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Sinking shares could make Yahoo a target again

When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon. Complete Story...

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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start

Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year.

Microsoft tries for slice of Japan game market

Microsoft Corp. will be releasing games developed by top Japanese designers for its Xbox 360 console, a senior executive said Thursday, the latest effort by the U.S. software maker to make inroads in a market where it has long struggled.

Gene-testing startup's study responds to critics

A Silicon Valley gene-testing startup is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect behavior.

IBM 3Q profit a positive sign for tech sector

Shares of IBM Corp. jumped Thursday after the technology company's surprise announcement that it was still plenty prosperous in the third quarter despite the worsening economic climate.

Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses

Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.

40 laid off at software company as execs arrested

Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk.

Wario, Kirby, Sonic return in new adventures

For a self-effacing, portly little plumber, Mario may be the most ambitious guy in video games. It's not enough that he has the most recognizable face in the industry; his parents at Nintendo have promoted him everywhere, from T-shirts and lunchboxes to cartoons and cell-phone ringtones. He's probably more familiar to kids of a certain generation than Mickey Mouse.

BlackBerry Storm has touch screen you can feel

Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.

Google gets into video games — with ads

Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory — though it won't exactly be in the form of a shoot 'em up game.

EU proposes increased rights for Internet shoppers

The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide consumers with more competitive prices.

YouTube flips switch on new sales channel

Online video leader YouTube has opened up its version of a home shopping network in its latest effort to wring more revenue from its massive audience and justify the $1.76 billion that Google Inc. paid for the site two years ago.

MySpace, HP in deal to encourage photo printing

Among all the profiles on MySpace, the social networking site's users have uploaded almost 4 billion photos. Now through an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co., MySpace hopes people will increasingly print these images and, eventually, buy photo-embellished merchandise, too.

Web ad sales dipped from previous quarter

U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several consecutive quarters of increases.

`Mail Goggles' might prevent e-mail regrets

Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.

Ads to the rescue as distraction from root canals

Talk about your captive audience.

New Google tool reveals marine protected areas

Conservationists working with Google Inc. have unveiled a tool that lets people view protected marine areas with the click of a mouse — a bid to harness the Internet's top search engine to raise awareness of endangered ocean habitats.

Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk

A robotic suit that reads brain signals and helps people with mobility problems will be available to rent in Japan for $2,200 a month starting Friday — an invention that may have far-reaching benefits for the disabled and elderly.

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After 2.0 release, Miguel de Icaza reflects on Mono's past and future

Source: linux.com

Few free and open source software projects have attracted such a range of reactions as Mono.

Google's Web 2.0 Services Invite Spam

Source: PC World

According to a report released by Websense Security Labs, recently, spammers have used a combination of different Google Web 2.0 services to carry out a range of attacks.

Linux.com :: A baby named Linux

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hilarious-- a couple named their kid "linux" haha "Will Richard Stallman insist that the baby be called GNU/Linux? Does a baby named Linux go to sleep and wake up without problems? How often does he outgrow his footwear and require a reboot?"

Vodafone delays 3G upgrade

Source: Australian News Network

VODAFONE Australia's $500 million 3G network upgrade has been delayed after the company's equipment supplier, Ericsson, called for more time to finish the build. The carrier had set a self-imposed deadline of Christmas to complete the work.

Timeline and Risk: How to Piss Off Your Software Developers | Software by Rob

Source: softwarebyrob.com

But getting back to the point: what's the one sentence that makes software developers angry? You might be thinking it's the insidious: "This bug is only reproducible on Opera v0.3 for the Commodore 64, but fix it anyway," or the always favorite

Verizon plays fast and loose with the wrong 1,200 e-mail addresses

Source: networkworld.com

This should be a vendor's first rule when inviting 1,200 IT pros to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information: Make sure you protect the personal information of the 1,200 professionals you're trying to impress.

Providing Power When There is None: Instant Access Networks, Frostburg Faculty Developing Renewable-Energy-Fueled Power Grids Safe From Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks

Source: MarketWatch.com

IAN staff and Frostburg State University physics and engineering professor Hilkat Soysal are teaming -- through a $165,000 project recently approved by the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program -- to create renewable energy-powered, electromagnetic pulse (EMP)-protected …

Review: Lawrence Lessig's New Book

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

I'm collecting questions for an interview with Lessig over here

Canadian Democrats are Pro BitTorrent and Against Throttling

Source: torrentfreak.com

Three days before the Canadian elections, the party leader of the New Democrats has spoken out in favor of BitTorrent sites, calling them "fundamental to democracy." At the same time, isoHunt, the largest Canadian BitTorrent site advises its users not to vote for the Conserva …

Microsoft Promises Xbox Storage Upgrade

Source: PC World

"If you're one of the few Xbox 360 owners without at least 256 MB memory card or hard drive, don't worry: Microsoft has you covered.

Wal-Mart's DRM Nightmare Just Won't End

Source: Wired News

After e-mailers and commentators explained to Wal-Mart how much harm shutting down its DRM authentication servers would cause its customers, the company backpedaled, and will keep its DRM servers running -- for now anyway.

Climate change investments to tackle financial crisis

Source: businessgreen.com

"Wind energy projects are quality projects and when credit is tight, money usually goes to quality projects."

New WiMax Enabled HTC T8290 Leaks

Source: freehtc.com

HTC T8290 DUE TO RELEASE ON THE RUSSIAN WIMAX NETWORK SOON.

Firefox addon visualizes political bias of websites

Source: waxy.org

While most political blogs are extremely partisan, their biases aren't immediately obvious to outsiders like me. I wanted to see, at a glance, how conservative or liberal the blogs were without clicking through to every article.

A Storm is Coming

Source: networkworld.com

An article about the new blackberry touchscreen device

MoD stunned by massive data loss

Source: Independent.co.uk

A computer drive with the private details of a huge proportion of Armed Forces personnel is missing, the Ministry of Defence said today.

New machine prints sheets of light

Source: CNN

It's a machine that prints lights. The size of a semitrailer, it coats an 8-inch wide plastic film with chemicals, then seals them with a layer of metal foil. Apply electric current to the resulting sheet, and it lights up with a blue-white glow.

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