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Hitachi Launches New Line of Ultra Thin Displays
Forbes - Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer systems and products, and consumer electronics, and provides industrial equipment and services throughout North America. For more

Sears, Computer Sciences settle dispute
Boston Globe - HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Department store retailer Sears Holdings Corp. said Tuesday it will pay an undisclosed sum to Computer Sciences Corp. to settle a contract dispute between the companies. Sears, Roebuck and Co. and El Segundo, Calif.-based

BERRY NOSE BETTER THAN THAT
New York Post - The Oscar-winning star, on the show to promote her movie “Things We Lost in the Fire,” was showing Leno and his audience images of herself on her computer using the Mac program Photo Booth, which distorts images like a carnival fun-house mirror.

Arrow Electronics 4Q adjusted earnings at 76c a share; revenue rises
Forbes - The Melville, N.Y.-based distributor of electronic and computer products forecasts fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 90 cents to 95 cents a share, representing an increase of 25% to 32% from the year-ago quarter. It sees sales of $4.15 billion to $4

Apple set to boost techs
MSN MoneyCentral - U.S. stock futures pointed to a 0.2 to 0.7 percent higher opening on Wall Street, with tech shares seen outpacing industrials after computer maker Apple reported earnings that topped Wall Street estimates. Of the companies due to report, AT&T’s

StumbleUpon shares friends’ reviews of major sites
Reuters - Since its founding by Canadian computer science graduate students six years ago, StumbleUpon users have rated some 13 million sites. “If this catches on and Search Reviews can achieve critical mass, this could change what constitutes popularity on the

Dear Abby | Wife’s computer affair may terminally affect marriage
Philadelphia Daily News - DEAR ABBY: My wife, “Nancy,” and I have been married 3 1/2 years. We’ve always had our differences - our taste in music and movies, and the fact that she’s a social butterfly and I’m not. But we’ve always been loving and had similar goals and

New Web entrepreneurs sure they will find a home
Globe and Mail - Realius, a fantasy game for guessing the sale price of actual homes; and G.ho.st, a virtual PC that saves all of a person’s files online to be accessed from any computer. Yet in their own words, the industry’s youngest executives do not think they are

AP Top News at 1:50 p.m. EDT
Newsday - ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Dell Inc. plans to sell computers and other electronics gear at 1,400 Staples Inc. stores, the latest departure from the direct-to-customer business model pioneered by the No. 2 computer maker. Dell and the world’s biggest

Fugitive accused in videotaped sex attack on daughter arraigned
International Herald Tribune - Freeman, a computer adviser, bodybuilder and former reserve sheriff’s deputy in Washington’s Benton County, also is wanted on federal child pornography charges in the nearby state of Oregon. He also is accused of child rape and bail-jumping in Benton

German Technische Universitat Darmstadt Wins DOE’s 2007 Solar
Forbes - contest, Texas A&M University earned the most points based on keeping refrigerators and freezers cold, for washing and drying 12 towels for two days, for cooking and serving meals, for washing dishes in a dishwasher, and running a TV and a computer

Need to know
Times Online - Apple , the computer company, said it planned to expand the educational content in a section of its popular iTunes store. The company said that it would include a section called Beyond Campus that would include US Supreme Court arguments and

John Eales: Structure and heart win World Cup
Daily Telegraph - A very smart computer might tell us that Mark Regan is too old and Francios Steyn too young to be a rugby world cup champion but sport does not discriminate, if you are good enough you are old enough, or indeed young enough in England’s case. What is

Sex offender arrested for viewing child porn
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - The Livingston County Sheriff s office reported that an investigation revealed that Gleason, of Mount Morris, had been using his church s computer to look at child pornography. Gleason is a registered sex offender, having been convicted of a sex

Asian Stocks Drop in U.S. Trading; Taiwan Semiconductor Decline
Bloomberg - Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks trading in the U.S. fell the most in almost eight months, led by computer-related companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., after SanDisk Corp. predicted price declines will extend into the fourth

Research libraries close their books to Google and Microsoft
International Herald Tribune - Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they were put off by restrictions these companies wanted to place on the new digital collections. The research

