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Using The Internet To Oppose Student Uniform Policy
One local students wants the school board to hear his opposition to the school uniform policy and has a powerpoint presentation to explain why.
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Anyone who has printed something in a Pitt campus computer lab has probably, at one time or another, had to wait in line for it. Starting in mid-to-late September, however, Pitt students won’t have to wait in line for lab computers to print documents they had on their personal computers.
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Microsoft to cut Xbox 360 price in Japan: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console in Japan by about 30 percent, aiming to gain market share from leader Nintendo Co , the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
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Corporations moving in wholesale to the blogosphere
Jason Calacanis, who got into blogging early and big, has quit.
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Hospitals: London health trusts plot legal action over new IT system
Some of London's largest hospital trusts are drawing up claims for compensation relating to the disastrous performance of computer systems installed by BT under the government's controversial £12.7bn overhaul of NHS IT systems in England. Board minutes from the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust show members discussing who is to blame for shortcomings in a patient administration system, additional ...
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DIY IKEA Headphone Stand [DIY]
All-things-IKEA weblog IKEA Hacker details how to make an attractive headphone stand for your desk—complete with cable-wrapping posts for cord management—using roughly $15 worth of...
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Website on new villages launched
KUALA LUMPUR: The next time you feel like getting away from the big city to unwind in a quaint village during the weekend, go to the Internet to look for more information about Chinese new villages in the country.
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Microsoft to cut Xbox 360 price in Japan: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console in Japan by about 30 percent, aiming to gain market share from leader Nintendo Co <7974.OS>, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
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Business
Qantas and Westpac customers face disruptions to online bookings and banking this week after Australian Services Union members voted to start industrial action.
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Health advice - Doctors vs Mums
New research by Panadol shows we're more likely to go to our mum before doctors, pharmacists or the internet because we trust her advice and she's always on call.¹
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Los Altos Prostitution Extortionists Arrested
Los Altos police are looking for men who may have been blackmailed into paying hush money to prevent videos of them having sex with prostitutes from being posted on the Internet.
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Internet ban for Thom's Saturday Night video
SANDI Thom, the singer who reached No1 after finding fame on the internet, has had the video for her latest single banned from YouTube because of scenes of drug-taking.
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"Vintropedia - Vintage Computer and Retro Console Price Guide"
Hey Everyone, hope you don't mind this going here, this book is for budding collectors who may want a helpful guide when buying systems, software and accessories, also works well as just a resource for general info. :)
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Richard Vine: Mad Men obsessives Twitter away
Richard Vine: If the Twitterverse has so far passed you by, it's probably best described as a kind of mobile micro-blogging
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Police accused of killing anti-Kremlin website chief
THE owner of an opposition internet news site in Russia's troubled Ingushetia region was shot dead yesterday after being detained by police, it has been claimed.
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More fall victim to phishing scams
Phishing - the practice of sending e-mails that pretend to come from legitimate businesses asking for your personal information - is becoming a bigger problem for banks, which generally have been successful at keeping their online systems secure. Security...
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Apple manages to overcome bad buzz from iPhone glitches
First, an iPhone price cut left its early buyers feeling foolish. Then came reports that some iPods were spitting sparks. Now, the new iPhone 3G has been marred by bugs, spotty service, disappearing programs for the device and a veil of secrecy over software developers trying to broaden its appeal.
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New breed of hackers tracking a new breed of cyberattackers
Here in the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a new breed of hackers is conducting digital espionage.
Austin American-Statesman |
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This Weeks Events
Until 04 Sep 2008 Ben is different and his cyber life is a universe in itself. In his strange life he plays his favourite online computer game Archlord and tries hard to train himself for the real world. The harsh...
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Dell gets more Latitude with new laptops
DELL, the world’s No. 1 workstation supplier, has announced a new line of Latitude and Dell Precision laptops, ranging from the lightest ultra-portable in the company’s history to the most powerful mobile workstation.
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Qantas, Westpac customers face disruptions
Qantas and Westpac customers in Australia face disruptions to online bookings and banking this week after Australian Services Union (ASU) members voted to start industrial action.
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Travel
Important files should be scrubbed from laptops before entering a foreign country, computer security experts warn. And if travellers must bring critical files, be sure they’re encrypted.
The West Australian |
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Hospitals: London health trusts plot legal action over new IT system
Failures of patient administration system leads to large increase in number of complaints
Guardian Unlimited |
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"Safe & Well" website lets people use internet to let loved one know they're OK
The American Red Cross encourages all Hurricane Gustav evacuees to register online to post a message on their " Safe and Well " website.
KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches |
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Claire Beale on Advertising: Sony's online, DIY entertainment makes a chilling vision for agencies
After an August in which almost the entire ad industry turned off the lights and headed for the sun, it's back-to-school time for adland this week. Expensive tans are wearing new season Mad Men suits (now even clients are sporting T-shirts it's time for the creative industries to rediscover style), conversations are "Nudge"d by the latest industry buzz book (the essential beach read and more ...
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