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Yahoo claims all talks with Microsoft have ended
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com , Friday 13 June 2008 at 10:20:00 We're not talking with Redmond, says Yahoo board Microsoft's announcement that it would still be amenable to an "alternative acquisition" of Yahoo was met with a terse rejection from the web firm last night....
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Microsoft leaves door open for Yahoo deal
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com , Friday 13 June 2008 at 10:10:00 Redmond giant still happy to discuss 'alternative transaction' Microsoft issued a statement last night asserting that it was still happy to discuss an "alternative transaction" for part of Yahoo....
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IBM upgrades enterprise Web 2.0 tools
Enhanced Lotus Connections on offer. IBM is shipping upgrades this month to its Web 2.0-based social networking tools for business. The company is adding capabilities to its Lotus Connections tool to enhance profiling, data display and collaboration.
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Obama camp fighting rumors online
By NEDRA PICKLER WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word whitey in a speech from the church pulpit as it launched a Web site to debunk rumors about him and his wife. The rumor that Michelle Obama railed against "whitey" in a diatribe at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ has circulated on conservative Republican blogs for ...
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U.S. & WORLD
NEWS TO KNOW 1 Dogged by Internet-driven smear attacks, Barack Obama's campaign launches a Web site to combat rumors. 5A 2 Boy Scouts are praised as heroes after a twister kills four at a camp in Iowa. 9A 3 How does Bush judge Bush? The president ponders his good and bad points and what he believes his legacy will be. 14A 4 The U.S. salmonella scare halts Mexican tomato exports and floods ...
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U.S. Stock-Index Futures Decline; Anheuser-Busch Retreats
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures slid before reports that may show an increase in inflation and a drop in consumer sentiment. Procter & Gamble Co., the largest U.S. consumer-products maker, and Microsoft Corp. retreated in Europe.
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Firefox Keeps Nipping at Microsoft
The latest version of its Web browser should help Mozilla take a bigger bite of the market
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Ad Accord for Yahoo and Google
Google and Yahoo said that they had reached an agreement under which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo’s search results.
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improve their image in the Linux community ."
"Last year when AMD announced their acquisition of ATI it led many to wonder how this would impact the quality of their Linux support and driver.
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09:52 (BST), 13/06/2008 Eschalon: Book II Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – June 10, 2008 ...
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – June 10, 2008 – Basilisk Games, an independent computer game developer specializing in role-playing games, today announced that Eschalon: Book II has entered full production and is expected to be released Q2 2009 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux-based computers.
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09:56 (BST), 13/06/2008 NHL 2K9 Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS – 2K Sports, the sports publishing label of ...
– 2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced that the next iteration of the popular hockey franchise, NHL 2K9, will be coming to the Wii™ console from Nintendo this fall.
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10:06 (BST), 13/06/2008 Top Spin 3 Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS 2K Sports announced today that Top Spin 3 for ...
2K Sports announced today that Top Spin 3 for PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii™ home video game system, and Nintendo DS™ has gone gold.
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Digital pioneer Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project to put cheap computers in ...
transform education in the developing world, uplifting the poorest of the world's poor by bringing them into the information age. He believed that giving computers to the world's poorest children would help lift them out of the cycle of poverty and give them a better education.
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Microsoft Surface heads to the casino
Microsoft’s Surface, the 30-inch touchscreen tabletop, is starting to make it’s way to market with one of the first venues to receive them being a Harrah’s Entertainment casino. The screens are part of a gaming table, of which Harrah’s has ordered 6. At a cost of US$10,000 each that’s a significant spend, but they hope [...]
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Macaulay explains how things work
Want to know how your computer mouse works, how your nose filters air or even how a cathedral gets built? Ask illustrator/author David Macaulay.
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Google provides tips on duplicate content
Duplicate content is an important issue and something that can have an adverse effect on a website’s search engine rankings. So lots of site owners will be pleased to hear that Google has provided some tips on how to address it.
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Business digest
The Yahoo-Microsoft deal dies and Google gets ads, plus Exxon Mobil is getting out of the retail gasoline business.
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ACMA to hold all Gujarat associations meet
AHMEDABAD, INDIA: Representatives from 15 IT channel partner associations from all across Gujarat will gather in Ahmedabad on June 14 to discuss the formation of a common IT body, under which all IT associations in the state would converge.
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When Google met Yahoo! - the deal explained
Search engine rivals Google and Yahoo! announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement under which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo!'s search results and on some of its Web sites in the United States and Canada.
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Google does it again.
Not content with beating rival search engine Yahoo in its quest to dominate the Internet, it now provides financial data - the one area Yahoo has an advantage over it.
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Penny Arcade game now on Steam
The first episodic Penny Arcade Adventure is now on Steam, the point-and-click title available to download now from Valve's online distribution platform.
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Google signs advertising deal with Yahoo
Google has announced an agreement that lets Yahoo use its AdSense for Search and AdSense for Content advertising programmes. The news follows Microsoft's statement that it would be open to an alternative transaction to acquire Yahoo, and Yahoo's curt dismissal of any such deal.
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China denies lawmakers' allegations on Capitol hacking
China denied accusations by two US lawmakers that it hacked into congressional computers, saying that as a developing country it wasn't capable of sophisticated cybercrime.
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Yahoo claims all talks with Microsoft have ended
Microsoft's announcement that it would still be amenable to an "alternative acquisition" of Yahoo was met with a terse rejection from the web firm last night.
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Microsoft leaves door open for Yahoo deal
Microsoft issued a statement last night asserting that it was still happy to discuss an "alternative transaction" for part of Yahoo.
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