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Pop picks: What we're obsessing about in the world of pop culture
The 27th episode of the Star Wars saga opens today -- OK, maybe it only seems like 27 -- with Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Fans of the series will likely welcome this addition to the galaxy far, far away, even if it is a cartoon. That's right, this time around the characters are all digitized. Not much of a leap considering there was so much computer-generated imagery in the prequel trilogy it was ...
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Betting scam linked to Chinese couple murder
A young Chinese couple who were brutally murdered in Newcastle may have been involved in an internet betting scam and the trading of fraudulent documents, police said Friday.
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Betting scam linked to Chinese couple murder
A young Chinese couple who were brutally murdered in Newcastle may have been involved in an internet betting scam and the trading of fraudulent documents, police said Friday.
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Fly Me to the Moon (G) ** More than a few bugs hamper this mission into outer space
Fly Me to the Moon is the first feature-length computer-animated 'toon made specifically for 3-D. This is a good thing, because the movie would be unwatchable without it.
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Picks of Coming Video Games
Too Human (Xbox 360) Silicon Knights, Microsoft $59.99 As in the period surrounding the release of Grand Theft Auto, few developers dare wade into the weeks following the annual video game monster that is Madden. The fact that the football game celebrates 20 years of gridiron godliness makes it even more daunting this year.
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Internet videos lead to three arrests in Schenectady
Associated Press - August 15, 2008 3:05 AM ET SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) - Online videos from an apparent amateur vigilante led to three arrests for public lewdness in Schenectady.
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'Clone Wars' rides along at hyperspeed
Not every "Star Wars" episode is an event. Remember those mid-'80s Ewoks TV spin-offs? The colorful, computer-animated "Clone Wars" aims higher, but in the end, it's a Cartoon Network pilot that's been dropped into a decidedly un-eventful late-summer release slot. (The ongoing TV series hits cable this fall.) It's also the latest example of how the franchise keeps frustratingly spurning ...
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Windows 7 details to be revealed in October
Microsoft has said in a blog that the first technical details on the forthcoming operating system will come at the Professional Developers Conference in October
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Inventive 3-D lifts 'Moon' above silliness
"Fly Me to the Moon" is a computer-animated kiddie flick about three housefly best friends who buzz their way onto the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. That sounds as genuinely painful as an August dog-days release can be, and it would be, except for two things. One, if you're 6 years old, you probably never realized how insanely cool ...
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Heathrow returning to normal
Services at Heathrow's Terminal 3 are returning to normal after a computer glitch.
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Heathrow returning to normal
Services at Heathrow are improving after a computer glitch left up to 6,000 passengers unable to enter terminal three.
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Heathrow hit by computer glitch
Officials at the UK's biggest airport were working with airlines to reunite about 3,000 bags with their owners after a computer glitch caused travel chaos at a busy terminal.
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Brown would put budget on Internet
Montanans should be able to find easy-to-understand information on the Internet about how their tax dollars are being spent by state government, Roy Brown, Republican nominee for governor, said Thursday.
Helena Independent Record |
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Drugstore hearing devices may do harm
Unable to afford hearing aids costing $500 to $3,000 per ear, Susanna Callaway's hearing-impaired clients sometimes asked about cheaper versions available on the Internet or in a drugstore. Because she was nervous about recommending something she hadn't tried, she decided to test a few.
Detroit Free Press |
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Yahoo adds 2 from Icahn's list to its board of directors
SEATTLE — 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.
The Tennessean |
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Glitches snag Netflix's DVD deliveries
Netflix said Thursday that technical problems over the past three days had limited the number of DVDs it could send out. The unspecified problems affected all of the online movie-rental company's 55 shipping centers and marked the biggest disruption in service since Netflix launched nine years ago.
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The end of operating systems?
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com I often tell people that my experiences with every version of Microsoft Windows - going back to 1.0, which I purchased at the very first Staples store in Cambridge, Mass. - resembles my pre-marriage dating life.
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Former Apple counsel Nancy Heinen to settle SEC stock-option suit
Heinen agrees to pay $2.2 million in the last civil case resulting from an option-backdating probe. CEO Steve Jobs emerges unscathed. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday settled the last civil case against a former Apple Inc. executive accused of stock-option fraud, closing its investigation into one of Silicon Valley's highest profile companies.
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Wireless carriers taking longer to answer customer service calls
The average wait time in early 2008 was 4.4 minutes, according to a J.D. Power survey. In 2003, it was 3.3 minutes. Nobody likes waiting on hold. If it's not the jazzy elevator music that drives you up the wall, it's the repeated "your call is important to us" message that serves not to calm you but instead to remind you that it's been a really long time and you're still on hold.
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Yahoo names two Icahn candidates to the board
By choosing Frank Biondi Jr. and John Chapple, formerly of Viacom and Nextel Partners, respectively, the Internet company fulfills its promise to settle a proxy fight. Yahoo Inc. on Thursday named former Viacom Inc. leader Frank Biondi Jr. and former Nextel Partners boss John Chapple to its board of directors, fulfilling a promise it made to settle a proxy fight with dissident investor Carl ...
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Wikipedia aims at Google
Watch out Google - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes to break Google's domination.
iafrica.com |
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On the fast track at the MegaBite Cyber Café
I recently read an article in a fitness magazine about the health benefits of a weekly, 24-hour fast. According to its author, the scientific evidence backing up the argument for a self-inflicted, one-day denial is overwhelming.
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2008 August 15
Brunswick Hills Township - Someone stole a laptop computer out of an unlocked car in the 5200 block of Yorton Road between 5 p.m. Aug. 4 and 1 p.m. Aug. 5.
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"Survivorman the Trucker" Contest
8/15/2008 Toledo-based Roemer Insurance announced a contest celebrating National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (August 24-30) and targeting the computer-savvy trucker.
TruckingInfo.com |
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Briefs
Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group was sued for allegedly cheating members of The Allman Brothers Band out of some $10 million in royalties on music recorded from 1969 to 1980. Band members Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks and Jaimoe Johanson alleged Universal is paying only a "small fraction" of the royalties due them for digital downloads of their songs and is refusing to negotiate ...
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