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McCain's Tech Policy
I was hoping that McCain's Tech Policy would emphasize and extend the two McCain pro-Internet initiatives—the McCain Lautenberg Community Broadband Act and Spectrum Re-regulation, neither of which have yet seen the light of day—but it doesn't.
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The People Behind Your Electronic Toothbrush
iPhones, electric toothbrushes, antilock brakes — all of these are products of a field called mechatronics, which combines physics, computer science and mechanical engineering. Students training in this difficult discipline at the University of Virginia get to have some fun, too; as a class project, they built electric guitars and robotic mice.
NPR |
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Nbc - Olympic Viewership On Web Remains Small Study Finds
Although much has been made of the impressive number of viewers who are watching Olympic events on the Internet, an analysis of the numbers by Fox TV and reported today ...
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Take Their Dog Pictures To Give Them A Good Image On The Web
There might come a time that we want to turn our pet dogs into stars by posting their profile on the Internet.
Turks.US |
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Hills Stars Reflect on Sex Tape Drama
Online Videos by Veoh.com To gear up for Monday's premiere of season four of The Hills, the cast is looking back at some of the show's most memorable moments. In the above clip, Brody Jenner, Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt and Jason Wahler relive the saga of a rumored sex tape featuring Conrad and Wahler. Look back at Lauren Conrad's 22 years of love and drama. Conrad recently...
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The end of laptop rage at security
America’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will, from the end of next week, start allowing travellers to leave their laptops in their bags when going through security at the country’s airports.
Times Online |
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'Virtual Archaeologist' Reconnects Fragments Of An Ancient Civilization
Computer scientists working with archaeologists in Greece has developed a new technology that has the potential to change the way people do archaeology.
Science Daily |
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Oshkosh man asks people to leave Brett alone and becomes Internet celebrity
To Adrian Mulloy, Britney Spears is no Brett Favre. At first, the 24-year-old Oshkosh man thought a tearful YouTube video pleading the media to leave Britney alone was a little crazy. But the idea was not so crazy when the media turned its rabid attention onto Number 4, especially when Favre signed onto the New York Jets.
The Oshkosh Northwestern |
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TeleCommunication Systems gets $8.3 million deal
TeleCommunication Systems Inc., a wireless service provider, said Friday it received an $8.3 million contract to provide a Defense Department command with communications professional services.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Latitude and Longitude
Google Maps can display any location based on its latitude and longitude The easiest way to specify what part of our planet that you want your Google map to display is...
About.com |
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Cloud Computing Expo - Google’s Now in the Encryption Business
Google has waded into the encryption business with an open source cross-platform toolkit called Keyczar that’s supposed to make it easier for ISVs to put cryptography in their applications. It says Keyczar supports both encryption and authentication with both symmetric and asymmetric keys as well as Java and Python implementations, promising C++ soon. read more
SYS-CON Media |
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10 NZers buy fake online degrees
A New Zealand primary school principal, his human resources director brother and a security guard are among 10 New Zealand names on a list of buyers of bogus United States university degrees.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Mystery web attack hijacks your clipboard
No, Macs are not immune A new web-based attack is making the rounds that tries to spread poisonous links by hijacking end users' clipboards.…
The Register |
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End Users Benefit From Open Development
Most users of the AOL instant messaging network really don't put much stock in phrases like "unfettered access," APIs, SDKs, or other developer jargon, but what they do get out of the Open AIM developer community is new ways in which they can use the AIM service itself.
Instant Messaging Planet |
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Cheyenne teen pleads guilty to computer crime
Associated Press - August 15, 2008 2:05 PM ET CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - A 19-year-old Wyoming resident has pleaded guilty to a felony charge related to the development of a program that took over...
KIFI Idaho Falls |
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Nortel Brings Unified Communications In-House
In its quest to sell small to midsized businesses (SMB) on unified communications (UC) services, Nortel Networks announced today it is acquiring VoIP and UC software maker Pingtel for an undisclosed amount.
Instant Messaging Planet |
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Gmail users report yet another outage
Hahahaha, OK...so the reality is...CLOUD COMPUTING WILL NOT WORK under the existing structure of the internet! Businesses cannot afford to lose a day or two of productivity because the IT vendor(in this case Google) will not respond to a business critical issue with the IT infrastructure.
IT World |
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Tables Within Tables: C++ and Brent's Technique
One of the primary goals of object-oriented programming is to enable programmers to create code that is reusable and applicable to more than one project. The C++ class facility is one way to address that goal.
Embedded Systems Programming Magazine |
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Qwest union contract expires Saturday
NEW YORK (AP) - The labor contract with the largest union at Denver-based Qwest Communications expires early Sunday morning -- little more than a week before the company is to provide phone and Internet service for the Democratic National Convention.
KJCT 8 Grand Junction |
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Qwest union contract expires Saturday
The labor contract with the largest union at Qwest Communications International Inc. expires Saturday, a little more than a week before the company is scheduled to provide phone and Internet service for the Democratic National Convention.
The Oregonian |
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ManTech Memory DD Version 1.3 for Forensic Analysis of Computer Memory Now Available
ManTech International Corporation (Nasdaq:MANT) announced the release of ManTech Memory DD(TM) 1.3, a physical memory acquisition tool for imaging Windows based computers. ManTech Memory DD captures a record of physical or random access memory which is lost when a computer is shutdown. Available for government and other private uses, ManTech Memory DD is capable of acquiring memory images from ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Gateway GT5692 is dependable desktop
The $550 Gateway GT5692 is part a new batch of recently released midrange desktop PCs. This particular configuration has an AMD Phenom X3 8450 triple-core processor, 4GB of memory, HDMI-out, and 64-bit Windows Vista.
CNN.com |
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Midday Glance: Computers companies
Apple Inc fell $.93 or .5 percent, to $178.39. Dell Inc fell $.04 or .2 percent, to $25.26.
INO News |
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Weekly Canadian Crush Little Changed
WINNIPEG - Aug 15/08 -- STAT -- The Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA) reports weekly crush in that country totalled 68,383 metric tons (MT) of canola and 27,511 of soybeans during the week ending August 13.
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Qwest union contract expires Saturday
Fri, Aug 15, 2008 (10:54 a.m.) The labor contract with the largest union at Qwest Communications International Inc. expires Saturday, little more than a week before the company is to provide phone and Internet service for the Democratic National Convention.
Las Vegas Sun |
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