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Coffee Break: Posters can talk, but money cannot
Interested in buying a pointy-shaped building on the Mississippi that has been vacant for a few years now? Local radio talker Ben Ferguson's Web site, buythepyramid.com, has generated buzz here and abroad, receiving more than 25,000 hits since it was launched.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Cheap tricks: Try these four decor updates that won't break the bank
By CHARLYNE VARKONKYI SCHAUB Sure your budget is tight these days. Isn’t everyone’s? But less money doesn’t mean your home has to look shabby minus the chic. We canvassed the Internet and some of our favorite "cheap chic" sources to give you five ideas that can pep up your decor without cleaning out your wallet. Prices range from $12 to $249. Besides our inspirational examples, we sought some ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Elvis fans ignore rain for graveside vigil
Mary Lou Martell put it off as long as she could. But she finally had to head to Memphis for an anniversary vigil at Elvis Presley's grave. "It's my first Elvis Week. I'm a little ashamed to say that, but it is," Martell, 60, said as she took part in a candlelight procession to Presley's grave at Graceland, his former Memphis residence. "We watched it on the computer last year and I ...
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New US domestic spying guidelines proposed: report
The administration of President George W. Bush has drafted a set of guidelines for state and local police agencies that would make it easier to collect intelligence on ordinary citizens, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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New US domestic spying guidelines proposed: report
The administration of President George W. Bush has drafted a set of guidelines for state and local police agencies that would make it easier to collect intelligence on ordinary citizens, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
AFP via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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Corn-Phone
Bioplastic, a material derived from corn that is used in a new Samsung ?eco-phone,? requires special handling in recycling, which makes it energy inefficient.
New York Times |
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Popular business directory searches
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The Enid News & Eagle |
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Popular business directory searches
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The Enid News & Eagle |
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Malwebolence
Mattathias Schwartz?s article about Internet trolls (Aug. 3) was quite the eye-opener. The Internet has given an opportunity to legions bent on using it to scam and swindle, but this is the first I?ve learned of an online community whose primary mission is to dispense negativity and pain.
New York Times |
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Pulaski County Web site operators indicted for conspiracy to distribute prescription drugs
Two Miller County residents among seven charged by feds
Lake Sun Leader |
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Web site set up to handle complaints about state employees behind the wheel
Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced this week that the Department of Administrative Services has created a new Web site to log comments online. Bumper stickers bearing the message “Am I Driving Safely?” and posting the Internet link will be attached to all vehicles within the DAS fleet.
Journal Inquirer |
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Apple computers bring new technology to Mandarin school
The phrase "Wild About Learning On Our Way To Success" is displayed on bulletin boards and in classrooms throughout Crown Point Elementary School.
The Florida Times-Union |
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I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.
As image-editing software grows in sophistication and ubiquity, alterations go far beyond removing red-eye and whitening teeth.
New York Times |
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Tech Chronicles / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
T-Mobile-Google phone eyed for fall A new mobile phone powered by Google's Android software might be out as early as October, the New York Times reports. The device, made by mobile phone company HTC of Taiwan and supported by T-Mobile, is expected to match...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Microsoft, ITG launch 'EduWave Live'
16 August 2008 AMMAN - EduWave Live, an e-learning and educational management solution, was launched today in the Middle East with the aim of providing the educational sector in Saudi Arabia and across the region with an advanced software platform that will help to enhance the management of the region's schools and universities, and facilitate country-wide collaboration between teachers, ...
Zawya |
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Shapeways lets Internet users manufacture goods
SAN FRANCISCO, California, United States of America -- In a step toward the type of future pictured in the hit film "Iron Man," a firm in the Netherlands is letting people fabricate items designed in three-dimensions on the Internet.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Tech Ticker: Sirf, AOL, Microsoft
Sirf
San Jose Mercury News |
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State faults clerk's office over $361,000
The Duval County Clerk of Courts office should repay more than $361,000 to the state for making "unallowable expenditures" for computers, vehicles and communications expenses over the past three years, a state audit has determined.
The Florida Times-Union |
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SPORTS HEADLINES
St. John's Lutheran School will be hosting a chicken barbecue fundraiser on Sunday, Aug. 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The proceeds from free-will offerings will help the Christian day school upgrade its computer lab.
Grand Haven Tribune |
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Qwest union contract set to expire today
NEW YORK - The labor contract with the largest union at Qwest Communications International Inc. expires today, little more than a week before the company is to provide phone and Internet service for the Democratic National Convention.
East Valley Tribune |
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Wireless communications online in Cambria County
EBENSBURG - Cambria County officials say the ''core network'' of their wireless communications system is online, allowing residents and businesses to log in for high- speed Internet service.
Altoona Mirror |
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Microsoft file format approved as the international standard
GENEVA -- The format used by Microsoft Corp.'s Office 2007 programs to save documents will become an international standard after appeals against the move failed to gather sufficient support, the International Organization for Standardization said Friday.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Solar-powered Wi-Fi a gift to Senegal
By day, Bruce Baikie works at Sun Microsystems as an engineer specializing in telecommunications. On nights and weekends, however, he has a side job - a small company that he started called Green Wi-Fi, where all the employees, including himself, are...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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COASTAL BUSINESS
SOUTH CAROLINA Check out PRT site via cell phone The S.C. tourism department recently launched versions of its Web site specially formatted for cell phones.
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Local Eastern Europeans see both sides in Georgia conflict
Whether they have lived here for years or are only serving fast food for the summer, Russians and Eastern Europeans across the Grand Strand have been scouring the Internet this week for accounts about the recent conflict in Georgia.
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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