Blog Yahoo Inc. is beefing up the finance section of its Web site with more interactive stock charts and other features to help it maintain its longtime lead over rival financial information sites. The redesigned Web page launches Monday after being in development for more than 18 months, said Peggy White,...

• Jul 16, 2006 10:22 PM
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Blog U.S. and Canadian Skype Users Can Make Free International SkypeOut Calls to the United Kingdom, Mexico and Japan for Three July Weekends SAN JOSE, Calif.—July 10, 2006—Skype®, the global Internet communications company, today announced that U.S. and Canadian-based Skype users can make free calls to traditional landlines and mobile phones in...

• Jul 11, 2006 04:07 AM
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Blog SanDisk said Monday its begun shipping USB drives to retail stores preinstalled with Skype's VoIP software. Plug earphones with microphone and the SanDisk drive into a PC. A phone keypad pops up on the PC's screen allowing consumers to make free PC-to-PC calls to Skype users in most major markets. On...

• Jul 10, 2006 11:18 PM
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Blog Firefox, the free browser from Mozilla, is releasing a beta of version 2.0 on 11 July. Early testers have highlighted several changes to the software; it now features an integrated spell checker designed for bloggers and forum posters, and a phishing filter. The phishing filter uses a list of suspected malware sites...

• Jul 10, 2006 10:50 PM
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Blog Microsoft has launched the first robotics software, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/...

• Jun 23, 2006 12:26 AM
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Blog And the hits just keep on coming, don't they Microsoft. In its latest move to outflank the Redmond software giant, Google will bundle Google Toolbar with downloads of Adobe's Shockwave. A new version of Shockwave, 10.1.3.018, was posted June 21, according to Adobe's download page. The Shockwave FAQ page lists questions about...

• Jun 23, 2006 12:20 AM
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Blog Microsoft wants to get into the robot business and has introduced standards for creating robotic applications. The Redmond giant previewed the Windows-based development environment, Microsoft Robotics Studio, at a robotics conference Tuesday in Pittsburgh and showcased some applications that had already been developed with the software. Robotics Studio allows robots...

• Jun 21, 2006 10:22 PM
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Blog Mumbai, June 20, 2006 – HP today unveiled a breakthrough blade architecture that can save customers millions of dollars as they build out their data centers.^(1) Three years in development, the HP BladeSystem c-Class leapfrogs the competition with innovations in virtualization, power and cooling, and system management...

• Jun 20, 2006 10:52 PM
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Blog Carve a wrong turn in the deep powder of the video game "Stoked Rider: Big Mountain Snowboarding" and you'd better brace for an avalanche of swirling white snow engulfing everything as it crashes down the mountainside. Such games used to be a simple matter of steering downhill and performing tricks...

• Jun 20, 2006 10:14 PM
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Blog Microsoft Corp.'s latest instant messaging program is ready for prime time, the company said Monday. Windows Live Messenger, which had been available in test form, will officially launch today. The free program is an upgrade to MSN Messenger, the previous name for the software maker's tool for quickly communicating online. Such products...

• Jun 19, 2006 10:44 PM
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