Day: December 8, 2006

American Quarter Horse Special Featured on NBC Sports

Cutting and Reining Highlighted at AQHA World Show Amarillo, Texas, รขโ‚ฌโ€œAmerican Quarter Horses take center stage Sunday, January 7, on NBC Sports Television at 1:30 p.m. Eastern/10:30 a.m. Pacific for the Americaรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs Horse Championships presented by Ford Trucks. The one-hour special is based at a portion of the FedEx Open competition at the American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show in Oklahoma City and highlights the cutting and reining competitions along with other features. รขโ‚ฌล“We were so pleased with the response from viewers and NBC last year,รขโ‚ฌย said Bill Brewer, AQHA Executive Vice President. รขโ‚ฌล“The show reached

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APHA incentive programs offer big paybacks

for talented American Paint Horses in 2007 FORT WORTH, TEXAS รขโ‚ฌโ€Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) will introduce exciting changes to its Gelding Plus and Paint Preferred incentive programs. Offering a potential $193,000 in added money through the programs this year, APHA gives owners of registered Paint Horses more reasons than ever to show in 2007. In addition to the potential increase in payouts, both the Gelding Plus and Paint Preferred incentives will include several new format changes to improve the programs for the coming year. Gelding Plus The Gelding Plus program, designed

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MySpace to Apple: Fix that worm | CNET News.com

MySpace to Apple: Fix that worm | CNET News.com For more info click on above link MySpace.com wants Apple Computer to update its QuickTime media player software so it can’t be used in attacks on the social-networking site. The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled onto MySpace.com over the weekend, changing people’s MySpace profiles. The worm spread because of QuickTime’s support for JavaScript code, experts have said.

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Spyware fighters go after MP3 search site | CNET News.com

Spyware fighters go after MP3 search site | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Two antispyware watchdogs are urging federal regulators to take action against a music search Web site that they say is a front for malicious software. FastMP3Search.com.ar, registered in Argentina, advertises itself as a search service for music files, but instead tricks people into loading a host of malicious applications onto their PC and opens computers up to further cyberattacks, according to StopBadware.org and the Center for Democracy and Technology.

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Senate may vote on pretexting bill this week | CNET News.com

Senate may vote on pretexting bill this week | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Before politicians go home for the year at the end of the week, the U.S. Senate may vote to generally prohibit telephone “pretexting,” a stealthy and usually fraudulent investigative technique made famous by a high-profile probe of media leaks at Hewlett-Packard. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is using a procedure known as “hotlining,” which would allow an already approved House of Representatives bill targeting pretexting to clear the Senate without debate and head to the president’s desk to

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Sources: HP to settle civil complaint | CNET News.com

Sources: HP to settle civil complaint | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The California attorney general’s office is expected to announce Thursday that it has settled civil complaints with Hewlett-Packard over the company’s spying tactics, CNET News.com has learned. The civil complaints are separate from the criminal charges already brought forward by the attorney general’s office. Five people, including former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn, are facing felony charges in connection with HP’s campaign to determine the source of unauthorized media leaks. All five have pleaded not guilty. A lawyer for the attorney general’s

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