Arapahoe County providing police dispatch for Sheridan (Littleton Independent)

November 1, 2009

In another sign of government endeavoring to find greater efficiencies during an economic downturn, the City of Sheridan has contracted with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office to provide police dispatch services. The changeover began Oct. 1

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Vodafone Puts Its Apps in Gear (Unstrung.com)

November 1, 2009

Vodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD ) is setting up shop in the ever-expanding virtual services mall with the launch of its own applications store, the global mobile operator giant announced Tuesday morning.

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Beware a Times/Pentagon ‘virtual coup’ on Afghanistan (Online Journal)

November 1, 2009

Some military coups are still done the old-fashioned way. Tanks surround the capital, generals grab the radio station, the slaughter begins. Here our Declaration of Independence scorned King George III for elevating his army over the colonial legislatures. The Founders opposed a standing army.

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Out with the old: D51 using stimulus money to transfer old files to a digital database (The Index-Journal)

November 1, 2009

Ware Shoals School District Superintendent Fay Sprouse, back, and Ware Shoals High School counselor Stephanie Covan look over old student records in the school’s office.

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Tapping into growing market for virtual goods (San Francisco Chronicle)

November 1, 2009

From his office in San Francisco, Scott Koenigsberg presides over a weapons manufacturing and retail business with sales so brisk it would surely draw the attention of federal agents – that is, if it were real in the traditional sense. Zynga executive…

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Another $8 million in cuts for Santa Rosa (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

November 1, 2009

By MIKE McCOY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Just months after cutting $26 million to balance Santa Rosa’s budget, city leaders are gearing up to cut another $8 million over the next eight months — the result of a virtual building standstill, a federal disabilities audit and plummeting sales tax revenues.

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Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches (New York Times)

November 1, 2009

Under the agreements that users sign, their online lives — e-mail accounts, social network memberships, virtual-world holdings — can be erased when they die.

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Arapahoe County providing police dispatch for Sheridan (Littleton Independent)

November 1, 2009

In another sign of government endeavoring to find greater efficiencies during an economic downturn, the City of Sheridan has contracted with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office to provide police dispatch services. The changeover began Oct. 1

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Arapahoe County providing police dispatch for Sheridan (Centennial Citizen)

November 1, 2009

In another sign of government endeavoring to find greater efficiencies during an economic downturn, the City of Sheridan has contracted with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office to provide police dispatch services. The changeover began Oct. 1

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Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches (MalaysiaNews.net)

November 1, 2009

PARIS — Two avatars, Leto Yoshiro and Enchant Jacques, met in the virtual world of Second Life in 2005. They married online the same year and built a house together on an island they had brought…

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