DAYTONA BEACH — Investigators are trying to find out who hacked into the Daytona State College e-mail system and sent three threatening messages to an adjunct professor. According to the sheriff’s office, the threatening e-mails were sent to Edward Gheret at the college’s Deltona campus, and originated from the office of an employee, Suzy McDowell, [...]
Archive for December 11th, 2009
11 Dec
We’re All Data Fatties, Study Finds
We’re always hearing about how Americans consume far too many calories. It turns out, though, food isn’t the only thing we’re gorging ourselves on. An average American digests a whopping 34 gigabytes of information outside of work every day, according to a new study from the University of California, San Diego. The UCSD researchers estimate [...]
11 Dec
Wind Up Computer Mouse
Sustail is a wind-up computer mouse design concept that works in sync with your keyboard and computer. Created by Ahmet Bektes, the simple alternative energy mouse is easy to use – just wind the metal key until you hear the Sustail mouse is fully charged and then use.
11 Dec
Two men charged with Internet luring
Two Calgary men face several charges in relation to two unrelated cases of Internet luring. On Friday, November 27, 2009, the CPS Child Abuse Unit, with assistance from the ICE Unit, arrested and charged a man who is alleged to have had sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old female, after meeting her on an Internet chat [...]
11 Dec
Computer shopping guide
As the digital divide continues to shrink in America, the need for a reliable computer is becoming impossible to ignore. Heading full throttle into the busiest shopping time of the year, low computer prices and expanding technology promise to make this the most convenient, and confusing, holiday season yet. A new electronic device called the [...]
11 Dec
Win a Cars Race O Rama prize pack
Cars Race O Rama is the hot new videogame to follow on from the much loved Cars franchise. Players race Lightning McQueen in all new adventures from the city streets, to the desert and on to the beaches. For the first time ever, players can customise Lightning McQueen and his friends from hood to hubcap [...]
11 Dec
Google brings app-making to the masses
Kelsey Ransick, a University of San Francisco history major, doesn’t own a smart phone and thought computer science was for guys who sat hunched in a lab. Mobile phone developing was the last thing she saw herself doing. But count her among the growing ranks of Android smart phone developers. The 20-year-old junior just completed [...]
11 Dec
FBR to hold computer-based selection of taxpayers
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) would conduct a computer-based selection of taxpayers for audit here on Friday. Chairman FBR, Sohail Ahmed would inaugurate the event by pressing the computer button from the lists of the taxpayers.
11 Dec
A computer-generated image of the
The man, aged in his 20s, escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash after entering the Randell St bank through a side door, unarmed and without a disguise about 9.15am before official opening time. He confronted two bank employees and demanded money, which he put in two green, enviro shopping bags before fleeing on foot [...]
11 Dec
Videogames: my first time
Ever since my band the Dumb Waiters (we were dreadful) split acrimoniously in 1982, I’ve had too few chances to rock out or get funky. But Steve, Graeme and I have only had Guitar Hero 5 out of its box for five minutes and already I’m fulfilling one of my minor childhood dreams – I’m [...]
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