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Gartner Revises Server Share Numbers
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:43:24 -0400
Gartner revised its first quarter numbers and found that IBM actually beat out Hewlett-Packard in server revenue....
Who Is Running The Most Secure Browser?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:13 -0400
Many users are undoubtedly not updating their browsers as quickly as they should, but you can't conclude any specifics about that from the recent study of Google logs....
DOJ Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking Practices
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:08:34 -0400
Civil liberties groups claim the Justice Department is bypassing warrants to obtain real-time tracking information on U.S. citizens....
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Strikes Back
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:53 -0400
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 security builds on the Phishing Filter of IE 7 and thwarts cross-site scripting....
IBM Helps Link POS to the Back Office
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:30 -0400
IBM and Epicor jointly release an offering that centrally manages and supports POS....

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Troubles shadow G-8 summit
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:36:36 -0700
Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic...
Florida may signal boom in coastal oil drilling
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:26:48 -0700
Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost-prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support...
U.S. share of foreign tourists slips, travel experts say
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:38:41 -0700
Despite the weak U.S. dollar, a boom in international travel around the world hasn't translated into an explosion of foreign tourists to...

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As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:22:20 -0000
As the Web has become an irreplaceable part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional outages.
The Medium: File-Sharing Fetish
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:48:30 -0000
Eclectic video-sharing that doesn’t succumb to the porn imperative.
For Marketers, Viruses Just Won’t Cooperate
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:19:30 -0000
Viral marketing is much harder than negative buzz to generate.

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Stealing ideas from nature
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:01:21 -0400
When self-confessed "nature nerd" Janine Benyus coined the term "biomimicry" in a book she published a decade ago, little did she know it would make her a household name, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars.
Faked tiger photo sparks Web furor
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:49 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0400
It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.

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Viacom May Soon Have Your YouTube Password
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
A judge ordered YouTube to hand over the log-on names and the Internet addresses of its users to media giant Viacom. The matter is stirring up major privacy concerns.
We Know What You've Been Watching on YouTube
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:13:00 -0400
A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, says the ruling has big implications for online privacy.
Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:00 -0400
Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan.

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Google 'faces Street View block'
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:56:34 -0000
Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner.
Warning letters to 'file-sharers'
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:41:04 -0000
The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters.
Google must divulge YouTube log
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:53 -0000
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court.

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Japan asks: anybody out there?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:02:00 -0400
Jul. 4 - Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for a fresh quest to find out if there is life in outer space.
Reuters Technology Week
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:52:38 -0400
Jul. 3 - The robo-bartender, virtual haute couture, and global leaders ride hydrogen style.
Robo barman pulls first pint
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:03:25 -0400
Jul. 3 - Billed as the world's first robot barman, Mr Asahi pulls the crowds at London's Selfridges department store.

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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
By ANICK JESDANUN Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:52:13 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when....
2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:44:12 -0000
DOVER, N.Y. (AP) -- Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said....
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:41 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own....

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iPhone 3G queue forms in Manhattan
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:25:00 -0700
But the usual suspects--gadget fanatics--aren't the ones at the front of the line.
Privacy advocates praise Google's new link
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:55:00 -0700
Company's decision to add a link to its home page that leads to its Privacy Center is enough to quell a controversy.
Photos: Army designates year's best inventions
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0700
Every year, the U.S. Army designates a set of top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.

 

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2002 MiniGame Compo - Aim is to write a game in 1024 bytes of code, for an 8-bit home computer such as the Atari 2600, NES, CPC+, or TI99/4A. Includes competition news and details of entries.
Meta Description: [ 2002 8-bit multiplatform 1K minigame competition ]

ADHOC - Advanced Developers Hands-On Conference - The annual programming contest and conference formerly known as MacHack, this event is put on by Macintosh Developers and for Macintosh Developers. July 21-24, 2004.

Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests - A series of programming contests that offer cash prizes. Any programming language may be used. These contests are conducted at irregular intervals, generally once or twice a year.

BCS Programming Competition - The British Computer Society's programming competition, open to teams of up to 5 entrants, students or professionals, aged under 30.

BUTE Budapest International 24-hour Programming Contest - Annual 24-hour contest hosted by Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The contest is open to a limited number of international teams of 3 people via an internet qualifying round.

404 C++ Robots - C++ based robots programming challenge.

Denison Programming Contest - The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison University hosts a programming contest each spring for small colleges.

