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Icahn Says Microsoft Might Consider Yahoo Deal With New Board
July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said that Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer indicated he might consider a transaction for Yahoo! Inc. if the current board were replaced.
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Commtouch Scheduled to Release Second Quarter 2008 Results on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Commtouch(R) (Nasdaq:CTCH), a leading messaging and web security technology provider, today announced that it will be releasing its second quarter 2008 results on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 before the US markets open.
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OneNeck Acquires Ensynch Managed Hosting Data Center Business Unit
OneNeck IT Services Corporation, the leading ERP outsourcing services provider to mid-market companies, today announced it has acquired the managed hosting business unit from Ensynch, Inc., a leading provider of IT consulting and staffing services.
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Sligo students solve parking problems
ParkIT from Sligo IT represented Ireland in the software design category at the Imagine Cup. ENN's cameras followed the team's progress.
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Improv Everywhere: Human Mirror (Twins on the Train)
The latest happening from the pranksters at Improv Everywhere – masters at getting weird looks from people as they plug in big desktop computers at Starbucks, flood Abercrombie & Fitch with shirtless average Joes, and (the best) freeze in Grand Central – is all about twins. Organizers recruited nine sets of identical twins in matching outfits to ride the 6 train uptown, sit across from ...
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IAS Energy, Inc.'s Subsidiary Video1314.com Announces Record 14.3 Million Web Site Traffic for June, 2008
HONG KONG & VANCOUVER, British Columbia----IAS Energy, Inc. is pleased to announce that www.video1314.com had record web site traffic with over 14.3 million monthly hits to its site in June, 2008.
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Customer Effective Senior Consultant Joel Lindstrom Named Microsoft MVP
GREENVILLE, S.C.----Customer Effective, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and implementer of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, announced today that Joel Lindstrom was named Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his outstanding contributions to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM community.
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Electronics subject to search at border
WASHINGTON - U.S. customs officials have searched laptops, cellphones and digital cameras without warrants in the name of security when Americans return from abroad.
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Don't recycle 'e-waste' with haste, activists warn
"E-waste," or electronics trash, is piling up faster than ever, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Americans discarded 47 million computers in 2005, up from 20 million in 1998.
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Cresskill, N.J., High School Deploys Wireless Network From Meru
Cresskill (N.J.) Junior and Senior High School has installed a wireless LAN from Meru Networks to provide its more than 800 students and faculty with mobile wireless access to the Internet and online educational materials.
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Adepto Telecommunications launches low-cost VoIP telephony service
Ismayil Tahmazov, founder and CEO of Adepto Telecommunications, said: “VoipHit is designed for calls over internet using a softphone, SIP device/IP phone and Fring software.
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SAD Software releases new device to search and download online videos
The video search engine of MyTube enables users to find clips of their choice on the internet. Various online portals can be searched simultaneously using one search term and the videos can be played directly on the software.
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Recent Original Stories
"A quiet revolution is taking place on a young mailing list , one that overturns years of false enmity and makes perfect sense to most free software users.
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LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging
Openwave sells those parts of its business to LiMo member Purple Labs, which plans to use the mobile Internet technologies in its Linux platform.
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"After several months of silence, Microsoft last month finally revealed some concrete information about Windows Vista ...
showcase. If you haven't read that article, please do so now: This preview, which is based off of more recent beta code and an in-depth discussion with various people working on SP1 at Microsoft, builds off of that article, but provides more information and detail . Windows Vista SP1, finally, is a known quantity."
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Microsoft says EU court's fine "excessive"
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft has told a European Union court that an antitrust fine of 899 million euros ($1.4 billion) against it is both excessive and disproportionate, the Court of First Instance said on Monday.
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Poll: Old used most for McCain, change for Obama
The top 10 answers people volunteered when asked to describe presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Monday.
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Bleached Out/Why we quit the Sierra Club
In early March of this year, the outings chairperson for the Traverse Group of the Sierra Club (TGSC) was surfing the Internet when she happened on an article that she found unimaginable.
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Free Speech Not Guaranteed Online
Yahoo deleted the flickr.com photo by a Dutch Photographer without prior notice.
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Linked by Adam S on Mon 29th Aug 2005 21:37 UTC
Linuxwatch.com is running a great story called " Five Reasons NOT To Use Linux ." It includes a nice list of reasons why one might want to steer clear of Linux, along with a nice comparison to how easily these reasons are addressed in Microsoft Windows.
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Developers eager to build apps for iPhone
Apple's plan to get developers cranking out applications for the iPhone seems to be working.
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Nigeria: Plateau Trains 36 Personnel for E-Governance Project
As part of efforts in executing its e-governance project, the Plateau State government has commenced the training of 36 officials that would eventually man the respective internet connectivity mini-hub stations in the 17 local government headquarters.
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CIT Serves as Lead Arranger in Vault.com Revolver
CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT), a leading global commercial finance company, today announced that it served as sole lead arranger in a senior secured credit facility for Vault.com, a leading online media company focused on careers. Vault.com recently received a majority investment from Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a private equity firm focused on the media, communications and information industries ...
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Should We Worry About a New Form of Typosquatting?
It's becoming easier to start registering domains with typos -- but not the kind you'd expect with a little extra letter here and there. It starts out with a discovery from pageoneresults: With the approval of IDNs recently and now the testing phase, I do believe we as Internet Marketers and Webmasters are going to be faced with a new level of search sabotage and phishing that makes the ...
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'Please remove your laptop' may go away
WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Removing laptop computers from their cases at U.S. airport security checkpoints may end soon, as federal inspectors finalize details easing the restriction.
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