December 2005
Monthly Archive
General31 Dec 2005 11:54 pm
Computer - S.C.
S.C.
Columbia State -
An Indestructible Shared PC
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Desktops & Notebooks
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Part II: Printers
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Longtime northwest Missouri radio call-in host dies
KCTV 5 - BETHANY, Mo. — Fran Barron, the longtime host of a call-in radio show that became part of the fabric of life in northwest Missouri and southwest Iowa, has died. Barron, an ordained minister who would sometimes visit her listeners in hospitals around
Austrian hackers fight back against spycams
Wired News - BERLIN — When the Austrian government passed a law this year allowing police to install closed-circuit surveillance cameras in public spaces without a court order, the Austrian civil liberties group Quintessenz vowed to watch the watchers. Members
Say Hello to Stanley
Wired News - Organizing the nation’s digital archives The futures market for sports tickets More The car hurtles down a rutted dirt road at 35 miles per hour somewhere in the Mojave Desert, bucking and swerving, kicking up a cloud of dust. Thrun, the youngest
Escherichia coli doesn t gamble with its metabolism
RxPG - By UCSD s Jacobs School of Engineering, The ubiquitous and usually harmless E. coli bacterium, which has one-seventh the number of genes as a human, has more than 1,000 of them involved in metabolism and metabolic regulation. Activation of random
Male Domination of the Internet Is Over, Study Finds
ABC News - A new study shows men and women use the Internet equally, but spend their time in cyberspace very differently. By ELISABETH LEAMY Dec. 30, 2005 The days of men dominating the Internet may be over, a new study finds. But, according to the study
Cyber trail led to porn arrest
Wichita Eagle - Officer Reginald Humbert was trying to catch a dragon slayer. “Stevedragonslayer,” to be exact — the screen name used by someone playing movies over the Internet of children having sex. Humbert works for the Pennsylvania State Police
General31 Dec 2005 11:37 pm
Computer - 6m Garda camera system to crack down on road offences
6m Garda camera system to crack down on road offences
Irish Times, Ireland - 21 hours ago The computer will be installed in Garda Traffic Corps vehicles and is due to be introduced in the coming months, The Irish Times has learned.
US Stocks Decline as Intel, Computer-Related Shares Drop
Bloomberg - Dec 29, 2005 The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 3.17, or 0.3 percent, to 1255 as of 3:21 pm in New York after rising as much as 0.2 percent.
John Diebold, 79, computer visionary
Indianapolis Star, United States - Dec 28, 2005 computerizing. “I was too early,” he once said. “It was before the first computer was installed for business use.”. Diebold laid
General31 Dec 2005 11:23 pm
Computer - Dangerous
Dangerous
WGRZ TV - It’s been around for nearly 7 years, but the Sober worm is a
Morning Edition
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Escherichia coli doesn t gamble with its metabolism
RxPG - By UCSD s Jacobs School of Engineering, The ubiquitous and usually harmless E. coli bacterium, which has one-seventh the number of genes as a human, has more than 1,000 of them involved in metabolism and metabolic regulation. Activation of random
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Natick man indicted on child porn charges
MetroWest Daily News - N ATICK — A Natick man was arrested yesterday on child pornography charges after an FBI investigation. Richard Sheltman, 45, faces up to 20 years in prison on the federal charges. Sheltman is charged with four counts of receiving images and one
General31 Dec 2005 11:10 pm
Computer - Ballance begins prison term
Ballance begins prison term
News 14 Raleigh / Durham - (RALEIGH) - Former U.S. Rep. Frank Ballance, who pleaded guilty to diverting taxpayer money to his family and others through a charitable organization he helped start, began a four-year federal prison term Friday. “Frank is a man and he understands
Intel Pitch Steps Outside
Street.Com - Intel ( INTC :Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer’s Take ) will unveil a major overhaul of its corporate logo and branding next year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal’s online edition. The company’s new logo will no longer feature the
Desktops & Notebooks
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General31 Dec 2005 10:53 pm
Computer - Connoisseur
Connoisseur
CNN - PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) — Distinguishing fine wine from plonk is usually left to connoisseurs and winemakers, who rely on their senses, rough chemical measurements and the whims of nature to produce an exceptional tipple. But a Carnegie Mellon
Electronics show offers cars, sex, software
Financial Express - SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 30: A dozen industries will cram into the annual consumer electronics jamboree in Las Vegas next week to clamor for attention in the equally crowded digital media market. With entertainment being cut loose from the living room
General31 Dec 2005 10:37 pm
Computer - Fun ways to ring in the new
Fun ways to ring in the new
Tribune - Hungarians celebrate New Year s Day by letting loose a pig in the house, while Tibetans make sure the house is not swept clean. D.C. Sharma on how different cultures usher in the new year. N EW Year is celebrated in a number of ways around the
Austin American-Statesman - Mark Russinovich, an Austin
Cable provider will continue to transmit ABC affiliate
KCTV 5 - ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — ABC affiliate KQTV will continue to be available over St. Joseph Cablevision after both sides reached an agreement Friday on a three-year retransmission contract. The agreement, whose details weren’t disclosed, averted a blockout
Property rights and development collide
KCTV 5 - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — It took five years and a contested decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, but Doug McDaniel finally has his captive audience. “Most people, when you start talking about eminent domain, get glassy-eyed and don’t think that it
Ron Tye named to research position
Lowell Sun - The Lowell Sun Ron Tye, owner of Sound Advice Hearing Center in Dracut, was recently appointed as a member of the Healthcare Council of the Gerson Lehrman Group of New York City. Gerson Lehrman provides customized research services for knowledge
BRIDES WANTED
Tribune - Concerned Guardians from Bangkok looking for suitable match for smart, handsome parentless 5′-8″/28 yrs, Punjabi Walia clean shaven boy, high school, in import/export business. Well settled in China & Bangkok, no bar, visiting India Jan. 3rd week
Missing woman on video
MetroWest Daily News - H OLLISTON — Police are confident a missing woman bought gas at a Brookfield station last week, but she appears to have vanished since then. Police confirmed yesterday that Zelean Robinson, 63, of 55 Carl Road, is seen on a security video at a Rte
Longtime northwest Missouri radio call-in host dies
KCTV 5 - BETHANY, Mo. — Fran Barron, the longtime host of a call-in radio show that became part of the fabric of life in northwest Missouri and southwest Iowa, has died. Barron, an ordained minister who would sometimes visit her listeners in hospitals around
DVD Recordable - Hackers have developed a sneaky technique for installing pirated movie files on Windows PCs infected with the lockx.exe rootkit. Doctored copies of BitTorrent are loaded on infected machines and used to download Disney movies. The motive for the
General31 Dec 2005 10:26 pm
Computer - Windows Vista Hardware
Windows Vista Hardware
Whatisnew.com - 6 hours ago So you re getting ready to buy a new computer, and you want to make sure that the computer you buy now will work well with Windows Vista.
