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EC Files New Charges Against Intel
That thud you heard yesterday was the European Commission hitting Intel with a second supplemental indictment-like statement of objection (SO) charging the company with three more instances of antitrust violations designed to keep AMD out of the market. Miraculously the news arrived just as AMD was posting its seventh consecutive quarterly loss.
SYS-CON Media |
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Slowing economy hinders Google profit growth
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. has successfully tackled a lot of complex problems during its first decade in business, but even the Internet search leader may be hard pressed to find a way to sustain its rapid earnings growth amid a sputtering economy in the United States and parts of Europe.
Dallas Morning News |
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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.
Deutsche Welle |
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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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Legg Mason to back Yahoo’s board
Yahoo on Friday won an important supporter in its fight against activist investor Carl Icahn as one of the company’s biggest shareholders said he expected to back the existing board at the company’s annual meeting on August 1.
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Pandora Scores on iPhone
NEW YORK Internet radio upstart Pandora has streamed 3.3 million songs to iPhone users since the launch of its new mobile application, making it the third most popular such app for the red-hot device -- the newest version of which Apple released on July 11.
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Bidding tapers off in Canada's spectrum auction
TORONTO (Reuters) - A morning round of bidding in Canada's wireless spectrum auction on Friday produced no new offers, suggesting the months-long process that could result in a new national wireless phone provider may soon end.
MSN Money Canada |
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NEWS: Samsung, Sun boost flash drive endurance
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Samsung Electronics has worked with server maker Sun Microsystems to develop a new 8 Gbit single-level-cell (SLC) design for computer servers that it claims increases the number of read/write cycles for NAND flash memory chips five-fold.
Embedded Systems Programming Magazine |
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Yahoo's Worth to Microsoft: $19 and Change
News Analysis. How the mighty Microsoft offers are laid low. Forget $31 a share for Yahoo, Microsoft will pay $19.50.
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Downloadable 'Peril' takes the RPG quest into new territory
A little more than two weeks ago, Blizzard Entertainment announced that "Diablo III" was well into development. For the legions of fans who still play the classic RPG "Diablo II" eight years after its release, this was terrific if not entirely unexpected news.
Centre Daily Times |
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Geek Factor: Running X11 apps on the Mac
You can run Unix programs from the comfort of a graphical user interface on your Mac. Brian Jepson explores OS X's X11.
Macworld |
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Video: World Tech Update
In this week’s show: big gaming news from LA’s E3, iPhone 3G undergoes a stress test, Intel introduces Centrino 2, the European Commission is busy regulating, UK internet users protest BT, eBay is not liable for counterfeit items, a spammer gets jailed, China sees its first Apple store and the world’s largest LCD TV makes its debut.
Macworld |
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N.C. Lawmakers Again Toughen Sex Offender Rules
RALEIGH -- The General Assembly has agreed again to toughen laws against convicted sex offenders, this time on social networking sites. The House and Senate unanimously agreed Friday to a compromise bill that would bar sex offenders registered with the state from places such as MySpace and Facebook.
WXII-TV Winston-Salem |
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Sector Snap: Chip stocks mostly decline
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of chip makers mostly fell Friday, with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s dropping the most, after the company reported a wider-than-expected second-quarter loss.
INO News |
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Microsoft pours cash into Online Services Business
With the possibility of a Yahoo acquisition still uncertain, Microsoft is pouring hundreds of millions of additional investment dollars into its Online Services Business (OSB) in an aggressive effort to compete with Google in online advertising.
IT World |
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PowerRatings Weekly Outlook: KO, COHR, MMM, UTX, BPL
Upgrades in top stocks like Coca-Cola, new iPhone, a Belgium takeover of the all-America beer company, and a surprise Google earnings miss characterized this week in the stock market.
TradingMarkets.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Downloadable 'Peril' takes the RPG quest into new territory
A little more than two weeks ago, Blizzard Entertainment announced that "Diablo III" was well into development. For the legions of fans who still play the classic RPG "Diablo II" eight years after its release, this was terrific if not entirely unexpected news.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparison [Lifehacker Faceoff]
Editor: Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But can an Outlook user make the switch without...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 23:27 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML. I am hardly the poster boy of Microsoft partisanship!
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Google stock plunges 10% in early trading
Google Inc. stock fell as much as 10 percent in early trading Friday, a day after the Internet search giant's quarterly earnings fell short of analysts' estimates. (GOOG)
East Bay Business Times |
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Google Gobbles Ad Firm Zao Begun
Search king picks up Russian contextual advertising startup for $140 million.
Red Herring |
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Lightyear to sell Verizon wireless service under own name
Louisville-based Lightyear Network Solutions will begin selling cell phone and broadband wireless service by early September through a partnership with Verizon.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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SLED: Man sexually exploited minors via computer
State Law Enforcement Division agents with the Computer Crimes Center have arrested and charged a Greenwood man with two counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. Agents believe Harry Michael Lane, 56, distributed, transported, exhibited, received, exchanged, or solicited materials containing visual images of minors engaged in sexual activity. SLED agents also believe the suspect ...
The State |
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Microsoft Stock Falls On Earnings News
SEATTLE -- Shares of Microsoft Corp. sank more than 5 percent on Friday, a day after the company missed Wall Street's earnings forecast by a penny, and issued softer-than-expected guidance for the current first quarter.
KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma |
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Network Held Hostage, Cyberterror Battle Plan, Evil Genius Wannabe
A City of San Francisco systems administrator is a living testimonial to the importance of preventing any one person in an organization from having too much power. Terry Childs, who is now in jail, holds in his brain the passwords that will let city officials access San Francisco's Fiber Wide Area Network.
E-Commerce Times |
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