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Microsoft Full-Year Profit Soars to $18bn
Microsoft has reported a 41.6% increase in net profit to $4.29bn for the fourth quarter, on revenue up 18.4% at $15.83bn. It said revenue was driven by strong demand for Windows Vista, Office 2007, server software, and Xbox 360.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Intel Faces Fresh EU Antitrust Probe
Intel has been issued a second Statement of Objections by European Union antitrust regulators, accusing it of making payments to PC makers to make sure they use Intel not AMD chips.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Google Q2 Earnings Rise 35%
Google has reported a 35% increase in net income to $1.25bn for the second quarter 2008, on revenue up 39% at $5.37bn.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Arrest made after Cholame fire
A man was arrested for allegedly starting a small brush fire near Cholame Monday afternoon, according to County/Cal Fire officials. The fire was reported by drivers in the area of Highway 41 and Bitterwater Road around 3:45 p.m., according to the CHP website. It was extinguished by people in the area who stopped to help before emergency personnel arrived.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune |
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Recent Original Stories
GNOME 2.20 has been released . "The improvements in GNOME 2.20 include: Improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring.
OS News |
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Greg Mitchell: Coverage of 'Netroots' Confab Draws Protest
It started innocently enough, with me huddled over a newspaper. A little more than a day later, the front-page article I was getting worked up about, would be pulled from the paper's Web site after a storm of protest. And I had at least a little something to do with it.
HuffingtonPost |
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Apple's Forecast Sets Off a Stock Slide
Despite boffo quarterly earnings and record Mac sales, Apple's announcement that margins will soon shrink had investors reeling
BusinessWeek |
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Ancient Bible in Greek takes place of pride in virtual world
BERLIN: More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week.
Gulf Times |
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Yahoo Settles with Icahn
The activist investor had wanted to replace Yahoo's directors with his own hand-picked slate to negotiate a sale of the company
BusinessWeek |
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Owner of Roanoke market's Agnew Seed dies - roanoke.com
Police had seized Kent Agnew's computer and said they found child pornography on it. The owner of a landmark Roanoke City Market business has died, just days after police seized his computer and found child pornography on it, according to court documents and the Roanoke Medical Examiner's Office.
Roanoke Times |
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YouTube tirade backfires on wife
NEW YORK - A Broadway mogul whose actress wife trashes him in a widely viewed Internet video has been granted a divorce from her. A judge granted Philip Smith a divorce from Tricia Walsh-Smith on Monday on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment.
The Record |
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Alleged racism attracts online attention
A local woman who said a racist hate-group targeted her grandchildren earlier this week claims to have received hundreds of anonymous phone calls since her story hit the airwaves and the Internet.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Virtual Attack
A week ago, New Braunfels grandmother Mary Alice Altorfer had never heard of YouTube. Now she’s a hot topic on one of the most influential Web sites in America.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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S.B. man warns of Web scams
When Phillip Miller got an e-mail last week saying he could win more than $1million, he decided to follow through with the offer to some extent, even though he was certain it was just another "too good to be true" Internet scam.
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin |
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Conference panelists see car battery breakthrough
Associated Press - July 22, 2008 12:23 AM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The lithium-ion battery is already a fixture in personal electronic devices.
19 Action News Cleveland |
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Web-initiated harassment of grandma continues
Web postings urging online and telephone harassment of Herald-Zeitung employees appeared Saturday morning on the Internet hours after an article was published describing similar attacks toward a New Braunfels woman.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Asian bond spreads flat on US earnings worries
Asian bond spreads were range-bound after a raft of weak earnings from US blue chips such as Apple and American Express raised concerns and kept investors sidelined.
The Economic Times |
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Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert August showdown
SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Music & Gigs
The rapid rise of the MP3 player has revolutionised the way we buy and listen to music over the past few years. In 2007, sales of CD albums fell by 10 per cent, while the number of tracks downloaded from the internet rose by more than a third.
Belfast Telegraph |
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Study: More broadband needed
Catie Pletcher spent the first four years of her life in a house with no electricity.
Penn State Collegian |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 10:26 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Linux, the free operating system, has gone from an intriguing experiment to a mainstream technology in corporate data centers, helped by the backing of major technology companies like IBM, Intel, and HP, which sponsored industry consortiums to promote its adoption.
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by atsureki (3.72) on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 05:19 UTC
There would be no OS X if not for Apple's business model. They make profits selling hardware, which they invest into developing software, which they use as a consumer incentive to sell their hardware and make more profits. No one is entitled access to their products except on their terms.
New Mobile Computing |
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Boyertown district OKs credit cards
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Reading Eagle |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 18:30 UTC
At the 2006 WWDC in San Fransisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced several new products during his opening keynote speech. Read more for a chronological summary of the keynote-- including the much-debated preview of Mac OS 10.5, Leopard , which, according to Steve Jobs, will ship this spring.
OS News |
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Apple Q3 Profit Up, But Stock Drops
Shares of Apple Inc. fell sharply as investors focused more on the company's cautious guidance for the current quarter than on the blockbuster Macintosh and iPod sales during the previous three-month period
Time Magazine |
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