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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Nov 2005 19:29 UTC
The osFree project has published its first screenshot . "osFree is an open source free (non-commercial) software development project. Goals of the projects are to replace all (or most) of OS/2's subsystems with open-source analogues.
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Yahoo rejects joint Microsoft, Icahn proposal
SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 (Reuters) Yahoo Inc said it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corp and activist investor Carl Icahn that would have involved selling its search business to the software maker.
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Many processors make light work of calculations
Solving complicated calculations has never been easy, but a new European computing grid means researchers can number crunch their data faster than ever before.
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Home video biz holding up
Data from DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals shows the home video business is holding up well despite the down economy, the high price of gas and any consumer shift toward the Internet.
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Xbox 360 goes 60GB HDD
ITS BEEN COMING for several weeks now, but the much rumoured , and much leaked , price drop for the Xbox 360 in the US has been made official by Microsoft.
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Yahoo rejects new Microsoft deal
YAHOO has vehemently rejected a fresh deal proposed by Microsoft and corporate raider Carl Icahn.
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Tensions escalating in battle for Yahoo’s board
Sun, Jul 13, 2008 (2:54 p.m.) After more than five months of sparring, the battle for control of Yahoo Inc. has turned into a bare-knuckles brawl with a whiff of desperation hanging over all the key combatants.
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Yahoo says no to a joint Microsoft/Icahn bid
Despite having said it is done negotiating, Microsoft apparently just can't stay away from Yahoo. Redmond joined with Carl Icahn to propose a deal that would have sold Yahoo's search to Microsoft, and left Icahn in charge of the remains of the company; Yahoo promptly said no. Read More...
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Magical combination
Large businesses in the manufacturing vertical have often described IT as a true enabler without which, their operations would come to a grinding halt.
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Virtual competition
Alpha male, flamboyant, brash, megalomaniacal. Profiles of leading high-tech bosses tend to be littered with these terms, signs of the traits that they seem to need to make it to the top of the computer industry and stay there.
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Microsoft to Triple Storage Capacity of Xbox 360 (Update1)
July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. , the world's largest software maker, will triple the storage capacity of its Xbox 360 video-game console to compete with market leaders Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp.
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RSPCA Warns of "Puppy Trafficking"
LONDON - The RSPCA on Friday warned dog-lovers to be aware of the dangers of "puppy trafficking", saying people were taking a risk if they bought their puppies from the internet, newspapers ads or even some pet shops.
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Yahoo! rejects proposal from Microsoft-Icahn
Yahoo! Inc has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and billionaire investor Carl Icahn for a restructuring of the global Internet giant, saying the deal was not in the "best interest" of stockholders.
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Tensions escalating in battle for Yahoo's board
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) After more than five months of sparring, the battle for control of Yahoo Inc. has turned into a bare-knuckles brawl with a whiff of desperation hanging over all the key combatants.
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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse
Shanghaiist was caught up all week with the gruesome murder of Canadian model Diana O'Brien. Londonist celebrated the impending arrival of Google's Street View feature to the capital, complete with automatic "face-blurring technology" to protect the privacy of sensitive citizens.
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Microhoo 'take it or leave it' deal rejected
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its internet franchise.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Jan 2008 22:56 UTC
A lot of details have leaked on Microsoft's next major revamp of Windows Mobile, version 7 . "Windows Mobile 7 will use touch gestures, similar to how the iPhone does. You will be able to flick through lists, pan, swipe sideway, draw on the screen.
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Yahoo rejects joint Microsoft, Icahn proposal
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc on Saturday rejected a proposal to sell its search business to Microsoft Corp and hand over the remainder of the company to activist investor Carl Icahn.
Nine O'Clock |
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Standards for 3D memory chips set
The Intimate Memory Interconnect Standard (IMIS) being promoted by the 3D-IC Alliance recently released its official specification for 3D stacking memory chips.
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Microsoft Games prépare sa conférence en photos
C'est demain que Microsoft Games ouvrira les festivités de l'E3 2008 avec son habituelle conférence qui se déroulera cette année dans le West Hall du LACC.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 26th Nov 2006 20:41 UTC
"Apple researchers have built a full working prototype of a Mac tablet PC and three Companies in Taiwan are now costing a product for a potential launch in mid 2007. Sources in Taiwan have said that the focus has been more on the home and the education environment than the enterprise marketplace.
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Newspaper's auto Web site affected by computer virus
Google has marked pages on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer web site with the warning, "This site may harm your computer" because of a computer virus potentially spread through advertisements shown on the site,
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Seagate squeezes 1.5Tbyte data in 3.5-inch drive
Seagate Technology hit a new milestone in hard drive capacity with the announcement July 10 of a 3.5-inch desktop PC drive packing 1.5Tbyte.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (what's with the middle initial ?) has reviewed the recently released
OpenSUSE 10.2. "Sooner than anyone expected it, Novell's openSUSE community Linux distribution project has delivered a new version: openSUSE 10.2. As a dyed-in-the-wool SUSE user since S.u.S.E Linux 4.2 first appeared in 1996, I decided to immediately give this version a try ."
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Bizroof Joins a Saturated CRM Market
CRM is more or less a staple of the SaaS (software as a service) market. Salesforce does it. Zoho does it. SugarCRM is in the game. Microsoft, too. All to better enhance management of customer relations across a workforce sized large and small. We can now add one more name to the list: Bizroof. Recently launched [...]
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