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After lots of hemming and hawing, obfuscation and obdurate executive attitudes, Microsoft came clean today, sort of, about Vista's first service pack. The company confirmed a three-month launch window and said it would shortly move Service Pack 1 into a broader beta test.
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U.K. Stocks Climb, Led by Raw Material Producers; Logica Soars
Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. stocks rose for the first time in three days as investors bought raw-material producers at their cheapest in six months. Rio Tinto Group , BHP Billiton Ltd. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc , which account for about 15 percent of the benchmark FTSE 100 Index , led the gains.
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Logica Soars the Most in Five Years on Sales Forecast (Update3)
Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Logica Plc , the Anglo-Dutch computer- services provider, climbed the most since 2003 in London trading after raising its sales forecast, citing ``robust'' spending and deals with Royal KPN NV and Michelin & Cie.
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Kennett rejects push for return
JEFF Kennett has said he is "not flattered" by an online campaign to bring him back as leader of the state Liberal party.
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European Stocks Advance, Led by BHP Billiton; Tesco, Metro Rise
Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks advanced for the first time in three days as the cheapest mining shares in six months lured investors and better-than-estimated earnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. boosted retailers.
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Court says copyrights apply even for free software
In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material.
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Video game sales rise 28 percent in July
SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware, software and accessories rose 28 percent in July from a year earlier, boosted by continued strong demand for Nintendo Co Ltd's <7974.OS> Wii console, according to data from research firm NPD on Thursday.
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Court says copyrights apply even for free software
In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material.
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Wi-Fi Security Issues 8/14/08 Melissa Correa CBS 7 News August 14, 2008
CBS 7 Technology Report- From coffee shops to city parks- everyday West Texans hitch a ride into cyberspace using wireless internet. But as wi-fi spots continue to pop up, hackers are trying to use them to break into your computer and steal your personal information.
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Biondi, Chapple join Yahoo board members
Yahoo Inc. will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors.
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An error by New Zealand internet provider Slingshot left the TradeMe, Bebo and Facebook accounts of its customers open to strangers for a time yesterday.
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Political attack ad gets personal
It seems a politician's love life isn't off limits these days. A new campaign ad attacks a local candidate for a Florida House seat because of what he wrote on an online dating site. NBC2 found out what the candidates had to say about the ad.
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Logica Soars the Most in Five Years on Sales Forecast (Update3)
Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Logica Plc , the Anglo-Dutch computer- services provider, climbed the most since 2003 in London trading after raising its sales forecast, citing ``robust'' spending and deals with Royal KPN NV and Michelin & Cie.
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Fire Joe now
97314. You can't promise an upgrade and then say less is really more. Torre made the playoffs every year but that wasn't good enough for all the brilliant fans. Bring in Computer Joe they said. We'll get to that World Series because he'll have the bug spray right in his back pocket ready to go.
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'Engineering Windows 7'
Windows 7 has been making waves around the net for a while now, and we already know some of the more encompassing goals of Microsoft's next operating system release. It's going to be built on top of the foundations laid out by Vista and Server 2008, but it will not increase hardware requirements. There's going to be a multitouch framework, and a new mystery taskbar. That's more or less all we ...
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Viewing a space shuttle launch from high in the sky
A video making its way around the Internet purports to be of a space shuttle launch as shot from an airplane high overhead.
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Court says copyrights apply even for free software
In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., helps clarify a murky area of the law concerning how much control ...
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European Stocks Advance, Led by BHP Billiton; Tesco, Metro Rise
Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks advanced for the first time in three days as the cheapest mining shares in six months lured investors and better-than-estimated earnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. boosted retailers.
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Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2008 to Include Presentation on 45nm Core 2 DTS Specification
We met with Intel today and have some interesting IDF (Intel Developer Forum) 2008 news. IDF is scheduled this year for August 18 - 21 in San Francisco. It is shaping up to be an exciting event for those tech geeks like us as X58/i7, Larrabee, and System on Chip (SoC) technologies will be discussed in detail among other things. We learned...
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Sun opens Java tools in mobile fight back
Eclipsed, again? Sun Microsystems has open sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications just as the role Java plays on handsets comes into question.…
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Reactions To SMX Brazil
Our first SMX Brazil conference ran last week, and by most accounts was quite a success, with over 500 attendees. Search Engine Land columnist Sara Holoubek was there, and offers her thoughts on both the conference itself and the reactions of other attendees in SMX Sao Paulo Wrap Up .
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Final Glance: Internet companies
Shares of some top internet companies were mixed at the close of trading: Akamai Technologies rose $.81 or 3.6 percent, to $23.53.
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Final Glance: Computers companies
Shares of some top computers companies were mixed at the close of trading: Apple Inc rose $.02 or percent, to $179.32.
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Autodesk beats Wall Street estimates for fiscal 2Q
Autodesk Inc. , a maker of computer-aided design software, posted fiscal second-quarter results late Thursday that handily beat Wall Street's expectations.
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Yahoo Appoints Two Icahn Allies to Its Board
The Yahoo-Carl Icahn saga is entering a new phase. Yahoo said Thursday that it appointed Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple to its board.
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