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Microsoft signals Yahoo bid is over
Microsoft signaled it may not restart efforts to buy Yahoo with a hostile bid by releasing nominees from agreements to serve on an alternate board of directors, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Child porn woman must wait for sentencing
A FORMER nursery school worker who posed nude for obscene photographs with naked children must wait another month to learn her fate. Jane Voss, 45, of Grosvenor Road, Wanstead, distributed the sickening images via her BT Internet email account, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
Ilford Recorder |
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Apple slammed on climate change
Apple is once again being pilloried on the strength of its green credentials, taking last place among computer firms rated within a recent ClimateCounts survey on climate friendliness.
Macworld UK |
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MoD encrypts laptops after data losses
The Ministry of Defence is to protect 20,000 laptops with BeCrypt's Disk Protect Baseline after a number of recent data losses
ZDNet UK |
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Government to launch 'Green IT Strategy'
The national initiative is aimed at reducing IT-related carbon emissions and will focus on examples of best practice
ZDNet UK |
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Google seeks YouTube profit
Google expects to launch new products for its YouTube Web video service soon and expects closer cooperation with Yahoo, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday. Schmidt has said getting the video service to make money is the Web search company's top priority for the year.
New York Daily News |
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Intermission: Like mother, like daughter
I’m a unique individual. I promise. I’ve got weird hair (it’s all afro-like). I can hold my breath under water for a minute and 23 seconds. And I’ve gone my entire Stanford career, albeit short, without taking economics, computer science or math. I’m, like, one in six billion or something.
Stanford Daily |
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Cablevision has wireless plan
With more than half the homes in its coverage area now subscribing to high-speed Internet service, Cablevision exec Tom Rutledge said Thursday that the company had the "critical mass" to begin offering a wireless broadband service.
New York Daily News |
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Airline ticket websites misleading consumers: EU
One in three European consumers buying plane tickets online is being misled, the European Commission has warned post a survey that found that dozens of companies are probably in breach of European Union consumer protection law.
eyefortravel.com |
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Wireless business lifts Telus
CALGARY–Telus Corp., Canada's second-largest telephone company, said first-quarter profit rose 49 per cent after wireless customers spent more to send text messages and download videos and ring tones.
Toronto Star |
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The Eton Collection Selects FastBooking(R) Solutions to Achieve On Line Sales Ambitions
FastBooking, global provider of advanced internet booking systems and e-marketing solutions for the hospitality industry announced that boutique hotel group, The Eton Collection, is to implement FastBooking's Internet Booking Engine, Competitive Intelligence and Channel Management tools, and their Customer Relationship programs.
Centre Daily Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Feb 2006 18:54 UTC
Microsoft on Feb. 16 is set to announce 34 Office suites, programs, servers, services and tools - 13 of which are new - that form part of its 2007 Microsoft Office family of products, previously knows as Office 12. Retail pricing for the comparable versions of the product has not been increased, remaining unchanged from the retail prices for Office 2003, John Cairns, senior director of licensing ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Feb 2007 16:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The UK Government has responded to a petition regarding software patents : "The Government remains committed to its policy that no patents should exist for inventions which make advances lying solely in the field of software.
New Mobile Computing |
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Organizing news of the world
Speaking at the 2008 Canadian Newspaper Association/Canadian Community Newspapers Association conference in Toronto, Josh Cohen, the content specialist at Google News, delivered a message of peace and partnership to the leaders of Canada's newspaper industry.
Toronto Star |
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WiMax set to boost mobile Internet links
MONTREAL -- It will be like having an Internet connection in your pocket and will help drive a new generation of consumer devices.
London Free Press |
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Homer man to face sex charges
HOMER — A 61-year-old man, who a friend said was just playing around on a computer, is charged with having explicit chats on the Internet with people he thought were children.
Battle Creek Enquirer |
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Google-Yahoo alliance could expand
Google's founders said they would happily expand an advertising partnership with Yahoo that could prevent Microsoft from renewing its bid for the Sunnyvale Internet company.
San Jose Mercury News |
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UK leads in mobile social networking
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com , Friday 9 May 2008 at 09:20:00 810,000 UK mobile subscribers visit social networking sites UK mobile phone subscribers are leading a global charge to take social networking to the streets, new research reveals. Research firm Nielsen Mobile said that the UK leads Europe in... > Read the full article
vnunet.com |
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Google talks with Yahoo about alliance
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google Inc.’s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. – a deal that would lower the odds of Microsoft Corp. renewing its attempts to buy Yahoo.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Facebook sets new safeguards
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Top US state attorneys have announced that Facebook has agreed to get tougher on keeping its young website users safe from bullies, porn, pedophiles and other online hazards.
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Facebook, court order clash
A court order stopped local media sources from reporting this week why a young mother was charged with disposing of her infant's body.
London Free Press |
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Networking site sets new child safeguards
Social networking site Facebook is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, although the most extreme measure – banning convicted sex offenders – won't apply to Canada or other countries outside the United States.
Toronto Star |
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Google-plex Getting workers involved creates unique building
ZURICH, Switzerland - It's the first question Google employees here must resolve when they want to go to the cafeteria or game room: Stairs, slide or fireman's pole?
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards
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.
New York Daily News |
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Bill Gates says Microsoft will focus on going its own way after Yahoo deal collapse
(AP:JAKARTA, Indonesia) Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says the company will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc.
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