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Digest: Yahoo letter faults Microsoft bid for company
Yahoo sent a letter to shareholders Thursday in which it called Microsoft's dance to acquire all or part of the Internet company "stupefying."
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Recent Yahoo Japan Corp. News
Tokyo, July 18, 2008 (Jiji Press) - U.S. Internet giant Yahoo Inc. said Thursday that it will consider a sale of its assets in Asia to increase shareholder returns.
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Seagate Q4 Profit Falls 70%
Hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate Technology has reported 70% decline in net income to $160m for the fourth quarter 2008, on revenue up 6% at $2.9bn.
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Citrix Unveils Tools for Hypervisor-Neutral Virtual Machines
Citrix Systems has announced that its Project Kensho will supply open source tools for generating virtualized workloads and running them in a neutral OVF file format.
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Microsoft Voices Concerns Over Google-Yahoo Deal
Microsoft has voiced concern over the Google-Yahoo search advertising deal to the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust and the House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force.
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Apple Accuses Psystar of Copyright Infringement
Apple has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of California against Florida-based Psystar, alleging violation of its copyright and software licensing agreements.
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Fatal wreck reported along Hwy. 101 in Pismo Beach
One person has been confirmed killed in a wreck along Highway 101 late Thursday in the area between Price Canyon Road and Five Cities Drive, according to the CHP’s dispatch Web site. The wreck was reported to have happened in the freeway’s center divider under an overpass about 10 p.m. It’s not clear in which direction of the freeway the crash occured.
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Review
of the new Mandriva 2007 Spring Edition. We downloaded and installed three different versions of Mandriva 2007.1 and there was one version that come out head and shoulders above the rest.
OS News |
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Brief: Mozilla shutters three Firefox flaws
Mozilla shutters three Firefox flaws
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Hi-tech loos up for sale online
Five problem-plagued multimillion-dollar self-cleaning public toilets have been withdrawn from use and put up for auction on the internet by the US city of Seattle.
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REGION: Sympathetic man returns violin after learning it had been stolen
A violin stolen in April was returned to its owner Wednesday after detectives tracked down the Poway man who unwittingly bought the instrument at a San Diego pawn shop. Kai Tang of Poway said he first saw the violin on the Internet auction site eBay
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-18 06:15 Hong Kong shares end morning weaker on fears over Wall St; CNOOC slumps
HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Share prices finished the morning slightly lower on fears that Wall Street may slump tonight as Merrill Lynch, Google and Microsoft reported disappointing quarterly results after US market close Thursday.
Interactive Investor |
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Video Game Sales Continue Torrid Sales Gains
"U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago." Yahoo! (Reuters) 07/17/08
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Lake County news in brief
HAMMOND HAMMOND Internet sex enticement verdict upheld by court
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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TV best bets
NUMB3RS - A corporate jet crashes in a forest, and Charlie (David Krumholtz) analyzes the flight computer for clues. He uncovers a link to a young man who works in the IT department. (9 p.m., CBS)
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Satyam Net Income Climbs on New Orders, Weaker Rupee (Update1)
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Satyam Computer Services Ltd. , India's fourth-largest computer-services provider, said first- quarter profit rose 45 percent as it won orders from clients including ArcelorMittal and the rupee weakened against the dollar.
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Free laptop computers for Sunnyside freshman
The Sunnyside school district graduates just 63% of its high school students. A statistic prompting Johns Hopkins University to label it as a "dropout factory" last year. Sunnyside is looking to change
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NPD: Wii usurps Xbox 360 as best selling US game console, pulling away
Filed under: Gaming It's neck-and-neck but Nintendo looks to have just slipped past Microsoft in terms of total US sales for current generation game consoles. What's more, it's pulling away with a 3:1 sales lead for the month of June. NPD Group reports more than 666,000 Wii consoles were sold in June compared to 405,500 PlayStation 3s and 219,800 Xbox 360s. That makes for a total of ...
Engadget |
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Weak profit pushes Google down
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Incorporated's earnings growth bogged down more than investors anticipated during the second quarter, raising worries that the ailing U.S. economy is starting to touch the Internet search leader.
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AMD showing strength, but still weak
The chipmaker did better than expected in the first half this year, but is not expected to report a profit till year end, says analyst. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
ZDNet Asia |
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Features and Case Studies
Apple took the wraps off its first Australian store today. Here is a sneak peek of what is inside the big glass walls. Work is coming along at the soon-to-open Sydney Apple store, although the high-security site is wrapped up to resemble a Steve Jobs skivvy.
ZDNet Australia |
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FTSE seen opening lower
LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 index is seen opening 10 to 17 points down on Friday, financial bookmakers said, after the previous session's rally and after results from Merrill Lynch , Google and Microsoft disappointed.
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iPhone faithful still queuing
One week after the Australian launch of Apple's much-anticipated 3G iPhone, locals keen to buy the device are still queuing outside the company's only Sydney retail store.
ZDNet Australia |
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Microsoft 4th quarter profit soars 42% 18 Jul 2008, 0721 hrs IST,AP
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp has said 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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Premji among top 30 world entrepreneurs 2 Jul 2007, 1242 hrs IST,PTI
NEW YORK: India's IT Mogul Azim Premji and Bangladesh's micro-credit leader and Nobel Prize winner Mohammad Yunus are among the all-time top 30 entrepreneurs identified by leading business magazine Business Week.
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