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Rafter urges Oz parents to get children off computer games and into sport
Australian tennis legend Pat Rafter has urged parents to get their kids away from computer games and push them to play...


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UK computer firm branded racist for seeking "Indian origin" applicant
A Bristol-based computer company has landed itself in a soup after placing a job advertisement seeking an applicant "preferably of Indian origin" on a British...
Pattinson autographed guitar to be auctioned for charity
A guitar autographed by Hollywood heart throb Robert Pattinson has been put on sale on Internet auction site...
Racism row as British firm seeks Indian origin applicant
A British computer company's advertisment seeking an applicant 'preferably of Indian origin' has been dubbed racist by...
Viacom Secretly Uploaded Videos, Youtube Claims
Viacom's 2007 copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and Google were unsealed on Thursday, following Viacom's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment two weeks ago. The...
Windows Phone 7 Lacks Flash Support
Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 Series won't support two features that are familiar to most computer users—at least not out of the gate. The first iteration of the mobile device platform...
Ericsson In Talks To Buy Lg Nortel Stake
Ericsson is reported to be poised to acquire another piece of the once-mighty Nortel Networks. According to South Korean media reports, Ericsson and South Korea's LG are preparing to announce that...
Bny Mellon Promotes John Fiore To Cio
BNY Mellon has named John A. Fiore as its chief information officer. In his new role, Fiore leads the company's global information technology efforts, including the implementation of technology...
Cops: Burglar Logs Into Myspace On Store Computer
KENNEWICK, Wash. — A burglar who spent about five hours on a store's computer after breaking into the business gave police all the clues they needed to track him down. Investigators said the...
Man Accused Of Hacking Into Cars Over The Internet
Posted on: Thursday, 18 March 2010, 14:10 CDT A Texas man who was fired from an auto dealership used the Internet to disable ignitions and set off horns on more than 100 vehicles sold by his old...
March Madness On The Apple Iphone
Phone Smart column , the CBSSports NCAA March Madness On Demand app ($10) has hit the iPhone, giving users live video of every game in the tournament. I just took the app for a quick test spin, and...
Acme Portable Machines Signs Distribution Agreement With Samwell Group To Offer One-stop Shopping For Portable Rugged Computers
AZUSA, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ACME Portable Machines, Inc., a leading provider of rugged portable computer workstations, chassis, and industrial LCD keyboard drawers, today announced their...
Accept Software Svp Of Marketing Named 2010 Woman Of Influence In Silicon Valley
FREMONT, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Accept Software, the integrated collaborative product management company, today announced that Christine Crandell, senior vice president of marketing, has...
Two Madoff Computer Admins Indicted
Computerworld - Two former computer administrators who worked for convicted financial fraudster Bernard Madoff's investment firm were indicted this week on charges of conspiracy and falsifying...
Palm Shares Fall After-hours Despite Revenue Beat
forecast sharply lower than expected revenue in the fiscal fourth quarter on dismal smartphone sales, sending its shares more than 12 lower in after-hours trade on Thursday. The share slide wiped out...
Summary Box: Jerome York Dies At 71
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WHAT HAPPENED: Jerome York died Thursday of a brain aneurysm at a Pontiac, Mich., hospital. He was 71. IMPACT ON BUSINESS: York has served as a board member of Apple Inc....
Summary Box: Records Illuminate Copyright Dispute
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE REVELATIONS: YouTube co-founder Steve Chen once warned a fellow co-founder to stop posting pirated videos on their Web site. And Viacom Inc. wanted to buy YouTube...
Is Digg The Future Of Social News?
Mashable's Pete Cashmore: Digg could make a comeback on the Web Digg announces it will give users home pages, similar to those on Facebook or Twitter Those pages may give Digg some of its authority...
Industrial Computers - Glacier Computer Announces Everest E5000 - E4000 Compatible With Windows 7
New Milford, CT , March 18, 2010 /EIN News/ -- Glacier Computer, a leading developer of rugged industrial computing solutions announced today that the Everest E5000 and Everest E4000 vehicle mount...
Apple Still Chasing Ipad Content
APPLE is still working to secure content for the iPad with just weeks to go before the tablet computer's release, sources said, as the company tempers some of its initial ambitions for the...
Microsoft Says Its Contentious Relationship With Open Source Is Changing
2 Recommendations Acknowledging the relationship between Microsoft and the open source community has been contentious, a Microsoft official Thursday nonetheless emphasized the company's embrace of...
Website's Instant Posts Of Wall Street Research Banned
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday barred the financial news service Theflyonthewall.com from issuing immediate news about Wall Street analyst research, often before...
Comcast, Isc Offer Ipv6 Transition Tool
(03-18) 10:00 PDT -- Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium announced on Thursday the availability of open source software that will help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the...
Tandberg Launches Desktop Hd Videoconferencing For Execs
(03-18) 09:37 PDT -- Tandberg, in the process of being acquired by Cisco Systems, today launched the EX90, a high-definition videoconferencing desktop system focused on executive...
