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Report: Russian search site plans IPO
Yandex, a Russian search engine, plans to raise $1.5 billion to $2 billion in an initial public offering this fall, Reuters reported Tuesday.
The funding is based on an overall valuation of about $5 billion, according to an unnamed source. Reuters also cited Russian media reports that Morgan Stanley, ...
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Circuit wars: Asus fends off accusations
Forget Intel and AMD for a minute. The two largest PC circuit board makers, Asus and Gigabyte, are at it.
The Asus motherboard at the center of the feud
(Credit: Asus)PC motherboard maker spats have typically taken place below the radar. But a recent round of particularly sharp recriminations ...
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Mashup alert: Google Earth gets Google News
This brings some new meaning to the idea of local news: Google has added a new layer to Google Earth that shows Google News related to the area shown on the screen.The search company announced the addition on its Lat Long blog about geographic matters.
Google Earth now can
2008-05-20 23:33:00 source: CNET News.com
U.S. cell phone sales take a dip
Sales of cell phones in the U.S. declined during the first quarter of 2008, as the maturing market was hit by a slowing U.S. economy.Nearly 31 million handsets were sold in the U.S. during the first quarter of this year, down 22 percent from the same ...
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Can Amanda Congdon prove 'Rocketboom' was no fluke?
Amanda Congdon, former host of online news show Rocketboom, is no longer making deals with the likes of ABC and HBO but is now fronting a little-known Web show. That was once her recipe for success.
(Credit: CNET Networks)The Internet is still seeking its first true crossover artist. Amanda ...
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What Google, Yahoo, Microsoft look for when buying a start-up
Start-ups and venture capitalists often dream of the multimillion-dollar buyout, if not the lucrative IPO. So technology upstarts might perk up to hear the inside scoop from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on their acquisitions.On Saturday at the TieCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif., corporate development officers from the three ...
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Comcast invests in P2P start-up
Comcast is befriending another peer-to-peer software company in the hopes of finding a way to harness the power of P2P without choking its network.On Monday, Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S., said it was entering a strategic relationship with the start-up GridNetworks, a company that makes ...
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Zoho Writer group-search bug exposed others' documents
A bug during development of a group-oriented search feature allowed me to view documents created by other people, but not intentionally shared with me.Zoho fixed the bug on Sunday after I reported it and said its impact was limited. Still, as a user, it made me think twice about ...
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Zoho Writer search bug exposed private documents
A bug surfaced during development of a group-oriented search feature allowed me to view Zoho documents created by other people that were not intentionally shared with me.
Zoho fixed the bug on Sunday, after I reported it, and said its impact was limited. Still, as a user, it made me ...
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Why it's hard for Microsoft to catch the next wave
Over the weekend, I enjoyed reading a New York Times article by Randall Stross titled "The Computer Industry Comes With Built-in Term Limits." It focuses on Microsoft and Google and how:]]>two successive Microsoft chief executives have long tried, and failed, ...
2008-05-19 16:37:00 source: CNET News.com
AMD sets new game PC specifications
Advanced Micro Devices will try to make buying a game PC more like selecting a game console."AMD Game" will put badging on game PCs and set minimum standards for PCs that carry these badges. The idea is to allow gamers to select a PC like they would an Xbox ...
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Microsoft confirms Windows adheres to broadcast flag
Microsoft has acknowledged that Windows Media Centers will block users from recording TV shows at the request of a broadcaster.
"Microsoft included technologies in Windows based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission)," a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "As part of these
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Is the weak dollar fueling a high-end audio export sales boom?
Back in the day we built great cars, the best TVs, and our advanced engineering was the envy of the world. That was a long time ago, today "world class" design and manufacturing is mostly sent off-shore to Europe and Asia. American companies market and distribute products made somewhere else. ...]]>2008-05-15 15:46:00 source: CNET News.com
Alienware: Game PCs need more than faster chips
Fast silicon is hitting a wall in game PCs, according to Alienware, which is looking for ways to boost game PC performance.Parent company Dell vowed on Tuesday to pour more resources into the game PC unit and invest in "product development, design, and engineering."
Alienware Area-51 m9750 notebook
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Adobe set to test new Flash Player
Adobe on Thursday is expected to launch a beta test program for the latest version of its Flash Player software.Flash Player 10, developed under the code name Astro, includes better support for 3D animation and video hardware acceleration, among other improvements.
Adobe said that Flash Player 10 will now ...
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SEC charges current, former Broadcom execs
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two current and two former key executives of chipmaker Broadcom with backdating stock options.
The SEC announced Wednesday it had filed a federal complaint against Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Henry Samueli and general counsel David Dull, as well as former Chief Executive ...
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Ad spending forecast lowered for social networks
Making money off social network advertising may prove tougher than originally thought.
eMarketer on Tuesday revised downward its projections for social network ad spending in the U.S. this year to $1.4 billion from the previous projection of $1.6 billion. The Internet market researcher said the poor economy
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Google Maps adds user-created photos, videos, maps
Google Maps launched a new feature on Wednesday that shows you photos, videos, and maps that people have created about different locations around the world.After typing in a city or address there is a new "Explore this area" link near the top left. Clicking on that brings up thumbnails ...
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Google adds real estate listings to Maps
Google Maps now shows real estate listings.
(Credit: Google)Zillow, watch out.
Google Maps now can show real estate listings, presenting pushpins that show houses for sale.
To show real estate results, click "Show search options," then select "Real Estate" from the drop-down list. The Web site then shows a ...
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Study: Pirates cost software industry $48 billion
Pirates caused the software industry to lose nearly $48 billion in sales last year, even as most countries experienced declines in their piracy rates, according to the latest annual study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance.
The fifth annual report, released on Wednesday, determined that from 2006 to 2007, overall ...
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