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NY Power Authority under scrutiny over deleted e-mails
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants the New York Power Authority to provide the names of employees who deleted e-mails from a computer and phone used by the authority's inspector general, Daniel Wiese.
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Google takes the driver's seat after Microsoft-Yahoo failure
NEW YORK -- Yahoo, Inc. may not be celebrating the end of takeover talks with Microsoft Corp., but their mutual rival Google, Inc. should feel free to pop the champagne cork.
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Library adds downloadable audiobooks to its offerings
The Rome-Floyd County Library is now offering patrons a new digital audiobook service that will allow library card holders to download as many as 300 titles to their computers or MP3 players. The new site offers a mixture of both unabridged and abridged digital audiobooks and allows library patrons access to the books on Windows Media capable MP3 players and Windows computers to download and ...
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Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to reveal $12-B joint venture
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 yesterday.
BusinessWorld Online |
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AP sources give inside look at Microsoft's raised Yahoo bid
SAN FRANCISCO - Just how serious was Microsoft Corp. about raising its bid to $47.5 billion for slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.? The answer is taking on greater importance...
Boston Herald |
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Microsoft adds television shows to Zune players in software update
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft began making television shows available for viewing on its Zune MP3 players yesterday as it continues a campaign to wrest market share from Apple's globally popular iPods.
BusinessWorld Online |
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Web sites merge into www.thepolkfishwrap.com
Polk County residents have the chance to unwrap the fishwrap starting today as the Cedartown Standard and Rockmart Journal Web sites merge into one. The new site — www.thepolkfishwrap.com — continues the comprehensive community reporting and coverage of the previous sites. The name comes from Fish Creek, the geographic dividing line between Rockmart and Cedartown.The merger allows the papers ...
Rome News-Tribune |
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Yahoo's Jerry Yang open to more talks with Microsoft Corp.
NEW YORK -- Yahoo, Inc. chief Jerry Yang signaled a more open stance towards Microsoft Corp. yesterday, saying he had been seeking common ground when the software maker abruptly ended deal talks.
BusinessWorld Online |
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Clearwire up on Sprint Nextel deal
Clearwire shares rose sharply in premarket trading Wednesday on a deal forming a new wireless venture with Sprint Nextel Corp.
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Habitat gets helping hand
Good deeds often find a way of getting paid back.Bruce Day found that out first-hand.Day, the executive director of the Rome-Floyd County chapter of Habitat for Humanity , recently got a generous offer from the Habitat for Humanity office in Slidell, La.It started when Day sent out a mass e-mail asking about getting some help in acquiring a used computer for a new staff member at the Habitat ...
Rome News-Tribune |
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Google Joins Venture for Mobile WiMAX Next-Gen Wireless Internet Access
Google has teamed up with a number of partners investing in a new venture to develop and deliver high-speed WiMAX internet access for mobile devices. The venture, which is being led by Sprint, also includes including Clearwire, Sprint, Comcast, Time Warner, and Intel, amongst others. Thus far, deploying a nationwide Mobile WiMAX network has proven to [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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Sun talks up Java in San Francisco
Sun Microsystems has used the JavaOne conference to announce new technologies aimed at powering and creating compelling online content.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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CATI Announces Digital Factory Simulation
Computer Aided Technology, Inc. (CATI) has partnered with Visual Components to become the first value added reseller in the USA of the 3DCreate and 3DRealize Digital Factory applications.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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Oracle Enhances Java Resources for Global Developer Community
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Industry Veteran Paige Mazzoni Joins Safari Books Online as Vice President of Marketing
SEBASTOPOL, Calif.----Safari Books Online, the leading provider of on-demand digital libraries that provide technology, creative, design and business resources in a variety of formats, today announced the appointment of Paige Mazzoni as vice president of marketing.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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El Paso, Texas Awards Accela $3.8M Contract to Support Community With Online Services
El Paso, Texas has selected Accela Automation® from Accela, Inc. to streamline its zoning, permitting, licensing, and inspection processes and improve the quality of service it provides.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Sprint to Deliver New Java Platform
Continuing employing an open application model, Sprint introduced the latest version of its developer toolkit, relaunching its Professional Developer Program and preparing to deliver new Sprint devices and a new Java platform that will open the door to millions of developers who have traditionally designed for a desktop environment.
SYS-CON Media |
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Friends form computer enterprise in Carlisle
Three friends have formed a new kind of central processing unit in Aardvark Computers of Carlisle.
The Sentinel |
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News Corp 'knew employee was net hacker'
Kept on payroll after allegations emerged A News Corp executive has confirmed that the company kept two internet hackers on the payroll even after their alleged activities had been revealed.
PC Advisor |
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Microsoft uses Silverlight to revamp Download Center
Promotes own technology on popular website Microsoft is using Silverlight to enhance its popular Download Center website. Microsoft hopes the move will promote the adoption of its Silverlight technology.
PC Advisor |
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XP SP3 And Vista SP1 Back in Action
After being missing for a week, the service packs are back and ready to upgrade your OS (if you use Windows, that is)...
AnandTech |
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Nearly 1 Million Eligible Consumers in 50 New York Communities Can Now Get Verizon's Fastest DSL-Based Internet Service
Nearly 1 million qualifying consumers in parts of 50 New York cities, towns and communities now have a new broadband option from Verizon, as the company expands availability of its ultra-fast High Speed Internet service.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Frustrated by Computer Problems? There's a New Solution
(ARA) - Recently, in Berlin, Germany, a man's neighbors called the police to report him for disturbing the peace. He'd become frustrated and had thrown his computer out the window.
Richfield Reaper |
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Ex-police chief fiddled expenses over mistress
LONDON: A former Welsh chief constable breached strict internal procedures by misusing police computers and spending public money on a woman with whom he was having an affair, the police watchdog said yesterday.
Gulf Times |
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Sprint To Revive WiMax Venture
Sprint Nextel today announced a joint venture with Clearwire to build a nationwide wireless network to provide high-speed Internet connections for laptops and cellphones, a project to be funded in part by a consortium of top cable and technology companies.
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