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SANDY COLTON/AP

12 people, including a child, shot at New Orleans' Mothers Day parade

Up to 400 people were participating in the parade at the time; three people were seen running from the scene.

A DOZEN PEOPLE – including a child as young as 10 – are believed to have been shot at a parade in the southern US city of New Orleans, police said.

Garry Flot, a spokesman for the local police department, said details surrounding the incident were still unclear but “we believe 12 people were shot.”

Among the victims was a child aged between 10 and 12 years old.

Flot told AFP that no one was killed and that three to four people were in hospital for surgery. He declined to provide further details.

Local broadcaster WWL-TV reported that the shooting took place at a Mother’s Day parade and three suspects were believed to have been involved.

The Times-Picayune newspaper quoted New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas as saying there were about 300 to 400 people in the parade and some 200 people in the area of the shooting.

Three people were seen running from the scene, according to Serpas.

The newspaper also reported that one of its reporters, who was participating in the parade, heard six to seven shots being fired.

- © AFP, 2013

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    Jul 16th 2014, 9:30 AM

    There is a fallacy that endured about the relationship between Apple and IBM. It arises from the 1984 ad that Apple ran depicting ‘Big Blue’ as the boring ‘Big Brother’ character in computing. IBM invented the PC after all and Apple were launching a totally different kind of PC with its Macintosh.

    But aside from the hardware designs on both, the true difference was in the respective operating systems with IBM opting to use Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS/DOS) and Apple writing its own O/S. From an Apple perspective therefore, the hated enemy was Microsoft and not IBM. Companies such as Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and many others set themselves up as clones of the IBM hardware and because Apple refused to license its O/S, MS/DOS and later Windows-based computers became the dominant machines taking 90% of the market.

    With the advent of the Internet and TCP/IP in particular, the OS became less important, hardware now includes Pads and Phones as well as Laptops and Desktops and mobility is the key word in computing. It’s thirty years since that ad in 1984 and everything has changed utterly so the partnership of IBM and Apple is far from strange today.

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    Jul 16th 2014, 8:49 AM

    Very powerful united

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    Mute Frank
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    Jul 16th 2014, 8:49 AM

    Both working towards the chip in hand.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk&feature=kp

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    Jul 16th 2014, 8:40 AM

    Sleeping with the enemy..

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    Jul 16th 2014, 9:10 AM
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    Jul 16th 2014, 8:50 AM

    The iNerds won’t like this – queueing up all night to buy the latest bug fix from big brother

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    Mute Niall Condren
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    Jul 16th 2014, 9:39 AM

    “This is about two powerhouses unleashing the power of mobility for business”

    The last time IBM unleashed the power of mobility they provided the Third Reich with tabulating machines and punch card technology which allowed Hitler to identify and round up the Jews with stunning precision.

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    Jul 16th 2014, 9:48 AM

    In fairness the have done a few other things since then.

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    Jul 16th 2014, 10:05 AM

    The history book on the shelf always repeats itself…

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/30/biometric-identification-_n_1177277.html

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    Jul 16th 2014, 10:40 AM

    Of course they have, that’s just the one that stands out to me,

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    Jul 16th 2014, 11:22 AM

    Tabulating machines don’t kill people, people kill people.

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    Jul 16th 2014, 11:47 AM

    nutzen cider

    ….Tools and technology can be used to make the killing of people far more efficient.

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    Jul 16th 2014, 10:04 AM

    That psychopath Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave. He hated IBM and everything they stand for.

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    Jul 17th 2014, 1:04 AM

    I wonder what Microsoft’s Board makes of this….

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