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Internet Usage Is Exploding, But So Is Capacity
Traffic growth is fueled by consumer demand for video -- delivered via web browsers, peer-to-peer services, or streaming protocols, one research firm found.
InformationWeek |
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Thieves target Newtown
THIEVES are walking out of Newtown houses in broad daylight with guitars and computers tucked under their arms and residents aren't saying a thing. That's the word from frustrated police who wonder whether anyone cares about the recent break and enters in the Toowoomba suburb.
Toowoomba Chronicle |
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Phorm delays internet trial
Phorm admitted on Thursday that preparations for the first major trial of its internet advertising technology had taken “longer than originally anticipated” but that it still expected deployments to go ahead with the UK’s largest broadband providers.
Financial Times |
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Facebook Tests Icon to Identify Predators, Porn
Deal stems from May agreement between Facebook, 49 states to better protect children.
PC World |
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Google App Engine: Getting Data Out Ain't Simple. Yet.
Data checks in... but it won't check out! No, not really; data management is just more of a pain than you might expect. To use Google App Engine today, you need to use a Python API to export from its proprietary data store. But soon, Google says, the situation will get a lot easier.
PC World |
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Wall Street Beat: Yahoo Slumps, Strategic M&A Continues
Yahoo hit a 52-week low as economic concerns battered the stock market Thursday.
PC World |
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CNBC Gets LinkedIn
Partnership adds CNBC content to LinkedIn, social networking tools to business network.
PC World |
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Dell yeah
Brian Nickolaus, 30, of Midland, won last month's Scavenger Hunt: a stacked Dell laptop computer.
Odessa American |
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NFL Teams Up with Adobe to Deliver NBC Sunday Night Football Live on the Internet
NEW YORK and SAN JOSE, Calif.----The National Football League and Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the NFL has selected Adobe® Flash® technology to deliver live online video streaming of NBC Sunday Night Football games on NFL.com and NBCSports.com.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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A decade on: Google's internet economy
As the web search giant Google celebrates its tenth birthday, the company is working hard to extend its hold on how we use the internet.
BBC News |
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Obama Won the Web, Early On
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has run a more advanced online campaign during the first half of 2008 than his Republican opponent John McCain, according to a Thursday report from comScore.
PC Magazine |
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Google's Chrome Tops Opera in Market Share
In just four days, Google's Chrome has passed Opera in browser market share, according to external source, as well as Ziff-Davis' own tallies.
PC Magazine |
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Nothing wrong with a bit of BIF
Federated Farmers encourages communities and businesses to make the most of a fund that will improve broadband connections in rural areas.
Scoop.co.nz |
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Inspired by Neil Young and Radiohead, Michael Moore will release his new film online and for free. The film, “Slacker Uprising,” follows Moore’s 62-city tour during the 2004 election to rally young voters.
Japan Today |
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PowerVR-maker signs deal with Apple?
System-on-a-Chip manufacturer Imagination Technologies on Thursday unveiled it has signed a multi-year licensing deal with an anonymous "international electronics systems company" which could confirm earlier rumors regarding Apple. In April, Imagination was found to be exploring a secret licensing deal with Apple, a move that would let Apple have exclusive distribution rights to its PowerVR SGX ...
MacNN |
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Seven injured in overheated Sony laptops
Sony Corp says that overheating notebook computers slightly injured seven people and urged customers to bring in some 440,000 units for repairs.
AAP via Yahoo!7 News |
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Check Point Software Shareholders Approve all Proposals at 2008 Annual General Meeting
Check Point(R) Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet,
wallstreet:online AG |
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Patent dispute threatens GPS imports
— Aug. 26, 2008 — U.S. importation of smartphones and other Windows-based devices using SiRF's GPS chipsets could be banned by December, if the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) adopts a recommendation made last week.
WindowsForDevices |
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Comcast Sues FCC Over Network Management Finding
Washington—Comcast Corp. on Thursday sued the Federal Communications Commission in a federal appeals court over the agency’s recent finding that the cable company had mismanaged its broadband network while consumers traded large video files over the Internet.
MultiChannel News |
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Las Vegas Sun
Thu, Sep 4, 2008 (3:27 p.m.) _About 73,000 VAIO VAIO VGN-TZ100, VGN-TZ200, VGN-TZ300 and VGN-TZ2000 series notebook computers, manufactured in Japan and United States by Sony Electronics Inc., because of a possibility the computers could short circuit and overheat.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Understanding Google Chrome
Company chooses to describe some of Chrome's capabilities and intentions to the world with a story in comic book form illustrated by Scott McCloud.
CNET |
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Jamesburg councilman nabbed on sex charges
A Jamesburg borough councilman was arrested today after he allegedly held sexually explicit Internet conversations with a detective who posed as a 14-year-old girl, Bergen County authorities said.
Morris Ledger |
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ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009
ZoneAlarm Internet Security 2009 gives the suite a new look and some feature enhancements, but there's not much that's actually new.
PC Magazine |
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Lanett Police say City Employee Makes Death Threat Against City Officials
LANETT, Ala. (WTVM) - A Lanett city employee is behind bars, charged with making a terrorist threat against the mayor and city manager in an online chat room. The FBI is investigating the death threats.
WTVM 9 Columbus |
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Web Sex Ads Monitored During Conventions
The tremendous jump in online requests for sexual services that seems to occur during large political conventions has placed police departments and advocacy groups on the alert.
CBS News |
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