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1. Editor's Note: Americans Want Texting While Driving Banned
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- Lessons eBay Learned In The Data Center
- Financial Firms Discuss How To Build A Better Data Center
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- Lenovo In Talks To Buy Packard Bell
- U.S. Firm Says Outsourcer Holding Its Data Hostage Offshore
- Mozilla Backs Away From '10 Day' Patch Boast
- Move Over eBay, Garage Sale Is Free
- Music Publishers Sue YouTube
- Apple Upgrades iMacs, Software Suites, .Mac Online Service
- N.Y. Requires Labels For Recycled Computer Parts
- Iridium Signs Up Aerospace Partners For Its Next Constellation
- Easily Tricked, IRS Employees Fail Password Audit
- Black Hat: JavaScript Flaws Ease Intranet Attacks
- Wipro Expands U.S. Operations Through $600 Million Acquisition Of Infocrossing
- Equity Firm Pours $48 Million Into Chinese IT Outsourcing Company
- Qualcomm Plans To Appeal Cell Phone Ban In Broadcom Case
- China Hopes To Cure Internet Addicts At Summer Camp
- Microsoft Discloses Price Cuts On Xbox 360
- EnterpriseDB Seeks New Role As A Data Warehouse
- VeriSign Worker Fired After Laptop, Employee Info Are Stolen
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- LBS: No Longer Just For The Enterprise
- Sybase To Show Off New Mobile Business Products
- The Web Claims Another Casualty Of Publishing -- The Weekly World News
- Is It Possible To Unlock The iPhone?
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"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." -- Katharine Whitehorn
In late June, five teenage girls were killed in a late-night car accident in upstate New York. They had all just graduated from high school, their lives ahead of them. After the accident, police discovered that the girl driving had been sending text messages in the moments leading up to the crash. Would a ban have saved their lives?
Young lives cut short needlessly is always a tragedy. It is even more tragic when we realize that accidents could have been avoided if drivers were doing what they are supposed to be doing: concentrating on the road. It seems tragedies like this, which made national headlines, have jolted our point of view when it comes to texting while driving.
Washington state has already enacted legislation banning texting while driving, and so has New Jersey. Making calls and sending text messages from phones while driving both carry fines ($250 and $100, respectively) in the Garden State. Other states have proposals in the works.
But are these bans really going to stop people? Until police enforce the rules strictly, I find it hard to believe that it will make a difference.
Read more and tell us what you think on the InformationWeek Blog.
Eric Zeman
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Qualcomm Plans To Appeal Cell Phone Ban In Broadcom Case
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1. Editor's Note: Do You Text While Driving?
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By shifting to a more virtualized environment, eBay has been able to handle the 241 million registered users who post 6 million new items per day.
Despite slow progress in some areas, virtualization is clearly making a splash on Wall Street and becoming an important component of next-generation data centers.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a point of contrasting the typical PC, tangled in cables, with the clean design aesthetic of the new iMac, which is housed in aluminum and glass.
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Sixty percent of IRS employees tested by the inspector general fell prey to a basic password scam, putting taxpayers' data at risk.
Security researchers at the Black Hat conference discussed the weaknesses in JavaScript that let an attacker take control of a user's browser.
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In another development, Qualcomm also reported Tuesday that a federal judge has ruled that the company "committed misconduct" during litigation with Broadcom by failing to produce thousands of documents.
China is launching an experimental summer camp for 40 youngsters to try to wean them off their Internet addiction, state media said Tuesday.
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Sybase gave a preview of its mobile business initiatives at its TechWave conference in Las Vegas. The company was expected to announce a global partnership with smartphone maker HTC as well as give its partners a look at the future of its iAnywhere and Sybase 365 platforms.
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