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Earlier MS offer rejected
Microsoft offered $40 a share to buy Yahoo in 2007 - $9 more than their February 2008 offer.
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Chuck Jaffe: Victory for online real-estate brokers opens door for consumers
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- There's a big, annoying ad campaign for a popular insurance company where the punch line of every commercial is "I saved a bundle on my car insurance."
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'Fixing' Flash Lite 3 on the Nokia E90
You'll recall that the Nokia E90 Communicator recently received a major official firmware update, to v210.34.75, as reported by me here. This brought the E90 into a pretty mature state apart from the fact that Web's Flash integration seemed horribly broken, but only for some people.
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WSJ: Icahn to seek removal of Yahoo CEO Yang
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn would seek to remove Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo Inc if Icahn succeeded in a proxy battle against the company over its failure to reach a deal with Microsoft Corp, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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U professor awarded for music technology
U professor Renate Kesler received an Award of Merit from the Utah System of Higher Education on May 23 for technological innovations she implemented in her music class. Kesler managed to update and transfer a print-based music correspondence course to the Internet last year.
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AMD rolls out new laptop chip package
SAN JOSE, Calif - Advanced Micro Devices rolled out a new package of chips for laptops today, a major overhaul of its mobile lineup the chip-maker hopes will help it climb out of a deep financial trough.
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Wal-Mart enters online classified ads market
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s largest retailer, has launched an online classified advertising site, a move that opens a broader range of shopping to Wal-Mart’s Internet customers.
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Utah Jazz: Team gets a closer look at Roy Hibbert
The Jazz today will get an up-close look at Roy Hibbert, a 7-foot-2 senior center from Georgetown University who several Internet sites predict will be taken by Utah with its No. 23 overall first-round selection in the June 26 NBA Draft.
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Teachers get $12m to learn how to use computers
With hardware commitments for schools in place, Minister for Education Julia Gillard has now announced funding to train teachers up on how to use their new PCs.
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Banks raise net profit to CZK 12.7bn in Q1
Prague, June 3 (CTK) - Czech banks raised net profit by 23 percent year-on-year to Kc12.7bn in the first quarter of the year, data from the Czech National Bank (CNB), made public on the Internet, have shown.
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Internet museum of Communism to be launched
Prague, June 3 (CTK) - The World Internet museum of Communism will start operation as of January, providing information about the emergence, development and consequences of this ideology, a U.S. foundation head Lee Edwards said at the Conscience of Europe and Communism international conference in Prague Tuesday.
Prague Daily Monitor |
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BCS to contribute to European ICT skills agenda through e-Skills Industry Leadership Board
The British Computer Society (BCS) will play a key role in developing the ICT sector's contribution to the development and implementation of the European Union's e-skills and digital literacy agenda after joining the e-Skills Industry Leadership Board (ILB).
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US embassy in Prague warns of visa agents
Prague, June 3 (CTK) - The U.S. embassy in the Czech Republic has warned the visa applicants to be cautious when using the Internet as there is a webpage demanding 600 crowns for the filling in of the request, the commercial television station Nova said Tuesday.
Prague Daily Monitor |
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Job vacancy: Senior Technical Support Officer
(Ref: FI12) Move IT Forward! This is an exciting time for IT within Harrogate Borough council with many new systems and technologies being implemented to support new ways of working with investment matching the council’s commitment to advance the ICT Service.
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Apple back-to-school deal promotes free iPod touch
Apple kicked off its annual back-to-school promotion in the US and Canada on Tuesday, offering rebates of up to $299 toward the purchase of an iPod touch or iPod nano when bought with a qualifying laptop or desktop Mac.
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Meeting of the Minds: The Making of Floating Point
“It's the music that drives everything” says H Sridhar, chief audio engineer of John McLaughlin's outstanding new CD Floating Point (Abstractlogix, 2008), a recording session well-documented on this DVD. One cannot but agree with this observation for, despite the banks of computers and a mixing desk the size of a small battleship in the setting of the sophisticated AM studio in Chennai, it is ...
All About Jazz |
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Dave Douglas & Keystone: Keystone Live at the Jazz Standard
With the success of trumpeter Dave Douglas' twelve virtual CD collection of music from a six-night run at New York's Jazz Standard in December, 2006 with his longstanding Quintet—the download-only versions, representing twelve hours of music, ultimately distilled into the hard two-CD set, Live at the Jazz Standard (Greenleaf, 2007), that brought together all the Quintet's new music—it's no ...
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GateHouse to offer social network service
The collaboration with TownConnect will also allow GateHouse to offer advertisers targeted opportunities for placing online ads.
The Brockton Enterprise |
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Control over four
In certain computer world reality where four PCs reign on a single desktop, the best solution to gain control over these four machines with a single keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) is to have a 4-port USB KVM switch.
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Alabama man agrees to return to Idaho to face charges
PASCO, Wash - An Alabama man agreed Tuesday to go back to Boise, where he allegedly picked up a teen girl he met on the Internet and drove about five hours to southeast Washington.
The Idaho Statesman |
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New Website Helps Home Improvement Industry in Slow Market
May 30, 2008 - Yodle, a leader in local online advertising and lead generation, today launched HousingDownturn.org , a resource site that empowers small business owners in the contractor and home-improvement industries with the information they need to grow their business in a slow market.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Sep 2007 17:09 UTC
Columnist Bill Thompson at the BBC asks whether the time has come for Apple to be put under the EU microscope in the same way as Microsoft has.
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft has reached an enormous success with its Windows product during the last decade and practically monopolized the market for home computer operating systems. But, does it mean Windows is still the best OS around, especially for power users?
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Recent Original Stories
The European Commission fined Microsoft 280.5 million euros ($357.3 million) on Wednesday to punish its failure to comply with a landmark 2004 antitrust ruling.
New Mobile Computing |
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Sandisk intros drives for low cost PCs
NEW DELHI, INDIA: SanDisk Corporation has introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for an emerging new category of portable consumer electronics – called Ultra Low-Cost PCs (ULCPC) or “netbooks” – that allow users to have an enhanced experience while easily surfing the Internet using wireless communication.
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