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Google shares fall after disappointing earnings
SAN FRANCISCO-- Google Inc. shares tumbled more than 9 percent by midday today after the Internet search leader's second-quarter earnings missed analysts' expectations.
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MoD admits hundreds of laptops stolen
More than 650 laptops have been stolen from the Ministry of Defence over the last four years, it has been revealed.
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Recent Original Stories
Many people who have called Apple to complain about excessive heat coming from their newly purchased computers have been told that the MacBook and the MacBook Pro are in fact Notebook computers and not Laptop computers.
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Parents should beware of who their children are typing to in chat rooms.
The Weatherford Democrat |
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Popular business directory searches
Parents should beware of who their children are typing to in chat rooms.
The Weatherford Democrat |
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Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!
My post the other day about Windows "Workstation" 2008 (the nickname given to an installation of Windows Server 2008 that's been tweaked to be more of a desktop OS) seemed to have caused a bit of a stir amongst those who believe that the server OS makes a better desktop...
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Has Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows Easy Transfer Companion?
More than two years ago, Microsoft purchased Apptimum, Inc., which had developed two system utilities for transferring programs and settings from one computer to another. Roughly six months later, around the time Windows Vista was released to corporate customers, Microsoft announced that it would release the software under a new...
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iPhones hot even in places they're not sold, like Russia and China
MOSCOW - In the Soviet days, Russians asked their American friends to bring blue jeans, rock records and other Western goods into the country. Today Russians can buy almost anything they want here - but they are still begging for one item: Apple Inc.'s slick iPhone.
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Google to pay $140M for Russian contextual ad firm
Google said Friday it will pay $140 million for a Russian contextual advertising company as it seeks to expand its services to advertisers and Web-site publishers outside the U.S. The 6-year-old company, Zao Begun but known as Begun, has a search and contextual advertising business, with about 40,000 advertisers and a network of 143,000 Russian-language Web sites. [ Keep up on the ...
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Facebook and MySpace photos become new source of evidence for prosecutors at sentencing
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner.
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MOSCOW - In the Soviet days, Russians asked their American friends to bring blue jeans, rock records and other Western goods into the country. Today Russians can buy almost anything they want here - but they are still begging for one item: Apple Inc.'s slick iPhone.
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Cable provider changes name
Perhaps that's one reason why Millennium Digital Media Systems opted instead to go with the moniker "Broadstripe" after an ownership transfer. It provides phone, Internet and TV services to 40,000 customers in northern Anne Arundel County and parts of the Broadneck Peninsula.
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Web networking photos come back to bite defendants
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird." In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone ...
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Microsoft Adds Workflow to Cloud-Based SOA Platform
BizTalk Services project still is in development as the R12 Community Technology Preview is unveiled.
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Fmr Health Dep't Worker Sentenced to Nearly 5 Years on Child Porn Charges
A former computer programmer for the state health department has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison, after admitting that he used state and personal computers to search the internet for child pornography.
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EU backs AMD in chip war
The European Commission has filed anti-trust charges against the world's largest chip maker, Intel, accusing it of using coercion to eliminate its leading rival from the market place.
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U.S. Stocks Fall After Google, Microsoft Miss Profit Estimates
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks fell, led by technology shares, as disappointing results at Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. overshadowed Citigroup Inc.'s smaller-than-estimated loss , extending the yearlong earnings slump.
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UPDATE: Major Yahoo Shareholder Backs Current Board Against Icahn
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- One of Yahoo Inc.'s biggest shareholders endorsed the company's incumbent board of directors Friday, dealing a blow to billionaire Carl Icahn's campaign to take over the beleaguered Web portal.
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Mobile Edge Intros TSA-Friendly Cases
Mobile Edge has introduced a series of notebook cases designed to let users get through airport checkpoints without removing their computers.
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Windows Mobile gains Facebook
— Jul. 07, 2008 — Macrospecs, Inc. has launched a free Windows Mobile application claimed to provide users "full" access to their Facebook accounts.
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The MDA Compact IV sports T-Mobile's "My Faves" and HTC's "TouchFLO" user interfaces
T-Mobile provided no further information on the software, nor about whether the device includes the customized version of the Opera Mobile 9.5 web browser, shipped by HTC with its Touch Diamond. We look forward to a review of what the MDA Compact IV's software bundle is like to use.
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E3 08: Sexy charts and graphs with all the game data
Exclusives. Casual games. Cheerleaders. It's the last bite of the pie chart So E3's finally over for another year (for ever?) and we're left with tired eyes, full notebooks and - if you're a Nintendo fan - empty hearts. But how can we possibly sum up the mass of data in one easy-to-digest article?
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Dixon man charged with stealing at least $100,000 from Pizza Hut
DIXON - A Pizza Hut assistant manager who may have embezzled $100,000 over at least 2 years - a man whose boss called his situation "bittersweet" - is in jail facing eight counts of theft and two counts of computer fraud, all felonies.
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Google Stock Takes a Hit (1:29pm)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. shares tumbled more than 9 percent by midday Friday after the Internet search leader's second-quarter earnings missed analysts' expectations.
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Ex-N.Y. Programmer Gets Jail For Child Porn
A former computer programmer for the state Health Department gets almost five years in federal prison after admitting he used state and personal computers to search the Internet for images of minors having sex.
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