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eBay Gets Revenue Boost from Paypal, Skype
Online auction giant eBay reports financial results for its second quarter. Third-quarter guidance sends shares lower in after-hours trading.
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The Knowledge
For the last several hours Microsoft has been holding my hand and walking me through a series of demos, the first of which was their entirely redesigned dashboard. The dash is barely recognizable, retaining just a few references to the initial design. I've described the biggest new features below.
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EBay Falls as Average Selling Price Drops on Its Retail Sites
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- EBay Inc ., the world's largest Internet auctioneer, fell 6.6 percent in late U.S. trading after reporting that people are paying less for items on its retail sites.
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Spammer gets jailed for 30 months
A New York court has sentenced a persistent spammer to 30 months in prison.
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Newsletter Subscription
Microsoft released three bundles of fixes and new features for its server products on Wednesday.
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Katy Teacher Charged with Improper Relationship
An alert parent blew the whistle on an alleged sexual relationship between a Katy ISD teacher and a 17-year-old student after seeing the two embracing outside the teacher's apartment and later emailed the principal, investigators said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Aug 2006 17:45 UTC
"This week I interviewed Microsoft's Chris Wilson, the Group Program Manager for IE, to address the issue of Web standards compliance and IE7. There has been controversy about this lately, sparked by a Slashdot thread last week that claimed IE7 was basically non-compliant with CSS standards.
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Lifelike dolls repel and attract
Their chests rise and fall and you can hear a tiny heartbeat, but these babies for sale over the Internet are not alive.
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Microsoft revises DirectX security bulletins
Microsoft revises critical DirectX-related security bulletins.
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Fort Worth Company Takes Gun Sales Online
A Fort Worth company is going where Craigslist.com and eBay will not by introducing a Web site to buy, sell and trade guns on the Internet.
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Are Websites Ranked as a Whole?
When evaluating the value of a given link, does Google consider the PR of the web page the link is actually on, not the PR of the home page of the website?
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Entertainment
A businessman has used the internet to lose more than 95kg. Mike Hare, 54, set up a blog to track his progress and credits online well-wishers with giving him the motivation to stick to his regime.
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Microsoft Lets More People Use Live Mesh
Microsoft is letting more people use its Live Mesh file storage and sharing service.
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User Login
Last week, the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies[ep] heard testimony on a bill that would slap regulations on web advertisers who track internet [capital "I"? -- ep] user activity and market products accordingly.
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Google Docs Template Gallery Launches [Google Docs]
Google Docs now offers a gallery of spreadsheet, presentation, and document templates for use in your work. Whether you're designing a resume, invoice, calendar, or slideshow, there are a few...
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Australian websites to get ratings for content, age
The Australian Communications and Media Authority introduced a new code of conduct today that will subject web and mobile content to a rating system. Of course, it only covers Australian websites, leaving us to wonder how much good it will actually do. Read More...
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E3 08: Lips - Details from Microsoft's demo
-The first songs which have been announced are: Mercy by Duffy, Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and Son, and Bust a Move by Young MC. -The game will come with two Wireless mics, one white and one black. The mics contain motion sensors and LEDs that light up in time with the music and other events.
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Girls take byte of computers at geek camp
Instead of hanging out at the pool, 90 metro girls spent four days this week digging into the guts of a computer, taking them apart and building their own. They pulled on shock guard wristbands and tackled an array of computer parts scattered on their desks at Southern Polytechnic State University. They connected hard drives, RAMs to the motherboard, the brains of their disassembled computers. ...
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Spammer gets jailed for 30 months
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Thursday 17 July 2008 at 01:10:00 Shortly to rue easily available Viagra A New York court has sentenced a persistent spammer to 30 months in prison. Adam Vitale, 27, sent 250,000 spam messages to more than 1.2 million e-mail addresses belonging to...
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Microsoft lets more people use Live Mesh
Microsoft is letting more people use its Live Mesh service just days after Apple launched its similar, but broader, MobileMe service. Live Mesh , which was first introduced on an invitation-only basis in April, lets people share and synch files and programs among various computers. Users can place documents into the "mesh," which is essentially an online storage locker, and then access ...
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M'shita to spend $951 mln for battery plant-media
(Adds company comment, stock price)
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FEATURE-Attract, repel: lifelike dolls are collector cult
Source: Reuters By Sophie Taylor EDINBURGH, July 17 (Reuters) - Their chests rise and fall and you can hear a tiny heartbeat, but these babies for sale over the Internet are not alive. "Reborn babies" ...
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Mock polls set to test computerized election machines
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/16 July) – To test the computerized election system in Maguindanao, mock polls have been set next week in key areas in Maguindanao, a poll watchdog said.
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Blog: Sega and Sonic are back in the game
More coverage of E3, the video games conference underway in L.A.
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San Francisco government still locked out of own computers
A "rogue employee that got a bit maniacal." San Francisco city officials are still unable to access the FiberWAN computer system after a rogue computer technician deleted administrator passwords.
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