| Karachi riot toll rises to 40 |
At least 40 people have been killed in rioting that started late Saturday in the port city of Pakistan, Online news agency reported Tuesday.
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| Facebook, MySpace being used to fight terrorism |
Washington, Dec 2 : Web sites like Facebook, MySpace, and others had been created as a platform for social interaction, but they are now fast becoming weapons for a positive social change.
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| YouTube invites classical musicians to play Beijing Olympics theme composer |
London, December 2 : Beijing Olympics theme composer Tan Dun is upbeat that member of the video sharing website YouTube will give rise to revolutionary methods of playing music when they try performing his work.
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| John Mayer turns online baking guru! |
Washington, Dec 2 : With Christmas just a few weeks away, John Mayer has got into the holiday mood - the popstar has posted family cake recipes and decorative styles on his website.
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| Memorizing facts and figures a waste of time for Google generation, says expert |
London, December 2 : A leading commentator says that children these days should not be forced to memorise facts and figures that are readily available on the Internet, insisting that it would be a waste of time.
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| Former AOL chief exec tries to raise funds to buy Yahoo |
The Wall Street Journal reported today. Miller, who was abruptly ousted at AOL in 2006 after leading a highly complex and, at the time, initially successful turnaround, has met with private equity inv...
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| Google releases its top NZ search terms for 2008 |
American singer Chris Brown and Barack Obama topped New Zealanders' most searched celebrities on Google this year, while John Key was the most searched 'John', just ahead of St John and Elton John.Goo...
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| Palm Continues Downward Spiral |
Things just aren't getting any brighter for Palm. The struggling mobile device maker said revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal 2009 will come in way below analysts' expectations of $299 milli...
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| Marketers Spending Close To Half Their Budgets Online |
Mike Sachoff - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 5:10pm. Good source for leads Nearly half (47%) of all marketing budgets are now spent online according to a joint survey by Hearst Electronics Group and Goldstein Gro...
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| Entertainment dominates top iPhone applications |
(Credit: The Blimp Pilots) It's clear from the list of top applications downloaded from the App Store this year that iPhone and iPod Touch users are looking for entertainment. Every year around this ...
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| Facebook Gets a Spanking over Data Loss |
Tips on Storage Architecture for E-Discovery E-Discovery systems pose unique challenges for storage architects if they want to keep up with data growth, performance and backup and recovery demands.
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| Keep it simple, please |
OpenID ? The universal log-in standard was created in 2005 by Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal, while he was working at blog software company
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| Yahoo shares climb on hopes for $30B takeover bid |
News ) - Yahoo Inc.'s stock rallied Tuesday on a report that AOL's former chief executive believes he can raise enough money in a worsening recession to buy the struggling Internet company for as much...
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| Scour brings friend tracking and personalization to metasearch |
Scour has new features that provide more personalization to users. It has added a Friends Feed, which keeps track of friends and tells users what others are commenting on. Along with that, the site fi...
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| Gmail comes to the desktop in gadget form |
Google Desktop product, giving users the option to run multiple instances of different Gmail accounts as standalone gadgets. The tool includes several useful Gmail features like keyboard shortcuts, ma...
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| Linux Clone of Microsoft |
Moonlight project today released its first beta of its Linux implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight media framework. The beta release is considered to be feature complete and is the predecessor to...
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| Ex-AOL CEO May Have A Mind To Buy Yahoo |
Doug Caverly - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 4:01pm. Jon Miller said to be raising moneyJon Miller knows a few things about Internet companies and large amounts of money; he was the CEO of AOL for around four yea...
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| Nombray lets you cybersquat your online identity |
Nombray is a new site that lets you buy vanity domains for your name. The service is aimed at people with very little experience setting up a Web site, letting them "squat" the page while funneling an...
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| Microsoft expands Vista SP2 testing |
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is ready for broader testing of Windows Vista Service Pack 2, the second collection of fixes for the latest version of the operating system. In addition to bug fixes ...
