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The Google Trademark change – will it level the playing field?
Probably one of the most material and controversial changes for the UK and Irish paid search markets is almost upon us – the relaxation of the trademark protection Google currently affords to brands will cease on 5 May 2008. As Ivan Izikowitz writes, some analysts and industry experts have taken the cynical view that this is merely a way for Google to stimulate volume and/or increased ...
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Falling Microsoft Income Endangers Yahoo Bid
Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points out a new wrinkle to Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo. The most recent quarterly results, which saw Microsoft's earnings drop by 6% from the previous year (revenue from Windows alone was down 24%), have caused the stock to dip. This has reduced the value of the cash-and-stock offer from its original $44B to something nearer $40B. Yahoo, of course, has ...
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Elizabeth Song Reconnecting Philly
Looking for a new laptop? Forget those fancy gizmos at Computer Connection. Just north of Market Street, I spotted a hole-in-the-wall electronics store called the Super Computer Center, hosting a sidewalk sale at Depression-era rates.
Daily Pennsylvanian |
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Verizon profit up 9.8 percent
Growth in wireless accounts offsets loss in landline business. Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday reported steady earnings in a stormy economy.
The Morning Call |
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A goal of diversity, without litigation
A new software program is on the market to try to help universities increase the diversity of their admitted classes while avoiding discrimination litigation.
Daily Pennsylvanian |
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EBay loses bid to shield sellers from taxman
Court ruling means Canada Revenue Agency will be checking to make sure roughly 10,000 PowerSellers are reporting their eBay revenue
The Globe and Mail |
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Netgear tunes SMBs to 802.11n signal
New products galore. Netgear has announced network and storage gear aimed at a range of small and mid-size businesses, including a new 802.11n wireless LAN product line.
TechWorld |
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Bank owns up to laptop disaster
Customer data disappears. The Bank of Ireland has admitted that the unencrypted personal details of 31,500 customers - three times as many as previously disclosed - went missing with the theft of four laptops last year.
TechWorld |
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US downturn fails to dampen Internet economy
No bursting of the Internet bubble just yet. The ever-growing internet economy should be less susceptible to a US economic downturn than many other industries, with more and more people shopping and doing business online, a group of commentators and business people said last Friday.
TechWorld |
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SQL attacks not our fault, says Microsoft
Blame asked to move elsewhere. Microsoft has denied that vulnerabilities in its web and SQL server software have been exploited to hack hundreds of thousands of Internet pages.
TechWorld |
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Vista hit by nasty QuickTime hole
Hackers start migration from XP. A security think tank says it has found a vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime multimedia player that can be exploited remotely to compromise Windows Vista PCs upgraded to Service Pack 1, as well as XP SP2.
TechWorld |
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Taiwan's Quanta Q1 up, raises sales forecast
TAOYUAN, Taiwan, April 29 - Taiwan's Quanta Computer , the world's largest contract maker of laptop PCs, matched forecasts with an 18 percent increase in quarterly profit and boosted its 2008 sales forecast by about 10 percent on rising demand from emerging markets.
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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Microsoft Botnet-hunting Tool Helps Bust Hackers
Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft.
PC World |
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The IT trainer
Mick Finnigan helps other blind people to use technology
Guardian Unlimited |
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French Migrants Sending the Most Money Back Home
Moneybookers, one of Europe's largest online payment systems, is today revealing the movement of money out of the country by migrants working in the UK. Foreign workers living in the UK are typically sending GBP200 per month to their friends and relatives back home, although this figure rises to GBP550 for French migrants.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Intrinsyc Becomes an Accredited Symbian Competence Center
Intrinsyc Software International, Inc., a global wireless software solutions provider, was appointed a Symbian Competence Center by Symbian Limited at the Symbian Partner Event in London, UK.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Embotics President & CEO to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
Virtualization is not just about server consolidation any more; as virtual infrastructure grows, there's an entire Virtualization Lifecycle for IT to manage. SYS-CON Events announced today that the President & CEO of Embotics Corporation, Jay Litkey, will be giving a top breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (20-21 November, 2008).
SYS-CON Media |
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Spam mails hidden within codes of popular sites
AHMEDABAD, INDIA: Cyberoam , a division of Elitecore Technologies and the leading innovator of identity-based unified threat management (UTM) solutions, announced that its Q1 2008 email threat trend report, prepared in collaboration with partner Commtouch, revealed that malware distributors and spammers are now hiding their unwanted messages within legitimate-appearing Websites and messages.
CIOL |
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Cray picks Intel for supercomputers
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Cray and Intel unveiled a multiyear deal to build the next generation of high-performance computers capable of processing petaflops -- quadrillions of machine instructions a second -- or twice the power of the world's top existing supercomputer.
CIOL |
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Egyptians use Facebook to deter censorship
Plainclothes Egyptian security forces in Cairo seize a protester who joined demonstrations in which unarmed protesters were beaten and detained during clashes with security forces.
Middle East Times |
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Today's media stories from the papers
ON MEDIAGUARDIAN.CO.UK TODAY: ITV faces record phone-in finehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/28/tvfakery.itvMicrosoft to get tough with Yahoohttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/29/microsoft.yahootakeover
Guardian Unlimited |
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Game posts solid results, current trading strong
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Computer games retailer Game posted strong full year results thanks to the acquisition of Gamestation in the UK and said current trading is strong.
ShareCast |
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Career Moves
Software maker Red Hat has reorganized top management around international growth objectives, the first major executive shift since CEO Jim Whitehurst took command of the Raleigh company in January.
The News & Observer |
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iStor Networks Nominated By AeA At 15th Annual High Tech Innovation Awards
iStor Networks, Inc., a leading manufacturer of network storage solutions, has been nominated by the AeA, the largest technology trade association in the United States, for the 15 th Annual High-Tech Innovation Award in the category of computer system hardware.
DataStorage-DataStorageConnection |
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Charlotte IBM exec plugs into the bank biz
Greg Sullins, an IBM executive in Charlotte, gets paid to help figure out what people want from their banks, then help the banks meet those wishes.
The News & Observer |
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