Category Archives: Change

Man Charged in Connection with Brother’s Shooting Death

By doris | Published: February 27, 2010

Full Story at wciv.com Colleton County, SC – Authorities say a 21-year-old man was arrested in connection with the shooting death of his brother in Colleton County on Wednesday. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office have charged Eric Plant with the death of this 21-year-old brother Joshua Plant. According to investigators, on Wednesday, police received a [...]

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Cyber crime poses threat to e-commerce

By doris | Published: December 14, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The past 12 months have been a banner year for cyber crime. And that could be bad news for the future of e-commerce. “At current trends, in three or four years people will start to think twice about transacting on the Web, individuals and businesses,” said Michael Fraser, director [...]

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Student occupation at UC Santa Cruz ends

By doris | Published: November 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — About 70 students at UC Santa Cruz in California avoided arrest early Sunday morning when they surrendered the administration building they had occupied for three days, according to a school spokesman. But, school officials said in a statement, “students who participated in this incident face possible criminal and/or student [...]

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Google poised to become your phone company

By doris | Published: November 14, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (Wired) — Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.Seriously.Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which broke the news on Monday, [...]

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Microsoft bans up to 1 million Xbox Live users

By doris | Published: November 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players who use Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles or played games that were illegally downloaded from file-sharing sites, according to the company. “All consumers should know that piracy is [...]

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Who’s the better translator: Machines or humans?

By doris | Published: October 8, 2009

Full Story at  CNN.com But, so far, there have been several hitches in that plan. Not everyone has access to a computer and a broadband connection. Some governments still censor the Internet. And of course, we don’t all speak the same language. For the World Wide Web to be truly global, shouldn’t Chinese speakers be [...]

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Greenland’s frozen landscape warming up

By doris | Published: September 23, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Delicious,” he says, kissing the tips of his fingers on one hand, making the universal sign for good tasting food. William tells me he went out on a boat with some friends a few days ago and shot the whale. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Welcome to Greenland. [...]

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Liquid specs a bold vision for world’s poor

By doris | Published: September 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com But a pair of glasses developed by Joshua Silver, a physics professor at the University of Oxford, offers an affordable solution. The glasses can be adjusted to the right strength by the wearer, without the need for them to visit an optometrist. A major reason for that is a chronic shortage [...]

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Segway inventor takes aim at thirst with Slingshot

By doris | Published: September 12, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Water is the most abundant resource on the planet, yet less than one percent of the Earth’s freshwater supply is readily available to drink, according to the World Health Organization. Lack of accessible or clean drinking water, exacerbated by drought, is crippling communities in many developing countries. “In your lifetime, my [...]

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The future of libraries, with or without books

By doris | Published: September 5, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and gaming areas. “Loud rooms” that promote public discourse and group projects are taking over the bookish quiet. Hipster staffers who blog, chat on Twitter and care little about the Dewey Decimal System are edging out old-school librarians. And that’s just the [...]

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Ban on robocalls takes effect on Tuesday

By doris | Published: August 29, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Businesses that try to push products on consumers with automated and unsolicited calls will face fines of up to $16,000 per call, according to the Federal Trade Commission. “American consumers have made it crystal clear that few things annoy them more than the billions of commercial telemarketing robocalls they receive every [...]

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Newfound planet orbits backward

By doris | Published: August 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Planets orbit stars in the same direction that the stars rotate. They all do. Except one. A newfound planet orbits the wrong way, backward compared to the rotation of its host star. Its discoverers think a near-collision may have created the retrograde orbit, as it is called. The star and its [...]

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Goodbye iPod, hello iPhone

By doris | Published: August 6, 2009

Full Story at BrainstormTech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com Apple passed an important milestone last quarter that nobody on Wall Street seems to have noticed: the iPod, once Apple’s (AAPL) No. 1 source of revenue, fell into third place after the Mac (No. 1) and the iPhone (No. 2). Think of Apple’s business model — as Steve Jobs often does [...]

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PayPal outage frustrates merchants, consumers

By doris | Published: August 4, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN JOSE, Calif.— PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday. The main outage occurred from 1:30 p.m. EDT through 2:30 p.m. when PayPal was unable to process any transactions worldwide, according to company spokesman Anuj Nayar. The online payment service continued to experience scattered [...]

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Hey stupid! Drop the cell phone and drive

By doris | Published: July 26, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com While heroic politicians all over America are mandating bicycle helmets, it’s still legal to drive 4,000 pounds of steel 60 miles an hour while your brain is turned to the moron setting. Oh you know exactly who and what I’m talking about. You know because you are that one guy in [...]

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Odds are stacked against Chrome OS’s success

By doris | Published: July 12, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In competing with Windows, Google Chrome OS will have to deal with many of the same challenges Linux has: compatibility, usability, and unfamiliarity. The record isn’t good: In the past year, Linux-based netbooks have rapidly lost market share to Microsoft, as people find that Linux doesn’t work as expected, may not [...]

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Microsoft: Bing needs to improve when news breaks

By doris | Published: July 3, 2009

Full Story At NEWS.CNET.com One of the biggest news stories in years caught Microsoft’s Bing a little off guard. The flood of traffic on the Internet following reports that Michael Jackson had been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital last Thursday, where he later died, has been well documented: Google at first thought the surge [...]

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Billy Mays: An industry loses its voice

By doris | Published: June 30, 2009

Full Story At money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Fans, friends and colleagues of Billy Mays are still absorbing the news of the ebullient TV salesman’s untimely death. Meanwhile, those in the infomercial field are left wondering: What will the industry do now that its most recognizable front man is gone? Mays, who died on Sunday [...]

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Web site tracks policy changes at popular sites

By doris | Published: June 5, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com A new Web site unveiled Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot potentially harmful changes. TOSBack.org, the brainchild of privacy advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, will track terms of service modifications within hours of an update. The site will [...]

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Time Warner CEO hints at online fees for magazines

By doris | Published: June 1, 2009

Full Story At tech.Yahoo.com SAN FRANCISCO – Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes chimed in Friday with the chorus of publishers wondering how much longer newspapers and magazines can afford to keep giving away their stories on the Internet. “It makes no sense, as you all know, to run a publishing business with no [...]

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