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eBay told to pay $61M to fashion brand for fakes
(AP:PARIS) A French commercial court Monday ordered eBay Inc. to pay more than $61 million to a high-end fashion company because counterfeit goods were sold on the auction site.
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Australians Pay up to 5X More for Software Downloads
When compared to the same software available in the United States, Australia gets soaked on the...
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Buy A House, Get A Bride
A single mom in Florida who's selling her home on the internet hopes to find a husband at the same time. More
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Google Blocks Anti-Obama Blogs Flagged Incorrectly As Spam
My day started reading about how Google was reportedly censoring anti-Barack Obama blogs by shutting them down on Google-owned Blogger. I quickly did some debunking in a comment on our Sphinn site -- but still, Google probably needs to do more to ensure its Blogger spam reporting tools aren't being abused -- especially given how it says these "can't be manipulated by angry mobs." Right now, it ...
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The Free Media Movement said seven journalists, including a defence columnist, had been assaulted since May 1. One journalist was hacked to death in May in the island nation’s northern district of Jaffna.
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Evans & Sutherland Receives Nasdaq Notification
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation (E&S) (NASDAQ: ESCC) today announced that it has requested a hearing before The NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel (the "Panel") to appeal a Staff Determination to delist E&S' common stock from The Nasdaq Global Market.
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hi5 Networks Enhances Real-Time User Interaction with Acquisition of PixVerse
hi5 Networks, one of the world's largest social networks, announced today its acquisition of PixVerse, Inc., an innovative provider of rich, real-time interactions within social networks. Built on its breakthrough Flash(TM)-based, no-download virtual world platform, PixVerse developed the popular and highly interactive Pix Chat and Pix Wall applications, which run on hi5 and other social ...
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Windows XP Officially Retired By Microsoft
Microsoft will no longer make Windows XP available to large computer makers, such as Dell, Lenovo, or Hewlett-Packard, or to software retailers.
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Microsoft and SVOX to Provide Speech Technology for Automotive Infotainment Solutions
SVOX and Microsoft will join forces to speech enable in-vehicle communication, entertainment, information and navigation products.
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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, including the design of a new translator for exchanging OOXML (Office Open XML) and HTML documents. The company also posted the 1.0 version of technical documentation for protocols in Office and other software that enable those applications to interact with third-party ...
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Former Intel head pushes electric cars
U.S. should consider ways of retrofitting the 80 million low-mileage vehicles to make them capable of running on both gasoline and electric power, Andy Grove says
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Yahoo takes its defense against Icahn to investors
Mon, Jun 30, 2008 (11:27 a.m.) Yahoo Inc. began pressing a case to major shareholders Monday that its board and management deserve a chance to prove they made the right move when they rejected a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.
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Lasers, software and the Devil's Slide
Running for more than 1,000 kilometers along picturesque coastline, California's Highway 1 is easy prey for many of the natural hazards plaguing the region, including landslides.
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New Web site for Sparta 'makes it so easy for you'
Sparta Village is rolling out the red carpet on its new branding campaign and Web site. "It's been a massive project," said Elizabeth Gorski, Sparta downtown development authority (DDA) director, "but it's going to be worth it."
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Rhapsody Tries to Drown Out iTunes
RealNetworks' Rhapsody thinks it knows how to end Apple's dominance of the online music distribution scene: remove the digital locks on its songs; make key deals with A-list names in media, wireless providers and social networks; and let consumers preview entire songs, not just 30-second snippets.
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Actuate First to Provide Support for Eclipse BIRT 2.3
Actuate Corporation (1015;NASDAQ:ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits(TM),
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It has been confirmed Monday that the online community for the “Korean Alliance for the Impeachment of President Lee Myung-bak” on Daum, one of the “online strongholds” that have recently threatened advertisers of three major daily newspapers, has even recruited so-called “owl correspondents” to make threatening phone calls to these advertisers.
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You Ask, Altucher Answers
James Altucher answers question on banks, Microsoft and more.
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Red Online Tunes Service Africa
The music business is known for supporting causes with events like the Live Aid and Live Earth concerts, which generate lots of money and publicity for a relatively short time.
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Java computing: Second cup?
"Oh crap," thought James Gosling. The Sun Microsystems vice-president was walking down a dark alley in a seedy part of Paris, and a shady-looking man was on his tail. Gosling headed for a street lamp. Once there, he turned and saw his pursuer approach.
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MarketWatch First Take: Was Microsoft really not serious about Yahoo bid?
Yahoo Inc. says Microsoft, its former suitor, was really not serious about doing a deal at all, an observation that actually was floated by at least one Wall Street analyst at the time the talks came to light earlier this year.
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Encryption might not protect Net Neutrality
NETWORK RESEARCHERS in Italy published a paper in IEEE Communications last month on " Detection of Encrypted Tunnels across Network Boundaries" (pdf) that might lead to technical means for those wanting to censor Internet traffic - think authoritarian governments (cough, China) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) throttling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) - to target particular user sessions for " ...
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Facebook's Heiliger on buying servers, data management
Facebook is building out its infrastructure so it can keep up with the 250,000 new users it adds each day. In an interview Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks about server purchasing strategy. In a CIO Sessions interview with Dan Farber (see...
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Vonage spent more than $204,000 lobbying in 1Q
Internet phone provider Vonage Holdings Corp. spent more than $204,000 in the first quarter lobbying on telecommunications regulation, according to a disclosure report.
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Renowned Doctor and Professor Jeffrey P. Levine Joins CalorieKing Advisory Board
SAN DIEGO, BUSINESS WIRE -- CalorieKing, the leading provider of online weight management tools, announces that Jeffrey P. Levine, MD, MPH, has joined the CalorieKing Advisory Board.
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