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Google and Yahoo Delay Ad Deal for Antitrust Review
The delay of the search advertising partnership would give the Justice Department more time to investigate its antitrust implications.
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Microsoft to review hiring, may 'make adjustments'
Citing challenging economic conditions, Microsoft said Friday it would review its hiring plans and "make some adjustments as appropriate." A significant slowdown in hiring by Microsoft would be a blow to the region.
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Microsoft's GM of Virtualization Strategy: "Our Customers Are Ready"
"Doing more with less resources has never been more true. And virtualization software has matured at the right time so that customers can save money on buying fewer servers, use less energy in datacenters and use less real estate," says Mike Neil, Microsoft's GM for Virtualization, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. read more
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Advt against Sonia: Indian body withdraws case
An ethnic Indian organisation has withdrawn a libel suit filed against the chief of Indian American Intellectual Forum for defaming Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.The Indian National Overseas Congress has withdrawn the libel suit filed in the New York State Supreme Court against president of IAIF Narain Kataria and Arish Sahani for taking out an advertisement in the New York Times which had ...
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Yahoo, Google to Postpone Implementing Ad Deal Until Probe Ends
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. and Google Inc. will postpone implementing their Internet-advertising partnership until U.S. regulators complete a review on whether the deal will hurt competition.
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Editor gets hitched
Kurt Farrugia managed to untangle himself from his computer, where he was writing yet another editorial, just in time to make it to the altar and marry his long time girlfriend Graziella Bugeja, in a secret location in Buskett.
Malta Star |
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AJAX World Conference $200 "Gold Pass Registration" Savings to Expire This Friday
Rich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the ...
SYS-CON Media |
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New grid links 7,000 scientists around the world
CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the World Wide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the world to crunch data on its huge experiments.
Vancouver Sun |
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Church opens Internet veranda to assist islanders
GALVESTON — The Trinity Episcopal pastor's home is a source of free wireless Internet for its church members.
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Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a robotic repair system to fix ailing satellites. Right now, they're writing software to track these ...
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NDP loses a fourth candidate
An Ontario NDP candidate has stepped down, saying he can no longer remain a candidate in the federal election campaign because of the "ceaseless repetition" of his violent and misogynist comments made on the Internet.
Vancouver Province |
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Google, Yahoo! Delay Search Deal
NEW YORK Google and Yahoo! said they would delay implementation of their search advertising deal to give federal regulators more time to examine the agreement.
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The week in Microsoft: boy band, US economy, and Windows 7
In this week's top Microsoft news on Ars, we cover PDC 2008, Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, .Net Framework 4.0, Windows Live Hotmail, Zune, Silverlight, and Expression Media. See inside for details on what's new with these products. Read More...
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He turns junk into hope
COURTESY RESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIESEagle Scout candidate Joseph Zavodny refurbishes one of the computers donated to clients of the Resource Center for Women and Their Families. Old computers slated for the junk pile have received a new...
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World’s biggest computing grid launched
The world's largest computing grid is launched on Friday, ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator, according to local media reports.
Vietnam Net |
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Discovery of natural compounds that could slow blood vessel growth
Using computer models and live cell experiments, biomedical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered more than 100 human protein fragments that can slow or stop the growth of cells that make up new blood vessels.
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CNN's Citizen Journalism Goes `Awry' With False Report on Jobs
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- CNN's plunge into online citizen- journalism backfired yesterday when the cable-news outlet posted what turned out to be a bogus report claiming that Apple Inc.
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FOXES LEAVE IT LATE
Leicester extended their lead at the top of Coca-Cola League One after a late 3-2 victory over Huddersfield was coupled with second-placed Scunthorpe being held to a 2-2 draw by Leyton Orient.
Sporting Life |
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Nokia's Comes With Music Download Service Debuting Soon
Nokia has debuted its Comes With Music service in the UK featuring a 12 month unlimited download period and over 3 million songs from various independent and major labels.
Brighthand |
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Walter Reed Middle School gets famous thanks to John McCain's RNC speech (and bad Googling?)
McCain speaks in front of Walter Reed . . . Middle SchoolHat tip to Americablog.com owner John Aravosis who writes:Remember the weird green screen behind McCain as he was speaking last night? As his speech went on, we realized it was gras...
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Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source
mjasay writes "The Register is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its 'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft for doing this with its Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF), licensing it under the Microsoft Limited Permissive License (Ms-LPL), which restricts use of the code to Windows. Microsoft has changed the ...
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Residents hope for High Speed Internet
VIDA: An August decision by the Oregon Public Utility Commission that locked in prices for basic telephone service could also lead to more local access to high-speed Internet connections. In addition to freezing the price for a basic residential telephone line at today’s rates, the PUC also imposed...
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Chinese dissident in Taiwan asks to go home
Taipei - A Chinese dissident attempting to claim asylum in Taiwan since last year asked to be repatriated on Saturday, following an unsuccessful bid for refugee status. Cai Lujun, 40, made the request in a letter emailed to the Taiwan government. Tai...
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Make Skype Calls with Fring on Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Application]
iPhone 2.0 only: Free application Fring puts popular chat applications on your iPhone, including Skype—and the ability to make Skype voice over IP calls when your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi...
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For campaign reports, Pa. candidates prefer paper
For Pennsylvania politicians filing campaign-finance reports, the speed and convenience of the Internet have been only keystrokes away for six years now.
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