David Copperfield cannot make warehouse raid disappear
Times Online - The raid was carried out on Wednesday by 12 agents who seized a computer hard drive and a digital camera, along with the $2 million of cash. The FBI said the investigation was related to a case in Seattle, but wouldn t elaborate. Mr Copperfield has

Rockies seek trademark protection for ‘Rocktober’
ESPN.com - In August, a California-based computer game manufacturer also filed an application with the federal office for rights to the name. Then it started being heard around Coors Field. And its phrase and its variations, like “Rocktoberfest,” have been used

Sex suspect mum behind shades
CNN - But computer experts working with German police cracked the code, finding a way to reverse the swirl, unscrambling the abuser’s features and producing an identifiable image. It was posted on the Web site of Interpol, the international police agency

County seeks more input in USF’s tech incubator
St. Petersburg Times - Petersburg Times report this week about PrivacyView Software LLC, which develops programs that encrypt and mask computer files and Internet surfing histories. The technology can be used to protect financial records and prevent identity theft, but

Retired housing court aide probed
Boston Globe - The trial court and the state auditor’s office performed audits of the court in 2003 and 2004, but it wasn’t until another audit this year, when court records were being transferred to a new statewide computer system, that auditors from the

Prince A Computer Criminal?
antiMUSIC - (Contact Music) Pop superstar PRINCE has been named in a $1 million (GBP500,000) lawsuit after allegedly failing to pay computer goods worth $12,000 (GBP6,000). Ian Lewis filed a the lawsuit at Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday (17Oct07

Jonathan Takiff | Bose’s sound moves lead to big company
Philadelphia Daily News - Two new cases in point are the Bose Computer Music Monitor and the Bose SoundDock Portable. Both represent serious feats of engineering yet hardly look it. When you first encounter a pair of the pint-sized, aluminium-clad Computer Music Monitor

About our Live Votes and surveys
MSNBC - In addition, while MSNBC.com s Live Votes are designed to allow only one vote per user, someone who wants to vote more than once could simply use another computer or another Internet account. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, nearly 75 percent or

1&1 and Funambol Collaborate on New Push Email and PIM Sync Solution
Forbes - The commercial version of Funambol’s software has been deployed at service providers, mobile operators, portals, Global 1000 businesses, hardware OEMs/ODMs and ISVs including customers such as 1&1, EarthLink and Computer Associates. Funambol is

Microsoft looks to link tools for communication
Seattle Times - He makes calls from his computer. His conference table has a 360-degree video camera that can record the gestures and facial expressions of everyone sitting around a meeting table and transmit it to colleagues thousands of miles away. This is the

A world of hurt, hope
Chicago Tribune - Taken to Israel for treatment, Maria was moved to Alyn Hospital, a rehabilitation center for children in Jerusalem, where she has learned to guide her motorized wheelchair, use a computer and draw, using head and neck muscles she can still control

WINGS CORNER: Chelios berates Bettman, says more to come out in union
Detroit Free Press - There’s a computer hard drive missing. Ted said he destroyed it. Who knows where it is? You don’t know what to believe.” Though Chelios, 45, is nearing the end of his storied NHL career, he insists he has no future as a union leader. He has told

The power of the click
Los Angeles Times - Now, with our new “invite tool,” you can sit at your computer and in 10 minutes ask every one of your political leaders for an RSVP. It feels as though we’re starting to make them respond to our agenda, not the other way around. We’re finding, in

Nation/World briefs
Detroit News - Telecom companies must keep mum: AT&T, Qwest and Verizon have declined to tell Congress whether they gave U.S. intelligence agencies access to Americans’ phone and computer records without court orders, citing White House objections and national

GOSSIP IS STRONGER THAN TRUTH
New York Post - In the study, researchers gave students playing a computer game money they could give to others in a series of rounds. The students, meanwhile, also wrote notes about how others played the game that everyone could review. Students tended to give less

Aging science labs are targeted
Boston Globe - He delivers lectures in front of a so-called smart board, which is a large computer-like screen where he can show PowerPoint presentations or grab information at any time from the Internet. He controls the board from a computer at his desk, but also

