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Microsoft offers iPods as search incentives
Microsoft is attempting to convince Australian users to use its Live search engine by offering products from industry competitor Apple as bait through a local venture with the Nine Network, Ninemsn. The Brisbane Times reveals that the software giant is offering the iPod nano, Shuffle, and Touch to users who perform searches through Ninemsn. Ninemsn...
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Simultaneous dual-N-band Linksys WRT610N Wi-Fi router
Just days after announcing Mac OS X-specific support, Linksys has announced its WRT610N Wi-Fi router, which offers wireless connectivity for 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n devices on two separate spectrum bands simultaneously -- effectively doubling available wireless bandwidth. Designed so all types of wireless devices can achieve maximum bandwidth...
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Lenovo’s lightweight gem
ONCE in a blue moon, you come across a product that makes you wonder where it has been all your life. The Lenovo Thinkpad X300 ultraportable notebook is one product that fits that description.
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Microsoft, Yahoo mull Media Partner Options: Sources
By Eric Auchard and Kenneth Li SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negotiations with each other broke down, sources familiar with the ...
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Technology Report / WSJ: Microsoft, News Corp., AOL would break up Yahoo
Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc. The unconfirmed report in the Wall Street Journal has Microsoft trying to recruit News Corp., Time Warner's AOL or other media partners to put together a joint bid that would slice Yahoo into pieces. The story cited undisclosed ...
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LETTER: New Bedford Harbor needs a Web cam
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Reuters Business Summary
Microsoft, Yahoo mull media partner options: sources SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negotiations with each other broke down, sources familiar with the companies' thinking said on Wednesday. Microsoft -- rebuffed this year in efforts to buy all of Yahoo and then just its ...
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Study Reveals Adult Industry is Enjoying Bush’s Stimulus Package
According to an independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), the porn industry, specifically online properties providing adult content and erotic material are experiencing some swollen numbers in recent weeks thanks to the checks of up to $600 for individuals and $1,200 for married couples that the Bush Administration’s Economic Stimulus Plan handed out ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet.
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A history of firsts
Florence spurred the cultural growth of 14th-century Europe. Silicon Valley has produced many of the major advances in computer science over the past half century. And Boston's southern suburbs? Well, the region may not be as well known, but it, too, has given its share of important innovations.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Jan 2007 21:37 UTC
A coalition of rivals charged on Friday that Microsoft's new Vista operating system coming out next week will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Sep 2007 18:40 UTC
Eric S. Raymond writes on his blog: "There's been a lot of debate in the community about how OSI should properly handle Microsoft's planned submission of some of its licenses for OSD certification. That debate has been been going on within OSI, too.
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New Pill Tracking System Aids in Arrest of Washington Couple
A new computerized pill tracking system helped county narcotics officers net a Washington couple suspected of manufacturing methamphetamine. The man and woman were arrested Monday. Their names were not released pending a decision to issue felony charges.
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Thursday
KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 (Bernama) -- The computer glitch which has halted trading on Bursa Malaysia for the whole of the morning session is not expected to adversely affect sentiment when it resumes for trading in the afternooon.
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LA Times to cut 250 jobs, including 150 news jobs
The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and online news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales, the paper's editor said Wednesday. The decline in advertising, fueled by a weak real estate market, has boosted the copy-to-ads ratio above the industry target of 50-50, giving readers more stories than they can digest, while the ...
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Market To Be Bearish In Line With Regional Bourses Once It Resumes Trading
KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 (Bernama) -- The computer glitch which has halted trading on Bursa Malaysia for the whole of the morning session is not expected to adversely affect sentiment when it resumes for trading in the afternooon.
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LA Times to cut 250 jobs, including 150 news jobs
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and online news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales, the paper’s editor said Wednesday.
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The Fifteen Most Useless Internet Euphemisms [Jargon]
"We didn't attempt to silence Violet. We unpublished our own work." That's how Boing Boing defended their decision to delete every post on their blog referring to sex writer Violet Blue for no given...
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Insurance 'lemmings' control industry
T here was a computer game that I used to play as a kid where all the little lemmings would follow each other into treacherous situations and you would have to direct them in such a way that the majority of the lemmings would survive. Your success in the game depended on keeping the lemmings from falling off the edge of a cliff.
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Is Your Online College Program Military-friendly?
(ARA) - An online college program typically allows a student to complete their requirements from any place and anytime the student has access to the Internet. For that reason, the online option can be a perfect fit for a military student.
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Raja Petra Kamaruddin's Malaysia Today website back from the hack
THE Malaysia Today website owned by blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin that was hacked yesterday has come online later this morning. There was limited interactivity, however, and the last posting was dated yesterday.
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MS, Yahoo mull media partner options: Source
Analysts say the latest news revived flagging hopes among some investors that Microsoft was still interested in doing a deal with Yahoo.
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Computer worker admits to scam reselling parts for Newark system
An information technology specialist from Piscataway admitted to a federal judge yesterday that he raked in millions of dollars by resel ling new parts ordered for the city of Newark's computer system.
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Latinos fall behind growing digital divide
More and more Californians are shopping, chatting, reading news and finding critical health, employment and government information online, but a report published Thursday says Latinos and low-income residents are falling behind, widening the digital divide.
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