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Key features of the Computer Crimes Act
Sri Lanka Sunday Times - The Computer Crimes Bill was recently enacted by Parliament and certified by the Speaker as the Computer Crimes Act No. 24 of 2007. This legislation is the result of numerous contributions from sources such as the CINTEC Law Committee, a Sub

EU formally charges Intel with market dominance over AMD in computer
Forbes - BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said it has sent a statement of objections to Intel Corp for alleged market dominance over its rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) in the computer processing units (CPU) sector. The Commission

Kernel hacking, politics, and computer hardware
ZDNet.be Blogs - A recent interview with Con Kolivas , former Linux kernel hacker, makes for an interesting read. Mr. Kolivas became well known for some of his performance-related patches, and oddly enough, he did all this as a HOBBY, without any previous experience

Computer science prof researches program safety
Regina Leader-Post - Even straight from the factory, there is a very dangerous program lurking on the hard drive of every computer, according to Philip Fong. Registered 6-day subscribers to the Leader-Post newspaper or electronic edition will enjoy full access to all

A Computer Geek’s Dream
Softpedia - There are some computer users out there (unfortunately I am not one of them) that have at their disposal multiple computer systems for a variety of reasons. Most of them find it really hard to jump from one workstation to the next, especially since

Crystal ball has a rosy tint, experts on the future say
Minneapolis Star Tribune - retired people, students, curious and good citizens who want to make informed choices about their own lives.” Organizers pointed out that Minnesota has long been fertile ground for futurism, thanks to high-tech firms and to Earl Joseph, a computer

Help! Need help with computer
Digital Spy - I recently started up the computer and it comes up with the start windows options. I pick start windows normally and it does something odd. After I select the option, the screen goes blank and it just restarts itself and gives me the options again

Internet computer scam ends in court
Halifax Today - THREE people lost hundreds of pounds each after bidding to buy computers on an internet auction site. The vendor, Matthew Rodgers, put the computers up for sale on eBay in October. But Rodgers, of Banks End Road, Upper Edge, Elland, did not own them

Humans narrowly beat computer in poker battle
PhysOrg - Two professional poker players narrowly beat a computer late Tuesday after four tense rounds that scientists called the world’s first man-versus-machine poker championship. Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, two poker players from Los Angeles ranked as the

LeapFrog Innovates With Next-Generation FLY Fusion Pentop Computer
Earthtimes - EMERYVILLE, Calif., July 25 — LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc., a leading developer of technology-based learning products, today launched the FLY Fusion(TM) Pentop Computer, the learning system designed to increase students’ productivity through targeted

UPDATE 1-Elpida Q1 oper profit down, eyes recovery
Reuters - TOKYO, July 25 (Reuters) - Elpida Memory Inc. (6665.T: Quote , Profile , Research ), Japan’s top computer memory chip maker, posted a 59 percent fall in quarterly operating profit, hurt by tumbling prices and shrinking margins, but it kept its bit

Poker-playing computer takes on human aces
Guardian Unlimited - A showdown pitting human brains against artificial intelligence is to go ahead this evening when two professional poker players take on a computer in the world’s first such man-machine challenge. Phil Laak and Ali Eslami will play Polaris, the most

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Guardian Unlimited - Earlier a police computer expert described how he found graphic videos of children , including images of seven-year-olds being sexually abused and in some cases raped, on Mr Langham’s home computer. Christopher Crute, forensic computer analyst for

Downsize for move to assisted-living penthouse
San Francisco Gate - We plan to have two flat-screen TVs, a desktop computer, a master bedroom and a small kitchen table. The smaller bedroom will have a trundle bed and reading area. John Rhodenbaugh Pacific Grove A: Your new home has barrier-free designs such as

Child porn ‘on Langham’s computer’
Times Online - MAIDSTONE Graphic child pornography videos were found on a laptop recovered from the home of the actor Chris Langham, a court was told yesterday. File names referred to children as young as seven, while some included the words Lolita and rape, said

Japanese couple sue Sony, Apple, in alleged defective battery accident
International Herald Tribune - Officials at Apple Japan Inc., the maker of the notebook computer the couple used, were not immediately available for comment. According to public broadcaster NHK, the man suffered burns on his finger after the laptop’s battery pack burst into flames

