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Report: Microsoft directors meeting to mull higher Yahoo bid
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s directors are meeting today to consider raising the software maker's $41.9 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a decision could emerge after the meeting.
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CSULB Student Designer Creates Truly Connected Mug
California State University, Long Beach, senior Jason Farsai is looking ahead. Far ahead. In fact, he’s already designed a Windows-based computer for the future — and it’s a mug.
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Report: Microsoft directors meeting to mull higher Yahoo bid
Associated Press - April 30, 2008 6:04 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s directors are meeting today to consider raising the software maker's $41.9 billion bid for Yahoo Inc.
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Chumby
This cuddly alarm clock is also a Wi-Fi–enabled Linux computer that informs and entertains.
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Corning profit triples on LCD TV panel growth
NEW YORK - Corning Inc said Tuesday consumer demand for flat-panel televisions grew in the first quarter, defying the weak U.S. economy, and tripling the specialty glass maker's profit.
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Analyst: HD DVD demise hasn't meant scramble for Blu-ray
Sales of Blu-ray disc players haven't been helped by maker Toshiba's capitulation over producing the rival HD DVD format, research firm NPD Group said Wednesday.
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Little League Opening Day
Click Here for a video of Little League Opening Day (It may take a few moments to load depending on your internet connection. )
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Gadsden Man Accused Of Raping 14-year-old Girl
Police have arrested a Gadsden man accused of raping a 14-year-old South Carolina girl he met online.
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Zango's adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse
'Kaspersky's got nothin' on us' Comment Zango, creator of Hotbar, Seekmo Search Assistant and other adware programs of dubious value to end users, just can't seem to come to grips with reality. It's coughed up a $3m fine to the FTC and abandoned two lawsuits claiming anti-malware providers illegally interfered with its business after being laughed out of just about every court where it's ...
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Recent Original Stories
Linspire has announced an agreement to license voice-enabled instant messaging, Windows Media 10 codecs, and TrueType font technologies from Microsoft for its Linux distribution.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th Nov 2007 10:16 UTC
The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
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Man chased, robbed of computer (2:02 p.m.)
STOCKTON – A 28-year-old man was chased down and robbed of his laptop at gunpoint Tuesday.
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Survey Reveals 57 Percent of Americans to Spend Less on Vacations
According to a survey from AOL Travel and Zogby International, 57 percent of Americans feel they have less money to spend this year on summer vacations than they did in 2007. To save money, 33 percent of Americans are planning to stay with friends or family for lodging, while 37 percent plan to drive rather than fly.
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From Net access to flowers: United Media buys FTD
In what appears to be an odd pairing, United Media, which owns dial-up Internet provider NetZero, is buying florist FTD for $456 million.
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App turns dual mode phones into WiFi access points
— Apr. 22, 2008 — TapRoot Systems has announced software that lets any WiFi-equipped Windows Mobile phone provide Internet access to other devices.
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Industry suddenly realises multi-cored chips are useless unless used
Stanford University has joined forces with IBM, AMD, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel to create innovative software that will let chips better process several simultaneously.
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Criminals try to 'copyright' malware
Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting - with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in. Professional virus writers are now selling a suite of software on the Internet with an unusual attachment: a detailed licensing agreement that promises penalties for redistributing the malicious code without ...
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Report: Microsoft directors meeting to mull higher Yahoo bid
Microsoft Corp.'s directors were meeting Wednesday to consider raising the software maker's $41.9 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. instead of pursuing a threatened hostile takeover attempt, according to a published report. A decision could emerge after the meeting, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. Microsoft also is weighing withdrawing its bid - a move ...
The State |
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Analyst: HD DVD demise hasn't meant scramble for Blu-ray
Sales of Blu-ray disc players haven't been helped by maker Toshiba's capitulation over producing the rival HD DVD format, research firm NPD Group said Wednesday. Toshiba announced on Feb. 19 that it would stop making HD DVD players, already doomed by Warner Bros. Entertainment's announcement Jan. 4 that it was dropping HD DVD to focus on Blu-ray. Sales of Blu-ray players, excluding PlayStation 3 ...
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Linked by David Adams on Wed 24th May 2006 04:08 UTC
It's conventional wisdom that computers need to be "easier to use." But do they? More reliable, yes. Easier to troubleshoot, yes. But now that so many people use computers so much, I think there's something to be said for making them less easy-to-use and less intuitive.
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Report: Microsoft directors meeting to mull higher Yahoo bid
Microsoft Corp.'s directors were meeting Wednesday to consider raising the software maker's $41.9 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. instead of pursuing a threatened hostile takeover attempt, according to a published report.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 27th Feb 2007 23:57 UTC
A hacker from Malaysia has used the game-centric PPL programming language for PocketPCs and has created a replacement of the "Today" PPC screen that closely resembles that of the iPhone's.
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Evade E-mail Exasperation
If you're like 99.7 percent of computer users, your e-mail client gets more of a workout than any other software you use. And...
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Recent Original Stories
"Remember the 1980s worries about how the 'forking' of Unix could hurt that operating system's chances for adoption? That was nothing compared to the mess we've got today with Linux , where upwards of 300 distributions vie for the attention of computer users seeking an alternative to Windows."
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Tibco entering hardware space
Tibco Software is set to make a play in the computer hardware space, readying its Tibco Messaging Appliance for ultra-low-latency messaging deployments.
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