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Microsoft Buys Online Concern
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would buy Powerset Inc., an Internet search company, the latest in a string of acquisitions aimed at bolstering its position online.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Great Arkansas Treasure Hunt Seeks Perfect Commercial
At this very moment, the Great Arkansas Treasure Hunt is trying to gin up a little extra excitement on the Internet. The State Auditor’s office will soon be running a TV ad to let Arkansans know about millions of dollars in unclaimed property that’s just waiting to be picked up.
KARK Little Rock |
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DOJ Token Joins Hat, Dog, Shoe in Googlopoly
Good for competition. That's how Omid Kordestani, Googles senior VP of Global Sales and Business Development, described the advertising deal it struck last month with Yahoo . Why did we make this agreement? he asked.
AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance |
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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.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Mary Louise Tschacher March 31, 1931 - June 26, 2008
Funeral services for Mary Louise Tschacher, age 77, of Shawnee, were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday July 1 at Pier Funeral Home in Lusk, with Pastor Brent Venable of the Manville Community Alliance Church officiating. Interment in the Dell View Cemetery in Manville will follow.
The Lusk Herald |
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Wetlands license approved for high-speed Internet effort
The Maryland Board of Public Works has approved a wetlands permit needed for a high-speed Internet project on the Eastern Shore.
Baltimore Sun |
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Website brings neighborhoods to cyberspace
By T.L. HAMILTON...
The Villager |
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Microsoft Launches Office Subscription Service
Microsoft is working with Circuit City to offer a consumer software subscription service that includes its Office, Windows Live OneCare, Messenger, and Photo Gallery applications and services.
InformationWeek |
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7 Skills for IT Fame and Fortune
Here are tips of marketable skills in challenging economic times.
PC World |
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Verizon Wireless Expands Wireless Broadband Network in Ohio to Portions of Geauga County
Verizon Wireless announced today that it has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless network to portions of Geauga County including the towns of Huntsburg, Newbury, Middlefield, Auburn Corners and Parkman.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Barracuda Networks Files Countersuit Against Trend Micro to Defend Its Intellectual Property and Use of Open Source ...
CAMPBELL, Calif.----Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced it has filed a countersuit in the Court for the Central District of California against Trend Micro.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Monster founder sets sights on online obituaries
NEW YORK (AP) - Fourteen years ago, Jeff Taylor helped set off a tectonic shift in recruitment advertising by founding Monster.com, one of the first online companies to challenge a big profit source of newspapers.
9 News Denver |
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More Than Momentum: Stocks Rising for a Reason
We sort a real growth story from a flash in the pan.
The Motley Fool |
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Review: Banking site MoneyAisle shows promise
BOSTON -- MoneyAisle is a free new Web service that makes a bold claim: It says it will maximize the interest rates consumers can get on savings accounts, by running online auctions in which banks bid for consumers' business.
Washington Post |
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Play areas, Internet cafes set tone for immigration in new federal buildings in South Florida
OAKLAND PARK, Fla. - Lady Liberty's welcome was sorely missing from the drab immigration office where Argentine architect Rodolfo Acevedo started his U.S. citizenship application in the early 1990s.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Linked by on Wed 1st Feb 2006 19:53 UTC
A demonstration of the next release of Novell's Linux for desktops drew cheers and applause Wednesday, although the final version of the software is not expected for some months.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 19:59 UTC
"Windows Vista brings with it a new era of DRM and restrictive license agreements that aren't going to sit well with even your basic power user and some are looking for an escape route. These changes are making some users question their commitment to Microsoft.
OS News |
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Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness
Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a pizza.
PhysOrg |
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Recent Original Stories
ZDnet has installed the x86 version of Mac OS X and did some preliminary tests . Their conclusion? "Mac OS X looks in amazingly good early form on the x86 platform.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Apr 2007 21:15 UTC
Microsoft has made changes to its licensing model for Windows Vista to meet the needs of enterprise customers in the finance and government sectors using bleeding-edge technologies.
New Mobile Computing |
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ISO approves PDF as an international standard
The International Organization for Standardization has approved Adobe Systems' widely used PDF (Portable Document Format) as an international standard, and is now in charge of any changes made to the specification. The format is open and accessible to anyone as ISO 32000-1, the standards body said Wednesday. The standard is based Adobe's version 1.7 of PDF. PDF, the file format for ...
InfoWorld |
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Recent Original Stories
"In November, you'll be able to buy a new laptop that's spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It's fanless, it's silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Sep 2007 17:09 UTC
Columnist Bill Thompson at the BBC asks whether the time has come for Apple to be put under the EU microscope in the same way as Microsoft has.
New Mobile Computing |
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Store keeps computers out of landfill
New store saves computers from landfills
The Burlington Free Press |
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Wetlands Permit OK'd For Broadband Project On Eastern Shore
The Maryland Board of Public Works has approved a wetlands permit needed for a high-speed Internet project on the Eastern Shore.
NBC4 Washington, D.C. |
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