SpeedDate Hijacks Facebook Users With A Bait And Switch

"SpeedDate, the online dating site that throws singles in a series of rapid dating sessions, has hijacked over 500,000 users from at least three Facebook applications. Users are logging on to Facebook to find that the applications they’ve had installed for months have been...

BC University offering: The Simpsons as Sociology? D'oh!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know for a minute I thought this was a joke, then I realised Silly me, I live in British Columbia, where the joke is a University which recently got it's University...

Agent Scully to Host Masterpiece Theatre

Since striking sci-fi gold with her starring role as Agent Dana Scully on the X-Files, Gillian Anderson has been trying to expand her range. First, there was her moody attempt to speak/sing over earnest 90s...

New hybrid VPN platform

"With Remote File Access the user has possibilities that are similar to the File Explorer under Windows. Files can be uploaded and downloaded or renamed. It is also possible to create or delete directories. When using Internet Explorer the Cache Protection module protects the...

Reclaiming Cape Town's Streets, at Least in Name

"Cape Town's renaming panel has recommended that slain musician Taliep Petersen be remembered in a street name, and that a clutch of apartheid-era prime ministers drop off the map. A total of 46 changes suggested...

Street Renamed For Late Firefighter

" May 13, 2007 New York - In a poignant ceremony that mixed laughter and tears, a heroic New York City firefighter who died of injuries suffered in a Bronx discount-store fire was remembered yesterday when a street near his family's Yaphank home was renamed Howie Carpluk...

Industrial relations an election liability for all concerned

"Welcome to The Age. Skip directly to: Search Box, Section Navigation, Content. Text Version. Fairfax Digital NEWS | MYCAREER | DOMAIN | DRIVE | FINANCE | MOBILE | RSVP | STAYZ member centre | login | register www.theage.com.au The Age Business * MARKET DATA *...

Microsoft Moves in on the JPEG

Ah, but then Microsoft would own the international photo standard. I can see why MS would want to push this, but I do not see this as a good thing. For example, the .doc standard, whilst not accepted as the international standard, is the most widely used, and is also insecure...

A Chinese Orphan Gets Her Bat Mitzvah

What I find particularly awesome about this is that, traditionally, one is only Jewish if one's birth mother is Jewish. That this congregation including adoptive mothers is a very important precedent."Of the 613 laws in the Torah, the one that appears most often is the...

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