Copier fund raided to pay for Bethel teachers’ raises
Seattle Times - School Board members and administrators discussed other options for supporting the contract before agreeing not to postpone an $850,000 purchase of U.S. history textbooks, nor dip into the $250,000 computer-replacement fund or individual schools

New Recordings
Philadelphia Inquirer - One of the major drawing cards promised to be Wilson’s use of 3-D computer animation. However, the limited technology allowed so few possibilities that the piece, after its maiden tour, disappeared. The score, however, is among Glass’ better efforts

For therapy, Britains try keyboards, not couches
Philadelphia Inquirer - The 61-year-old bookkeeper, who only gave her first name to protect her privacy, sat down in front of a computer and spilled out her problems to a kind of psychiatric computer game called Fearfighter. Last year, Fearfighter was one of two programs

My days with Morris: Friendship with a centenarian
Miami Herald - Every afternoon, he sits in front of the computer in his apartment in Sunny Isles Beach to revise the Yiddish and English editions that he wrote in his 90s. ‘’Now I have better ideas than ever before, much better,'’ he declares. The more I’ve gotten

Ex-colleagues, chilly competition
Boston Globe - Instead, Maven created a downloadable application that enabled users to “subscribe” to a particular channel, and have new videos delivered automatically to their computer. Twentieth Century Fox used the technology to send promotional clips to movie

Engineering and science
Boston Online - PhD and postdoctoral training needed for university teaching and research; master’s degree can qualify for applied research and product development; those with bachelor’s degrees often switch to engineering or computer work.

Global warming: It’s the humidity
BusinessWeek - And computer models show that the only explanation is man-made global warming, according to a study published in Thursday’s journal Nature. “This humidity change is an important contribution to heat stress in humans as a result of global warming

Computer, Marketing & Consumer Electronics Influencers Ally to Fuel
Forbes - Solicore, Inc., worldwide leader of embedded power solutions under the Flexion brand, announces the formation of an Industry Advisory Board (IAB) aimed to assist with the company’s strategic direction and the execution of marketing Solicore’s

Google, IBM work on parallel computing push
Reuters - Google, the leader in Web search, and IBM, the world’s largest computer services company, have set up a cluster of powerful computers that students can access over the Internet to test their programs. They are also offering software and a

Dow and S&P end down with oil stocks and profit-taking
CNBC - Also in the tech sector, Hewlett-Packard Co rose 2.2 percent to $52.03 and hit a record of $52.18 on the NYSE after UBS added the computer and printer maker to its strategic stock selections list. About 851 million shares changed hands on

Monday Oct. 8 Health & Fitness Calendar
Miami Herald - More info: 786-596-3812. Computer Health Alert. Go to LookInsideRA.com and sign up for the free Live Life to the Fullest with Rheumatoid Arthritis webcast noon Oct. 11. Dr. Lawrence H. Brent, head of the division of Rheumatology and director of the

Nev. institute to mark campus expansion
CNBC - These two new facilities will give DRI the ability not only to house more researchers, but to take on more exciting research in areas such as climate change and advanced computer and visualization technology,” said Stephen Wells, president of DRI. A

Indian Stocks Decline on Political Concern; Banks Lead Fall
Bloomberg - Patni Computer Systems Ltd. (PATNI IN) rose 21.85 rupees, or 4.8 percent, to 480.05. The software developer said two of its directors, G.K. Patni and A.K. Patni, would be redesignated as founder directors and cease being executive directors of the

Democrats looking to regain control of state Senate
US News and World Report - The party in control can tailor the lines with computer precision to lock in or expand its advantage for another 10 years. The Democrats are desperate to establish a beachhead in the Senate, and the GOP is marshaling its money and strength to deny

The Observer
Observer - To reboot your computer,’ he says, lightly. But what will they do? ‘I already told you,’ he says. ‘They will reboot your computer.’ He is going to leave me to relax for 20 minutes; I may feel a little sleepy. After a while, the door opens and a young