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Picking a No. 2 in the glare of the Internet age
More than ever, vice presidential wannabes must maneuver between groveling and remaining cool.
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Union Square Ventures Invests in Open Source Cloud Platform
Union Square Ventures , the VC shop that funded Del.icio.us, FeedBurner, Etsy and Twitter, has placed its latest bet in the clouds. Cloud computing service 10gen has taken $1.5 million from the high profile early investors, both the fund and the company announced today. Most interesting perhaps is that the service is entirely open source, offering anyone a full copy of all its source ...
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SouthernLINC Wireless Announces Availability of TeleNav Track(TM) Throughout Regional Calling Area
ATLANTA----SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company , today announced that award-winning mobile resource management service TeleNav Track™ is now available to all business and public sector customers throughout the entire SouthernLINC Wireless Regional Calling Area.
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The Professional Series
All three printers in this series come with a five-year warranty, a toll-free, dedicated priority tech support number and lifetime technical support. The printers also include high-yield ink cartridges that Johns said generate approximately 485 pages in black and 500 pages in color.
Small Business Computing |
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Yahoo Gives Carl Icahn +2 Invite: Your Table Is Ready
Carl Icahn and two hand-picked candidates are invited to join the Yahoo board, and the corporate raider withdraws his slate of candidates to take it over at the Aug. 1 shareholders meeting. Love isn't exactly all around, but isn't this a step in the "right" direction (whatever that is)?
Wired News |
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Review: Internet Cleanup 5.0
As you use the Internet, traces of your activities build up on your Mac in the form of things like cookies, caches, entries in...
PC World |
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Canada Airwave Sale Ends After Raising C$4.25 Billion (Update2)
July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian telephone companies bid C$4.25 billion ($4.24 billion) for 292 wireless -airwave licenses in a government auction that ended today, an amount that was almost triple some analysts' estimates.
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Video games getting more social
Video game makers are riding the social-networking wave with titles that let friends play online as teams and even create their own characters. [VIDEO]
Independent Online |
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Creative unveils ZEN Krystal with pedometer
Creative’s ZEN line of MP3 players has been a sleeper success for a while now. The series is also one of the most diverse and just two weeks ago they introduced the ZEN X-Fi, an MP3 player with Wi-Fi that can be used for instant messaging through Yahoo! and MSN. The other players in the line [...]
Geek.com |
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Apple Struggles to Win Fans in China
Can a beefed up retail strategy help the computer company boost its measly market share?
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RENCI Selects Infinera for "Breakable" N.C. Research Network
The Renaissance Computing Institute has selected Infinera to support its research on the experimental network testbed dubbed BEN, which links RENCI to sites at three universities in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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HL:Cellphone market faces shakeup as new and old players bid $4.25B for spectrum@
OTTAWA _ Canada's cellphone market faces a major shakeup after existing and wannabe players lined up to spend $4.25 billion for wireless spectrum across Canada.
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A Tale of Two Uninvited Bids
Yahoo is one of the best-known Internet properties, and Anheuser-Busch is an icon of the beer business. Both companies were the targets of unsolicited takeover bids. In each case, there was an attempt to remove the target company’s board.
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Apple shops almost out of iPhones 10 days after debut
Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G was sold out at almost all the company's U.S. retail outlets 10 days after Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs put the faster, cheaper upgrade of the mobile handset on the shelves.
New York Daily News |
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Yahoo! Deals With Icahn
The activist investor will become a board member, along with two of his nominees.
Forbes |
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Newspaper editors optimistic despite downs
Most U.S. newspaper editors remain generally optimistic about the future despite newsroom budget and staff cuts, a survey indicates.Shifts to Internet editions and new video and other hi-tech reporting techniques offered hope to 259 editors surveyed by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. But the study released Monday also found that more is disappearing than being ...
Moldova.org |
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PhilBoxing.com >> News
There are 17,882 news articles in the database. Displaying articles 17881 to 17882. Arum, Oscar back on the same page By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports , 01 Jan 1970 Bob Arum leaned forward in his seat, a small grin creasing his face.
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Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert August showdown
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is relinquishing three seats on its board of directors to activist investor Carl Icahn, ending a battle for control of the Internet company while still leaving the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.
Lansing State Journal |
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Recycling fundraiser to be held at library
The Friends of the Norton Public Library are holding a one-day recycling fundraiser on Saturday, Aug. 9 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the library parking lot. All proceeds will be used to fund programs, materials, or equipment not covered by the library’s municipal budget. If you have old computers, computer parts and accessories, laptops, LCD computer monitors, consumer electronics, electronic ...
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Yahoo cuts deal with investor Icahn
Web portal Yahoo reached an agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn, who had been pushing to replace the company’s entire board following its rejection of a takeover bid by Microsoft. (YHOO) (MSFT)
Puget Sound Business Journal |
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Linux as a Hypervisor
It's quite fascinating how many virtualization designs there are out there. Even in Linux itself there are so many different approaches. To reduce the scope a bit for this post we'll ignore all the designs that can't revirtualize the CPU to allow other operative systems to run.
LinuxPlanet |
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Harrington repeats in British Open
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) - Padraig Harrington and Greg Norman strolled away from the 18th green at Royal Birkdale, all even at two major championships apiece.
Beloit Daily News |
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Twhirl Adds Identi.ca, Becomes Killer App (Yes, Really)
Yesterday, the big news for the identi.ca crowd was an answer to their wishes: Identi.ca is now supported in the AIR app Twhirl . Why is the support for this open-source Twitter clone so important? For one, it makes Identi.ca that much more of a useful service, but it also shows how quickly Twhirl can adapt to add the latest and greatest online communities to its service. More importantly ...
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Crude Reporting: Ask the Tough Questions About Oil
News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Buying the Pharma Team Dear Yahoo: Sorry About the Icahn Thing 'Not Bad' Is the New 'Great!' Subscribe to Portfolio magazine The cover of a recent BusinessWeek about the runup in oil and gasoline prices framed the question of what's causing it nicely: "Speculation or Manipulation?" But the story was ...
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How To Get Refunded on Prepackaged Vista [Vista]
Buying a PC can come along with some unwanted preinstalls. And now with Microsoft mandating that third party hardware manufacturers bundle Vista (not XP), that unwanted preinstall can include an...
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