Auditors Can’t Find VA Computer Gear
CBS News - (AP) More than a quarter of the computer equipment at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington could not be found by investigators, government auditors reported Tuesday. Three other VA facilities showed slightly better results but still

Computer Crimes Charged In College Cash-For-Grades Scheme
Information Week - Ten people, including the Director of Admissions and the Director of the Computer Center at a Manhattan college, were indicted as being part of a scheme that involved forging transcripts and altering grades. Manhattan District Attorney Robert M

Computer triage time
Times Daily - A: In my shop, we have a few basic troubleshooting techniques that may help if you if you suddenly find yourself with general computer problems such as lock-ups, slowness or error messages. The first step in computer diagnosis is to determine if the

Langham trial hears of child porn find
Guardian Unlimited - A police computer expert today described how he found graphic child pornography videos on a laptop recovered from the home of the Bafta-winning comedy actor Chris Langham. Christopher Crute, a forensic computer analyst for Kent police, said file

TiVo users can get Amazon movies from TV
MSNBC - The two companies partnered in March to deliver Amazon s Unbox download service to TiVo machines, but the feature required customers to place their orders on a computer through Amazon s Web site. Now, PC intervention won t be needed. The new

Premarket Movers: Depomed, Emmis Dive
Boston Globe - On the winning side, shares of Micron Technology Inc. rose after Jefferies analyst John Lau upgraded shares of the computer and consumer electronics chip maker to “Buy” from “Hold.” Lau expects a number of factors, including Intel Corp.’s July price cut

DRC Computer Ships Reconfigurable Processor Unit
Forbes - DRC Computer Corporation, a leading provider of dynamically reconfigurable coprocessor modules, today announced the availability of its Reconfigurable Processor Unit (RPU), the RPU110-L200. The RPU110-L200 includes an independent memory controller

Indian police seize computer of UK terror suspect
Belfast Telegraph - Police in India have seized a computer hard drive belonging to the man suspected of ramming a Jeep into the doors of Glasgow airport in a failed terror attack. Authorities recovered the hard drive and CDs that Kafeel Ahmed left in the Indian city of

Indian police seize terror suspect’s computer
WHO-TV - BANGALORE, India (AP) - The investigation into a failed car bombing plot in Britain has now spread to India. Investigators in Bangalore have seized a computer hard drive belonging to the man suspected of ramming a Jeep into the airport in Glasgow

Young inventor’s gadget zaps computer identity thieves
Eagle-Tribune - ANDOVER - William Morse wants to kill your old personal computer. The inventor - and recent Andover High School graduate - has created a gadget, dubbed the Hard Drive Zapper, that sends a crippling electrical current into a computer’s hard disk

British terror suspect worked in jet design
International Herald Tribune - Infotech helped the Home Office build a searchable computer database of criminal activity in Cornwall and Devon counties. Infotech Enterprises also does outsourced engineering in other industries, including for Alstom, the French maker of rail

Custom Computer Specialists, Inc. Achieves Silver Certification from
TMCnet - HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., July 9 /PRNewswire/ — Custom Computer Specialists, Inc. (”Custom”) announced today it has achieved Silver Certification from Cisco Systems(R). The Cisco(R) Channel Partner program provides Custom with the resource framework to

Suspect’s computer seized in India
Croydon Guardian - Indian investigators have seized a computer hard drive belonging to the man suspected of ramming a Jeep into Glasgow airport in a failed terror attack, a senior police official said. The Bangalore police recovered the hard drive and CDs that Kafeel

Sony cuts price on PlayStation 3 by $100
Reuters - Our initial expectation is that sales should double at a minimum,” Jack Tretton, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America, said in an interview. “We’ve gotten our production issues behind us on the PlayStation 3, reaching a position to

WOW! Enraged User Shoots Computer 5 Times after Installing Windows
Softpedia - What should have been just a routine installation of Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows Vista, ended up with a bang literally. Microsoft applauded Windows Vista as an evolution in all aspects of the operating system compared to Windows XP

Weather Eye: Computer hints we’ll flirt with 100
Columbian - If you were up early enough Saturday morning, you could see the marine overcast and smell a whiff of salt air as well. Ocean air filtered up the Columbia River early Saturday and caused low clouds to form around sunrise. This helped keep afternoon

