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Archive for January, 2009
John Travolta’s 16-year-old son dies
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NASSAU, Bahamas – The teenage son of actor John Travolta died suddenly on Friday during a family vacation in the Bahamas, according to the family’s lawyer.
Jett Travolta, 16, suffered a seizure at his family’s vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island, attorney Michael Ossi [...]
IE continues to lose market share
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Visitors are continuing to desert Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser in favour of Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome, according to web analytics company Net Applications.
Internet Explorer was used by 68.15 percent of surfers monitored in December, down from 69.77 percent in [...]
9 Muslim passengers removed from jet
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WASHINGTON – Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport yesterday afternoon after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark.
Members of the party, all but one of them [...]
Facebook nudity policy draws nursing moms' ire
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Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites’ community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members.
Facebook began as [...]
Dad who re-enters burning Missouri home to save kids dies with them; mom critically injured
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DE SOTO, Mo. (AP) — An early-morning fire in an eastern Missouri home has claimed the lives of two children and their father, who initially escaped but ran back inside to rescue his son and daughter.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the fire started before 5 a.m. on New Year’s Day near De [...]
22-year-old special-needs student left on NYC bus overnight on icy New Year's Eve
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I read this article on my show last night, but I thought it would be nice to post it again and hope the parents of this person get some action done soon..Very tragic story although he lived I just hope this never happens again.
NEW YORK (AP) — A 22-year-old man with cerebral palsy spent a frigid [...]
Zune Chokes on Leap-year Bug
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Microsoft’s Zune 30GB music player just wasn’t ready for a leap year.
That’s what owners of the devices discovered Wednesday morning when they awoke to find their players frozen and unworkable.
The problem turned out to be “a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a [...]
With Gaza Conflict, Cyberattacks Come Too
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The conflict raging in Gaza between Israel and Palestine has spilled over to the Internet.
Since Saturday, thousands of Web pages have been defaced by hacking groups operating out of Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, said Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics with the University of [...]
