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Yahoo-Icahn deal gives him three board seats
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 leaves the door open for a sale to Microsoft Corp.
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Cyber-Surfing Gives Everyone Easy Access to History
(ARA) - History is making history on the World Wide Web. With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by.
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Chelsea FC to analyse fan base
Angelica Mari, Computing , Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 10:15:00 Marketing analysis tool will help the football club bring new products to market Chelsea Football Club will use an analysis tool to consolidate customer information and introduce more effective marketing campaigns. With the software, Chelsea intends to merge data originating from multiple sources...
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Recent Original Stories
The Syllable desktop operating system project announced that they have started selling professional-quality CDs through a Syllable shop at online print-on-demand publisher Lulu. Additionally, these CDs will be available at Syllable's booth on open-source conference FOSDEM . In other news, Syllable's software site Kamidake and documentation site, Syllable User's Bible , both got an overhaul . And ...
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Taiwan market: Sales of external HDDs booming
In the Taiwan market, sales volumes of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch external HDDs have increasing significantly from a year earlier mainly because of fast growing demand for recording digital photos and video, according to Taiwan-based IT and consumer electronics retain chain Tsann Kuen.
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Intel cuts Xeon CPU prices
Intel recently cut the price for its server CPUs, including Xeon X3220, X3210 and E3110 price by around 12%.
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Pictured: The dancing 'Ziggy Dust' bin man who has twirled his way to internet stardom
A dancing street sweeper who moves like Michael Jackson has become an internet cult hero. The bin man spins, slides and twirls his litter stick as he collects rubbish in Chiswick, stopping passers-by in their tracks.
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Travelers accused of bilking area hotels
What began as a simple burglary investigation — a laptop computer stolen from a hotel room — led Daphne police to expose four thieves who apparently bankrolled a beach lifestyle with a crime spree, said Daphne police Lt. Jud Beedy.
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2008: Sunday
Part three of our 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival recap includes photos of the entire day's sets and interviews with HEALTH, Apples in Stereo, King Khan, Les Savy Fav, M. Ward, Bon Iver, and Spoon. read more
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Laptop thieves arrested in Pasig
To arrest dreaded laptop thieves operating at the Metro Walk Strip mall in Pasig City, elements of the Eastern Police District (EPD) placed a laptop as bait and waited for gang to make their move.
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Taiwan DRAM makers to completely phase out production at 8-inch fabs by 2009
Most Taiwan DRAM makers are expected to completely phase out commodity DRAM production at 8-inch fabs by 2009. Among all major DRAM makers in Taiwan, only Nanya Technology is expected to continue to house a single 8-inch fab producing DRAM.
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Egg marks a decade of internet banking revolution
In the 10 years since the successful launch of Egg, it has grown into the world's largest internet-only bank. In the decade since...
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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.
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Apple Falls on Outlook, Questions About Jobs's Health (Update1)
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. fell as much as 11 percent in German trading after its forecast for the back-to-school shopping season missed analysts' projections and questions resurfaced about Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs 's health.
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Yahoo gives pro-buyout investor a seat on the board
Tom Young, Computing , Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 09:38:00 Carl Icahn also has the power to nominate two of the nine directors Yahoo has agreed to give activist investor Carl Icahn a seat on its board of directors and the power to nominate two further directors....
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Online guide aims to help people make smart food choices
Nutritional experts say educating people about the health benefits of certain types of foods and vitamins will go a long way towards reducing obesity levels in New Brunswick.
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posted by Xavier Calbet on Thu 10th Nov 2005 19:15 UTC
At the end of October I attended the Alantejo Linux congress and LAN party, which was held in the city of Évora . Évora is a marvelous UNESCO World Heritage city which has from Roman ruins to 18th century buildings, not to mention the superb food.
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Dimension Data plans to privatise Datacraft Asia in US$276m deal
SINGAPORE: Dimension Data, the parent of Singapore-listed Datacraft Asia, is planning to privatise the computer network builder. Dimension is Africa's biggest computer-services company.
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Female gamers approach parity with men
A new survey by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has shown that women now make up 40 per cent of computer gamers.
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Harbour Station to review ticket system after online scramble
Technological foul-ups may make the Rocket Man's flight a little bittersweet.
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Apple continues record run
Apple is reporting yet another record earnings haul. The company said that in the financial quarter between April and June, it logged more than $7.46bn in revenues, leading to a total profit of roughly $1.07bn.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft rarely gives out sales numbers , but Vista is another story. Due to bad press, the company apparently wants to remind everyone that Vista is still selling well.
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Just swipe your phone over a billboard, and go to the website
THE prospect of flashing a mobile phone at a movie poster to get screening times and buy tickets might seem fancifully futuristic to most.
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Sales tax revenue increase called a fluke
Sales tax revenues were uncharacteristically up for the month of June -- and now city and county officials know why. A single company's purchase of computers created more than a million dollars in tax revenue for the city and county.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 19th Mar 2006 02:24 UTC
"The recent emphasis of the Linux community has been on desktop distros that make it easy to install and configure the system without venturing beyond the GUI. Despite the success of these beginner-friendly systems, a significant segment of the Linux population prefers a simpler approach.
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