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Icahn: Replace Yahoo board to get Microsoft deal
Associated Press - July 14, 2008 11:54 AM ET NEW YORK (AP) - Activist investor Carl Icahn continues to push to replace Yahoo's current board of directors.
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"While looking around in the Desktop area I discovered that there is a General (very basic settings) and an all effects area with lots of advanced and very interesting effects. It was here that I discovered that its possible to layout the virtual desktops in a grid pattern.
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Monday July 14, 2008 - 11:58 EST
WASHINGTON, DC -- Despite a stunning setback in his effort to roll back a ban on Internet gambling, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., says the issue is not going away.
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Palm Offers Treo 800w for Sprint with EV-DO and GPS
Palm released a new business phone for Sprint on Monday -- the Treo 800w, with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The new model, which Palm described as its "most business-friendly phone yet," supports EV-DO Rev. A, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, and a Global Positioning System.
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Tensions escalating in battle for Yahoo's board
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE 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. The showdown intensified late Saturday after Yahoo revealed that it had spurned Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search engine in a joint proposal made with activist investor Carl ...
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Apple TV 2.1 updates include Wish List, more
Features of the new Apple TV 2.1 firmware are wider than previously expected, testing has revealed. Aside from MobileMe galleries and security updates, the major new feature is the Wish List, which lets users identify titles for later buying or renting. Once a movie is added to the list from its splash page, an option also appears on the main men...
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Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 model price
SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft said Sunday it is cutting the price of its 20-gigabyte Xbox 360 video game consoles and rolling out a model with three times the memory space to take its place.
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Phoenix firmware with hypervisor to premiere Monday in NEC laptops
BetaNews has learned that, on Monday, NEC will roll out plans to include remotely manageable anti-virus technology in PC notebooks, running outside of the Windows OS in Linux-based HyperSpace firmware from Phoenix Technologies.
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Microsoft officially announces cheaper Xbox 360s
On Sunday, Microsoft officially announced the $50 price reduction to the 20 GB Xbox 360 for the US, as well as the introduction of a 60 GB model at the $349 price position.
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Icahn's proposed Microsoft deal with Yahoo was for more than just search
Why won't Yahoo part with its search business when Microsoft would be offering a rich amount for it, asks Carl Icahn this morning? The answer could lie in the component of the deal that justifies being offered more than triple its value.
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Microsoft confirms 60GB Xbox 360
Microsoft has broken its silence and officially unveiled the latest addition to its Xbox 360 line-up: a 60GB HDD-equipped console.
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Russian blogger vows to fight conviction
MOSCOW--A Russian blogger convicted of inciting hatred for his online comments vowed to fight his conviction Monday, as his supporters criticized attempts by Russian officials to restrict speech on the Internet.
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Icahn Makes New Pitch To Yahoo Shareholders
Activist investor Carl Icahn said Monday that replacing Yahoo Inc.'s current board of directors would ensure an acquisition deal with Microsoft Corp.
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Washington Technology Industry Association Named One of Washington's Best Workplaces by Puget Sound Business Journal
The Washington Technology Industry Association, the largest statewide association of technology companies, IT departments and individual technology professionals in North America, announced today it was named as a finalist by the Puget Sound Business Journal in its second annual Washington's Best Workplaces program.
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MobileMe users demand 'money back'
MobileMe users angry at Apple failings As Apple moves its .Mac customers over to the cross-platform MobileMe web suite services, further compatibility problems are surfacing. And some customers are demanding refunds for the days when the subscription service was either unavailable or beset with problems.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 29th Jun 2006 01:33 UTC
Linux has one, last, chance to become the No1 OS in a particular consumer-oriented market (not counting servers): the mobile phone market. The open nature and yes, the hype around Linux has made lots of mobile-oriented companies to consider using Linux for their next-generation cellphones.
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Businesses must embrace Facebook generation
Social networking can boost competitiveness Businesses are not making the most out of social networking technologies brought into the spotlight by sites such as Facebook and MySpace, according to analyst firm Gartner.
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Camp is for mosquito bites, not cell phones
Although some aspects of woodsy life never change (archery and musty bunks), a survival guide for Summer Camp 2008 must include a primer about communications with your little cabin- or tent-dweller. You won't see a cellphone, laptop or iPhone on most camp packing lists.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 31st Jul 2006 17:13 UTC, submitted by G. Manesh
Microsoft is recalling an update to its Small Business Server product because of a glitch found late in the manufacturing process. They found a problem with Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 after the product was released to computer makers but before it was made broadly available.
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User-generated content on mobile phone next "El Dorado?'
MANILA, Philippines - Fancy sending out your latest virtual diary entry over the mobile phone for all the world to see and comment on, similar to a blog?
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Upaid unveils online phone top-up service for Brazilians
People living in the USA can for the first time top-up the phones of their friends and family in Brazil, thanks to a new online service from payments ...
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Recent Original Stories
At last week's Guadec meeting, Kristian Rietveld delivered the GTK+ "state of the union" report. GTK+ is the multi-platform toolkit behind a number of popular applications and, perhaps most well known, the Gnome Desktop environment for Linux.
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If you browse with Internet Explorer, get the latest version
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network If you browse with Internet Explorer, get the latest version --Microsoft's market-leading browser isn't as safe as Firefox or Opera, but you can enhance your security by updating IE regularly. Jerry and Sue: A Microhoo fairy tale --As the story goes, Hansel and Gretel vanquished the witch. But in the Microhoo fairy tale of Jerry and Sue, well, ...
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Linked by Adam S on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 14:55 UTC
In my house today, all of the computers are Macs. This is a long way away from three and a half year ago, when I said that Jaguar could not replace my PC . We're chugging along happily running Tiger, just as productive as before, and enjoying every bit of eye candy.
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Government Computer News
Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, which was technically approved in April as an international standard (ISO/IEC 29500), may be on its way toward surviving an appeals process -- the last challenge to its legitimacy as a standard.
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