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Rogers overcomes wireless woes
TORONTO -- A lukewarm performance at its wireless division notwithstanding, Rogers Communications Inc. reported second-quarter profit of $301 million, up from a year-ago loss of $56 million.
London Free Press |
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Google takes Microsoft's biggest customer away
MICROSOFT'S BIGGEST single client worldwide has been stolen away by the search engine outfit Google.
The Inquirer |
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Business Briefs
NEW YORK -- The creators of a Scrabble knockoff responsible for countless hours at the online hangout Facebook suspended their word game yesterday after being hit with a lawsuit, disappointing fans who logged on expecting to make their next moves.
London Free Press |
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Pickens dumps shares in Yahoo, likely losing tens of millions of dollars
Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens has sold all of his holdings in Yahoo Inc. in a pique over the way the Internet company’s management handled sales talks with Microsoft Corp.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Amazon payment services debut
Amazon on Tuesday launched hosted ecommerce payment services for merchants who want to outsource all or some of their online transaction processing tasks.
Macworld UK |
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Yahoo, Intel and HP form cloud computing labs
Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure.
Macworld UK |
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Many popular websites host malicious code
IBM and Websense are separately issuing their semiannual security trend reports this week, and the picture isn't pretty for websites, open source software and social networking programs.
Macworld UK |
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Internet radio sites push for lower royalties for artists
Record industry executives, artists and Internet radio executives clashed Tuesday at a Senate hearing over how much royalties Internet radio services should pay.
The Tuscaloosa News |
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'Hacker' awaits extradition ruling
A Briton accused of the "biggest computer hack of all time" is waiting to hear if he has escaped extradition to the US where he could face a life sentence.
ITV.com |
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Cingular exec takes helm at Vonage
Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. on Tuesday named a former Cingular Wireless marketing executive as its new chief executive officer.
Asbury Park Press |
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Rogers' wireless sales soften
New rivals and a slowing economy create tighter conditions for Canadian carrier of Apple's iPhone
The Globe and Mail |
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Datang Holding to work with Dell and Microsoft on TD-SCDMA products
Shanghai. July 30. INTERFAX-CHINA - Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group (Datang Group) announced on July 29 that its subsidiary Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Holding (Datang Holding) has signed partnership agreements with Dell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to develop TD-SCDMA products.
Interfax |
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Sound education is key for IT professionals
As the demand for information technology professionals continues, young people with special interest in and aptitude for information technology shouldn't hesitate to follow a career in the industry.
Independent Online |
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Pickens dumps Yahoo stock
Influential US investor T. Boone Pickens has dumped millions of shares of Yahoo stock at a loss.
News 24 South Africa |
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Facebook pulls plug on popular word game
Anna Sinclair is at a loss for words -- online words that is.
Victoria Times Colonist |
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Amazon unveils online-payments service
Watch out PayPal…
Silicon.com |
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DNS attack writer hit by web attack
HD Moore 'owned' The biter bit. HD Moore, the creator of the popular Metasploit hacking toolkit, has become the victim of a computer attack.
TechWorld |
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HP, Intel and Yahoo shoot for the clouds
Three of the biggest names in the tech world are joining forces in a new cloud computing initiative.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Cool.fm Internet Property Set for Sale
Alexander Szeles, owner of the cool.fm radio directory, announces the sale of the rights to cool.fm, cool.tm and cool.dj.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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Cool.fm Internet Property Set for Sale
LONDON----Alexander Szeles, owner of the cool.fm radio directory, announces the sale of the rights to cool.fm, cool.tm and cool.dj.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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BEIJING --
Foreign reporters will not have complete access to the Internet during the Beijing Olympics, AFP reports.
B92 |
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Animated
WALL-E and Buzz Lightyear, step aside. The next generation of Pixar animators might be sitting at the Casper Planetarium this week, hunched faithfully over their laptop computers.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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Fear of huge bills prevents mobile-internet takeup
The Mobile Data Association has warned that operators need to address consumers' concerns in order to accelerate the growth of mobile-internet use
ZDNet UK |
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HP, Intel and Yahoo shoot for the clouds
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 19:48:00 Companies join forces on computing initiative Three of the biggest names in the tech world are joining forces in a new cloud computing initiative. HP, Yahoo and Intel will combine their efforts to build a huge...
vnunet.com |
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Pair in court for stealing laptop
TWO MEN have been accused in the court at Dumfries of trashing the inside of a house in the town.
Dumfries & Galloway Standard |
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