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High drama for the Yang and the restless
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo's management ranks are rapidly thinning as the internet pioneer fends off a shareholder mutiny threatening to culminate in the firing of Chief Executive Jerry Yang.
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"I Am Aware Of All Internet Traditions." [The Internets]
It's the official meme replacement for "the internets," "series of tubes," etc. and has to do Michelle Obama's angry, fictional rant against the Mayonaissians. [Wonkette]
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Lynch installed as president of AGs association
NEWPORT — Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said yesterday that he will use his new position as president of the National Association of Attorneys General to focus on Internet and new media technology and their effect on children.
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Recent Original Stories
"Computers in the European Union should be sold without a bundled operating system , according to this submission to the European Commission.
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by cmost (4.6) on Mon 20th Nov 2006 20:30 UTC
Many users contemplating OpenOffice should realize that Microsoft's "innovations" are likely contained within OpenOffice and therefore OO users owe MS. At least that's what Steve Balmer said.
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Microsoft suffered a stunning defeat on Monday when a European Union court backed a European Commission ruling that the US software giant illegally abused its market power to crush competitors.
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Yahoo's turmoil spreads as its top executives flee
For beleaguered Yahoo (YHOO), it's been a week of "Take This Job and Shove It." A number of top executives have fled the Internet company, leaving Yahoo with more key openings to fill.
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Lame NHS loses 31,000 patient records
Setting an example for irresponsibility, while violating security policies, the UK National Health Service NHS has lost unencrypted data on 31,000 patients. The data was lost when thieves stole several NHS laptops. by Michael Krigsman
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Deal Reached On Telecom Immunity
WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders have agreed to a compromise surveillance bill that would effectively shield from civil lawsuits the telecommunications companies that helped the government wiretap phone and computer lines after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, without court permission. The House was expected to pass the bill Friday, potentially ending a monthslong standoff about ...
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Lynch installed as president of AGs association
The Rhode Island attorney general says his one-year term will focus on issues relating to children and the Internet.
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Telstra to join Optus and Vodafone on the iPhone bandwagon
It appears as though Telstra will belatedly jump on the iPhone bandwagon and will offer Apple’s 3G mobile device some two weeks after rivals Optus and Vodafone make it available to the public.
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Microsoft adds a record 11,200 employees
Bolstered by big acquisitions, Microsoft Corp. has set a company growth record -- adding a net total of more than 11,200 employees to its worldwide ranks this fiscal year.
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Tulsa-based Vidoop Moves Out
Tulsa loses a promising Internet security company.
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Google Shows Their Gay Pride in Search Results
Google is doing their part to celebrate gay pride and gay marriages in California with a new addition their search results for gay oriented terms; flying the gay pride flag between the organic search results and the Adwords search results on the right side of the serps. A colleague sent me a screenshot he [...]
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Battery leasing could help ease anxiety about hybrids
Greener cars that rely more on electricity than gasoline may also generate more consumer concern about the longevity of their costly, high-tech battery packs.
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Woman says she lost thousands from hacked PayPal account
One Indianapolis woman said thieves somehow got into her PayPal account. They got a lot of money but, luckily for her, the problem is being worked out.
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PC and Components
Like many gearheads, I've owned a lot of portable computers over the years -- and I've wanted to replace every last one with a smaller, sleeker upgrade, from the "luggable" Apple IIc onward.
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Bill Gates is transitioning out of his full-time role at Microsoft , the software giant that's been under pressure due to a sagging stock price, competition from Google and nagging delays in the Vista operating system.
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by dindin (2.36) on Mon 26th Feb 2007 16:07 UTC
After using FreeBSD on servers and Desktops for more than 6 years (even during the 5.x years), I switched. I still have servers running FBSD, but newer servers are brought up on Ubuntu Server. They are very much stable and quite easy to adminsiter.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 20:39 UTC
PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later , a security expert said Thursday.
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TV ads more than Internet likely to sway Asian buyers
Consumers in Asia, including those in the Philippines, prefer television as a medium for advertising over the Internet, an International Data Corp. (IDC) survey showed.
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Firefox 3 Downloads Hit Eight Million on First Day
According to Mozilla, the company's web browser Firefox 3 was downloaded more than 8 million times in its first day of release on June 18th.Firefox, the open-source alternative to Microsoft&...
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Yahoo planning reorganisation: WSJ
LOS ANGELES - YAHOO is considering a reorganisation to centralise its mail, search and homepage divisions into a global product organisation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, quoting people familiar with the matter.
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New Computerized System Estimates Geographic Location Of Photos
Researchers have devised the first computerized method that can analyze a single photograph and determine where in the world the image likely was taken. It's a feat made possible by searching through millions of GPS-tagged images in the Flickr online photo collection.
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Two Mayo pharmacies out of business temporarily
A computer glitch has put two large Mayo Clinic pharmacies out of business temporarily, sending patients to a third store nearby.
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