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Report: Microsoft earmarks $1.5 billion to keep Yahoo employees
Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5 billion for employee retention at Yahoo, should it succeed in its unsolicited buyout bid for the Internet search pioneer, according to court documents in a shareholder lawsuit cited by theThe documents include transcripts of a March 24 conference call ...
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Chipmakers team up for home-networking standard
Leading chip and consumer electronics companies say they are pursuing powerline networking on the road to the completely connected digital home.Intel, Texas Instruments, Infineon, and Panasonic said Tuesday that they are working on a home-networking standard that uses electrical and phone lines and coaxial cable that consumers already have ...
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Nvidia to make all your PC games 3D (if you so choose)
Thanks to a new software driver Nvidia is cooking up, any PC game can be played in 3D, with no extra work on the part of game developers.Beginning this summer, any PC with an Nvidia graphics processor will have the ability to run a game in normal mode, or ...
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iPhone as electronic airplane boarding pass
Some airlines have been allowing BlackBerrys to be used as electronic boarding passes and soon standard cell phones will follow.Now there is news of the iPhone being used to board a plane. Blogger Gerald Buckley writes about how he was allowed to board an American Airlines flight from San ...
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Sony BMG in talks with Project Playlist, bucks other labels
Kudos to Silicon Alley Insider for answering the question about why Sony BMG was not among the major record labels filing a copyright lawsuit against Project Playlist.
Peter Kafka at SAI reported that Sony BMG is in negotiations with the music start-up.
On Monday, the Recording Industry Association of America (
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Meraki, the cheap Wi-Fi guys, get $20 million
Meraki, a start-up that hopes to bring cheap Wi-Fi to the emerging world, has raised $20 million in a second round of funding.The company, which grew out of a Ph.D. thesis at MIT, has created inexpensive routers and a back-end networking service that balances available bandwidth between the ...
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Panasonic's 150-inch plasma TV part of Japan's push at CES
Japan Inc. will put on the hard sell at the Consumer Electronics Show next week.Panasonic is expected to unveil a 150-inch plasma television during a keynote speech Monday by Toshihiro Sakamoto, president of the Panasonic Audio Visual Networks Company. (Matsushita Electric goes by Panasonic in the U.S.) Sakamoto,
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Ask.com lets you ask for directions on mobile
Ask.com on Thursday launched a free service that lets users of Web-enabled mobile devices get directions just by speaking.With "Click to Speak" you say your location and the address of where you want to go or the closest intersection. Within a few seconds you will receive a text ...
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CEA announces 2008 CES celeb lineup
Do you really think of Kevin Costner when you think about wireless communications?The actor/director and his band performing at the CEA Wireless Communications Division reception is just one example of the curious intersection of tech and celebrity that will take place at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Shows (CES) ...
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Record ownership for digital TVs
More than 50 percent of households in the U.S. own a digital television, according to preliminary report results released Friday by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
The organization, known for its annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, predicted that digital television manufacturers will post an 11 ...
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Google's privacy faux pas with Reader
In its attempts to add social elements to products, is Google pulling a Facebook?Google Reader has allowed people to share items they are interested in with others since 2006 with hyperlinks, clips on blogs and storing them on a public page that you had to know the URL for ...
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Appeals court rules against Google in patent suit
An appeals court has reinstated a patent lawsuit filed against Google over a toolbar feature called AutoLink that provides links to online maps or books on Amazon.com, according to a Bloomberg News report.Wisconsin-based HyperPhrase Technologies sued Google in 2006 for patent infringement. The case was thrown out a ...
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Chinese court dismisses trademark suit against Google
A court in China has dismissed a trademark lawsuit filed against Google, according to a report on ChinaCourt.org that was translated into English and posted on Pacific Epoch.
A Beijing company called Gu Ge Technology sued Google China earlier this year, claiming that its Chinese name, "Gu Ge" was ...
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Ig Nobel Prize publisher to go free online
The Annals of Improbable Research, best known as the host of the Ig Nobel Awards, will now offer a free online version of its journal.The Ig Nobel Prizes ceremony, an annual event held at Harvard University and parody of the Nobel Prizes, honors discoveries in science and technology that "...
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Golf Channel to add high-tech tracking
The Golf Channel plans to offer high-tech data to its viewers in the form of 3D representations beginning in January.
A Doppler radar system made by the Denmark-based software developer Interactive Sports Games will begin to be used to convey club movement, ball trajectory, and other statistics to viewers, according ...
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