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Yahoo board sets eyes on Chapple and Biondi
Company nears appointing the two men as directors in accordance with its Icahn agreement, as it nears its Friday board expansion deadline, according to sources.
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Live and Mobile: MTV and Flixwagon Deliver 6 Million Video Streams To Jonas Brothers Fans During a First-Of-Its-Kind ...
This weekend, MTV followed the lives of rock phenoms the Jonas Brothers by streaming video content on the internet while bringing footage on-air with "Jonas Brothers: Live & Mobile" on Saturday, August 9.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Boingo Wireless Expands Network
Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless, a provider of Wi-Fi access services, has expanded its coverage network, the firm said Tuesday. Boingo said it has launched services at Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Airport in the Washington, DC area. The access is available both through hourly access, a daily access fee, or through its regularly monthly service.... (more)
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Personal info of thousands taken in laptop theft
Officials with one of the nation's largest cable and Internet providers say nearly a dozen laptops containing the personal information of 9,000 of its current and former employees have been stolen from a South Carolina office.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Reuters Technology Summary
Over 33,000 buyers signed up for GM electric car DETROIT - In a bid to show the demand for the upcoming all-electric Chevrolet Volt, a proponent of the car has released details of an unofficial waiting list for the vehicle with over 33,000 prospective buyers. Lyle Dennis, a New York neurologist who has emerged as a prominent enthusiast for the battery-powered car from General ...
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SD Gets Spam Rating
An Internet security company says South Dakota is second on its list of the most-spammed states.
KELO Sioux Falls |
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Lost Shoe Diary
IN BLACKOUT, In Search of a Midnight Kiss informs us that there is a 300 percent rise in computer personal ads during the week between Christmas and New Year's, according to the " L.A. Gazette ." Director Alex Holdridge commences his film with a parade of late-night kisses in different settings.
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SourceLabs Releases Tool for Linux & Java Troubleshooting
SourceLabs, the company innovating support and search technology for open source software, released SourceLabs' Self-Support Tools with hardware recognition and advanced tagging. The new features represent a substantial expansion to the company's Support Suite technologies that enable engineers and IT professionals to quickly discover issues and find solutions for open source software. read ...
SYS-CON Media |
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IT business offers free computer help
Edwardsville’s IT business Datajacks is offering free computer help.
Edwardsville Intelligencer |
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Unabomber
For 17 years, an elusive criminal sent homemade bombs that targeted universities, airlines and computer stores, killing three people and injuring 23 others.
Freedom Forum Online |
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Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer
Today's announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores. It's also a coup for the Minneapolis-based chain, which has been upgrading its cell-phone departments.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Does Windows... battles iPhone?
Last week, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., showed off the Omnia mobile phone to members of the local IT media. Samsung’s dual-SIM phone - Take Two! In the Philippines, most mobile phone users now carry two mobile phones because one TelCo decided to give unlimited call and text messaging services.
Manila Bulletin |
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EBay wins Belgian case over L'Oreal knockoff claims
EBay, owner of the largest Internet auction Web site, said a Belgian court rejected a claim by L'Oreal that eBay didn't do enough to prevent the sale of counterfeit cosmetics.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Accused's web post urged assassination of Bush, court told
A MAN facing terrorism charges had written only a few paragraphs of a 102-page document that allegedly incited the assassination of the US President, George Bush, the former US secretary of state, Colin Powell, and the former US secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, and others, a court has been told.
Tenterfield Star |
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Service Channels
One of the largest web hosting and domain name providers in the UK, Easyspace, has this week added the new, and already popular, .ASIA domain name extension to its portfolio.
Web Host Directory |
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Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer
Today's announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores. It's also a coup for the Minneapolis-based chain, which has been upgrading its cell-phone departments.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Guardian altered some photos of our president from the Olympics and created LOL Bush . Enjoy! (Via Sarah) Ooh, remote control zombie ! (Via Sarah) Cinematical lists seven men gone too soon . It's been a rough year. The poorly named site Galactic Binder picks the top 31 bad-ass Star Wars ...
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AMD keeps pressure on Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s best-known business has been struggling lately, but the chip maker’s other unit seems to be keeping pressure on its chief competitor. AMD, which lags Intel Corp. in the market for microprocessors, diversified into computer graphics by buying ATI Technologies in 2006. It announced a new graphics card Tuesday that some [...]
Adrenaline Vault |
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Focus Rectangle Remover Eliminates Windows' Dotted Rectangles [Featured Windows Download]
Sometimes, while clicking around Windows, you'll notice that your system leaves behind a "focus rectangle"—a dotted outline of whatever you had last selected—that is, of course, minor,...
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Guilty plea in Youtube video that called for cop killings
A West Philadelphia man, arrested after he was seen on an Internet website waving a handgun and exhorting viewers to shoot at the city's police officers, pleaded guilty this morning before a Common Pleas Court judge.
Philly.com |
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Chandler 1.0 is a Serious, but Rough, To-Do Manager [Screenshot Tour]
Chandler, an open-source, cross-platform scheduling app, was conceived back in 2002 as a potential Outlook-killer—a free organizer that would process all your email, calendar appointments and...
Lifehacker |
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Russian hackers attack Georgian Web sites
Attacks by Russian hackers against Georgian Web sites, including one hosted in the United States, continue even as Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to hostilities against Georgia.
MSNBC |
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Virtual Sticky Notes for Mobile Phones
Combine social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology and you get what Duke University engineers call "virtual sticky notes." The notes, Web site-specific messages that people can leave for others to retrieve with their mobile phones, could turn out to be a potentially useful way to remind individuals...
CommunicationsDirect |
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Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer
Today's announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores. It's also a coup for the Minneapolis-based chain, which has been upgrading its cell-phone departments.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer
Today's announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores. It's also a coup for the Minneapolis-based chain, which has been upgrading its cell-phone departments.
San Jose Mercury News |
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