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Geek Squad lawsuit opens up with employee confession
As a high-profile lawsuit against Best Buy's Geek Squad technical support service gets ready for court, a new employee confession has come through detailing one of the company's more questionable policies. The lawsuit, filed in Hennepin County, Minnesota, claims that when a computer comes into a Geek Squad center, the employees comb through personal files and sometimes copy lewd or other content ...
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Games Radar
Why not spend this bank holiday Monday going on an adventure? An adventure with a chap from , as he attempts to untangle fifteen years of tangled up controllers and various other videogame cables. It’s one of the more original features to pop up on the internet recently. Or maybe the most pointless.
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Burger King conducting internal probe into blog comments involving farmworkers
Burger King Corp. says it is conducting an internal investigation into blog postings that criticize a Florida farmworker group, allegedly made by a top official using his young daughter's screen name. The Miami-based fast-food chain said it is also looking into e-mails apparently sent from its own server that were sympathetic to the group.
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Yahoo shares fall 14 pct after Microsoft withdraws bid
Yahoo shares fell 14 percent Monday as hopes for the once-dominant Internet icon dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid. The sell-off wiped out nearly half the gain in Yahoo Inc.'s stock price since Microsoft Corp. made its...
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GamersGate To Use ByteShield Licensing, Copy Protection For PC Games
Stockholm-based PC game distribution platform GamersGate has announced that it has selected ByteShield's Dynamic License and Copy Protection Engine for is catalog of PC games available through its online portal. Using ByteShield's Dynamic License, GamersGate will be able to offer a variety of licenses to customers -- full-feature trial, try to buy, variable-length rentals, rent to buy, ...
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DisplayLink and EVGA Bring USB Graphics Adapters (UGAs) to Mass-Market Retail
PALO ALTO, CALIF.----DisplayLink and EVGA today announced that they have teamed to deliver a new generation of affordable USB graphics adapters for mass-market retail consumers. EVGA's new UV Plus+ Family of products which consists of the UV12 and UV16 USB graphics adapters, are based on DisplayLink network display technology, enabling Windows XP and Vista users to quickly and easily connect ...
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Burger King investigates e-mails slamming farmworker group
Burger King Corp. says it is conducting an internal investigation into blog postings that criticize a Florida farmworker group, allegedly made by a top official using his young daughter's screen name.
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Microsoft's Walkaway Wins Investors' Favor
The stock rises after CEO Steve Ballmer decides against meeting Yahoo!'s high price demand -- or launching a costly proxy war.
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Yahoo shares fall 16 pct after Microsoft withdraws bid
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo shares fell more than 16 percent Monday as hopes for the once-dominant Internet icon dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid.
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Local educators go global
Story created May 05, 2008 - 11:02:49 EDT. EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA - Three area educators traveled to schools around the world to provide teacher trainings on student computer use in the classroom.
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The Birth of Microsoft 5.0: Optimized Desktop to Live Mesh
This "fifth version" of the software giant reflects the first major moves post Bill Gates and the impact from the influx of large numbers of Open Source advocates into the company.
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TSX positive as oil hits US$120; N.Y. lower after Microsoft pulls Yahoo bid
Malcolm Morrison, The Canadian Press May 5, 2008 - 11:58 a.m. Investors look at the stock price monitor at a private security company Mondayin Shanghai, China.
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Big Changes May Be In Store For LinkedIn
Now that most of the Microsoft-Yahoo stuff is (at least temporarily) out of the way, it's time for the rumor mill to latch onto some other topic. One contender is the possible acquisition of LinkedIn. read more
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Good Worms Are a Bad Idea
Some bad ideas are so cool that they never go away. In the end, will Botman swoop down to save the day?... Six Sigma Certification 100% Online-Six Sigma Certificate from Villanova - Find Out More Now.
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Is innovation dead in the US?
This column is part of a series "Making It Personal" that explores our love/hate relationship with personal technology. During my research for a topic this week, I wasn't too sure what was worth discussing. Vista? XP? Apple? The list went on.
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Yahoo shares plunge after Microsoft drops bid
FRANKFURT--Shares in Yahoo Inc fell almost 20 percent in Frankfurt on Monday after Microsoft Corp walked away from its bid for the Internet company.
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Duo to devise MPUs for 'exascale systems'
Tensilica Inc. and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have formed a collaboration to explore new, low-power processor designs for scientific computer systems.
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
Our colleague in Alabama, journalist and professor Stephen Flanagan Jackson, has gone to court seeking the lifting of a bizarre gag order imposed on Colombian miners, unions, and family members of those who were assassinated, in their lawsuit against the Drummond Company.
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Midday Leaders and Laggards: Nasdaq 100
The Nasdaq 100 index slipped in midday trading Monday after Microsoft Corp.'s weekend decision not to pursue Yahoo Inc. spread worry on Wall Street about further merger-and-acquisition activity.
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Reporter's Notebook: Baylen Linnekin
In recounting the regrettable failure of a marijuana-decriminalization bill in Chile, Al Giordano erroneously targets the one ideological group that has always consistently defended and fought for drug legalization: libertarians.
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DRAM, NAND prices to jump in May
Contract prices for memory, including DRAM and NAND flash, are expected to rise in May despite the downturn in the segments, according to an analyst.
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Yahoo shares fall 17 pct after Microsoft withdraws bid (AP)
AP - Yahoo shares fell 17 percent in early trading Monday as hopes for the once-dominant search engine dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid.
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
Today, exactly two weeks after the historic August 15 presidential referendum in Venezuela - won by President Hugo Chávez with around 59 percent of the vote - the Venezuelan "opposition" is dividing into two distinct camps: Those who admit that they lost and are analyzing why so that they can live to fight another day; and those who still can't or won't admit it, at least not in public.
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
AUGUST 31, 2004: Three Narco News reporters, in New York City's Union Square tonight, covering the protests in favor of regime change in the United States during the Republican National Convention, exercizing their right and duty to report the news, were encircled by the New York Police Department on East 16th Street: Teo Ballvé, Jennifer Whitney, and managing editor Dan Feder.
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