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Recent Original Stories
PC-BSD announced that it will deliver Opera in the next version of PC-BSD . Opera will be "one less thing you need to download after installation" , as Matt Olander, CTO of iXsystems puts it, to get "a more usable system" out of your PC-BSD box.
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Microsoft reportedly ups its offer
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. yesterday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Microsoft might boost Yahoo bid
Microsoft Corp. is reportedly in active talks with Yahoo Inc. and might increase its bid for the Web pioneer.
Daily Press |
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Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public
Sat, May 3, 2008 (1:02 a.m.) Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.
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State unveils downloadable audio version of Voter Information Guide
Category: Local News Topics: Briefs To brush up on the issues before Election Day, California voters need only fire up their laptops, iPods, or Zunes, now that the Secretary of State’s office has launched a downloadable audio version of its Official Voter Information Guide, a news release stated.
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Premise Media in middle of song rights battle
It's Stanford against Yoko, with Dallas' Premise Media Corp. in the middle. Stanford Law School is offering free legal services to Premise, which is being sued by Yoko Ono for its use of her husband John Lennon's song "Imagine" in its documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
Dallas Morning News |
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Sparks: Recruiting, NFL draft two of a kind
The NFL draft has become its own entity — a spectacle mixing sports, media and the Internet age. It's unique even when compared to its distant and less appealing cousin, the NBA draft. But there's another event slowly following the NFL draft model — NCAA football national signing day.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 9th Jun 2006 22:42 UTC
Microsoft will not fix a serious flaw in Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition because a patch could break other applications. The security bug relates to Windows Explorer and could let an intruder commandeer a vulnerable PC, Microsoft warned in April.
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Filipino soldiers paid extra for being lonely on the frontline in the disputed Spratlys
This sun-splashed island is so remote that soldiers are paid a "loneliness fee" for deployment here, and the few residents are encouraged with free meals to live in a nascent village without a single car, store or Internet access.
AP via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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Look around for low-cost or free computer classes
Q: I just read your column from April 28. You wrote about using the Task Manager to find out how the computer is performing. Wouldn't it be possible...
Seattle Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Feb 2006 18:51 UTC
At a special press event today, Apple introduced various new products. Besides the usual iPod/iTunes chit-chatter , they introduced a new Mac Mini with either a dual-core or single-core Intel processor.
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M'SOFT MAY UP OFFER
Yahoo! and Microsoft inched closer to a merger yesterday after the software giant run by Steve Ballmer indicated it's willing to raise its offer to end the three-month standoff between the tech giants, sources said. Negotiations are expected to...
New York Post |
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Spam celebrates 30 years of clogging e-mail inboxes
Happy birthday, spam.
The News & Observer |
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Live concerts, internet are music industry's future
Type verification code in the box and submit. Mumbai: Live concerts and music on the internet will be key to the music business of the future, feels Ralph Christoph, an electronics music expert from Germany who is scouting for talent in India.
SiliconIndia |
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Microsoft sweetens its bid
Microsoft Corp. reportedly dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. on Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling.
The News & Observer |
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Washington DC
HAVANA ( Map , News ) - Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Networking sites' users rethinking their names
Since joining Facebook and MySpace two years ago, Luke Mitchell has amassed 476 friends, mostly buddies from high school and college.
The News Journal |
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Microsoft and Yahoo are said to resume talks
After a three-month standoff, Microsoft, increased its offer "by several dollars," one person involved in the discussions said.
International Herald Tribune |
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Recent Original Stories
Tom's Hardware has benchmarked Windows Vista , but somehow we missed it (we're a month late). Our apologies. "We are sure that mainstream users will appreciate the improved usability of Windows Vista, and the average office/multimedia user will likely never notice the lack of OpenGL.
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Recent Original Stories
Critics who blasted Microsoft three months ago for failing to deliver Windows Vista add-ons have again called the company on the carpet , this time for missing its self-imposed deadline to provide promised extras. In late June, bloggers and users were already panning Vista Ultimate Extras as a bust.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Nov 2006 13:23 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Just about everyone has expressed an opinion on the Novell/Microsoft patent agreement - except, that is, for the 800-pound gorilla of Linux: IBM. Today, Scott Handy, IBM's VP of Worldwide Linux and Open Source, decided that enough was enough and it was time to state IBM's position.
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Microsoft boosts offer
New ante described as 'several dollars' more per Yahoo share Microsoft Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. yesterday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling.
Baltimore Sun |
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Amazon sues New York over tax
Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit challenging New York state's new law forcing online retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to state...
Seattle Times |
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Google Earth lets you explore the world from your computer
Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels to the southern reaches of the world...
Seattle Times |
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Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
Daphne Koller’s work has led to advances in artificial intelligence that can be used to predict traffic jams, improve machine vision and understand the way cancer spreads.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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