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Peer-to-peer client uTorrent fixes serious vulnerability
One of the most popular programs used by some to illegally share files under copyright has patched a serious software vulnerability. The problem affects the P-to-P (peer-to-peer) program uTorrent as well as BitTorrent Mainline, another program based on the uTorrent code.
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THE AUTHORITY ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND LOSS PREVENTION
ADD OH ISSUE HEADLINES ON YOUR DESKTOP! You can now add HLR headlines to or or any other RSS reader by using our feed. Also receive a custom newsletter on just the industry you are interested in.
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Dare to Enter the Portal?
Artists do emerge with a zeal for their passion. J Waggoner is the same as his journey into the female art form is released. New works of his is now available to purchase in prints. (PRWeb Aug 15, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1209284.htm
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Police probe fraud link in UK killings of Chinese
A Chinese couple brutally murdered in northern England may have been targeted over links to a bogus visa business and an Internet betting scam, detectives said Friday.
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Right To Play Calls on Olympians to Support Online Auction
BEIJING----Right To Play today kicks off its online auction of athletes' Olympic memorabilia and sports gear from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In the ultimate show of sportsmanship, Olympians are donating items they hope will raise money in support of Right To Play programs.
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Friday Rant: Hey Microsoft! How about some more dialog about Vista before moving on to Windows 7?
Microsoft promises greater transparency over the Windows 7 development process. That's all very well and good, but how about some more dialog about Vista before moving on to Windows 7? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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Flashpoint Developer Reveals Carrier Command Sequel
Seminal 1988 title Carrier Command is to receive a sequel, with original Operation: Flashpoint and ArmA: Armed Assault developer Bohemia Interactive Studio revealing plans for a follow-up on PC and "other popular platforms" for 2010. The original game was developed by long since defunct British developer Realtime Games Software for a variety of 8-bit and 16-bit computers. The seminal title ...
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Presbyterian Anesthesia Associates Goes Live on athenahealth's Software-Enabled Service, athenaCollector(SM)
athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices, today announced that Presbyterian Anesthesia Associates (PAA), a physician-owned anesthesiologist group with 45 board certified anesthesiologists, is now live on athenahealth's centrally-hosted, on-demand practice management and billing platform in an effort to improve operational ...
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Canonical's Power Play
Of all the announcements to come out of last week's LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, the two most interesting takeaways are Ubuntu's imminent assault on the enterprise space and the fact that the rise of community Linux distros in large organizations is at hand.
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Snooze your email with HitMeLater
HitMeLater is an interesting web service that helps you to sort out your email. If you don't have, or don't use, flagging or starring functions in your email client, then you might find this service useful.
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Linux will evolve, bloke reckons
IN FOUR YEARS Linux will have evolved into three basic desktop models, according to an open sauce expert.
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Karate Instructor Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Police say they arrested a Long Island karate school instructor after finding child pornography on a computer in his possession.
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Linux Today - Mark Shuttleworth's Evolving Ubuntu Desktop War
[ Thanks to Matt Asay for this link. ] "So, on one hand you have the Canonical that is determined to create a better desktop experience, while simultaneously charging hard into the enterprise server market.
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Intel wakes up desktop VoIP
Unlike traditional desktops and internet phone services such as Skype, which need to be switched on in energy-guzzling mode to receive calls, Intel’s Remote Wake technology will automatically rouse a PC from sleep mode.
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Missing Oklahoma man found in California classroom
A missing Houston student originally from Haworth, Okla., has been found in a University of California at Berkeley classroom. Matthew J. Wilson, a 21-year-old computer science major, disappeared from his off-campus apartment near Rice University in December 2007.
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Crysis Warhead System Requirements Revealed
Is your gaming rig going to cry? August 14, 2008 - Electronic Arts has revealed the system requirements to Crysis Warhead via its online store . While the original Crysis was universally praised for its graphics, many gamers were intimidated with the first-person shooter's system requirements.
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Dell upgrades business laptop line
The company said the Latitude E4200 and Latitude E4300 are ultra-portable, while the Latitude E6400 and E6500 are for high-performance users. It said the semi-rugged Latitude E6400 ATG meets military 810F standards for dust, vibration, and humidity.
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Intel Atom, 'Nehalem' to Take Stage at IDF
Low power and high performance will dominate the tech world next week, as Intel's next-generation "Nehalem" Core i7 microprocessor headlines Intel's Developer Forum. But right on its heels will be the surprising success of the company's battery-saving "Atom" processor.
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Ranking Software & Google's Opinion
A couple weeks ago, Google slightly changed how they show the Google search results, which resulted in several search ranking software packages to not function properly anymore. I reported this under the title of WebPosition Ranking Software Being Blocked by Google? early on and Scott Goodyear from WebPosition commented here and also at WebmasterWorld with his two cents. Scott took ...
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CORPORATIONS LEAD WAY IN IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION
WASHINGTON — Jose Trivelli, a graying engineer from Peru, spends his days fixing Internet connections at a Tysons Corner, Va.
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T-fare hackers ask lift of gag order
BOSTON - A lawyer for three MIT students who allegedly hacked into the MBTA's automated fare system asked a federal judge yesterday to lift a gag order that prevents the students from talking about how they got inside the system.
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Grant funds high school technology upgrades
Souderton Area High School has used a $400,000 state grant to add computers and other electronic teaching tools to its classrooms.
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Ex-Apple lawyer settles with SEC
WASHINGTON — The former top attorney at Apple Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators' charges that she altered company records to conceal improper backdating of stock options for senior executives including Steve Jobs.
The Monterey County Herald |
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In the first month of Apple's iTunes App Store going live, users downloaded 60m software applications to their ...
relentlessly on. Gordon Moore, co-founder of chip maker Intel, first posited his now-famous law in 1965 when he wrote that the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit was doubling roughly every two years, and would continue to do so.
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Wi-LAN dismisses wireless patent case against Texas Instruments
Wi-LAN has agreed to let Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) off the hook for an agreed period of time in a case involving Wi-LAN's wireless patents.
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