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| Google Chrome Playing Catch-Up on Extensions |
Sure, Google's Chrome browser is fast. But since its launch, it has lacked add-ons and extensions that provide additional functionality -- one of the key features found in Mozilla Firefox. Today, Goo...
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| Facebook Marketplace relaunch powered by Oodle |
Facebook 's official "marketplace," the company said Tuesday. Members will be able to use it just like any third-party app on the Facebook platform--the only difference is that this one is official. ...
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| Convenience Draws Holiday Shoppers Online |
Mike Sachoff - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 2:49pm. Along with bargains, free shipping Consumers are more engaged this holiday season partly due to online promotions over Thanksgiving week, which offered discoun...
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| Nokia completes Symbian acquisition |
The companies announced their plans earlier this year to have Nokia buy out the remaining partners in Symbian with the ultimate goal of releasing the Symbian operating system under an open-source lice...
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| Facing a recession, tech puts on its game face |
As if we didn't know it already, the National Bureau of Economic Research has officially confirmed that the economy is in a recession. So heading into the new year, how will technology fare in what is...
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| Corporate Wolves Circle Yahoo |
Jason Lee Miller - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 4:48pm. Prediction: Yahoo broken up in 2009Alright, my first prediction for 2009: Yahoo gets carved up like a Christmas goose. No more corporate pussyfooting, no m...
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| Ex-AOL Boss Looking to Raise Cash for Yahoo Bid |
Former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller is seeking as much as $30 billion from investors to buy all or part of Yahoo, reports The Wall Street Journal, boosting shares of Yahoo with the news of Miller's possibl...
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| Yahoo Leads Market Comeback |
Motorola Slips in Worldwide Sales [November 25, 2008] Even market leaders Nokia and Samsung are challenged by economic pressures, according to a new report.
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| Telcos, groups draw up national broadband strategy |
coalition (PDF) is asking for President-elect Barack Obama and the next Congress to make national broadband deployment a top priority in 2009 and has set forth a framework for successfully implementin...
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| Dogpile raises money for pets in need |
Dogpile announced Tuesday that it has raised $100,000 toward its goal of raising $1 million to help pets in need. Dogpile donations are being funded through its
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| Former Victim Creates Anti-Abuse Website |
CHICAGO (CBS) ? A woman who survived an abusive relationship is now reaching out to help others. She has created a website that identifies abusers. CBS 2's Jim Williams reports that Myra Spearm...
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| Search Engine Optimization Company Submit Express Hires New Vice President of Sales and Marketing |
BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Submit Express is pleased to announce that Allen Horwitz has joined the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Submit Express has been in the vangu...
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| CoreMedical Group Launches New, User Friendly Travel Nursing Website |
www.CoreMedicalGroup.com . The website offers increased functionality and state of the art features for travel nurses. Visitors to CoreMedicalGroup.com now benefit from updated page content with ...
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| EU regulators say 1 of 7 airline web sites mislead |
European Union regulators say one in seven Web sites used to book flights still gives consumers misleading or wrong information.EU Consumer Affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva is warning that people w...
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| Google Calendar officially comes to Apple |
Calaboration " simply lets users plug in their Google Calendar username and password to send Google calendars over to iCal. The benefit of doing this is the two-way sync. This means whatever changes y...
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| How Panorama Keeps Business Intelligence Reports Fresh for Google Apps |
Panorma caters to its NovaView business intelligence software customers that use spreadsheets in Google Docs with SharedViews. The tool lets users share current reports inside and outside the firewall...
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| Select Sites Targeted In The Mumbai Attacks |
December 2, 2008 · Gunmen in the attacks on Mumbai, India, chose a specific list of targets. A look at that list, which included a central railway station, a Jewish center and a hospital for wo...
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| Your face is easy to fake |
Click here for more of Dong's stories from abroad. HANOI, Vietnam--Regardless of what some people seem to think, we Asians do not all look the same. But according to the current face recognition algo...
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| Visits to travel-related Web sites plummeting as many opt to stay home |
shows traffic at travel-related Web sites is plummeting as the economy worsens. The company, which tracks Web traffic of all kinds, found travel service sites registered a 14 percent decline in Octob...
