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Sluggish U.S. economy hammers Apple outlook
The U.S. economic slowdown is starting to take the shine off Apple Inc. On Monday, the tech darling became the latest in a growing contingent to feel an economic chill as it posted a financial forecast for the current quarter that failed to meet Wall Street expectations.
The Globe and Mail |
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Yahoo board to add Icahn, 2 more
SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo's board and management earned a reprieve after a weekend deal ended a bruising and acrimonious fight for control of the company with Carl C. Icahn, the activist investor. In a deal announced yesterday, Icahn agreed to drop his proxy bid to replace Yahoo's directors in exchange for three seats on an expanded board.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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iPO Review - Blue Snowflake USB Microphone
The Blue Snowflake USB microphone is a great sounding, inexpensive microphone that's great for podcasting, audio or video chatting, or recording. As a bonus, it also happens to be quite small, ultra-portable, and intelligently designed
The Mac Observer |
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Check Point Software Q2 profit up, sales help
(Adds details, CEO quote)
Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News |
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New iPhone sales superhot; Apple reports profit up 31%
Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G is sold out at almost all the company's U.S. retail outlets, 10 days after the company put the faster, cheaper upgrade of the mobile handset on the shelves.
Newsday |
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The Guardian's excellent Web 2.0 blog-up
If we build it, they'll shrug Comment Late last month The Guardian quietly put to sleep its exercise in fighting climate change via the power of blogs, Tread Lightly. Nine months of weekly personal CO 2 reduction pledges by Guardian readers had shown, Carolyn Fry wrote bravely, "that even relatively small weekly carbon savings can add up to significant amounts if enough people ...
The Register |
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Three fantastic online alternatives to Microsoft Office - Part I
For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other tools associated with desktop office suites -- were extolled not because they did these things well, but because they could do them at all.
ITBusiness.ca |
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Dealing with bunglers and prima donnas on your IT security staff
Think your security staffers are trustworthy? Competent? Knowledgeable? Ask a security professional for horror stories and you might think again. Here's one from Kevin McDonald, executive vice president at managed services provider Alvaka Networks , a member of the national board of directors of the American Electronics Association and author of several books on cybersecurity.
ITBusiness.ca |
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NAND Flash supply bit growth to be 149pc YoY
TAIPEI, TAIWAN: According to DRAMeXchange , curbed by extended impact from subprime crisis, inflation pressure and China's natural disaster, influence of a seasonality downturn for NAND Flash -based end-applications, such as handset, MP3 player and memory card, is intensified from mid 2Q, resulting in an aggravated glut in the supply chain.
CIOL |
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Oldest New Testament heads into cyberspace
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.
Independent Online |
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Internet can be the ticket to Bayreuth
The prestigious Bayreuth Festival, the world's oldest and most famous summer music festival, is finally set to enter the 21st century with its first-ever live webcast.
Independent Online |
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Flavour of the month: Gates's philanthropic prowess
Some individuals have the art of making it big in whatever endeavors they undertake -- Bill Gates, for instance. Be it managing Microsoft or indulging in philanthropic activities, Gates has strived to put his best foot forward.
CIOL |
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Wall St set to fall after flurry of poor results
* U.S. stock futures pointed to a lower start on Wall Street, tracking a slide in European equities after dismal results from U.S. blue chips American Express , Apple and Texas Instruments . At 0950 GMT futures for both the Dow Jones industrial average and for the S&P 500 fell 0.8 percent and futures for the Nasdaq slid 1.7 percent.
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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Wavion Partners With Three Indian Distributors and Opens a Local Office in India
YOQNE'AM, Israel----Wavion™, a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a new category of Wi-Fi Base Station, announced today the opening of a local office in India.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Yahoo fashions truce with Icahn
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. Photo caption: A worker leaves Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo Inc. reached a settlement Monday with billionaire investor Carl Icahn. Photo by ...
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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World's Oldest Bible Goes Online
The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again -- online.
WCVB Boston |
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AltosXplorer: The First Real-Time Real Estate Data Web Application
Award-winning technology brings the most current real estate data to everyone's fingertips. Just a few clicks for incredibly detailed local or national real estate market analysis.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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How to handle SOA vendor consolidation
The SOA concept -- developing a software architecture based on service components that can be mixed and matched as needed to reduce development time and increase application deployment flexibility -- is only a few years old, but the providers of SOA-supporting infrastructure are fast consolidating. Oracle captured the headlines with its acquisition of BEA Systems this spring, and Progress ...
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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Australian Department of Defence Selects Titus Labs Email Classification Solutions for 100,000 Users
Titus Labs Inc., the leading provider of email and document classification software today announced that the Australian Department of Defence has selected Titus Labs Message Classification, for 100,000 users, to force the classification of all emails in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and Windows Mobile.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Glam Media Announces Glam Apps Platform - Code Named 'Atako' Enabling a New Class of Widgets and Applications Designed ...
Glam Media, Inc., the pioneer of vertical content networks and number one in reach for women online, today announced the Glam Application Platform -- code-named "Atako" -- a platform that will change the way content and applications are distributed and monetized on the Internet.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Google Apps Coming to DSL Extreme
DSL Extreme, a leading provider of high-speed DSL and business-related Internet services, announced today that it is bringing Google Apps to its customers. With Google Apps, DSL Extreme subscribers will now have access to Google's popular email and communications tools such as Gmail with anti-spam and anti-virus protection, Google Docs collaboration, Google Calendar shared calendaring, Google ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Sybase iAnywhere Announces Wireless Enterprise Lotus Notes and Exchange Email Support for New iPhone 3G
DUBLIN, Calif.----Sybase iAnywhere today announced immediate support for the new iPhone 3G model to extend wireless email from Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange email systems. Sybase iAnywhere was early to market in offering iPhone users wireless email access to Lotus Domino with its product release in Q1 2008, and continues to innovate with support of the new iPhone 3G.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Jacada Announces Details of Second Material Agreement with O2 UK
ATLANTA & LONDON----Jacada Ltd. , a leading provider of unified desktop and process optimization solutions for customer service operations, today provided details of a material contract previously announced on June 11, 2008.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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AdEx Media Acquires Online Advertising Technology Business
AdEx Media, Inc., a leading performance driven online marketing company, today announced a move in line with its growth strategy with the acquisition of the core business assets of VibrantAds, LLC, a California limited liability company.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Smith Travel's July Update on State of the Lodging Industry from Hospitality Lawyer in Atlanta By Jim Butler
Hospitality Lawyer: What's happened in the hotel industry since the NYU Hotel Investment Conference in June? The NABHOOD Conference in Atlanta was the place to be this week, as I reported in my recent blog entitled "Hospitality Attorney salutes NABHOOD"
Hospitality Net |
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