With Microsoft mum, analysts mull next moves for Live Search (AP) 8. May 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a comment<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_plan_c”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.0f07e21d16a74286be16d4f9408b5e3f.microsoft_plan_c_nybz194.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=sExcjAJBUHCzFnUXMXnI0g–” align=”left” height=”130″ width=”95″ alt=”In this Nov. 7, 2007 file photo, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer reacts during Tech.Ed, a technology conference, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Without the influx of Web traffic Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)” border=”0″ /></a>AP - Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer.</p><br clear=”all”/>
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Internet Archive Challenges FBI Data Demand — and Wins (NewsFactor)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentNewsFactor - In November 2007, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle received an unwelcome letter with a return address for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Best Buy teams up with leading European cell phone retailer (AP)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a comment<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_bi_ge/best_buy_carphone_warehouse”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.4edad524f3734e2ca205a8cffcea60b5.britain_best_buy_carphone_warehouse_xag101.jpg?x=130&y=68&q=85&sig=k4GOwvf0h_Yh0feLpsMQjA–” align=”left” height=”68″ width=”130″ alt=”Charles Dunstone, CEO of the Carphone Warehouse, looks on, following a joint press conference in London with Brad Anderson, Vice Chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Thursday, May, 8, 2008. Best Buy Co. Inc., the biggest U.S. electronics retailer, is paying 1.1 billion pounds (US$2.1 billion euro1.4 billion) to take a 50 percent stake in the European retail operation of The Carphone Warehouse, the companies announced Thursday. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)” border=”0″ /></a>AP - Consumer electronics chain Best Buy Co. Inc. is establishing a foothold in the European market with a $2.1 billion investment in the continent's largest cell phone retailer, allowing the American company to roll out its trademark big box stores in Europe, the companies said Thursday.</p><br clear=”all”/>
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SWARM @ Maker Faire
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Hack-a-day posted up one of my favorite projects @ Maker Faire, SWARM!
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Aspyr reveals Game Agent online store details
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentAspyr's Game Agent is being released as a new online store this summer, according to a statement from the company's development partner for the new service.
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I Was A Teenage Bot Master
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentThe Confessions of SoBe Owns
Exclusive One day in May 2005, a 16-year-old hacker named SoBe opened his front door to find a swarm of FBI agents descending on his family’s three-story house in Boca Raton, Florida. With an arm in leg in casts from a recent motorcycle accident, one agent grabbed his good arm while others seized thousands of dollars worth of computers, video game consoles and other electronics. His parents looked on.
MySpace revs profile transfer engine
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentDown with the walled garden
MySpace has launched an initiative that will one day allow its social-networking-obsessed users to automatically shuttle their profile data to third-party web sites.
The science and poetry of clouds
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There’s a Cloud Appreciation Society. Who knew? Lots of pictures, art, poetry, science, folk lure, discussion, etc. Cloud books, too (The Cloudspotter’s Guide).
The Cloud Appreciation Society [Thanks, Patti!]
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MEPs back sports ‘intellectual property’ landgrab
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentOwn(ing) goals
MEPs today voted for a bigger role for intellectual property in sports, stoking a copyright head-to-head between the powerful governing bodies of world sport and the media organisations that seek to report it.
Facebook, 49 U.S. states, agree on Web safety steps (Reuters)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentReuters - Social networking site Facebook
announced an agreement on Thursday with 49 U.S. state attorneys
general and the District of Columbia to increase efforts to
protect its youngest members from sexual predators.
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Analysis: Why Hyundai Turned to Microsoft for Help (PC Magazine)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentPC Magazine - When it comes to TVs, DVD players, and other consumer electronics, South Korea can go head to head with the best from Japan, China, and the rest of the world. When it comes to car cockpit technology, however, South Korea takes a back seat to everyone else. And that's why Hyundai partnered with Microsoft.
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You Hacked an Epilespy Site with Flashing Pix. Really.
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentHackers who probably also think that torturing small animals is funny bombed an epilepsy foundation’s site with animations and link forwards to sites that serve up pulsating kaleidoscopic images. Severe migraines and near-seizure reactions were reported by the afflicted. The FBI is investigating, and we’re wondering what punishment fits this crime.
Freeway Web site editor adds RSS Feed action
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentFreeway, the Web design software tool, is now capable of publishing RSS feeds and supports SVG import.
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VueScan supports multi-page documents
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentVueScan, the generic scanning software, is now capable of working with multi-page documents, either single-sided or two-sided, even if your scanner doesn't have a document feeder.
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Add more solid desktop color options
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentDiscover two ways to use more than the 10 provided solid-colored desktop backgrounds.
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Slik er Mac-klonen
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentFungerer Psystars «Mac» i praksis?
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Mer om AMDs server-planer
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentAMD lover 45 nm-prosessorer innen utgangen av året og ny sokkel i 2010.
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Mail and its hidden headers 7. May 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentConcerned that a spammer might learn of your whereabouts when you preview a message? Let's bring your concerns into perspective.
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Broadband service over power lines in Texas to shut down (AP)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentAP - Goodbye, broadband over power lines. We hardly knew you.
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Adobe breaks silence on February’s PDF bugs
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentThree months after acknowledging multiple vulnerabilities in its popular Reader software and then patching the program, Adobe provided some details about the bugs.
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