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Podcast Special: Views from the Valley
Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols discuss the stories that made the headlines in Silicon Valley this week. Today's podcast covers Microsoft's antitrust concerns over Yahoo and Google, San Francisco's problems with a rogue administrator, the cracked iPhone 3G, and the Kiwi hacker let off the hook.
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Sony unveils Vaio business notebooks
Sony has unveiled three new business laptops in its Vaio range. The first is the Vaio SR, designed for the "out and about professional".
Infomatics |
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Computer mouse heading for extinction
The computer mouse is set to die out in the next five years and will be usurped by touch screens and facial recognition, analysts believe. Gartner said that innovations from electronics firms creating new interactive interfaces for gaming and smartphones are driving the demise of the mouse.
Infomatics |
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Microsoft tops $60 billion in annual revenue
Microsoft Thursday announced it has topped $60 billion in yearly revenue for the first time in its history and posted a 25 percent year-over-year gain in net income for its fiscal year 2008. The company also provided financial details of its offer to buy Yahoo's search business including a lump payment of $1 billion, a stock investment and on-going revenue sharing. (Read Editor ...
InfoWorld |
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International markets continue to drive Google growth
International growth and continued overall traffic increases kept Google's earnings in line with analysts' estimates in the search giant's second quarter.
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Yahoo letter to shareholders slams Microsoft, Icahn
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and chairman Roy Bostock on Thursday sent a letter to shareholders that slams Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn, who want Yahoo to sell part or all of the company to Microsoft.
Macworld UK |
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Google's profits below predictions for 2nd quarter
Google Inc.'s earnings growth slowed more than investors anticipated during the second quarter — an indication the sluggish U.S. economy is starting to weigh on the Internet search leader.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Hacker Runs Up Huge Phone Bill For Local Library
A computer hack has run up a phone bill of more than $15,000 at the Duxbury public library.
WBZ Boston |
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11:08 (BST), 18/07/2008 Runes of Magic, Chronicles of Spellborn, StoneAge 2, Kickster and Bounty Bay Online Press ...
Frogster starts into the second half of the year with a wide-ranging MMOG portfolio. The bulky five-game-package consists of Runes of Magic, The Chronicles of Spellborn, StoneAge 2, Kickster and an Add-on for Bounty Bay Online.
gamesindustry.biz |
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EU complaint is just more of the same, says Intel
We never done nothing Intel has delivered a weary response to the latest European Commission's Statement of Objections which accused it of anti-competitive behaviour.…
The Register |
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Sony Computer Entertainment
GamesIndustry.biz is the world's most read and influential games industry website. But don't just take our word for it!
gamesindustry.biz |
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Corrections
>> Former state legislator Anson Chong died Tuesday at 69. A story on Page A3 in yesterday’s morning edition incorrectly stated that he was 70. >> Bill Kurtis is featured in an AT&T commercial for the Laptop Connect Card. His name was misspelled in “Honolulu Lite” on Page D1 yesterday.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
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In Surprise, 2 Tech Titans Disappoint
Google and Microsoft issued quarterly results on Thursday that disappointed investors.
The Gadsden Times |
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Microsoft And AOL To Merge Online Divisions
Reports are that Microsoft is talking to AOL about merging the online divisions of the two companies.
DesignTechnica |
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DataCenter 2008 unveils green initiatives
The one-day agenda covered servers, IT operations, data centre facilities, and - a must in today's world - business continuity and disaster recovery. And also presented a serious look at best practices from throughout the data centre field
CIOL |
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An Open Source Seeing Eye Dog for Web Surfers
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.
LinuxInsider.com |
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Listen to the 2600 hacker conference
If you can't attend The Last HOPE conference, you can listen to it over the Internet.
CNET |
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Queens Historic Groups Take Collections Online
The last Republican and first Jewish Queens District Attorney, Nat Hentel, right, shaking hands with City Councilman Sid Lazar in 1970. (courtesy of the QJHS)
Queens Chronicle |
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Indications: Merrill, tech results weigh on U.S. stock futures
A smaller-than-expected second-quarter loss reported financial-services giant Citigroup helps counterbalance lackluster results from Merrill Lynch and technology giants Google and Microsoft.
Market Watch |
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Method for AP-Yahoo poll on voters
The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that is tracking the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The fifth wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,759 people between June 13-23 who were originally interviewed in November or early December. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 28th Sep 2006 17:57 UTC
"Earlier this month, when I found I could install Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) on my MacBook Pro, I quickly took the plunge, practically chortling at the thought that my dual-core laptop could run Microsoft's next operating system.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Yahoo Japan Corp. News
Tokyo, July 18, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Yahoo Japan Corp. Friday disputed media reports that U.S. Internet giant Yahoo Inc. may sold its shareholdings in the Japanese company.
Japan Corporate News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Aug 2007 21:09 UTC
"Freespire, the free as in beer version of the Linspire Linux distribution, this month released Freespire 2.0, the first version of the operating system based on the popular Ubuntu distribution, and the first to contain proprietary codecs and drivers.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft's Hilton Locke, who used to work on the Tablet PC team and now works on the Windows Shell team, let us know today that if we are impressed with touch on the iPhone, then we'll be blown away by the touch features of the upcoming Windows 7."
New Mobile Computing |
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Regulation quarrels could hamper BT's super-fast broadband plans
Businesses are set to benefit from a £1.5bn network improvement programme by BT that will deliver super-fast broadband services to up to 10 million UK homes by 2012. But market watchers warned that quarrels over regulation could hamper the rollout.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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