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| Google Starts Countdown To 2009 |
Doug Caverly - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 11:09am. On every day before and after Christmas, Google said to use its servicesNever mind partridges, pear trees, turtledoves, and so forth. To a certain search gian...
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| Yahoo stock surges on report of possible takeover bid by AOL |
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo's stock surged more than 6 percent Tuesday on a report that AOL's former chief executive is trying to raise enough money to buy all or part of the struggling Internet company. ...
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| Britney beats Obama to top Yahoo searches for 7th year |
Singer Britney Spears performs on ABC's "Good Morning America" show at the Big Apple Circus in New York on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
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| Microsoft puts data centers on wheels |
blog posting on Tuesday, Microsoft detailed what the "generation four" data centers will look like. "This is a significant step forward, and one that Microsoft believes will reshape how companies b...
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| IT staff hit by 1,150 job cuts at HSBC, Credit Suisse |
"); IT workers will be among 1,150 staff to lose their jobs at financial giants HSBC and Credit Suisse. Most of HSBC's cuts will take place at the bank's London headquarters in Canary Wharf but reg...
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| Handset Makers Hype |
tout the "greenness" of their devices and environmental aspects like recycling programs. But the cost of going green may be too much for many of these vendors to pursue in a comprehensive way, accord...
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| Google Crowdsources Carnegie Hall Concert |
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Like the old joke says -- practice. Now, Google can get you there too. Sorry -- you'll still need to practice. And audition. Google is putting together a
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| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Massachusetts Offers Its Members The Ability To Link To Google Health Personal Health Records |
0 posts Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) announced today that its members can now import their BCBSMA health history into their own Google Health™ Personal Health Record (PHR). B...
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| Human Rights Upr Data Base Website Inaugurated |
Manama, Dec. 2, (bna)--the Inauguration Of A Data Base Website For Human Rights Universal Periodic Review (upr) Was Celebrated In Manama Today Under The Patronage Of Minister Of State For Foreign Aff...
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| Windows Live gets its social makeover |
(Credit: The new Windows Live Home page bears more than a passing resemblance to social sites like Facebook.) Microsoft has started to roll out a series of changes, outlined in November, that
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| Louisiana Revises Online Auto, Homeowners Comparison Rate Guides |
Article Reprints Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced revised online auto and homeowners rate comparison guides are now available for viewing on the Department of Insurance Web si...
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| Yahoo shares jump on report that ex-AOL chief may bid for company |
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of Yahoo Inc. jumped more than 8% Tuesday afternoon on a media report that former America Online CEO Jonathan Miller is trying to raise funds to buy a portion or t...
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| HudBay Launches Special Web Site Section With Information on Friendly Business Combination With Lundin Mining |
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 2, 2008) - HudBay Minerals Inc. (TSX:HBM) today launched a special section that details the proposed merger with Lundin Mining Corporation on its corporate web sit...
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| YouTube Seeks Online Orchestra |
Posted on: Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 14:22 CST In a search for classical musicians, video sharing Web site YouTube has launched a competition for users who wish to submit videos highlighting their ...
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| Top Five Things Microsoft Got Right |
Virtually any technology analyst will tell you that Microsoft has made a lot of mistakes and just plain dumb decisions over its 33 year history. So how did it get to be the largest software company in...
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| Animoto brings the holidays to video |
Animoto , a company that creates videos from a user's photos and music on-the-fly, announced Tuesday that it has added new features to its software that will turn its videos into online holiday greeti...
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| Ning puts the handcuffs on porno networks |
a post on the company blog . Ning has announced that it will shut down its "Red Light District" of adult content, and on January 1 will formally ban it. "We are exploring ways for adult networks that...
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| Digg CEO says company |
long-standing acquisition rumors . From what he said, Digg is not for sale. "Now I am pressured to keep costs reasonable and focus more on the top-line revenue, which we really haven't done ever," Ad...
