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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-22 21:45 Yahoo 2Q adjusted profit, revenue miss Street estimates
SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - Yahoo Inc. late Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $131.2 million, or 9 cents a share, down from $160.6 million, or 11 cents a share, in the year-ago period.
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Osama bin Laden: the Islamic bard of terror
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY — In Riyadh last March, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia decorated U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney with the Kingdom's Order of Merit. This gesture elicited hundreds of Internet postings from Arabs condemning the award as treachery and lamenting the pitiful state of leadership in the Arab world. At the same time, Osama bin Laden released two audio statements condemning Western ...
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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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Romanian pleads guilty in Conn. over phishing scam
(AP) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - One of 38 people charged in a global crime ring that allegedly stole personal information from unsuspecting Internet users pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal fraud charge.
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Mail server problems cited in MobileMe issues
Although many problems have been resolved, the MobileMe online service continues to suffer from serious issues, accounts suggest. Apple's status page presently indicates that "1 percent of MobileMe members" do not have proper mail access, an issue which has persisted in some cases for several days. Apple support staff are said to be claiming that...
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iPhone 3G switchers not as prevalent as with first
While Apple claims to have sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs during the device's opening weekend, metrics appear to show that AT&T did not earn as many switchers as the first time around, and even indicate that the company may have lost as many customers as it gained. Engadget reveals that it obtained data regarding the number of ports in and out from T-Mo...
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Yahoo's 2Q profit declines 18 pct as woes deepen
Yahoo says its second-quarter profit dropped 18 percent. It marks the latest in a long stretch of disappointing results for the Internet company. Yahoo earned $131 million, or 9 cents per share, in the three months ended in June, compared with $161 million,...
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Yahoo misses estimates
Internet search engine Yahoo Inc. reported second-quarter results Tuesday that fell short of Wall Street's expectations as the company struggles with dwindling market share and softening economic conditions.
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MySpace will Support OpenID Log-Ins Between Sites
MySpace announced this week it will support the OpenID initiative, which allows users to move identities from one Web platform to another. This avoids multiple log-ins and manual updates of information across applications. Users logged into MySpace should be able to transparently access other sites without a separate log-in. The ID is portable to any OpenID-enabled site. Current members of the ...
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Mountain Gear Announces Key Metrics Achieved Using PowerReviews to Deliver Comprehensive Customer Marketing Campaign
PowerReviews(TM) (www.powerreviews.com), the Internet´s most comprehensive developer of customer-review
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Driver escapes injury after train collision
HANNAFORD, N.D. - Authorities say the driver of a cement truck was battered and bruised but able to walk away after he ran into the lead locomotive of a freight train east of Hannaford. Advertisement: Tim Shea's Nursery & Landscaping Huge July Internet Savings! See our specials page @ www.sheasnursery.com!
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VMware 2Q profit jumps 53 percent
(AP:PALO ALTO, Calif.) Business software maker VMware Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit and revenue grew, helped by growing international sales, but the company's revenue forecast for the current quarter fell shy of expectations.
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Latest TSE glitch halts trading in futures
The Tokyo Stock Exchange said Tuesday that trading halted in bond and Topix index futures in the morning because of a system problem, another in a string of technical mishaps that have plagued the bourse. Trading was suspended from 9:21 a.m. to the early afternoon after some brokerages were unable to check outstanding orders for derivatives on their computer terminals, a TSE spokesman said. ...
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LittleBigPlanet : nouvelle vidéo
Sony Computer Entertainment dévoile une nouvelle vidéo de LittleBigPlanet prévu pour la fin de l'année sur PlayStation 3.
JeuxFrance.com |
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28 Kentucky Men Arrested in Internet Sex Sting
More than two dozen men have been arrested in three Internet sex stings in Kentucky with help from a watchdog group that tracks on-line predators.
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MySpace will Support OpenID Log-Ins Between Sites
MySpace announced this week it will support the OpenID initiative, which allows users to move identities from one Web platform to another. This avoids multiple log-ins and manual updates of information across applications. Users logged into MySpace should be able to transparently access other sites without a separate log-in. The ID is portable to any OpenID-enabled site. Current members of the ...
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Linked by Ryan Thiessen on Mon 20th Mar 2006 17:19 UTC
Sony's PS3, scheduled to be released near the end of this year, has been slated to have a hard drive that will support and will even include preinstalled Linux . This could be a breakthrough event not just for Linux but also for other alternative operating systems as well.
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Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games
Microsoft Corp will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console. Speed up your computer
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Comic book ‘King’: Stoneham writer's creation among contest finalists
Waiting in the hospital for his son to be born, Curtis Lawson frantically typed away on his laptop, adding the finishing touches to his comic book creation, “Sleeping King," in time to meet the deadline for the national Comic Book Challenge. Eventually, Lawson’s comic book entry was selected as one of the challenge’s top 50 remaining submissions.
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Toshiba Regza 42RV530U
Despite inaccurate color, the Toshiba 42RV530U 42-inch LCD represents a solid value given its otherwise commendable picture quality.
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Police to share intel – “investigator on steroids”
Metropolitan area law enforcement agencies announced Tuesday a new $1 million program that will let them share intelligence data, calling it “an investigator on steroids.”
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Yahoo Q2 profit drops 19% to $131M
Hit by a weak online advertising market and weeks of takeover speculation, Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday came in under analysts' predictions with second-quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, down from $161 million, or 11 cents a share, in the same period last year. (YHOO)
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Internet Safety
Your child and the internet...A modern tool that can be dangerous if you're not careful. Today, members of the Attorney General's office met with boys and girls in Lansingburg to...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Jan 2007 23:16 UTC
"While the eyes of the IT world have spent years squinting to see Microsoft's slowly unfolding vistas, the companies and individuals that drive open source have been steadily building a case for broader adoption of Linux-based operating systems . Two of the best all-around Linux distributions to emerge from this process are OpenSUSE 10.2 and Ubuntu 6.10, both of which bundle together the best of ...
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Yahoo profit down 18 per cent
Net revenue short of lowered Wall Street expectations, but CFO says 2008 outlook unchanged
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