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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:04:00 GMT
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Net firms in music pirates deal
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:04:00 GMT
Customers who illegally share music will get warning lettersSix of the UK's biggest net providers are believed to backed a government plan to tackle music piracy online. The plan commits the firms to working towards a 'significant reduction' in the
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Profit Rises Sharply at Amazon.com
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:34:00 GMT
The online retailer Amazon.com reported Wednesday that net income for the second quarter more than doubled on strong sales. Net income rose 102 percent to $158 million, or 37 cents a share, up from $78 million or 19 cents per share. Revenue rose 41
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S&P Picks and Pans: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Yahoo, WaMu, Pfizer, Travelers, AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:56:00 GMT
Analysts' opinions on stocks in the news Wednesday From Standard & Poor's Equity Research S&P KEEPS SELL RECOMMENDATION ON SHARES OF FREDDIE MAC (FRE; 9.70) AND FANNIE MAE (FNM; 13.41): Shares are up in premarket after an unconfirmed WSJ report
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Re-jigged Intel mobile Linux stack dumps Ubuntu
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:41:00 GMT
OSCON Intel's project to put a Linux and open source stack on mobile devices is getting overhauled to attract developer support, having failed to generate much interest. A year after launching Moblin, Intel plans a second version of its open source stack
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Earnings Rose at AT&T, but Revenue Misses Forecast
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:42:00 GMT
AT&T, the telecommunications company, reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that contained signs that the weak economy was catching up to its previously steady results. The company has had its stock hammered by the expectation that economic
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The 6 sins of 'greenwashing'
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:07:00 GMT
LONDON, England (CNN) TerraChoice's 'six sins of greenwashing' include vagueness, irrelevance and outright fibbing. TerraChoice, a Canadian environmental marketing agency, has devised a guide for consumers which they hope goes some way to eradicating
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HP packaging madness continues apace
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:16:00 GMT
It appears techno-wastrel HP has been shamed not a jot by our previous report on its - another sorry tale of conspicuous cardboard consumption has reached El Reg today. 'I wanted to share the attached picture of a package we received a while ago from
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MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:06:00 GMT
Using the web means maintaining a long list of passwordsMySpace members will soon be able to use their login details to get access to some other websites.The social networking giant, which boasts more than 100 million accounts, has signed up for the
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Is Steve Jobs' health Apple investors' business?
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:32:00 GMT
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Talk of Chiefs Health Weighs on Apples Share Price
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:00:00 GMT
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Rumors of s ill health have been greatly exaggerated. That is what Mr. Jobs, Apples chief executive, has been telling a number of his associates, even as concerns about his health have weighed on the companys stock price. The latest
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Yahoos Revenue Rises a Bit, but Profit Falls 18%
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:17:00 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO - With the slowing economy taking a toll on the online advertising business, Yahoo said Tuesday that its net income dropped by nearly 19 percent in the second quarter from a year ago as revenue grew at a sluggish 6 percent rate. Analysts
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Slowdown in Online Advertising Hits Yahoo
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:34:00 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO - With the slowing economy taking a toll on the online advertising business, Yahoo said Tuesday that its revenue in the second quarter grew a sluggish 6 percent from the same period a year earlier as net income dropped by 19 percent. The
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HP's grand vision
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:02:00 GMT
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Imagine walking down the supermarket aisle with a cheap device you could hold up to a tomato. If the sensor detects a pesticide residue, you'd know the 'organic' label is a lie. Similar tools could track the chemical content of
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Yahoo Saga: Microsoft Investors Weigh In
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:31:00 GMT
In the Microsoft-Yahoo minuet, Yahoo investors, including Carl Icahn, have gotten most of the attention. What about Microsoft shareholders? Amid Microsoft's quest to acquire all or part of Yahoo, made public a half-year ago, media attention has zeroed in
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Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Inside the DNS debacle
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:26:00 GMT
On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now , hacker Dan Kaminsky (with the help of Black Hat conference organizers) invited reporters to a press conference to discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday. A
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Tiscali accuses BT of defamation
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:48:00 GMT
BT insists that it has done nothing wrongTiscali has begun legal proceedings against BT after the telco sent letters to its customers hoping to persuade them to swap to BT's broadband service. The letter drew attention to rumours about the future of
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I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of Linux
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:04:00 GMT
With the news that , the Desktop Linux onslaught begins. Our ultimate goal of Total World Domination will soon be within our grasp, now that yet another mondo-huge retailer has jumped on the Linux bandwagon. Or will it? Certainly, I think getting Ubuntu
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Erase x86 for a fresh start?
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:04:00 GMT
A few days ago and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just interoperable with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux should
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Sky launches net music service
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:23:00 GMT
Some music download services have failed to take offBSkyB is launching a new music subscription service for internet users in what it claimed is a world first. The satellite television company, which also offers broadband access, is teaming up with
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Lenovo stock falls as IBM retreats
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:16:00 GMT
Lenovo saw shares fall more than five per cent today following a sale of PC maker's shares. JP Morgan analysts downgraded the company to neutral from overweight, citing sluggish revenue growth from weak customer demand in China and the US. The downgrade
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How to beat other candidates to an IT manager job
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:13:00 GMT
Your experience and technology credentials alone might make you a strong candidate for an IT manager position, but the chief information officer may be looking for something more. Playing up certain non-technical attributes can help you stand out from
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Three Yahoo seats traded for truce
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:45:00 GMT
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Yahoo Deal Wards Off Proxy Fight
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:59:00 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoos board and management earned a reprieve after a weekend deal ended a bruising and acrimonious fight for control of the company with , the activist investor. In the deal, announced on Monday, Mr. Icahn agreed to drop his proxy bid to
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TiVo and Amazon Team Up
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:59:00 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO - TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products
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S&P Picks and Pans: Bank of America, Genentech, Yahoo, Microsoft, Schering-Plough
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:12:00 GMT
S&P MAINTAINS SELL OPINION ON SHARES OF BANK OF AMERICA (BAC; 30.22): Based on higher net interest margin and lower securities writedown assumptions, we are raising our 2008 EPS estimate by $0.16, to $2.25. Based on preliminary results, BAC is taking a
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Heaven? Crapware liberation
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:47:00 GMT
Categories: Windows Vista, Hardware Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Option, Fresh Start Program, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Tools & Techniques, Desktops Sony is finally taking on its crapware
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As Travel Costs Rise, More Meetings Go Virtual
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:25:00 GMT
Jill Smart, an Accenture executive, was skeptical the first time she stepped into the consulting firms new videoconferencing room in Chicago for a meeting with a group of colleagues in London. But the videoconferencing technology, known as telepresence,
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Intel slashes Xeon, Core 2 Duo prices
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:06:00 GMT
A week after trumpeting a healthy second quarter profit leap, Intel has slashed the prices of several server and desktop processors. Yesterday, with a post (PDF) to its web site, Chipzilla announced new pricing for three Xeon chips, three Core 2 Duo
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S&P Picks and Pans: Bank of America, Genentech, Yahoo, Microsoft, Schering-Plough
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:25:00 GMT
From Based on higher net interest margin and lower securities writedown assumptions, we are raising our 2008 EPS estimate by $0.16, to $2.25. Based on preliminary results, BAC is taking a $12.8 billion writedown on its Countrywide purchase. By our
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