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Microsoft Releases Would-Be Directors From Unfought Proxy Fight
Just to drive home the point that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is done with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), the company has relieved its ten would-be directors from their duties, according to WSJ. This morning, the directors (whose names were never officially announced though lists have been reported) received emails telling them their services will not be needed. Mainly symbolic, but then again, if ...
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Word Users, Prepare For Critical Update
Microsoft's monthly patch release schedule includes a Critical fix for an issue in their Office program, Word, and two other fixes rated the same. read more
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Is Your Computer Slower Than When You Bought It?
(ARA) - Is your PC slower now than when you bought it? Do you get error messages when you try to un-install software? Do you have desktop icons that aren't working?
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Customer Service
NEW YORK - Goodbye, broadband over power lines. We hardly knew you. Once touted as a possible third option for home broadband that could compete with phone and cable companies, the idea of providing Internet service over power lines now looks as if it has died in infancy.
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Has Microsoft really closed on the door on Microhoo?
Reading in between the lines of statements by Bill Gates and Craig Mundie in the last few days you might think that Microsoft has not lost its lust for Yahoo.
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MySpace lets users take profile data outside site's walls
SAN FRANCISCO -- MySpace announced Thursday it is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social-networking websites.
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Court weighs whether to restrict 'business method' patents
Is a baseball pitcher's method for throwing a curveball patentable? How about a chiropractor's techniques? A federal appeals court wrestled with those kinds of questions Thursday when it considered placing restrictions on patent protections for business practices. The case under review is being closely watched by financial services and software companies. The number of patents on tax preparation ...
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Cablevision to offer N.Y. WiFi service
Cable company outlines plans to cover the New York region with free wireless Internet access to existing customers.
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Popular business directory searches
United America Advertising is growing: Recent growth has us looking for candidates with good verbal and written skills. We have Excellent Benefit ... >MORE
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Recent Original Stories
Paul Thurrot writes about Windows XP SP3: "If you were looking for any glimpse into the mind of Microsoft, this is it: the company has completely abandoned Windows XP, and it has absolutely no plans to ever ship an XP SP3 . My guess is that Microsoft will do what it did with the final Windows 2000 Service Pack: claim years later that it's no longer needed and just ship a final security patch ...
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100 'state-of-the-art' ambulances for hospitals
KUALA LUMPUR: State-of-the-art ambulances will help save more lives with computer technology that allows readings of a patient's vital signs and electrocardiograms (ECGs) to be sent ahead to the emergency room.
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Judge reinstates Alcatel-Lucent case
The telecom equipment titan claims Microsoft and Dell infringed on its patents.
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Recent Original Stories
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Aug 2006 09:12 UTC, submitted by Ralf. The web exploded yesterday with the news that Microsoft would cripple 32bit versions of Vista so they would not play protected high-definition content.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 27th Apr 2007 07:10 UTC
"The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface."
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Resort draws community opposition
KINGSTON - First pitched on the Internet as a planned nudist colony for gays and lesbians, the Web site for the proposed Rosebud Lodge near here had changed drastically by this morning.
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Google Annual Meeting: Shareholder Proposals Fail, But Brin Abstains; Board Re-Elected
Two non-shockers from the Google annual shareholder meeting: The entire board slate has been re-elected, and two shareholder proposals failed to pass. But there was one interesting wrinkle: Co-founder and director Sergei Brin abstained from the vote, saying he agreed with the spirit of the proposals, just not the wording and the implementation.
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Man Arrested in Internet Predator Sting
A Clarendon County man has been arrested on charges he tried to solicit sex from what he thought was a 12-year-old girl.
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Jessica Alba Competes in Online Staring Contest
The actress goes without blinking in her latest video competition
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th May 2008 21:00
There are quite a few operating systems which have moved beyond the simple hobby operating system stage, onto a more lasting plane of existence.
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Sonnet Fusion RAID Expander offers 7 PCIe slots
Sonnet Technologies on Thursday debuted the Fusion RAID Expander, which provides a simple solution for connecting up to seven Sonnet Fusion SATA RAID desktop or rackmount storage systems to a single computer for faster performance as well as access to up to 56 terabytes (TB) of protected storage. The Fusion RAID Expander extends a computer's PCI Ex...
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Ninja Gaiden 2 Exclusive Trailer
Decorate your desktop with official Ninja Gaiden 2 Wallapaper! Are you a Ninja Dog, or Master Ninja! Brag about your ninja rank with this widget!
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Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies under an agreement with officials nationwide that was announced Thursday.
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Washington DC
SANTA CLARA, Calif. ( Map ) - SANTA CLARA, Calif. , May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA ), the world leader in visual computing technologies, today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 ended April 27, 2008 .
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MLB Power Pros Returns
2008 has been announced, and all is well in the MLB world. May 8, 2008 - 2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., today announced the next iteration of the wildly popular baseball franchise, MLB Power Pros 2008, scheduled to be available for Wii home video game system from Nintendo and PlayStation 2 ...
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AMD Promises 12 Cores By 2010
Server boss Randy Allen delivers roadmap news for 45nm rollout this year, six-core 'Shanghai' chips in 2009 and a 12-core beast called 'Magny Cours' within two years.
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