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Rights Group Protest China's Pre-Olympics Arrests
Human rights groups are calling for the immediate release of Chinese Internet writer Du Daobin after he was rearrested earlier this week, saying his detention is part of a pre-Olympics crackdown on political dissent. From VOA's New York Bureau, Mona Ghuneim reports.
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Major shareholder advisory firm backs Yahoo board
SAN FRANCISO - 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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Investing is still Microsoft’s primary vista
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive officer, on Thursday made his case to Wall Street for Microsoft to make big new investments in the internet business, in spite of signs of internal upheaval in the wake of his failed bid for Yahoo this year.
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Amazon posts 35% sales growth in North America and raises 2008 forecast
Whatever ails the rest of the economy, it doesn’t seem to be affecting online retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. Amazon, No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide North American sales were especially strong in electronics and general merchandise, up 52% to $920 million from $606 million last year.
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Microsoft Makes Calendar Sync Work
For anyone who uses multiple calendars, you know that one of the big issues that's being addressed by numerous applications is getting your calendars to sync up with each other. We've covered some solutions to this problem before , but we had not seen a truly integrated offering that allowed you to sync up a work calendar in desktop software with an onlne calendar without need of a ...
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Phoenix Technologies to buy General Software
Phoenix Technologies Inc., a leading maker of the software that controls the most basic functions of computers, on Thursday said it has agreed to buy General Software Inc., which makes similar software for a wide variety of devices.
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Baidu stock jumps on blistering 2Q profit growth
Shares of Baidu.com Inc. leaped Thursday after China's leading search engine reported scorching second-quarter profits on rapidly accelerating sales to smaller advertisers.
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Apple?s MobileMess
For a company that?s so brilliant at marketing, it seems to have absolutely no clue about crisis management.
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Intel Switches From Ubuntu To Fedora For Mobile Linux
An anonymous reader writes "According to a report on heise, Intel is switching from using Ubuntu to the Fedora Project for the second version of the Intel supported Mobile & Internet Linux Project Moblin, citing a desire to use RPM package management." So far, of the various subnotebooks I've been glancing at over shoulders at OSCON, though, most of the ones with an easily identified operating ...
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Ajman bans smoking in cyber cafes
AJMAN — The Ajman Municipality has banned smoking in Internet cafes and ordered the cafe owners to remove the tinted glasses on the front doors and windows.
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INDIA: Yahoo pulls editorial operation out of Chennai
CHENNAI --- In a sudden move, Yahoo India has moved its editorial operations out of Chennai. Besides that, it is also learnt that it has terminated a technical support agreement with a software services firm.
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Former city mayor's Rolex for sale on Internet
A fascinating piece of Thunder Bay's history is for sale on the Internet. A Rolex watch owned by former Mayor Walter Assef has recently surfaced, complete with the flamboyant and sometimes bombastic mayor's name engraved on it.
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HP brings Voodoo into the consumer PC fold
The enthusiast PC line will be merged into the company's consumer line, Voodoo's co-founder says.
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St. Pete Detective Viewed Porn On Computer, Suspended
A detective with the St. Petersburg Police Department has been suspended for 45 days after an investigation revealed he had accessed porn sites from his city-issued computer.
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Intellon Corporation Names Walter Amaral to Board of Directors and Audit Committee
Intellon Corporation (Nasdaq:ITLN), a leading provider of HomePlug(R)-compatible integrated circuits (ICs) for home networking, networked entertainment, Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC) and smart grid applications, today announced that Walter Amaral has been elected to the Board of Directors at today's board meeting. Amaral has also been named to the Audit Committee of the Board.
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About Tonight
Photo by Karon MUSIC: It's the best night of the Fort Reno season: the Night of 1,000 Cakes! Bring a cake to share or eat a cake someone else brought; there's usually plenty of cake to go around. Also, Statehood , Imperial China , and Tsarina . 7:15 p.m. MOVIE: Tonight is the 25th anniversary of the release of War Games , seemingly every computer programmer over the age of ...
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Windows Live for Mobile updated, but still missing calendar sync
Microsoft on Wednesday announced an updated version of Windows Live for Windows Mobile, the company's client software for cell phones. But some users were still lamenting the lack of calendar syncing.
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Knol lacks knowledge
Google's would-be Wikipedia competitor doesn't have the goods to challenge the Free Encyclopedia. Yet.
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
(Adds Yahoo, British Energy and others)
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Microsoft Lays Out Post-Yahoo! Plans
Microsoft's CEO says the company plans to be a major player in the $1 trillion online services market.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Jul 2007 22:06 UTC
Dell is getting ready to launch systems with Ubuntu Linux, but is not yet releasing details of the final specifications. However, the company did say on Friday that as well as a consumer version of Ubuntu, it had plans to launch a small-business version 'in the future'.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 29th Jan 2007 10:35 UTC
"Windows Vista is finally here for everyone and is soon to be made available on store shelves and pre-loaded on new PC's. Windows Vista has been five years in the making; throughout that time we have witnessed Microsoft reschedule the release of this 'major upgrade' over and over and over again.
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