Pioneer To Release Blu-ray Disc Computer Drive
InformationWeek, NY - Dec 28, 2005 Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. plans to ship in the first quarter of next year a Blu-ray Disc computer drive for storing high-definition video content.
2005 worst year for breaches of computer security
USA Today - Dec 28, 2005 Data breaches disclosed at Marriott International, Ford Motor, ABN Amro Mortgage Group and Sam’s Club this month capped what computer experts call the worst
The birth of ” The Consolidator”
Whatisnew.com - 7 hours ago notebooks and journals. I felt the need to defrag myself, and that a smaller notebook computer was the answer. At the time
General31 Dec 2005 10:11 pm
Computer - Computer Worm Expected to Hit
Computer Worm Expected to Hit
KBCI, ID - Dec 29, 2005 The January 5th worm coincides with the founding of the Nazi Party, which is why security experts advise computer users to watch out for problematic emails
Zacks Buy List Highlights: Apple Computer, Inc., Jones Lang
Business Wire (press release), CA - Dec 30, 2005 The four Zacks Rank Buy stocks highlighted today are Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Jones Lang Lasalle Inc. (NYSE:JLL), Intevac Inc. Apple Computer, Inc.
ITC Issues Investigation On Personal Computer/Consumer Electronic
Community Dispatch (press release) - Dec 30, 2005 The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain personal computer/consumer electronic convergent devices
General31 Dec 2005 09:53 pm
Computer - Guilty Plea in
Guilty Plea in
Washington Post - SAN JOSE, Calif. — A man pleaded guilty to infecting about 20,000 computers with a worm and using them to launch denial of service attacks against eBay Inc. and other online businesses in 2003. Anthony Scott Clark, 21, of Beaverton, Ore., entered
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NYPD to the Rescue for J Lo and Marc Anthony
Axcess News - (AXcess News) New York - Don’t try bashing the New York City Police Department in front of superstars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. They have nothing but high praise for the Big Apple cops. J Lo and Anthony’s wedding video might have cost the
12 Indian-origin persons in New Year’s honours list
NetIndia123.com - Twelve persons Indian-origin have been named among 915 recepients of New Year’s honours this year. The most well-known amongst the 12 is Sanjeev Bhaskar, honoured with an OBE for services to entertainment. A writer and actor, he is famous for main
Intel Pitch Steps Outside
Street.Com - Intel ( INTC :Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer’s Take ) will unveil a major overhaul of its corporate logo and branding next year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal’s online edition. The company’s new logo will no longer feature the
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General31 Dec 2005 09:42 pm
Computer - Computer glitches cause Dublin Airport delays
Computer glitches cause Dublin Airport delays
RT News - Dec 30 3:04 AM
A spokesperson for the Dublin Airport Authority said some passengers experienced delays at Dublin Airport this morning due to a break down in the computer systems of some airlines.Save to My Web
Tracy VonGruben is animated in her job
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago
Company: AniMagic Productions Inc. Tracy VonGruben didn’t major in computer design in art school at Loyola University in New Orleans, but she taps those skills as a computer animator for AniMagic Productions Inc.Save to My Web
Computer snafu gives scare to crime victims
CentralOhio.com - Dec 31 5:30 AM
NEWARK — Charles Humphrey, 32, of Newark, received a call Friday morning that shook him. A computerized notification system called to let him know that a convict who had victimized a relative was being released from prison Friday, almost two years ahead of schedule.Save to My Web
Daiwa Securities again has computer problem with online trading
Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News - Dec 29 9:15 PM
_ Daiwa Securities Co. said Friday a computer problem made it temporarily difficult for customers to log onto its online trading system.Save to My Web
Schaeffer’s S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks Features Hilton Hotels, Harrah’s Entertainment, Lennar, Apple Computer, and
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Dec 29 2:24 PM
CINCINNATI—-Dec. 29, 2005–Among the stocks featured in the December 29 edition of Schaeffer’s S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks are Hilton Hotels , Harrah’s Entertainment , Lennar , Apple Computer , and Advanced Micro Devices .Save to My Web
‘05 worst year for breaches of computer security
CentralOhio.com - Dec 29 8:15 AM
SAN FRANCISCO — Data breaches disclosed at Marriott International, Ford Motor, ABN Amro Mortgage Group and Sam’s Club this month capped what computer experts call the worst year ever for known computer-security breaches.Save to My Web
Moore library offers computer classes
The Oklahoman - Dec 29 5:26 AM
Dec 29, 2005: MOORE — The staff of the Computer Training Center at Moore Public Library will offer a series of free computer classes in January.Save to My Web
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