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Expedia hits 52-week low as analyst prefers Google
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of travel Web site operator Expedia Inc. fell to an annual low Monday after a Citi Investment Research analyst took the stock off his top picks list, preferring shares of Google Inc.
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AP-Yahoo News poll: 9 in 10 hit hard by gas prices
AP-Yahoo News poll: 9 in 10 hit hard by gas prices WASHINGTON — Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline has stolen a beach vacation in South Carolina from Julie Jacobs' family and exotic bath washes from Angela Crawford. Phil English 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. Nine in 10 ...
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Cellphone software shows where the crowds are
A new software application for mobile devices enables users to see, down to the nearest intersection and in real time, what zones of a city are attracting crowds and what streets have the most traffic.
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Hi5 Plucks An App Developer From Its Platform
Second-tier social network Hi5 has acquired app developer PixVerse for an undisclosed amount, just four months after launching its app platform based on the OpenSocial specification. PixVerse offers several applications such as Pix Chat and Pix Wall, which are Flash-based and run on not only Hi5 but other social networks like Facebook as well. The company [...]
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Eagle Expands Use of Microsoft WPF Expects to create new software more quickly with a richer interface By Penny Crosman
Eagle Investment Systems , a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon , today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Microsoft to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) , a framework and tool set for developing client applications that are deployable via the Internet.
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AP-Yahoo News poll: 9 in 10 hit hard by gas prices
WASHINGTON - 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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The Blessings of Synchronized Releases
[ Thanks to Nobody for this link. ] "The picture is very different for the open-source world. When a small open-source projects such as Coccinella issues a new release, you may at best see a review by a blogger or by some obscure local computer magazine.
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Eagle Expands Use of Microsoft WPF
Expects to create new software more quickly with a richer interface
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O-Games Announces Impressive Lineup of Videogames for 2008
June 30, 2008 - O-Games, a new publisher of interactive and social videogames and part of the worldwide videogame publishing group, Oxygen Interactive Software, announced today its enterprising lineup of titles due to be released in 2008. The upcoming titles exemplify a wide variety of genres aimed at players of all ages, from real life simulation and action adventure games to puzzlers and ...
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IBM Unveils Cognos Business Intelligence Software for Mainframe Customers
Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence software is now available, for the first time, for Linux on System z.
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Fuel Prices Important Issue to Americans
It's a record commuters do not want to hear. Oil prices have reached $143 a barrel for the first time. Gas prices in Rochester are averaging $4.24 a gallon. According to a new Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll, two-thirds of those responding consider gas prices an extremely important issue.
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Mashable’s Guide to Conferences and Events
Here’s Mashable’s latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media sponsorship. July 2, 2008: We’re right smack in the middle of summer in San Francisco. It’s the perfect time for an old-fashioned Big Summer Geek Out! Come on down [...]
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Qualcomm threatens Intel with low-power chip
Intel might do well to be alarmed by Qualcomm's new computer chips that use less than half the power of a similar chip recently introduced by Intel. Intel, Qualcomm, personal computer, chip maker
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NYT: Gartner and Even MS Engineers Think Windows Must Change
While Apple and the Linux community make frequent improvements to their OS, Windows has become an obsolete monolith, according to the New York Times on Sunday. The design deficiencies of Windows are now becoming painfully obvious; it could use a rush of fresh air
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Court rules against eBay on fake products
A French court ordered Internet auction giant eBay to pay $61 million to luxury goods company LVMH for the sale of counterfeit merchandise.The company claimed 90 percent of the items sold on eBay as LVMH products are fakes, and the auction site should do more to police the situation.EBay said it would appeal the decision on behalf of consumer choice and the livelihood of law-abiding sellers that ...
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State provides $981K to train workers in nanotech, health care, energy
Businesses in the Albany, N.Y., region got a slice of state aid on Monday to fund their employee training and internship programs. (AMD)
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Lyris Pushes Web Marketing Toolset Downstream
Lyris has upgraded its flagship product and rolled out a new application for the marketing and advertising industry. The enhancements to Lyris HQ pave the way for a steady addition of collaboration and social networking tools this year. Lyris HQ for Agencies, meanwhile, will provide an inroad into a new constituency: advertising and marketing firms that serve multiple clients.
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New Metro Rapid Bus Lines Begin Operation
LOS ANGELES -- A half-dozen new Metro Rapid bus lines began operating today, replacing six limited-stop lines. Rapid transit buses are equipped with computers that can trigger green lights as they approach signals, making them 25 percent faster on average than normal buses, according to Metro.
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Shunra Marks New Milestone for Interoperability with HP LoadRunner
Shunra today announced the HP certification of Shunra VE Desktop for HP Software, a Windows-based
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 18:48 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Through all the Windows and Microsoft bashing on the intertubes, it's almost easy to forget that Windows does, in fact, have quite a few positive aspects as well.
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Quantum computing in semiconductors doable
U.S. physicists say the odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon chip may lead to the possibility of achieving quantum computing in semiconductors.Purdue University researchers say they've created a hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be intentionally manipulated -- a required step in the building of quantum computers.Up to now large-scale quantum computing has been a ...
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CGS Named to Prestigious List of 'Top 20 Companies in the Training Outsourcing Industry'
Computer Generated Solutions, Inc. , a leader in innovative IT solutions and outsourcing services, today announced it was named to TrainingOutsourcing.com's 2008 list of the Top 20 Companies in the Training Outsourcing Industry.
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Yahoo Launches Olympics Mobile, Web Sites
Yahoo has launched both a stand alone Web site and a mobile site dedicated to the upcoming Summer Olympics as part of Yahoo Sports’ planned expanded coverage of the two week event, which kicks off on Aug. 8 in Beijing, China.
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Bill would regulate online pharmacies
Federal and state officials are asking help from Congress in getting control of online pharmacies.
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