Archive for January, 2009

Google users get bogus warning on site searches

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Computer users doing Google searches during a nearly one-hour period Saturday were greeted with disturbing but erroneous messages that every site turned up in the results might be harmful.
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Tackle firm casts net on Web for customers

Any fishing enthusiast would agree: The right lure can be the difference between a great catch and going home with an empty bucket.
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Cold, economy drive folks to date by Internet

Gyms aren't the only institutions to see membership spikes in January.
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SMS vulnerability on iPhone to be revealed today, still isn't patched

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Troy gamer faces world's best for shot to play Tiger Woods

TROY — A Troy resident is headed to Florida for the chance to play Tiger Woods in an international video game competition. Bradley Williams, 27, has been competing for several months with players around the world in an online competition called The Gillette Champions of Gaming.
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Cold, economy drive folks to date by Internet

Gyms aren't the only institutions to see membership spikes in January.
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Tackle firm casts net on Web for customers

Any fishing enthusiast would agree: The right lure can be the difference between a great catch and going home with an empty bucket.
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'Skate 2' has flaws, but new moves make it fun

For more than six months I've been reminding my buddy Kelly that “Skate 2″ was coming out, and his typical response was telling me to shut up and stop talking about it. We were building up too much hype for it, and he was getting worried that we'd expect too much and get too little […]


Calvin College student: Facebook discipline unwarranted

GRAND RAPIDS — A Calvin College sophomore says a sexual comment about a fellow student was posted on his Facebook page without his knowledge, but school officials linked him to it anyway.
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Digital TV delay falters

The House on Wednesday defeated a bill to delay the nation's switch to all-digital television by four months. The action comes fewer than two days after the Senate unanimously passed a plan to postpone the Feb. 17 switch to June 12.
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