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15 Tips for Breaking in as a Part-Time Freelancer

The best way to get started as a free­lancer, in my opin­ion, is part time. There are many ben­e­fits to start­ing off in a lim­ited role (which we will dis­cuss in this arti­cle), as opposed to jump­ing in full-time. 

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15 Tips for Break­ing in as a Part-Time Freelancer

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Age-old kids’ query in a text message: Wuz4dina? (AP)

AP — Teens and tex­ting is a sub­ject that’s often dis­cussed in patho­log­i­cal terms. They’re tex­ting in class! They’re sex­ting! They’re run­ning up $5,000 bills! They need thumb therapy!

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Age-old kids’ query in a text mes­sage: Wuz4dina?
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Latest Windows Embedded CE puts focus on Silverlight

Microsoft on Tues­day said that the lat­est release of its Win­dows Embed­ded CE oper­at­ing sys­tem for hand­held devices and gad­gets will come with a new devel­op­ment frame­work that puts the Sil­verlight mul­ti­me­dia player at the center.

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Chinese cyberattacks target media ahead of anniversary (Reuters)

Reuters — For­eign media in China have been tar­geted by emails laden with mali­cious com­puter soft­ware in attacks that appear to be tied to the run-up to the National Day mil­i­tary parade on Octo­ber 1.

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Chi­nese cyber­at­tacks tar­get media ahead of anniver­sary
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Video game classics need museum, say “Retrogamers” (AFP)

AFP — A group of self-styled French “Ret­rogamers” is call­ing for the cre­ation of a spe­cial museum for the clas­sic video arcade games that bewitched mil­lions of teenagers in the 1980s. 

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Video game clas­sics need museum, say “Ret­rogamers”
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Army’s Top Inventions of 2008 Named

In the deadly con­test last year between Amer­i­can experts try­ing to pro­tect sol­diers from road­side bombs and enemy tech­ni­cians design­ing the lethal devices, Army sci­en­tist Scott E. Schoen­feld often pon­dered his adversary

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NASA Scientist Charged in Md. With Aiding Wife’s Firm

A promi­nent NASA sci­en­tist from Sil­ver Spring has been charged in fed­eral court in Mary­land with using his posi­tion for the finan­cial ben­e­fit of his wife, who owns a com­pany that devel­ops sci­ence exhibits and edu­ca­tional tools. 

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NASA Sci­en­tist Charged in Md. With Aid­ing Wife’s Firm

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Sun Micro losing $100 million a month, Ellison says (Reuters)

Reuters — Ora­cle Corp Chief Exec­u­tive Larry Elli­son said Sun Microsys­tems Inc is los­ing about $100 mil­lion a month as Euro­pean reg­u­la­tors delay approv­ing his company’s $7 bil­lion pur­chase of the strug­gling hard­ware maker.

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Sun Micro los­ing $100 mil­lion a month, Elli­son says
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Dow Jones to close Far Eastern Economic Review (Reuters)

Reuters — News Corp’s Dow Jones & Co plans to shut down the Far East­ern Eco­nomic Review, its sto­ried Hong Kong-based monthly mag­a­zine strug­gling with losses as read­ers and adver­tis­ers move to the Internet.

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Dow Jones to close Far East­ern Eco­nomic Review
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Facebook to end Beacon tracking tool in settlement (AP)

AP — Face­book is shut­ting down its much-maligned Bea­con mar­ket­ing pro­gram, launched nearly two years ago amid fan­fare only to gen­er­ate a storm of pri­vacy com­plaints over the track­ing of user activ­i­ties at part­ner Web sites.

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Face­book to end Bea­con track­ing tool in set­tle­ment
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Facebook to end Beacon tracking tool in settlement (AP)

AP — Face­book is shut­ting down its much-maligned Bea­con mar­ket­ing pro­gram, launched nearly two years ago amid fan­fare only to gen­er­ate a storm of pri­vacy com­plaints over the track­ing of user activ­i­ties at part­ner Web sites.

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Face­book to end Bea­con track­ing tool in set­tle­ment
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Roman Abramovich’s secret weapon

Abramovich’s new mega-yacht comes com­plete with an anti-paparazzi sys­tem Roman Abramovich’s lat­est extrav­a­gance, Eclipse, prob­a­bly so-called because it’s almost big enough to block out the sun, is the world’s largest mega-yacht. Mea­sur­ing 557ft long, it boasts two swim­ming pools, two heli­pads and an onboard mis­sile defence system. 

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Students’ stunning images — from space

MIT stu­dent Oliver Yeh spends less than $150 on a cam­era, a phone, a cool­box and a weather bal­loon to take pho­tographs An Amer­i­can sci­ence stu­dent has cap­tured images of the cur­va­ture of the Earth after send­ing a bal­loon into space on a shoe­string bud­get. Oliver Yeh spent less than $150 (£93) on a sec­ond­hand cam­era, a GPS-enabled mobile phone, a weather bal­loon and a poly­styrene cool­box which he launched from a field in Mass­a­chu­setts as part of a sci­ence project. The result was a time-lapse array of stun­ning pho­tographs from the edge of space that could eas­ily have come from Nasa, with its $17bn annual budget. 

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Stu­dents’ stun­ning images — from space

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Proposed FCC Web rule change draws wireless ire (Reuters)

Reuters — U.S. 

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Pro­posed FCC Web rule change draws wire­less ire
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FCC chairman says ‘open Internet’ rules are vital (AP)

AP — The chair­man of the Fed­eral Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion on Mon­day pro­posed the most wide-ranging and spe­cific rules so far for reg­u­lat­ing how Inter­net ser­vice providers and wire­less car­ri­ers han­dle sub­scriber traffic.

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FCC chair­man says ‘open Inter­net’ rules are vital
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