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Firefox gets security tune-up
Mozilla has issued a pair of updates for its Firefox web browser.
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E3 2008: Castle Crashers Hands-On [Xbox 360]
We hacked and slashed our way through a level of this cool-looking Xbox Live Arcade game.
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AMD's Ruiz steps off the roller coaster
A tumultuous six years as the head of AMD has come to an end for Hector Ruiz, and while he has several accomplishments to tout, AMD lost an amazing amount of money during his reign.
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NexHorizon completes phase two of infrastructure upgrade in Colorado
NexHorizon Communications has completed phase two of its infrastructure upgrade in its Southeast Colorado systems. The company has also completed its billing conversion to the Great Lakes Wins software for all cable systems in both Colorado and California.
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Firefox gets security tune-up
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 18 July 2008 at 01:14:00 Flaws patched for versions 2 and 3 Mozilla has issued a pair of updates for its Firefox web browser. The open-source group posted fixes for both Firefox 2 and 3, addressing critical vulnerabilities in both versions of...
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Apple sues Mac clone-maker
Apple has sued a company making Mac clones, according to web reports. The company, Psystar, started selling PCs bundled with Apple's OS X operating system earlier this year.
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Software maker Microsoft fourth-quarter profit jumps 42 per cent
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit jumped 42 per cent, helped by strong sales of its Office and Windows software, but the company offered a softer-than-expected outlook for the current quarter.
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Online shopping 'up 38%' on 2007
Shoppers spent 38% more online in the first six months of 2008 than the same period last year, a report said. Figures show shoppers have spent more than £26.5 billion online so far this year compared with £19.2 billion in the first half of 2007, according to the e-retail sales index.
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Mission hipsters choose Google as their new object of hate [I Hate It Here]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. Here we go again. New graffiti on the sidewalk at 18th and Dolores claims nothing short of "Mission Exploitation" by Google... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Online sales boom as shoppers desert high street
Out of every £1 spent by British shoppers 17p is now going to online retailers, as consumers switch away from traditional shops in favour of picking and paying at their home computer. A new survey shows £26.5bn was spent on the internet in the first six months of this year - up 38% on 2007. The online total is roughly equivalent to half the UK's supermarket spending. The IMRG-Capgemini ...
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The Friday Interview: Former dotcom poster child finds her lucky voice
Shortly before meeting Martha Lane Fox, her publicity people call to postpone the photographer. Lane Fox, who walks with a black polished stick, had fallen over and was sporting a scab on her nose, something that has happened all too often since a horrific car accident in Morocco four years ago. Lane Fox, a co-founder of Lastminute.com and one of the best-known faces of the internet boom in ...
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Man accused of blocking city's computers
A computer technician charged with launching a cyber-coup against the city of San Francisco was expected to plead not guilty late yesterday to four charges of computer tampering. Terry Childs, an employee of the San Francisco city government, is accused of blocking access to the city's computer system to everyone but himself. He is being held in jail in lieu of $5m bail. Childs, who was ...
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Click to download: Festival highs and lows from T in the Park to Kanye West
Related Stories Man accused of blocking city's computers Russia: Get computer-savvy or get out, Medvedev tells staff The Friday Interview: Former dotcom poster child finds her lucky voice Online sales boom as shoppers desert high street Editorial: In praise of ... Free Our Data
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Russia: Get computer-savvy or get out, Medvedev tells staff
The Russian president has warned that government officials who cannot use a computer could soon be out of a job. "They either should learn or, as they say, goodbye," Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday in a meeting with officials in Petrozavodsk, north-west Russia. "We don't hire people who can't read and write. Computer literacy today is the same." Since taking office in May, the 42-year-old ...
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US economy: Lacklustre Google and Microsoft results puncture Wall Street's fragile good cheer
American stocks completed their best two-day percentage gain since 2002 today but Wall Street's fragile good cheer subsided after the bell as earnings from Google and Microsoft failed to live up to investors' expectations. A fall of more than $5 in the price of oil sent shares soaring on hopes that the cost of crude may have passed its peak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average leapt by 207 ...
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Cloud Computing "Should Be Open, Not Proprietary"
What sort of cloud computer(s) should we be building or expecting from vendors? Are there issues of lock-in that should concern customers of either SaaS clouds or PaaS clouds? I've been thinking about this problem as the CEO of a PaaS cloud computing company for some time. Clouds should be open. They shouldn't be proprietary. More broadly, I believe no vendor currently does everything that's ...
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Child Porn Investigation Arrest
11 News has obtained the arrest affidavit for a Fort Carson soldier accused of distributing sexually exploitive images of children on the Internet.
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E-retailers buck gloom as 17p per £1 is spent online
Despite the economic gloom, online shopping shot up by 38 per cent year on year in the first six months of 2008 and now represents 17p in every £1 that consumers spend. The £26.5bn-worth of internet buying between January and June is roughly equivalent to half of all supermarket sales and larger than clothing and footwear purchasing combined, says the annual e-retail survey from IMRG and ...
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Google shares slump after it warns on ad spending
Google raised fears for the first time that the weakening economy could affect the heretofore soaring growth rate of online advertising spending. Eric Schmidt, the search engine giant's chief executive, warned last night that the company was facing "a more challenging economic environment", compound-ing investors' negative reaction to disappointing profit figures for the last three months.
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Linux-friendly SoCs target low-end multimedia
— Jul. 08, 2008 — Renesas announced two highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) processors based on its 32-bit RISC architecture.
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Google’s Share of Search Ads and Earnings for Q2 Both Up
A lot of numbers relating to earnings, revenues and search advertising have just went out for all of us to consume. First we have this report from Efficient Frontier saying Google’s share of the search ads for the Q2 has reached 77.4%. Comparing Q2 2007 data with that of Q2 2008, showed a 2% increase, [...]
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Icahn Says Yahoo Should Negotiate Deal With Microsoft (Update2)
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. should negotiate with Microsoft Corp. about selling its Internet search business, billionaire activist Carl Icahn said in an interview today, responding to a letter Yahoo sent its shareholders.
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Online Services Sluggish In Microsoft Q4
Microsoft missed fourth quarter expections by a penny, but that was enough to send its shares down more than 6 percent in after hours trading.
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Google earnings disappoint and shares drop 8 percent
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc reported a weaker-than-expected 35 percent rise in net profit as the company blamed lower returns from managing its huge cash pile rather than softening sales of online advertising.
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Yahoo! Opens Search Technology Infrastructure
Yahoo! Inc. introduced a new open web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service).
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