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Your daily close-up online
MANILA, Philippines—It’s 11:30 p.m. and I am about to run out of time. I have exactly 26 minutes to take a proper self-portrait, one that I would be willing to share with the world. It had been an extra-klutzy day so I decided to take a picture of my right knee after bumping it against my office desk.
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EU says governments could bar Microsoft from bidding
Microsoft can’t necessarily be banned from competing for government IT projects because of its antitrust problems, according to the European Commission.
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Cablevision's Rainbow Media Completes Acquisition of Sundance Channel
BETHPAGE, N.Y., BUSINESS WIRE -- Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, the programming subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC), today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sundance Channel from General Electric Company's (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal, CBS Corporation's (NYSE: CBS) Showtime Networks, and entities controlled by Robert Redford.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Apr 2006 18:31 UTC
The community effort hosted by the Apache Software Foundation to create an open source, J2SE 5.0 compatible Java runtime/virtual machine is progressing slowly but steadily . Despite some indifference and prejudice by some OSS pundits, the project has been recently moving along nicely with key players like Intel and IBM contributing their own programmers and source code to the effort.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Oct 2005 13:16 UTC
This week, Microsoft announced that, with the next version of Office, it will support saving files to Adobe's Portable Document Format, or PDF. While logical, the move raises questions about how the PDF support will coexist with Windows Vista's move to its own page description format, known as Metro.
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Shinano Kenshi Corporation Moves U.S. Headquarters to New 10,000 Square-Foot Los Angeles, CA Location
Shinano Kenshi Corporation (SKC-North America), a leading Los Angeles, CA-based manufacturer of electronic motors for the automotive, medical, office, and computer peripheral markets, has announced the relocation of the company's headquarters to a 10,000 square-foot facility located in the lower west side of Los Angeles, an area that is burgeoning with other high tech companies that specialize ...
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Sony Ericsson intros long-lifed BT headsets
Sony Ericsson's multi-part announcements today round out with the introduction of three Bluetooth headsets. The PV740, PV720, and PV715 all have the best battery life of a headset from the company with a claimed 11-hour talk time and 800 hours of standby. All three automatically pair up with many devices and auto-adjust volume to compensate for l...
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Opening Glance: Internet software, services stocks
Most Internet software and services stocks rose slightly in morning trading Tuesday, while the overall market traded fairly flat as oil prices declined.
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Acacia unit gets Web radio ad technology patent
Acacia Research Corp. said Tuesday it acquired rights to a patent related to Internet radio advertisement technology.
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Intellectual Property
Addressing the rules of claim construction pertaining to preambles and preferred embodiments, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated the district court's summary judgment of non-infringement.
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Related News
Firefox 3 ships at 6pm (UK time) tonight, Mozilla has announced on its blog.
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Microsoft unveils first OS for portable navigation devices
Microsoft on Tuesday introduced its first-ever embedded OS for portable devices that use GPS (global positioning system) and maps to get people where they want to go.
IT World |
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WhiteFence Names Chip Smith Chief Marketing Officer
Accomplished marketing executive to drive marketing strategies for WhiteFence and its network of Web sites, products and services (PRWeb Jun 17, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/whitefence/new-marketing-officer/prweb1023904.htm
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'ER' Adds Quartet for Final Season
Shiri Appleby, Emily Rose joining NBC show "ER" is headed into the sunset this coming season, but the show is still adding new blood to its cast.
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mimoOn Expands Team with Wireless Experts from Nokia's Research Center
mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined radio solutions for advanced wireless standards, today announced the addition of key wireless and software engineers from Nokia's research location in Bochum, Germany and Helsinki, Finland. The team includes members with backgrounds and focus in software defined radio, baseband design, software architectures, and UMTS/LTE PHY and protocol layer ...
Centre Daily Times |
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iPodObserver - Adobe CEO: We're Working on Flash for iPhone
Just like many users, Adobe wants to see Flash on Apple's iPhone, and it looks like the company is getting closer to making that happen. Adobe has apparently been hard at work developing a version of its multimedia environment for the iPhone, but isn't ready to bring it the public yet, according...
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Hulu lines up summer premieres
Bring on the summer promotions! This week, Hulu.com is premiering new movies and TV series every day as part of its "Hulu Days of Summer" feature. Lost in Translation went online yesterday, and episodes of The Three Stooges went up...
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Google Code Jam 2008 Programmers Worldwide Invited to Participate in Google's Global Coding Competition
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that registration is now open for Google Code Jam 2008. Programmers ready to use their coding skills, creativity, and ingenuity to solve a series of challenges can register at http://code.google.com/codejam. The top 500 contestants will win an all expenses paid trip to the semifinals at regional Google offices, with the top 100 advancing to the grand ...
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AT&T looking at charging heavy Internet users extra
San Antonio-based AT&T is considering charging extra for Internet customers who download large amounts of data.
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BMC to go online: Give relief to common man
Bhopal Municipal Corporation is also going to become Online in the coming days.
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Microsoft To Create Search Research Center In Europe
The company has not decided on a location for the new facility, but said it hopes to have it open in its fiscal year ending June 30, 2009.
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User Friendly Blog by Ted Landau - My Neighbor Should Be in a Mac Ad
Here's a true story. My neighbor was in the market to replace his aging PC, running Windows XP. While he was debating what to get, I made a small effort to convince him to switch to a Mac. All in all, he seemed ripe for a switch. Still, in the end, he chose to get a Dell PC with Windows Vista pre-installed
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Verizon Targets Mobile Customers with New Bundle
Verizon on Tuesday provided more details about its Flex Double Play plan, which will allow wireless customers without landlines to bundle cell phone service with Verizon high-speed Internet and video offerings.
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Study: Americans use Net to look beyond sound bite
NEW YORK — Americans dissatisfied with political sound bites are turning to the Internet for a more complete picture, a new study finds.
Journal Inquirer |
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Official: U.S. needs to stop the nuclear black market
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is not doing enough to buy uranium and plutonium on the black market and keep it out of the hands of terrorists, criminals and rogue states, the Energy Department’s top intelligence official said Monday.
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