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Defendant Says Dismissal of MySpace Hoax Case Linked to Suicide Was Ã?Â?Proper'LOS ANGELES, July 3 -- A Missouri mother said she never should have been prosecuted for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide.
Washington Post Saturday, July 04, 2009Bits: Apple, Acer, and...Arrington?Michael Arrington, the founder of the TechCrunch blog, says he will begin selling the CrunchPad, a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing, later this summer.
New York Times Saturday, July 04, 2009On the road with your notebook - FeatureWashington - Notebooks are made to hit the road. But many people don't actually travel very often with them - until vacation time, that is. That's when lots of planning needs to be done to be sure that your notebook gives you what you need when you'r...
Earth Times Saturday, July 04, 2009What Did Shaq Just Tweet? A New Web Site KnowsWith more athletes using Twitter, Facebook and personal blogs, one Web site is trying to provide a centralized place for fans to keep up with the increasing amount of content.
New York Times Saturday, July 04, 2009Internet Companies and Ad Agencies Go From Old Enemies to New FriendsThe slowing growth in online advertising is pushing traditional ad agencies and Internet companies to work together.
New York Times Saturday, July 04, 2009Practical Travel: Twitter Comes to the RescueFrom bad airplane seats to poor room
service, customers are getting surprisingly fast responses to their tweets.
New York Times Saturday, July 04, 2009Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirusthefickler writes "Clearly, the rise of free antivirus is starting to worry Symantec, with one of their top executives warning consumers not to rely on free antivirus software (including
microsoft's Security Essentials). 'If you are only relying on free antivirus to offer you protection in this modern age, you are not getting the protection you need to be able to stay clean and have a reasonable chance of avoiding identity theft,' said David Hall, a Product Manager for Symantec. According to Hall, there is a widening gap between people's understanding of what protection they need and the threats they're actually facing."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Saturday, July 04, 2009Looters attack Libyan ruinsOnce a major city of the ancient world, Cyrene, today rests in ruins in Libya. Now open again to the world, the site is ...
USATODAY Saturday, July 04, 2009AOL Shuts Down CompuServeOracle Goddess writes "After 30 years, CompuServe is all but dead, as AOL has pulled the plug on the once-great company. The original CompuServe
service, first offered in 1979, provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online
service. CompuServe users will be able to use their existing CompuServe Classic (as the
service was renamed) addresses at no charge via a new e-mail system, but the software that the service was built on has been shut down. Tellingly, the current version of the
service's client software, CompuServe for Windows NT 4.0.2, dates back to 1999."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Saturday, July 04, 2009Should Apple Even Care About the Enterprise?Apple might be targeting the enterprise, but the real question now is whether or not it should. Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? This question is coming to the fore again because with the advent of Windows 7, enterprises will deciding whether the time has come to finally upgrade the hardware to the new version. But given Apple's long-established market strategy, it just might not be important for Apple to win new enterprise converts to its operating system platform. - The debate over whether or not the business world should deploy Windows 7 rages on. Some say it's an iterative update over Windows Vista and thus, not worth deploying. Others believe it's the operating system that
microsoft should have created in the first place. They believe it's perfect for ...
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