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Yahoo: Google is a better bet than Microsoft
Execs justify decision to snub Ballmer Yahoo has sent a letter to its shareholders justifying its deal with Google, saying it will enhance the company's profitability and provide more shareholder value than the offer put forth by Microsoft to invest in Yahoo's search business.
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Yahoo Mail cross-scripting bug fixed
Vulnerability allowed hackers to send spam Yahoo has fixed a vulnerability in its webmail site that could allow a hacker to get access to a person's account.
PC Advisor |
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Crucial vote on internet's future
The net could see its biggest change in decades if plans to open up the address system are approved.
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Check It Out
(IsraelNN.com) The Histadrut national labor union and the Manufacturers Association are to sign an agreement Thursday allowing workers to use company computers for personal use, Globes reported.
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Bond gets permission to search paper's computer
The Western Australian Supreme Court will allow Alan Bond access to a computer owned by the West Australian newspaper to recover deleted documents relating to his defamation case.
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A refrigerator to boost computer performance!
Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system - a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers - small enough to fit inside personal computers (both desktops and laptops).
rediff.com |
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Chrysler offers Web service option in cars
Detroit - People who buy Chrysler LLC vehicles next year will have the option of turning their cars and trucks into wireless Internet hotspots.
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Google Connects With 'Friends': Facebook Gives Cold Shoulder
Google Friend Connect lets websites grow traffic by adding social features simply by adding a few snippets of code?no programming necessary. Social features are chosen from a catalog of widgets on the Friend Connect website that enable an end-user website to engage more people.
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Sony to invest $17 billion over 3 years, eyes LCD TV crown
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp <6758.T> said it would invest about $17 billion in key businesses and technologies over the next three years as it aims for the top spot in the LCD TV market and ramps up sales of high-definition video equipment.
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Online classifieds offer life of NYC luxury in exchange for sex
With summer rental season in full swing, plenty of New Yorkers are hitting the Web to simplify their apartment hunt. But they're finding themselves mining through, not only spam and scams, but plenty of veiled prostitution pitches.
New York Daily News |
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Sony to invest $17 bln over 3 yrs, eyes LCD TV crown
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McKean County Commissioners still studying whether to close the courthouse on Fridays; prospects look dim
SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners are still studying whether closing the courthouse on Fridays would be a practical way to save energy, but right now the prospects look dim.
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Recent Original Stories
Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called USD 100 laptop is poised to go into mass production . Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.
New Mobile Computing |
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Intellectual Property
In a decision that will affect the viability of patent licensing strategies now in use, the Supreme Court (Court) clarified the patent exhaustion doctrine.
Mondaq |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Oct 2005 16:48 UTC
Microsoft is taking a stand on an emerging tech that threatens to reshape software pricing models.
New Mobile Computing |
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Ericsson in New Contract for Outsourcing Internal IT Operations
Ericsson has signed a five-year IT outsourcing contract with HP including infrastructure services, application hosting platform, helpdesk, desktop support and output services for Ericsson.
Cellular-News.com |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Oct 2006 08:51 UTC
In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic . Ask around the office. You'll hear the Gen Xers sneer about how Microsoft's operating system is, well, so yesterday.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
The JNode team has released version 0.2.3 of the JNode operating system. JNode is an open source [LGPL] operating system written completely in Java (with a very small assembler nano-kernel).
New Mobile Computing |
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Northern Ireland News
Hi tech skills shortages in the computer software industry are to receive extra attention. The NI Employment and Learning Minister, Sir Reg Empey, has just launched a new action plan to tackle the sk..
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Recent Original Stories
"With the traditional Microsoft news media turning their collective ear to the rest of the industry, you have to suspect a changing of the guard. But Linux companies don't seem to guage their efforts by what the industry says about Microsoft. Linux just keeps chugging along.
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Internet gambling ban survives House Financial Services Committee in close vote
WASHINGTON - The House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday turned back two attempts to reverse a 2006 federal ban on Internet gambling.
Birmingham News |
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Recent Original Stories
"In the short time that I've spent using Ubuntu 5.10, I've really come to like it . The installation was painless, all my hardware was detected and configured correctly, package management was easy, and the clean-cut GNOME desktop is terrific."
OS News |
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Glen Iris Parents to Receive DVD Laptop Manual
Members of Leadership Birmingham will donate 1,000 DVD manuals for XO laptops to the parents of students at Glen Iris Elementary School. The group will ask the Birmingham Board of Education to accept their donation on July 8.
Birmingham News |
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Sony sees 10% ROE in 3 years on TVs, Blu-ray, chips
TOKYO - Sony Corp aims for return on equity of 10 percent in three years by raising profitability on its LCD TVs, and by expanding sales of PCs, electronic components, and Blu-ray DVD products.
Khaleej Times |
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UK tech students farm out coursework to India
Academics at Birmingham City University have warned that IT students are hiring coders in India to complete their coursework for as little as £5
ZDNet UK |
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