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Icahn to Yahoo: Sell to Microsoft for $49.5 Billion
Carl Icahn increased his pressure on Yahoo, demanding that the company put itself up for sale for a little more than US$34 a...
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Hands on: Gmail Labs adds alpha features to beta product
Gmail has introduced a new Labs area where users can have early access to potential new features. Ars Technica takes a few Gmail Labs products for a spin while wondering if Google will stop muddying the definition of "beta." Read More...
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Icahn, Yahoo exchange barbs on Microsoft deal
Yahoo Inc. investor Carl Icahn said the Sunnyvale, Calif. company should sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $34.37 per share, or for $49.5 billion. (MSFT) (YHOO)
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Wireless Phone Users in Monrovia, Indiana, Now Experience Even Clearer Reception and Fewer Dropped Calls
Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site in Monrovia that expands network coverage, enabling more customers to use their wireless phones concurrently to make calls; send and receive email and text, picture and video messages; download music, games and ringtones; view high-quality videos and browse the Internet, while enjoying clearer reception and fewer dropped calls.
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Google silences Android critics
'It is an open platform. Just not yet' Last month, on the official Android discussion group, David "Lefty" Schlesinger posted a message that questioned the open sourciness of Google's fledgling mobile platform. And he was promptly muzzled by Google developer advocate Dan Morrill.…
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Yahoo: Icahn 'has no credible plan'
In response to Carl Icahn's letter urging Yahoo Inc. leaders to reconsider a sale to Microsoft Corp., the Sunnyvale company today said Icahn "has no credible plan to operate Yahoo" and his suggestion "would not be in the best interest of our shareholders." (MSFT) (YHOO)
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New play explores what search reveals about us
(AP) -- They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person?
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New Water-Cooled Design Accelerates Computer Power
The future of powerful computing may be all wet. That's the outlook as IBM and the Fraunhofer Institute on Thursday demonstrated a 3-D stack of computer chips cooled by water. The concept means the industry may continue to innovate well into the future. In conventional computing, chips and memory are placed in rows. But designers have known that placing them in 3-D stacks accelerates computing ...
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Will We Recognize the Future?
Futurist Ray Kurzweil explains the idea of the "singularity" — what happens when technology advances so much that it's impossible to predict what happens next. Will artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and biotechnology be able to completely reshape what it means to be human?
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Yahoo's Poison Pen Pal; Free Internet but No Porn
Newly revealed court documents have Yahoo squirming. It now appears the company may have spurned an offer from Microsoft worth $40 a share way back in 2007 -- months before all its hand-wringing over a much-publicized, much-lower bid. Yahoo apparently also declined an earlier offer of a search advertising partnership with Google -- something it later sought out as a way to keep Microsoft at ...
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EBay 101, part two
For eBay guru extraordinaire Jim Griffith, eBay has become not only a consuming passion, but an important part of his daily life, both personally and professionally.
Summit Daily News |
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Shutterbugs awarded at national competition
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada and Mississauga-based Microsoft Canada have announced the 2008 winners of the CanTech Digital Arts Contest.
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Finally! A useful digital pen
The pen, once mightier than the sword, has been getting trounced by the keyboard in the computer era. Now and then there's a push toward "pen-based computing" that doesn't get very far.
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DIRECTV and Thomson Launch New Version Of Unique Multi-Family Housing Triple-Play MFH3(TM) Distribution System
Recently recognized as the most significant and innovative technology for the multi-family housing market, the MFH3 (Multi-Family Housing version 3) satellite-based distribution platform developed by DIRECTV and Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453) (NYSE: TMS), is being rolled out with a new software release that doubles the number of DIRECTV receivers MFH3 will support, providing a more ...
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Walt Disney World Resort Hits Google Earth
Would you like to visit Disney World for free and not have to deal with any crowds at all? Google Earth now has interactive, 3D tour of Disney world available to help people plan their vacations and check out Disney World sights. The goal of the 3D them...
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Icahn tells Yahoo to sell for $48.7 bln
Carl Icahn on Friday told Yahoo Inc that it should offer to sell the company to Microsoft Corp for $34.375 per share, or about $48.7 billion, as the financier fired another volley in an acrimonious war of words.
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Genesis to Revelation Now on Amazon Kindle
NEW YORK, June 6 / Christian Newswire / -- God's Word has found a new home--on Amazon Kindle. As of today the Contemporary English Version of the Bible (CEV), a modern-day translation of the American Bible Society, can be instantly accessed through the Amazon device without the use of a computer.
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2K Sports Announces Superstar Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics as Cover Athlete for NBA 2K9
The most popular and top-rated basketball game gets even better this year. June 6, 2008 - 2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced that 11-time NBA All-Star and 2008 Defensive Player of the Year Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics will be featured as the cover athlete and spokesman for this year's most highly anticipated ...
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FTC launches antitrust probe of Intel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation of semiconductor maker Intel Corp for anti-competitive conduct, Intel and the FTC said on Thursday.
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FTC opens antitrust investigation into Intel
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an antitrust investigation into chip maker Intel, the agency and Intel said Friday. Intel said the FTC served a subpoena on the company Wednesday. The company will work cooperatively with the FTC to provide information, as it has since 2006, when the FTC began an informal inquiry, Intel said in a statement. "The company believes its ...
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Intel Said to Face Antitrust Investigation
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation of Intel for anticompetitive conduct, government officials and lawyers said Friday.
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Blunt to sign bill making cyberbullying illegal
O'FALLON, Mo . -- A measure outlawing cyberbullying is about to become law in Missouri. Gov. Matt Blunt is scheduled to sign the bill Friday afternoon at a library in St. Charles County.
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Icahn Puts A Price On Yahoo!
Corporate raider tells the Web portal to sell to Yahoo! for $34.75 per share and remove its ''poison pill'' severance plan.
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Obama and Coburn introduce strengthening transparency and accountability in federal spending Act of 2008
On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) today introduced the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008 (S.3077), which would expand the information available on USASpending.gov, as well as make the data more accessible and readable. USASpending.gov (aka "Google for Government"), created by the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding ...
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