School system committee is weighing ways to ease burden of heavy
Baltimore Sun - Board Vice Chairman Frank Aquino was interested in computer-based alternatives. Aquino told the board that his children have used computer programs in conjunction with traditional textbooks. He asked Bob Glascock, assistant superintendent for

Sony: Sorry about cathedral appearance
Boston Globe - It was never our intention to offend anyone in the making of this game, and we would like to apologize unreservedly to them for causing that offense, and to all parts of the wider community who we might also have offended,” Sony Computer

‘Transformers’ smashes competition at box office
USA Today - Also for the three-day weekend, Ratatouille , the eighth computer-animated fantasy from the Disney/Pixar alliance, took in $29 million after making its debut at No. 1 last weekend, with $47 million. The film was knocked early on for not meeting box

Computer Sale To Benefit Homeless
Click10.com - MIAMI — If you’re considering buying a new or used computer, a computer sale this weekend could help you and the homeless at the same time. The Computer Show and Sale is being held at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale this weekend. The

Con Edison Prepares for the Heat
MSN MoneyCentral - unit, close off the rooms not being used; if you have central air, block the vents in un-used or vacant rooms; — Also turn off lights and other appliances, use a timer to turn them on as necessary, and turn your computer off when

S.Korea’s LG Elec sues Quanta over DVD patents
Reuters - LG Electronics Inc. filed the suit against Quanta Computer Inc. with a U.S. district court in Wisconsin on July 3 and is seeking an injunction against Quanta’s use of the technology as well as monetary compensation, the company said in a statement

US court says just viewing child porn is not a crime
The Register - A US court has said the existence of child pornography images in the cache of a man’s computer did not mean that man had committed a crime under state law. The Court of Appeals in Georgia has reversed the man’s conviction. A forensic computer analyst

Dade soldier learns online on front line
Miami Herald - Juan Ramos hunkers down in Army barracks just outside Saddam Hussein’s hometown, hoping insurgent fire doesn’t interrupt his online biology class. He chats via computer with a professor at Miami Dade College and tells fellow students in an online

Algiers’ fading beauty awaits better days
Reuters - Instead of preparing to welcome the world’s travelers, many of the city’s stressed, war-weary denizens say they want to quit Algeria due to a lack of jobs and homes and political tensions. ITCHING TO LEAVE Computer specialist Hassan sips a coffee on a

iPhone review: Hype meets reality
Seattle Times - It really is transformative to use finger taps and flicks to control a computer, instead of reaching for a mouse, stylus or keyboard. After you figure it out, you wonder why they all aren’t so easy to use. But reality sets in when you realize that

Safety should be paramount in ICC
Baltimore Sun - Meanwhile, the ICC’s designers could address other driver misbehavior through a high-tech camera system tied into a computer program that could analyze the movements of specific vehicles. A guy gets on at Shady Grove and starts weaving from lane to

Nissan Stepping Up Response to Defects
Baltimore Sun - In another, laser lights and a computer checked for correct wheel alignment. Nissan hopes to halve the time needed to deal with defects by the next three years, officials said. Nissan has recently opened three other product defect testing centers

myFUNAMBOL Now Available by Invitation, Provides First Over-the-Air
Forbes - The commercial version of Funambol’s software has been deployed at wireless operators, Fortune 100 enterprises, hardware OEMs/ODMs and ISVs including customers such as Earthlink and Computer Associates. Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City

Computer crash causes long lines at BMV offices
Chronicle-Telegram - CLEVELAND A rush of motorists looking to renew their driver s licenses caused computers to slow down or crash at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, creating long lines at offices statewide. Frustrated drivers on Friday and Saturday stood in

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Fast Forward’s Help File
Washington Post - On most new desktop Macs, you do this by shutting off the computer, unplugging everything — power, USB and every other cable — leaving it alone for a minute, and then plugging it back in. With a recent Mac laptop, you’d shut it down and unplug it

Computers spark environmental debates
Dallas Morning News - Your computer’s bland exterior houses an alarming mix of raw energy and deadly toxins mercury, lead, cadmium and worse. That thin sheath of gray plastic separates you from an electrified Superfund site. Manufacturers, retailers, legislators and