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New data point to trouble for Microsoft search business
New data indicate that Microsoft Corp.'s online search advertising business has suffered recently, underlining the company's desire to pursue a deal with Yahoo Inc. in order to bolster its Internet presence.
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Improving computer memory, solar cells goal of UH chemist
A high-tech breakthrough in solar cells and flash drives may just come down to good old-fashioned pencil and paper calculations, says an award-winning young chemist at the University of Houston.
PhysOrg |
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Roomlinx Files Fiscal Year Ended 2006 10K
Roomlinx, Inc., the hospitality in-room expert providing Internet-based Business, Media and Entertainment solutions, announced that it is filing today its Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 with the Securities Exchange Commission on the SEC EDGAR online site.
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Monster Outlets To Go 3 USB unveiled
Monster announced the introduction of the newest product in its popular Outlets To Go lineup, the Outlets To Go 3 USB. Monster Outlets To Go 3 USB provides safe, convenient charging for multiple electronics like MP3 players and computers. In addition, t...
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Google says Bell Canada should cease 'throttling' issue of Internet use
OTTAWA - Internet search giant Google Inc. has blasted BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada (TSX:BCE) for seeking to limit traffic originated by customers of independent rivals that buy capacity on the phone company's network.
Canoe Money |
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Israeli troops put 'Hamas mall' out of business
The Israeli Army on Tuesday ordered the closure of a shopping mall in the Occupied West Bank, saying the company that runs it is linked to Hamas, Palestinian security officials and witnesses said. Computers, furniture and documents were seized in the pre-dawn raid on Al-Iitiman Investment Co., in the city of Nablus' only mall.
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Vista Compatibility: What? When? Where?
News Commentary. Am I missing something? Microsoft is launching a Windows Vista compatibility center in beta? Seventeen months after Vista shipped everywhere?...
Microsoft Watch |
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New data point to trouble for Microsoft search business
New data indicate that Microsoft Corp.'s online search advertising business has suffered recently, underlining the company's desire to pursue a deal with Yahoo Inc. in order to bolster its Internet presence.
Market Watch |
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Hayes chides DA Ballard for child predator sentences
Ballard: Office ‘aggressively prosecutes’ the crime Tyrone attorney Rudjard Hayes, running for district attorney, is criticizing his opponent for being too lenient on sentences to defendants who have pleaded guilty to Internet pornography and child exploitation charges.
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Facebook could see a standoff over Scrabble
NEW YORK — C-O-M-P-E-T-E. Developers of a highly popular but unauthorized version of Scrabble for the online hangout Facebook vowed Tuesday to do just that, now that a video game maker has weighed in with an official version of the word game.
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Bill Aims To Allow Consumers To Block Web Tracking
House and Senate members are discussing a bill that would allow consumers to prevent Internet search providers and search engines from tracking their online habits.
WBZ Boston |
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VMware Drops Greene, Names Microsoft Veteran As CEO
Paul Maritz is a 14-year veteran of Microsoft who came with a recent EMC acquisition, Pi Corp., a company created to build personal software to be used from inside the cloud.
InformationWeek |
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Formerly Apex, Now Formerly AMP: Yahoo Ad Program Needs Another Name
Yahoo's long-tested contextual ad and targeting service—initially dubbed Apex, then AMP last April—needs another name. ClickZ reported that because ad network operator Collective Media unveiled its own AMP product two weeks before Yahoo issued its name change, Yahoo agreed to drop its hold on the title.
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Fraser breathes life into visual-effects-filled movie
DALLAS — No one has to tell Brendan Fraser how far computer technology has come in the movie industry. The star of the re-imagined “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (opening Friday) has been there for the ride, right along with the toons and the mummy goons. His latest adventure is 3-D.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Google says Bell Canada should cease 'throttling' issue of Internet use
OTTAWA - Internet search giant Google Inc. has blasted BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada (TSX:BCE) for seeking to limit traffic originated by customers of independent rivals that buy capacity on the phone company's network.
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Is It Time for Open Source to Grow Up?
"In the past ten years Open Source software and its poster child, Linux, has expanded quite remarkably. It has changed from a rebel without a cause to an entity that even the tried and true establishments have sat up and taken notice.
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ApacheCon US 2008 to unite Open Source advocates, users and developers in New Orleans
ApacheCon US 2008, the official conference of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will hold this year?s event in New Orleans on November 3-7, 2008. ApacheCon brings together users, developers, vendors, and speakers to discuss groundbreaking Open Source practices and issues, with updates of developments from The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It offers educational presentations, hands-on ...
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Play golf courses from around the world with Golfzilla
What do you get when you combine Google Maps with Golf? Golfzilla, of course. While the name makes you think that Godzilla will be storming the golf course–he’s not–the concept itself is actually pretty cool. Take Google Map’s satellite view and combine it with a golf game and you can play any course [...]
Geek.com |
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Xiaonei Rips Another Page From The Facebook: Opens Platform, Launches Developer Fund
Chinese social networking site Xiaonei already has a reputation for basically being a Facebook knock-off. Now it's copying Facebook's strategy too. The company, owned by Oak Pacific Interactive, has announced its own open platform initiative called, cleverly, Open Platform. It acknowledges that the move is similar to Facebook's platform and Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) Open Social. And to go along with ...
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Microsoft issues DNS, SQL Server updates
Four security bulletins address a DNS server spoofing vulnerability and a flaw in SQL Server that could allow an elevation of privilege of an authenticated attacker.
SearchSecurity.com |
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Industry Moves: NBCU; Baseline StudioSystems; Hearst-Argyle; MySpace; Travel Ad Network
-- NBCU : Veteran program exec Jamila Hunter has been hired to the new position of SVP-programming and development for NBC Entertainment's alternative and digital unit. Hunter will now be responsible for developing alternative programming, including web-based series development and business development for the company's web properties. Most recently, she served as VP-comedy development for 20th ...
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Celebrity lawyer Geragos hired in Tesoro High cheating case
Students are accused of breaking into classrooms, hacking into computers, stealing tests.
Orange County Register |
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Shuttered Knoxville computer company's parent being sued
The parent company of a Knoxville company, which shut its doors and laid off dozens recently, is now being sued in California.
WBIR-TV Knoxville |
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Betrayal
A twisted tale of computer science, a Russian bride, the KGB, and the ultimate betrayal. Maureen Maher reports.
CBS News |
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Jan 2006 04:18 UTC
A powerful 2D animation product, Synfig , was open sourced recently under the GPL after the company behind it failed in the market place. The application is still actively maintained by its original author, Robert B. Quattlebaum, which we interview today about.
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