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Sideswipe: Monday
Barry has used yahoo.com for his email address for the past eight years. "I have set up a nice home page with selected world news, etc," he says. "So I was somewhat annoyed when I logged on yesterday afternoon to find that my email has been hijacked by a new hybrid Yahoo-Xtra.
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Reuters Business Summary
Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc’s discussions for an alternative deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have "cooled" in recent weeks, one source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Oct 2005 00:12 UTC
As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release eight security alerts for flaws in the Windows operating system. They also plan to release by year's end an initial test version of a new product to protect business desktops, laptops and file servers against malicious code attacks.
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Stars' campaign for Burma gets help from NZ activists
Burmese activists in New Zealand are using the internet to help with a campaign started by Hollywood celebrities seeking freedom in the military-ruled country and the release of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Microsoft's On Again, Off Again Dance With Yahoo Off...For Now
Wait. Huh? OK, not that we didn't know this deal would never happen but, please, can we just be done with it?
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Academy of Cinema and Television to Collaborate With Scarlett Johansson
The Academy of Cinema and Television announced today a collaboration with Scarlett Johansson to create a specialized online educational series for kids and teens interested in the Entertainment Industry. This is the sixth in a series of Question & Answer training sessions to be announced worldwide. (PRWeb May 4, 2008) Read the full story at ...
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Handcuffs off but shackles remain
Last week saw a series of announcements for Cubans from their new President Raul Castro and on Saturday shoppers gathered in Havana malls to gaze for the first time at computers legally on sale.
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Yahoo, News Corp talks "cooled": source
Yahoo Inc's discussions for an alternative deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSa.N) have "cooled" in recent weeks, one source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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Security gaps discovered in Adobe Flash Player, updates recommended
Bonn, May 4 : Users of Adobe Flash Player are advised to update the latest version of the software after security gaps were discovered in early releases of the media viewer.
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Recent Original Stories
IBM is not ready to guarantee that its computer programs are compatible with Oracle's recently launched version of the Linux operating system, an IBM spokesman said on Friday.
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Price gap proved too big to bridge
The climactic meeting in Seattle airport on Saturday that brought an end to Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo – at least for the time being – followed a long series of on-again, off-again discussions that saw the two companies circling each other warily for three months.
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TelstraClear readies consumer portal
TelstraClear is understood to be readying a new consumer portal for its internet users to showcase the benefits of broadband and snatch a share of the online advertising market.
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Microsoft withdraws offer to buy Yahoo
NEW YORK, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - Microsoft Corp withdrew on Saturday its offer to buy Yahoo unwilling to pay an additional $5.5 billion for the Internet search provider.
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Feeling 'exposed' on social networks, users create alter egos
Since joining Facebook and MySpace two years ago, Luke Mitchell has amassed 476 friends, mostly buddies from high school and college. It was a great way to keep in touch, until his boss showed up on the sites and saw the embarrassing party pictures a friend posted.
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Intel's new frontier
Intel Corp.'s billion-dollar Vietnam bet along the Hanoi Highway — its biggest semiconductor manufacturing plant ever — is rising from the flatlands of former rice fields.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Nov 2006 18:54 UTC, submitted by Jimmy M
"Microsoft is pushing Visual Basic 2005 Express as the best language for hobbyists and novices, and are offering it free of charge from the Microsoft Visual Basic Express website . Since the price is right, and I fall into the hobbyist category, I decided to give it a try . This review is intended for amateur programmers, students and hobbyists who are interested in programming their computers."
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Audi promises electric car within 10 years
The German automaker's chief says he expects battery technology to dominate in the coming five to 10 years.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:09 UTC
"Here, Jon Schwartz, UAC Architect, and Chris Corio, UAC Technical Program Manager, discuss, in detail, the history of UAC , the architecture and design of UAC, the new security model of Vista (we are all standard users, gone are the days of running as admin by default on Windows), what happens when a UAC security dialog is invoked, how UAC impacts developers, how UAC will evolve, etc."
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Sky TV replaces computer systems
Sky Network Television will spend millions of dollars replacing its 18 year-old customer management and billing system with new software that will let customers view and pay their bills online.
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Microsoft
Microsoft has ended its attempt to acquire Yahoo after its offer of USD 33 per share - a total value of USD 47.5 billion - was rejected. According to a report from The Times , Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang insisted that his company was worth USD 38 per share.
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Academy of Cinema and Television to Collaborate With Scarlett Johansson
The Academy of Cinema and Television announced today a collaboration with Scarlett Johansson to create a specialized online educational series for kids and teens interested in the Entertainment Industry. This is the sixth in a series of Question & Answer training sessions to be announced worldwide.
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Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo on Saturday after the Internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by $5 billion (2.53 billion pounds) to $47.5 billion (24.1 billion pounds).
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In a recent interview with the online edition of the Austrian daily Newspaper Der Standard, Mono project-lead Miguel ...
"I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Jun 2007 20:33 UTC
The yes-no-yes-no saga concerning ZFS in Leopard continues as Apple has released a new statement concerning the availability of ZFS in Leopard. So, let's recap: in April 2006, Apple expresses its interest in Sun's ZFS for the first time.
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