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Ok, so apparently Microsoft Offers To Acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Can you please find me a tech blog that is NOT discussing this? Please!!! I beg you!!!

I signed up for PayPerPost more than a year ago, or more accurately August of last year, and never did anything with it. I just received their monthly newsletter and hardly ever logged in to check whats going on. Why? I don’t really know, I wasn’t intimidated by the bad press, I’ve just never given
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So a few short weeks ago, I set myself to try the Ask Sponsored Listings offered by Ask.com. A service similar to Google’s Adwords, only on the Ask.com network of sites.
The registration process was pretty straight forward, that is until I had to key in my credit card, for some undisclosed reason the system
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So it’s all over the net, MySpace is acquiring Photobucket for $250 million in cash!!! Since Photobucket is both a photo (or more accurately an image) hosting service and a video hosting service the comparison to other recent similar deals is inevitable. So is it a steal compared to the Google/YouTube $1.65 billion deal or
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PayPal are to busy to accept your money, please contact them again after the holidays. Read Blake Rose’s recent PayPal communication. Hilarious.

According to a recent study, 94 percent of business PCs in North America do not meet the minimum requirements for Vista. Beside the fact that Microsoft tend to underestimate the real requirements of it’s systems upon release in published statements, the picture is pretty gloomy.
About half of the average business PCs in North America are
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I just noticed this:

on Go Nintendo. Who needs credit cards when you have this? Way to go Target.

No wishes of mine will beat what they do every single day, keep the good work going, You’ve made the Internet a better place.

We all knew it was coming, a golden opportunity to stick it to AOL. It is being sued over the release of Internet search data of more than 650,000 AOL members in late July. The lawsuit is seeking class action status, was filed against AOL on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the
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At first is seemed like yet another blooper hits a big company. Microsoft Canada supposedly accidentally released Windows Vista pricing on Microsoft’s Canadian website. When the mistake was “found” the listings were remove promptly.
Here are the prices as presented on the Canadian site (in US$):
Vista Ultimate
Upgrade: $269.931
Full Retail: $450.581
Vista Home Premium
Upgrade: $179.691
Full Retail: $269.931
Vista Home
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While sorting some of my financials, I’ve decided it’s time to consolidate a few of my stock and trading accounts. I have accounts over at Ameritrade, Interactive Brokers, Wells Fargo and a few others, believe it or not. Sometimes I would trade on my own, at others I let the so called professionals get their
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Another blogger fired, but this time it’s really strange. Mr. Fabulous of Pointless Drivel has been fired for having a blog. Seems like someone who works with him complained that the blog was creating a hostile work environment.
The blog was never specifically about his work place though he did occasionally write about his work,
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Here we go again…. James Governor received a cease & desist from Gartner for having the temerity to link to their site. How stupid can you get? This is 2006!!!
This seems to happen every now and than on the Web, and the company in question always end up looking like morons (in the best scenario)
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Only 48 hours after eEye Digital Security reported a “gaping hole” in Symantec’s enterprise products, Symantec has patched the flaw. The flaw was described as a stack overflow affecting the Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, two enterprise level products.
It seems like Symantec patched the hole it refused to acknowledge. Flaws in software
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Remember the AllofMp3.com controversy? Well now it seems that AllofMP3.com has been declared illegal by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
Anyone surprised?