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S.F. engineer pleads not guilty to cyber crime
Associated Press - July 17, 2008 5:54 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco computer engineer has pleaded not guilty to charges of taking over a city computer network that stores payroll...
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At a glance: AMD's new CEO Dirk Meyer
NAME: Derrick "Dirk" Meyer. AGE: 46. Born in La Grange, Ill. EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, University of Illinois; Master of Business Administration, Boston University. TITLE: Formerly president and chief operating officer of AMD. Now...
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AMD's CEO Hector Ruiz pushed aside
COO Dirk Meyer takes the top post as the chipmaker announces $1.19 billion loss.
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SCO ordered to pay Novell for software royalties
The SCO Group has been ordered to pay Novell Inc. more than $2.5 million in royalties in a dispute over the Unix computer operating system. Wednesday's award by U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball falls short of the nearly $20 million Novell was seeking....
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SCO ordered to pay Novell for software royalties
(AP:SALT LAKE CITY) The SCO Group has been ordered to pay Novell Inc. more than $2.5 million in royalties in a dispute over the Unix computer operating system.
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Ruiz Out, Meyer In At AMD
Hector Ruiz is out as chief executive at Advanced Micro Devices as the struggling chip maker on Thursday reported its seventh consecutive quarter in the red to the tune of a $1.19 billion loss in the second quarter of this year.
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Google second quarter profit rises 35 pct, below analyst views
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s earnings growth slowed more than investors anticipated during the second quarter - an indication that the sluggish U.S. economy is starting to weigh on the Internet search leader.
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Admins Locked Out of San Francisco's I.T. System
San Francisco's computer network was still being held hostage Thursday, allegedly by a disgruntled employee who programmed the system with a password only he knows. Terry Childs, 43, was jailed Sunday night. He has a 25-year-old criminal record in Kansas for aggravated robbery that had been disclosed at the time he was hired. No Administrator Access San Francisco's IT department was trying ...
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American Airlines settles trademark suit with Google
American Airlines Inc. and Google Inc. have settled a trademark-infringment lawsuit by the carrier against the search engine. (GOOG) (AMR)
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Wii wins over game publishers
In the video game industry, the spoils of the console wars come in the form of support from third-party software publishers selling games to run on your machine.
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COLUMNS: Savage Love
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dan Savage's advice is unedited and untamed. Savage Love addresses everything you've always wanted to know about sex, but now you don't have to ask. Proceed with curiosity.
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MarketWatch First Take: Google not immune to the economic downturn
Google Inc. finally shows it is not the unstoppable behemoth that blows through Wall Street's estimates every quarter.
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Microsoft Call: Share Weakness Out Of Our Control; Advertisers Tight With Spending
The audio on this call is very bad, so we may have to check the transcript later to see what we missed. Although the company's outlook is seen as weak, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CFO Chris Liddel characterized the company's numbers as "Relatively consistent with what we told you in April." As for the weak share price, Liddell claimed the factorsmarket weakness and uncertainty over the Yahoo (NSDQ: ...
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Attorney General Joins with Cable Providers to Combat Child Pornography
Cable operators provide Internet service to 87% of American homes, and they are taking measures to limit the distribution of child pornography on the Internet.
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Aussie teens try to tackle cyber crime
Faced with the danger of online predators, fraudsters and bullies, a group of Australian teenagers are putting their heads together with others from around the world to tackle internet crime.
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Air passenger charged over child porn
An airline passenger has been arrested and charged following the discovery of child pornography on a laptop computer in Adelaide. Customs officers at Adelaide International Airport stopped and questioned a 22-year-old man, a Chinese national, after he arrived on a flight from Singapore on Thursday.
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Europeans expand antitrust case against Intel
(AP:BRUSSELS, Belgium) 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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Stocks up on oil, earnings optimism fizzles late
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks soared on Thursday on a sharp drop in oil and several unexpectedly strong earnings reports, but the rally may not hold into Friday, given disappointing results from Google, Microsoft and Merrill Lynch after the bell.
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SCO ordered to pay Novell for software royalties
The SCO Group has been ordered to pay Novell Inc. more than $2.5 million in royalties in a dispute over the Unix computer operating system.
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At a glance: AMD's new CEO Dirk Meyer
NAME: Derrick "Dirk" Meyer.
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Man Accused Of Webcam Sex
GAFFNEY, S.C. -- A Gaffney man was arrested after an Internet sting in which police said he was caught on a Webcam sexually interacting with an officer who he thought was a 13-year-old girl.
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Elemental Technologies, Inc. (ETI) Secures First Round Funding from General Catalyst Partners and Voyager Capital
PORTLAND, Ore., BUSINESS WIRE -- Elemental Technologies Inc. (ETI), a leading provider of massively parallel video processing software, has closed its first round of venture capital financing.
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Hector Ruiz steps down as AMD CEO
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops Don't say the writing wasn't already littering the walls, because it was . Just months after AMD hacked its workforce by 10% and let its CTO walk away without being replaced , the company's second CEO after Jerry Sanders has spent his last day in AMD's biggest corner office. Hector Ruiz has decided to walk away from his role in the flagging ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th May 2006 20:05 UTC, submitted by Paul
Linux.com takes a look at Dropline GNOME 2.14 , and concludes: "I have to admit that dropline GNOME satisfies a very basic itch. I get to keep using Slackware, a distribution I have come to rely on to provide a fast, stable, and full-featured Linux, and I get a cutting-edge GNOME desktop.
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Software maker Microsoft fourth quarter profit jumps 42 per cent
Jessica Mintz, The Associated Press July 17, 2008 - 5:41 p.m. SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumped 42 per cent, helped by strong sales of its Office and Windows software, but the company offered a soft outlook for the current quarter.
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