DSAP - Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests.
Meta Description: [ DSAP , data structures , algorithms , algorithm , problem solving , olympiad , informatics , Vietnam , BOI , IOI , ACM , Timus , Valladolid, TopCoder ]

500 Grid Wars - Writing battle programs championship. Sponsored by HP.

404 IAUM-CCC - Information for Islamic Azad University of Mashad Collegiate Coding Challege that takes place April-May Annually.

404 ICFP Functional Programming Contest - A contenst sponsored by the International Conference on Functional Programming.

ICFP Programming Contest - Annual programming contest held in conjunction with International Conference on Functional Programming. Accepts submissions written using any programming language.

ICFP Programming Contest (1999) - The webpage for the 1999 ICFP Functional Programming Contest.

iDevGames : uDevGame Contest - An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer.
Meta Description: [ iDevGames is the leading resource for Macintosh game developers featuring daily news, tutorials, articles, downloads, and an active forum. ]

International Contest for ICCS - Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders.

International InfoMATRIX Computer Project Competition - Participants have to create a project for any of the categories (Programming, Design and Use of Computer, Desktop Publishing, Computer Art) First of all, each school must select one representant.

Internet Problem Solving Contest - Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone.
Meta Description: [ Internet Problem Solving Contest (IPSC) is an online programming contest for teams up three people. ]

Internet Programming Contest - Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in real-time over the internet.

JRobots - Java-based Robots Programming challenge.

Loco Mummy (Low Cost Multimodal Interface Software Contest) - Contest calls for new communication helper software between humans and PCs or PocketPCs. Free. Open to all. Various prizes.
Meta Description: [ Write a progam that help people to use a PC for any task using a combination of low cost Interfaces and win a laptop computer! The goal of the LocoMummy contest is to find one or more clever and creative ways to use standard hardware to design a software application with a natural, intuitive way ... ]

Loebner Prize - A unique annual contest in which a winner is selected from participants who comes to the closest to demonstrating that machines can think like humans, as per the Turing Test.

MacHack - Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.

MiniGame Compo - Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1K or 4K. Open to games for classic 8-bit computers.
Meta Description: [ 2005 8-bit multiplatform minigame competition ]

OpenChallenge - 3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses.
Meta Description: [ A catalyst for materializing creativity and for channeling open source potential into tackling real world problems and doing public good ]

OpenECG Programming Contest - A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.

PHP Coding - A new contest every few weeks. PHP only, but HTML and any extension commonly available to PHP is allowed. Disallowed is any other type of scripting language.
Meta Description: [ PHP Help, PHP Code - Codewalkers.com ]

Programmer of the Month - A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Active forum.

Programming Contest Problems Archive - If you are preparing for a programming contest, this page might be useful. Includes past problems of national, regional and international contests.

Programming Tournament from MSO Worldwide - Mind Puzzle programming competition from Mind Sports Worldwide.
Meta Description: [ Free online board games, card games & puzzles, news, links, articles by recognized experts & information on upcoming Mind Sport events. ]

Project Euler - A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.
Meta Description: [ A website dedicated to the fascinating world of mathematics and programming ]

RAD Race - The Rapid Application Development Race is a programming competition open to any kind of development tool and/or language. The RAD Race focuses on real life business and administrative programming and not on algorithm development.
Meta Description: [ The original Rapid Application Development Race is a programming competition where a business oriented program is developed under verifiable conditions ]

RoboCom - An online game for programmers. Participants determine how robots will move, communicate with others or even build more robots.
Meta Description: [ RoboCom is a game for programmers: With your program, you determine how your robots will move, communicate with others or even build more robots. ]

RoShamBo Programming Competition - A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition.

Spare-Time Programming Contest - This is a casual contest open to any University of California Computer Science student.

Sphere Online Judge - Problemset archive and online judge accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java, Python, Ocaml, Prolog and other languages.

Swiss Olympiad in Informatics - The SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years in age.

404 Tarleton State University AITP Tarleton Contest - Annual programming contest at Tarleton State University.

Teamwork in Programming Contests - Tips and observations from a team of programmers who have regularly won in the ACM programming contests. Published in ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the ACM.
Meta Description: [ Winning strategies for the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest are discussed. ]

The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest - Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor. Valid programs must run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65.

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest - A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.
Meta Description: [ International Obfuscated C Code Contest ]

The Robot World Cup Initiative - Soccer playing computers.

TopCoder - Online computer programming competitions in the Java, C++, and C# languages. Competitions take place twice a week, and members can win from $25-$300. Major tournaments have a prize purse of $250,000.

Upstate Collegiate Programming Contest - Programming contest for students of Upstate New York colleges and universities.

URCSC Computer Programming Contest - Programming contest sponsored by the University of Richmond, Computer Science Club.

Valladolid Programming Competition - An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge.