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InternetRetailer.com - Daily News for Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Fiscal 2007 sales drop 9% for the newly formed Parent Co. The Parent Co. reported $106.5 million in sales for the 2007 fiscal year ended February 2, 2008, down about 9%, or $10 million, compared with sales of $116.5 million for the prior year.
InternetRetailer.com |
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FCC's Martin resurrects a-la-carte proposal, content providers respond
While Congress looks into the strange way the FCC chairman advanced his first, failed attempt to inject channel-by-channel programming into US law, cable programmers set up a proactive defense against a possible second attempt.
BetaNews |
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10 Billion Ways to Say ' I Told You So'
News Analysis. Maybe Microsoft's real motivation for buying Yahoo is regret. And ComScore served up plenty with March online video share numbers....
Microsoft Watch |
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Bollywood turns to online promotions
Yashraj's Tashan stars Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Akshay Kumar and Anil Kapoor.
Hindustan Times |
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New Open Source Census wants to know if you’re using OSS
A new open source census program allows users to scan their computers for open source software and submit the information anonymously to a census server that is tracking the popularity of various open source software packages. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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OSS Observer: Best Days are Ahead for SOA Market
Commercial success is catching up to the high expectations for the service oriented architecture according to a new report from OSS Observer . Over the next four years, the research firm projects the SOA market to enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 27 percent.
BillingWorld |
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Hal Stern's Virtualization Introductory Keynote at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
Hal Stern laid out thought-provoking possibilities, constraints, and some key social and technological implications of Web-next, open source and virtualization for data & application development, security & identity in his introductory keynote speech.
SYS-CON Media |
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Sigma Systems Passes 100 Million Managed Bundles
Sigma Systems said Wednesday its IP service fulfillment platform has surpassed managing 100 million bundled IP services for communications service providers.
BillingWorld |
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Stocks Climb on Earnings News
Reports from Coca-Cola, JP Morgan, and Intel boosted sentiment Wednesday. Investors also weighed inflation and housing data
BusinessWeek |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:01 UTC
Apple's Boot Camp has stirred things up quite a bit around the net. eWeek states: "CIOs have a lot invested in Windows and aren't going to junk the OS for Apple.
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Is there something wrong with Google's search ads?
Silicon Valley company reports first-quarter earnings Thursday. Wall Street waits to see if disappointing data on search ad clicks translates into disappointing profits.
CNET |
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Intel stock up despite lower earnings
Shares of Intel Corp. rose more than 7 percent on Wednesday morning, the day after the semiconductor giant announced a 12 percent drop in first-quarter earnings that nonetheless met analyst expectations. (INTC)
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Google adapts copyright-ID technology for child-porn fight
The fight against child pornography is getting an assist from technology designed by Google Inc. to help identify copyright-protected clips on its YouTube video-sharing site. Four Google employees used their "20 percent time" - during which the company encourages them to pursue unofficial, out-of-the-box projects - to customize the copyright software for the National Center for Missing and ...
The State |
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MyBrainTrainer.com Introduces New Downloadable Memory Game - World's First Personalized Brain Game
MyBrainTrainer.com, which debuted in 2002 as the Internet's first virtual mental gymnasium, today introduces another breakthrough - the world's first personalized brain game.
Centre Daily Times |
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Fluidigm Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Fluidigm Corporation announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to the proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock. Copies of the Fluidigm Corporation S-1 Registration Statement can be accessed over the Internet through the SEC's Web site at www.sec.gov. All shares of the common stock to be sold ...
Centre Daily Times |
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New York clown arrested for child porn
A New York children's party clown faces criminal charges for allegedly distributing hundreds of child pornography images on his computers, police said.
UPI |
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National left frustrated by police inquiry
The National Party is frustrated that a police inquiry has failed to find who took emails from former National Party leader Don Brash.
NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News |
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How Apple Can Fight Off Mac Clone
Computer giant may use technology to pull the plug on Psystar threat.
ABC News |
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Is there something wrong with Google's search ads?
Silicon Valley company reports first-quarter earnings Thursday. Wall Street waits to see if disappointing data on search ad clicks translates into disappointing profits.
CNET |
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Set to Open on 1,000 Screens April 18, Ben Stein's 'Expelled' Stirs Major Controversy
Even before its April 18 release nationwide, Ben Stein's movie, "EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed" has triggered heated reactions from both sides of the debate between religion and science.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Quark Publishing System 7.4 goes Leopard
Quark has announced Quark Publishing System 7.4, the second maintenance release of its industry leading collaborative workflow system. Based on Java, this release of QPS adds as support for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, full text search and LDAP support. In addition, the new QPS Web Hub now runs with Apple's Safari browser as well as Firefox. QPS user names...
MacNN |
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Google sneaks under standards radar
Avoids Microsoft pitched battle In stark contrast to Microsoft's recent battle, here and here , to get Open Office XML sanctioned as an international standard, Google has quietly pulled off a standardization coup for its XML-based KML geographic information language with barely a whisper of dissent.…
The Register |
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Google adapts copyright-ID technology for child-porn fight
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 (11:17 a.m.) The fight against child pornography is getting an assist from technology designed by Google Inc. to help identify copyright-protected clips on its YouTube video-sharing site.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Google adapts copyright-ID technology for child-porn fight
The fight against child pornography is getting an assist from technology designed by Google Inc. to help identify copyright-protected clips on its YouTube video-sharing site.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Police searching computer
out what happened to a missing Hilton Head couple.
WCBD-TV Charleston |
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