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| Apple Recommends Antivirus for Mac Users |
Apple Macs have long had a reputation for being free of the viruses and malware that often plagues Windows. But even Apple is now admitting that its users could benefit from protection from security ...
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| 2009 Nomination Period Opens For ICANN Leadership Positions |
ICANN's Nominating Committee invites Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the Internet community as it seeks qualified candidates to assist in ICANN's technical and policy coordin...
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| Google rolls out Gmail gadget for Google Desktop for Windows |
Google Desktop , according to Google. Users will also be able to star messages and use keyboard shortcuts. "It doesn't take up much space in your sidebar or desktop, and you can also resize it to sho...
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| The Year in Online Video |
Chris Crum - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 1:11pm. What a Year It's BeenNow that we are in December, the final month of the year, I thought it would be fun to go back through our archives and take a look at some ...
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| Rumours play havoc with Yahoo’s share price |
But over the weekend The Sunday Times ran a story that the deal with Microsoft was back on, with reports that it was willing to pay $20bn for Yahoo’s search business. The deal would be oversee...
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| Online Protein Analysis Tool Provided Free By Stanford Geneticist |
Posted on: Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 09:54 CST Scientists around the world may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online, that will help them to home in on the parts of protei...
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| DRC Civilians Moving to Safer Sites |
The U.N. refugee agency says it is continuing the voluntary transfer of displaced Congolese civilians from the precarious Kibati camps on the northern outskirts of Goma, the provincial capital of Nort...
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| Yahoo shares rise on talk of possible buyout |
NEW YORK — Former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller is trying to raise money to buy part or all of Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Yahoo shares rose more than 9 per cent aft...
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| Zavvi suspends online DVD sales |
Woolworths' move into administration has forced fellow retailer Zavvi to stop taking new orders for CDs, DVDs and computer games via its website. The move comes because Zavvi's main supplier of the i...
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| Young & Free Launches Free Online Job Bank for Youth |
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 2, 2008) - Young & Free Alberta, a package of free banking services and fun resources to help young people move towards financial independence, today launched the...
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| Nokia upgrades mapping and messaging services |
Nokia has released new versions of its mapping and navigation service along with a new messaging service in an effort to build out its mobile services.
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| Malware authors play Mario on Daily Mail website |
. The tainted ads are the work of malicious hackers who somehow succeeded in injecting redirection scripts into the ad network. Code injected into an advertising stream is been used to serve up cont...
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| Ford accelerates electric-vehicle plans |
All three companies are seeing a continued dip in sales, but Ford is considered far better off financially than General Motors and Chrysler. Ford on Tuesday said it could be cash-flow positive from op...
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| National Lampoon enters the online gaming market |
LOS ANGELES, California -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- National Lampoon, Inc., the most widely recognized brand in comedy, today announced the launch of NationalLampoonCasino.com, bringing some of the most est...
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| BB&T to host free webinar on online services for small businesses |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BB&T Payment Solutions on Dec. 10 will host a free educational webinar for small business owners on the advantages of online financial servi...
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| Get a Wi-Fi multifunction printer for $75 shipped |
Brother MFC-490CW multifunction printer on sale for $75.24 shipped . Why all the fwipping? Because this baby's wireless.As regular readers know, I've seen sweet deals on wireless inkjets and lasers an...
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| How YouTube can get you to Carnegie Hall |
YouTube Symphony Orchestra ," a new competition from the Google-owned video-sharing site. Musicians from around the world (legitimate ones: I'm looking at you,
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| MIT open-sources mobile code |
as reported by ReadWriteWeb . The code "offers a staff and student directory, a campus map, the shuttle schedule, an event calendar, class announcements for students, emergency information, and status...
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| Hitachi and Intel SSD love-in |
"); Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Intel are teaming up to develop solid-state drives for servers, workstations and storage systems. The partnership will combine the expertise of Hitachi i...
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| Speaker specifications, a buyer |
(Credit: Steve Guttenberg) Listen, if you're buying speakers, the best thing to do is listen to them. If you can't, you'll learn a lot perusing specifications. Online shoppers need the most info, but...
