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Recent Original Stories
"On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to focus ever more closely on Firefox.
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Music pirates and the market are formidable enemies
“Dear Mrs Blackbeard – Thank you again for choosing All-You-Can-Eat Broadband as your internet service provider.
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Recent Original Stories
" Frank Hecker from the Mozilla Foundation contacted Theo to inform him that the foundation decided to donate $10000 to the OpenSSH project . Frank mentioned this today in the Mozilla Foundation's status report . The OpenSSH project truly appreciates this gesture of solidarity from such a respectable open source project.
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On The Job: Virtual job fairs expand search options
With the rising cost of travel and a shortage of time many of us experience trying to juggle busy lives, it can be tough attending a lot of job fairs or visiting prospective employers when looking for a new job. But with a few computer keystrokes, your problems may be solved.
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Argon ST, Inc. Announces Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter 2008 Results
FAIRFAX, Va.----Argon ST, Inc. , a leading systems engineering, development and services company providing full-service C5ISR systems and services to a wide range of defense and intelligence customers, today announced that it will conduct a conference call at 10:00 a.m.
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Egypt jails Facebook activists for 'threatening national security'
Police have arrested 26 Internet activists in the port of Alexandria, and 14 of them were jailed for more than two weeks for "threatening national security," a security official has said.
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Influential Confidence Vote Adds Stability To Yahoo Board
An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.'s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the Internet company's directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid during the spring.
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Mac attack on taxman's bad form
The Australian Taxation Office is under fire from Mac users incensed at being told they can't use their computers to lodge their tax returns.
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"After a week of intense testing of [Apple's MobileMe] service, I can't recommend it, at least not in its current state. It's a great idea, but, as of now, MobileMe has too many flaws to keep its promises," Walter S. Mossberg reports for The Wall Street Journal.
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San Francisco Computer Tech Set Booby Trap In City Network
Prosecutors say Childs set the network to delete numerous files during a scheduled maintenance of the system.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-24 20:07 Microsoft to buy DATAllegro for undisclosed amount
NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - Microsoft Corp. Thursday said it would buy DATAllegro Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
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Measuring Shareholder Anger at Yahoo
The recent history of Yahoo’s troubles is well-known: the company lost the search race to Google; it missed out on key trends — social networking, for instance — and potential acquisitions — Facebook, most notably; its performance disappointed; some shareholders grew restless and focused their anger on a board that gave former CEO Terry Semel one of the richest pay packages in Corporate America.
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Microsoft Windows Exec Kevin Johnson Jumps To Juniper
Microsoft won't replace Johnson but will split Platforms and Services into two groups that will report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.
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Yahoo’s Board Gets A Boost
With the proxy fight between Carl Icahn and Yahoo settled , there is little risk that Yahoo’s directors will face much more than some uncomfortable questions from shareholders at the company’s Aug. 1 annual meeting. Their reelection is virtually assured.
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Satyam partners Infospectrum
HYDERABAD: Satyam Computer Services on Wednesday announced the signing of an agreement with Infospectrum of Los Angeles to provide enhanced service to third party MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) operators and component repairers in the ...
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Google launches online publishing service
Google Inc. on Wednesday launched Knol, an online publishing service that could go head to head with Wikipedia. (GOOG)
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Apple, Psystar Reps To Meet In Court
Apple filed its copyright infringement suit against Psystar earlier this month, charging that Psystar has been selling Macintosh clones in violation of Apple's software license.
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Videotron Internet: Now One Million Subscribers
After announcing last April that the millionth illico digital television receiver had been put on the market, Videotron has just crossed another threshold of one million subscribers to cable Internet service, all categories combined.
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BHP Billiton's Neptune Project Reaches Full Oil Capacity
HOUSTON----BHP Billiton announced today that its Neptune Tension Leg Platform in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, which began production on July 6, has five of six wells on line and has already ramped up the oil production to full design capacity of 50,000 barrels of oil per day.
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Court defends America's right to online smut
First Amendment meets Groundhog Day Ten years after it was rubber stamped by US lawmakers, the free-speech-throttling Child Online Protection Act (COPA) remains in legal limbo, but its chances of survival took another blow this week as a federal appeals court upheld an earlier ban on the statute.…
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eBay Software Seller Sentenced To Four Years
Jeremiah Mondello was found guilty of stealing bank account information and creating more than 40 fake eBay and PayPal identities to sell illegal copies of software.
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Source: Microsoft to expand Facebook ad pact
Microsoft Corp will announce plans to expand its relationship with online social network Facebook to provide web search and search advertising, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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Intel Revamps Its System-On-Chip Designs
The first batch of products is under the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor line for industrial robotics and for security, storage, and communication devices.
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HDDs continue to thrive through recession
USA: Despite a poor second-quarter earnings performance from leading Hard Disk Drive (HDD) supplier Seagate Technology LLC, the overall HDD industry is continuing to thrive in 2008 due to an insatiable demand for low-cost, high-capacity storage devices, according to iSuppli Corp.
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Nokia, Qualcomm End Patent Disputes
The companies have entered into a 15-year agreement regarding wireless technology patents, and have dropped all litigation.
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