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Firefighters in the City of McDonough are taking to the streets today, to raise money for an organization dedicated to eradicating a deadly disease.
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A Greenville County Council committee formed to monitor investigations of Councilman Tony Trout will meet behind closed doors Monday to discuss the impact on county personnel, Chairman Butch Kirven said.
SUMMER may still be in the air but school is starting soon, which means it's time to go shopping — for technology.Clothes, books and school supplies are the old standbys, of course, but tech products — computers, electronics and gadgets — are just as important.
SUMMER may still be in the air but school is starting soon, which means it's time to go shopping — for technology.Clothes, books and school supplies are the old standbys, of course, but tech products — computers, electronics and gadgets — are just as important.
During the second quarter of 2008, Apple reportedly spend $450,000 on lobbying within the federal government, under a broad spectrum of interests in energy conservation, education, and intellectual property rights. Forbes writes that a disclosure form ñ which Apple filed July 21st ñ shows Apple dividing the aforementioned figure among patent reform...
For all talk the about the mammoth Patch Tuesday this week, there was little discussion surrounding a new set of ActiveX kill bits Microsoft also released. The update includes kill bits for third-party software applications Aurigma Image Uploader and HP Instant Support.
Hackers targeting Georgia in the midst of its conflict with Russia have started sending out a new batch of malicious spam messages, apparently with the aim of building a new botnet network of remote-controlled computers.
Anti-Georgia spammers are trying to set up a malicious network of botnet computers.
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a zero-day Windows vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild. According to a this SecurityFocus alert, the attacks are exploiting a remote code-execution vulnerability due to an unspecified error in NSlookup.exe, the command-line administrative tool used for testing and troubleshooting...