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1. C I Host Dedicated Servers and CoLocation Services : Reliable network combined with good prices and a reputable name. This is an excellent choice for colocation services and resellers. We have expirenced good customer support so far.  

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McCain and blogger trade barbs over his 2000 vote (Reuters)

A television frame grab shows Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and his mother Roberta McCain, 96, in a new television ad, entitled 'Johnny's Mom,' that was released by the campaign on May 8, 2008. The new ad, where McCain and his mother discuss his childhood, will air this Sunday on Mother's Day on networks including ABC Family, A and E, Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, Oxygen and TLC. (John McCain 2008/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Did U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain vote for President George W. Bush in 2000?




Gates: Microsoft to go its own way (AP)

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks with The Associated Press Friday May 9, 2008, in Jakarta, Indonesia.   The Gates Foundation has donated US$3 million for emergency relief efforts in Myanmar and will provide software to help reunite family members separated in the cyclone, Gates said Friday. (AP Photo/Ed Wray)AP - Microsoft Corp. will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc., Chairman Bill Gates said Friday.




Advocacy groups take aim at Google-Yahoo partnership (AP)
AP - An online advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. is facing opposition from consumer and civic groups that didn't wait for an official deal announcement to voice their discontent.

Texas may claim Amazon owes sales taxes (AP)
AP - Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer.

MySpace Makes Data Portable to Other Web Sites (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The move toward data portability for denizens of social-networking sites gained more momentum Thursday with MySpace's announcement of its Data Availability project.

EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire (AP)

In this April 15, 2008 file photo, a sign outside eBay headquarters in San Jose, Calif. is seen. EBay is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect in June 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.




Bloomingdale's to end By Mail catalog (Reuters)
Reuters - Macy's Inc's Bloomingdale's division said on Friday it will discontinue the Bloomingdale's By Mail catalog by early 2009 and focus on the Web site.

Fees for `.org' domain names to increase 10 pct (AP)
AP - Wholesale fees for Internet addresses ending in ".org" will increase 10 percent Nov. 9.

Sun: Java ubiquity an advantage in RIA battle (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft.

Tech tools bring big success for small businesses (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Millions of U.S. small-business owners are geeking out in the digital bazaar. As online commerce grows and technology gets cheaper and easier to use, small firms - especially mom-and-pop shops that had shied away from technology - are using tech tools more than ever to sell goods, market themselves and run their operations.

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - We started the week with Microsoft calling off the Yahoo deal (or maybe not). Then Grand Theft Auto stole the spotlight with its record-breaking sales. Along the way, we have the Webby Awards, big settlements for movie piracy, and candidates seeking to save us from the evils of Second Life. We cover it all in this week's quiz. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Ready to test your news know-how? Then begin.

Facebook sets new safeguards (AFP)

The logo of social networking website Facebook. Top US state attorneys announced Thursday that Facebook has agreed to get tougher on keeping its young website users safe from bullies, porn, pedophiles and other online hazards.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Top US state attorneys have announced that Facebook has agreed to get tougher on keeping its young website users safe from bullies, porn, pedophiles and other online hazards.




Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards (AP)

Connecticut state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announces an agreement with Facebook to make changes to better  protect children from predators and inappropriate content and to participate in a task force on implementation of age and identity software during a news conference in his office in Hartfdord, Conn., Thursday, May 8, 2008. The agreement was reached with 49 states and the District of Columbia.  (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies under an agreement with officials nationwide that was announced Thursday.




Google execs hope for long-term ad deal with Yahoo (AP)

A Google worker rides a company bike in front of Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., during its annual shareholders meeting Thursday, May 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. — a deal that would lower the odds of Microsoft Corp. renewing its attempts to buy Yahoo.




Free Wi-Fi Expands with AT&T, Cablevision (PC World)
PC World - Two giant offers for free Wi-Fi extended, one from AT&T to iPhone users, and another from Cablevision for its millions of home territory broadband subscribers.

