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AT&T launches new service to compete with cable
LITTLE ROCK - AT&T on Tuesday launched a combined television-Internet-telephone service in six Arkansas communities, prompting an already established provider to remark that it welcomed the competition and would work to raise the bar again.
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Dell's netbook arrives this week
Dell will announce its netbook, the Mini Inspiron 910, tomorrow, according to a story in today's WSJ. The new netbook had been expected any day, but the details came to light after a partner, Box.net, a provider of online storage, sent an e-mail to the newspaper touting its work with...
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Do online colleges make the grade?
For-profit schools offering university degrees online have performed well on Wall Street. Since 2000, shares of DeVry, for example, have nearly tripled in price, while Apollo Group shares are up more than sevenfold. Strayer Education shot up tenfold over the same period.
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Sony Computer Entertainment
SN Systems, a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, has announced the opening of its new office in Dublin, Ireland....
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The big picture - the Quocirca blog
Quocirca, Computing , Wednesday 3 September 2008 at 11:32:00 Picture this - how outsourcing can affect your data protection and security risks A whole bunch of episodes have demonstrated how bad many organisations are at protecting secret or personal data, especially those in the public sector....
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Vodafone Wants A Content Website To Match Its Mobile Portal
So far, Orange is the only UK carrier to treat its website as anything other than a storefront; on orange.co.uk, you can't move for news, sport, competitions… that stuff people call "content".
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Palin hubbub shows bloggers' influence on race
WASHINGTON, USA: The blogs are alive with the sound of Sarah. Republican candidate John McCain's staffers may deplore the online rumor mill that forced them to announce the pregnancy of newly minted running mate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter.
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County to keep hosting Web sites
Erie County Executive Chris Collins has decided that the county will continue to host the Web sites of a dozen local governments, reversing one of his administration's early cost-cutting moves.
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Cyber-Surfing Gives Everyone Easy Access to History
(ARA) - History is making history on the World Wide Web. With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by.
Carteret County News-Times |
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The over-40 crowd finds Facebook
Are you on Facebook? No? You're not? 'Cause you're too old?
The Buffalo News |
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HSBC to refund fees, lost interest due to snafu
HSBC Bank USA will fully adjust all checking and savings accounts for delayed interest and will refund any deposit or credit card fees incurred as a result of its computer system disruption, the bank said in a notice posted on its Web site.
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Search expenditure to rise by 24 per cent
Search engine marketing expenditure will rise by 24 per cent to £2.75bn in 2008, according to new research. Companies in the UK will increase their search engine marketing adspend, despite fears of an overall advertising downturn in face of a recession, according to research from E-consultancy.
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Apple fuels speculation about updated iPod
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. plans to host a special event next week, feeding speculation it might release updated models of the iPod media player to spur holiday sales.
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Get Your Computer Back in the Fast Lane
(ARA) - Does your computer take forever to load programs or change pages when you're surfing the Internet? Have you ever been in the middle of writing an e-mail only to have the screen freeze and force you to reboot and lose all your work?
Carteret County News-Times |
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Take a structured IT approach for successful mergers and acquisitions
Computer Weekly reported recently that merger and acquisition activity is likely to continue despite - or perhaps because of - the credit crunch, writes Marc Bray, operations director at Totalamber.
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Yahoo! picks Philippine rep to Open Hack Day in California
MANILA, Philippines—Yahoo! has chosen a 23-year-old software engineer from Antipolo as the Philippine representative to the Open Hack Day event in Sunnyvale, California on September 12 and 13.
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College student has beaten the odds of her disability
Brittany Saylor is a typical college student: She likes pizza, meeting new people and spending time on the computer navigating Facebook. Though she's quick to dismiss any differences, what sets the Wisconsin Rapids 19-year-old apart from many young adults who began classes Tuesday at UW-Whitewater is that she gets from place to place by wheelchair and uses a ventilator at night to help her ...
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Cyber-Surfing Gives Everyone Easy Access to History
(ARA) - History is making history on the World Wide Web. With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by.
Carteret County News-Times |
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TV In Bedroom Means Less Sleep For Kids
Middle school children with a TV or computer in their room sleep less during the school year, a University of Hafia and Jezreel Valley College says.
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Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome
Shiny new vulnerabilities winkled out already Google Chrome isn't officially out yet, but security researchers have already picked the browser apart to discover a security vulnerability.…
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Google's Austro-Hungarian ambitions laid bare
Chrome recruits Maximilian von Hapsburg Our shock revelation yesterday that Google had redrawn the map of Europe to apparently cede several European nations to a Greater Germany provoked a flurry of comments suggesting what on God's Green Earth the search monolith was up to:…
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11:12 (BST), 03/09/2008 SN Systems Dublin office Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SN ...
– SN Systems, a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), are pleased to announce the opening of a new satellite office in Dublin, Ireland.
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Charges dropped on technicality in Perverted Justice stings
WOODSTOCK – Prosecutors referred two Internet solicitation cases to neighboring counties and dropped the local charges after realizing that the alleged crimes were committed outside the county.
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HATCHET MAN: Even the Monty Python crew couldn't come up with a circus bout like Newcastle's Keegan v Ashley
The Premier League fixture computer will have to add a key pairing for next season: Newcastle v League Managers' Association. The two seem to square up to each other so often these days that there is definitely scope for two clashes each campaign.
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The over-40 crowd finds Facebook
Are you on Facebook? No? You're not? 'Cause you're too old?
The Buffalo News |
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