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Europe Expands Antitrust Cast Against Intel
The European Commission said that it had added three new charges against Intel, and warned that it might order Intel to change its behavior under threat of large fines that could total 10 percent of its global revenue.
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Recent Original Stories
"It's always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message."
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Microsoft's Annual Revenue Reaches $60 Billion
Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $15.84 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2008, an 18% increase over the same period of the prior year.
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AMD Reports Second Quarter Results
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----AMD today reported second quarter 2008 revenue from continuing operations of $1.349 billion, a seven percent decrease compared to the first quarter of 2008 and a three percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2007.
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EU files new charges against Intel
European Union antitrust regulators say Intel paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices. BRUSSELS--European Union antitrust regulators made new accusations against chipmaker Intel on Thursday, saying it paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices. ...
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Free Web-based program opens the Net to blind users
SEATTLE — Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation.
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posted by Kevin Russo on Tue 7th Dec 2004 06:19 UTC
Geek is defined by Dictionary.com as 'A person who is single-minded or accomplished in a scientific or technical pursuit'. Many of us either acknowledge ourselves as computer geeks or are labeled by Friends, Family, and/or Colleagues as the such.
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Analysis: A Better Tool To Help Linux Beat Vista?
Driver support for Linux has long been a key inhibitor to its growth on the desktop. But a new tool has been built with the aim of eliminating that problem. The Test Center takes a look at whether or not it works.
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Dell gains traction in global computer shipments
The latest report on personal computer shipments shows Dell Inc. gaining ground against its competitors.
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Yahoo calls Microsoft's actions `stupefying'
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Yahoo Inc. sent a letter to shareholders Thursday in which it called Microsoft Corp.'s actions in its dance to acquire all or part of the Internet company "stupefying."
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Baby-dolls are 'reborn' for moms 18 Jul 2008, 0035 hrs IST,REUTERS
EDINBURGH: 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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New Google Campaign Consolidates Targeted AdWords
Google today unveiled a campaign for a bit of AdWords “consolidation,” as it’s being phrased. The objective is to make for potentially more effective management of “keyword-targeted” and “placement-targeted” advertising campaigns. Simply put, it’s to enhance targeting on the Google’s network, which allows ads to be placed on specific pages or anywhere on the Web deemed relevant through ...
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Onstream Media agrees to acquire provider of Internet protocol TV services
Onstream Media Corp., an online service provider of live and on-demand Internet video has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Narrowstep Inc., a provider of Internet TV and Internet Protocol TV services. The acquisition is expected to close by fall.
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Technology key to Russian democracy
Modern communications technology should become a gateway to democracy in Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev said, ordering his ministers to improve online public access to the government.
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5 sights the U.S. government won't let Google show you [Censorship]
So much for indexing all the world's information: There are at least 51 places you can't see on Google Maps. One of them is the entire country of Bahrain. Alllegedly, the Bahrain's Ministry of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Customer Service
NEW YORK - Mitch Albom has a new book out - well, not really a book, but a commencement speech in book form. And not in traditional book form, but as an e-book, published exclusively through Amazon.com's Kindle reader.
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COMSYS IT Partners, Inc. Announces Schedule for Second Quarter 2008 Conference Call
HOUSTON----COMSYS IT Partners, Inc. today announced that it will release financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 29, 2008, before the market opens on Thursday, July 31, 2008.
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Intel CEO: Atom Platform Something "Most of Us Wouldn't Use" [D'OH]
In a quarterly conference call today, Intel CEO Paul Otellini dropped the aforementioned diss of the low-cost, low-power 45nm Atom chipset that can be found in a few current and many future netbooks,...
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Comcast Hires Yahoo Exec To Run Fancast
Comcast Thursday confirmed that it has hired Karin Gilford, formerly in charge of Yahoo’s entertainment properties, to head up its Fancast online video and entertainment.
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Concert preview: Marie Digby takes music career in hand, online
On "Miss Invisible," the autobiographical song that got Marié (pronounced Ma-re-AY) Digby her major-label record deal when it won the Pantene Pro-Voice Music Competition in 2004, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter relates the feelings of that friendless girl in school who just seems to haunt the halls:
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Why contribute: happiness or victory?
Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more.
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Yahoo calls Microsoft's actions `stupefying'
Yahoo Inc. sent a letter to shareholders Thursday in which it called Microsoft Corp.'s actions in its dance to acquire all or part of the Internet company "stupefying." The letter from Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Chief Executive Jerry Yang also hammered investor Carl Icahn, Microsoft's partner in the latest acquisition offer, for his lack of knowledge about the Internet business. It said the ...
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Europeans expand antitrust case against Intel
European Union regulators have expanded their antitrust case against Intel Corp., claiming that the world's largest semiconductor maker has deliberately squeezed rival AMD out of the chip market.
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Europeans expand antitrust case against Intel
European Union regulators have expanded their antitrust case against Intel Corp., claiming that the world's largest semiconductor maker has deliberately squeezed rival AMD out of the chip market.
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Intel hit by fresh EU allegations
European regulators last night beefed up their long-running antitrust complaint against Intel , alleging that the world’s largest manufacturer of computer chips used rebates to persuade a retailer to sell Intel-based personal computers only.
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