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Medicare Web site just doesn't click with users, report shows
Even adults with skills find tool to see drug plans quite confusing A new University of Miami study confirms what seniors already know: Shopping for Medicare prescription drug coverage on the Medicare Web site can be confusing, even for techno-aware consumers.
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School takes modern approach to student exams
Not long ago it would have been called cheating, but students at a Sydney girls' school are now being encouraged to take their phones, laptops and MP3s into exams and even phone a friend if they want help with a question.
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Microsoft intros SideWinder X6 keyboard and X5 mouse
Filed under: Peripherals We had a hunch that Microsoft would be launching a SideWinder-branded keyboard this fall, and sure enough, the suits in Redmond are keeping the revitalized name alive with an all new September-bound input peripheral combo. The SideWinder X6 is hailed as the "first gaming keyboard created by Microsoft from the ground up, and the only gaming keyboard on the ...
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Local man jailed for collecting, trading child porn
A Saskatoon man who collected more than a thousand images of child pornography over a year and a half using his computer and the Internet was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail and a year on probation.
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Mac clone maker Psystar: We're still in business
Despite a lawsuit from Apple, Psystar says it continues to ship Open Computing products capable of running Mac OS X.
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Fifty years later, the builder of first Israeli computer reminisces
Professor Gerald Estrin explains the flow diagram of the WEIZAC mathematical unit to his staff. The American father of Israel’s first computer recounts building the machine on the 50th anniversary of its creation.
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Mother’s body parts found in plastic bag
A PEDDIE man has been arrested after he allegedly hacked his mother to death – cutting her head open, and then packing her brains and ears into a plastic bag.
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Defense: Prosecutors can't bend law to fit Mo. 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 argued Monday in court papers that prosecutors are bending a cyber crime statute to prosecute his client.
Park Hills Daily Journal |
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To California, from Lacombe with love
You can do just about anything on the Internet these days, from buying a car to finding the love of your life.
St. Tammany News |
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Silent PSUs: Fortron Versus Silverstone
Home theater PCs should be as quiet as possible. Since most of the noise is caused by the fans on the CPU and power supply, we tested two passive power supplies that use no fans.
Tom's Hardware |
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Rich Hofmann: ONLY SOME BOOS KICK IN
FOR THOSE keeping score at home, it began with an interview by Jimmy Rollins on cable television, which spawned an Internet fan movement, which was being written about in a dead-tree newspaper - all of which left us a short-wave radio short of hitting for the cycle, me and Carson Book and his wife Mandy, who swore she wasn't a hostage as she helped her husband hand out the flyers that said, ...
Philadelphia Daily News |
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Strong quarter for HP, but layoffs in Corvallis
Hewlett-Packard Co. remains focused on cost cuts in its printer group, the company said Tuesday, amid fresh word of layoffs at its Corvallis ink cartridge factory.
The Oregonian |
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Issue 106 - 27th July - 31st August
Ever had questions about what it would be like to work for one of the British Intelligence Services?
Online Recruitment |
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Web Booms As High Street Slumps
The credit crunch and rising inflation are taking their toll on the High Street - but online retailers are booming, a new report says.
SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Despite glitch, no recount needed, county clerk says
No recount is needed after a computer malfunction forced Warren County election officials to count Aug. 5 election results by hand, said County Clerk Barb Daly.
Warrenton Journal |
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Sacramento City Council cancels contract for free Wi-Fi network project
Sacramento is logging out of the wireless Internet game.
The Sacramento Bee |
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20-08-2008: TM has best proposal for HSBB, says CEO
KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) believes that it has the best proposal to wire up the country with its RM15.2 billion high-speed broadband (HSBB) project and is awaiting the green light from the government for its rollout, its group chief executive officer said yesterday.
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Sacramento City Council cancels contract for free Wi-Fi network project
Sacramento is logging out of the wireless Internet game.
The Sacramento Bee |
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Ericsson, STMicro to Combine Mobile Units in Venture (Update1)
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Ericsson AB , the world's largest maker of wireless networks, and STMicroelectronics NV, Europe's largest chipmaker, will combine some mobile-communications units to collaborate on research and design of chips and networks.
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PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK: Players, coaches getting into regular season mode
FOXBORO - The Patriots have begun their transition from a training camp mentality to one that will sustain them over the course of a 17-week regular season, and hopefully beyond.
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New principals begin work in L.A. mayor's schools partnership
They are hired as part of an ambitious, high-stakes effort to improve some of the lowest-achieving campuses. Tim Sullivan's first day as Markham Middle School's principal was Monday. He quickly found out that the computers didn't recognize his employee identification number and that he didn't have enough staff to register about 300 sixth-graders for classes the next day.
Los Angeles Times |
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Sacramento City Council cancels contract for free Wi-Fi network project
Sacramento is logging out of the wireless Internet game.
The Sacramento Bee |
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5 arrested for alleged child-porn sharing
Five local men accused of sharing child pornography over the Internet were among 52 Southern California residents swept up in a federal sting operation, authorities announced Tuesday. Video: Peer-to-Peer Child Pornography Sting
Pasadena Star-News |
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Police arrest missing child molester in L.B.
An unregistered child molester roaming the South Bay and downloading pornographic stories about sex with infants from public library computers was arrested in Long Beach, police said Tuesday.
Long Beach Press-Telegram |
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Internet chiefs ban names of Games medalists
BEIJING - China's sport authorities have banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves.
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