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Best of Interop 2008 Winners List
At the Best of Interop Awards ceremony, the following companies and their products were recognized: The 2008 Best of Interop Grand Prize Winner: Palo Alto Networks — The PA-4000 is a firewall that can identify and monitor traffic from more than 600 applications, enabling IT to allow, block, or restrict access to those applications across an enterprise network.
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United Online to buy FTD for $800 million
United Online Inc. of Woodland Hills, Calif., announced Thursday it would purchase national florist delivery service FTD Group Inc. for about $800 million.The deal includes payment of approximately $456 million with the remainder going to repayment of FTD's debts, the statement said.The deal results in asignificant increase in scale for United Online, representing combined revenues of $1.145 ...
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Office Depot Honored with Site Facilities Physical Infrastructure Overhead Best-in-Class 2008 Uptime Institute Green ...
Office Depot(R) (NYSE:ODP), a leading global provider of office products and services, was recognized with the Site Facilities Physical Infrastructure Overhead Best-in-Class Award at the 2008 Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT Recognition Ceremony. The multi-channel retailer, which has a global environmental vision to increasingly buy green, be green and sell green, was honored for pioneering ...
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Evans & Sutherland to Hold a Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter 2008 Results
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation (NASDAQ: ESCC) will conduct a teleconference to discuss its first quarter 2008 results. The teleconference begins at 11 AM, EDT, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. The call is being webcast by Vcall and can be accessed at Evans & Sutherland's website at www.es.com or Investors can also access the webcast at www.InvestorCalendar.com. Live participant dial in for ...
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North Carolina Cell Phone Laws Email is False
Many viewers have been receiving emails explaining that North Carolina law prohibits drivers from talking on a cell phone while driving, unless they use a hands-free device. This email is false.
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Adobe opens up Flash for the mobile world. A lesson for Microsoft
Adobe is opening up Flash, but not fully. Still, it offers valuable lessons for Microsoft.
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Backing to the bid in Microsoft-Yahoo deal
Microsoft Corp.'s directors were meeting to consider raising the software maker’s $41.9 billion (€26.96 billion) bid for Yahoo Inc. instead of pursuing a threatened hostile takeover attempt, according to a published report.
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Recent Original Stories
"InformationWeek recently interviewed Bill Hilf , Microsoft's leading light on open source issues. Since coming to Microsoft from IBM in 2003, Hilf has been inextricably involved with Microsoft's strategy for dealing with Linux.
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Furor after Italian gov't posts each taxpayer's income online
How do you say privacy in Italian? We find ourselves asking that question after reading reports that say Italian officials posted the income of every taxpayer on the Internet as part of efforts to increase transparency. "The tax authority's website...
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Court: Online services must pay up for song use
Federal ruling says Yahoo, AOL, and RealNetworks could owe as much as $100 million in license fees for their performance of musical works.
CNET |
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Iwata: Microsoft 'Wiimote' is no threat to Nintendo
Nintendo President dismisses impact rival's rumoured motion-sensing controller could have on his business
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A $200 3G iPhone? Yeah right
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network A $200 3G iPhone? Yeah right --It’s evident, the same folks who are praising AT&T and Apple didn't read the Fortune report and are naive enough to believe that this is ever going to happen. Keep Vista's User Account Control on guard duty --Well, Microsoft has finally come clean about the real motivation behind Vista's User Account Control ...
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Record first day for Grand Theft Auto IV
"Grand Theft Auto IV", the gangster-themed computer game that earned both critical claim and strong criticism, has broken first day sales records in Britain.
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Hillary, Obama, Sex, Beer, and Strippers
I was out of town last week on my annual trout-fishing trek to the deep woods of Pennsylvania. (You know, the place where Obama saw his shadow, and now we have six more weeks of Hillary.) I was off the grid — no Internet, no cell phone -- just my gun and my religion and a four-weight fly-rod. And beer ...
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Q&A With: IARPA Director Lisa Porter
The first director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity discusses the differences between intelligence work and defense
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MvixUSA Launches Hard Drive Based HD Media Player
MvixUSA announced a new ultra portable HDD high definition media layer today called the Mvix MV-2500U. The device uses a 2.5-inch PATA IDE drive up to 250 GB and when connected to a PC it works just like an external USB drive. The device includes an IR ...
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Taiwanese software spots stock-market stinkers
Evolutionary algorithm combined with three other prediction methods can spot which companies are headed for trouble two years in advance
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Q1 2008 PC shipments grew 19% in EMEA
According to IDC EMEA, Q1 2008 PC shipments recorded robust 19% growth compared with Q1 2007. Notebooks continued to drive growth across the region with shipments recording an increase of over 43% year on year, while desktops suffered from the market contraction in Western Europe and declined by 1.7%, boosting...
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Video Download Service for Japanese DS to Start in June
The am3 company has announced that its DSvision download service for the Nintendo DS portable console will launch on June 26 in Japan. The company announced the service last November, but said at the time that the service would begin in March.
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Samba Suffers Embarrassment of Riches
Samba leader Jeremy Allison says be careful what you wish for. Now that Samba has everything that it wants from Microsoft, it doesn't have enough hands to do the coding. Meanwhile, the Linux Foundation says that in the last three years the number of developers contributing to the Linux kernel has tripled - 70%-95% of whom get paid for their work - and there's been a significant increase in the ...
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17:30 (BST), 01/05/2008 Kung Fu Panda Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa Monica, CA – ...
Santa Monica, CA – May 1, 2008 – Starting today, gamers can become the ultimate Kung Fu Master as Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) releases the Kung Fu Panda™ video game demo on the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Zurich Financial Services extends CSC outsourcing deal
Insurance group Zurich Financial Services has extended its outsourcing deal with supplier CSC with a new six-year agreement adding the provision of desktop services.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Stylus Studio 2008 Release 2 Now Available
DataDirect Technologies, the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation, today announced the immediate availability of Stylus Studio® 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2. Stylus Studio is an industry-leading provider of XML tools and components for advanced data integration. This latest release features new and ...
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New Publication Your One-stop Guide to More Efficient and Flexible Software Development
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Visual Studio 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies to their offering.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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High-risk sex offender caught
A high-risk sex offender disappeared from a halfway house and broke into two downtown businesses to call phone sex lines and surf Internet porn, city police allege.
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