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Sunrise, Sunset: AOL Set To Sell XDrive, Shutter Other Services
AOL is cleaning house and plans to sell its online storage service XDrive, as well as put the kibosh on other underperforming products.
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Meetic Plunges to Record After Sales Miss Estimates (Update1)
July 25 (Bloomberg) -- Meetic , Europe's biggest publicly traded Internet dating site, fell to a record in Paris trading after second-quarter sales missed analysts' estimates and fewer singles signed up for its service.
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Facebook, Microsoft in search deal
Microsoft Corp. said its search service will be added to social networking site Facebook Inc. this fall. (MSFT)
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Stone City Bank: Calls are a scam
A computer-generated scam swept through Bedford Friday afternoon calling hundreds, if not thousands of cell phones in an attempt to get bank account information.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Dec 2006 22:29 UTC, submitted by John Mills
Jeremy Allison (of Samba fame) has resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, which he calls 'a mistake' which will be 'damaging to Novell's success in the future'.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 27th Nov 2005 22:00 UTC, submitted by phaceton
"In 2005, Apple announced the Mac Mini. It was the answer to what I was looking for in a computer, so I bought one. This is a report about the early months with my new Mac, and how it compares to a Linux computer (I have never owned a Windows computer).
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Gmail users get auto email encryption
The pay for it with increased lag. Google has added full email encryption to Gmail as a standard feature, securing the service's large user base from the possibility of digital snooping.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Oct 2005 22:11 UTC
Industry analysts and open source advocates believe that Microsoft will have no choice but to offer support for OpenDocument when more organisations start following the state of Massachusetts' lead.
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3 shot at Phoenix college; suspect arrested
PHOENIX (AP) -- A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby.
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Power Ratings Weekly Outlook: FRE, KO, PFE
It was a wild ride in the stock market this week with negative news from Freddie Mac and the banking industry dragging the market lower. But a few other names still look good, such as Microsoft trying to escape Google and drug maker Pfizer both garnering a 9 PowerRating.
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DNS Loophole Details Leaked
July 25, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IOActive director of penetration testing Dan Kaminsky advises immediate patching following the accidental leak of specific technical details of a domain name service flaw he discovered earlier in the month, eWeek reports.
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Spotlight on suicide website
A young woman has taken her own life after researching how on the internet, sparking calls to introduce greater moderation of websites. Her father will share details of his family's story as the opening speaker of the three-day internet Safety Group NetSafe's conference in Queenstown on Monday.
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Rod Beckstrom and Ian O. Angell to Keynote at TechWeb's Black Hat USA 2008
Black Hat, the world's leading family of information security events, owned by TechWeb, today announced keynoters Rod Beckstrom, Director of the National Cyber Security Center, and Ian O.
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No Interest In Yahoo? Why, Microsoft?
Microsoft washed its hands of pursuing Yahoo, and the executive responsible for chasing and failing to catch Yahoo has a new job. There is a sense that Microsoft could be back. read more
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MSU Team Among Tops in the World
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- A Mississippi State University team is the sole U.S. entry ranked among the top five in recent worldwide computing competition attracting more than 2,000 submissions.
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Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, dies
Randy Pausch, the computer science professor who rose to fame after giving a quirky last lecture about celebrating life in the face of his terminal cancer, died Friday.
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Energy Efficient LCD Competitor Invented at Microsoft
Technology is based on telescopic pixels...
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China says Web users top US at 253 mln
China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday. The latest figure on Web use at the end of...
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Want wacky news? Here's your one-stop shop
I live to ask “Why?” But occasionally, when reading the news, I end up asking “Huh?” The news is getting stranger all the time. I’ve been keeping track. Here’s a sample of stories, culled from the Internet and wire services, that would make Hollywood scriptwriters do a double take.
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Microsoft pledges love and money to open source
Ponies up to Apache, endorses LGPL OSCON After years of hostility towards Free Software Foundation (FSF) licensing ( here and here ) Microsoft has announced the first in a series of PHP patches - and it's using an FSF license.…
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YouTube's star lecturer dies at 47
Randy Pausch, the professor whose "last lecture" became a runaway phenomenon on the Internet and was turned into a best-selling book, died Friday of pancreatic cancer, Carnegie Mellon University announced on its Web site.
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Google Toolbar PageRank Update Coming
Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts announced on his blog that a new Google Toolbar PageRank update is on the way, and thatas part of the PageRank update, Google will be expiring some of the older [PageRank] penalities on websites. Good news for sites which were hit with a PageRank penalty last year? In the comments (all [...]
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Man Gets 4 Years for ID Theft, Software Piracy
A 23-year-old Oregon man was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for using computer viruses to steal financial data from dozens of consumers. Investigators say the man used the information to set up multiple eBay and PayPal accounts, which helped him sell more than $1 million worth of pirated software. Jeremiah Joseph Mondello, of Eugene, Ore., admitted distributing keystroke ...
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Microsoft 'Done' With Yahoo, Ballmer Says
The Microsoft CEO dismissed Yahoo as a major player in the Internet business, despite previously offering more than $40 billion for the company.
InformationWeek |
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'Last Lecture' professor, Randy Pausch, dies at 47
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47.
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