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It only took about six and half years, but two defendants involved in Hewlett-Packard's infamous 2005-2006 spying campaign will actually be serving time for their crime -- sort of.

In San Jose, Calif., this morning, U.S. District Court Judge D. Lowell Jensen sentenced Joseph and Matthew DePante, a father and son team of former private investigators, to three years probation as part of a plea agreement sealed by the courts in February and unsealed last week.

As part of their probation, the DePantes, who both pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to falsely represent a Social Security … Read more

Thanks to its helpful tutorials, KP Typing Tutor let you practice typing groups of letters and sentences, as well as get familiar with key positions on your computer's keyboard.

This program is a great solution for busy professionals who never took a typing class in school. KP Typing Tutor is easy to use for adults and children, and there is a link to a Help Web site should you have any questions. We liked how the program offers different types of practice and instruction. You can practice typing anything from simple groups of letters to whole paragraphs. There is … Read more

Teachers can test their reading and writing students' skills with Edit Prep. The program creates worksheets that students can proofread for correct punctuation and grammar usage, or read for contextual clues to test their reading comprehension skills.

We tried each of Edit Prep's three sections: Proofreading, Comprehension, and CLOZE Worksheet, which deals with finding contextual clues in passages of text. The program has a selection of sample text from well-known works of literature from which you can generate worksheets, or users can import passages from sources outside the program. We think teachers will enjoy this option, because they can … Read more