Google sees YouTube products soon; warm on Yahoo (Reuters)

People ride their bikes past Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2008. (Kimberly White/Reuters)Reuters - Google Inc expects to launch new products for its YouTube Web video service in the next few months and sees reason for closer cooperation with Yahoo Inc, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Thursday.




MySpace lets users take profile data outside site's walls (AFP)

MySpace announced Thursday it is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social-networking websites.(AFP/File)AFP - MySpace announced Thursday it is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social-networking websites.




Windows Vista More Vulnerable To Malware Than Windows 2000 (TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Vista let 639 threats per thousand computers through, compared with 586 for Windows 2000, 478 for Windows 2003, and 1,021 for Windows XP, security vendor PC Tools said.

Microsoft Disbands Board Slate For Yahoo (TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo last weekend after the two sides failed to agree on price.

Vonage Reports 1Q Loss, Slow Customer Growth (TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The VoIP operator added only 30,000 net subscriber lines in the quarter, a sharp decline from 56,000 additions in the previous three months.


Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux.

OpenOffice.org Beta Fails the Office 2007 Test (PC World)
PC World - The free office suite's support for Microsoft's XML-based Office 2007 file formats leaves much to be desired.

Mozilla: Firefox Plugin Shipped With Malicious Code (PC World)
PC World - Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded...

OpenOffice 3.0 Public Beta Released (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - OpenOffice.org said Wednesday that it had made the beta version of OpenOffice 3.0 available for download. On tap: a better "Start Center," and improvements in the Calc spreadsheet application.

Artists, developers to synch up in NetBeans (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Capabilities to integrate workflows between software developers and artists are being developed for NetBeans, Sun's open source IDE, Sun Vice President James Gosling said this week.

Response Team Boosts Open Source Security (PC World)
PC World - A new, volunteer computer emergency response team aims to be a clearinghouse of security information for open source projects.

OLPC Tries to Bridge Gap With Developer Community (PC World)
PC World - A virtual uprising that broke out among developers questioning One Laptop Per Child's commitment to open-source software has...

Google Puts Open-source Project Back up (PC World)
PC World - Google has reinstated an open-source project just days after pulling it in response to a copyright-related takedown notice.

Google Backs Open-source CERT Group (PC World)
PC World - Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source community.

Sun cites open source tribulations (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems officials on Monday acknowledged issues the company has had to deal with in offering products such as the OpenSolaris OS and Java via an open source business model.

Sun Challenges Linux Vendors With OpenSolaris (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Sun Microsystems on Monday released the OpenSolaris operating system. Some industry analysts are suggesting the community-developed platform based on Sun's Solaris kernel could give Linux a new challenge.

SAP Teams With HP, IBM For Business Software Appliances (TechWeb)
TechWeb - The pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS.

SAP Software Appliances Will Run on HP, IBM Hardware (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS.

Google Takes Down Open-source Project After DMCA Complaint (PC World)
PC World - Google has removed an open-source project that enables the proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux...

Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared (TechWeb)
TechWeb - We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.

OpenSolaris OS officially debuts (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Sun and the OpenSolaris community are launching Monday the official first version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system, which has only been available in pre-release versions for developers until now.

Microsoft Uses Open Source Project To Extend Management To Linux (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Bid to increase its enterprise systems management coverage hinges on OpenPegasus.

SpringSource Offers App Deployment Platform (TechWeb)
TechWeb - SpringSource Application Platform 1.0 is an open source, lightweight version of an application server and will compete with products from Oracle, IBM, and Red Hat.

Sun Offers Support, Tools to Expand OpenStorage (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In its continuing efforts to build support for its OpenStorage system, Sun Microsystems announced that it will provide new software tools and expanded professional support to assist developers in building open-source storage solutions. With the new resources, Sun estimates the average developer will be able to set up an OpenSolaris server is about 10 minutes.

OpenPipeline Seeks to Ease Document Prep for Search (PC World)
PC World - Enterprise search vendor Dieselpoint is behind a new open-source project centering on a document "pipeline"-- or as the...

 



















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