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Social networks leap the language barrier
When Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wants to illustrate the impact of his social network, he tells a story about several young religious militants from Lebanon who changed their view of Western culture through Facebook friendships. The subtext to the tale is that free expression of ideas, enabled by the web, bridges deep cultural divides.
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Average Issue Readership General Public PARC Media Index 1997, Saudi Arabia
With technology opening the new doors of communication and the distribution of news and information, ArabNews Online is not bound by physical limitations. ArabNews Online is published by ArabNews from its offices located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is now available to readers around the globe.
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LTI Secures $2m Financing Facility
August 12, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed hosting provider Leveraged Technology, Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has secured a $2 million financing facility from De Lage Landen Commercial Finance.
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Battle for South Ossetia fought in cyberspace
The six-day war between Russia and Georgia may have seemed a scruffy, bloody, almost 19th-century nationalist conflict, but it saw the deployment of what will be a major weapon in the wars of the future: the internet. South Ossetia was, say experts in both technology and military studies, the world's first cyberwar.
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Mystery Surrounds Death of NYC Renaissance Man
Mystery shrouds death of NYC Renaissance man whose career fused punk art and Web politics
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Into the future: Pros and cons of a Google world
Leading figures put the case for and against the internet corporation
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Let's Discus(s)... Sun Devil Jacquelyn Johnson (Track & Field)
Chances are, you have heard something about the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, China, unless you make your home in a deep cave that has no Internet, television, radio or telegraph line. And if that is the case, than the 29th Olympiad began on August 8th in Beijing.
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How to strike a pose on the Intenet
Who are you online? A Bach aficionado plugged into his Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor (BWV 1001), a Joy Goswami fan reciting from Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo and sipping on an Apple Martini at the same time? Maybe that’s not who you are off-line? But who cares?
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Mystery shrouds death of NYC Renaissance man whose career fused punk art and Web politics
NEW YORK (AP) _ Mark Chamberlain did everything to become a hip, high-tech New Yorker.
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Mastering all fields —West Ottawa graduate Ryan McDonald tackles football, masters degree at Illinois
Ryan McDonald isn’t your stereotypical rocket scientist, if there is such a thing. He doesn’t walk around all day wearing a lab coat and carrying a clipboard. He doesn’t wear glasses, and he realizes there’s more to life than crunching numbers and staring at computer screens. Then, again, what does a rocket scientist look like? Ryan McDonald stands 6-feet, 5-inches and weighs ...
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Crisic Center Receives $47,262 Grant
SPRINGDALE - The Crisis Center was awarded $47,262 through the new Wal-Mart Home Office Local Choice Grant program. The Crisis Center requested the money to upgrade the phone system and Internet capabilities to better fulfill the organization's obligation to Arkansas residents.
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Northwest Arkansas Incorporations
Benton County Easterling Internet Inc., Jon D. Easterling, 503 S. Second St., Rogers.
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Departing CIO blames Microsoft for his security troubles
One CIO would like to blame Microsoft for his security problems. I'm not buying it.
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Seattleite-turned-New Yorker's death a mystery
Mark Chamberlain was 15 when he ran away from home in Seattle to make it in the nation's biggest city, becoming a club kid, a model, a Web pioneer, one of CNN's first blog reporters. Then, suddenly, he was dead at 41 - the cause still a mystery three weeks later.
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Hacked PlayStation 3 reportedly runs Blu-ray games from HDD
Filed under: Gaming This one isn't quite as dodgy as they come, but the very notable limitations really keep this from being the whiz-bang hack that it appears to be on the surface . Hacker StreetskaterFU had no trouble getting confirmation from others that his method of running Blu-ray games from the PlayStation 3's hard drive was indeed legitimate, but it is only confirmed to work ...
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Pandora Web services facing extinction
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The founder of the Internet radio company Pandora says the growing presence of digital media is threatening to destroy his U.S. company.
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Gates, Chinese official meet in Beijing
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang says he hopes his meeting with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in Beijing will bear fruit in the future.
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Wordcamp 2008
In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
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Week in review
TECHNOLOGY UW team helps develop nanotechnology solution In the last four decades, computers...
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Some Eye-Popping Research From Siggraph
jamie found links to a discriminating selection of Siggraph papers at waxy.org. Among the more captivating: automatically improving the attractiveness of faces in portraits; automatic substitution of similar faces into photographs (with potential applications such as a privacy-enhanced Google Street View); and using still photographs to enhance video of a static scene. Read more of this ...
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SYS-CON.TV Presents "Virtualization Power Panel" Live From Times Square
Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' recorded ...
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