This November marks the ninth year for which we will be announcing the Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards... To refresh your memories,these awards recognize those individuals,companies or entities that don't,won't or can't come to grips with ...
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As the US presidential election gathers pace,Silicon Valley looks on anxiously to see what effect more than 100 million American votes will make to the technology industry. Further reading US government agency drops BlackBerrys for ...
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Softbank, which announced a $20 billion deal to acquire U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel earlier this month, said it booked a record operating profit in the first half of its fiscal year. Softbank said its sales in the April-September ...
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Computerworld-Yahoo plans to ignore"Do Not Track"privacy requests sent by Microsoft's Internet Explorer(IE10)browser,calling its ally's unilateral decision"signal abuse"and pointing to a possible rift between the search partners. One Do ...
CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
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IDG News Service-Marissa Mayer has made her first acquisition at Yahoo,a recommendations app called Stamped that was developed by ex-Googlers and has even received backing from Google Ventures. "Got to visit our new ...
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IDG News Service-Yahoo plans to shut down its struggling business in South Korea by the end of this year to focus its resources,the company said on Friday. The announcement comes ahead of Yahoo's quarterly earnings conference call on ...
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Flash-based solid-state devices(SSDs)are making headway in the datacentre,especially for read-intensive applications requiring high performance,but will continue to take second place for write-intensive applications,including many"big ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should "tread carefully" before bringing an antitrust complaint against Google, a veteran U.S. lawmaker said as news reports suggested the agency is ready to move forward. Representative Jared Polis, a ...
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CIO-There are a lot of myths about Canada-most related to the country's climate-but these misconceptions actually leave some wondering if Canada might be a good location for a data center. Why Canada Is on the Data Center Radar Michel ...
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that will give Oracle customers access to Nokia mapping software and services. The deal,to be announced today at the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 show in San Francisco,California,will enable Oracle to embed Nokia's Navteq mapping technology into ...
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When Yahoo's new CEO,Marissa Mayer,addressed company employees Tuesday,she reportedly talked about making Yahoo part of people's everyday lives. She didn't,however,explain how she plans to do that. Industry analysts,though,were quick to ...
Barnes&Noble announced two new tablets today,the 7-in.Nook HD,starting at$199,and the 9-in.Nook HD+,starting at$269. The Nook HD,a 7-in.tablet,features the highest resolution of any tablet of its size. Both will be available in the ...
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Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly detailed her plans to rebuild the Internet company to Yahoo employees today at a meeting. While a few reports hit Twitter that at least one of the two planned meetings had begun today,there has ...
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Yahoo will replace CFO Tim Morse this fall in what may be the latest move by recently appointed CEO Marissa Mayer to put her own mark on the company's leadership. Morse will be replaced by Ken Goldman,who has more than 25 years of ...
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