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Deal gives Icahn role at Yahoo
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.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Nov 2006 11:18 UTC
Last week, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista went gold, and was released to manufacturing. The release has been long coming (five years of work) and was surrounded by controversies, rumours of rewrites, and legal threats by Microsoft's competitors.
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Recent Original Stories
"As nice as Open Office Excel is for a free application, it doesn't even come close to the performance and usability of Microsoft Office Excel. There is no shame in losing to a commercially funded application, but no one should make false statements that Microsoft Office is bloated and inferior.
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Recent Original Stories
US prosecutors say Windows Vista and the latest version of Internet Explorer apparently comply with the requirements of the 2002 antitrust judgement against Microsoft.
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Jade Empire new to Xbox Originals
Classic Bioware RPG Jade Empire is the newest addition to the downloadable Xbox Originals line up.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Oct 2007 20:59 UTC
Are the C programming language and its object-oriented offspring - C++, C#, Objective-C - still well-suited to the requirements of multithreaded, network-oriented computing environments today?
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Market Pulse Breaking News Alert for Tuesday, July 22, 2008: PRCC - Pricester.com's Genesis Electronics Moves Towards ...
Market Pulse News Alert for this AM, Stocks to Watch are: Pricester.com, Inc., Apple Inc., Purio Inc. and Bank of America Corp..
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Hughes Hubbard & Reed Selects Juma to Design, Deploy and Manage Global Converged IP Network
Juma Technology Corp., a leading IP Convergence and systems integration company, today announced that the international law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP signed a multi-year contract with Juma for the architecture, implementation and support of an integrated voice and data network.
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Canada Internet Users and Usage Growth is Projected to Be 3.7% in 2008
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of eMarketer's new report "Canada Internet: Users and Usage" to their offering.
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ShoreTel Named 'Best Overall VOIP Provider' for Fifth Year in a Row
ShoreTel®, Inc. , a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications solutions, today announced that for the fifth year in a row ShoreTel has been named the Best Overall VOIP Provider in the Nemertes PilotHouse Awards for Unified Communications & Collaboration.
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FRAUD ALERT: Cyber-bank robbers hit online accounts
A ring of cyber-bank robbers from southern Russia has quietly perfected a way to get inside company networks in order to rip off online bank accounts.
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Vocalocity Integrates iPhone With Internet Phone Service
Vocalocity today announced an enhancement to its business Internet phone service which allows customers to seamlessly route office calls to and from an iPhone. This feature untethers workers from the desk while providing them with the ability as well as benefits of making and receiving critical calls that ultimately utilize their office phone system.
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Raketu Releases Rak-Groups Social Communication and Media Sharing Groups
Raketu, a leading global Internet communications, information, entertainment, and social networking company, today released its Rak-Groups social groups. The new services allow users to create and manage their own public or private groups containing both Raketu network users and external contacts.
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Compete to Release New Study on Pickup Trucks: Pain at the Pump Becoming Pain at the Plant
BOSTON----Compete, Inc., a leading web analytics company and unit of TNS media, today announced it will host a webinar on August 19th to share an in-depth analysis on how truck manufacturers are responding to the decline in pickup sales through incentives, production cutbacks and delayed product launches.
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Starbucks Fans Fight Coffee Shop Closures Online
Competing coffee shops may be celebrating everywhere that 600 Starbucks coffee shops are closing, but die-hard Starbucks junkies are steamed and they are not going down without a fight. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
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Microsoft has had to create a new build of Windows XP Professional
for computer makers because the six-year-old operating system's continued popularity has nearly exhausted the supply of product activation keys. The new build, dubbed SP2c, includes no fixes or feature changes, but was created simply to address the shrinking pool of product keys.
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This opinion piece
gives 8 reasons as to why HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) is in its stone age. It talks of screen corners, visual attention, the spatial paradigm (oh my...) and much more.
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Recent Original Stories
We covered earlier about Apple suing Psystar the creator of Open Computer. Now we have more details of the complaint . Apple's complaint is now available online (registration required).
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Will The Space Elevator Rise?
That's the question proposed by Alan Boyle in his MSNBC blog Cosmic Log. Boyle has been attending the 2008 Space Elevator Conference, taking place this weekend on Microsoft's Seattle-area campus. Image...
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Swedish firm to acquire UK's Moovera Networks
Moovera develops wireless communications products that connect Wi-Fi and Ethernet with carrier-class networks including 3G UMTS/HSPA, WiMAX, TD-CDMA, HC-SDMA, and FLASH-OFDM.
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J&L Industrial Supply borrows sales-i's intelligence
J&L wanted a system that would provide instant information on customer buying trends and gaps, directly to the salesman’s mobile phone or laptop.
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BT to equip Fiat's new building with telecoms network
Under the terms of the contract, BT will install comprehensive and advanced telecommunication infrastructure, including a Local Area Network (LAN), Internet access with firewall, and a high-speed link to the BT data centre in Frankfurt.
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Possible shutdown of Navajo Internet pushed back
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.—The shutdown of Internet services on the Navajo Nation has been temporarily averted, a tribal official has confirmed. SES Americom, a company that provides bandwidth for the services, had threatened to shutter it by noon Tuesday if the company was not paid for services rendered.
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MIKE WENDLAND: My GPS picks for iPhone 3G
Apple says 2.5 million programs have been downloaded in the first 10 days since the new iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 software update were released, which is working out to something like 2.5 programs on each of the 10 million or so iPhones now in use.
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Java jolt: N. Main Starbucks closing
LAS CRUCES — There's just no use crying over spilt non-fat half-caff triple-grande quarter-sweet sugar-free vanilla non-fat Lactaid extra-hot extra-foamy caramel macciato.
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