|
Linkin Park Adds Busta Rhymes to 2008 Summer Tour
ACCLAIMED HIP HOP INNOVATOR WILL PERFORM WITH LINKIN PARK, CHRIS CORNELL, THE BRAVERY, ASHES DIVIDE ON PROJEKT REVOLUTION MAIN STAGEREVOLUTION STAGE HEADLINED BY ATREYU AND FEATURING 10 YEARS, HAWTHOR...
Broadcast Newsroom |
|
TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Wednesday
Carl Icahn announced his plan to oust Yahoo's CEO, and Tyson Foods lost almost 9% after word spread that 15,000 chickens with the bird flu were destroyed. See what other stocks made the news today.
TradingMarkets.com via Yahoo! Finance |
|
Hampton police arrest one, looking for another in burglary
HAMPTON Policeandnbsp;have arrested one man andandnbsp;are looking for another in connection with a burglary.andnbsp; Two men broke into a home in the first block of Hawthorn Place on May 27, police said. When the owner came home the men ran away, dropping a laptop computer and an Xbox game sys ...
The Virginian-Pilot |
|
Carl Icahn steps up campaign to oust Yahoo board
SAN FRANCISCO - 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.
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News |
|
Wikia Search Invites Users to Stir the Pot
Wikia Search -- the open source search engine Wikia initially launched in January -- got a fresh start Tuesday. The refurbished version lets users edit, comment on and influence search results. After performing a search query on any major search engine, a user typically gets a static results page -- the information it contains is determined largely by an algorithm.
LinuxInsider.com |
|
Icahn blasts Yahoo's CEO, board
The activist investor, who says the Internet firm didn't take Microsoft's $47 billion buyout offer seriously, wants Jerry Yang and other board members out.
CNN Money |
|
Intel unveils chips for mobile Web
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Intel Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a new processor it says will revolutionize the information technology industry by powering small laptops at low cost.
Dallas Morning News |
|
Icahn Steps Up Pressure on Yang as Yahoo Shareholders Urge Sale
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang is facing increasing shareholder pressure to sell the Internet company he founded or step aside.
Bloomberg.com |
|
User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has launched a new version of Wikia Search, a search engine based on the notion that communities of people can produce better search results than Google's sophisticated algorithms.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
|
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 11th Mar 2006 21:23 UTC
"The Cell chip isn't just for gaming - IBM is using it to power its next generation of blade servers, and we have the pictures to prove it. IBM has showed off a prototype blade server based on the Cell processor in action this week.
OS News |
|
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Jun 2006 18:41 UTC, submitted by Linux User
Scott Morris has replied to the statement made by Microsoft's Bill Hilf that Linux poses no threat to Windows on the desktop. "I'm telling you, SLED 10 will be the first Linux platform ever that can truly address all of the issues to be considered when looking for a desktop platform.
OS News |
|
Time Warner to test metering Internet use
Switch to DSL as they won't ever have this problem. It's been said all along that cable internet will have a capacity problem once they got a lot of users on their systems. You share that cable internet line in your neighbors while DSL your line is totally seperate from your neighbors.
Tulsa World |
|
Taking iSight Party Photos and Syncing to Apple TV
For those who would like to liven up a party a little, The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted an Automator workflow to take pictures with an iSight camera, sync them to an Apple TV and create a slide show
The Mac Observer |
|
Google Launches Site Search for SMB Enterprises
On Tuesday, Google launched Google Site Search, a rebranded version of Google Custom Search Business Edition. Site Search makes it possible for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to offer Google search capabilities on their Web sites.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
|
Time Warner Launches Bandwidth-Capped Internet Plan
On Thursday, Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president, said the plan will be launched as a trial in Beaumont, Texas, and will consist of several tiers. The first tier, at $29.95 monthly, will be a relatively slow 768 kilobits per second with a 5GB monthly cap, while a plan at $54.90 per month ...
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
|
Asus, Acer Offer Mini-Laptops Built on Intel's Atom
Intel's Atom processor took center stage at Computex this month in Taiwan, where several mini-laptop makers introduced new products featuring the chipmaker's power-efficient microprocessors and companion chipsets. Though the so-called "netbook" market segment is currently tiny, Intel believes that 2008 will be the first year that more mobile computing devices will be sold than desktop computers.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
|
CEOs: To blog or not to blog?
By all accounts, General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz's blog is doing its job. It's short, snappy, has frequent posts and is interactive, just what experts say a blog should be. In http://fastlane.gmblogs.com, Lutz addresses reader concerns and criticisms on vehicles and the company. He also uses it to promote new products and technology. Reader posts show a dialogue happening between ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
|
Documents Hint at Yahoo Malfeasance to Block Microsoft
In a revelation that could have wide-ranging implications for Yahoo, documents unsealed in a shareholder suit show the company rejected a deal to outsource search to Google just one day before Microsoft made its infamous takeover offer.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
|
Icahn to Seek Removal of Yahoo CEO Yang: Report
Carl Icahn wants Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang gone.
Baseline |
|
Washington DC
CHICAGO , June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- InStep Software LLC, a leading provider of real-time software systems and solutions, announced today that InStep has teamed with the Exelon Corporation to win the 2008 nuclear reliability Top Industry Practice ("TIP") award for excellence.
The San Francisco Examiner |
|
The Congressional Management Foundation Will Release Report on How the Internet Has Changed Citizen Interactions with ...
WASHINGTON----The report, Communicating with Congress: How the Internet Has Changed Citizen Engagement, by the Congressional Management Foundation discusses the results of survey research with citizens about their motivations, perceptions, and expectations of communications with Members of Congress.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
|
Microsoft Offered $40 a Share For Yahoo
fistfullast33l writes "Bloomberg is reporting that a recently unsealed court case by shareholders against Yahoo reveals that Microsoft offered $40 a share for the Internet search company in January 2007 and Yahoo turned it down. We've extensively discussed Microsoft's bid for Yahoo earlier this year for $33 a share, which was rebuffed. Investor Carl Icahn has launched a proxy fight against Yahoo ...
Slashdot |
|
Potentially Useful Data on Latin American Internet Culture
From ad:tech Miami's "Latin American Consumer Habits and Online Behavior" panel. Information was provided by CEO Fabia Juliasz of ibope/NetRatings.
adrants |
|
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. These components include a modeling tool, a repository, and a declarative programming language, said Steven Martin, director of product management ...
InfoWorld |
|
Comcast to test new way to manage Internet jams
Comcast Corp., under fire for the way it treats subscriber Internet traffic, will start tests this week to see if it can avoid traffic jams by targeting neighborhood bandwidth hogs rather than file-sharing programs. The tests will be conducted in...
San Francisco Chronicle |
|
|