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Jacksonville.com First Online Newspaper Site to Add Virtual World News Feed
Jacksonville.com, the website of the Florida Times Union is the first in the country to add a virtual world news section. VirtualJax.iVinnie.com is a daily news aggregator of top stories from virtual worlds, online games, and social networks.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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3FN Marketing Starts Offering Advanced Public Feeds with Top Conversion Results
3FN Marketing, a internet marketing company and affiliate program, offers Advanced Public Feeds improving the conversion results.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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Modify a budget for college living costs
The biggest freshman class ever is headed to college in a few weeks. But there's one big issue that many parents have yet to resolve: How much should they give their kids for spending money? It can be mind-boggling to think that the kid will require even more dough after you've paid thousands of dollars in tuition, room and board, purchased a new computer, and budgeted for books and ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Students’ new way to cram: iTunes
OSU lectures, research available through Web site Oregon State University’s mission as a land grant university dating back to the 19th century has evolved into a pledge to promote “economic, social, cultural and environmental progress for people across Oregon, the nation and the world through our graduates, research, scholarship, outreach, and engagement.”
Corvallis Gazette-Times |
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Reading, writing and recycling
To help curb the growing number of waste contributed by bottled water- and soda-drinkers at the schools, Madison County Recycling this year began providing bins for recycled plastic bottles and Highland Recycling agreed to pick up recycled plastic at schools. Plastic is an enormous source of waste along with the cardboard.
St. Clair County Journal |
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Cary town manager takes job at SAS
Cary Town Manager Bill Coleman is retiring to go to work for software developer SAS.
The News & Observer |
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Internet troll claims authorship of Megan Meier blog
The person behind the inflammatory blog "Megan Had it Coming" is a 32-year-old information technology freelancer who lives near Seattle, according to a story about Internet trolls that ran Aug. 3 in The New York Times.
St. Charles Journal |
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Tributes for Leeds United fan who died on Afghan duty
A NAVAL officer has led internet tributes to a hero Leeds soldier killed in Afghanistan. (16/08/2008)
Leeds Today |
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Starz Pulls Plug on Vongo
Starz Entertainment will pull the plug on its struggling, stand-alone broadband subscription service Vongo next month, while continuing to operate under the Starz Play brand currently distributed by Verizon Communications.
MultiChannel News |
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Can Comcast Deliver TV 2.0?
The vision Comcast has for the future of TV isn’t locked up somewhere inside its brand-new, glass-encased headquarters in downtown Philadelphia. The rough cut of the cable company’s ideas are already playing out on the Internet, at Fancast.com.
MultiChannel News |
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Technology key in Polis’ victory
DENVER — Online entrepreneur Jared Polis’ victory over longtime state lawmaker Joan Fitz-Gerald in a congressional primary may signal a Democratic Party shift away from traditional roots like organized labor and toward an environment-minded, high-tech base, political analysts said Wednesday.
Vail Daily |
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Tropical Storm Fay heads for Haiti
Source: Reuters MIAMI, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The sixth tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was heading for Haiti on Saturday where heavy rains could cause mud slides and flash floods, the U.S. National ...
AlertNet |
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This Week's Best Posts [Highlights]
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Lifehacker |
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Microsoft file format approved as ISO standard
(AP) -- 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.
PhysOrg |
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Glenn Springs Academy blog: A warm welcome in British Columbia
Published: Friday, August 15, 2008 at 12:41 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, August 15, 2008 at 12:42 p.m. We are three hours behind here. We left Vancouver in a little puddle jumper plane.
Spartanburg Herald-Journal |
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New domestic spying guidelines proposed
WASHINGTON - 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 on Saturday.
Khaleej Times |
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Brown pushes budget Web site
HELENA - 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.
Missoulian |
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Chatter on Google phone points to debut
SAN FRANCISCO — The wireless world has been patiently awaiting the so-called "Google phone" for more than a year, and reports this week suggest such a device could soon find its way to the market.
Santa Fe New Mexican |
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MBTA warns workers to be vigilant
In a confidential e-mail, the MBTA told employees yesterday to be "vigilant about security" - a warning given amid a lawsuit filed after three MIT students claimed that they hacked into the T's automated ticketing system.
Boston Globe |
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MySpace deletes 146 Nebraska sex offender profiles
Registered Nebraska sex offenders wanting to use the social networking site MySpace may have to seek Internet interaction elsewhere. Attorney General Jon Bruning’s office said Friday that MySpace has deleted 146 profiles belonging to nearly 112 registered Nebraska sex offenders.
Lincoln Journal Star |
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Lebanon joins online permitting program
LEBANON — As of late Friday afternoon, no contractor had taken advantage of the city of Lebanon’s new, faster permitting process system, said Tammy Dickey, the city’s permitting specialist.
Albany Democrat-Herald |
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Qwest union contract expires Saturday
NEW YORK — 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.
Lincoln Journal Star |
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T-Mobile to launch Google phone soon 16 Aug 2008, 1127 hrs IST,IANS
SAN FRANCISCO: T-Mobile is to launch the first phone based on Google's Android design on September 17, in hopes that the new device will compete with Apple's iPhone, Wired magazine reported Friday.
The Times of India |
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U.S. may ease police spy rules
The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans.
MSNBC |
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MPC reports a smaller quarterly loss
MPC Corp., the Nampa computer maker, reduced losses in its latest quarter despite manufacturing and delivery delays and other problems, the company said.
The Idaho Statesman |
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