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Yahoo CEO on hot seat after rebuffing Microsoft's $47.5B bid
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. offered to buy the Internet pioneer.
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Recent Original Stories
"As desktop Linux becomes ever more professional, and with Microsoft still a year away from shipping its new Vista version of Windows, could now be the time to go open-source on the desktop?
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Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, a senior Microsoft official is lowering the security ...
, warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system. "There is no guarantee that malware can't hijack the elevation process or compromise an elevated application," Russinovich said after providing a blow-by-blow description of how UAC works in tandem with Internet Explorer (with Protected Mode) to limit the ...
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Steve Jobs Stakes Out the TV Den
A lot of us carry a little bit of Steve Jobs around in our pocket, in the form of iPods and iPhones. Now, Apple is after the remaining bit of life-share that it doesn?t already own, the home front.
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The Insider: SeaTac slogan fails to get off ground
"Everywhere's possible." That's the city of SeaTac's new pitch. Huh?!? ... Tully's customers doing well in superlong-coffee-order contest ... Expedia founder says expect no more huge big spin-offs from Microsoft ...
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Features and Case Studies
As Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid passes, the tech world is still waiting for information from either company on their wedding plans.
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Features and Case Studies
New hardware on show at CeBIT in Germany this year includes a Windows version of a low-power laptop and a notebook designed for air travel. From Blaster Worm to Blue Hat, we bring you a complete retrospective on the evolution of Microsoft's security strategy over the last decade.
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Asian operator go regional
plans to enhance mobile phone features by enabling developers to combine java and flash in the same applications. The combination of the two technologies allows developers to get past shortcomings in each technology, the firm said.
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AT&T launches TV service on new phones
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) AT&T is launching its new video service for cell phones on two phones, and will charge $15 per month for 10 channels. AT&T Mobile TV is almost identical to Verizon Wireless' V Cast Mobile TV, and is operated by the same company, Qualcomm.
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Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) Microsoft withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo, scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google.
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Eye-Fi card zips photos wirelessly to computer
Has anyone come up with a method that allows people to take pictures with a regular digital camera and then download them wirelessly to a computer, and/or perhaps to the Internet?
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Conference Notebook
This year’s conference marks the second year that the Council on Foundations has opened its doors to bloggers.
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"The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight
by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. At the Mix '07 conference on Monday, Microsoft touted the ability to write Silverlight Web applications that run on Internet Explorer, Firefox and the Safari browser on Mac OS. Next up for Silverlight is an edition for mobile devices, including Windows Mobile.
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How the Microsoft-Yahoo deal came apart
Here's a timeline of what happened behind the scenes, based on information from a person with knowledge of how things unfolded.
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County offers appliance recycle program
BUTLER COUNTY — The county offers recycling programs, starting this month, that have been created to make it easier for residents to get rid of their old electronics, freon appliances and household hazardous wastes.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Dec 2005 17:17 UTC
" This is an in-depth look at fish, the friendly interactive shell. Fish is a GPLed commandline shell, written for Linux and other Posix-like systems. I felt there was a need for this article after all the attention that has been given to Monad, Microsoft's upcoming shell.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Jul 2006 11:46 UTC, submitted by Troy Drossi
Microsoft's effort to provide a little privacy for Windows users has instead turned into a very public black eye . There was a near-immediate outcry saying that, without proper safeguards, what was intended as a benefit could turn into a big headache for businesses.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Jul 2007 18:37 UTC, submitted by Rojen Kwojic
Five months after its introduction, Microsoft is discontinuing a program that offered some Windows Vista purchasers the ability to buy additional copies of the operating system at a substantial discount.
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Microsoft scraps Yahoo takeover
YAHOO is likely to face some shareholder backlash after Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer withdrew a proposal to acquire the company.
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Yahoo set to plunge after Microsoft's $46bn bid is withdrawn
Yahoo shares are set to tumble today after its dismissal of an improved $46.5bn (£23.6bn) takeover approach from Microsoft prompted the software giant to walk away.
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Right Software Can Help Businesses In Downturn
Software Associates, one of New Zealand’s fastest growing information technology specialists says that investing in job tracking and invoicing software is one way of minimising the effects of an economic downturn.
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QVC shops for ideas for future sales
After 22 years in business, QVC has made an art of hawking everything from computers to crab cakes. Many of its TV segments live, 24 hours a day, every day except Christmas.
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Microsoft backs out of Yahoo! bid after failing to agree sale price
A bid by Microsoft to buy up internet search engine Yahoo! came to nothing yesterday. The software firm walked away after the two sides failed to agree an acceptable sale price in last-ditch talks with Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo's co-founders
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Oriental Whirl: In the eye of the Storm
With her looks and her talent, Crystal's going places. TWINKLE, twinkle, Asian stars. Here's a selection of stories, as heard on the grapevine, reported by trashy magazines, sourced on the Internet or just what my pa kua (nosy) neighbour told me yesterday over the fence. Read on...
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Sun 10th Jul 2005 18:22 UTC, submitted by anonymous
In the latest update to the technical documentation available from ADC, Apple has published this note: "Features added to Cocoa in Mac OS X versions later than 10.4 will not be added to the Cocoa-Java programming interface.
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