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Study: Blacks on TV Are Segregated

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Black characters on TV tend to be segregated in certain sitcoms and on fledgling networks UPN and WB, according to a Screen Actors Guild study released this week.?Conducted by University of Southern California...

26 Feb, 2000 - 1:50 AM

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Indie Film Festival Berlin 2000 Review: Bossa Nova

(indieWIRE) - In many ways the most difficult of films to pull off properly, the mainstream romantic sex comedy, often ends up looking forced and perfunctory, the exact opposite of the light, breezy, mildly erotic tone filmmakers...

26 Feb, 2000 - 1:36 AM

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Billionaire Allen Expands Entertainment Empire

(Variety)-Billionaire Paul Allen is expanding his entertainment empire across the Atlantic.?Clear Blue Sky Productions, his Seattle-based film company, has entered into a long-term alliance with the UK's Renaissance Film.?The alliance brings together two indies with unusually deep pockets.?Clear...

25 Feb, 2000 - 6:53 PM

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Magician David Blaine to be Frozen in Block of Ice

Not to be outdone by his last "performance" (being buried alive in a plexiglass tomb without food for 7 days), magician David Blaine plans to freeze himself in a block of ice the size of a van.?For one...

25 Feb, 2000 - 5:03 PM

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A New Application Service Provider for Knowledge

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25 Feb, 2000 - 12:21 PM

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Ezenia Adds IP to Conferencing Services Menu

(InternetWeek)-An IP videoconferencing platform to be released later this spring by Ezenia Inc.?could form the foundation of a new managed service from BellSouth Corp.?Ezenia's Encounter 3000 videoconferencing system is a browser- configurable platform capable of supporting as many...

25 Feb, 2000 - 11:49 AM

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Hackers' Tool on University Systems

(ZDNet)-Computer technicians at James Madison University have discovered that 16 student-owned Win98-based PCs were infected with a possible variant of the hacker tools used in recently highly publicized DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.?Gary Flynn, a security engineeer...

25 Feb, 2000 - 11:07 AM

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$1 Million Made from Net Scam

(AP)-Two men exploited "the dark side of the internet" when they made more than $1 million by driving up the value of penny stocks with a flood of emails disguised as if they had been sent by...

25 Feb, 2000 - 11:03 AM

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Internet Primary Voting Approved

(AP)-Arizona Democrats got the go-ahead to allow voting by computer in next month's presidential primary, in what would be the nation's first binding election for public office using the net.?In a letter to party officials, the Justice Department...

25 Feb, 2000 - 10:58 AM

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Is the Web a Money Pit?

Have you ever wondered if the $2 mil E*Trade spent on their super bowl ad will ever pay off? Or if amazon.com will ever turn a profit? There's a very many .com companies operating in the...

25 Feb, 2000 - 10:53 AM

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AOL's Legal Headaches Continue

Washington State residents have joined the growing list of litigants filing class action lawsuits against America Online Inc. The Washington suit claims that America Online knowingly released its 5.0 software without warning that the installation would change a...

25 Feb, 2000 - 9:26 AM

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Dell introduces new PIII ultraslim notebooks

Zdnet has a review of the new Latitude LS notebook from Dell.?It is the first ultralight notebook to feature a Pentium III.?Pretty impressive since it is only 1 inch think.?It is priced at 2,776 for a 400Mhz model...

24 Feb, 2000 - 3:03 PM

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Privacy Moves to the Top of Legislative Agenda

(IDG)-A panel of government and business experts at the GTC 2000 Southwest conference agreed that privacy is going go be a key legislative issue this year and in years to come.?Speaking at a roundtable discussion on privacy, Tom...

24 Feb, 2000 - 11:36 AM

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Companies Team to Deliver Web Appliance

(InternetWeek)-IBM has teamed up with Fidelity Investments, Lycos and AT&T to offer Fidelity's customers a portable Internet appliance, as well as connectivity and support for accessing and managing their investments from home.?In the pilot program, IBM will supply...

24 Feb, 2000 - 9:58 AM

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The Grammys and Stuff

In a year filled with teeny bopper, bubble gum garbage, it's nice to see that someone with some honest to goodness talent pretty much cleaned house at the Grammys.?Carlos Santana walked away this evening with 8 Grammys (nominated...

23 Feb, 2000 - 10:21 PM

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Spielberg Won't Do Harry Potter

For a while, everyone thought that Steven Spielberg's next move was going to be on the first movie of the hugely popular and successful Harry Potter series.?While at one point, he showed intrest in doing so, he...

23 Feb, 2000 - 4:31 PM

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