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More Retailers Using Social Media
An increasing number of retailers are turning to social media to target teens and young adults during the back to school shopping season according to JupiterResearch. Retailers are trying out a number of Web 2.0 tools for their back to school marketing campaigns, including using virtual worlds, social networks, social shopping sites, visual search engines, video and widgets. read more ...
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MSOs Admit To Tracking Consumers’ Online Activity
Cable One last fall conducted a six-month trial of a network-based technology that tracks consumers' Internet movements in an effort to amass refined data on Web-surfer habits that can be sold to advertisers at premium rates.
MultiChannel News |
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IFC Hopes To Hit With Viral Video Spoof
For anyone seeking their 15 minutes of Internet fame, IFC.com has a Web series targeting you.
MultiChannel News |
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Internet radio sites push for lower royalties for artists
Record industry executives, artists and Internet radio executives clashed Tuesday at a Senate hearing over how much royalties Internet radio services should pay.
The Tuscaloosa News |
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OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks Part II
Last month we started a tutorial series covering tips and tricks to help you make the transition from Microsoft (MS) Office to OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.4 easier.
LinuxPlanet |
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Badaboom: A Full Test of Elemental's GPU Accelerated H.264 Transcoder
It's finally here, a GPU accelerated H.264 transcoder that promises to speed up one of the most time intensive things you can do on your desktop. Unfortunately the first incarnation of Elemental's Badaboom media converter is hardly a replacement for established H.264 codecs/frontends, despite delivering solid performance....
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Former ONU law student pleas to misdemeanor
LIMA - The four-year legal battle for a former Ohio Northern University law student accused of trying to solicit sex over the Internet with a 14-year-old girl has ended with a plea to a misdemeanor.
The Lima News |
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US national leaves India despite look out notice
The US national, whose computer Internet connection was used to send terror e-mail minutes before Ahmedabad blasts, left the country on Monday despite a look out notice issued by Mumbai police.
Hindustan Times |
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Supercomputer available for use
Over the next three years, public and private researchers will have access to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), officials say.
Central New York Business Journal |
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Local researchers in China to observe total solar eclipse
A group of area researchers are in Weinan, China to video capture and broadcast to the Internet a total solar eclipse, observable only from a small narrow corridor on the Earth.
Crookston Daily Times |
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Après CNN, MSNBC nouvelle cible Stormique !
La semaine dernière, des pirates informatiques s'étaient amusés à diffuser un virus via les couleurs de CNN. Depuis peu, voici venir MSNBC.
Zataz Mag |
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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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Tech Briefs: Buggy iPhone, European VCs Stingier, Vodafone's Africa Grab
Apple iPhone users bitch about poor 3G reception, European VCs tighten the purse strings, Vodafone's plan for world domination spreads to Ghana.
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Government Computer News
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called " Engineering Windows 7 ." The blog will be a place where the company plans to release information about its still-in-development operating system.
Government Computer News |
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Gas Perks a New Trend at Work
In Washington state, Microsoft has leased three large office complexes miles from company headquarters in recent months to shorten the commutes of about 7,000 employees.
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Government Computer News
Christopher Traver, 27, is a leader in the development of the National Information Exchange Model, an Extensible Markup Language-based information exchange framework that represents a collaborative partnership among agencies and organizations across all levels of government — federal, state, tribal and local.
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Southern California Virtual High School Launched by Advanced Academics, Inc. and Hacienda La Puente Unified School ...
Southern California students who want to earn their high school diploma have a new, exciting option. Launched as a partnership between online learning leader Advanced Academics, Inc. and Hacienda La Puente Unified School District (HLPUSD), Southern California Virtual High School will offer a comprehensive online program for area students tuition free.
Centre Daily Times |
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Offshore Web Host Artmotion Introduces Line of Swiss Dedicated Servers
Switzerland-based Dedicated Servers are bundled with a hardware firewall and suite of security consulting services.
TopHosts.com |
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A glossary of wardriving terms
A glossary of wardriving terms Wireless networking manuals use acronyms and obscure terms that can be daunting. But understanding at least some of those terms is required to properly secure an open network. A few of the more common and useful terms:...
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Regulator allows computer-to-phone calls now
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Soon, for the first time in the country, you would be able to make calls from computers to fixed line as well as mobile phones.
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Hospital worker faked sick notes and stole computers
A hospital worker who faked sick notes and then sneaked into the ERI to steal computers has avoided a jail sentence. At Edinburgh Sheriff Court, 31-year-old Stephen Dowie admitted photocopying and altering his medical certificates to claim an extra £2,700 in sick pay.
Scotland Today |
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Google Launches Free The Airwaves, Pushing White Spaces Issue
Google has announced today the launch of a new website promoting the unlicensed use of "white space" spectrum. The initiative is called " Free The Airwaves ” which encourages Internet users to get proactive on the white spaces issue, if they "care about the future of the Internet."
CircleID |
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How Puppy Pictures Can Give Your Web Site A Whole New Look
Increasing your site's popularity is not easy, especially if you don’t have an interesting content to post on the page. In truth, not all Web sites on the Internet can brag of good traffic or a positive reputation to the online masses.
Turks.US |
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RP, Asia give open source the space to expand wings
Slowly but surely, open source technology is converting hordes of doubters to firm believers across Asia, including the Philippines.
Manila Bulletin |
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SI biz gets cutthroat among SAP partners
The lucrative system integration (SI) and consultancy business in the local technology sector has just become more competitive, especially among the partners of enterprise software giant SAP who are now locked in a race to dominate the market.
Manila Bulletin |
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