Cub Scout Leader Arrested In Child Porn Case
(03-18) 12:35 PDT DANVILLE -- A Cub Scout leader in Danville has been arrested for allegedly keeping child pornography on his computer at work, police said...
Chai Thai Noodles Is Anything But Bland
Fans of bold, bright Thai cooking - flavors that haven't been blanded out for timid American palates - rejoiced when Chai Thai Noodles opened in Oakland. Sangchai Vatanachai and Amnouy Manyvong, the...
Court Records Illuminate Viacom-youtube Battle
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- YouTube co-founder Steve Chen once warned a fellow co-founder to stop posting pirated videos on their Web site, according to court documents unsealed Thursday as part of a...
Palm's Sales Slump As Its New Phones Struggle
NEW YORK (AP) -- Palm Inc. on Thursday reported sales figures that showed it's having a difficult time getting consumers to pay attention to its phones in a market dominated by iPhones and...
Parents Oppose Philly School Webcam Spying Lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Some suburban Philadelphia parents are seeking to halt a potential class-action lawsuit accusing their school district of using cameras in school-issued laptops to spy on...
Google Calendar Now Finds Best Meeting Time
a new Google Calendar Labs experiment called Smart Rescheduler that treats scheduling as search problem. When presented with a Google Calendar event, Smart Rescheduler will scour the schedules of...
Google, Intel, Sony Plan Android Tv Platform
A Google spokesperson declined to comment, stating that the company does not comment on rumors or speculation. The New York Times cites unnamed sources familiar with the Google TV project. Various...
Amazon Launches Kindle For Mac
The Apple Mac software expands the number of devices on which e-books bought from Amazon can be read, which now include the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Kindle...
Guess, Billabong, Cutter & Buck Speaking At Apparel Tech Conference West
COLUMBIA, SC--(Marketwire - March 18, 2010) - Executives from GUESS, Billabong and Cutter & Buck are among the speakers who will be discussing technology strategies and success...
Making Money Selling Free Software
http://www.myprgenie.com ) -- How do you sell free software? The answer to that question for hundreds of developers has been in-game advertising, those annoying, scrolling ads at the bottom of your...
New ''labquest'' Software Makes Handheld Device More Versatile For Science Educators
''Vernier showcases support for video, wireless printing and periodic table graphing' BEAVERTON, Ore., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Vernier Software & Technology showcased at the National Science...
Beware The New Facebook Password Reset Scam
ZDNet News : Mar 18, 2010 12:52:08 PM If you get an e-mail that appears to be from Facebook saying the company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it is a scam. Repeat, it is a...
Sex.com Creditors Say Domain's Too Hot To Be Sold
Mike Mann, an investor with all three creditors, said the petition was filed to stop the auction. According to the petition, the creditors have a combined $10.1 million...
Hp Settles Cases With Inkjet Cartridge Vendors
Hewlett-Packard has settled patent infringement complaints that it filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission against inkjet cartridge vendors, HP said...
Who Wins When Google Leaves China?
The big question in China isn't why Google is leaving but who will take its market share. Microsoft wants it, Baidu's a favorite, but local powers like Sohu and Tencent are more likely to...
E-voting To Kill Hanging Chads
(CNNMoney.com) -- In 2003, Lori Steele watched as Arnold Schwarzenegger became California's governor in a recall. The zeal behind the off-schedule election impressed her."The recall made me...
Jerome York, Apple Director, Ex-ibm Executive, Dies
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Jerome York, a director of Apple Inc., former chief financial officer at Chrysler Corp. and International Business Machines Corp., and adviser to investor Kirk Kerkorian, died...
Amazon Unveils Kindle App For Macs
Amazon has released a free program that allows Kindle electronic books to be read on Apple's Mac computers and says they will also be available on the upcoming iPad.Amazon, in a statement on...
Pay Or Fail: Some Iphone App Sites Demand Money For Reviews
If you can’t pitch the press, pay them. That’s the proposition some review sites have for publicity-starved iPhone developers. Several websites dedicated to iPhone app reviews are...
Nvidia Claims To Have Fixed An Overheating Problem
apology for overheating problems it has blamed on one of its software drivers. The offending driver, version 196.75, has been removed from circulation and Nvidia has requested that we all wipe any...
Telmap And Bluesky Announce A Deal
Telmap and BlueSky Positioning have announced a joint deal to bring real-time search, mapping and navigation to mobile phones. The two companies have been working in tandem to create the A-GPS SIM....
Hp Didn’t Meet Client Expectations
and outsourcing heavyweight after its purchase of EDS last year, HP possibly will be fined for failing to meet acceptable client service standards due to an ongoing industrial action with the Public...
Technicolor Gets Into 3d
, the company that brought colour to movies for the first time, is throwing its considerable weight behind 3D, both in the cinema and broadcast arenas. At an event at its Chiswick facility in London...
Rupert Murdoch Says Ipad Is Way Forward
iPad et al."All media is going to go on to the iPad, whether it be music or books or newspapers or movies, you'll be able to get it on your iPad," Old Man Murdoch said in the interview. Whether or...
Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Sp1
1 Recommendation Microsoft today announced service packs for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users' hands. According...