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Google may be winner if Microsoft buys Yahoo
One of the biggest players behind Microsoft Corp.'s drive to buy Yahoo Inc. has never been at the bargaining table — Google Inc.
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Herald wins Web awards
The Northwest Herald’s Web site beat out Chicagotribune.com and ChicagoBusiness.com as the region’s “Best News Web Site” Friday night at the Chicago Headline Club’s annual awards ceremony.
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WIN Creative's Super Box of sound stuff
Whether you’re a laptop user who’s fed up with the basic audio being pumped out by your machine, or a desktop owner with a lackluster sound card installed, the USB-based Creative Sound Blaster Digital Music SX box of audio tricks is aimed at you.
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Microsoft will improve its security user interface to help clamp down on Trojan-based cyber-attacks, the company's product security manager says. Mark Hamburg, Adobe Systems Photoshop and Lightroom programming guru, will be leading work to give Microsoft Windows a sleeker, chicer user interface.
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Adobe guru hired to make Windows chic
Mark Hamburg, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom programming guru, will be leading work to give Microsoft Windows a sleeker, chicer user interface.
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Library launches Spanish ‘InfoLine Chat’ service
If you think that internet “chat rooms” are just places for kids to waste time, here is some news. The Queens Library has one - a live, free online reference service for questions that require brief, accurate answers that can be found in reference resources - and now it’s available in Spanish, too.
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Microsoft directors meeting to consider higher Yahoo bid
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft's directors were meeting Wednesday to consider raising the software maker's US$41.9 billion (S$57 billion) bid for Yahoo instead of pursuing a threatened hostile takeover attempt, according to a published report.
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Useful for readers
HERE’S something that may come in handy for readers of Mind Our English who can’t live without a computer! But seriously, it’s a free versatile tool for any writer although, if you want the WordWeb Pro 5 with lots more features, you’d have to pay a reasonable fee for it.
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them. The extension was seen as a hopeful sign that a settlement was within reach. But in Wednesday’s updated notice to member companies posted online, the AMPTP said little additional progress had been made.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th Aug 2005 20:22 UTC
"It's unusual for a Beta 1 version of Windows to have both the final shipping name of the product and as many new features as this build shows. And that's a strong sign of two things.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Dec 2005 15:36 UTC
"Don Box is an architect assigned to the 'Indigo' project at Microsoft, where he is working on next-generation Web services protocols and plumbing. Box recently spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft about upcoming technologies from the company such as the Language Integrated Query project, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo)."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 19:53 UTC
"Just days after announcing a delay in when Windows Vista will ship, Microsoft has significantly restructured its Platforms & Services Division and appointed Steve Sinofsky, who headed the Office team until now, to head the Windows and Windows Live groups, giving him broad responsibility for planning future versions of Windows.
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Websites Go Crazy Tracking Urban Eccentrics
Every city has its urban eccentrics -- those can't-miss characters who seem to make full-time jobs out of being seen (and sometimes heard) around town. From bare-chested marvels to perpetual protesters with crazy signs, these colorful people are being turned into unlikely internet celebrities by a new breed of local websites that use social networks, citizen reporting, mapping mashups and ...
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Xerox's research arm now a business, execs say
Since its establishment in 1970, the Palo Alto Research Center funded by Xerox has developed groundbreaking technologies, including Ethernet, the GUI (graphical user interface) and the computer mouse.
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Paying the taxman
It's tax time, and so many Canadians now file over the Internet it has created some problems.
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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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Man attempts to meet girl from MySpace; facing rape charges
A Gadsden man is facing rape charges after police say he drove to South Carolina to meet an underage girl that he chatted with on MySpace.com. Investigators say 21-year-old Jared Heath Gaskey is charged with second degree rape and soliciting a child by computer.
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Winning With Windows Mobile
The Microsoft Mobility Communication Business group is pleased to invite you to a day of Windows Mobile discovery! Attend this event to accelerate your ability to develop applications for Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform.
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How your computer keyboard is FIVE TIMES dirtier than your toilet seat - and could even give you 'qwerty tummy'
Computer keyboards can harbour more harmful bacteria than a lavatory seat, it has been claimed. Many users are at risk of becoming ill with stomach bugs, according to the consumer group Which?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 3rd Aug 2005 16:07 UTC
"I am proud to announce the official release of Symphony OS Alpha 4. Alpha 4 includes the KNOPPIX version of the 2.6.11 Linux Kernel and an updated base based on Knoppix 3.9, numerous improvements to the Mezzo Desktop environment , includes synaptic for package management, beagle for local searching, supports freedesktop.org .desktop files in the Programs target, and much more."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Feb 2007 16:50 UTC
"Samsung knows a thing or two about designing notebooks. The Q35 Red that I recently reviewed created quite a stir every time I pulled it out of my bag at CES last month, and the ultra-slim Q30 won over many users who were looking for a machine that was ultra-thin and light.
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Riverside firm signs deal with Microsoft to make video game devices
A licensing agreement between Microsoft and a Riverside-based maker of video game controllers could put skateboards in living rooms across the country.
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Microsoft, shrugging off licensing moves to prevent it from repeating its controversial patent deal with Novell, has ...
that include an intellectual property assurance under which Microsoft will provide patent covenants for Xandros customers. In the meantime, Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3 users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux distribution, according to the Free Software Foundation.
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