The idea that Microsoft, in order to revamp its Internet business, would buy Yahoo seemed surreal when rumors first surfaced in mid-2006. But as Yahoo's troubles deepened in the second half of that year and throughout 2007, and as Microsoft kept spinning its wheels in its online efforts to compete a...
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EarthLink next month will shut down its Philadelphia Wi-Fi network, the flagship of its now-dashed municipal wireless initiative, and then remove it from the city's street lights. The ailing service provider made the announcement Tuesday, saying it is proceeding with that plan after months of nego...
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly mulling a proxy fight against Yahoo's current board members in order to pressure the company to re-establish merger negotiations with Microsoft. Icahn has bought as many as 50 million Yahoo shares since Microsoft walked away from the deal, according to ...
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is mulling a proxy fight against Yahoo 's current board members in order to pressure the company to reestablish merger negotiations with Microsoft , The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Tuesday afternoon. Icahn has bought as many as 50 million Y...
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Microsoft has released four sets of security patches for its products, fixing a critical flaw in Microsoft Jet Database Engine software that had been used in online attacks. Security experts say that the Jet flaw ( MS08-028 ) should be patched first, since it has already been exploited. Microsoft ...
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I'm a confirmed Ubuntu fan, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the release of Fedora 9 this morning. Fedora is the community-maintained Linux distribution that's the foundation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the leading commercial version of the open source OS. No surprise, then, that i...
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Olympus has launched the E-520, an update of its E-510 DSLR. The E-520 represents continuity, rather than revolution within the E-System camp. This process of orderly transistion sees the arrival of contrast detection AF at the E-5XX level of camera. This feature does not represent all the camera's ...
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Olympus has launched a consumer-level wide angle lens for the Four Thirds system. The Zuiko Digital 9-18mm f/4-5.6. The lens, that offers fields of view equivalent to 18 - 36mm in 35mm terms, males extreme wide-angle zoom more accessible to users of the Olympus E-System, Panasonic DSLRs and selected...
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Intel 's test and assembly plant in Chengdu remained offline on Tuesday, as the region in southwestern China reeled from the effects of a devastating earthquake that struck on Monday afternoon. Chinese officials put the death toll from the quake at nearly 10,000 on Tuesday morning, according to Chi...
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Cisco Systems will take its TelePresence virtual meeting systems into home offices later this year, bringing telecommuters nearer to their corporate colleagues and society one step closer to science fiction. TelePresence uses high-definition video, large flat-screen monitors and advanced audio ...
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It may not have been the greatest hack ever, but police say the malicious software sneaked onto restaurant chain Dave & Buster's corporate network was good enough to earn criminals hundreds of thousands of dollars. Three men have been charged with hacking into the network and then remotely ...
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An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country. The data was posted early Saturday morning on Fayerwayer.com , a popular Chilean technology blog. The hacker, who calls himself "Anonymous Cowar...
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Advanced Micro Devices announced a series of executive changes Monday, including the creation of a Central Engineering Organization to oversee the company's product roadmap. Leading the new executive appointments was the announcement that Randy Allen will replace Mario Rivas as head of the company...
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Nokia is extending its mobile navigation system to the Web via its Ovi.com site, where people will be able to save map locations and routes and then synchronize them with their phones. Maps on Ovi, unveiled Monday at the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California, builds on Nokia's next gen...
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Hewlett-Packard is close to acquiring IT services company Electronic Data Systems for around $13 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal published on Monday. The deal could be announced as early as Tuesday, according to the news report, which cited sources close to the matt...
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While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company's nascent rich Internet application (RIA) development product family and eventual competitor to Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, will be entirely open source, a FAQ page on Sun's site appears to contradict that. "The JavaFX ...
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3Com has announced that the independent research firm In-Stat has found that 3Com's local area network (LAN) switches are up to 60 percent more energy-efficient, or 'green', than competitors' products. By deploying an industry-leading switching solution from 3Com, customers can save money -- and hel...
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Now that Microsoft Corp. has walked away from its takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. , the tech world is turning its focus on the Redmond, Wash. giant's next move. And for some analysts, Microsoft may still be in good shape to cut into Google's online search and advertising stranglehold without Yahoo'...
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict will text message thousands of young Catholics on their mobile phones during World Youth Day in Sydney in July, hoping going digital will help him connect better with a younger audience. The Pope will text daily messages of inspiration and hope during the six-day S...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The rise of gadgets such as the iPhone , Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation which helped to build the Internet, a leading Oxford academic has warned in a new book. Professor Jonathan Zittrain says the latest must-have devices are sealed, "st...
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