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Ellis County community calendar
INTERNET BASICS will be offered at the A.H. Meadows Library, 923 S. Ninth St. in Midlothian, from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday and from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday.
Dallas Morning News |
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Telstra must maintain strong performance
Bangladesh's biggest phone company Grameenphone has been fined 36.5 million dollars for using the internet to divert overseas calls from the state-owned network.
telecomasia.net |
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Telstra must maintain strong performance
India's auction for 3G wireless spectrum is not expected to be delayed, a government spokesman, quoted by a Reuters report, said. The report also said India's telecoms ministry has begun the process of appointing an agency to conduct a global auction for the wireless spectrum.
telecomasia.net |
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THE WRAP: The Georgian cyberwar
This week Georgians and Russians fought an online war while Apple battled an iPhone glitch. The Georgian cyberwar began weeks before the shooting match began, with a stream of attacks on Georgian government web sites.
telecomasia.net |
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Georgian web attacks are the work of kids
INSECURITY experts claim that Internet attacks on Georgian web sites over the last two weeks were not carried out by Russian agents but script kiddies.
The Inquirer |
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Telstra must maintain strong performance
Who could forget the heady concept of the paperless office? The arrival of the desktop PC in the ‘80s sparked the belief that the days of old-fashioned paper-based information were numbered.
telecomasia.net |
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Reports from the Web 2.0 front
One of the problems I’ve always had with Web 2.0 hype is that everyone seems convinced there’s money in it simply because lots of people use it.
telecomasia.net |
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Vietnamese burn ’hell dollars’ for the dead
VietNamNet Bridge – Multistoried houses, luxury cars, laptops and other valuable items go up in smoke during the Vu Lan festival, as many Vietnamese people believe the more offerings they burn for their dead relatives, the better their afterlives will be.
Vietnam Net |
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The customer experience: make it easy
At last month's Broadband World Forum Asia event, I kept hearing a term that I don't hear nearly enough at conferences: the customer experience. Which is the same as "user experience", though the latter gets used more to describe mobile content services. I'm not entirely sure why.
telecomasia.net |
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One small step for flies, one stale movie
Every movie studio wants a piece of that Pixar-DreamWorks computer-animation pie. Even start-ups like Summit Entertainment covet some of the millions of dollars that parents fork over to send their little darlings to this week's child-safe cartoon.
Detroit Free Press |
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IPTV vs internet TV - the fight for viewers
Telecom companies are investing in digital content in the hope of offsetting the fall in fixed-voice revenues.
telecomasia.net |
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Girls who blog: Innocent fun or potential danger?
On her blog, 12-year-old Tavi Gevinson posts photos of herself wielding a toilet plunger, posing in a room covered with newsprint and wearing a paint-splattered tutu inspired by Dolce & Gabbana's spring 2008 collection. She's part of a young generation of fashion bloggers who display pictures of their outfits for all to see.
Detroit Free Press |
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Catching a plane? First, pick your line
Some travelers flying out of Columbus now have to choose an airport security line depending on how fast they can take off their shoes, empty their pockets and put their laptop in a bin.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Infineon Chip causing Problems on iPhone: Reports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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....
I4U |
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Google faces defamation lawsuit in India: report
Google Inc's India subsidiary is being sued for alleged defamation in the Bombay High Court by an Indian construction equipment company, The Wall Street Journal said.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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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.
Gresham Outlook |
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How to safeguard young bloggers
Start with empathy: Parry Aftab, an online safety expert, suggests parents harken back to their own childhoods in trying to understand the need for secret blogging.
Detroit Free Press |
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Blog: Starting to twitter?
NAIROBI, 15 August 2008 (IRIN) - If you are a journalist or aid worker, Twitter could prove to be a useful tool.
IRIN |
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July video game sales jump 28 percent
Even in a seasonally slow month and with the economy in the doldrums, U.S. sales of video game hardware and software soared 28 percent in July, hitting $1.19 billion.
Boston Globe |
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DJ euro adhoc: USU Software AG / Half-yearly Report / Announcement according to articles 37v ff. WpHG [Securities ...
» DJ euro adhoc: USU Software AG / Half-yearly Report / Announcement according to articles 37v ff. WpHG [Securities Trading Act] with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution
Financial.de |
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Undersea cable ready for 2010
A fibre optic undersea cable linking Africa to Europe and Asia will secure high-speed internet access in time for the 2010 soccer World Cup, its backers say.
News 24 South Africa |
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Wife auctions evidence of husband's affair on Internet
SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by auctioning his mistress's "huge" panties and his "size small" condom packet on eBay.
Borneo Bulletin |
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Elmer Smith: She thought she'd found a home, but it was all a house of cards
THE 'SPACIOUS' one-bedroom apartment listed in the Internet ad sounded perfect for Sherry Murphy and her 13-year-old daughter. The stately three-story center-hall colonial at 2217 N. 52nd Street, in Wynnefield, looked even better than it sounded. It was on a quiet, tree-lined street. Her room was bigger than she had imagined it.
Philadelphia Daily News |
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Announcing The Launch Of DiversityinArt.com - An Online Art Portal
DiversityinArt.com is an online portal launched to promote the creative talents of artists from around the world. The site showcases the works of art of budding artists that embrace different cultures and paint their canvas with colourful stories. [Wired by: PressReleaseNetwork.com]
Press Release Network |
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Hosting Provider, Layered Tech, Goes Live With The Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Solution
Layered Tech, a leading provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, is now live with the Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Solution. Layered Tech collaborated with Sunrise Technologies, Inc. for its deployment of a successful implementation, giving Layered Tech a solution that would grow with them. [Wired by: PressReleaseNetwork.com]
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