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Xbox 360 Price Cut Confirmed In Australia/New Zealand
Officials from Microsoft have confirmed that the Xbox 360 family of consoles will receive new price cuts in Australia and New Zealand. The Xbox 360 Arcade will drop in price by AU$50 to AU$349, while the Premium and Elite versions will fall by AU$80 to AU$579 and $AU649, respectively. Current exchange rates put the Australian dollar at near parity with the U.S. dollar. The news follows still ...
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Unstructured data poses security risk, survey finds
Slack internal governance rules blamed. Corporate information stored on file servers and network attached storage (NAS) devices is in danger of being compromised according to a new report. This is because IT governance policies and access rules in many companies are incapable of dealing with a massive growth of unstructured data.
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Remote Desktop Connection 2.0 Hits the Streets
After beta testing for more than a year, Microsoft finally released Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.0 for the Mac on Thursday. The new version Mac to Windows connection utility is Universal Binary, allowing it to run natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, and also added support for Windows Vista
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Everex is one of those names that seems as though it has been around forever. A survivor of the early PC era when there were dozens of brands that often were less than 100-percent IBM PC compatible, Everex burst onto the scene in 1983 and has been a solid presence ever since.
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Microsoft to sell Office, OneCare for $70 a year
Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software.
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Report: Microsoft readies new try for Yahoo
Microsoft is seeking partners including Time Warner and News Corp. in a new bid to acquire Yahoo's search business, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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Facebook said late Tuesday that it was not aware of any blocking of its sites in China, despite reports of outages from cities around China. "We are disappointed to learn of reports that users in China are having difficulty getting access to Facebook.
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Yahoo surges in premarket on report of new Microsoft deal; S&P keeps buy rating
NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - Shares of Yahoo Inc. surged in premarket trading following a report that Microsoft Corp. was preparing an attempt to acquire the Web portal's search business.
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Trojan lurks, waiting to steal admin passwords
Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections.
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Microsoft seeks allies for fresh Yahoo bid
According to The Wall Street Journal , the software giant has approached Time Warner and News Corp to aid another play for Yahoo's search business
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Microsoft and Yahoo rise on deal-talks report
NEW YORK - Shares of Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. rose in premarket trading today as the Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business.
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Sony's U.S. gadget demand good despite rising costs
Sony Corp. is seeing littleor no sign of softer demand among U.S. consumers for its range of digital TVs, cameras and computer goods despite a weakening economy, a top regional executive said.
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Simulations Plus Releases Major Software Update for Its Top Rated Predictive Software
LANCASTER, Calif.----Simulations Plus, Inc. , a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, announced that it has released Version 3.0 of its best-in-class ADMET Predictor software for predicting properties of molecules from only their structures.
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Xbox 360 pricing downed Down Under
Aussie gamers to be better off? Australian gamers have become the latest console fans to benefit from Microsoft’s ongoing series of regional Xbox 360 price cuts.…
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JANE GLENN HAAS: Spam thoughts take her back
Some things about my life I'm not particularly proud of.
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Poll: Obama Beats McCain As BBQ Guest
People would rather barbecue burgers with Barack Obama than with John McCain. While many are still deciding who should be president, by 52 percent to 45 percent they would prefer having Obama than McCain to their summer cookout, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Wednesday.
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Yoono Raises Additional US$4 Million from AGF
Yoono, a leader in developing solutions to simplify your Internet life and save you time, and Assurances Generales de France announced today AGF has extended the Series A with an additional US$4 million investment.
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Orbitz.com will become MSN's travel provider
Online travel site operator Orbitz Worldwide Inc. said Wednesday it will become the travel portal for software maker Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.com sites in the U.S. and U.K., replacing rival Expedia.com.
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Microsoft looking for a third to get in on the Yahoo action [Deals]
Microsoft's latest plan: acquire Yahoo's search business and convince either Time Warner or News Corp to snatch up the rest. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo board chairman Roy Bostock had a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Premarket Movers: Yahoo, Apollo rise; GM falls
(AP:NEW YORK) Investors responded positively to a report that Microsoft Corp. has not yet given up its bid to buy Yahoo Inc.'s search engine business, sending shares of the Internet pioneer higher in premarket trading Wednesday.
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Microsoft to sell Office, PC security software by subscription for $70 a year
(AP:SEATTLE) Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software.
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Justice Dept To Investigate Google-Yahoo Deal
Anonymous Oddity writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the Justice Department's investigating the Yahoo-Google advertising deal. Obviously the deal controls a massive portion of the internet advertising market. US Antitrust law isn't entirely intuitive, but it does tend to frown on large deals between companies that operate on the same level if those deals can be interpreted as ...
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New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-July
Microsoft has given its new Office-based software-plus-service bundle a new name -- "Equipt" -- and a due date (mid-July), company officials said on July 2. by Mary Jo Foley
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Fear Factor Holds Back Hosted Archiving
Despite the benefits and increasing popularity of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, companies are still wary about the idea of farming out data archiving to a partner.
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Beware the Coming of the Mac
Corporate IT staff had better prepare for a headache as the number of Apple Macs in the enterprise grows. Over the past two years or so, users have increasingly brought the Mac into the enterprise.
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