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TSA's "Checkpoint Friendly" Laptop Bag Policy Starts Today [Airports Suck]
You know that new TSA policy that kind of sounds like a ploy to sell new generations of laptop bags? The one where, if you have specific types of bags that are deemed “checkpoint friendly” by the...
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Gigabyte's 3G-Capable MID M528 Coming Out On Sept 17 For $689 [Rumor]
A release date and price has been set for UMPC contender Gigabyte's MID M528, a diminutive portable computer with a slide out keyboard, according to the folks over at UMPC Portal. A product page on...
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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.
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Birth of Golden Age = Political Chaos, Environmental Disaster and Moral Decay? Newly Opened Web Community Aims at ...
A new internet community for the metaphysically minded views dire planetary crises as indicator of the arrival of "Heaven on Earth." The AEONIA Community, which launches it's website August 16, 2008, believes the crises we face today are "ordained by a higher power" to wake mankind up to "our divine mission" that mission being, "To act as Stewards of Planet Earth and transform it into Paradise."
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Commentary slated
Veteran broadcaster Keith Quinn has hit back at savage criticism of TV One's Olympics coverage. Armchair critics have used internet messageboards and blog sites to slam the 20-strong team of reporters and commentators - with Quinn and John McBeth copping heavy flak.
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Pair say they have body of Bigfoot
Sasquatch is well preserved, if not alive, after being found in the Georgia woods, say two self-proclaimed trackers.Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer held a Saturday news conference and showed photos of what they claim is a 500-plus-pound dead biped they are keeping in a cooler at an undisclosed location. Pictures and descriptions are available on the Internet at : ...
Moldova.org |
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School in clear
Education watchdogs have cleared the high school that employed a teacher caught filming foreign exchange students taking showers at his home. The Ministry of Education has contacted Avondale College about the pastoral care of two Japanese girls who stayed with IT teacher Frank Glenski last year.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Memorial Tonight for Internet Trailblazer
Tonight at Theater for the New City in the East Village, friends will remember Cal Chamberlain , a 90s scenester who had a popular internet show a decade before You Tube would become a household name. Today's NY Times has a piece chronicling the life of "Judge Cal," one of the first people hired by Pseudo.com, a pioneer site in the web's early days that sent Chamberlain to the 2000 Republican ...
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The Herald-Zeitung Mobile Edition
The Herald-Zeitung provides a text-only version of its daily web edition for readers using cellular telephones or handheld computers. Registered users of AvantGo can create their own custom channel to download regular updates.
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Sex offender laws in Nevada face court battle
Eager to protect children from sexual predators, Nevada and other states across the nation are adopting laws that publicize the names of offenders on the Internet.
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Phones by Brand
Back in April of 2007 at the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando, Samsung unveiled what it at that time called the UbiCell, a small white femtocell ( definition ) for CDMA networks on the 850 and 1900MHz frequency bands, such as those used by Verizon, Alltel, and Sprint.
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BlackHat Experts Predict the Hot Security Topics for 2009
Computer security experts predict the hot topics for 2009. On the opening day of the BlackHat 2008 conference, Symantec did an anonymous survey of the attendees to discover exactly what they thought would be the hot security topics in the upcoming year. While no one can predict the future, I found some of this fairly interesting. The sample group consisted of IT managers, security researchers, ...
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ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead
TopSpin writes "Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript programming language, has announced that ECMA Technical Committee 39 has abandoned the proposed ECMAScript 4.0 language specification in favor of a more limited specification dubbed 'Harmony,' or ECMAScript 3.1. A split has existed among the members of this committee, including Adobe and Microsoft, regarding the future of what most of us ...
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ISO blows fanfare for OOXML
WITH THE ELAN of an international standards organisation, the International Standards Organisation has declared Microsoft's OOXML document format will be an international standard.
The Inquirer |
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, has confirmed there is a 'kill switch' built into the iPhone [operating system] that allows Apple to remotely delete malicious or inappropriate applications stored on the device," Claudine Beaumont reports for The Telegraph.
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Collinsville technology director to improve city's Web site
Michael Ajero has a simple mission: to make Collinsville's computer system better.
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School in clear
Education watchdogs have cleared the high school that employed a teacher caught filming foreign exchange students taking showers at his home. The Ministry of Education has contacted Avondale College about the pastoral care of two Japanese girls who stayed with IT teacher Frank Glenski last year.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Exclusive Monthly Report: Newspapers Make 'Unique' Gains on Web
NEW YORK Four of the top five news and current events Web sites that showed the most growth in unique users in July were newspapers.
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Flying today? Say hello to the TSA for us
Filed under: Laptops , Transportation If you hadn't heard, TSA's new laptop bag rule went into effect today, so we're wondering: what sort of experience are you getting at the checkpoint? Like many TSA policies , they can take a few days to trickle down to the rank and file, plus your line compatriots could muck everything up by misunderstanding the fairly strict new guidelines for ...
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Web applications can look like local applications
As Web designers we spend a lot of time trying to make our designs stand out. But sometimes it's better to blend in. And with the CSS system color keywords,...
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Does Windows... battles iPhone?
Last week, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., showed off the Omnia mobile phone to members of the local IT media. Samsung’s dual-SIM phone - Take Two! In the Philippines, most mobile phone users now carry two mobile phones because one TelCo decided to give unlimited call and text messaging services.
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Pandora Web services facing extinction
The founder of the Internet radio company Pandora says the growing presence of digital media is threatening to destroy his U.S. company.Tim Westergren said as digital media becomes more popular, related copyright infringement fights are increasing with Internet media companies such as Pandora targeted for their services, The Washington Post reported Saturday.We're approaching a pull-the-plug ...
Moldova.org |
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Mourning a Club Fixture, and an Internet Pioneer
Cal Chamberlain lived his life at the intersection of Manhattan?s art, fashion, music and technology scenes. His death is still a mystery.
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Anthony Doesburg: Activist urges end to software stranglehold
If you think computers and the internet have done a power of good for individual freedom, you've clearly not been exposed to the thinking of Richard Stallman.
The New Zealand Herald |
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NASA data show some African drought linked to warmer Indian Ocean
A new study, co-funded by NASA, has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. Computer models and observations show a decline in rainfall, with implications for the region's food security.
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