Wimbledon Fears Match-Fixing Scandal In Massive Betting Scam
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The dossier identifies sudden spikes in the sums wagered. More than £450m was bet on Wimbledon matches last year through just one British internet site, Betfair. Many suspect matches show huge rises in the money pledged, compared with similar games.
All the losers singled out from last year’s Wimbledon are alleged to have been involved in [...]
Hotspot Hunting Abroad Ditch The Sniffer And Just Ask
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Chiang Mai (Thailand) – Finding Internet access and an open hotspot can be a pain in the you know what. In such cases, hackers typically rely on geeky cards, computers and utilities and since I need upload stories from anywhere in the world, I usually have a laptop with NetStumbler, Wireshark and Cain installed and [...]
Stampede For New Computer Games Limits Fall In High Street Sales
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A dash by consumers to buy a computer game that simulates stealing cars helped to shore up high street trading last month, limiting the scale of the first back-to-back monthly drop in sales for more than two years.
Booming sales of Grand Theft Auto IV and a fitness-based game, Wii Fit, buoyed trading at nonfood stores [...]
Online Games Help Search Engines Work Better
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.
On Wednesday, the researchers launched http://www.gwap.com with five games designed to help computers with tasks they can’t automatically do.
“There are a lot of things that computers cannot do, but we’d somehow like [...]
Ladbrokes Profit Rises On Electronic Gaming
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the world’s largest publicly traded gambling company, said profit has climbed 13 percent this year as customers make more bets on electronic terminals and soccer matches go in its favor.
Gross winnings, or the amount left behind by gamblers, rose 16 percent in 2008’s first four months and advanced 34 percent including “high rollers” at its [...]
New Games Are Designed To Make Computers Smarter
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Computers aren’t nearly as bright as movies like “2001: A Space Odyssey” would have us believe, but a quartet of free online games developed by Carnegie Mellon University scientists will help make them smarter.
Introduced today, the so-called GWAPS — short for “games with a purpose” — are meant to “help improve Internet image and audio [...]
Game Web Site Gets Users To Help Make Computers Smarter
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.
On Wednesday, the researchers launched http://www.gwap.com with five games designed to help computers with tasks they can’t automatically do.
“There are a lot of things that computers cannot do, but we’d somehow like [...]
BBC News 24 has a planetary makeover
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The BBC is about to ring the changes on its news operations through a series
of Saturn-style spheres.
A design agency enlisted by the corporation has spent %26pound;550,000 giving its news
channels a spruce-up. In keeping with the success of its drama Life on
Mars, the corporation has kept a planetary theme, with the new opening
credits featuring a globe [...]
SaaS favors Google over Salesforce
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To say that strategy and technology are finally becoming interlinked in business is pure BS.
It has always been thus.
I’m certain that when the first cash-register salesman convinced the first general-store owner to buy a cash register, the sale went through because he was able to convince the owner that this new technology would improve the [...]
Apple’s Time Capsule makes backing up a snap
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One of the biggest selling points in last fall’s release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was the inclusion of Time Machine, a nifty new app aimed at making that most onerous of tasks — backing up data — not only easy to do, but fun.
For laptop users, however, Time Machine offered something of a [...]