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Yahoo sheds new light on Microsoft talks
Yahoo is offering its full account of the company's recent acquisition talks with Microsoft. The company issued a filing on Monday to the US Securities and Exchange Commission which included a copy of a presentation to shareholders.
Infomatics |
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Yorkville hotel robbed; clerk tied up
YORKVILLE — A hotel clerk was robbed at gun point and tied up early Saturday morning before the suspects fled the scene with $623 from the register and a laptop computer.
The Journal Times |
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Bar Facts: Profile
London’s latest gay bar opened its doors in Soho last week bringing to life the virtual world of Gaydar with free internet access and an interactive text screen service as well as broadcasts from GaydarRadio. In fact, it’s definitely what you want, when you want it!
RainbowNetwork.com |
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Amazon Japan DVD Ranking, December 2007—May 2008
The Internet retailer Amazon Japan has announced its top-selling DVDs for the six months between December of 2007 and May of 2008. Topping the list was Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone Special Equipment Edition.
Anime News Network |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 4th Oct 2006 18:44 UTC
I wonder. I would say the Windows backend is the problem here (what is it called ? GDI ?), not GTK+ by itself. I would say it is GTK's usage of GDI ;-) Because wxWidgets for example don't demonstrate this behavior.
New Mobile Computing |
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Business in brief
LOCAL Internet provider settles state lawsuit State Department of Justice officials have...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Yahoo Makes New Pitch to Shareholders as Stock Drops Further
Yahoo once again made the case to shareholders that its existing directors are better equipped to lead the company forward than an alternate slate proposed by Carl C. Icahn.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire
2muchcoffeeman writes "Former Linspire president and CEO Kevin Carmony — whose relationship with his former employer has turned acrimonious, to say the least — reported on his blog that Xandros and Linspire signed an agreement in principle to buy Linspire June 19. Carmody includes a scan of the memo to Linspire shareholders announcing the deal, which requires the former Linspire company to ...
Slashdot |
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Video game chip aiding oil exploration
An Austin-designed microchip built to power video game consoles might help speed up the search for deep oil reserves in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, IBM Corp. and the international oil company Repsol YPF are announcing today.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Yahoo's board takes case to shareholders
The missed opportunity to sell to Microsoft infuriated many Yahoo shareholders.
KABC-TV Los Angeles |
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The rules of infidelity today are blurry
We used to know what infidelity was: sex with someone other than your mate. But the 21st century seems to have blurred those clear-cut lines. Is having lunch every day with an opposite-sex work friend a breach of marital trust? What about a flirtation online? If there's no sex, is it really cheating?
USA Today |
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Google Retires the Adsense Referrals Program, to Make Way for GAN
Expectedly, now that Google has relaunched DoubleClick’s Performics ad affiliate network as the new Google Affiliate Network, there’s no point in maintaining the Adsense Referrals Program anymore. So, Google Adsense has just sent an official email to (I suppose) all Adsense members informing us that Google is retiring the Adsense Referrals Program starting the last [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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Microsoft To Drop Windows XP From New Computers
Today, June 30, Microsoft stops selling Windows XP at retail and major PC vendors, and will stop offering it as an option for consumers who buy new PCs.
CBS 3 Philadelphia |
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Yahoo sheds new light on Microsoft talks
Yahoo is offering its full account of the company's recent acquisition talks with Microsoft.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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McCurdy: Experience counts
Kay Leonard McCurdy has worked as a computer installer and troubleshooter in the Murray County school system, and also helped raise scholarship money for high school students. But perhaps her favorite title is stay-at-home mom.
The Dalton Daily Citizen |
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Sony applies for "tactile pixel" haptic touchscreen patent
Filed under: Displays , Gaming It's never clear how a company plans on implementing a given patent, but Sony's patent application for a haptic touchscreen composed of "tactile pixels" lists former Sony Computer Entertainment chief Phil Harrison as the inventor and makes several references to potential use in "a game device" and to "game events," so it's a safe bet that it was at least ...
Engadget |
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RuinediPhone petition against Rogers, alt data plans
In response to exorbitant pricing for the iPhone 3G data and voice plans suggested by Canadian wireless provider Rogers Communications, RuinediPhone.com (site down as of 9PM EST) has commenced operations with changing the telco's less-than-ethical pricing practices. Since launching at the end of last week, RuinediPhone.com has so far obtained just ...
MacNN |
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Internet Safety Panel at ISTE's NECC Trumpets Education, Awareness Building as Key in Advancing Online Safety
SAN ANTONIO , June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Attendees of the International Society for Technology in Education's (ISTE(R)) National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) received tools and tips on Internet safety at a town hall meeting, held Monday, June 30 , at the Henry B. Gonzalez Conference Center in San Antonio, Texas .
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Police track down teen who posted threats
A 13-year-old boy was given community service time and told to write letters of apology to the middle school girls involved in a threatening Web page he created on the MySpace social networking site on May 16.
East Bridgewater Star |
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NEC, Sumitomo Electric Will Acquire Undersea-Cable Maker OCC
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- NEC Corp. , Japan's largest maker of personal computers, said the company and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. will buy undersea-cable maker OCC Corp.
Bloomberg.com |
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Southwest tops in hedging
DALLAS — The computer screen on Scott Topping's desk at Southwest Airlines flickered with row after row of dates and numbers, but they had nothing to do with arrivals and departures.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Alan Weinkrantz: San Antonio will survive loss of AT&T headquarters
One year ago last May, I was invited to speak to 100 AT&T Inc. executives about my experiences, impressions and recommendations about their new Internet protocol TV service, U-verse.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Prep all-star football game to be broadcast on Web
OUD -- Crystal Clear Sports will be providing exclusive coverage of the 35th annual Minnesota High School All-Star Football Game via the Internet
Post-Bulletin |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 9th Nov 2005 04:27 UTC
Bob Young is, arguably, one of the most influential figures in the development of Linux and open source.
New Mobile Computing |
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(UPDATE 7:20 p.m. Added comment from one of the bloggers who was shut down by Google.)
Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google’s Blogger service.
New York Times |
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