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Ahead of the Bell: Yahoo drops and Microsoft rises
(AP:NEW YORK) Microsoft Corp. shares rose and Yahoo Inc. stock tumbled in premarket trading Monday after the two companies ended their long-running buyout talks.
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APC has obtained a leaked document showing the technical details of Intel's Red Flag Linux software stack, as well as photos and screenshots of the suser-interface.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Jun 2006 15:59 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"The next-generation protocol, Internet Protocol version 6, is the future of the Internet. Learn how IPv6 compares to Internet Protocol version 4, understand the version 6 address formats, discover the benefits of IPv6, and learn which IT products comply with this new standard."
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Yahoo shares plunge in premarket trading
Shares of Yahoo plunged more than 21 percent Monday before the opening bell, while Microsoft rose, after Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion takeover offer for the Internet search and media company.
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Call it social niche-working
NEW YORK — Forget Facebook, MySpace or any other online hangout that boasts tens or hundreds of millions of people. For Teresa Munoz, Athlinks (population: 34,000) is the place to be.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th Nov 2005 17:51 UTC
Without getting into specific dates at this time, sources familiar with Apple's Macintosh hardware roadmap say the company is striving to unveil a completely redesigned set of Intel iBook laptops just in time for next year's K-12 educational buying season, which takes place around April or May. Expected to make its debut even earlier than the new iBooks will be Apple's first Intel-based ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Mar 2006 17:16 UTC, submitted by Kap
News has leaked that Microsoft has enabled support for OpenGL to work with the Vista compositing desktop, as of the most recent preview build. Previously Microsoft's plan had been to force OpenGL to be translated to Direct3D, reducing performance by 50% and locking the OpenGL version to 1.4 only.
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Google's shadow hung over Microsoft-Yahoo deal
In the end, Google played a significant part in the undoing of Microsoft's bid for Yahoo , the latest example of Google's ability to interfere with Microsoft's attempts to boost its online advertising business. While the main reason Microsoft dropped its bid was a disagreement over price, Google served as the ammunition that Yahoo needed to discourage Microsoft from launching a hostile ...
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Xobni beta app is ultimate MS Outlook utility
Xobni (that’s inbox spelled backwards) has released a free utility that promises to be the ultimate add-on for Microsoft Outlook – and from initial testing we wholeheartedly agree. Emails are a double-edged sword for many, sure they are easy to type and quickly sent, but you can easily drown in the deluge of replies. The Xobni app cuts through this clutter by indexing all your emails and then ...
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Tuscany on a bicycle
When I raised the prospect of going to Siena and Florence with my family, Felix, 11, said, “Florence? They’re in the Italian premier league.” Tap, tap went his computer keyboard: “Oh . . . and so are Siena.”
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Consortium to bid for building S'pore's ultra high-speed broadband network
A CONSORTIUM formed by Axia NetMedia Corporation, Singapore Telecommunications, Singapore Press Holdings and SP Telecommunications will jointly bid to build Singapore's ultra high-speed broadband network.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-05 12:10 Stocks head for lower open after Microsoft pulls Yahoo bid
NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street headed for a lower open Monday, with investors downbeat about Microsoft Corp. withdrawing its bid for Yahoo Inc. over the weekend.
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Why Xobni broke off the acquisition deal with Microsoft
Shane Schick writes about why he's decided to add more information on his Facebook profile Web page. “Although I set up a Facebook profile in order to administrate our publication's group, I had put off filling out the details because it's not a way I tend to communicate.
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Intel admits to feeling acquisitive
INTEL’S PAT GELSINGER has said that his company is about to become a lot more acquisitive as it starts to push its way into the consumer electronics market.
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Microsoft pulls out after £30bn Yahoo bid rejected
YAHOO chief executive Jerry Yang is convinced his company is worth more than the £30.7 billion offered by Microsoft in an attempted takeover bid.
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ForeSee Results Unveils CS SiteManager 3.0
ANN ARBOR, Mich.----ForeSee Results, the market leader in online customer satisfaction measurement and management, today unveiled an enhanced online customer satisfaction analytics service called CS SiteManager 3.0.
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STS wins 3rd phase of the Secure Government Network Project
STS, the Jordanian IT services and enterprise solutions integrator, has announced its award of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's (MoICT) bid for the third phase of the Secure Government Network (SGN) project.
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Environmental Tectonics Corporation's Simulation Division Awarded Contract to Deliver Urban Disaster Area Scenario to ...
Environmental Tectonics Corporation's Simulation Division today announced the signing of a contract with the Netherlands Institute for Safety , for the development of an urban disaster area scenario for their Advanced Disaster Management Simulator .
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Yahoo Look For New Alternatives
After Microsoft walks away from Yahoo, the search giant has to look to the future.
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University of New South Wales Teams with ANSYS to Develop Industry-Ready Work Force
ANSYS, Inc. , a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that the University of New South Wales in Australia has chosen to deploy software from ANSYS across its campuses on that continent.
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Indian doctors urged to type scripts to save lives
Doctors have long been the butt of jokes for their illegible handwriting, but GPs in India are being computerize their scrawl to prevent patients being given the wrong drugs, leading to potentially deadly mistakes.
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Our brains to connect with games of future
AN Australian company has plans to deliver the next-generation in computer gaming, where players will use their thoughts rather than handheld controllers.
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Uni puts 3D models into PDF docs
A NEW software technique will allow researchers to present interactive 3D models of their work that give readers the ability to scrutinise the findings and even make new discoveries.
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Yahoo Shares Tumble After Microsoft Abandons Bid (Update4)
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. , the Web company that spent three months fighting a takeover by Microsoft Corp. , fell 21 percent in early trading after the software maker scrapped the bid because executives failed to agree on the price.
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Rough day predicted for Yahoo shareholders
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. had offered for the Internet pioneer. Now he may only have a few months to convince Wall Street that his rebuff of Microsoft's takeover bid was a smart move — and if he can't, analysts won't be ...
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