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Microsoft exec says Live Search needs image fix
The executive in charge of Microsoft Corp.'s search efforts acknowledged Tuesday that the company's "Live" brand for search and online services leaves much to be desired. Now that Microsoft has abandoned its $47.5 billion takeover bid for competitor Yahoo Inc., its marketing team is working on fixing Microsoft's search image to make it more competitive with Google Inc., Kevin Johnson, president ...
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Spiralfrog.com to offer downloads from EMI artists
SpiralFrog Inc., which operates an ad-supported, free music and video download Web site, said Monday it will soon begin offering content from Coldplay, Keith Urban and other recording artists as part of a new licensing deal with EMI Music. Terms of the deal between the New York-based company and Britain-based EMI Music, a unit of EMI Group PLC, were not disclosed. The EMI deal gives ...
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Life in Bonita: Discrimination in real estate does exist, along with stupidity
A remarkable story came through my feed reader on the Internet which had to do with housing discrimination. It initially grabbed my attention because it noted that it happened in Englewood, but it turns out it was a different Englewood, in New Jersey. A mortgage broker in an attempt to bring attention to a home going to auction allegedly sent out a postcard mailer to an entire neighborhood.
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Icahn blasts Yahoo board, targets CEO Yang for removal
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn stepped up his rhetoric against Yahoo Inc. Tuesday, reportedly outlining plans to seek the removal of CEO Jerry Yang if his proxy challenge against the company's board of directors is successful.
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Comcast Beginning 'Net Neutrality' Testing
Comcast said Tuesday that it would begin testing a so-called "agnostic" approach to managing bandwidth traffic during high-peak periods. The 30-day test comes in response to complaints leveled to the Federal Communication Commission that the company is managing traffic by stifling peer-to-peer traffic exclusively.
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Yet Another Personal Area Network Technology
Ozmo with Intel's backing introduces a new personal area network (PAN) technology designed to leverage Wi-Fi for two separate purposes.
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In the Google age, openness is a virtue
Facebook is standing at a critical juncture. If it turns one way, it could reach its grandest ambition - to be the Google of people. If it turns the other way, it risks becoming the next AOL or Yahoo - the next has-been.
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Recent Original Stories
I'd love to use Fedora 9 but it strikes me as too risky at the moment. Linux is my main desktop rather than a fallback, and KDE 3.5x on Debian Testing works very well with a bit of tweaking. Just as well as Ubuntu, in fact. I need something that's darn reliable.
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Prosoft drive utils ship on Leopard startup DVDs
Prosoft has updated two of its programs, which now have the option of free Leopard Boot DVDs. The discs should allow users to run the applications when a hard drive is otherwise unaccessible. The first of the programs, Data Rescue II, is intended for emergency file recovery, and can copy information from corrupt or unmountable hard drives, and re...
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Analyst predicts large potential iPhone market
As the WWDC approaches, excitement for the 3G iPhone builds, and industry analysts predict that Apple will have many new potential users with current and future carriers. Barron's Online writes that Pacific Crest's Andy Hargreaves on Tuesday offered his take on the whole situation. Hargreaves notes that the carriers with which Apple has agreements ...
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UPDATE: Icahn Blasts Yahoo Board, Targets CEO Yang For Removal
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn stepped up his rhetoric against Yahoo Inc. Tuesday, reportedly outlining plans to seek the removal of CEO Jerry Yang if his proxy challenge against the company's board of directors is successful.
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Microsoft Advises Windows Users To Restrict Safari Use
Microsoft has officially responded to the discovery of a "blended threat," the design of Safari that allows a malicious Web site to download and clutter the user's download space with a myriad of unwanted files. This is the so-called "Carpet Bomb" effect. While Microsoft's Security Response Center is working on the problem with Apple and is not calling it a vulnerability of either Windows or ...
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UPDATE: Chip Giants Unveil Plans For Mobile Internet Devices
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Chip giants this week took aim at what analysts see as the next major growth area for the tech industry: the market for mobile Web-connected devices that are bigger than cell phones but smaller than regular laptops.
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IBM Lotus Symphony Turns 1.0
Open Document Format (ODF) comes of age today as IBM (NYSE: IBM) announces the commercial-grade, general availability of Lotus Symphony (http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony), a suite of free, ODF-based software tools for creating ...
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Philly news anchor target in FBI probe of scandal
An evening news anchor is under federal investigation and off the air after his fired co-anchor complained that someone may have hacked into her e-mails and leaked them to gossip columnists.
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IBM, Acrobat offer response to Google Apps and Office
The official rollout on Tuesday of IBM???s Lotus Symphony suite of productivity applications along with the launch yesterday of the official beta version of Acrobat.com from Adobe has all the experts asking the same well-worn questions: Now that Adobe, IBM, and Google all have skin in this game, is Microsoft Office under siege yet? And which online offering comes closest to being a viable ...
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Microsoft readies Oslo previews
Microsoft this October will launch Community Technology Previews of the three primary components of its Oslo project for model-driven software development, a company official said at the TechEd 2008 conference in Orlando, Fla. on Tuesday.
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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PeerApp Announces Support for Pando's P2P Protocol, Offering Internet Service Providers Greater Network Efficiency for ...
PeerApp Ltd., the leader in intelligent media caching and content acceleration, announces support for Pando Network's P2P protocol. The collaboration between PeerApp and Pando further enables Internet Service Providers and content owners together to improve delivery of peer-to-peer content over the Internet.
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Book review: Open iPhone Application Development
Johnathan Zdziarski's book Open iPhone Application Development is a guide writing applications for the iPhone without engaging the restrictions of Apple's official software development kit (SDK). The book takes readers on a concise tour of iPhone jailbreaking, setting up the free compiler tool chain, writing basic Objective-C apps, and the available libraries and APIs. Apple might not like this ...
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ARM11 SoC targets PMP, PNDs
— May 27, 2008 — Freescale Semiconductor has announced the latest in its i.MX line of Linux-friendly multimedia system-on-chips (SoCs) for mobile devices.
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Carl Icahn steps up campaign to oust Yahoo board
Tue, Jun 3, 2008 (1:02 p.m.) Activist investor Carl Icahn doubts Yahoo Inc. seriously considered Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, deepening his determination to oust the Internet pioneer's chief executive, Jerry Yang, and the rest of the company's board.
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Microsoft exec says Live Search needs image fix
Tue, Jun 3, 2008 (1:02 p.m.) The executive in charge of Microsoft Corp.'s search efforts acknowledged Tuesday that the company's "Live" brand for search and online services leaves much to be desired.
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Va. high court to reconsider state's anti-spam law
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Supreme Court will reconsider the case of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes tomorrow. The Raleigh, North Carolina, man in 2004 became the first person in the country convicted of a felony for sending unsolicited bulk e-mail, or spam.
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Flash attack may as well have been zero-day
Guest Editorial by Dino Dai Zovi It has almost been a week since the Adobe Flash zero-day attack false alarm.  Since then, a number of people have called Symantec out as being irresponsible for crying wolf and announcing the raising the ThreatCon without fully researching the vulnerability (Full...
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Report: Icahn will seek Yang's removal
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn will try to remove Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang as the company's CEO if his proxy battle is successful, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. In an interview with the newspaper, Icahn accused Yang of being unwilling to consider Microsoft's acquisition offer and costing the company money in his efforts to deter the deal. He also said that Microsoft ...
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