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Yahoo blasts Icahn's board revolt
Yahoo defended itself against billionaire investor Carl Icahn's bid to take control of the board, saying it was right to reject Microsoft's $47.5 billion offer.
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Yahoo lets websites display search results
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Yahoo Inc has introduced a software development tool that lets outside parties create customized views of Yahoo Web search results, said the company.
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Stocks climb on news of tech advance
Stocks climbed yesterday, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to a four-month high, as analysts said chipmakers will benefit from rising global demand, and energy shares are cheap relative to crude prices.
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$100 laptops to be loaded with Windows for an additional fee / Nonprofit group offers option under deal with Microsoft
The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren. Microsoft and the laptop organization said...
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Gun offender received Army censure in 2002
A Wisconsin Army reservist sentenced this week on a federal machine gun conviction was reprimanded in 2002 for corrupting military computers and possibly providing sensitive information to Wisconsin militia groups, Army documents state.
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open for a settlement instead of a full-out proxy battle where both sides typically spend millions of dollars and unleash a barrage of attacks on each other. Icahn urged Yahoo to "move expeditiously to negotiate a merger with Microsoft, thereby making a proxy fight unnecessary."
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Budget laptop restrictions send mixed messages
Tuesday's budget saw the Federal government remove the tax break for workers purchasing laptops under a salary sacrifice scheme, which was a move inconsistent with other policy initiatives, according to observers.
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Icahn presses for new board at Yahoo
Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn is setting out to oust Yahoo Inc.s board of directors for...
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Recycling center to open Saturday at fairgrounds
Transcript Staff WriterCity workers will pick up and move Norman's eastside recycling center late this afte...
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Sun being sued over overtime
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 21:26. Tags: Seems some technical writers at Sun are suing over unpaid overtime . California law exempts "administrative, professional or computer professional workers" from overtime rules, and I suppose the lawsuit will hinge on the question of whether tech writers fall into one of these categories.
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Local court OKs $640M class settlement in computer lawsuit
Order approves $40 million in attorneys' feesBy Tom BlakeyTranscript Staff WriterCleveland County Distr...
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OWC Announces Lowest-Cost Mercury On-The-Go FireWire + USB 2.0 Portable Storage Drives
Other World Computing (OWC) http://www.macsales.com, a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today the lowest cost line of OWC Mercury On-The-Go FireWire + USB 2.0 storage drives, with 500GB capacity priced at only $329. The new line of OWC Mercury On-The-Go high-performance FireWire 400 + USB 2.0 drives are fully bus powered with no additional external power or secondary powering ...
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State Sen. Jonathan Nichols, R-Norman, was incorrectly identified in Betty Culpepper's outdoor page column T...
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Sprint and Samsung declare Mobile WiMAX ready for commercial service
Sprint and Samsung Electronics have announced that a new broadband wireless network offering WiMAX has met Sprint's commercial acceptance criteria including overall performance, handoff performance and handoff delay. This key technical milestone has been passed after extensive evaluation both in the XOHM lab environment and with the commercial service network being built in the Baltimore and ...
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Software piracy dips to 69% in India
Piracy on personal computers in India fell to 69 per cent for 2007 from 71 per cent in 2006. However, industry losses due to it rose to $2 billion (around Rs 8,500 crore) in 2007 from $1.28 billion in 2006. Globally, the loss increased by a whopping 500 per cent from $8 billion to $48 billion.
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Soonr Named a Red Herring 100 Winner for 2008
16/05/2008 01:24:00 Business Wire Soonr, a global leader in providing cloud computing solutions for mobile professionals via carriers, today announced its selection as a Red Herring 100 winner, an award which honors the 100 most innovative North American private technology companies.
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ChipMOS expects 2Q performance to hold level
Seeing a drop in performance during the first quarter of 2008, packaging and testing house ChipMOS Technologies has guided that the still clouded DRAM market and only slight rebound in Flash and LCD driver IC businesses will hold overall gross margin in the second quarter level at around 8-11%, while the revenues will only see a slight 0-3% increase.
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RIM to launch touch-screen BlackBerry in Q3
The device, known as the Thunder, is to be sold exclusively through Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone PLC abroad, the Journal reported on its Web site, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Adult education to offer computer classes
Greenwood County Adult Education will offer an Introduction to Computers class at two locations in Greenwood. From May 19 to June 12, the class will be at the Employment Security Commission’s One Stop Annex on Monument Street, and will meet 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. each Monday and Thursday.
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RIM Ups Ante With Mobile Software Push
Blackberry maker pledges $150M for agnostic development
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All Talk, Little Action on 'Net Neutrality Front?
Experts claim ISPs such as Comcast can do more to find an immediate solution to bandwidth congestion and selective throttling.
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BY The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Spurred on by outraged shareholders, activist investor Carl Icahn notified Yahoo Inc. Thursday that he will lead a revolt to oust Chief Executive Jerry Yang and the rest of the Internet company’s board unless they renew negotiations with Microsoft that fell apart May 3 when the two sides couldn’t agree on a price.
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BlackBerry users get access to IBM business apps
IBM builds mobile enterprise tools IBM is targeting BlackBerry users in businesses with new software that allows owners of Research in Motion's handsets to access more IBM apps, including its Cognos business intelligence software and Lotus Connections.
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Comcast buys social networking firm Plaxo
Plaxo tools to be built into Comcast's SmartZone Comcast will acquire social-networking company Plaxo to power upcoming community features on its TV, broadband data and phone services.
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Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide
A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.
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