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Archive for January, 2008

Yahoo's Semel Steps Down As Chairman - Bismarck Tribune

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Bigmouthmedia News

Yahoo's Semel Steps Down As ChairmanBismarck Tribune - 9 hours agoBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Terry Semel stepped down as Yahoo Inc.'s chairman Thursday, severing his ties with the slumping Internet icon 7 1/2 months after he resigned as chief executive under shareholder pressure.Terry Semel to Step Down from Yahoo! Board of […]

State Legislators Seek to Increase Internet Security - Northender

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

eFluxMedia

State Legislators Seek to Increase Internet SecurityNorthender - 19 hours agoNew York State lawmakers have proposed a bill that they say would be the nation’s most comprehensive legislation to provide safeguards against internet predators.Protecting New Yorkers From Sex Predators On The Hudson Valley PressBill Would Protect NYers From Sexual Internet Predators North Country GazetteWCAV - WTEN - WETM-TV - […]

Airwaves auction bidder must open up network - USA Today

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Canada.com

Airwaves auction bidder must open up networkUSA Today - 1 hour agoBy Paul Davidson, USA TODAY A federal auction of wireless airwaves reached a milestone Thursday, drawing a $4.71 billion bid for a key chunk of spectrum and triggering a requirement that the winner open its network to any device or application.Open Wireless Access Assured On […]

Hurricane Hysteria Revisited - FOXNews

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The Daily News

Hurricane Hysteria RevisitedFOXNews - 33 minutes agoBy Steven Milloy Will global warming increase hurricane activity? Two studies published in the last week arrived at opposite conclusions.Warmer Atlantic Means More Hurricanes Wired NewsWarming oceans increase storms Financial TimesGuardian Unlimited - Times Online - Daily Green - Xinhuaall 202 news articles

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Two Britons held in Delhi over illegal kidney transplant racket

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Guardian Unlimited - The police have seized computers and are decoding email accounts. Five labourers, three of whom had lost kidneys, were also rescued. A number of foreign nationals, who were caught waiting for transplants, have been questioned. The masterminds behind …
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Notorious pirate website faces copyright case

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Guardian Unlimited - The website does not host any content itself, but acts as a search engine of video, audio and other information held on the computers of millions of people worldwide. Although it has suffered temporary shutdowns in the past, the website has remained …
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Qualcomm, Mio collaborate to develop connected personal navigation devices (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Mio Technology Corp., a maker of mobile GPS devices, and Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, announced a collaboration to develop connected personal navigation devices (PNDs).
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Sony Reports 25% Rise in Profit, but Lowers Its Forecast - New York Times

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

XBoxer

Sony Reports 25% Rise in Profit, but Lowers Its ForecastNew York Times - 13 hours agoBy MARTIN FOSTER TOKYO - Sony said Thursday that its profit rose more than 25 percent in the final three months of 2007, helped by robust sales of televisions and computer games.Sony's Gaming Division Returns to Profitability PC WorldPS3 makes a […]

Mideast internet outages spread to India - USA Today

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

KPIC

Mideast internet outages spread to IndiaUSA Today - 1 hour agoCAIRO (AP) - Fallout spread Thursday from a cut in two undersea Internet cables off Egypt's coast, with India waking up to half of its bandwidth disrupted and widespread outages still hampering a wide swathe of the Mideast.Internet Outage Hits Middle East, South Asia Voice of […]

Threats From Everywhere In ‘Cyber Storm’

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Guardian Unlimited - TESTING OUR DEFENSES: In the middle of the biggest-ever “Cyber Storm’’ war game to test the nation’s hacker defenses, someone quietly targeted the very computers used to conduct the exercise. THE CULPRIT? The players themselves, the same government …
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Witness: Houston Prosecutor Knew Better

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Guardian Unlimited - They also demanded a federal investigation of cases the prosecutor’s office has handled. The state is investigating whether the political strategy e-mails, conducted on government computers, violates state law. — Associated Press writer Juan A …
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Coming attractions: Beatles have ticket to ride to deep space with … - USA Today

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

LIVENEWS.com.au

Coming attractions: Beatles have ticket to ride to deep space with …USA Today - 4 hours agoBy Edna Gundersen and Gary Strauss, USA TODAY Now this is a magical mystery tour. NASA has been beaming songs to astronauts since 1965 (maiden voyager: Hello, Dolly!NASA ready to really blast Beatles tune Houston ChronicleNASA To Beam Beatles […]

Google quarterly profit climbs to 1.21 billion dollars - Turkish Press

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Sioux City Journal

Google quarterly profit climbs to 1.21 billion dollarsTurkish Press - 13 hours agoGoogle reported Thursday that its profits for the last three months of 2007 climbed to 1.21 billion dollars, but its stock price sank as the figure fell short of Wall Street expectations.Google 4Q Continues Growth but Profit Misses Target (Video) HispanicBusiness.comGoogle 4Q […]

Google 4Q Profit Misses Analyst Target - The Columbian

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Earthtimes

Google 4Q Profit Misses Analyst TargetThe Columbian - 22 hours agoBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit missed analyst expectations, signaling the crumbling US economy has dented the Internet search leader's moneymaking machine.Juggernaut no more? Google's growth slows Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)Google 4Q profit misses analyst target MLive.comMaktoob Business […]

Internet Outage Hits Middle East, South Asia - Voice of America

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

KLEW

Internet Outage Hits Middle East, South AsiaVoice of America - 1 hour agoBy Challiss McDonough Internet speeds have slowed to a crawl in much of the Middle East and parts of South Asia after two underwater telecommunications cables were damaged Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea.Internet service disrupted in Mideast and India MarketWatchCable Snafu Cuts Internet Access […]