Black water Agency in Pakistan.

The CIA has reportedly hired the infamous US security firm Blackwater on the Pakistan borders to help track down Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants. The New York Times first reported Blackwater’s involvement late Wednesday on its Web site. The report said...

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Wal-Mart to Sell Broadband Services

With Wal-Mart's "Always Low Prices" does this mean we can look forward to dropping prices on broadband?Wal-Mart has announced it will begin selling HughesNet (formerly DirecWay) Satellite Broadband at 2,800 stores across the nation, focusing on rural...

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Wal-Mart to Sell Broadband Services

With Wal-Mart's "Always Low Prices" does this mean we can look forward to dropping prices on broadband?Wal-Mart has announced it will begin selling HughesNet (formerly DirecWay) Satellite Broadband at 2,800 stores across the nation, focusing on rural...

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iPhone Gets a Carrier Settings Update

Hard to say exactly what this is about, but when I plugged in my iPhone 3G today I received a different update message than I'm used to. It said:"An update to the carrier settings for your iPhone is available. Would you like to download it now?"According...

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Windows 7 Upgrade From Vista Can Take Up to 20 Hours

And people wonder why I complain that Microsoft has made it more difficult of late to do a clean install using an upgrade copy of Windows. A report issued by a Microsoft software engineer shows that depending on the state of your system and hardware,...

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Study: H1B Visa Use Reduces U.S. Programmer Salaries by 6%

Globalization is wonderful, and does no harm anywhere, that's the line we've been fed. But a new study, titled "H-1B Visas, Offshoring, and the Wages of US Information Technology Workers" by Prasanna B. Tambe of New York University - Stern School...

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Microsoft Offers Windows 7 Discount to Students

Microsoft announced a new discount program on Thursday, one that would allow eligible students to get a $30 price on Windows 7 Home Premium (upgrade). There is also a mention of Windows 7 Professional, but it is unclear from the site what the price...

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A BSOD of Olympic Proportions

Most of us who have used a Windows PC know what a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is. Well, there could be no more perfect timing for a BSOD than this. Right when Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the climax of the torch-lighting...

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Apple Tries to Cool Off "Hot" Macbook Air Owners

On Monday, Apple issued the "SMC Update 1.0" for the MacBook Air. You might ask, "what the heck is SMC?" Well, SMC stands for the System Management Controller, a chip on the laptop's motherboard responsible for power management.According to Apple,"The...

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FTC Opens Formal Antitrust Investigation of Intel

The FTC has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Intel's business practices, as revealed by an Intel press release issued Friday in response to a subpoena. Not just Intel, but rival AMD and several PC makers have begun to receive subpoenas...

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Chrome vs. IE 8: A side-by-side comparison

written by Hardi Cheng at Wednesday, September 17, 2008 MSNBC.com Do you use Google Chrome or IE 8 for browsing ? Which one is better in performance or speed ? Or, maybe you still unsure which one you should use. For your reference,...

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Opera , Firefox or Chrome, which one is fastest in speed ?

written by Hardi Cheng at Thursday, September 24, 2009 What is the internet browser you’re using right now ? Is it Firefox, Opera or maybe Chrome ? Have you ever wondering which one of the current popular internet browsers is the...

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Caught on Camera - the best of Google Street View

WIKIPEDIA.org said that Google Street View is a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth that provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic street level views and allows users to view parts of some regions of the world at ground level. When it...

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