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JavaOne: Sun rolls out JavaFX
Rich Internet application environment, part of Sun's effort to let consumers innovate, is set to compete with Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight.
ZDNet Asia |
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Sprint, Clearwire to reveal $12 bln JV: sources
NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp and Clearwire Corp are near announcing a $12 billion joint venture with major cable operators to offer services based on WiMax, an emerging technology that could make wireless Internet ubiquitous, people close to the talks said on Tuesday.
Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News |
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Microsoft to Wall Street: 'We've Moved On'
The head of Windows Live tries to put the best face on Microsoft's failed bid to acquire Yahoo.
InternetNews.com |
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Microsoft Releases Windows XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft today finally released Service Pack 3 for Windows XP users. The update should now be offered via both Windows Update or Automatic Updates. The company was expected to release it last week, but pulled the plug at the last minute due to a compatibility problem with an obscure product they offer. Many readers have asked me whether this update is really necessary, given that there isn't a ...
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Amy Winehouse - Fascinating Fact 5281
AMY WINEHOUSE's BACK TO BLACK album has toppled COLDPLAY's X+Y as the all-time top-selling album on internet shopping site ...
ContactMusic |
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Fast and furious - Yahoo protest vote pushes forward
Yahoo has given furious shareholders barely a week to organise a protest vote over its rejection of Microsoft's takeover offers, setting a 15 May deadline for putting resolutions to its annual meeting.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Video Training Book Review: Data Access in ASP.NET 2.0 Framework by Stephen Walther
If you want to learn data access in ASP.NET 2.0 Framework, then this will provide a good introduction. The goal of Data Access in ASP.NET 2.0 Framework is to show you everything that you need to know to start building database-driven web applications using the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 framework and the Microsoft Visual Studio Development environment.Your instructor for this video is Stephen ...
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One Google Guy
Charlie Ayers had one of the best head chef jobs in the world: He ran 10 cafes in Mountain View, creating the best food possible for people who didn't have to pay for it, with the whole operation funded by a magic pipe that spewed cash. In exchange he got buried in stock options, because his employe ...
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How 3 voters made up their minds
Millie Seifert finally made a choice. She voted for the ghost. In the last week, The Associated Press talked to some respondents to a continuing series of AP- Yahoo News polls to see how they planned to vote in the primaries Tuesday in Indiana and North Carolina.
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Patricia Heaton - Heatons Saucy Photo Shock
PATRICIA HEATON was mortified when a sexy photoshoot for a photographer friend's portfolio ended up on the internet. Heaton was stunned when a fan asked for an autograph ...
ContactMusic |
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isoHunt tells judge it's just another search engine
The admins of isoHunt are fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the MPAA, arguing that it and other BitTorrent tracker sites should be treated no differently than a search engine. After all, isoHunt only provides links to content—just like Google. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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Person close to talks: Sprint Nextel close to WiMax financing deal
PHILADELPHIA - Sprint Nextel Corp. is close to finalizing a deal to get financing for its new wireless broadband network from a group that includes Comcast Corp. and Google Inc., according to a person close to the talks.
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News |
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Recent Original Stories
"Two days before the start of Professional Developers Conference 2005, I've received exclusive insider information about the product editions which Microsoft intends to create for Windows Vista."
OS News |
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Sentilla Wins Prestigious 2008 Duke´s Choice Award at JavaOne Developer Conference
Sentilla, a leading provider of pervasive computing solutions, today announced its Java technology
wallstreet:online AG |
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3G launched in Chiang Mai
CHIANG MAI : Advanced Info Service (AIS) yesterday staged the commercial launch of third-generation (3G) mobile broadband services in Chiang Mai under a 600-million-baht plan. The country's largest mobile operator has a head start in 3G and plans start offering service in Bangkok in mid-June.
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news |
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BSM Donates Computers To Yayasan Mosque And Iqra School
Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei Shell Marketing yesterday presented eight computers to Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque in Kampong Bolkiah and Igra School as part of their community care initiative.
BruDirect.com |
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L.A. producers Glitch Mob slice and dice in pure audio warfare
The Glitch Mob — Los Angeles producers who individually go by Boreta, edIT, Kraddy, and Ooah — look unassuming enough standing behind their laptops. But their electro/hip-hop slicing and dicing is pure armed audio warfare, mixing original beats and productions with familiar rap vocals. T ...
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Improved satellite coverage to drive GPS further, says ABI
and McAfee are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous web sites. With the new security, users of Yahoo will see a red exclamation point and a warning next to links McAfee has identified as serving dangerous downloads or using visitors' email addresses to send out spam.
telecomasia.net |
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Improved satellite coverage to drive GPS further, says ABI
Telecoms companies Vodafone and Telecom Italia will both sell Apple's iPhone in Italy, in an apparent break from previous exclusive carrier deals, a Reuters report said.
telecomasia.net |
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Stephen Colbert takes home top Webby award
Stephen Colbert, whose US presidential campaign was cut short, has come out a winner after he walked away with a Webby award as the internet's "Person of the Year."
Stuff |
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Search under way for missing hiker
Lt. Jim Strovink with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said the missing man's wife checked his computer and found that he had been searching for Clackamas Lake, which is near Timothy Lake. He was supposed to come home Monday night.
KATU Portland |
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Volicon Observer to Provide Monitoring and Archiving Foundation for Télé-Québec's New Digital Broadcasting ...
DMN Newswire--2008-5-6--Leading French-Canadian public television station Télé-Québec has chosen the Volicon Observer® desktop logging and monitoring solution as a key component in the station's upcoming migration to HD broadcasting driven by digital, file-based technologies.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Washington DC
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - After fending off months of threats by Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc.'s directors still will have to fight for their jobs as the company's own irate shareholders plot a mutiny.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Electric vehicles get Georgia Tech viewing
When Mike McQuary watched the documentary film "Who Killed the Electric Car," he flashed back to his days as president of the homegrown Internet company MindSpring.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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George Ou compares Microsoft Office 2007 to OpenOffice 2.2
in memory and CPU usage using the OOXML and ODF file formats. The conclusion according to Ou: "We can see that the OpenOffice.org ODF XML parser (while vastly improved) is still about 5 times slower than Microsoft's OOXML parser.
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