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submitted by Grace 202 weeks 17 hours 4 minutes ago
Less than a week after losing in the latest U.S. spectrum auction, Google Inc. has started pitching its plan to use TV "white space" — unlicensed and unused airwaves — to provide wireless Internet.
In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission released by Google on Monday,...(more)
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submitted by pbl 173 weeks 1 day 22 hours 19 minutes ago
WHEN the e-commerce giant eBay emerged from the last recession seven years ago with an aura of invincibility, its chief executive, Meg Whitman, boasted that “eBay is to some extent recession-proof.”
As the online auctioneer’s revenues and stock price kept climbing, one of its primary rivals, Amazon.com,...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 208 weeks 2 days 14 hours 21 minutes ago
Yahoo board of directors decided at a meeting Friday to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer for the company, a person familiar with the situation confirmed to the Mercury News.
The decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was reached because the board believes the $31 per...(more)
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submitted by AB 250 weeks 5 days 16 hours 49 minutes ago
AP - A human rights group sued Yahoo Inc. Wednesday on grounds the U.S. search company assisted China's communist government with torture by revealing information that led to the arrest of dissidents.
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written by Robert Cauthorn for team CityTools info 234 weeks 5 days 16 hours 26 minutes ago
Folks, we're still assembling documentation on how the multiple languages work -- and yes, we're aware that some translations need work and we are working on it.
In any event, here is a quick version of how to use CityTools in multiple languages.
If you're not a...(more)
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submitted by Micca 183 weeks 4 days 21 hours 51 minutes ago
he Zimbabwean government this week responded to the hyperinflation crippling the country’s economy by knocking 10 zeros of the value of currency.
From Friday notes with a face value of Z$100 billion will be worth Z$10, the equivalent of 50p.
But the inflated notes, which will be legal...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 152 weeks 4 days 8 hours 6 minutes ago
The online forum and classified site Craigslist is once again under fire from law enforcement for running advertisements for erotic services.
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submitted by Grace 214 weeks 2 days 15 hours 55 minutes ago
Security researchers are tracking holiday attacks by the Storm Worm, a particularly insidious piece of computer malware that has been circulating around the world for about a year.
Earlier this week, the worm - actually a batch of malicious software code - started generating Christmas-related e-mail spam....(more)
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submitted by GG92 198 weeks 2 days 8 hours 29 minutes ago
PC World - A planned cyberattack against CNN's Web site fizzled out Saturday as the group backing the event called it off.
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submitted by Ari 187 weeks 2 days 17 hours 54 minutes ago
Four years ago, Geri Rebstock started using Yelp, a popular site for consumers to review local businesses and services. She critiqued her favorite veterinarian, a neighborhood print shop and an acupuncturist who took care of her bad wrist.
But Rebstock's reviews and personal account vanished from the...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 209 weeks 3 days 22 hours 33 minutes ago
AFP - Microsoft Friday unveiled a hostile bid of 44.6 billion dollars for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 206 weeks 8 hours 41 minutes ago
Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing "blasphemous" content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials said Sunday.
