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MarketWatch First Take: Yahoo annual meeting a dud without Icahn
A media event with Carl Icahn present would have seriously livened up Yahoo's annual meeting, which, given all the fireworks around this company this year, turned out to be a bit of a dud.
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Sun Releases JavaFX Preview
The JavaFX Web development platform will compete with Adobe's Flex and Microsoft's Silverlight.
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FCC rules Comcast violated Internet access policy
(AP:WASHINGTON) A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers and has ordered the cable giant to change the way it manages its network.
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Nut jobs galore at Yahoo's big show
Hard as it is to acknowledge, I actually felt sorry for Yahoo's board as it had to feign interest in the parade of goofball investors who attended the company's annual shareholders meeting.
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iPhone Utility: Backup Disabler
Since the release of iPhone OS 2.0, the Internet has seen numerous complaints about the backup phase of the sync process with iTunes taking much longer than it took when using iPhone OS 1.x. If this has been a ...
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Bugs & Fixes: The trouble with USB ‘smart’ flash drives
Ted Landau discovers that the new generation of U3 smart drives can cause a lot of headaches for Mac users.
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Increase Firefox's Maximum Pop-up Count [Firefox Tip]
Google Reader user Mitch Wagner leans on the V key often to pop open originating web pages from posts in Reader—but found Firefox's pop-up blocker would kick in after a certain amount of time,...
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BearingPoint files lawsuit over Mo. records fees
(AP:JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) A Virginia company hired to overhaul the computer system for Missouri's driver's license and motor vehicle records has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law capping fees for buying those records.
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Avoid Laptop Seizure On International Trips [Privacy]
According to a new U.S. Department of Homeland Security policy, a Customs agent could seize your laptop for "an indefinite period" and even copy the data on your hard drive on your way to your...
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Forget the iPhone--The iPod Touch is Good Enough [Ipod Touch]
Back in June 2007, I couldn't convince my wife that checking my email in grocery lines was worth $1,320—the cost of an original iPhone and one year of the cheapest plan. These days, the...
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Miller's Replacement on Yahoo Board: Biondi?; The Motivations
So the real drama was happening outside Yahoo's annual shareholder meeting...well, happened yesterday, to be exact. Jon Miller won't going on the Yahoo board for reasons being disputed now, including a denial from Time Warner that it reneged on a non-compete waiver.
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Cablevision Announces Two New Board Members
BETHPAGE, N.Y.----Cablevision Systems Corporation today announced that Deborah Dolan-Sweeney and Brad Dorsogna will join its Board of Directors. The two new members are appointments of the Class B stockholders.
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Time Warner screws ex-AOL CEO Jon Miller a second time [Yahoo]
Right as former AOL CEO Jon Miller gets a glowing profile in the Los Angeles Times, his former boss strikes back at him in the most callow way possible, by blocking his appointment to the Yahoo... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Yahoo shareholders get chance to spar with company
Yahoo shareholders are getting their chance to challenge the company's management over its handling of a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.
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Airport Feds can now take your laptop [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
No suspicious activity required! Federal agents under the Department of Homeland Security may now seize the laptops of travelers coming into the United States from abroad. They're authorized to copy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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IBM gets cloud computer fever
IBM, on the heels of an announcement earlier this week by HP, Intel and Yahoo to build a huge cloud computing playground for researchers, reached deeper into its pockets to invest in new cloud computing centers in the United States and Japan. How deep, you ask? $400 million.
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Nvidia abandons chipset business, won't be powering your MacBook [Rumormonger]
A reporter for the Taiwanese site Digitimes says chipmaker Nvidia "has decided to quit the chipset business" and focus on its core business of standalone graphics processor unit (GPU) products, which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Woz speaking at Cisco [Nerdspotting]
We hear Steve Wozniak — he's the Apple cofounder who doesn't rain expletives on reporters — is speaking at Cisco at 11:30. We're curious what he has to say. Update: A reader sent in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Yahoo shareholder meeting virtually empty [Yahoo]
The Imperial Ballroom of the San Jose Fairmont, site of Yahoo's annual shareholder meeting, was nearly empty as the formalistic corporate-governance charade was about to start. The power went in and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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UPDATED: Local tech firm wins appeal against Microsoft
Tucson-based Research Corporation Technologies said today it has won a reversal of a federal court decision that denied the local company's charges of patent infringement against computer giant Microsoft Corp.
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Internet use hits 1.5 million users
More than one and a half million New Zealand homes are now hooked up to the Internet, and most have broadband. Broadband subscriptions have grown nearly 11% in the past six months, according to Statistics New Zealand.
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Yahoo shareholders get chance to spar with company
Yahoo shareholders are getting their chance to challenge the company's management over its handling of a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.
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News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
Opera 9.5 gets mad at malware — Jun. 13, 2008 — Opera Software released a security-conscious version of its freely-available web browser that adds protection against malware.
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vi guide rev'd
O'Reilly has brought out its (count 'em!) seventh edition of " Learning the vi and Vim Editors ." First published in 1986, this classic teaches basic and advanced features of the world's most popular text editor, a tool every system administrator and desktop Linux user ought to know.
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BearingPoint files lawsuit over Mo. records fees
A Virginia company hired to overhaul the computer system for Missouri's driver's license and motor vehicle records has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law capping fees for buying those records.
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