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Yahoo, Yang agree on cease-fire with Icahn
A tense proxy battle over, the Internet firm can concentrate on its turnaround strategy. Yahoo Inc. reached a cease-fire with billionaire activist Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him and his allies three board seats, ending a bruising proxy fight and buying the Internet company more time to figure out its turnaround strategy.
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Unisys to manage Kent County Council's shared network
Under the contract, Unisys will design and implement the WAN network built on a high-speed Cisco infrastructure. The WAN will provide added bandwidth to deliver shared information services to Kent County Council, Kent schools, Canterbury Council and Thanet Council.
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Compliance Coach Announces Harland Financial Solutions Will Market Its Identity Theft Red Flags Rule Solution
SAN DIEGO----Compliance Coach Inc., a provider of automated regulatory compliance solutions to the financial services industry, today announced that Harland Financial Solutions, Inc., will market its industry leading software, CompliancePal .
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Market Pulse Announces Its Hot Stock Alerts for Tuesday, July 22, 2008: PRCC, FLS, UVSE, MSFT
Market Pulse is pleased to introduce our featured stock, Pricester.com, Inc., to the investment community! Pricester.com, Inc. is new to Market Pulse and is poised to become a significant player in the business services and e-commerce industry! Pricester.com just had excellent news out in a press release before today's opening bell announcing that executives of its Genesis Electronics ...
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Analyst: Strong Mac Growth Driving Apple
Apple operating income for its third quarter of 2008 proved to be the second highest in the company's history, and Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil thinks the Macintosh computer lineup deserves a substantial portion of the credit. Year-over-year revenue growth for Mac desktops and laptops topped 40 percent, and both have cleared the 40 percent growth mark for several ...
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Newspapers Struggle
A new study says staff cuts at newspapers across the nation are starting to affect content. The Project for Excellence in Journalism study says newspapers need to generate more revenue on the internet or their competitive advantage in covering the news may disappear.
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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.
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Details of major Internet flaw posted by accident
A computer security company on Monday inadvertently published details of a major flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) several weeks before they were due to be disclosed.
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Warrantech Provides Extended Service Program for JVC Professional Product Line
Warrantech Consumer Product Services, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Warrantech Corporation announced that a two-year agreement has been signed with JVC Professional Products Company to provide extended service coverage on the company's complete line of broadcast, professional and presentation equipment, including cameras, VTRs, editing equipment, D-ILA and LCD projectors, visual presenters, ...
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Needham: Gross margin undermines Apple Q3 results
Apple's third-quarter financial results were extremely positive in some ways, but for investors, any advantages were undone by future prospects, writes the research group Needham. The firm say it is impressed by 2.5 million in Mac sales, a 41.5 percent growth year-over-year, or nearly three times the market rate. In total Apple revenues rose 38.2...
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Groups urge FCC to keep the Internet open
The FCC needs to take steps to keep the Internet free of interference from broadband providers, such as the slowing of peer-to-peer traffic and the tracking of subscribers' Web habits, several witnesses told the FCC at a hearing Monday.
Network World |
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MXI Security Introduces the Largest FIPS 140-2 Level Validated USB Portable Security Device 16GB Stealth MXP
MXI Security(TM), the leader in providing superior managed portable security solutions, today introduces the new 16 gigabyte Stealth MXP(TM) and Stealth MXP Passport, the largest-capacity USB portable security devices available in the world today.
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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.
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Overhyped Technology Starts to Reach Potential: Nanotech to Impact $3.1 Trillion in Manufactured Goods in 2015
Much like the Internet, nanotechnology was over-hyped earlier this decade, and some high profile failures have left manufacturers and investors skeptical. However, a new report from Lux Research finds that in reality, nanotechnology has become pervasive in a wide range of industries, with $147 billion worth of nano-enabled products produced in 2007 - a figure set to grow to $3.1 trillion in 2015.
Centre Daily Times |
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BSkyB renews telecoms deal with C&W
Angelica Mari, Computing , Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 14:11:00 The contract is said to be worth around £60m for the next three years Broadcaster BSkyB has signed a contract extension with Cable & Wireless (C&W) to handle all inbound customer calls into its UK call centres....
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RM to support Tesco’s new voucher scheme
Angelica Mari, Computing , Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 14:09:00 The retailer wants to create the UK's largest voucher collection programme at schools Supermarket chain Tesco has teamed up with education specialist RM for the retailer's new voucher collection scheme. The partnership deal is an extension of an existing voucher scheme support agreement....
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Home Office provides another £25m for police mobile computers
Tom Young, Computing , Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 14:07:00 Total rolled out to police officers by March 2010 will be around 30,000 The Home Office is to provide another £25m funding to help police forces distribute 15,000 additional handheld devices, taking the total to around 30,000....
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Ranting YouTube divorcee wins just £350,000 from her multi-millionaire ex-husband
A Broadway mogul whose actress wife attacked 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 yesterday on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment.
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Apple shares hit on weak forecast despite strong earnings
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of Apple Inc. were positioned to take a beating Tuesday morning after the consumer electronics maker posted a 31% jump in third-quarter profit but issued a forecast that was weaker than Wall Street's expectations.
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US Census Bureau Selects HiSoftware for Website Quality Management and Governance
HiSoftware Inc. (www.hisoftware.com), a leading provider of software, services and managed operation solutions that monitor and optimize Web content governance, quality and regulatory compliance, today announced that the U.S. Census Bureau has selected HiSoftware's Compliance Sheriff to meet the Census Bureau's Website management initiative for privacy, accessibility and overall site quality.
Centre Daily Times |
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NetIQ Delivers True End-user Experience Monitoring for Windows-accessed Applications
NetIQ Corporation, an Attachmate business, today announced the latest version of NetIQ(R) AppManager(R) ResponseTime Module for Windows. IT organizations now have visibility into the end-user experience for any application accessed via the Windows desktop, including Microsoft Exchange (via Outlook), SharePoint, Siebel, SAP, and even custom or local desktop applications, without relying on ...
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Connective Technologies, Inc. Announces TEAM-UP Contracts with Marysville Mutual Insurance Company
HOUSTON----Connective Technologies announces the signing of contracts with Marysville Mutual for licensing and implementing TEAM-UP Download™ and TEAM-UP Translation Solutions.
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Google Maps Walking Directions Now Live
Earlier this month, I reported that Google Maps was testing walking directions on a small subset of users. This morning, I noticed that Google Maps now is offering walking directions for all Google Maps users. For example, conduct a search for 200 Madison Ave to 200 Lexington Ave and you will see the option to take "Walking" directions, as opposed to driving directions. Here is a ...
Search Engine Land |
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Microsoft Virtual Earth Adds New Imagery
The Virtual Earth Blog announced that they have released a bulk of new imagery to Virtual Earth and Live Maps . I am not going to list out all the new locations you can find the new satellite, ortho and bird's eye imagery, but here are a few: Click to continue reading...
Search Engine Land |
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Will Software Patents (Including On Search Algorithms ) Go Away?
It's fairly safe to say: 1) patent law is a mess, 2) patent law is in transition and 3) newer court rulings are reducing the rights of patent holders. But in a very provocative argument, based on recent cases, the PatentlyO law blog argues that new rules and tests imposed by courts (though not yet the US Supreme Court) could effectively eliminate software patents. Click to continue ...
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