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Legg Mason to back Yahoo board slate
Yahoo Inc's second largest institutional shareholder Legg Mason Capital Management said on Friday it will back Yahoo's board, dealing a blow to a billionaire investor Carl Icahn's efforts to get a rival board slate elected.
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Yahoo may revisit News Corp if AOL dims: source
Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because Yahoo could instead renew talks over News Corp's Web properties. NEW YORK--Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because if Microsoft gets in the way, Yahoo could instead renew...
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Sprint's Android lead retracts critical comments
The company's product manager for Android devices asked an enthusiast site to pull an interview in which he said Google needs to work better with the mobile industry
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Dell: Key Priorities, Increased Competitiveness Accelerating Growth
ROUND ROCK, Texas----Dell's enhanced product portfolio and competitiveness are driving renewed growth worldwide, Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, and Brian Gladden, Dell chief financial officer, told shareholders today at the company's annual shareholder meeting.
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How to Build Your Online Brand
This is a guest post written by Chris Brogan, who blogs about social media for business at chrisbrogan.com . There are only so many hours in a day, and you’ve got to determine which social media tools drive business, which ones build community, and where you can learn the most in the process. Maybe you’ve built a blog or a home page or some other starting point for your online presence. How ...
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Advertising in Digital Media
These 3 hot trends can give you a competitive edge on the web and beyond.
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Ruiz out as AMD CEO
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Thursday named Dirk Meyer its new chief executive, moving former CEO Hector Ruiz into a role that should bring him to the Capital Region more often. (AMD)
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SOUTHPORT, England - Greg Norman claimed the lead in the second round of the British Open. He birdied three holes on the front side to offset a double-bogey at the gargantuan sixth, leaving him as the only player with an overall score in the red.
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New Products: The latest speakers for your Mac and iPod
SoundCast is a US company that has just started selling its products here in the UK. It specialises in wireless products for the iPod, and its product range revolves around its iCast wireless dock. The basic iCast package costs £163 and consists of the iCast dock and a separate receiver.
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Ahead of the Bell: Analysts say Microsoft is cheap
Microsoft Corp. shares were recovering slightly in Friday morning trading after taking a battering the night before on the heels of a disappointing earnings report.
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Saling The World: Dragon Quest V Tops Multiplatform Charts in Japan
Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five real-time Amazon.com sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from July 17th, 2008, find EA's NCAA Football 09 leading sales on the Xbox 360 in North America, while a remade Dragon Quest V for the ...
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Best Of Indie Games: The Gods Of Independent Gaming
[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days, as well as any notable features on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on 'Best Of Indie Games', we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The goodies in this ...
Gamasutra |
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Online ticket buyers have troubles getting Elton John tickets for Halifax show
HALIFAX — Elton John fans hoping to buy tickets online for the rock star’s upcoming Halifax concert found themselves hard pressed to do so, when they went on sale this morning.
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Wired 07/17/08
Is The Internet Bad For Research? "The forced browsing of print archives may have stretched scientists and scholars to anchor findings deeply into past and present scholarship.
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Toshiba sets new density record with 400 GB drive
A capacity of 400 GB in a 2.5-inch hard drive from Toshiba is impressive. Not because of the storage capacity, Samsung, Hitachi and Fujitsu have already announced 500 GB drives, but because Toshiba has managed to use just 2 platters. In doing so they have set a new areal density record managing to squeeze 477 Mbit [...]
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HP puts data center in a POD
HP have decided to cater for those businesses that need either a new data center, or an expansion very quickly with the introduction of the POD. POD stands for Performance Optimized Data Center and basically offers a complete data center contained within a shipping container. HP says it can deliver a POD in just 6 weeks [...]
Geek.com |
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Blow To Icahn: Legg Mason To Support Incumbent Yahoo Slate
Icahn's proposed Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board slate may be toast. Legg Mason, a major Yahoo shareholder, has decided to support the incumbent Yahoo slate. (via MarketWatch) More to come
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Microsoft adCenter Content Ads Self-Service Pilot
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft is testing their self-service AdSense/YPN product named Content Ads . The truth is, as TechCrunch said in an update to his post, they have started this pilot earlier this year. I have a post at the Search Engine Roundtable linking to the pilot enrollment form . Content Ads is still a very exclusive and limited beta test. Google AdSense is widely used by ...
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Isocore Validates Allot Service Gateway's Position at the Top of the Carrier Class
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota , July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT), a leader in IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on deep packet inspection (DPI), today announced its Service Gateway Omega platform achieved outstanding results in independent validation testing performed by Isocore.
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World's First Liquid Metal-Based CPU Cooler
Denmark-based Danamics has developed its first product, and it looks pretty special. The LM10 is a liquid metal based CPU cooler that combines liquid metal with an electromagnetic pump. It is claimed to be the world's best performing air-cooler and have cooling ...
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EMC Links Cloud Storage, Hard Drives
Aiming to simplify the task of managing Web-based and offline storage for small businesses, EMC (NYSE: EMC) has made its Retrospect Express software the connecting link between the vendor's Mozy online service and its Iomega backup drives.
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Transitive Offers Solaris/SPARC Apps on Windows
QuickTransit supports 64-bit distribution, so it runs on Solaris x86. Once QuickTransit has been installed, enterprises can install or copy SPARC-based ( define ) applications onto the x86 server.
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Recent Original Stories
MadPengiun has a review of the PepperPad , a Linux-powered competitor to Microsoft's Origami concept, and concludes: "Overall, the Pepper Pad is a sleek ultra mobile PC in a nice form factor with a great touchscreen for navigating, launching applications, watching video and surfing the web.
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AMD shares fall after CEO steps down, weak 2Q
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell in premarket trading Friday, a day after the chip maker reported the departure of Chief Executive Hector Ruiz and reported a wider second-quarter loss than analysts expected.
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Holbrook selectmen decline resident's offer to host web site
The selectmen have declined a resident’s offer to host an official website for the town, one of the last communities in the state without one of its own.
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