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Yahoo to stockholders: ignore Icahn proxy cards
Yahoo Inc.'s board is urging shareholders not to sign or return proxy cards sent to them in connection with activist investor Carl Icahn's efforts to replace the company's current directors. Icahn, who like many shareholders is upset with the company's...
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Nasa and Google reach for the stars
Google is extending its reach to the stars in an agreement with Nasa that will allow it to present web visualisations of the US space agency’s data on the universe.
Financial Times |
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Now Google shows the night sky in a new perspective
Google is attempting to interest millions of internet users in star-gazing with the launch of a new feature called Sky. The programme is part of Google Earth, the popular free mapping service, and will allow users to view the night sky through a virtual telescope.
Financial Times |
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Does the U.S. need a new broadband policy?
Ken Hubbard worries that broadband speeds in the U.S. aren't adequate for the next wave of Web content. Hubbard, president of networking startup InteliCloud Technology, said he's generally not a fan of large government programs, but it may be time for the U.S. Congress to look at ways to encourage rollout of faster broadband services. Internet users are demanding more video and ...
InfoWorld |
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Soccer fans and African youths clash in Brussels
BRUSSELS, May 18 (Reuters) - More than 200 Anderlecht soccer fans and youths of African origin clashed on Friday in fighting organised on the internet which left police officers injured and led to widespread vandalism, a police spokesman said.
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Download these developer resources today! Sybase Download: SQL Anywhere Developer Edition
In his rationalization about why government-mandated open source software deployment is not a good idea, Microsoft's Director of Standards made some assumptions about what the real value of open source software (OSS) is for governments.
Linux Today |
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Students Learn Cyber Safety Lessons
A local telecommunications company has traveled to Dothan and Houston County schools to give lessons on cyber safety.
WTVY Dothan |
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All That Glitters (Is Not Gould)
At first blush, it would seem to be one of those delightfully zeitgeist-y romps through everyone’s favorite topic these days, The Relationship Between The Internet And The Self. A blogger, writing—in a premier print magazine!—about blogging. A writer oversharing…about oversharing! How ironic!
Columbia Journalism Review |
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Compete: Yahoo Gains A Little In Search
Several consecutive months of declines in US search market share per Compete's measurements finally halted for Yahoo in April 2008. read more
WebProNews |
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LAN centers link video gamers in a social setting
Within the first week of its release last month, "Grand Theft Auto IV" sold 6 million copies worldwide for Playstation 2 and Xbox 360 consoles. Nintendo's fitness simulator, "Wii Fit," which debuted at stores this week, is expected to have similarly strong sales.
East Valley Tribune |
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Ikanos Communications buys back 1 million shares
Computer networking company Ikanos Communications Inc. said Friday it bought 1 million shares from an institutional investor for $3.15 per share.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Analysis: Is Nokia under pressure?
Nokia, under pressure from Apple's iPhone, Google's Android platform and a host of new devices based on open source operating systems, needs to demonstrate its S60 platform will offer advantages like compatibility.
EETimes |
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Google I/O conference set for developers
At its Google I/O developer conference next week, Google will shed light on technologies such as Google App Engine, for building and hosting Web applications, and OpenSocial, the Google-backed API for social networking.
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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Face of the Exeter 'nail bomber': Police had been tailing Muslim convert before restaurant attack
The Muslim convert held after a nailbomb restaurant attack had been under surveillance by the security services, it was claimed last night. Counter-terrorist officers suspected mentally-ill Nicky Reilly had forged links with known Islamic extremists at an internet cafe near his home.
Evening Standard |
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MicroHoo: The Gates Factor
Sure, Microsoft and Yahoo are talking this weekend and they are talking about a lot of configurations of a revived deal to merge the companies together in some way that makes all parties happy.
AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Sep 2005 18:04 UTC
Again, a lot of news from the PDC. Microsoft unveiled its Expression Studio , which contains Acrylic , a vector and bitmap graphic editing and creation tool; Sparkle , a 2D and 3D animation tool; and Quartz , a design tool for page layouts and web sites.
New Mobile Computing |
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Leader to see online changes
INTERNET: New website platform will allow for cleaner, easier story organization
Stuttgart Daily Leader |
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Judge Orders HPD to Recover Guns Used to Kill Chase Suspect
A judge has ordered the city of Houston to recover the guns officers used in the fatal shooting of a high-speed chase suspect in April after his wife requested them as evidence in a lawsuit she filed against the police department.
FOX 26 Houston |
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Microsoft Seeks Testers For Home Server Patch
Microsoft is seeking testers for its beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1, which will include a fix for an elusive data corruption bug in the software.
ChannelWeb |
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Microsoft kills books search engine because books aren't fun
Hey Microsoft, this is exactly why you're losing to Google.
Salon.com |
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It's a net gain for state: WiMAX trials in July
Two giga-bytes per second. That will be your Internet speed very soon as WiMAX technology prepares to set foot in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar.
The Times of India |
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Motive surprises more than daughter killing Affair not reason enough to kill: Experts
New Delhi, May 23: Fathers and mothers have in the past burnt, drowned, hacked, strangled and shot their own children from various motives, according to medical studies on parents turning killers.
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Arnel’s incredible journey
The Internet can be a platform to stardom and Arnel Pineda is living proof. Thanks to YouTube.com, he’s rocking out with the biggest band on the planet.
ABS-CBNNEWS.com |
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Recent Original Stories
"Tired of all the ads on AIM? Want access to more services than just Yahoo!? There are lots of IM client choices besides the big three - AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger).
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Recent Original Stories
"The current Win32-based Windows UI graphics subsystem, found in Windows XP, has been around for nearly 20 years. It's aging and limited, and as a result, user interface development has been somewhat, well, constrained at best.
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