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| SMEs crazy in love with iPhone |
"); The 3G iPhone has been selling more than expected to SMEs, according to O2 - but the operator admits it's proving harder to win around the corporate world. Ben Dowd, head of business sales at O...
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| Zoho opens up SQL access to its services |
CloudSQL , a layer of code that allows corporate developers to access their Zoho application data through a number of different dialects of the SQL database access language. Data stored in Zoho s...
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| Wi-fi fans clock up a million minutes online per day |
"); Hunger for wi-fi is showing no signs of abating, with BT reporting a doubling in use of its wireless services. The telco said the number of minutes customers spent online using its wi-fi networ...
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| Man Who Slammed Ex Online Faces Libel |
(AP) A man accused of making unflattering online comments about his ex-lover and her attorney on Craigslist has been charged with two counts of criminal libel.Larimer County District Attorney Larry Ab...
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| Online gambling prompts fierce political debate |
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As reported by UPI: "Proponents of Internet gambling say a U.S. ban leaves players vulnerable to abuse at poorly regulated offshore Web sites. "The U.S. government would be better...
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| MySpace helps develop OpenID extension for Flock |
also thrown its weight behind OpenID . "As three companies dedicated to empowering users to easily share content and experiences, this was a very rewarding--and relatively fast--collaboration," Max E...
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| Amazon sponsors round 2 of OLPC program |
Give One, Get One program of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation the same way most people will--from a TV commercial sponsored by Amazon.com, which is handling order fulfillment for the new program th...
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| Crisis of confidence for CIOs |
CIO50 this year ): "I've seen CIOs transformed from being an aggressive, positive bunch to being extremely timid - within just a decade or so. CIOs have been absolutely hammered by businesses, becaus...
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| Analyst cuts Yahoo price target |
NEW YORK (AP) — Jefferies analyst Youssef Squali cut his price target on Yahoo Inc.'s shares Tuesday morning, due to slower growth in overall online ad spending. Squali set a $20 price target,...
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| Wynn launces website for new resort Encore |
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Wynn Resorts is pleased to announce that the web site for Encore, the new signature resort in the Wynn collection, has been launched at http://www.encorelasvega...
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| Court Rules Online Market Host Not Responsible for Fake Item Trading |
By Bae Ji-sook Staff Reporter A court ruled Tuesday that an online ``open market'' host did not have to compensate a company for losses associated with the auction of fake items among its members....
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| Is Microsoft trying to pull a SugarCRM |
this CNET interview with Microsoft CRM division general manager Brad Wilson, and it felt like I was reading an interview with SugarCRM CEO John Roberts. No, Roberts doesn't talk about lock-in, mono...
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| Faces of the recession |
Day 1: IBM to start-up: Industry vet responds to recession LogLogic's Patricia Sueltz heard a clear message about the economy from investors. But she already knows a thing or two about navigating thro...
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| The "beachfront property of Windows 7" |
Engineering Windows 7 blog has unwrapped how the next version of the Microsoft OS will see a makeover for the taskbar, or what Windows 7 engineers call "the beachfront property of the Windows OS". Ac...
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| Industry vet responds to recession |
series of stories about the recession's effect on the tech industry. Patricia Sueltz has had her share of blunt bosses. At IBM, Sueltz was CEO Lou Gerstner's technical assistant during Big Blue'...
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| Heathrow coach gets free wi-fi en route |
"); Business travellers on their way to Heathrow by coach will soon be able to trim their downtime thanks to a new wi-fi service. Vehicles used by the RailAir coach service, which runs between Read...
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| utility installs solar panels |
Southern California Edison Completes First of its Major Commercial Rooftop Solar Installations - Press release SCE completes 150 solar installations, part of a plan to cover up to
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| Online casino bwin joins DiceArena network |
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Jadestone Networks, the Nordic based owner and operator of the multiplayer dice games network DiceArena, announced today that leading European online sports bet...
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| eJamming inks licensing deal with MTV Networks |
eJamming , a service that provides musicians with collaboration technology to help them form bands or work on songs together, announced Tuesday that it has formed a partnership with
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