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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:11:00 GMT
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Electronic Arts Withdraws Offer for Take-Two
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:11:00 GMT
Electronic Arts said Monday morning that it had withdrawn its $2 billion tender offer to purchase rival Take-Two Interactive, ending its five-month long hostile takeover bid for the maker of the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise. Electronic Arts said
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Microsoft's Vista push probed by Fair Trade Commission
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:25:00 GMT
The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission is investigating a complaint against Microsoft made by the Taiwanese Consumer Foundation, which claims the company is effectively using its monopoly to force sales of Vista. The Foundation claims its research shows 56
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U.S. at risk of cyberattacks, experts say
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:38:00 GMT
The next large-scale military or terrorist attack on the United States, if and when it happens, may not involve airplanes or bombs or even intruders breaching American borders. Instead, such an assault may be carried out in cyberspace by shadowy hackers
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Can IT run any faster?
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:15:00 GMT
igniting the greatest public spectacle pitting a lone tech worker against management, media, and the law. Tension between network admin Terry Childs and his managers had been simmering for years and reached a boiling point on one of the hottest days of
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Clipboards hijacked in web attack
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:55:00 GMT
The links take victims to a fake selling fake anti-virus softwareComputer security firms are warning about an attack that hijacks the clipboard where copied text is stored.The attack puts a hard-to-delete weblink into the clipboard that, if followed,
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AMD hits Intel with Shanghai surprise
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:52:00 GMT
AMD plans to dish up a server platform based on a new chipset in the first half of 2009 - meanwhile, its 45 nanometre Shanghai processor will be released in the fourth quarter of this year. The chip maker made the announcements on Friday, just before the
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Exploring the virtual ant colony
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:10:00 GMT
Ground-penetrating radar has been used to nondestructively map an ant colony for the first time.The results have been digitised and fed into an interactive visualisation system so that the colony can be explored virtually. The system is inexpensive
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Archives aided by anti-spam tools
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:10:00 GMT
Obscured text systems are a widely used anti-spam tool.Crumbling texts and books are being digitised thanks to anti-spam tools.To thwart spammers many websites force visitors to transcribe obscured words or characters before they get access. Now instead
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HP offers gov half-price printers
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:47:00 GMT
HP and OGCbuying.solutions, the government's procurement body, have done a deal for half-price printers. The list of approved printers are low energy and Defra certified - 'Quick Wins' - meeting minimum environmental standards. The deal is available
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HP offers gov half price printers
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:58:00 GMT
HP and OGCbuying.solutions - the government's procurement body, have done a deal for half price printers. The list of approved printers are low energy and Defra certified - 'Quick Wins' - they meet minimum environmental standards. The deal is available
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EBay's biggest challenge: Amazon.com
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:43:00 GMT
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A whole lot of traffic shaping going on, with Olympics video?
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:22:00 GMT
Posted by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld @ 8:26 am Categories: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Web Technology, Mobile, Broadband, YouTube Tags: Traffic, Video, Stream, Internet, Corporate Communications, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Marketing, Tom
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Why the Olympics didn't 'melt' the Internet
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:22:00 GMT
I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the , where a group of Open Source experts gathered from around the world were asked for
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Amid Conference Halls and Keynote Speakers, a Rivalry Forms
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:15:00 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO - A frequent ritual of Silicon Valley is the money-making gathering known as the technology conference, where investors, entrepreneurs and industry executives come together to strike deals, catch up on trends and engage in some nonvirtual
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Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:15:00 GMT
GEVER TULLEY has only one qualification for training software designers how to become more creative. He teaches children how to build objects like gravity-powered wooden roller coasters with their hands, at his Tinkering School in Montara, Calif., south
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Board Governance 101: Lessons from Alcatel-Lucent
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:04:00 GMT
Is the file actually available yet? The latest information from Business Week magazine is available only to BW subscribers (the first url given for most stories mentioned in the newsletter) from Thursday evening to Monday afternoon. After Monday, the
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I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:02:00 GMT
REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a
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Microsoft file format approved as ISO standard
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:39:00 GMT
GENEVA The format used by Microsoft Corp.'s Office 2007 programs to save documents will become an international standard after appeals against the move failed to gather sufficient support, the International Organization for Standardization said Friday.
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JavaScript standards wrangle swings Microsoft's way
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT
Adobe Systems appears to have been wrong footed and Microsoft left crowing on JavaScripts evolution, following a decision by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA). After several months of wrangling, ECMA technical committee (TC) 39 -
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Robot with a biological brain
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:38:00 GMT
University of Reading scientists have developed formed from cultured neurons. And this is a worlds premiere. Other research teams have tried to control robots with brains, but there was always a computer in the loop. This new project is the first one to
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Cadence Ends Bid for Software Rival
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:22:00 GMT
LOS ANGELES - Cadence Design Systems, the chip design software maker, on Friday ended its effort to buy a rival chip maker, the Mentor Graphics Corporation, saying that financing terms were no longer attractive. Shares of Mentor fell 20 percent while
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T-Mobile to Offer First Phone With Google Software
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT
T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google?s Android software, according to people briefed on the company?s plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is
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Broadcom wins latest patent battle over GPS technology
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:14:00 GMT
Chip maker Broadcom has won the latest battle in a patent dispute with SiRF Technology Holdings, a developer of location-based technologies. On Friday, Broadcom announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission or ITC has denied SiRF's request to
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Microsoft ramps up vuln ActiveX controls cull
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:02:00 GMT
This week's Patch Tuesday update was nearly as difficult to digest as a Michael Phelp's breakfast. It contained 11 bulletins 26 underlying vulnerabilities, the most in two years. With all this high-calorie content to chew through two important points
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Cablevision to Pay Its First-Ever Dividend
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:46:00 GMT
Cablevision Systems, the cable operator based in Bethpage, N.Y., said Friday that it would pay a quarterly dividend of 10 cents starting in September. The company said the move was part of its efforts to bolster its market value. It is Cablevisions first
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Patch Tuesday barrage
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:03:00 GMT
Microsoft patched 26 vulnerabilities with its latest patch including 20 flaws that were deemed critical.
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Microsoft starts stoking hype for Windows 7
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:18:00 GMT
Microsoft has told the blogosphere it will reveal more about its next operating system, Windows 7, on 27 October. The vendor has launched an , which contains scant detail of the planned OS, presumably in the hope of whetting the appetite of Windows
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Intel blogger slams employer over G45 IGP issues
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT
If you've bought a PC based around Intel's G45 chipset - desktop or mobile - and your Blu-ray Disc performance is pants, change your software, the chip giant has suggested. The remedy comes from a staffer and blogger called Aaron Brezenski, now achieving
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Windows 7 details to be released
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:31:00 GMT
The announcements were made on the new Windows 7 blogA first glimpse at the technology inside the next version of Windows will be given in October.Microsoft has said that engineering information about Windows 7 will be shared with attendees at two
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Intel touts user-defined app cache Vista speed boost tech
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:41:00 GMT
Will Intel's revamped Turbo Memory software - the code that comes with its Centrino-oriented Flash cache modules - make good on the technology's promise to accelerate Windows Vista application load times? The chip giant certainly hopes so, but its
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