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Blogger jailed on sedition charges
A Malaysian man opted to go to jail instead of paying bail after he was accused of sedition for implying the country's deputy premier had a hand in the murder of a Mongolian woman, his lawyer said.
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Yahoo, Microsoft: Off again ... on again?
Just when it seemed that their stormy relationship had ended , Yahoo and Microsoft may end up reconciling and coming to terms on a merger sooner rather than later. Comments by both CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker -- pressured by a sliding stock price and grumbling shareholders -- seem to indicate Yahoo may be willing to return to the bargaining table to make the deal happen ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 22nd Oct 2006 22:56 UTC
"The talk lately has centred about Vista's security APIs, but Linux certainly needs improvements in this area , because AV vendors still rely on an external kernel module to implement 'real time' file scanning."
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Features and Case Studies
In final instalment of ‘Securing Microsoft’, Ina Fried looks at the next generation of security threats. With Microsoft now outspending everyone with their massive security budget, will it be enough to stop ever more sophisticated security threats?
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Recent Original Stories
Opera Mini 4 has been released . "Opera, today released Opera Mini 4, the newest version of Opera's worldwide mobile browsing sensation. Opera Mini 4 inspires the senses with its stunning desktop overview mode, so users see the page exactly as it appears on their computers.
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Israel: From independence to intifada
You get the clearest sense of it in Tel Aviv. Swinging in on the Ayalon highway past the 50-floor Azrieli towers, joining the entrepreneurs in their open-necked shirts and jeans tapping at their laptops at a café off the Rothschild Boulevard, lunching among the families and fashionistas at the beachside Manta Ray, or wandering through the elegantly renovated lanes of Neve Tzedek, where Jews in ...
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Microsoft Satellite Map Project Sued Over Name
Microsoft's TerraServer-USA satellite imagery project has been slapped with a trademark lawsuit from a small North Carolina...
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Recent Original Stories
"Computers in the European Union should be sold without a bundled operating system , according to this submission to the European Commission.
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Mozilla Melds with MindTouch Wiki
MindTouch provides multi-language wiki feature just in time to support Mozilla's Developer Center.... Build IT Knowledge with Current & Trusted Content Helps Employees Develop & Hone New Technical Programming Skills. Sign Up & Get Full Access.
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McAfee: Media files trigger Trojan
Consumers are being warned that they may get an ad instead of a music or video file on several file-sharing sites in what security firm McAfee says is the most significant malware outbreak in three years.
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IBM, Microsoft Trounce Apple in Climate-Friendliness Showdown
In a survey of corporations' responsiveness to climate change, IBM scored well, Microsoft did middling, and Apple came in near the bottom of the pack.
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Standards of Excellence
We recently discovered that we’ve been taking Dennis Rowland for granted, especially after the most prominent straight-ahead jazz vocalist in town schooled us last month during an effing amazing rendition of “Lush Life.” Since that night, we’ve been scouring the Internet looking ...
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Top Scoops
A late-night court filing by the White House on Monday revealed that official administration emails about the run up to the invasion of Iraq and the initial occupation may never be recovered.
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BW)(CA-SUN-MICROSYSTEMS/ON2)(JAVA.NASDAQ)(ONT.AMEX) Sun Adds Comprehensive Video Capabilities to Ubiquitous Java ...
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO--) Consumers are demanding a rich video experience across multiple screens and this deal compliments the Java(TM) platform for RIAs by adding On2 Technologies TrueMotion codecs.
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Average Issue Readership General Public PARC Media Index 1997, Saudi Arabia
With technology opening the new doors of communication and the distribution of news and information, ArabNews Online is not bound by physical limitations. ArabNews Online is published by ArabNews from its offices located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is now available to readers around the globe.
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Microsoft won't be pursuing tie-ups or takeovers to replace its failed Yahoo bid , Bill Gates said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
Before the Internet, newspapers were read one day and used to wrap fish the next. News in print quickly faded into obscurity. Now that the majority of news operations have online versions, it’s much
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Yahoo Behind Them, Microsoft Sends Out Feelers To Facebook
In October, Microsoft took a $240 million stake in Facebook, which valued the start-up at $15 billion.
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Microsoft's Blue Hat Conference
SecureThroughObscure writes "ZDNet Zero-Day security blogger Nate McFeters got an exclusive look at the Microsoft Blue Hat conference. This is an invite-only conference that few media get to attend, but apparently McFeters was brought in with co-worker Rob Carter to talk about some vulnerabilities they had discovered with a few product security teams in attendence, and was also asked to do a ...
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Recent Original Stories
Yesterday, the OpenSolaris team released OpenSolaris 2008.05, the fruit of Project Indiana. The first review we found was published over at Blogbeebe, which is overall fairly positive . At the same time, Practical Technology believes that "OpenSolaris has finally been released just in time to die".
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Microsoft denies putting "copyright cop" in Zune
The software maker takes issue with a New York Times blog that suggests Microsoft may add some sort of copyright filtering technology into the Zune, as part of its deal to get NBC TV shows.
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Internet Archive proclaims victory against secret FBI demand for records
After legal challenge, police agency agrees in settlement to withdraw "national security letter" that sought information about an archive user and lift gag order that kept it under wraps.
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. After a week-long delay to take care of a last-minute compatibility bug, Microsoft Tuesday gave the green light to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).
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Dell plans a new set of artistically customized laptops
Dell has touted the concept of personalized PCs ever since it began business as "PCs Limited." But now, it's experimenting with taking that philosophy to new levels, offering a peek at new laptops with custom artwork on their cases.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Nov 2005 19:53 UTC
Were Apple to once again start licensing its operating system to third-party 'Mac clone' hardware makers, it could reignite the OS wars. Yet whether Apple will go this route - and whether doing so would be smart - remains to be seen .
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