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Poll finds sexting common among young people

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Dec 03, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 1

(AP) -- Think your kid is not "sexting"? Think again. Sexting - sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online - is fairly commonplace among young people, despite sometimes grim ...

FTC: Children still marketed violent content

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Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.

Gift Guide: Tech books that enlighten, entertain

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Dec 02, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- Your holiday shopping list probably includes gadgets, games and gizmos that illustrate how technology is changing the way we work, play and communicate. So why not throw in a few books about the people and services ...

New guidelines for broadcasters on user-generated content

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Nov 26, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

For the first time guidelines are to be published on how broadcasters around the world can encourage audiences to produce better quality user-generated content and to improve media and information literacy.

Key scientist says politics behind stolen e-mails

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Nov 24, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (6) | 4

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming.

Glitch snarls air traffic in latest woes for FAA

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Nov 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around ...

UK: Millions of customer records sold

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Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- Rogue employees at a major mobile phone company illegally sold millions of customer records to rival firms, Britain's information watchdog said Tuesday.

Microsoft co-founder Allen treated for lymphoma

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Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Europe's first 'personalised paper' rolls off the presses

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Nov 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Billed as Europe's first "personalised paper", "niiu", a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin on Monday.

New handbook for Google, Droid users

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Nov 11, 2009 | 2 / 5 (3) | 0

Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box.

Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero

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Nov 10, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

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Nov 05, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...

Lawmakers seek ban on laptops in airliner cockpits

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Nov 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

(AP) -- Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles.

School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix

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Nov 01, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 6

(AP) -- Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.

Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course

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Oct 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Two distracted US pilots were using laptop computers against company rules last week when they overshot their destination by some 150 miles (240 kilometers), federal investigators said.

Bringing gaming to the disabled

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Oct 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Ironically, it was located in one of the least-accessible areas of the Games for Health conference held a few months ago in Boston. Up a set of stairs and around a corner from the large conference halls and breakout rooms ...

Rare economic espionage case going to trial

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Oct 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Two men accused of stealing computer chip blueprints - and trying to tap the Chinese government to help launch a startup built on the contraband - are becoming the first defendants charged with economic espionage ...

Dutch, making peace with water, tackle overcrowding

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Oct 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg --a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding.