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Top 10 unusual places to stay
From converted train cars to converted prisons, travel Web site VirtualTourist.com has come up its picks of the 10 most unusual places to stay.
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Analyst sees higher sales for Yucheng
Yucheng Technologies Ltd., which provides computer support to the Chinese banking industry, should benefit from the approaching Olympics, said a Roth Capital Partners analyst on Monday, raising his revenue estimates.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Telemundo Pairs with Ford
Ford Flex SUV to sponsor El Crossover “online lifestyle destination,” Amores de Luna miniseries.
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Actuate First to Provide Support for Eclipse BIRT 2.3
SAN MATEO, Calif.----Actuate Corporation , the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, today announced that effective immediately, Actuate is providing full support for Eclipse BIRT 2.3, the latest version of the Eclipse open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Study: TV Web Sites Grow; Viewers Still Like Sets
Nielsen conducts study for Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing.
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eBay assailed over PayPal plans
Angry eBay sellers label the auction site "monolithic and dictatorial" at a conference convened by the competition regulator.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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Skyhook Announces New Hybrid Positioning System
Skyhook Wireless today announced its new XPS 2.0 location system that uses Wi-Fi, GPS satellites, and cellular towers for greater coverage, faster results, and improved accuracy.
Wi-Fi Planet |
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Yahoo’s New Pitch to Shareholders
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New York Times |
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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.
Centre Daily Times |
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NETGEAR Launches Open Source WGR614L Wireless-G Router
[ Thanks to Nobody for this link. ] "The high-performance WGR614L, which is "Works with Windows Vista" certified, features a 240 MHz MIPS32 CPU core with 16 KB of instruction cache, 16 KB of data cache, 1 KB of pre-fetch cache, and incorporates 4 MB of flash memory and 16 MB of RAM. In addition to an external 2 dBi antenna, the WGR614L integrates a second internal diversity antenna to provide ...
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The Sims 2 Store, All-New Online Shopping Destination for Your Sims, Goes Live Today
Now select from a range of thousands of items for your sims! June 30, 2008 - The Sims, an Electronic Arts Inc. Label, today announced that The Sims2 Store is live at http://www.thesims2store.com for online shoppers in the US and Canada.
IGN PC |
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OOXML Projects Bolster Microsoft's Interoperability Efforts
Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats as part...
PC World |
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Evans & Sutherland Receives Nasdaq Notification
SALT LAKE CITY----Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation today announced that it has requested a hearing before The NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel to appeal a Staff Determination to delist E&S’ common stock from The Nasdaq Global Market.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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9 in 10 see rising gas prices causing family hardship
Nine in 10 people in a new Associated Press-Yahoo News poll expect the ballooning costs to bite them financially over the next six months.
WTOL 11 Toledo |
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How Facebook stays afloat adding 250,000 users per day
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, speaks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about keeping the wheels from falling off as the social network grows at hyper-speed.
CNET |
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Are Your Computers Sky Divers?
Astute risk management defines success in the insurance industry. Premiums charged to the company's customers reflect that relation of risk to profit, while the riskiest ventures are avoided entirely.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Technology Companies Form Patent Trust to Curb Suits (Update1)
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Systems Inc. , Google Inc. , Ericsson AB, Hewlett-Packard Co., Verizon Communications Inc. and six other companies formed a group that plans to buy patents in a bid to reduce infringement lawsuits.
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Xbox Live Arcade To Get Namco Fighter Soul Calibur
Microsoft has announced that its next regular Xbox Live Arcade update will see the addition of Namco Bandai's Soul Calibur, a port of its classic fighting game, as well as new content for trivia game Wits & Wagers. The company says the Xbox Live Arcade version will bring a variety of Leaderboards for every character and mode, as well as HD support and the standard array of achievements. The ...
Gamasutra |
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Yahoo lobbies against Icahn takeover
San Francisco - Yahoo on Monday urged shareholders to reject a company takeover by billionaire shareholder activist Carl Icahn, claiming that the current board was best qualified to maximize shareholder value. The embattled company also claimed that ...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Yahoo lays out new case against buyout to its big investors
Yahoo began pressing a case to major shareholders today that its board and management deserve a chance to prove they made the right move...
Seattle Times |
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A bright future for plastics -- robot 'skin,' flexible laptops and electric posters
WITH market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry, from £1.5 billion to £15.5 billion, by 2014, it is no wonder that scientists and governments alike are keen to advance research into "plastic electronics".
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Recent Original Stories
"Since Apple announced Leopard last year during WWDC, MacOSXRumors obtained reports on two major features in the next release of Mac OS X. The first is a redesigned Finder making extensive use of Spotlight and the second is the inclusion of virtualization software . Recently sources have been indicating that Leopard will feature easy collaborative work throughout the OS. The main idea is that it ...
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Lenovo's Olympics infatuation continues with themed Ideapad U8 MID
Filed under: Handhelds Alright Lenovo, we get that you have a ridiculous obsession with Beijing and / or the 2008 Olympics, but seriously, enough is enough. We've got desktops , laptops , USB drives and even torches to show your unending love for the Games; the last thing we need is a questionably useful MID all dressed up in game day attire. Nevertheless, the company's Ideapad ...
Engadget |
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Government Computer News
Radiant Logic has rolled out RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server 5.0. The latest release of the VDS greatly simplifies the deployment of identity integration, company officials said.
Government Computer News |
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Microsoft to stop selling XP
Microsoft Corp is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers, despite protests.
News 24 South Africa |
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