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Recent Original Stories
Apple's switch to Intel could lead to a merger that spawns a big power player in the personal computer, home media, and entertainment industries.
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Yahoo's second-quarter earnings drop 18 percent
San Francisco, July 23 : Yahoo! reported an 18 percent drop in second-quarter profits Tuesday putting more pressure on the company in the aftermath of a shareholder revolt and the controversy over Microsoft's aborted attempt to buy the company.
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Yahoo CEO remains upbeat despite lackluster 2Q
Tue, Jul 22, 2008 (9:39 p.m.) With Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid off the table and his company's stock price down 20 percent during his 13-month reign as Yahoo's CEO, Jerry Yang has a message for his exasperated shareholders: Things aren't as bleak as they look.
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Town, schools eye tech merger in Framingham
Selectmen and the School Department will take a closer look at merging technology director posts in both administrations as part of a townwide program to oversee municipal computer systems.
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Yahoo! is doing fine despite falling share prices, executive says
SAN FRANCISCO - With Microsoft"s $47.5 billion takeover bid off the table and his company"s stock price down 20 percent during his 13-month reign as Yahoo"s CEO, Jerry Yang has a message for his exasperated shareholders: Things aren"t as bleak as they look.
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SEC FOOTBALL IS HERE
The preseason magazines arrived in bookstores months ago, and Internet message boards have started buzzing with excitement lately.
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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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Amazon May Say Profit Increased on Overseas Sales, Electronics
July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com, the world's largest Internet retailer, may say profit rose as online shoppers bought more flat-screen televisions and video-game players and a weaker dollar boosted overseas sales.
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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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Microsoft Holders Say Ballmer's Web Spending Masks Idea Drought
July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer says he plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to fix the company's unprofitable Internet business. His investors say they want proof he knows what to do with the money.
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Google to purchase Digg for $200m?
Google is allegedly interested in Digg again, this time to the tune of $200 million, despite numerous denials from executives at either company. TechCrunch writes that while neither Google or Digg would comment on the matter, but inside sources say that the deal, which is in its final negotiations, would see the latter company absorbed into Google'...
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Deals abound for back to school
I took a walk through Circuit City today to see where consumer PCs stood. We'll be back to school in a matter of weeks and parents are already asking about laptops for their high school and college-bound students. The good news is that for $700 you can pick...
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Developers compete at Facebook conference
Michael Balyasny came up with the idea for an application that creates virtual photo tours during his frequent business trips to Ukraine. Several months of coding later, Balyasny, 24, now hopes to launch his self-funded project, called Eyestride, on Facebook,...
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Interview: IT consumerization in the enterprise
Rajiv Pant and I talk about the impact of IT consumerization in the enterprise, and about the shifting boundary between the professional and the personal. If you thought that virtualization and SaaS were the answer keeping work and home separate, think again. Read More...
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Online school lauds teen
WHITTIER - There's more online for young people than the popular social networks such as MySpace and Facebook.
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Superclick Announces Five Additional Installs In Asia With The Mandarin Oriental Hotels Group
Superclick, Inc., a technology leader in IP infrastructure solutions to the hospitality industry, announced five additional installations for the prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group scheduled through September this year. These include installations in Tokyo, Singapore and three in Hong Kong
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Video news' future: Deja vu all over again?
When a collection of A-listers gets together at Stanford University to debate the future of video news on the Internet, I had this odd feeling that we'd been here before. I was right.
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Oracle Academy faculty to get advanced training
More than 120 faculty members from 14 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will take part in a new advanced IT skills training program offered by the Oracle Academy.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 9th Jun 2006 22:42 UTC
Microsoft will not fix a serious flaw in Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition because a patch could break other applications. The security bug relates to Windows Explorer and could let an intruder commandeer a vulnerable PC, Microsoft warned in April.
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PolishLinux reviews PCLinuxOS 2007 .
"I must admit I am impressed by PCLinuxOS. And according to the distro slogan, which includes the two words 'radically simple', installation and configuration of the system is really easy, and the system is very friendly in everyday usage.
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft Word users now can easily import and export to the OpenDocument Format. The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save to the OpenDocument Format is now available ."
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AG calls on internet gateways to bar entry to child porn sites
Attorney General Anne Milgram yesterday urged internet service providers to "take the next step" in fighting child pornography by blocking access to websites that offer it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 14:52 UTC
In a conversation that began as a request to include the SAS Transport Layer in the mainline Linux kernel, there was an interesting thread regarding specifications.
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VMware's new CEO says he knows Microsoft and can defeat it
Updated: 23 Jul 2008 FRAMINGHAM, JULY 22, 2008— VMware's new CEO and president, Paul Maritz, took aim at his chief rival Tuesday (July 22)—Microsoft—and told financial analysts that he knows how to beat that company, and that includes giving products away.
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Net liaison spurs term of 10 years
The 71-year-old founder of a Manhattan engineering consulting firm was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on charges he used the internet to entice an 11-year-old girl to have sex with him.
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