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Yahoo shareholder may pull support - NY Post
Yahoo's second-largest investor, Gordon Crawford of Capital Research and Management, may yank support for the company's top executives at Friday's annual meeting, the New York Post said citing sources close to the fund manager.
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Verizon profit rises, but wireline disappoints
Verizon Communications has posted a higher quarterly profit on strong wireless sales, but its shares fell on worries about its declining landlines and weaker-than-expected growth in its FiOS internet and video service.
Stuff |
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LI companies struggle to fill high-tech jobs
Tech workers are in high demand, leading to work on developing new sources. The New York Labor Dept. says computer-related jobs will be among the fastest growing within the next 10 years.
Newsday |
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The New Search Engine That Will Destroy Google Forever [Internet]
Cuil (pronounced "kewl") is a brand new website that exists to give lazy tech journalists something to write about. It's also a search engine—one launched by former Google...
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U.S. Web firms feeling less American
As major U.S. Internet companies stake their ground abroad in anticipation of the next billion people coming online the flags they are planting aren't the Stars and Stripes
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Want a Wii? Buy Comcast Triple Play
Comcast has a pretty notorious reputation for customer service. Between throttling BitTorrent users and lousy technical support, they’re a pretty hard sell in the internet, phone, and cable game. Sure, they may offer a huge amount of channels, and internet speeds that blast Cox out of the water; but who wants to put up with [...]
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Thousands lose power; Internet problems also reported
The electricity went out on Sunday night for 2,500 Allegheny Power customers after a faulty piece of equipment shut down the Milesburg substation, and on Monday Comcast cable customers from Howard to Bellefonte began to experience life without Internet.
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Linux-friendly Beagle Fetches $150
"Jason Kridner, director of open system design at TI, says the Beagle board offers a very user-friendly way to explore the capabilities of the A8 architecture, as well as the C64x DSP, for which a free compiler and open source codecs are available.
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RUSSIA: Web site editor kidnapped, beaten, threatened in Ingushetia
New York , July 28, 2008 — The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Friday’s vicious attack on Zurab Tsechoyev, editor of Mashr, a human rights Web site based in the volatile North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia.
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American Express Business Travel to Launch BusinessTravelConnexion.com, a B2B Online Community
During a press conference today at the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) International Convention & Exposition, American Express Business Travel announced plans to launch a business-to-business online networking community for the corporate travel industry. A first-of-its-kind resource, BusinessTravelConnexion.com will bring together a consortium of industry decision makers, suppliers, ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Caught in the Net? The onus is yours
Can security agencies arrest you if an e-mail sent from your computer implicates you in a case of cyber-terrorism? Currently, the answer appears to be "yes" despite the fact that e-mail IDs can be spoofed (faked) and IP addresses (your computer's identity when surfing) manipulated with ease.
rediff.com |
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 28, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google? Can any start-up search engine "be the next Google?" Many have wondered this, and today's launch of Cuil (pronounced "cool') may provide the best test case since Google itself ...
Search Engine Land |
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Power Searching Google News With Cluster Filtering
Ionut Alex Chitu noticed a new feature in Google News that allows you to filter news clusters by three options. The three options include, "All Sources," "Blogs," and local news options. Let me walk you through this step by step. Click to continue reading...
Search Engine Land |
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Atheros Announces Financial Results for Q2 2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Atheros Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHR), a leading developer of advanced wireless and wired network communications solutions, today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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drugstore.com to Expand Sales Internationally
BELLEVUE, Wash. and NEW YORK , July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- drugstore.com, inc. (Nasdaq: DSCM), a leading online retailer of health, beauty, vision and pharmacy products has entered into a contract to utilize E4X, Inc.'s FiftyOne Global Ecommerce Solution ( http://www.fiftyone.com ) to power the expansion of sales internationally. drugstore.com ( http://www.drugstore.com ) expects to be ...
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60-Second Review: HP Printing Mailbox
What: HP Printing Mailbox with Presto Service Features: Automatically prints your e-mails with attached photos into easy-to-read letters. Requires a telephone line and subscription to Presto service. No computer or Internet access is needed. Prints full-color at 600 x 600 dots per inch resolution. Includes power adapter and a 25-foot-long telephone cable. It will check for e-mails up to five ...
Miami Herald |
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SDForum Introduces First Annual Corporate Innovation and Research Fair
SDForum, Silicon Valley's leading source of information and education in the technology community, today announced its first annual Corporate Information and Research Fair to be held August 15, 2008 from 8:30am - 4:00pm at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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SearchDay: More Killer Keyword Techniques: Personas and Buckets
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: More Killer Keyword Techniques: Personas and Buckets; Cuil New Search Engine Launches; and more.
Search Engine Watch |
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Mobile Executives Spar Over IPhone
Mobile executives at a Silicon Valley roundtable discussion challenged Symbian, Android and other software platforms to match...
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., Marriott International Inc., Baidu.com Inc., ...
Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HOT), Marriott International Inc. (NYSE: MAR), Baidu.com Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) and ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Illinois tops list of most spammed state
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Monday 28 July 2008 at 21:47:00 US beats the world in global spam rates A study by web security company MessageLabs has shown that Illinois residents get more spam than any other US state....
vnunet.com |
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The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) Jobs
If you are wondering what don’t-be-evil Google, the poster boy of employee-friendly practices, is up to these days, here’s the answer: it’s increasing childcare costs. Googlers are aghast at the hike — up to 70 per cent —even as the wo...
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Too Cuil: Ex-Google employees launch new search engine today
Google’s web-hegemony has become so unquestionable at this point, that any attempt to topple it comes off not as merely futile, but as a kind of Brechtian joke. The successors to the search-engine standard line up, boast revolutionary features and vamped-up security.
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EFF applauds Yahoo Music for reimbursing customers
Yahoo Music's decision to offer refunds to customers who bought DRM-wrapped music is an important precedent for anyone dealing in copy-protected media.
CNET |
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eXpresso Selects OpSource to Bolster Infrastructure and Increase Scalability : Leading Web Operations Solution Enables ...
OpSource™, the leader in Web operations, today announced that eXpresso™ Corporation, provider of online collaboration services for business, has chosen OpSource On-Demand™ for scalable Web delivery of its secure, award-winning solution. eXpresso enables users to share and collaborate on any Microsoft® Excel® file, regardless of location, which assists in the trend toward managed online business ...
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