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Apple credits 60 days to MobileMe users, apology
After a brief silence, Apple on Monday acknowledged the many issues plaguing its MobileMe suite of online services, offering users a free 60-day extension for past problems, as well as a concerted effort to continually improve. Echoing words from CEO Steve Jobs to Apple staff, the message notes that the newly helmed MobileMe team is dedicated to pr...
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Industry Moves: Glam Media; Marchex; Greenspun Media; Federated Media
-- Glam Media : The company has hired Yukihiro Yamamura as CEO of its new subsidiary Glam Media Japan KK and VP of Glam Media. No stranger to the CEO position, Yamamura previously held the post at DoubleClick Japan, and earlier, Excite Japan. Thus starts the Japanese expansion of the online ad network...it plans to officially launch its Japanese site and publisher network later this year.
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Greubel's knocking out the competition!
How popular is mixed martial arts in America right now? If you go to the website google and type MMA in the search engine you will find over 28 million website's dedicated to the sport.
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Ill. State Treasurer sells items on eBay
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is committed to bringing the state of Illinois into the 21st century. His latest step toward modernizing the state was to make the auctioning of unclaimed property on eBay a permanent initiative. Beginning in August of 2007 the state began to place unclaimed items from safe deposit boxes up for bids on the popular online auction site.
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Man Accused Of Threatening A Judge Pleads Not Guilty
A Rockcastle County man accused of threatening a judge on an internet message board says he's 'not' guilty.
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The exemplification of a cop?
Between the years 2002 and 2006, Jeffrey Pelo, now former Bloomington police officer, raped four women and stalked another. Pelo used his police computer login to research each of the women, finding their license plate numbers, addresses and other personal information, before committing the brutal crimes.
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GraphOn files patent suit against Google
The suit alleges that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites, and YouTube services infringe on database-related patents.
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Gartner predicts IT spending growth
Spending should rise 8 percent in 2008 to US$3.4 trillion.
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Data mining detects signs of Lou Gehrig's disease
NewsRx.com August 14, 2008 Inspired by the use of microarray chips that look for gene combinations, psychologists are using "pattern array" software to spot movements in rats that might help them predict diseases such as Lou Gehrig's syndrome (see also American Psychological Association).
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Coach arrested in Internet sex sting
LAKELAND, Fl. (CBS) - In Florida, a swim coach's summer vacation ended early with his arrest in an Internet sex sting.
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Tired teens at risk of breaking their hearts
Sleep-deprived teenagers are at greater risk of high blood pressure and heart attacks - and their mobile phones, computer games and iPods could be to blame, research suggests.
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Google Launches Site in Effort To Free Airwaves
Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, started a Web site to lobby American regulators to free up unused television airwaves for wireless Internet access. The airwaves, known as white spaces, could spur a revolution in wireless services, Google said on the site, which it unveiled yesterday. The company designed the site to be "a campaign by and for consumers," a Google ...
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Wired 08/18/08
The End Of Internet Radio? (Pandora Endangered) Pandora -- practically the poster child for online radio -- says it will shut down if royalty rates enacted in March of 2007 are not altered soon.
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CBL Data Recovery Offers Unlimited Data Recovery Coverage
MARKHAM, ON / ARMONK, NY -- July 29, 2008 -- CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. (CBL) today announced a new service offering which shields computer users from the expense of data recovery when data loss disaster strikes unexpectedly.
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Yahoo Buzz Opens All Publishers & Web Sites
Yahoo Buzz is now open to all publishers and web sites. Yahoo announced that any Yahoo user can now "buzz up" any content from any publisher on the Web. Yahoo Buzz launched in February of this year, as a Digg competitor. It was locked down to about 100 publishers and grew to over 400, since then. Yahoo said they have over 5 million users that have participated in the site. But now, any ...
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A Maddington man has been charged with possessing child pornography after police confiscated three computers from his house. Armadale detectives seized the man's computers in July and analysed hard drive systems and allegedly uncovered 50 videos and 49 images of child pornography.
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GraphOn files lawsuit against Google for patent infringement
The complaint, filed in the US District Court in Texas, alleges infringement of US patent numbers 6,324,538 (the 538 patent), 6,850,940 (the 940 patent), 7,028,034 (the 034 patent) and 7,269,591 (the 591 patent) which protect GraphOn's method of maintaining an automated and network-accessible database.
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Renaissance enhances NEO classroom laptops
The company claims that beginning in early 2009, the NEO 2 will offer a wireless file transfer feature, which will integrate it with Google Docs, document, spreadsheet, and presentation program.
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Cosmic Log: Myths busted on the Web
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The bad news about last week's Bigfoot news is that, by all appearances, the claims about finding an actual corpse of the long-sought monster are bogus. The good news is that it didn't take all that long to bust the Bigfoot myth.
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Defense: Prosecutors can't bend law to fit MySpace hoax
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A defense attorney for the Missouri woman charged in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide says prosecutors are bending a cyber crime statute to prosecute his client.
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Woman faces £16,000 penalty for sharing game
A computer pinball game maker has won a £16,000 ($29,813) court jackpot in a damages case that highlights the increasingly assertive US-style approach of media companies to protecting their wares.
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Victim of Cyber Theft Ring Speaks Out
As a report of many restaurants in Baton Rouge being the target of a ring of cyber-thieves comes out, a victim and a restaurant manager speaks out about the crimes
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Symantec to buy PC Tools
Symantec to acquire maker of PC utilities software.
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'A Lot of People Just Don't Take the Basic Precautions'
At the end of the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas this month, James Finch, head of the FBI's Cyber Division, sat down for an interview about crime and the Internet. About 4,000 people gathered at the annual convention to hear about research on the latest network and computer or electroni...
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Zoho's future in Google's hands?
 Earlier today, Zoho sent over an intriguing email with a whole bunch of numbers and spreadsheet demonstrating why Google in particular is not likely to be a threat to the company. It makes interesting reading. The argument goes something like this: Google's revenue and profit per...
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