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Internet allowed in Sydney school exam
A Sydney girls' school will let its student use iPods, the internet and mobile phones during exams as a new method of assessment.
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Cuomo to IPs: Block Child Porn!
Albany, N.Y. - A threat by New York's Attorney General has paid off. Andrew Cuomo told internet providers he would sue if they didn't remove child porn sites from their...
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HP posts another solid quarter
Growth in notebook sales again leads the way for the computer maker, which beat Wall Street estimates for the third quarter with $2.03 billion in earnings.
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Study: Medicare Web Site Hard to Use
Medicare's web site isn't easy for many computer-savvy adults to use, University of Miami researchers report.
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Intel outlines solid state roadmap
Iain Thomson at IDF in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 19 August 2008 at 21:46:00 First products out within a month Intel has promised to deliver its first solid state hard drives (SSD) within the next month. The drives, dubbed X18-M and X-25M will initially ship in 1.8 and 2.5 inch...
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Mitrionics and Nallatech Demonstrate FPGA Accelerator Kit and Announce Membership in Intel(R) QuickAssist Technology ...
Intel Developer Forum -- Mitrionics, Inc., developer of the Mitrion™ Virtual Processor and the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform, and Nallatech will demonstrate their PCI Express* FPGA Accelerator Kit at the Intel Developer Forum being held August 19-21, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. The FPGA Accelerator Kit is targeted at companies and organizations in defense, High Performance Computing, ...
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Girls Gone Wild Founder Takes Case To The Web
Girls Gone Wild peddler and CEO of Mantra Films, Joe Francis, has filed a $300 million lawsuit against a federal judge alleging illegal imprisonment and backroom dealings with his former law partners. In conjunction with the lawsuit, Francis is pleading his case with the public at large via Web video, urging the public to write Congress to have Judge Richard Smoak removed from the bench. ...
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Google puts $10M in geothermal technology
Google Inc. is investing $10 million to produce electricity from underground heat with a breakthrough technology, as the Web search leader extends its clout to clean up the environment.
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Reuters Business Summary
Hewlett-Packard quarterly profit rises SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co , the world's biggest computer maker, reported a higher quarterly profit on Tuesday on solid international sales in its computer and printer businesses, which overcame pockets of weak technology spending. HP reported net income for the fiscal quarter ending July 31 of $2.5 billion, or 80 cents a share, ...
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Reuters Business Summary
Hewlett-Packard quarterly profit rises SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co , the world's biggest computer maker, reported a higher quarterly profit on Tuesday on solid international sales in its computer and printer businesses, which overcame pockets of weak technology spending. HP reported net income for the fiscal quarter ending July 31 of $2.5 billion, or 80 cents a share, ...
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Blacklist the IP Blacklist: Experts at Anchor Intelligence Say Lists Are Not a Solution for Click Fraud
According to research conducted by click fraud experts at Anchor Intelligence, Internet Protocol address blacklisting is not an effective long-term solution for eliminating click fraud.
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Hewlett-Packard beats expectations
Laptop sales help drive up third-quarter profit by 14%. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. says its third-quarter profit jumped 14%, beating Wall Street's expectations. Strong laptop sales and a robust international presence continue to lift the technology bellwether.
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Corsaire Publishes Guide on Hardening OS X Leopard
Corsaire, an organization devoted to securing information systems, has published a white paper on how to harden Mac OS X Leopard. The guide includes security guidelines, monitoring with Common Criteria Tools, managing users, system security settings and more
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Four charged in KC burglary, robbery
Jackson County prosecutors have charged four persons for allegedly breaking into a woman’s house, beating her and stealing her computer.
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Gigs & Bytes: Internet Radio's Royalty Misery
Webcasters and the recording industry are still at odds over royalties when it comes to Internet radio, with many Web streamers hoping for a last-minute deal brokered by Congress to save the day.
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Business leaders: Make renewable energy cheaper
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Representatives from corporate giants Google Inc. and General Electric Co. say that transitioning the United States to renewable energy on a large scale would be possible - if renewable energy were cheaper.
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Hewlett-Packard 3Q profit jumps 14 pct
By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. says its third-quarter profit jumped 14 percent, beating Wall Street's expectations. Strong laptop sales and a robust international presence continue to lift the technology bellwether.
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Sony to strive to make PS3 music peripherals work across all games
Oh, how I long for the days when buying a video game console was the end of the story. After that, all you needed were the games. Sure there were a couple of hokey add-ons for the original Nintendo, and there was that whole “32X” thing for the Sega Genesis, but today things have simply [...]
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Hewlett-Packard 3Q profit jumps 14 pct
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 14 percent, beating Wall Street's expectations, as strong laptop sales and a robust international presence continued to lift the technology bellwether.
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Judge backs hackers in Boston subway dispute
BOSTON (Reuters) - Three students from the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology who found a way to hack into Boston's transit system to get free rides can talk publicly about the security flaw, a court ruled on Tuesday in a decision hailed as a victory for academic freedom.
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Softbank to sell Casio cell phones
Softbank Mobile Corp. will introduce handsets made by Casio Computer Co. later this year to help diversify product offerings, the two companies said Tuesday. Details of the handsets' specifications and the exact timing of the launch will be announced later, the two firms said. Read the full story
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How To Get Your Email Past Clients' Spam Filter
With growth rates of spam, phishing, and email-borne malware showing no signs of abating, more and more ISPs and enterprises are implementing stronger protective measures.
IT Management |
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HP's Sales Jump 10% as 3Q Results Top Estimates
Thanks to persistent international sales, Hewlett-Packard reported fiscal third-quarter results that exceeded expectations on Tuesday, sending the tech giant’s shares up in after-hours trading.
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Diplomats' e-mail hit by redirect error at KDDI
E-mail sent to the Japanese Consulate General in Hong Kong in the first week of August may have been improperly redirected to third parties due to a glitch at KDDI Hong Kong Ltd., although no internal information from the consulate general was leaked, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The glitch at KDDI Hong Kong is believed to have been caused by unauthorized access by hackers into its e-mail ...
The Japan Times |
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Television - Lifestyle
For most of us the plastic recycling process does not go past putting our rubbish out on the kerb. But at that point much of the plastic is just beginning its journey and will eventually end up as far away as China.
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