Phony news is Internet hit
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Welcome to the new world of Maybe Journalism — a best guess at the news as it might well have been, rendered as a video game and built on a bed of pure surmise. A computer-generated “news report” of the Tiger Woods SUV crash — complete with...
Dubai in deep water as ripples from debt crisis spread
Times Online
A computer crash at the London Stock Exchange, which by coincidence is 21 per cent owned by the Dubai Government, left dealers unable to trade for three and a half hours. Shares in HSBC slumped by 5 per cent, wiping £6.2 billion from its va...
Deadly viruses struck e-CAT: Prometric
Daily News and Analysis
According to reports, a computer crash stalled the test on Monday at centres in three cities -- Mumbai, Bangalore and Ghaziabad. In some other places, there were problems with hardware. Till Monday, as many as 33 virus-affected labs at vari...
Spirit Airlines features ad based on Tiger Woods’ crash
Boston Herald
Although some may argue that the media hype surrounding Tiger Woods ’ traffic crash will tarnish his image, one advertiser ... In a YouTube reenactment that has gotten more than 46,000 hits, computer-animated versions of Woods and his wife,...
CAT crash blamed on virus attack, more students affected
Zee News
New Delhi: Hundreds of students were unable to appear in the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) for the second day today as authorities rescheduled the test to carry out repairs at the labs where computers suffered virus attack that...
Catching Tiger's tale in animated 'news report'
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Welcome to the new world of Maybe Journalism -- a best guess at the news as it might well have been, rendered as a video game and built on a bed of pure surmise. A computer-generated "news report" of the Tiger Woods SUV crash -- complete wi...
Linux Software Showcase
Associated Content
He was very happy, agreed to answer any questions I had day or night, and gave me a short crash course on his business computer he was using for transactions with his company. During the next month I was filled with questions about this new...
Wis. man wanted in double homicides eludes police
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Head-on crash on I-94 ramp leaves 1 dead, 2 critical Target Center ... woman took out a restraining order on him in 2006, alleging he stalked her, slashed her tires and destroyed her computer, phone, television and bed. He also was involved...
Students in three cities fail to bell the CAT
Statesman
New Delhi, 30 NOV: The competitive Common Admission Test (CAT) for institutes of management and business schools, which went online for the first time this year, ran into trouble for the third consecutive day when a computer crash stalled t...
Driver in crash that killed 4 near Marysville reportedly told ...
Seattle Times
Thomas Woods was in computer sales, Vaughn said. Hilda often spearheaded parties at work and would take orders for jars of her salsa, said Chelsea Lee, who carpooled with Hilda for two years. Thomas often dog-sat for Lee, she said. "The mos...
CAT students to get another life online, say IIMs
New Kerala
New Delhi, Nov 30 : Aspirants who couldn't take the computerised Common Admission Test (CAT) can breathe easy as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) Monday said the students affected by the computer crash would be given a second chan...
Report: Crew error led to F-15E crash
Air Force Times
The jet’s ground collision alarm snapped on, lighting up display screens with arrows pointing up and a computer voice warning four times ... Command accident investigation board is attributing the July 18 crash, the first fighter-jet crash ...
Report inconclusive on floor mat's role in fatal Toyota crash
Los Angeles Times
The high-speed crash of a Lexus ES 350 that killed an off-duty California ... floor mat, other and/or additional factors causing a sudden acceleration event (re: electrical, mechanical or computer generated) should not be ruled out." The re...