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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Jul 2006 17:49 UTC, submitted by gary elienor
Microsoft pledged to 'play fair' on all its future operating systems, including Windows Vista, will abide by self-imposed rules aimed at bolstering choice and competition.
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HP pipes YouTube into MediaSmart
HP is to include YouTube access in its MediaSmart range of internet-enabled home entertainment products. The line-up includes a television, set-top box and a Windows Home Server system. YouTube will be built in to the set-top box and the MediaSmart TV.
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Microsoft sends out feelers to Facebook
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after the software giant's failed takeover attempt of Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Defector's story of ordeal in NKorea camp to be filmed
SEOUL (AFP) - A defector's book about his decade-long ordeal in a North Korean prison camp is to be made into a film, producers said Thursday.
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QLogic 2500 Series of 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters Qualified by EMC
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 8, 2008 -- QLogic Corp. , a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing , today announced that the QLogic 2500 Series of 8Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapters are qualified by EMC as E-Lab Tested for use with EMC CLARiiON, EMC Celerra and EMC Symmetrix networked storage systems.
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ONO and TOA Technologies Join Forces to Bring the Power of Customer Appointment Management to Spain's Largest ...
TOA Technologies, the leading provider of Customer Appointment Management solutions for companies managing mobile workforces, today announced that ONO, Spain's largest broadband communications provider, has successfully deployed TOA's Software-as-a-Service solution to drive productivity, revenue and enhanced customer satisfaction by managing field operations in a more-strategic, ...
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ClearStay.com From Escapia Launches the Largest Collection of Authenticated Guest Reviews in the Vacation Rental ...
Escapia Inc., the leader in web-based software for professionally managed vacation rentals, announced the launch of ratings and reviews on the company's consumer website ClearStay.com. This breakthrough program provides travelers with the convenience and confidence they seek when booking vacation rental homes.
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Slate Creates Political Ringtones
Slate, the daily online magazine, today launches political ringtones for users to download to their mobile phone. Visit www.slate.com/ringtones to get audio from presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama.
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Biz360 Secures $10 Million in Funding to Expand Product Line and Boost Marketing & Sales Personnel
Biz360® Inc., the leading provider of media and market intelligence solutions, announced the closing of a $10 million round of financing. The round was led by Foundation Capital, with full participation of other current investors, Granite Ventures and Scale Venture Partners.
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45% of FTSE Companies Do Not Use Visitor Web Site Tracker - StatCounter report
DUBLIN, Ireland----Almost half of FTSE quoted companies do not use a visitor tracker on their web site, according to a report by StatCounter, an Irish headquartered global company which provides free web traffic analysis.
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Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Raxco
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.----Acacia Research Corporation announced today that its Disc Link Corporation subsidiary has entered into a license agreement with Raxco Software, Inc. covering patents relating to portable storage devices with links.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: CNET Networks, Yahoo!, Applied Micro Circuits, Comstock Resources and Stone Energy
CHICAGO----Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets.
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In Sports
Should Santa Clara switch to paperless schedules? Yes, who doesn't use a computer?
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Yahoo throws 'Glue' after spurning Microsoft
BANGALORE, INDIA: Yahoo! India today launched a new search experience named Glue Pages Beta, available at www.yahoo.in.
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Bright House invests $100 million in WiMax consortium
Bright House Networks will spend $100 million as part of a consortium of cable and technology giants creating a company to deliver the next generation of high-speed, mobile Internet service, the companies announced Wednesday.
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Polycom axes Zycko in VoIP reshuffle
Sam Trendall, CRN , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 10:46:00 Vendor makes changes to distribution line-up Voice and video vendor Polycom has rejigged its UK distribution line-up after parting company with Zycko and handing Vcomm sole access to its voice over IP (VoIP) products, CRN has... > Read the full article
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Microsoft looks into Facebook purchase
Neon Kelly, Computing , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 10:42:00 Rumour mill goes into overdrive that the software giant is interested in a takeover, following the collapse of Yahoo talks Microsoft is considering acquiring Facebook in the wake of its failed bid to buy Yahoo. Earlier this week, the software giant's lawyers approached the social network about the possibility of... > Read ...
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Microsoft 'in talks' to buy Facebook
Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 10:36:00 Companies said to be discussing possible options Microsoft has been speaking with social networking giant Facebook about a possible acquisition, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal cited a source close to Microsoft who claimed that members... > Read the full article
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Research and Markets: Gain Insight in to Yahoo! Inc.
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c91144) has announced the addition of "Premium Company Profile: Yahoo! Inc." to their offering.
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In Opinion
You get the error message of death on your computer. Angrily, you dial the customer service number of the computer company. In no time at all, you're speaking with someone in India who speaks perfect (if accented) English.
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Linux Got Game: War§ow 0.42
"Another tip from Free and Open Source gamer extraordinaire SlippJigg encouraged me to try out another action-packed First-person shooter (FPS) game called War§ow last weekend. So what exactly is this game and what makes it interesting?
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Recent Original Stories
This article is about KDE's memory usage, but there are comparisons with other solutions for your desktop. Lubos Lunak concludes there is still work to do and there is some lowhanging fruit, but KDE does already a nice job on keeping its memory usage low.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 22nd Jun 2007 06:08 UTC
ITWire : "Linux users can, at times, be the worst kind of ingrates, whining and complaining about what they perceive as missing features in a free operating system.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 12th Jan 2006 18:58 UTC
Sun Microsystems tried to acquire Apple once and then almost merged with Apple on two other occasions, according to Sun co-founder Bill Joy . Beyond these deals, the two companies almost teamed on three other projects including sharing a user interface and the SPARC architecture.
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Sex Offender Sentenced For Possessing Child Porn
— A convicted sex offender who served three years for molesting a 14-year-old girl but claims that he has raped 58 children was sentenced Wednesday to a decade in prison for possessing child pornography on a home computer.
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