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Seagate Technology posts drop in 4th-qtr profit without tax gain, revenue improves 6 percent
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - 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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Lenovo prepping G-series IdeaPad netbooks?
Filed under: Laptops Ah, the unsourced Digitimes rumor -- not quite as accurate as simply making things up, but almost always more interesting. This time the erstwhile trade rag says Lenovo's working on a new line of IdeaPads to compete with the flood of netbooks that's consumed the market. The IdeaPad G-series, as it's supposedly called, is said to feature a 14.1-inch display and run ...
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AT&T Reveils New Cable Service
AT&T has unveiled a cable TV service called U-Verse that can be bundled with your telephone and Internet services.
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Yahoo Combining Sports, Entertainment Under Pitaro In Gilford's Wake
And the winner is James Pitaro ... the head of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Sports gets an expanded portfolio in the wake of Entertainment head Karin Gilford's departure to Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA). Pitaro and Gilford each directly reported to Yahoo Media Group's Scott Moore. Instead of replacing Gilford, a Yahoo spokesman tells us Moore is adding entertainment to Pitaro's responsibilities by creating a ...
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iPhone 3G geared for profit, not cutting-edge tech
Despite the iPhone 3G's more modern wireless communication standards, arguably thinner design, and inclusion of GPS, its overall cost of manufacture has dropped just over $50, according to iSuppli. The company's Teardown Analysis Service reveals that the device is geared towards cutting costs, while increasing worldwide presence, rather than simply...
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UK govt to monitor all telecoms
UK internet service providers will be invited to tender for a British government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications.
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Congress Hears Yahoo!, Microsoft Joust Over Google Deal
(RTTNews) - The latest round in the battle between internet giants Microsoft and Yahoo! took place Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Representatives of the companies, embroiled in a takeover battle, testified at a pair of congressional hearings in Washington.
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Google and Viacom agree on database sharing
Google and Viacom have come to an agreement over a database which would have contained the the personal details of every person ever to have viewed a Youtube video.
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BT to invest £1.5b in super-fast broadband
BT will suspend its share buyback to invest £1.5 billion in rolling out super-fast broadband to 10 million homes by 2012, enabling services such as video conferencing and interactive gaming.
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Google-Yahoo tie-up draws fire on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON -- A proposed online advertising deal between Google and Yahoo drew fire from Microsoft and others at a Senate hearing Tuesday even as both companies defended the alliance as positive for consumers and businesses.
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Apple fires first shot in Clone Wars
The mighty Apple will bring the full force of its dogs of law down upon cheeky cloning minnow Psystar according to The Gray Blog, a lawyerly web site specialising in copyright law.
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Microsoft: Yahoo came crawling
Microsoft has issued a statement to challenge what it sees as inaccuracies in Yahoo's version of its most recent takeover talks. The move highlights the increasing poisonous relationship between the two firms.
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Sony adds online movies to PlayStation 3 consoles
Sony on Tuesday added online movie sales and rentals to the repertoire of PlayStation 3 videogame console features.
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 14th Jul 2008 23:22 UTC
"Linux kernel hacker Greg Kroah Hartman's June 5, 2008 talk at Google titled "The Linux Kernel" was chock-full of details about kernel development ". This is a collection of some statistics about the Linux kernel development from that talk.
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Brazilians first to unlock new iPhone
SAO PAULO - A BRAZILIAN company is claiming to be the first to have found a way to unlock Apple's new iPhone 3G, getting around restrictions that require users to sign up for calling plans with exclusive carriers, reports said on Tuesday.
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Sony adds online movies to PlayStation 3 consoles
Sony on Tuesday added online movie sales and rentals to the repertoire of PlayStation 3 videogame console features.
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Brasil Telecom Net Rises 75% on Web, Mobile Customers (Update2)
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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"Playstation Store - recommendations"
While I'm waiting for an update to Folding @ Home. Any recommendations for stuff to download from the store. Complete n00b just got it all set up ... E3 stuff (disappointed at what's up there tbh) is queued.
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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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Apple quietly releases iPod touch 1.1.5 update
The 1.1.5 update is for iPod touch owners who decline to pay $10 to download the iPhone 2.0 software.
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posted by Sameer Niphadkar on Fri 5th Mar 2004 07:54 UTC
All of us who are in computers know that at present we are using enhanced software products for applications, which our predecessors never thought about or used. Why do we need a word processor when a simple text file does the same job of documentation.
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Centrino 2: Coming soon to a Mac near you?
Lab director James Galbraith looks at what Monday’s unveiling of the new Centrino 2 processors from Intel could mean for future Mac hardware.
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E3 2008: Bones Brings Exclusive Anime to PSN
26 episodes of Xam'd: Lost Memories available only to PS3 and PSP owners. July 15, 2008 - In a surprising announcement at E3 2008, Sony Computer Entertainment revealed a partnership with Bones Studios for a TV series called Xam'd: Lost Memories that will be available exclusively in the PlayStation Network.
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Recent Original Stories
Apple has filed a suit (more details ) on July 3rd against Psystar in the northern district of California. Psystar dubbed its cheap Mac Clone as Open Computer and started shipping them around April of this year.
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PC can't read Mac-formatted backup drive
Q I use a 1-gigabyte USB flash drive to move files between my Windows laptop PC at work and my MacBook portable at home. But that doesn't work with the 160-gigabyte external drive I use to back up my MacBook; my Windows laptop doesn't even recognize the external drive when it's connected. What's the problem?
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