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Microsoft teams up for Yahoo talks
Microsoft has talked to other companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo.
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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...
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TechCrunch Teams with Conduit to Debut Innovative Capabilities of the Conduit Website Syndication Platform
SAN FRANCISCO, BUSINESS WIRE -- Conduit, a leading provider of website syndication solutions for web publishers, and TechCrunch, a leading technology blog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies, today announced the roll out of TechCrunch content offerings on the Conduit platform.
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Improving Diagnosis Of Osteoporosis: Computer Simulations Help Predict Fracture Risk
Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists have demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of actual human bone structure. This achievement may lead to better clinical tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, a widespread disease that worldwide affects one in three women and one in five men over the age of 50.
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Google, Yahoo ad deal under scrutiny
The Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal struck last month that would allow Internet titan Google to provide some search advertising for Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
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Microsoft to Offer Office by Subscription
Microsoft Corp plans to introduce a new way to sell its Office software suite on Wednesday, offering customers a subscription model instead of the traditional one-time license fee.
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Microsoft Builds Iowa Data Center
July 2, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports on Tuesday, software giant Microsoft announced it will be building a data center in Iowa.
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Sony Gadget Demand Good Despite Rising Costs
Sony Corp is seeing little or 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 on Tuesday.
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Orbitz Travel Sites Replace Expedia at MSN
Orbitz Worldwide Inc said on Tuesday its Orbitz.com and ebookers.com websites have replaced Expedia Inc as the travel agencies for Microsoft's Internet arm MSN.com in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Justice Dept Opens Google-Yahoo Antitrust Probe
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal between Google and Yahoo to share some advertising revenue, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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DISH to End AT&T Partnership By Year's End
DISH Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television provider, said on Tuesday it received notice that phone operator AT&T Inc is ending their agreement at the end of the year to sell TV, phone and Internet packages.
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AOL Launches BigDownload.com
AOL announced the launch of BigDownload.com, http://www.bigdownload.com, a new content- and service-centered site for the PC gaming audience providing free downloads, game reviews and industry news. BigDownload.com is the first joint project between AOL Games, http://www.games.com, and Weblogs, Inc., http://www.weblogsinc.com.
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Voxitas VoIP Services Certified to Work with the Interactive Intelligence All-in-One IP Communications Software Suite
SIP trunking services from Voxitas (formerly NetLogic), a leading business class VoIP national service provider, have been certified to work with the Interactive Intelligence all-in-one IP communications software suite to help customers more easily and cost-effectively support distributed locations.
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OPINION: Embrace the spam
So after yesterday's rubbish McAfee scare-mongering attempt to get us all to sign up for one of its products, us lot here at Tech Digest thought it might be good to take a look at a sample of genuine spam.
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Ad Delivery Solutions Guarantees 99.9 Percent Uptime with AlertSite
COCONUT CREEK, Fla.----Advertising drives the Internet, and ad servers drive advertising. When an ad server slows or goes down, a publisher's advertising revenue plummets. It's no surprise that publishers demand service level agreements that commit their ad server providers to uphold strict performance levels.
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Woman robbed of laptop
A woman walking in downtown Lincoln was pushed down and robbed of her laptop computer Tuesday afternoon.
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Video games help sex predators meet kids
A growing number of sexual predators are turning to video games played on the Wii and PlayStation to interact with young Americans on the Internet, police say.Child predators are migrating from traditional methods to alternate media. They are going to places where children are, said Detective Lt. Thomas Kish of the Michigan State Police.Marc Rogers, director of Purdue University's Cyber ...
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Cybercom Group: Member Leaves Cybercom's Board of Directors
STOCKHOLM, Sweden----Regulatory News:
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Buyer of fish poison sought hit man
A federal complaint says a suburban Chicago man arrested for trying to purchase a deadly fish toxin once trolled the Internet looking for a hit man.Edward F. Bachner IV, 35, is alleged to have suggested he would pay $8,000 for the permanent retirement of an unidentified woman, The Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.Bachner was arrested by federal agents after he posed as a researcher to buy ...
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Forty Percent of Web Browsers Open to Hackers
Researchers from Google, IBM and the Communications Systems Group in Switzerland released a study Monday that shows only 60 percent of Web users are surfing with patched, updated browsers.
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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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IBM and ETH Scientists Advance Supercomputing Simulations to Improve Diagnosis of Osteoporosis
Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structures, providing doctors a "high definition" view of the strength and fragility of bones they never had before.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Jun 2006 14:26 UTC
This is the 3rd installment in my series on deficiencies in common desktop environments. After GNOME and the Mac/MacOS , it is now KDE's turn. As with the other installments, this is a rant. Beware.
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Single mom selling Fla. home, heart online
She's tried night clubs and online dating sites, but now a 42-year-old single mother is looking for love where everyone else's heart is breaking ? the real estate market.
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AT&T to invest $400M in Tenn. for statewide cable
AT&T Inc. has announced plans to invest $400 million in Tennessee as part of its effort to offer statewide cable television, Internet and phone services.
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