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Customer Service
TORONTO - Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) is beefing up its presence in the online brokerage business with the purchase of E-Trade Canada for C$444 million, the bank's latest move to expand the range and depth of services that it offers to retail customers in Canada.
Brandon Sun |
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Microsoft to Yahoo: Set the Record Straight
News Brief. Today, Microsoft finally responded to Yahoo's weekend letter about Friday's joint offer with billionaire business buster Carl Icahn....
Microsoft Watch |
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Guardian Buys Publisher of PaidContent Web Site
Guardian News and Media, the publisher of two British newspapers, purchased the homegrown media company ContentNext for a reported $30 million.
The Gadsden Times |
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E3 2008: Rock Band 2 Setlist Announced
80 tracks on disc, and 20 bonus downloadable songs coming to rock your world.
1up.com |
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Business
The cost of mobile data downloads could derail the Apple iPhone juggernaut that saw more than one million of the hotly awaited communications device sold in three days.
The West Australian |
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MacBook Pro and the Bad Battery
Reader Bill Grant has a problem with power, specifically the battery in his MacBook Pro. He writes:
PC World |
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Microsoft buys Zoomix for $35m
Microsoft said yesterday it has agreed to buy Zoomix, an Israeli start-up specializing in data quality software. The deal is estimated at between $25 million and $35 million.
Haaretz Daily |
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News Summary - 7/15
Ace*Comm Corp., of Gaithersburg, a telecommunications and Internet service company, said it has agreed to be acquired for $19.5 million — minus certain acquisition-related expenses — by affiliates of Ariston Global LLC, a Rochester, N.Y.-based company that purchases and operates communications services companies.
The Daily Record |
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‘World’s oldest blogger’ dies in Australia
SYDNEY • An Australian woman described as the world's oldest Internet blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about singing "a happy song" in her nursing home.
The Peninsula |
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Xbox pacts with Netflix
Microsoft kicked off the E3 video game conference Monday here by announcing a new deal with Netflix to enable Xbox 360 owners to play movies on demand through their consoles.
The Hollywood Reporter |
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My online shrink
Psychologist Eliza's therapeutic techniques appear to be utterly conventional, at first. At the beginning of the session, she asks me to present the problem that is bothering me. She responds to my truncated phrases with questions like, "Why do you think that?" or "Tell me more."
Haaretz Daily |
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Area Arrests for July 15
• Emilee Ann Kolakowski, 21, 824 Cascade Drive, Dalton, was charged Sunday by the Dalton Police Department with criminal trespass, battery, failure to keep drugs in their original container and improper labeling of dangerous drugs.
The Dalton Daily Citizen |
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School gets new books, laptops
WORCESTER - Hundreds of hands shot into the air when Belmont Street Community School Principal Susan Proulx asked her students if they liked to read.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Whizzer new chips from Intel
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel rolled out a new batch of chips for laptops on Monday that promises longer battery life and better graphics-rendering abilities, the company's latest salvo against smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Microhoo stoush heats up as Icahn takes the gloves off
SAN FRANCISCO - Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo, investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the internet company's board after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft was angrily rejected.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Alleged oldest blogger dies in Australia
Sydney - Australians Tuesday claimed Olive Riley, who died earlier this week at the age of 108, was the world's oldest blogger. A posting on a tribute website said she died Saturday at a nursing home in Woy Woy north of Sydney and would be mourned b...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 08:58:33 PDT
Beginning Word computer class: 9 a.m., Newport Public Library, 35 NW Nye St., Newport. Registration is required. 265-2153. Smokin' at the Ocean Brew Festival: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Chinook Winds Casino Resort, 1777 NW 44th St., Lincoln City. 1-888-CHINOOK.
Newport News-Times |
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New Chapter for Rare Books
The Internet opens a new chapter for rare and used book dealers, as more buyers leave the traditional stores in search of treasure.
WBUR Boston |
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eBay wins key ruling in Tiffany trademark suit
Internet auction giant eBay cannot be held liable for trademark infringement for counterfeit items sold through its website, a US judge ruled Monday in a case brought by luxury retailer Tiffany.
TurkishPress.com |
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Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman end romance
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday. "Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment," Kimmel's spokesman Lewis Kay told The Associated Press, confirming the split that was first reported on Vanity Fair magazine's Web site. Silverman's publicist, Amy Zvi, confirmed the breakup in an e-mail message to the AP. Zvi didn't immediately respond ...
The Oklahoman |
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donga.com[English donga]
Former President Roh Moo-hyun collected in December last year documents from each ministry that the presidential office did not have in computer files, a government official said yesterday.
donga.com |
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Thomson wins appeal of software patent verdict
A federal appellate court in Philadelphia on Monday overturned a jury's finding that Thomson Reuters Corp. infringed a patent for trading municipal bonds in Internet auctions.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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Developers respond to KDE 4 backlash
Continued criticism of KDE 4.0 has prompted key developers of the open source desktop environment to justify their handling of the transition from KDE 3.
ZDNet Asia |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Aug 2007 08:35 UTC, submitted by lomax
"Welcome to the home page of the finstall project , accepted for Google's Summer of Code 2007. This project aims to create a user-friendly graphical installer for FreeBSD & FreeBSD-derived systems.
New Mobile Computing |
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Whizzer new chips from Intel
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel rolled out a new batch of chips for laptops on Monday that promises longer battery life and better graphics-rendering abilities, the company's latest salvo against smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices.
The New Zealand Herald |
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