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Is your ex a con? “Do you really know who people are?” That’s the slogan for pay site People Search's freshly launched (and totally free!) companion site, CriminalSearches.com. Do you want to know? Everybody has something to hide – so the cliché goes. That’s where CriminalSearches.com comes in. |
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Top 5 best fighting games From "Double Dragon" to "Super Smash Bros. Brawl," these button-mashing butt-kickers can really dish out the pain.
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70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton found Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
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McKusick, pioneer in medical genetics, dies at 86 Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86.
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Sony opens up e-book Reader With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore. |
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Juniper Names Microsoft Exec Kevin Johnson as CEO Juniper Networks named senior Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as its new chief executive, saying he will start work in September. Kevin Johnson replaces Juniper CEO Scott Kriens, who remains chairman of Juniper Network's board. Known as KJ, Kevin Johnson was president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division, its largest business unit, and had spearheaded Microsoft's failed pursuit of Yahoo. - NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. communications equipment maker Juniper
Networks Inc named senior Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as its new
chief executive, saying he will start work in September.
Johnson, 47, replaces Scott Kriens, who will continue as chairman of Juniper's board, the company said in ...

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IT Outsourcing Landscape Is Changing Rapidly Indian firms are using the knowledge they are gaining by working on IT projects to evolve in a way that will allow them to compete with IBM and Accenture on business consulting. - Audio Podcast Content....

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Nokia, Qualcomm Settle Patent Disputes In a 15-year licensing deal between the world's largest handset maker and the world's largest cell phone chip maker, Nokia and Qualcomm end their dispute over patent rights that cover a large number of wireless standards, including WCDMA, GSM and OFDMA. - Nokia and Qualcomm ended a long-running patent dispute July 23 with a 15-year licensing agreement. The deal ends all litigation between the two companies, including Nokia withdrawing a European Commission complaint against Qualcomm.
The agreement was reached after a busy legal day for the two compa...

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Is Microsoft Irrelevant? At OSCON, a top software architect questions Microsofts relevance as Linux and open source march on into the enterprise and the overall computing landscape. - Is Microsoft irrelevant?
That's what Brian Aker, director of architecture at Sun Microsystems' MySQL, called the software giant in an onstage Q amp;A during the opening day of keynotes and sessions at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention here July 23.
Aker's response came to a question from O'Re...

