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Aussie teacher with child porn avoids prison
A teacher from a prestigious Melbourne school who downloaded more than 400 child porn images and videos has avoided prison. John Newton Hewitt, 49, a former Brighton Grammar School history and politics teacher, today received a suspended jail sentence and a good behaviour order.
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IBM To Publish Channel 'Principles Of Engagement,' List 100 Named Accounts
IBM is currently passing around a draft of how it determines whether to go direct or indirect, including the flow chart its sales reps will use, and plans to publish it for its solution providers.
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Top Scoops
In a brief interview after his public speech about free software in Wellington Thursday 14 August 2008, Richard Stallman talked more of the political incentives to free up software, and also how he wanted it to be clear that the software patent and free ...
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China Expands Wireless City Projects
China is set to expand wireless Internet coverage in some major cities, with a unified network proposed for one of the...
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NEWS BRIEFLY: "City's chief information officer resigns, ending investigation"
The city of Austin's chief information officer officially resigned Wednesday, putting an end to a three-month administrative investigation. Pete Collins had been on administrative leave since June on internal allegations of using city computers for personal business.
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6 degrees of internet bacon
I went to Disney World once. It was many years ago, and I was able to check it off my bucket list. But even to this day, I sometimes find myself humming the tune of "It's A Small World." This happens to many of us. Lingering melodies ("My Heart Will Go On"), catchphrases (Wassup?), fashion styles (popped collars … really?) - these occurrences in our popular culture are what Richard Dawkins, ...
The Daily Texan |
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Singapore Retail Sales Drop on Fewer Purchases of Cars, Jewelry
Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore's retail sales fell for the first time in four months as vehicles sales slumped and consumers bought fewer luxury goods, mobile phones and computers.
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Linux Expo Calls For Papers
"Proposals should be submitted as one-page abstracts including a title, name, affiliation, bio, email, and an optional passport-size photo. Submitters are asked to include a bullet list or brief description of main points.
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Two join Yahoo board at Carl Icahn's behest
Yahoo 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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Price rise for VMware too
Virtualisation vendor VMware has confirmed that, like fellow US-based software giant Citrix, it is currently raising its prices in countries outside the United States due to the declining value of the US dollar.
ZDNet Australia |
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Holy Trinity Schools looks forward to great school year
The teaching staff remains intact for the new school year at Holy Trinity School, but principal Michelle Schoenfelder is excited about a new computer lab that has been installed through a generous gift.
Huron Plainsman |
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Intuit Unveils Small Business Connected Strategy
Aug. 15, 2008 (SmartPros) Coming this fall, Intuit will offer new online services that connect to its QuickBooks products, new software delivered as a service, and tools that connect users to each other within the Intuit small business network.
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NZXT Sentry LX Fan Controller Review
Each and every computer needs to be adequately cooled. There exist many ways of doing this, but most of them are cooled using air, which is powered by fans.
Overclockers Club |
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Mission wants to meet families' school needs
The Helping Hand Mission is seeking donations to help families in need of back-to-school supplies. Organizers say they particularly need backpacks, pencils, pens, folders, calculators, notebooks and paper.
The News & Observer |
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Xbox 360 Chassis Lian Li PC-XB01 unveiled
Lian Li launches a new Chassis for the Microsoft Xbox 360 console that promises better cooling and a no frills PC look. The Lian Li PC-XB01 Xbox 360 Chassis Replacement features black, hairline brushed anodized aluminum material, Sound dampening foam an...
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Pandora customizes radio and phones
P andora's box, it turns out, is the iPhone. Pandora (www.pandora.com) is an amazing free music service that launched in November 2005 letting users create their own custom radio stations. Tell Pandora what you like and it makes an online station suited to your tastes.
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Open-source software no longer up for grabs
A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the holder of a copyright to a computer programming code made available for free public download can enforce an "open-source" copyright license to control future use of the work.
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Thai court jails "swirly-face" Canadian pedophile
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court sentenced Canadian "swirly face" pedophile Christopher Neil to 39 months in prison on Friday for abducting and molesting a 14-year-old boy and posting pornographic pictures on the Internet.
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T. Boone Pickens proves where there's a drill, there's a way [Greenwashing]
Greenwashing — the practice of gussying up old-fashioned capitalism as newfangled Earth-saving — is an art form. I used to think local greenwashers Pacific Gas & Electric and spam-prone... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Mechanical Zoo's Aardvark to make Lazyweb as hard as possible [Startups]
I hope VCs are realistic about any search startup's chances against Google at this stage. Cuil's traffic withered shortly after launch. Another gang of Google graduates at The Mechanical Zoo have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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HP eyes expansion in city
COMPUTER giant Hewlett-Packard Development Co. is set to complete its product portfolio in Davao City with an aim of strengthening the Information and Technology infrastructure of the city.
Mindanao Times |
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Singapore businessman flees with 51 million dollars: report
A worker dismantles old computers at Citiraya Industries Ltd. A fugitive Singapore businessman is suspected of absconding with 51 million US dollars and local authorities are attempting to recover part of the money.
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DGAP-Adhoc: USU Software AG reports figures for Q2 and first half-year 2008
Release of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Multimedia Olympics
The Olympics have gone multimedia in a big way with the Beijing Games. Not only was the United States' 4 x 100 swimming relay team's dramatic victory over France on Sunday night seen by millions of TV viewers, it also produced 1.7 million video streams on NBCOlympics.com, with 1.5 million electing to share the link with other Web users, NBC officials said. NBC has introduced a new measurement, ...
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to the boy’s family of 60,000 baht (955 pounds). BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court sentenced Canadian "swirly face" paedophile Christopher Neil to 39 months in prison on Friday for abducting and molesting a 14-year-old boy and posting pornographic pictures on the Internet.
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