Yahoo IT News
May 12, 2008
19:43
AP - Apple Inc. said Monday its online stores in the U.S. and U.K. are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generation featuring faster Internet surfing speeds.
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19:43
AP - Personal computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard reportedly is nearing a deal to buy information technology services provider Electronic Data Systems for between $12 billion and $13 billion.
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18:52
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17:42
Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd is launching a
new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at its core base
of business users, but it hopes the sleek new smartphone will
also catch on with the broader retail market.
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17:20
AP - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Monday that Microsoft Corp. executive Jeff Raikes will take over in September as chief executive of the world's largest charitable foundation.
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17:19
NewsFactor - Advanced Micro Devices has taken the wraps off its first energy-efficient x86 server chips featuring four processing cores and a low 55-watt thermal envelope. The five new Opteron HE processors for blade and rack systems are all targeted at the enterprise data center, noted Randy Allen, AMD's server and workstation division manager.
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17:16
Reuters - Time Warner Inc's HBO cable network is
expected to start selling shows on Apple Inc's iTunes digital
entertainment service, with flexible pricing, a source familiar
with the discussions said on Monday.
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15:45
AP - An affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp., iPCS Inc., said Monday it is seeking to block Sprint from forming a wireless broadband company with Clearwire Corp.
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15:17
Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd
is launching a new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at
its core base of business users, but it hopes the sleek device
will also catch on in the broad retail market.
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14:26
NewsFactor - Salesforce.com previewed its 26th-generation release, Salesforce Summer '08, at Dreamforce Europe, its European conference for users and developers. The release includes a host of new CRM features, but it focuses most sharply on new collaboration capabilities.
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13:35
Reuters - A pall hangs over the word "print"
these days, but the editors of a new magazine bet that
discerning readers want news analysis on paper and don't mind
getting it just four times a year.
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13:04
Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp , the No. 3
U.S. wireless service provider, said on Monday it may seek
changes to its credit agreements, raising questions about how
long it will take to turn around the business.
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12:21
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites have been the rage of the tech industry for more than a year. Following investments by Microsoft and News Corp., the companies are valued in the billions of dollars and are considered blueprints for how to build a website. Yet a deeper question lingers: How are they going to consistently produce profits to match their soaring valuations?
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11:19
AP - Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday it had a larger first-quarter deficit as revenue fell, it lost more than a million subscribers and it absorbed charges for severance and other costs.
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10:20
PC World - A software glitch that crept into a massive system integration project at Japan's Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ left thousands...
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10:00
PC World - Apple's iPhone will be available from more than one mobile operator in Australia and India later this year, further signs that...
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10:00
InfoWorld - One of the joys of being a Web programmer is heading to a dinner party, a haircut, or a reunion and fielding the pitches for everyone's dream for a brilliant Web application. Everyone is always happy to cut you in for 5, 10, maybe even 15 percent of the equity if you just build out the Web site that's sort of like a combination of Twitter, AltaVista, Eliza, TurboTax, and the corner pharmacy, but cooler.
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10:00
InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems is trying to rejuvenate Java, using the JavaOne conference last week to position the 13-year-old Java platform as a foundation for next-generation technologies in such spaces as rich Internet applications and cloud-based services.
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09:45
InfoWorld - Since its inception, the Web has been synonymous with the browser. Pundits hailed NCSA Mosaic as "the killer app of the Internet" in 1993, and today's browsers share an unbroken lineage from that humble beginning.
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07:43
Reuters - Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools
for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing
instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to
established Web search services such as Google.
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