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Congress Holds Hearings On Yahoo-Google Deal
Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company's advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft Corp., raises antitrust concerns.
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Seagate Technology guides fiscal 1Q below Street
Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology guided its fiscal first-quarter profit well below Wall Street's expectations on Tuesday.
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Economic gloom could lead to rise in illegal software
Companies warned against unlicensed products Most British businesses are risking prosecution by turning to unlicensed software in a bid to cut costs, according to a survey conducted by the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast).
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San Francisco municipal computer system hacked
A computer engineer has been arrested and accused of hijacking San Franciscos FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) computer system, which holds details of city payroll files and confidential law enforcement documents.
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Centrino 2 launches; Intel to add vPro next month
45-nanometre 'Penryn' chips now shipping Intel has launched the first major upgrade to its Centrino platform for laptops, with Centrino 2 now shipping to manufacturers in the form of a 45-nanometre (nm) chip running from 2.26GHz to 3.06GHz.
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Intel: First quad-core laptops coming in August
Core 2 Extreme QX9300 chip released next month Intel has finally announced the release date for its first quad-core processor for laptops, a few days after one PC vendor started taking pre-orders for a system based on the high-end processor.
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Seagate Technology 4Q profit dips without tax gain
Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings dropped sharply over the year-ago period, which was helped by a large tax gain.
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Apple sues Mac cloner Psystar
Mac OS X on Apple Macs only, demand lawyers Apple is now suing rogue Mac clone maker Psystar.
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XBox 360 to stream Netflix movies
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal announced Monday with Netflix Inc. that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding into all-purpose home-entertainment hubs.
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Microsoft questions Google's plan to save the world through ads
Mr. Smith's boo-hoo over Goo-Hoo Yes, Microsoft turned up at today's dueling Congressional hearings on the Google ad pact with Yahoo!.…
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posted by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Thu 10th Jul 2008 11:44
I upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon a few days ago only to be greeted with an additional feel of polish and goodness. Read more for our mini preview.
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LG to fuse PC and mobile divisions
The manufacturer plans to increase its focus on smartphones and ultramobile PCs, but will continue to make notebooks. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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Recent Original Stories
George Ou compares Microsoft Office 2007 to OpenOffice 2.2 in memory and CPU usage using the OOXML and ODF file formats. The conclusion according to Ou: "We can see that the OpenOffice.org ODF XML parser (while vastly improved) is still about 5 times slower than Microsoft's OOXML parser.
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Information commissioner: Database threatens our way of life, watchdog warns
Proposals would track every phone call, text, email and internet usage in Britain in real time
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Citrix Systems on Tuesday announced Project Kensho, a set of tools that will allow virtual environments to be more independent of hypervisors. A technical preview of the tools will be available for download before the end of the third quarter.
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Multimillion pound security project shelved by ministers
Development of secure computer network frozen at unknown cost to Whitehall agencies and taxpayers
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Gates Foundation gives library grants in 11 states
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday announced plans to give $8.1 million in grants to keep library computers up-to-date in 11 states. The grants will help upgrade computer hardware in public libraries serving communities with high concentrations of poverty.
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BeeMask Connects Calls While Protecting Your Privacy [The Startup Review]
Editor’s Note:If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: BeeMask 20 word description: BeeMask protects privacy online and broadens communications. With BeeMask, you can talk over the phone without exchanging phone numbers. Oh, and it’s free. CEO’s 100 word description: At [...]
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Brasil Telecom Net Rises 75% on Web, Mobile Customers (Update1)
July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Brasil Telecom Participacoes SA , the telephone company that agreed to be bought by Telemar Participacoes SA , reported a 75 percent increase in second- quarter profit after adding Internet and mobile-phone customers.
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Google-Viacom lawsuit deal cloaks YouTube user identities
A deal struck Tuesday lets Google cloak identities of YouTube users while complying with a court order to show Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used the popular website.
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Gates Foundation gives library grants in 11 states
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday announced plans to give $8.1 million in grants to keep library computers up-to-date in 11 states. The grants will help upgrade computer hardware in public libraries serving communities with high concentrations of poverty.
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Outraged Icahn refocuses on ousting Yahoo board
Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company's board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft Corp. was angrily rejected. Icahn filed the final nominating papers for a slate of candidates that will oppose Yahoo's current nine directors in a showdown scheduled for an Aug. 1 shareholder vote. ...
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Outraged Icahn refocuses on ousting Yahoo board
Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company's board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft Corp. was angrily rejected.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 19:29 UTC
Jeff Atwood explains why Vista uses so much memory. "You have to stop thinking of system memory as a resource and start thinking of it as a a cache . Just like the level 1 and level 2 cache on your CPU, system memory is yet another type of high-speed cache that sits between your computer and the disk drive.
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