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submitted by pbl 12 hours 10 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 Grace 28 weeks 6 days 6 hours 55 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 Lisa 35 weeks 1 day 4 hours 12 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 Robby for team staff news 6 weeks 4 days 15 hours 15 minutes ago
I don't know how many times people have to sell other people's personal information on eBay for everyone to learn about security, but apparently it's not enough yet: an ex-employee sold his company-provided computer on the auction site for $65, carrying banking data belonging to more...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 7 weeks 5 days 3 hours 14 minutes ago
Cross one off the list of Google's friends. Wireless audio-equipment manufacturers and producers of live events are up in arms against Google's efforts to open up a little-used patch of radio spectrum. What's being contested is the so-called "white space" spectrum, the vacant bands between ultra-high...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 weeks 2 days 21 hours 14 minutes ago
The video-sharing service YouTube is banning submissions that involve "inciting others to violence," following criticism from Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) that the site was too open to terrorist groups disseminating militant propaganda. The company earlier this year removed some of the videos that Lieberman...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 7 weeks 15 hours 14 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) _ Three months ago, Guy Distaffen switched Internet providers, lured from his cable company to his phone company by a year of free service on a two-year contract. But soon the company quietly updated its policies to say it would limit his Internet...(more)
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submitted by AB 77 weeks 4 days 6 hours 40 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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submitted by Robby for team staff news 8 weeks 6 days 14 hours 14 minutes ago
Coinciding with the conflict in South Ossetia, the Georgian government is claiming they have lost control of many, if not all, of their governmental web sites and are incapable of using them to update its citizens or the international community. The blog RBNexploit is claiming to...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 10 weeks 5 days 16 hours 15 minutes ago
Despite government assurances of unfettered internet access for foreign media at the games, websites are being filtered
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written by Robert Cauthorn for team CityTools info 61 weeks 4 days 6 hours 17 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 10 weeks 3 days 11 hours 42 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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