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Tributes to tragic Pontefract teenager
HUNDREDS of mourners have visited an internet website set up to remember a Pontefract teenager found hanging at her home. (06/05/2008 10:19:44)
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O2 UK to offer Novatel Wireless modems
Ian Clarke, devices and solutions director of O2 UK, said: "With the launch of O2 Mobile Broadband and the success of our home broadband service we can now deliver to customers a high quality internet experience at home and on the move.
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Recent Original Stories
Documentary evidence that Microsoft considered abandoning Office for Mac in order to cause 'a great deal of harm' to Apple has emerged. An emailed memo from Microsoft-founder Bill Gates to then Mac Business Unit chief Ben Waldman dated June 1997 talks about morale in the Mac Office development camp.
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Yahoo! chief on why Microsoft bid failed
Internet's second most popular search engine Yahoo! has said it was open to selling itself to Microsoft, but the software giant's chief executive Steven A Ballmer and his deal makers were not keen to negotiate and ultimately withdrew their proposal. Microsoft had offered to buy Yahoo, second only to Google, for $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, in February, but the search engine felt it was worth ...
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Sync-like systems to spread
DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. is about to lose the digital edge it's had since last year, when it began offering Sync wireless communications and entertainment technology...
Boston Herald |
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Adobe adds Flash to meetings
Adobe is looking to take a stake in the market for online meetings with a new version of its browser-based Acrobat Connect meeting tool.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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SAP Selects Babylon-Enterprise
Babylon.com announced today that Babylon-Enterprise, its corporate information retrieval solution, has been implemented at SAP, and on every one of almost 44,000 SAP employee desktops worldwide.
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Yahoo CEO says still open to Microsoft talks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo chief Jerry Yang was set to meet staff on Tuesday after signalling a more open stance towards a takeover by Microsoft.
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Windows posts 'slipstream builds' of XP SP3
But general release still in the pipeline Microsoft last week announced that it had posted "slipstream builds" of Windows XP Service Pack 3 for download by subscribers of its IT professional and developer services.
PC Advisor |
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Who's your most downloadable star? Tell us!
Have your say!
rediff.com |
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Blinkx releases video-search platform
Helps web publishers organise content Blinkx has created a platform for website publishers to organise their online video content and make it easily searchable.
PC Advisor |
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Microsoft Zune gets TV programs
NBC ditches iTunes for Zune.net Microsoft Zune users in north America can now buy TV programs for their media players.
PC Advisor |
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Taiwan notebook makers see on-year shipments increase of 41% in 1Q08
Despite the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, Taiwan-based notebook makers still enjoyed shipments growth in the first quarter of 2008.
Digi Times |
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Intel, Samsung and TSMC reach agreement for 450mm wafer manufacturing transition
Intel, Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced they have reached agreement on the need for industry-wide collaboration to target a transition to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The transition to larger wafers will enable continued growth of the semiconductor industry and help maintain a reasonable cost structure for future integrated ...
Digi Times |
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Yahoo CEO says still open to Microsoft talks
Yahoo Inc chief Jerry Yang was set to meet staff on Tuesday after signaling a more open stance towards a takeover by Microsoft Corp.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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(UPDATE) Yahoo open to further talks with Microsoft--report
NEW YORK – Yahoo is willing to negotiate further with Microsoft, top executive Jerry Yang said in an interview Tuesday, as he defended his handling of the aborted takeover bid.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Yahoo stock takes beating after buyout talks end
Yahoo's stock took a beating after Microsoft withdrew its 30.6 billion euros (US$47.5 billion) takeover bid, an Associated Press report said.
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Parents asked to take online survey
Parents of children who attend Bismarck public schools are being sent a postcard in the mail asking them to take an online survey, starting this month.
The Bismarck Tribune |
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Did a hotel staffer give out rooms for free?
Here's something I've never heard of before. According to a story in the Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington, Ill., which appeared on Hotel Online, a young staffer at a Clarion lodging in Bloomington was arrested and charged with misdemeanor theft after...
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Five things you need to know today
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 Naperville Sun |
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TEXT - Microsoft letter withdrawing Yahoo bid
(Reuters) - Microsoft walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo on Saturday after the Internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by $5 billion (2.53 billion pounds) to $47.5 billion.
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UAE yops Mideast’s IT Competitiveness Index
The United Arab Emirates continues to lead the Middle East’s information and communication technology (ICT) readiness index according to the Global Information Technology Report (GITR), a joint study conducted by World Economic Forum and INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools with campuses in Europe and Asia and a Centre for Executive Education and Research in Abu Dhabi.
Mena Report |
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Now showing online
Is there still money to be made from "Matlock"? Within the last few months, television distributors have opened up their libraries of classic content online, making thousands of episodes of programs like "The Twilight Zone" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" available free.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Aug 2007 21:09 UTC
"Freespire, the free as in beer version of the Linspire Linux distribution, this month released Freespire 2.0, the first version of the operating system based on the popular Ubuntu distribution, and the first to contain proprietary codecs and drivers.
New Mobile Computing |
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www.kentonline.co.uk - your gateway to Kent
A man described by a judge as being "knee-deep" in filth was in prison today after being jailed for three-and-a-half years for child pornography offences.
The Kent Messenger |
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