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Second Technician Pleads Guilty In Fumo Case
The federal corruption case against state Sen. Vincent Fumo grew stronger Tuesday as a second computer technician admitted he destroyed evidence as the FBI closed in on the Philadelphia power broker.
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eBeam Makes It Easy for Classrooms to Access Content & Use Multimedia
Luidia Inc., a leading provider of innovative interactive whiteboard systems, today announced the release of a new version of eBeam(R) software for interactive projection environments in classrooms. eBeam Interact v.2.1 provides new and improved functionality, such as Screen Recording and Scrapbook Image Writer, and allows teachers to access easily an extensive online image gallery.
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Teacher sentenced to prison
A middle school teacher who taught music and history for a dozen years in Tierrasanta had downloaded thousands of pieces of child pornography before investigators identified him through an Internet payment system, prosecutors said.
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Intel announces Mainstream SSD drives
In the wake of last Friday's leak, Intel has now formally announced its Mainstream series of SSD drives. Models will be available in 1.8- and 2.5-inch sizes, and rely on MLC (multi-level cell) NAND memory, which should in theory aid to keep prices down. One of the first examples is the 80GB X25-M, which is also Intel's first SATA-based SSD for no...
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Apple deals: iPod collection, MacBook, Xserve
Apples online store is currently offering previous generation refurbished iPods in 30GB (up to 7,500 songs) and 80GB (up to 20,000 songs) configurations for $159 and $189 in black and white. Current generation 1GB (up to 240 songs) iPod shuffles are only $39 and come in silver, blue, green or purple. For $149 is the 8GB (up to 2,000 songs) iPod n...
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Making Motherboards The Gigabyte Way
Unless something goes horribly wrong, you only see your motherboard in its final form, decked out with copper cooling and flashing LEDs. Gigabyte showed us how much work goes into getting a board from blank PCB to action-ready.
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Teacher sentenced to prison
A middle school teacher who taught music and history for a dozen years in Tierrasanta had downloaded thousands of pieces of child pornography before investigators identified him through an Internet payment system, prosecutors said.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Official scolded over Net activities
Chula Vista's highest ranking executive has been reprimanded for his computer usage and asked not to retaliate against employees who reported his looking at “inappropriate images” while at work.
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Panasonic Highlights Mobile Computing Innovations, Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor-Based Mobile Devices at IDF San Francisco
Panasonic Computer Solutions Company, manufacturer of durable, reliable Panasonic Toughbook(R) mobile computers, will highlight its proven Intel processor-based reliable mobile computers, including innovative form factors such as the ultra mobile rugged Toughbook(R) U1 UMPC, utilizing the low power Intel Atom(TM) processor at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) held in San Francisco, California.
Centre Daily Times |
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Teacher sentenced to prison
FEDERAL COURT – A middle school teacher who taught music and history for a dozen years in Tierrasanta had downloaded thousands of pieces of child pornography before investigators identified him through an Internet payment system, prosecutors said.
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Alpha Software Named a CRN Emerging Tech Vendor Based on the Success and Adoption of Alpha Five v9
For the second year running, Alpha Software has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Tech vendor for its Alpha Five Platinum software. CRN's Emerging Tech list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants.
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Leaping the Uncanny Valley
reachums submits this glance at "the newest level of computer animation," intended to get past the paradoxical "uncanny valley" — that is, the way animated humans actually can appear jarring as the animation gets hyper-realistic. "This short video gives us a glimpse of what we can hope to see in the future of computer games and movies. Emily is not a real actress, but she looks like a real ...
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Official scolded over Net activities
Chula Vista's highest ranking executive has been reprimanded for his computer usage and asked not to retaliate against employees who reported his looking at “inappropriate images” while at work.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Mechdyne Installs Advanced Computer Visualization Systems to Support Collaborative Design Program of Leading Aerospace ...
MARSHALLTOWN, IA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/19/08 -- Mechdyne Corporation today announced that it has completed a multi-room computer simulation and visualization center for Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE: ATK), a premier advanced weapon and space systems company.
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Patent Office Casts Shadow on Dell's Claim to 'Cloud Computing'
To the surprise of few, Dell is losing its preliminary approval to trademark the phrase "cloud computing." The Patent and Trademark Office has sent the company a "non-final" refusal of its application to own the term. Dell has six months to submit counter-arguments or the PTO will abandon the application.
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Conversation with HP's Roberto Moctezuma
I recently had the chance to speak with Roberto Moctezuma, VP, Desktop Solutions Organization for HP about the company's approach to providing its customers with desktop and client virtualization solutions. I've spoken with one of Roberto's team, Tad Bodman, and posted HP and Desktop Virtualization a while back. ...
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2008 Porsche Cayman
2008 PORSCHE CAYMAN STYLING [10 out of 10] Car and Driver: "The going-away view is arguably the sexiest perspective in the current Porsche lineup" Autoblog: "The Cayman squats especially close to terra firma parked in the driveway" ConsumerGuide: "Racy design puts the tachometer appropriately dead ahead" The Porsche silhouette ...
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Psystar fails to meet court deadline again
Mac clone vendor Psystar has once again failed to meet a court deadline to formally respond to Apple's claim that the company violates Apple's copyright. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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CyberPatrol Urges Implementation of California Cyberbullying Law
ENOLA, Pa.----CyberPatrol LLC announced today its strong support for Assembly Bill 86, which would give California school officials new tools to battle cyberbullying and increase online safety for the millions of students in the country's largest public school system.
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Dell Inspiron 910 customers can choose between XP and Ubuntu
Interesting to see that Dell's answer to the ASUS Eee PC will ship with a choice of either Windows XP or Ubuntu 8.04. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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Tom Bihn announces first "Checkpoint Friendly" bag
On Friday 16 August 2008 the U.S. Transportation Security Administration TSA launched their new "checkpoint-friendly" bag policy. The policy allows notebook computers in "checkpoint-friendly" bags to remain in their case while being scanned, sort of. In order to qualify under the program the bag must have a...
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Google, Apple surge in customer satisfaction rating
Google and Apple were among the big winners in the University of Michigan's second quarter American Customer Satisfaction Index. The index, released Tuesday, found that overall satisfaction among consumers fell 0.1 percent to 75.1 on a 100 point scale. Among the key technology movers...
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My Windows 7 wish list
Cynics see the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which launched last week, as a pure PR play from Microsoft. Maybe. But in a 2000-word post yesterday, Windows boos Steven Sinofsky provided some more details about the development effort, including some clues as to what to expect in Windows 7. In...
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C++ is Super Glue for anti-malware apps
In its 2006 survey of 616 U.S. IT security professionals, the Computer Security Institute found that 65 percent of companies represented had experienced a virus attack.
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Logitech preps Cordless Desktop Wave Pro
Logitech today put out a more ergonomic pairing of mouse and keyboards through its Cordless Desktop Wave Pro set. The bundle mates a 2.4GHz RF-based wireless Desktop Wave keyboard with a new, similarly ergonomic MX1100 RF mouse to ease the stress on users' hands and wrists over long work periods without forcing users to relearn their control layou...
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