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Investor Pickens drops Yahoo shares: report
Billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens has sold his entire stake of Yahoo Inc shares in frustration over its failure to reach a deal with Microsoft Corp , the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday.
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How Your Company Can Benefit from Green Social Networking
Well over half of Americans ages 15-34 are actively using online social networks (e.g., Facebook, MySpace), spending on average more than seven hours per week on such websites and driving the growth of overall time spent online.
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The real cost of Facebook
FACEBOOK helped track down murder suspects, locate long-lost school friends and even make friends for Kevin Rudd, but the social network has a down side.
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Odds against Mac attack
SELLING anti-virus software to Mac users is like selling ice to Eskimos, with no viruses found ''in the wild' in the seven-year history of OS X.
The Courier Mail |
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Photo transfer in a flash
Q. I AM a computer dummy. How do I transfer photos from a laptop (they come from my camera and download by a program from Olympus) to a flash drive?
The Courier Mail |
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Harvey Norman happy with TiVo launch
THE Seven Network's newly launched TiVo digital video recorder will offer users the ability to download YouTube internet videoclips to the box free by the start of next year, according to the man charged with selling the product outside the US.
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The real cost of Facebook
FACEBOOK helped track down murder suspects, locate long-lost school friends and even make friends for Kevin Rudd, but the social network has a down side.
The Courier Mail |
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O'Neil Introduces the microFlash 2te -- the World's Smallest and Most Rugged and Reliable 2" Mobile Printer
O'Neil Product Development, Inc., manufacturer of The Most Reliable Portable Printers(TM), today introduced the microFlash 2te -- the world's smallest and most rugged and reliable 2-inch wireless portable thermal printer. The 2te is latest model of O'Neil's legendary microFlash family, which has set a new standard of ultra-rugged reliability for portable thermal printers.
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NCCEP and Walden University Help Increase Educators' Access to Graduate Degrees
The National Council for Community and Education Partnerships , a nonprofit organization committed to creating and sustaining K-16 education partnerships, and Walden University, an accredited online institution and one of the nation's largest providers of online graduate degrees to educators, announced that they will offer five $2,500 scholarships to Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for ...
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Look Beyond the Rack for Style This Fall - Dell's New Studio and Inspiron Systems Redefine PC Design
ROUND ROCK, Texas----Dell's smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC, the Studio Hybrid, launches today. Available immediately at www.dell.com/hybrid, the PC's new unique shape and size, personalized with six optional, external jewel-toned color or bamboo sleeves, unleashes stylistic expression, inspiration and fun and looks great in any room.
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Virginia Broadband Reduces Costs by Using Edgewater Networks' Solution for Its VoIP Services
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & CULPEPER, Va.----Virginia Broadband , a leading high-speed wireless broadband Internet Service Provider and Edgewater Networks, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP networking and security products announced today that VABB has selected Edgewater Networks’ solution for its VoIP services.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Equinix and The London Internet Exchange (LINX) Announce Partnership
LONDON----Equinix, Inc. , the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, and The London Internet Exchange , one of the world’s largest Internet exchange points, today announced a partnership agreement that will extend the LINX peering fabric into Equinix’s London-4 Internet Business Exchange data center located in Slough.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Travel Professionals Know that Desires Hotels Mean Business
Desires Hotels is a unique collection of independently created modern boutique hotels that caters to the needs of today"s demanding business traveler. Offering complimentary high-speed and hard-wired Internet access at all of our hotels, you can utilize your laptop anywhere from the lobby lounge to the rooftop, ensuring that you"ll always stay connected. Desires Hotels offers all of the expected ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jan 2006 18:45 UTC
Apple's Steve Jobs has announced several new products today during his keynote at MacWorld ( photos ). After the usual chit-chat about the success of the retail stores and iTunes, Jobs got to the meat of the matter. He announced an FM-tuner with remote-control for the Nano/Video iPod.
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Recent Original Stories
The results of the LinuxQuestions member's choice awards are in.
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Blog: Uganda: Over 30,000 prisoners at risk of starving to death
Source: IRIN Uganda's Daily Monitor says "an estimated 34,000 prisoners countrywide may starve to death this financial year" if the government fails to mobilise just over US$9 million to feed them. It says food and health care are seriously under-funded.
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SAP revenue up 18 per cent
Martin Courtney, Computing , Tuesday 29 July 2008 at 14:49:00 Worst of slump is over, says software giant, but UK users unhappy about rising support costs Software giant SAP reported an 18 per cent increase in revenue in the second quarter of 2008, up to €2.86bn (£2.26bn) from €2.42bn (£1.91bn) in the same period last year....
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Recent Original Stories
How does the system startup look like? This question usually does not come into mind of a normal computer user. Oh, he presses the power button, goes to the kitchen to make a coffee and when he comes back, the password can be entered on the screen in the prepared field.
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Police trace bombing e-mail
AHMADABAD, India (AP) — Police raided the home of an American citizen in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, and seized a computer from which an e-mail claiming responsibility for bombings that killed 45 people in western India was believed to have been sent, officials said today.
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Tips for College Freshmen to Save Hundreds on Textbooks
With the largest freshman class just weeks away from beginning their college careers amid the sharpest decline in consumer confidence in decades, many college freshmen and their parents need ways to save on their college costs. According to Steve Loyola, president and founder of Best Book Buys (http://www.bestbookbuys.com), a leading online comparison shopping service for books and a service ...
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Ex-Googler introduces a new search engine
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
The World |
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Untangle, ACCRC and LinuxWorld Prepare for Global Installfest for Schools
Untangle and the Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) today announced that the second 2008 Installfest for Schools will take place in the exhibit hall of the LinuxWorld Conference August 5-7 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. The event - the largest charitable activity ever undertaken by LinuxWorld - is organized by Untangle, ACCRC and LinuxWorld with help from Ubuntu/Canonical, ...
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Overstock.com appoints new president
Internet retailer Overstock.com Inc. said Tuesday it has appointed Jonathan E. Johnson III as president. Johnson, 42, has served as the company's senior vice president of corporate affairs and legal since he joined the company in September of 2002.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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WNS Partners with Accertify to Provide Fraud Prevention Solutions
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global business process outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced it has formed a strategic alliance with Accertify, a provider of leading-edge fraud prevention solutions to online retailers. The alliance provides deep process management expertise in travel with state-of-the-art online fraud detection technology.
Centre Daily Times |
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Wireless fees spark Rogers rebound
Thousands of new wireless subscribers paying higher fees for data pushed Rogers Communications Inc. to a double-digit gain in quarterly revenue, the company said Tuesday.
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