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UPDATE: Could Shareholders Boot Out Yahoo's Board?
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- As Yahoo Inc. gets ready to face the wrath of its shareholders, the company may learn from the plight of another tech firm, whose board directors rejected a sweetened takeover offer and are now on the verge of being booted out.
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UPDATE: Microsoft Appeals EU Fine In Bid For 'Clarity'
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Microsoft Corp. said Friday it's appealing a $1.4 billion fine handed down earlier this year by European regulators for the software giant's failure to comply with an antitrust ruling.
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Microsoft has had to create a new build of Windows XP Professional
for computer makers because the six-year-old operating system's continued popularity has nearly exhausted the supply of product activation keys. The new build, dubbed SP2c, includes no fixes or feature changes, but was created simply to address the shrinking pool of product keys.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-09 20:33 Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
(AP) - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
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Lin TV shares drop as investors reconsider 1Q results
(AP:NEW YORK) Lin TV Corp.'s shares dropped more than 12 percent on Friday, as investors reconsidered the television and online news company's first-quarter results and outlook after a more optimistic response Thursday.
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Toshiba eyes fuel cells, Cell-based TV by 2009
Toshiba plans to begin mass production of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells by March next year and to have a television based on the powerful Cell microprocessor on sale before the end of the same year, it said Thursday.
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Verizon Connects Troops With Home
May 9, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications provider Verizon Business said on Friday it is expanding its use of technology to help US military personnel based in Iraq stay in touch with their families back home.
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Lohan withdraws from Manson family movie: spokeswoman
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Lindsay Lohan has withdrawn from an upcoming movie about convicted murderer Charles Manson, her publicist said Friday, following an Internet report she had been axed from the project.
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Lohan withdraws from Manson family movie: spokeswoman
Lindsay Lohan has withdrawn from an upcoming movie about convicted murderer Charles Manson, her publicist said Friday, following an Internet report she had been axed from the project.
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Has Toshiba's luck ended?
Has Toshiba Corp.'s luck ended?
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Lohan withdraws from Manson family movie: spokeswoman
Lindsay Lohan has withdrawn from an upcoming movie about convicted murderer Charles Manson, her publicist said Friday, following an Internet report she had been axed from the project.
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Northwest Missouri State’s Board of Regents met in regular session May 2 to consider a number of administrative staff proposals, including new enrollment and program fees and an education and general budget summary for fiscal 2008-09.
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Advocacy groups take aim at Google-Yahoo partnership
An online advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. is facing opposition from consumer and civic groups that didn't wait for an official deal announcement to voice their discontent. Top Google executives said Thursday they are interested in a partnership with their closest rival but didn't indicate how close they were to an agreement. A coalition of 16 civil rights and rural ...
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Computer security under increased threat
The government's cyber crime unit says the increasing sophistication of malicious software poses a serious threat to computer users and databases.
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Microsoft will focus on going its own way after Yahoo deal collapse, Bill Gates says
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Microsoft Corp. will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc., Chairman Bill Gates said Friday.
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College kids show how to ‘Green IT’
Affordable wireless network for monitoring soil conditions wins
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Sat 27th Aug 2005 10:50 UTC, submitted by David Forshe
A bug in Apple's Safari leaves it vulnerable to crashing from an animated image. All webkit apps are vulnerable, even rss readers. This comes after Internet Explorer and Firefox had vulnerabilities due to pictures. Why is it that images cause browsers so many problems?
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The fish are starting to bite
I’m still waiting for three or four consecutive days of warm, sunny weather to bring back the mackerel and the striped bass. I know the stripers are coming up soon, because I received a call last week from my friend, Dan Caton, and he told me that one fisherman caught a 50-inch “rock fish.” Down in Lusby, Md., that’s what they call the striped bass. Dan checks out my column on his computer ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Jun 2006 18:37 UTC, submitted by anonymous
30 student development teams from seven countries converged on Microsoft's campus June 23-25, to compete in the third annual Windows Embedded Student ChallengE based on the theme, "Preserving, protecting, and enhancing the environment." Five winning teams collectively were awarded $24000 in cash.
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CGS Sees Increased Demand for its Rapid Project Methodology(TM) Tailored for the BlueCherry(R) Enterprise Suite
Computer Generated Solutions, Inc. today announced the Rapid Project Methodology for BlueCherry Enterprise suite, its first accelerated implementation offering. By pre-configuring much of the industry-specific functionality within the solution, BlueCherry RPM is designed to help customers reduce implementation time, helping to minimize project costs and deliver faster time-to-value.
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"Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will next month show off the ready-to-market version of a hybrid hard drive
which can greatly reduce boot-up time of laptops and desktop PCs. The HHD is the convergence of a flash memory chip and a conventional platter-type magnetic disk drive. To save the time and energy spent spinning a metal disk drive it is designed to use static flash memory when starting a PC."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Aug 2006 12:57 UTC, submitted by Hendrik Enabiel
VMware has announced a product designed to enable Mac OS X users to run multiple PC operating systems while Microsoft is putting a halt to a version of its Virtual PC software for Intel-based Macs.
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Facebook to open the gates with 'Facebook Connect'
Hot off the heels of rival MySpace's announcement that it would be connecting its profile content with other social-networking sites, Facebook revealed its own plan for exporting data to other Web sites.
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Microsoft Appeals $1.4 Bln EU Fine
Microsoft said it was moving on from its long-running antitrust battle with the EU...but now it's decided to appeal a $1.4 billion handed down in February.
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IDACORP, Inc. to Web Cast Annual Shareholders' Meeting
IDACORP, Inc. will hold the Annual Shareholder Meeting on May 15, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. , at the company's corporate headquarters, 1221 W. Idaho Street, in Boise, Idaho.
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