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Toyota to build new battery plant
TOKYO : Toyota Motor Corp., seeking to stay in pole position in the fuel efficient car race, unveiled plans Friday to build a new factory producing batteries for eco-friendly vehicles.
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US Tech Shares Drop; Yahoo Down As Director Resigns
Technology stocks found the going rough in morning trading Friday, with Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) among the decliners after one of its board members resigned and the Internet giant postponed its shareholders' meeting.
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Analyst sees price erosion for Cree
(AP:NEW YORK) Cree Inc., which makes lighting chips for computers and other products, is facing a fall in prices because of oversupply and competition, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Daniel Amir warned Friday.
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98% of Enterprises Implementing Virtualization Are Using Multiple Platforms
ComScore has upped Google's US search share. It was 59.8% in March and now for April it's 61.6%. It gave Yahoo 20.4% and Microsoft 9.1%. HP and Foxconn International, a unit of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry, the big contract manufacturer, are building a $50 million factory outside St Petersburg where they will produce a half-million PCs a year for the Russian market starting next year. ...
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Actiontec launches a DSL modem/router combo
If you're a DSL user with a bad case of box clutter, here's some good news for you. Another vendor is offering a DSL modem/wireless router combo, combining two devices into one. Actiontec just announced that its new 54Mbps Wireless Modem (GT724WGR) is available...
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HP Grows Horns
'I believe that this move has really polarized the ecosystem. They've essentially declared war - or at least hostility - toward all of their ecosystem - the outsourcers and the integrators that historically were a key part of HP's software strategy. I in the last 24 hours have spoken with very senior executives - either level one or level two executives - of four of the largest technology ...
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Microsoft's Cashback Plan for Live Search Purchases
It looks like Google isn't the only one to discover there's money in search: consumers will start getting some greenbacks, too. Microsoft this week launched a program called Live Search cashback that pays cash rebates to customers who find and buy products using the software giant's search service.
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Huge Hole in Open Source Software Found, Leaves Millions Vulnerable
It is incredible just how big the effects of the newly discovered error in open source key generation is...
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Extreme Makeover Napster, AOL and OLPC Edition
Sure, there's "Weeds" and "The Office," but the studios sure didn't throw open the vaults and let Netflix have its way with their film libraries. Still, Netflix has scored a coup with the launch of its $99 Netflix Player by Roku, a set-top box meant to do battle with Apple TV for dominance atop your TV set.
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THE DANGERS OF BLOGGER LOVE
That happens when you fall for someone who airs every detail of her life on the Internet? As Joshua David Stein found out, romance can never win in a sphere where nothing is private. At 25, I felt like a full member of the blogging revolution...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 8th Dec 2007 23:09 UTC
"Leading up to next week's public beta-test release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate, Microsoft today has published a 17-page document outlining in fine detail exactly what difference SP1 makes to Vista.
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Microsoft's Ballmer finds eggs don't suit him
The first thing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thought of when a Hungarian student attacked him with eggs this week was that he had to keep his suit clean, he said on Thursday.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 17th Aug 2007 02:22 UTC, submitted by randommsdev
Microsoft has announced the release of Windows Live ID Web Authentication. This means that WLID (formerly known as Passport) is now opened to third party websites to use as their authentication system. Any Windows Live user can potentially log in to a website that implements Web Authentication.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd May 2008 11:04 UTC
The Equinox Desktop Environment is a small memory footprint desktop environment built on top of the extended FLTK toolkit ('Fast Light Tool Kit'). EDE features a desktop, a Windows-like panel with 'start' menu, taskbar, and system tray, support for theming, and graphical front-ends for software installation, xscreensaver configuration, and much more.
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Google's search share surges, everyone else's drops in just one month
At this rate, the time is within sight when the question of whether combining the smaller players in the search space to make one bigger one, may become moot.
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It's not just Symantec that wants to call foul on Microsoft; McAfee got in on the action today
with a full-page ad in the print edition of the Financial Times. The ad accuses Microsoft of engaging in dangerous practices that are creating 'inherent weaknesses' in Windows Vista. And by 'inherent weaknesses', McAfee means limitations on what their own products can do.
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Reuters Technology Summary
Yahoo buy not a strategy in itself.
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Post-Spamalot, Clay Aiken Enjoys Hanging With Homos at Houston's
We didn't realize that Clay Aiken's tenure as Sir Robin in Spamalot was already up, so when a friend spotted him last night dining at a Houston's on E. 27th & Park (she was on an Internet date, so that explains her reason for being there), we wondered who was understudying him so he could go out for steak during show time.
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Top Comments
My experience publishing Narco News over four years has taught me a lot about utilizing the Internet to do journalism. The Internet is a young if already overpopulated frontier where there is a glut of material and a scarcity of quality, especially when it comes to journalism.
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Ofcom deregulates 70 per cent of broadband market
Andrea-Marie Vassou, Computeract!ve , Friday 23 May 2008 at 16:08:00 Could mean better deals for consumers Telecommunications regulator Ofcom has announced that it will deregulate around 70 per cent of the UK's wholesale broadband market in a move that could mean cheaper broadband for customers.... > Read the full article
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IT glitch hits Child Trust Fund
The Treasury acknowledged that a computer glitch is affecting some 100,000 Child Trust Fund payments to the poorest children, but said that no one will lose out.
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Analysis: Feds bust Romanian cyber-ring
WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) -- U.S. indictments unsealed this week charge 38 people with being part of a multinational cybercrime ring that fooled thousands of Americans into giving up credit card and bank information through spam "phishing" e-mails and used it to steal millions of dollars.
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Analyst: IPTV to continue growth but comes under pressure
LONDON — While the internet protocol television (IPTV) market will continue to gather momentum over the next four years, competition from other video delivery platforms will make it increasingly difficult for service providers to convince consumers to invest in services according to new research from analyst firm Canalys (Reading, England).
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Finavera Renewables Increases United States Presence With S&P's Market Access Program Listing
Finavera Renewables Inc. announced today that its company information is now available via Standard and Poor's Market Access Program, an information distribution service that enables subscribing publicly traded companies to have their company information disseminated to users of Standard & Poor's Advisor Insight, an Internet-based research engine used by more than 100,000 investment advisors.
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