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Yahoo reorganizes in effort to restore order
Associated Press - June 26, 2008 2:54 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is setting up a new chain of command in hopes of restoring order after it snubbed of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion...
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Yahoo reorganizes in effort to restore order
By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is setting up a new chain of command in hopes of restoring order after it snubbed of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid.
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Schoolboy found hanged after his father confiscated his new Wii
Boy of 13 was found hanging from his school tie by his father just hours after a family argument over a Nintendo Wii computer game. Jake Roberts had celebrated his birthday just days before, and had used some of his birthday money to buy a computer game for his Wii console.
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ICANN approves domain changes
A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet worldwide has been given the go-ahead in Paris. The internet's regulator, ICANN, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on ending web addresses with the so-called "top-level" domain names, such as '.com' or '.nz'.
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Remote work raising issues
Should an employee get paid for reading a BlackBerry at the dinner table, sending an office email or posting a job-related blog at home?
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MySpace Releases Data Availability API
Social networking site MySpace is releasing a set of APIs later today that will allow developers to implement protocols for exchanging and synchronizing user profiles between their own applications and MySpace profiles. Users can share their basic profile information, as well as their MySpace photos, videos, and friend list. As we reported earlier , MySpace has signed up a number of ...
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Wi-Fi TV Inc. to Reverse Stock, Launch Shareholder Loyalty Program, Deliver Free Personal TV Stations to U.S., China ...
Wi-Fi TV Inc. today announced a Shareholder Loyalty Program, a reverse stock split and a new business plan aimed at aggressively growing the number of Wi-Fi TV registered users and potentially increasing the valuation and reducing the debt of the company.
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Ex-San Jose engineer pleads guilty to molesting two boys in 1988
A former San Jose computer engineer who spent nearly 20 years hiding from the law pleaded guilty to child molestation charges, Santa Clara County District Attorney's office spokesman Nick Muyo said.
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Can the Internet Save Indie Film?
News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio HP and the Not-So-Dismal Science Grand Malaise Settles Over GM An Interview With Kiss' Gene Simmons Subscribe to Portfolio magazine There was a time in the indie film business when specialty houses from the major studios stalked the earth, reaching into deep pockets to acquire the rights to distribute the ...
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Yahoo Reorganizes Product Groups as Executives Flee (Update2)
June 26 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang , facing defections by top executives after he rejected a $47.5 billion buyout from Microsoft Corp., will reorganize the Internet company's product groups to spark a turnaround.
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WELCOME GUEST! Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said.
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NEC Electronics America Announces New Single-Chip USB 2.0 Host and Peripheral Controller
NEC Electronics America, Inc. today announced to the Americas market an integrated USB 2.0 host and peripheral controller (part number uPD720150) designed to enable high-speed digital data sharing among various electronic products, such as digital cameras and printers.
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Prudential Real Estate Feeds Listings to Cyberhomes, Google Base and Oodle
Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., a Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) company, today flowed at least 140,000 for-sale property listings to Internet hot spots Cyberhomes.com, Google Base(TM) and Oodle. The move positions Prudential Real Estate affiliates' listings in front of the growing ranks of consumers who shop online for real estate and related services and information.
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Apple Expected To Build As Many As 17M iPhones This Year
An investment bank forecasted increased production volumes for Apple's iPhone, iPod, notebook, and desktop lines.
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Windows Vista Won't Be Inside Intel
Intel will not be deploying the Windows Vista operating system internally for its 80,000 workers.
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On the Boil: New Nano Technique Significantly Boosts Boiling Efficiency
A new study from researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that by adding an invisible layer of the nanomaterials to the bottom of a metal vessel, an order of magnitude less energy is required to bring water to boil. This increase in efficiency could have a big impact on cooling computer chips, improving heat transfer systems, and reducing costs for industrial boiling applications.
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Mobile Linux standards forum gives up
Efforts to standardize mobile Linux get put on hold after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it's merging with the Linux Mobile Foundation.
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Yahoo Trumpets Reorganization
Yahoo has announced a major reorganization to improve its technology and business operations.
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Daily Debrief: Defusing a P2P crisis before it starts
One of the Internet's pioneers is floating an interesting idea about how to fix network overload caused by peer-to-peer file transfers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Apr 2007 16:50 UTC
It's been a while since the latest Microsoft-should-open-source-Windows article, so SJVN felt compelled to write one . "Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure.
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Yahoo shakes up management amid shareholder revolt
Yahoo Inc. is setting up a new chain of command in hopes of restoring order amid the turmoil triggered by the embattled Internet pioneer's snub of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid. Under the new pecking order announced Thursday, Yahoo executive...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Aug 2005 17:44 UTC
Paul Thurrot (there he is again) compares Vista Beta 1 to Tiger : "For Windows enthusiasts, Windows Vista Beta 1 is a much-needed demonstration that Microsoft can still churn out valuable Windows releases, after years of doubt.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 17:36 UTC, submitted by anonymous
It seems that PC-BSD has set a trend. " DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 22:10 UTC
As expected, Microsoft said Tuesday it has appealed a July fine by the European Commission with the Court of First Instance, the European Union's second highest court. It accuses the EC of prolonging the case while the Redmond company attempted to comply with the ruling.
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Recent Original Stories
Red Hat's OLPC lead has written an update on the OLPC project on his weblog. "I wrote up a long update on where we are in the software and hardware for the One Laptop per Child project. We've gotten a lot done, but I don't think that's been communicated to the outside world very well.
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