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Woman caught in file-sharing swoop
A woman has been ordered to pay out £16,000 after a swoop on Britons who illegally share games and films over the internet, lawyers said. The woman, who has not been named, is among the first to be taken to court in the UK by computer game manufacturers seeking to protect their copyright.
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WA Business and Mining
Increased sales of high speed internet products have helped to boost the net profit of Perth-based internet service provider iiNet to $19.9 million, the company has announced.
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Latest Technology Headlines
Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. Last week, we told you that Taiwan-based HTC, one of the largest mobile device makers in the world, was readying the first smart phone to use Google’s Android operating system.
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Has the iPhone 3G Been Fixed?
The brand-new radio chip in the Apple iPhone 3G has been causing the company a bit of indigestion in recent weeks as customers complain about dropped phone calls and intermittent connections to the highly touted 3G network.
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Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games
Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology.
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Student Files Are Exposed on Web Site
The Princeton Review, the test-preparatory firm, accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were available for seven weeks.
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GVS standardizes on Autonomy to automate third-party administration processes
With Autonomy, GVS is expected to deliver timely and accurate processing of payment claims, enabling the vision plan provider to further streamline its internal operational processes; accelerate delivery of data and documents to backend IT infrastructure; reduce administrative costs; and eliminate data entry errors.
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New Space Robotics Blog for Students - Challenger Center Teams Up With Gen Y NASA Robotics Engineer
Challenger Center for Space Science Education is pleased to announce a new space robotics blog for students interested in science, technology and engineering.
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TCS wins $8.3 million professional services contract from DoD
TeleCommunication Systems, a provider of wireless communications technology, has won a $8.3 million contract to provide a Department of Defense Command with communications professional services. The delivery of these professional services will be over the four quarters ending in July 2009.
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Absolute and GammaTech deliver anti-theft solution for Durabook notebooks
GammaTech has begun embedding support for Absolute's patented Computrace technology in the firmware of Durabook models. Computrace-enabled models include the D14RY, D15RP and D15TS which allow for optional encrypted hard drives for an additional layer of data security.
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TeliPhone Q3 sales up
Internet-based digital telecommunications company TeliPhone has reported that in the third quarter of 2008, its sales increased to $381,397 compared with $183,630 for the same period in 2007.
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Apps: LabelWizard, Easy Catalog, DIskLibrary, more
Label Wizard 1.1.0 includes several "user interface enhancements" and bug fixes. Black Cat Systems says its label utility gives users "complete control over the layout of the label," including text, pictures, objects and serial numbers. The $20 utility is a Universal Binary requiring Mac OS X 10.2 or higher. [Download - 3.4MB]....
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ePCOs to close digital divide in rural Karnataka
BANGALORE, INDIA: Katta Subramanya Naidu, Minister for Information Technology, Karnataka today unveiled the state's first ePCO, a collaborative effort with Intel, Karnataka PCO Association, BSNL Karnataka, and ItzCash.
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28TEL challenges Skype with Mobility on VOIP
HONG KONG, Linkwell International (HK) Co. Ltd. announced that 28TEL , the company's leading online mobile telecommunications service provider, is launching International "Free Call" service in the United States.
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Welcome to the new OUDaily.com's Beta Test. Click here for details.
Welcome to the first test for The Oklahoma Daily's new Web site OUDaily.com. We've been hard at work getting everything tightened up and finished, but we need your help. So login, click around, tell us what you think and help us make our site better.
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Feds seek to nab credit thieves in La., Miss.
Associated Press - August 18, 2008 4:54 PM ET BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A ring of cyber-thieves has stolen tens of thousands of credit card numbers from Louisiana and Mississippi restaurants this...
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Qwest Readies for Technological Demands of Republican National Convention
Qwest Communications, the internet, cable and satellite provider for the Republican National Convention, announced Monday that its network infrastructure is in place for what's expected to be one of the most technologically advanced conventions ever.
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Google to FCC: Free The Airwaves
Google launched FreeTheAirwaves.com to rally support to open unused TV broadcast frequencies.
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Google issues long-awaited Android SDK update
Google released a new version of the Android SDK to developers.
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Paedophile internet ‘librarian’ jailed indefinitely
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Monday 18 August 2008 at 23:18:00 Police bust massive criminal network A 27 year old British man has been jailed indefinitely for acting as an online librarian for a child pornography win....
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Dell's cloud claim struck down
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 19 August 2008 at 00:29:00 US trademark office denies claim on buzzword Dell has seen its petition to trademark the term 'cloud computing' struck down by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)....
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Spammers go down to Georgia
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Monday 18 August 2008 at 21:16:00 New spam evades filters The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine is showing that the war in Georgia is being used to evade spam filters....
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Westchester companies agree to Cuomo's anti-porn campaign
A pair of Internet companies from Westchester County have signed agreements to remove child pornography Web sites from their servers and block access to child pornography newsgroups, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today.
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First Computer Game Launched by Newport Graduates' Company Aims to Put Wales on the Map
Cosmic Sunder is now available for download. August 18, 2008 - A company determined to put Wales on the map in the computer games industry has launched its first game - an action-packed space adventure entitled Cosmic Sunder . Dark Rock Games was set up by Adam Griffiths, a graduate of the University of Wales, Newport, in an effort to provide employment for Wales' talented games designers and ...
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T-Mobile to launch first Google-powered mobile
BERLIN -- T-Mobile said Monday it plans to launch a mobile phone powered by Google's Android software, making it the first operator to do so and posing a direct threat to Apple's popular iPhone.
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