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Statehouse Secrets: Beacon Hill does its most important business behind closed doors
BOSTON and mdash; Lawrence resident Bill Collins likes to keep an eye on Massachusetts lawmakers as they find ways to spend his money. So Collins is disappointed the House budget debate that used to be on television can only be found on the Internet.
Gloucester Daily Times |
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L.I. Doughnut Shop Worker Accused Of Installing Bathroom Cam
A doughnut shop worker installed a surveillance camera in the women's bathroom at work and watched the footage from a computer in his car, police said Sunday.
WNBC |
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Yahoo CEO to Face Tough Challenges This Week
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang may have fended off Microsoft, but he may face even bigger challenges tomorrow....
AnandTech |
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Sharky Extreme : News From Inside The Industry
The latest news from Dell will have gaming enthusiasts cracking open their piggy banks, as the powerhouse Dell XPS 730 H2 and H2C gaming systems allow for the very highest end gaming possible.
Sharky Extreme |
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The hunt is on for NZ's Halo 3 Heroes
AUCKLAND 05 May 2008 – Think you have what it takes to beat the world’s best Halo 3 players? The hunt is on for Kiwi Halo 3 fans to battle it out in the New Zealand World Cyber Games (WCG) qualifier with a chance to take on other Halo 3 champions worldwide.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Microsoft withdraws bid to buy Yahoo bid
Microsoft withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo, scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished internet icon, an Associated Press report said.
America's Network |
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Dell, HP, Lenovo rev up Linux with driver promise
Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open source drivers for Linux. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
ZDNet Asia |
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OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
The ISO standard for ODF documents is impossible to implement, says an expert who has now found both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 non-standard compliant.
ZDNet Asia |
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Yahoo: Microsoft's price just wasn't right
The software giant didn't value the Net pioneer highly enough, Yahoo says after Redmond withdraws its offer. Yang calls the episode a "distraction" that's "behind us now".
ZDNet Asia |
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Investors eye Yahoo's alternatives to Microsoft
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft Corp's $47.5 billion takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on price.
Canada.com |
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Program hones career skills
Students get to compete and show their skills like those in music, art, science and computer-aided design.
Sturgis Journal |
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US senator: China wants hotels to filter Internet
WASHINGTON, 3 MAY 2008 - The Chinese government is demanding that U.S.-owned hotels there filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, U.S. Senator Sam Brownback has alleged.
Computerworld Singapore |
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Rise in job ads end two-month decline
The number of job advertisements in major newspapers and on the internet increased strongly in April, ending two straight months of decline, a survey shows.
AAP via Yahoo!7 Finance |
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With Microsoft walking away from Yahoo, all eyes are on Jerry Yang
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is under intense pressure now that Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn its mega merger proposal for the Sunnyvale Web portal. Shareholders who supported the takeover no doubt want his head. The only way to try to make them happy is to lead a...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Investors eye Yahoo's alternatives to Microsoft
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft's $47.5 billion (24.1 billion pound) takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on price.
Reuters.co.uk |
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Recent Original Stories
"The Apple III was meant to be Apple's bold entry into the business market; it ended as Apple's first commercial failure and put the company into financial uncertainty. It was also responsible for sprouting both the Lisa and Macintosh projects, efforts that would save Apple."
OS News |
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Internet phone company sounds 911 alarm
The president of an Internet-based phone service says the industry must act to prevent a repeat of Calgary tragedy
The Globe and Mail |
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Poor credit card security bites the bank debit market? - community blog from Dean Procter
Poor credit card security bites the bank debit market? Is there irony in this? There seem to be a lot of pre-paid products coming onto the market being promoted as a safer alternative to credit cards on the internet.
Finextra |
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Investors eye Yahoo's alternatives to Microsoft
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, United States -- Yahoo Inc. faced growing pressure Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5-billion takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on price.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Yahoo! prices itself out of deal with Microsoft
Internet search engine says it is about to enter the 'most important transition' in its history after spurning software giant's unwelcome overtures. Richard Tyler reports.
Daily Telegraph |
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Yahoo, Microsoft Negotiations Stalled
Many analysts believe Yahoo's stock price, which had climbed nearly 50 percent since Microsoft's initial offer, will surrender most, if not all, of that gain, leaving the Sunnyvale-based company's market value around $30 billion.
NBC 11 Bay Area |
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A Yahoo Shareholder on What Might Have Been
“Press reports that major shareholders would have been wiling to take $35 are probably not far off the mark,” said Bill Miller, Yahoo’s second-largest shareholder.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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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.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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With Phonon
, KDE developers will be able to write applications with multimedia functionality in a fraction of the time needed with one of the above mentioned media frameworks and libraries. This will facilitate the usage of media capabilities in the KDE desktop and applications.
New Mobile Computing |
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Yahoo CEO under pressure now that Microsoft has walked away
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is under intense pressure now that Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn its mega merger proposal for the Sunnyvale, Calif., Web portal.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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