Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Yahoo Inc. on Thursday postponed a looming showdown for control of its board, giving itself more time to prepare a defense — or negotiate a sale to Microsoft Corp. that would cause activist investor Carl Icahn to call off the mutiny.
The showdown pitting the slumping Internet pioneer's board against Icahn ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
With its share of the Internet search market in steady decline and its pursuit of an alliance with Yahoo! in doubt, Microsoft is taking a new approach to jump-start its search engine by offering rebates to people who use it to find and buy products.
Microsoft executives said the programme, called ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
London, May 22 : Bionic eye implants that will enable blind people to see without an optic nerve is on the horizon, for US scientists have developed software that will perceive moving images just like a cat's brain.
Researchers at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, conducted their study based ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The European Commission said Thursday it had taken note of Microsoft's plans to improve the compatibility of its word processor with free-of-charge rival softwares.
In a statement, the European Union (EU) executive said it hoped that Microsoft's announcement that it would provide support for formats used by other open-source programmes would ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Dubai - A rights group has voiced outrage at a Saudi court for failing to punish the employers of an Indonesian housemaid who abused her so much she had to have her toes and fingers amputated.
New York-based Human Rights Watch called for an appeals court to "impose stiff penalties on ...
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