilty in federal court.
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VCs Hope to See Wi-Fi Everywhere
Beyond computers, Wi-Fi-enabled televisions, set-top boxes, and cars are entering the market
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Animated ‘Star Wars’ tale lacks inspiration
If you live for the flash of light sabers, the shriek of spacefighters and the symphonic swell of John Williams themes, you’ll find much to enjoy in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.” If you like a little narrative mixed in with your thrills, however ...
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UMD radio station on the web until transmitter is fixed
DARTMOUTH — WUMD-FM, UMass Dartmouth's 10,000-watt radio station, knocked off the air Monday when severe thunderstorms hit the region and damaged the station's transmitter, is broadcasting its full program schedule on the Internet at...
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Laptop brand not important; hard drive, RAM are
Last week, a colleague in the Courier & Press Technology section offered advice for purchasing a laptop for college.
The Gleaner |
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Intel discusses Centrino 2 graphics performance issues
Intel posts blog discussing performance issues with its "latest and greatest" Centrino 2 graphics silicon.
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Consumer Reports: Protect your computer with a suite deal
New computers almost always come loaded with the trial version of a software suite designed to thwart spam, viruses and spyware. But Consumer Reports’ latest tests of 11 security suites show that not all of them deliver enough protection to justify paying $50 or more for continued protection after the trial period. CR also found spotty performance for some anti-phishing toolbars that are ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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MIT students ask for end to gag order on MBTA hack
BOSTON — An attorney for three MIT students who allegedly hacked into the MBTA's automated fare system asked a federal judge Thursday to lift a gag order that prevents the students from talking about how they got inside the system.
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Minneapolis / Informant's Web pitch silent on criminal past
The headline was a grabber, but then grabbing people was what it was all about.
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Recruiting Online: Score the Most Hires
Having done a lot of recruiting in recent years, I had wondered how many applicants were typically arriving at the company from the various sources we used for recruiting. My...
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Intel unveils xHCI draft spec rev 0.9 for USB 3.0
SANTA CLARA, USA: Intel Corp.
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Infineon chip causing problems on iPhone - reports
NEW YORK, INDIA: An Infineon chip could be at the root of complaints from around the world that Apple Inc's new iPhone drops calls and has unpredictable Internet links, according to a research report from Nomura.
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India telecom ministry sees no delay to 3G auction
NEW DELHI, INDIA: India's telecoms ministry has begun the process of appointing an agency to conduct a global auction for third-generation (3G) wireless spectrum and does not expect the auction to be delayed, a government spokesman said.
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Memory update: DRAM market in a spiral
USA: According to Converge's Market Insights , August is not even at the halfway point and the market is already in a spiral! Things are not going well for the DRAM manufacturers as the much anticipated "back to school" boost is non-existent and the second–half year DRAM rebound is all but non-existent, at least for now.
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