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Microsoft-Yahoo talks driven by specter of Icahn, Google
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) Just two weeks after breaking off merger talks, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have been pulled back to the bargaining table by their fears about what might happen if they don't work out a deal.
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Photonic Beetle: Crystals for Future Optical Computers
Researchers have been unable to build an ideal "photonic crystal" to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a beetle from Brazil.
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Special Report: Computer program tracks cell phone movements
You've probably heard 'Big Brother is watching you,' or 'Your mother is watching you.' Now that line is becoming truer than ever.
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Egg-wielding student splats Microsoft boss
Microsoft CEO ducks for cover as irate student launches egg barrage during university talk.
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Computer Contents Revealed and Sex for Rent Trial
The prosecution called on police computer expert Jim Thompson in Binghamton Federal Court as the Child Sex for Back Rent trial resumed on Monday. Thompson examined George Lang's computer. Lang was a friend of Linda O'Connor--who is accused of offering her landlord Dean Sacco sex with a child in exchange for backrent. According to prosecutors, O'Connor also traded pornographic pictures which ...
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Schools making money from educational airwaves
Big-name companies are paying to license the spectrum to help them provide wireless Internet access nationwide. An ambitious plan to blanket the country with wireless Internet access has an unlikely beneficiary: public schools.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Dec 2005 18:10 UTC
A significant instant messaging project between Google and America Online is now underway. Google and AOL plan to let their respective instant messaging features communicate. This way, someone using Google Talk could chat with an AIM user, and vice versa.
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Voters OK Tasers for troops
After Monday night’s Town Meeting, the town has 32 Tasers, $280,000 more toward the purchase of a ladder truck for the Fire Department and money for two new police cruisers, six new laptop computers for police cruisers, five new computers to be used in the police station and a by-law keeping sex offenders 500 feet from places where children, the elderly and the mentally challenged gather.
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Google Health most significant GOOG business launch since AdWords
I was at the Googleplex Monday morning for a briefing on GOOG's improvements in search, and more importantly, the official roll out of Google Health. Google had invited representatives some of the largest medical establishments and medical service providers to talk about the service. ...
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Recent Original Stories
" IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Linux (or any OS running Wine). No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you'll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it's free and open source."
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-20 03:40 Google makes health service publicly available
NEW YORK (AP) - Google's online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the public Monday, giving users instant electronic access to their health histories while reigniting privacy concerns.
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Cyber Sleuth: Finding Your Lost Child
What You Need to Know to Help Authorities Find Your Child
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Man facing charge of having child pornography
PROVIDENCE — A Pawtucket man is being held on charges he possessed child pornography. Jose M. Hilario, 28, was named in an indictment on Wednesday alleging that he kept visual depictions of minors engaged in sexual conduct on a computer hard drive between September 2007 and April 4, 2008.
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"The Orange Liveradio gives you access to 4000+ worldwide internet stations and in addition to a wide range of podcasts and audio books. The great thing about Orange Liveradio is that no PC is required when you are listening to your internet radio stations.
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Database plan to bug phones, email
Ministers are to consider plans for a giant database of electronic information.
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For student from China, quake sparked scramble for news
NORFOLK Rosey Bao's best friend back in China used computer messages to try to reassure the Old Dominion University student shortly after last week's massive earthquake, which was centered in their home province. Not too many were killed there, the friend wrote optimistically. Things are back t ...
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Google's New Project: Your Health Records
Larry Magid takes a closer look at Google's new health service designed to let users keep all of their medical information in one place online.
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New 5.8GHz WiMax Pico-Base Station From Tranzeo With Proximetry's AirSync EMS Fills Market Niche
Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc., a leading producer of high-performance wireless broadband and WiMAX communication systems, announced today at WiMAX World EMEA its new low cost, turn-key 5.8GHz WiMAX pico-base station solution using Proximetry's market-leading intelligent provisioning and management software, AirSync(TM).
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Business Digest
TECHNOLOGY Eight former America Online Inc. executives, including chief financial officers John Michael Kelly and Joseph Ripp, were sued by U.S. regulators for allegedly helping overstate Internet advertising revenue by more than $1 billion from 2000 to 2002. Four of the executives agreed to pay more than $8 million to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed Monday ...
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Press Day: Google Heath is now public
Today Google hosted their "factory tour" which was basically a chance for them to give the press a good idea of what they have been working on. It was heavy on the explanation of how Google's search results are becoming smarter, and more able to predict what a person...
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Microsoft, Yahoo under pressure
Just two weeks after breaking off merger talks, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have been pulled back to the bargaining table by their fears about what might happen if they don't work out a deal. For now, Microsoft and Yahoo are still dancing around the edges as they explore possible business arrangements without melding the two companies. The notion of a half-baked deal didn't excite ...
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Flickr client for Mac allows editing, uploading, more
Eternal Storms Software on Monday unveiled a public beta for Flickery, a new Flickr image client for the Mac that allows Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users to browse, view, upload, manage, and comment on photos. Flickery features a minimalist interface, which can show several photos, or just a one-up approach in either full-window or full-screen. Eternal ...
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Microsoft chief scrambles in egg attack
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ducks for cover as irate student lets fly.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Backyard Brawls and Bloody Beat Downs
It's the latest trend for young men just looking for something to do: backyard brawling. These bloody beat downs leave people with broken bones and black eyes. And fighters are willingly jumping into the ring. Every punch is caught on tape, every fight is posted online. Is this a troubling trend or spontaneous sport?
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