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Bill Gates Gives Teary Farewell Speech

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:51:08 -0400

Microsoft, the company Bill Gates co-founded in 1975 with childhood friend Paul Allen, is the company he left last week, in exchange of more time with his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda...

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Intel To Developers: Prepare For Thousand Of Cores

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:06:08 -0400

Before the end of the year, Intel's Nehalem processor will hit the market, packing as many as eight cores. However, Anwar Ghuloum, an engineer at Intel, said that developers should prepare not for hundreds...

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2009 Chrysler Cars To Feature Wi-Fi

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:33:21 -0400

Chrysler announced Thursday a new feature available for all Chrysler 2009, Dodge and Jeep models: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity within the car. This will allow various devices to sync with the car'...

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The CEO Of Yahoo! Expected To Go

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:53:24 -0400

Jerry Yang has kept himself very well away from public eyes in the past week. According to various sources, Yang hasn't be in charge of the company for the last few days and most key executives have no...

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The Two Flickr Founders Resign From Yahoo!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:50:39 -0400

Following other high-profile executives at Yahoo!, the two founders of Flickrs that sold their company to Yahoo! back in 2005, are also resigning from the web giant. Caterina Fake said she will not be...

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Infected Laptop Wrecks Life

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:50:00 -0400

Michael Fiola, a former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents was issued a Dell Latitude laptop by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts back in November 2006, unsuspecting...

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ISPs Looking To Put A Meter On The Internet

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:26:33 -0400

Heavy downloaders and casual e-mail users both share the same Internet bill and receive the same quality of service, unlike water, electricity, gas and most cell phone plans, where customers pay depending...

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NASA Awards Contract For Future Spacesuit

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:41:46 -0400

Oceaneering International of Houston, Texas is the company that NASA selected to design the future spacesuits that astronauts will wear in their missions to the International Space Station, the Moon and...

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Apple Dismisses Security Exploit As Feature

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:22:00 -0400

More than two weeks ago, security researcher Nitesh Dhanjani disclosed three security flaws with the Safari browser, an outstanding one allowing attackers to dump executable files on the target machine...

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Ice Was Found On Mars

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:20:09 -0400

Less than a week from touching down on the Martian surface, NASA's Phoenix Lander has already made a very important discovery. When the camera mounted on top of a robotic arm was pointed to take a snapshot...

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