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My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born
Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew commercial and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with Bill Gates. It was often contentious, always intriguing, and more often than not frustrating as well. Part...
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Icahn - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. Wall Street hates the deal. Actually, what Wall Street seems to hate is the fact that Microsoft and Yahoo appear to have broken up for good.
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Big Buck Bunny builds a better Blender
Big Buck Bunny is the colorful product of the Peach open movie project: an animated short released online and on DVD. But in addition to the 'toon itself, Peach has produced an altogether different yield: improvements to the Blender 3-D modeling application. Like its predecessor Project Orange, Peach pushed the open source tool forward with the demands of a real-world media production, in a way ...
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Venture Capital and Finance
It sure must be painful for any arbitrageurs who bought Yahoo stock in hopes of selling it to Microsoft. For that matter, it must be painful for anyone who watched the stock go as high as $34.08 during Microsoft’s takeover battle.
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“Wall-E”: An Homage to Mr. Jobs
Talk about product placements. “ Wall-E ,” the Pixar movie that took in $62.5 million over the weekend, is chock full of references to Apple products. Perhaps that’s because Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, used to own Pixar before he sold it to the Walt Disney Company.
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AP-Yahoo News poll: 9 in 10 hit hard by gas prices
Four-dollar gasoline has stolen a beach vacation from Julie Jacobs' family, "little small luxuries" like exotic bath washes from Angela Crawford and dinners out from folks all over the country. Phil English has had to sell his beloved but fuel-guzzling red pickup.
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AP-Yahoo News poll: 9 in 10 hit hard by gas prices
Four-dollar gasoline has stolen a beach vacation from Julie Jacobs' family, "little small luxuries" like exotic bath washes from Angela Crawford and dinners out from folks all over the country. Phil English has had to sell his beloved but fuel-guzzling red pickup. Like a plague that hits every economic class, race and age, soaring fuel prices are inflicting pain throughout the U.S. ...
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FDAAdvisoryCommittee.com to Webcast the FDA Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee Hearing on July 1st ...
TalkPoint, leading provider of the Tools, Technology and Services for Interactive Internet Broadcasting, and FDAAdvisoryCommittee.com, the leading webcast and DVD source for FDA Advisory Committee Meetings, today announced that TalkPoint will be powering the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting scheduled for July 1st & 2nd.
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Review: Asus VW223B DisplayLink Monitor
It used to be a bit of a hassle to add displays to a computer. The first one was a given, and with the right video card the second one was easy as well, but after that you had to get creative. There were ways to add additional video outputs, mainly using expansion slots, but [...]
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Greenbrier Announces Webcast and Conference Call of Quarterly Financial Results
The Greenbrier Companies invites interested shareholders and other interested parties to listen to its third fiscal quarter ended May 31, 2008 financial results conference call live, either over the Internet or via dial in.
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AT&T Answers the Need for Speed in Charleston and Huntington
CHARLESTON / HUNTINGTON, W.Va. , June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Watch video on the go. Surf the wireless Internet at DSL-like speeds. Share live video during a wireless call.
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Internet Scam in Lonoke County
The Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office is currently looking into another internet scam. The scam consists of a threatening e-mail in which someone claims they have been contracted to kill you.
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Data Drives Vodafone Shares
Investors flock to stock on view that Europeans will use mobile Internet.
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Man sues old schoolfriend for libel after he made 'fake' entries on Facebook
A man whose personal details were 'laid bare' for all to see in fake entries on the Facebook social networking website today launched an unprecedented High Court damages action.
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Windows XP's last hurrah
Although it will be supported and sold in limited fashion for some time to come, Monday marks the Microsoft operating system's last day as a widespread option on store shelves and new PCs.
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Lenovo Intros Stylish Desktop PCs
Research Triangle Park (NC) - Lenovo announced its first serious attempt to break into the consumer desktop PC market outside of China.
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MarketingSherpa Study: Pepperjam Network Explodes onto the Affiliate Marketing Scene with Unprecedented Growth and ...
Pepperjam, the nation's fastest growing full-service internet marketing agency , announced today that Pepperjam Network -- the company's next generation affiliate marketing network -- is ranked among the top five affiliate marketing networks in the United States according to a recent study released by MarketingSherpa.
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Turkish criminal hackers hijack ICANN sites
On the eve of opening up a hierarchical naming system for the Internet, ICANN's sites are hijacked with a warning from criminal hackers.
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Qwest and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Expand Efforts to Block Access to Child Pornography in ...
Qwest Communications International Inc. and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) have expanded efforts to help protect children from online sexual exploitation. Under this voluntary agreement, Qwest is working with the NCMEC to block access to Web sites it has identified that contain child pornography.
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Acer, Apple, Dell, and HP Sued For Patent Infringement
Saxon Innovations, an intellectual property licensing company based in Tyler, Texas, says the tech vendors violated several of its patents.
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Qwest and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Expand Efforts to Block Access to Child Pornography
Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) have expanded efforts to help protect children from online sexual exploitation. Under this voluntary agreement, Qwest is working with the NCMEC to block access to Web sites it has identified that contain child pornography.
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LiPs, LiMo Join Hands in Mobile Linux Fray
LiPS and LiMo, two associations representing complementary interests, have agreed to merge their resources to develop a stronger ecosystem around Linux mobile development. The two groups share the same goal -- to develop a strong mobile Linux platform and community. However, they have chosen different means to achieve it. "One was [working on] standards, and one was focused on implementation," ...
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Dell Unveils Notebook Security Services
The latest offerings are an expansion of the computer maker's ProSupport portfolio of services.
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Computers plan high on COAG agenda
THE Federal Government will go to this week's Council of Australian Government's (COAG) meeting relieved in the knowledge its computers in schools program will go ahead as planned.
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Microsoft and SVOX to Provide Speech Technology for Automotive Infotainment Solutions
SVOX AG and Microsoft Corp. will join forces to speech enable in-vehicle communication, entertainment, information and navigation products. This new generation of in-car speech solutions will be designed to meet the automotive industry's growing demand for innovative, multi-lingual and high quality text-to-speech solutions.
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