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Congressional antitrust hearing to draw in Yahoo, Microsoft and Google legal eagles
Top legal counsel for Yahoo, Microsoft and Google will testify before an antitrust Congressional hearing next week, as lawmakers consider potential anti-competitive effects of a Yahoo-Google search advertising deal.
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AMD Stands Behind ATI, Write-Downs And All
Advanced Micro Devices said it will write down $880M on the value of handheld and digital television units.
Forbes |
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Woman jailed for hiring internet hit man
An Irish woman has been found guilty of hiring a hit man over the internet to kill her partner and his family.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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posted by David Adams on Tue 8th Jul 2008 23:11
True to the internet fashion these days, we believe it's time for an operating system "planet" site. We are happy to announce OS Galaxy , a site fed by blog posts of popular OS-related industry figures, mostly developers.
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Fatal wreck on Highway 41; another North County crash tangles Highway 46 traffic
A coroner has been called out to the scene of a traffic accident along Highway 41 near between Morro Bay and Atascadero, according to the CHP Web site. Meanwhile, both eastbound and westbound lanes of Highway 46 are being slowed by emergency traffic near the Shandon Rest Stop east of Paso Robles. A vehicle was reported to have hit a tree near the Cerro Alto Campground along Highway 41, according ...
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Kmart Ad Trumpets Xbox Price Dip
A Kmart advertisement is a strong indication that the rumors about a possible price cut for the Xbox 360 might be right. The discount chain's sales ad for the week of July 13 lists a $299 price for the 20 GB Xbox 360. It represents a $50 decrease from the $349 Amazon.com lists as the price for the console. When asked to confirm the price drop, Microsoft spokesperson Katie Abrahamson declined to ...
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Review: Remote for iPhone and iPod touch
If you've been frustrated by Apple TV’s painfully-slow menu navigation, Apple’s new Remote program for the iPhone and iPod touch may be the answer.
Macworld |
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Software problems bug Apple’s launch of new iPhone (UPDATED: 12:01 p.m.)
NEW YORK (AP) — The launch of Apple Inc.’s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown today, as customers were unable to get their phones working.
The Record |
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Remote for IPhone and IPod Touch
It's no surprise that Apple's Remote application headed up the App Store's list of Top Free Apps immediately after the iPhone...
PC World |
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Police Step in as London Apple Store Closes Early
Flanked by police officers, Apple staff closed the London Apple Store Friday in the middle of the afternoon.
PC World |
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Citrix, Virtual Iron Duke It Out
Name-calling and rude remarks are the order of the day amid invocations to the holy spirit of the open source community.
InternetNews.com |
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Apple Turns Its Back on Mobile Standards
Experts say that Apple must move to standards-based ways of doing things to gain traction in the business market.
PC World |
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Google, Yahoo to Reach 3 Billion Mobile Phones
Yahoo and Google aim to bring the Internet to about 3.2 billion cell phone users--as compared to the 850 million PC users today.
PC World |
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NSFW Video: Topless Wii Fit Lets You Exercise In Front Of Your Computer [Nsfw]
Remember Topless Wii and Topless Wii: The Revengening? Well this is different. This is Topless Wii Fit, as inspired by that one underpants video of the Wii Fit girl gyrating around. Like we said,...
Gizmodo |
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Trivial pursuits
Christian creationists in the US have cooked up the name "Intelligent Design" for their theology in order to try to smuggle it into school biology lessons, because they fear that evolutionary theory harms the moral fabric of society.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Yahoo CEO says he’s unlikely to meet Microsoft
SUN VALLEY, Idaho: Yahoo Inc chief executive Jerry Yang said yesterday he is unlikely to meet representatives of Microsoft Corp at this week’s meeting of media and tech executives in Idaho.
The Star |
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Blind five-year-old Korean pianist is internet sensation
Listeners are often moved to tears when the Korean pianist Yoo Ye-eun sits at a grand piano and plays Beethoven's "Für Elise". First, though, the five-year-old has to be helped up on to the piano seat by an adult.
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iPhone Hits Stores And Surprises Customers 7/11/08 CBS 7 Staff July 11, 2008
People lining up to snatch the latest iPhone this morning were in for a big unpleasant surprise. It turns out, the cell phone’s online music store had a glitch that made it impossible to activate the iPhone at the store.
CBS 7 West Texas |
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Software problems bug Apple's launch of new iPhone
NEW YORK — The launch of Apple Inc.’s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.
The Jackson Sun |
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Court Refuses To Rule On ECPA Warrantless E-mail Searches
utkalum writes "After Steven Warshak's indictment and conviction on charges of mail and wire fraud, money laundering and other federal charges, he learned that key evidence in the case was obtained by the government under a 1986 law permitting no-warrant searches of email communications stored for longer than 180 days. He also learned that, despite the Electronic Communication Privacy Act's ...
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Rockies' Holliday on N.Y. hot seat
Big Apple reporters stood in line to talk to Rockies all-star Matt Holliday this afternoon. But when it came to questions about a future in New York, or somewhere else other than Colorado, Holliday wasn't biting.
Denver Post |
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Murdoch says tie-up with Yahoo very unlikely
News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was very unlikely his company would be involved in any Yahoo Inc. transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal.
Zaman Online |
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Download site ordered shut down
A judge has ordered the website QuebecTorrent.com, a hub for the exchange of files, many of them pirated, shut down.
Montreal Gazette |
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AOL Gives Computers To Recovery Center
PEARLINGTON (WLOX) -- Arline Hale was the first person to log on at the new Paltering Computer Lab built by AOL. The 84-year-old Hancock County woman said she had never before touched a computer or searched the internet.
WLOX-TV Biloxi |
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New iPhone sells out within hours at Hagerstown stores
HAGERSTOWN By the time the AT&T store in Hagerstown opened at 8 a.m. Friday, more than 40 people had lined up to buy Apples latest gadget. Half of them went home empty-handed. The new Apple iPhone 3G was released Friday in 21 countries. Both AT&T stores in Hagerstown were sold out of the phones by 10 a.m.
The Herald-Mail |
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