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Executive Departure Reshuffles Microsoft Deck Kevin Johnson led the charge on Yahoo, and headed the platform and services division. The new Windows division will include Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer. The new Online Services division will include search, MSN, advertising platforms, and e-commerce. - The departure of Kevin Johnson may give Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer the opportunity to reshape the huge platform and services division into more effective business units.
The end result may be better financial results for Microsoft and better products for Microsoft customers.
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SanDisk: Vista Shortfalls Limit Use of SSDs SanDisk, a maker of Solid State Drives (SSD), said on Monday that Vista is not optimized for those kinds of drives, and suitable SSDs won't be available until late this year or next year. The SanDisk CEO admitted that his company didn't understand the limitations of Vista.
SSDs are currently available as options for the Apple MacBook Air and Toshiba Portege R500.
SandDisk's CEO, Eli Harari, spoke to the issue at their second quarter conference call and said that the design of Vista presents a challenge. "As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid-state disk," he said.
This is due to Vista's design. "The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls," Mr. Harari continued. "Unfortunately, performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we'll start sampling end of this year, early next year."
Mr. Harari placed some of the blame on his own company and said: "... I'd say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment."
Yesterday, in a story that has a tie-in, Peter Burrows with BusinessWeek surmised that analysts have misinterpreted Apple's strategy announced during the July 21 Q3 earnings report. "It's a well-timed move, and a time-honored tactic by market leaders in tough times. If your competitors can't afford to match you on price, why not accept a lower margin for a time and load up on market share (or force them to incur losses)?" Mr. Burrows asked.
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Prosecutor Says San Francisco System Set to Melt Down A computer engineer who allegedly held San Francisco's computer system hostage was denied a reduction in his $5 million bond Wednesday after the prosecutor said the system had been rigged to melt down during routine maintenance.
Earlier this week, Terry Childs, 43, gave the disputed password to the system to Mayor Gavin Newsom in a jailhouse meeting arranged by his lawyer, The San Francisco Chronicle reported the mayor then gave the password to a team from Cisco Systems which had been working to open up the city's FiberWAN network.
However, the password did not work initially, prompting the mayor to call Childs for clarification. The Chronicle said Childs then gave the mayor missing protocols to go with the password and the city regained control of its system.
Bond More Than for Murder
Childs has been charged with causing a loss of more than $200,000 and four counts of felony computer tampering. His bond was set at about five times the amount usually set for murder suspects after $11,000 in cash was found on him when he was arrested July 13, leading the district attorney to fear he planned to flee.
Prosecutor Conrad del Rosario told Superior Court Judge Lucy Kelly McCabe that Childs, a five-year veteran of the city's Technology Department, had put key program data in temporary memory files. They would have evaporated when the network was shut down during maintenance or a power failure. Experts were able to transfer the data to permanent files before a shutdown scheduled for last Saturday.
"He had a malicious intent to destroy the entire network," del Rosario said, noting that Childs did not give the mayor the password until after the scheduled shutdown. The prosecutor further noted that other systems Childs had access to are still not functioning properly.
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Google Rumored Ready To Buy Digg for $200 Million Google is reportedly ready to purchase the Digg Web site for $200 million. The search giant could beef up its news service with Digg, where readers select and vote on stories from around the Web.
The rumors began about a week ago when images on Web sites suggested Google was testing voting methods.
Some reports say Google could complete the acquisition of Digg within two weeks, and Microsoft is said to be waiting in the wings if Google doesn't seal the deal. Digg has a three-year deal with Microsoft that would likely end if the search giant absorbs the popular news site.
"This rumor has been around for a couple of months. But this is the most concrete version of the rumor," said Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence. "Digg seems to be trying to create some sort of bidding for the company in order to get the highest return."
Digg Evolution
Digg describes itself as a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg claims to surface the best content as determined by user votes. Digg doesn't employ editors, but relies on its community to determine the most worthy headlines.
Diggers can push news, videos, images and podcasts. Once content is submitted, other people see it and vote on what they like best. Submissions that receive the most diggs are promoted to the site's front page for millions of visitors to read. There is also a social-networking aspect as users launch conversations around stories.
"Digg is trying to evolve from a social news site into a 'recommendation engine' which uses the power of the community to promote certain kinds of results higher or to use that crowd wisdom to identify what are the best or most relevant... |
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Court Overturns Child Online Protection Act -- Again In a ruling the American Civil Liberties Union is calling a clear victory for free speech, a federal court on Tuesday once again upheld a ban on a law that would criminalize constitutionally protected speech on the Internet.
The ACLU challenged the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) as unconstitutional on behalf of a broad coalition of writers, artists and health educators who use the Internet to communicate constitutionally protected speech.
"For years, the government has been trying to thwart freedom of speech on the Internet, and for years the courts have been finding the attempts unconstitutional," said Chris Hansen, senior staff attorney with the ACLU First Amendment Working Group. "The government has no more right to censor the Internet than it does books and magazines."
The History of COPA
Previously, a federal district court and a federal appeals court found that the online censorship law violates the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution. The Supreme Court upheld that decision, effectively banning enforcement of the law in June 2004, sending the case back to the district court to determine whether there had been any changes in technology that would affect the constitutionality of the statute.
Specifically, the court looked for technological changes, such as whether commercially available blocking software was still as effective as the banned law might be in blocking material deemed "harmful to minors." In March 2007, a district judge once again struck down COPA; the government again appealed, and on Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the ban.
The ACLU's clients in the case include Salon Media Group, which runs the online magazine Salon.com; the Sexual Health Network, which operates sexualhealth.com; and Aaron Peckham, who owns UrbanDictionary.com. COPA would have imposed harsh criminal sanctions, including penalties of up to $50,000 per day and up to six months... |
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Protect Your Computer from the Dangers of Summer Keeping your PC cool during the hot summer months should be the top priority for any conscientious computer owner. Heat and humidity are component killers, so it's important to take steps to keep your equipment safe from sweltering conditions.
If the temperature in your home is too hot for you, imagine what it's like inside a closed box filled with high-voltage electronics. Despite new energy-efficient components, there's a lot of heat generated by increased RAM, high-end video cards, speedy dual- and quad-core processors, high-wattage power supplies, internal storage devices and CD/DVD drives. Running together, in close quarters, the insides of your PC case can easily become an oven. Left unchecked, component failure is just a matter of time.
Home air conditioning does more than just keep users comfortable. Besides cooling the air, AC also helps to cut down on humidity, which can be even worse on electronics than heat alone. Condensation anywhere near your PC is a sign of trouble. Air that's too dry, as in the winter months, can also cause problems, in the form of static electricity. The trick is achieving the right balance.
Because your computer components are sealed inside a metal box, proper air flow is essential. Fans inside the case help pull cool air in and push hot air out. Make sure you have enough and that they are working properly. Fans are inexpensive, so if yours are old and tired, replace them. The bigger, the better and the more, the merrier.
Personally, I have a total of nine fans running inside my computer case. Three intake fans -- one in front, two on the side -- pull fresh air into the case, passing over my hard drives and motherboard. Two other fans direct heat away from the CPU, RAM and video card. The power supply contains two... |
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eMachines T5254 The eMachines T5254 rivals the company's flagship T5246 in performance and features and costs $30 less.

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SafeCentral SafeCentral's browser secures your online transactions and offers special verification for many thousands of sensitive Web sites.

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Google Lively (beta) The search giant throws its cap into the 3D chat space, but its first beta falls far short of Second Life.

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MSI Wind The MSI Wind may not be perfect, but it's the best deal in the UMPC market.

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Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 6 The latest release from PC Tools is the best software we've ever seen for inoculating your PC from malware infections.

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Super-Cooled Quantum Computing Is Coming It's very small, very cold and very hard to program; D-Wave says it's the first working quantum computer and it recognizes images.
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SIPEW 2008: All About Benchmarking We looked behind the curtain of SPEC, the largest benchmarking organization, and visited its 2008 Performance Workshop in Darmstadt, Germany, where server task scheduling and power efficiency benchmarking were hot topics.
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Tom's Back To School Guide: Gear for Work Its almost time to go back to school. Don't despair; we've selected the best gear to help you both study hard and stay busy. Next up: Gear for Play.
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AMD and Nvidia Platforms Do Battle AMD's 780G versus Nvidia's GeForce 8200. Both platforms turn integrated chipsets into hybrid graphics solutions. We look at microATX boards from ASRock to find the best all-in-one AMD platform.
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