After laying off around 1,000 employees, Yahoo has announced that they will be expanding in India with plans to establish a new lab that will focus on long-term research.
Its not sure known at this point exactly how many people Yahoo will be hiring, but the number is believed to be around 500.
Yahoo already has roughly [...]
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This is a bit scary…Adam Boileau, a computer security consultant in New Zealand, found a way to by pass Windows XP security using the Firewire port. Just connect a Firewire cable from a Linux computer to a Windows XP machine, run a command, and you’re in–the Windows machine is unlocked.
The way it works is by [...]
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Microsoft has been running a beta of its new Office Live Workspace service and has decided to open it up for anyone who would like to try it out.
Office Live Workspace is a hosted version of their Sharepoint product to let users share and sync office documents. You can do basic word processing too, but [...]
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Another score for Microsoft’s Silverlight. After hooking the Library of Congress, Microsoft has now found another ally for its Silverlight platform in Nokia who today announced that they would begin including the Silverlight plugin on all of its handsets and tablets.
The first Nokia devices to see Silverlight support will likely be their Series 60 devices. [...]
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Razer, maker of PC accessories aimed at PC gamers, has introduced a new entry-level mouse called “Salmosa”.
The Salmosa has three buttons and a high-resolution 1,800 dpi optical sensor, more than twice as high as many normal optical mice.
The mouse also features extra-large left and right buttons, a teflon grip, and a 24-point scroll wheel for [...]
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Okay, I FINALLY updated the Windows software section that I’ve been dragging my feet on.
What to check out some of the cool Windows apps I’ve found? Check out the Windows section here.
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The Wall Street Journal had a chance to speak with Toshiba CEO Atsutoshi Nishida about HD DVD, who admitted that once Warner left the format there was no chance of it surviving.
“I don’t think we stood a chance once Warner left,” said Nishida.
While the company will continue to sell DVD players and HDTV’s, there was [...]
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While announcing that the 1 million unit mark in Playstation 3 sales has been reached in the UK (faster than for either the PSOne or PS2, believe it or not…at least in the UK), Sony Computer Entertainment UK boss Ray Maguire also dropped a hint that in-game voice chat may be coming to the PS3:
“Our [...]
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According to a post in The Nikkei, Pioneer will stop producing their own plasma panels. That doesn’t mean that they will stop making and selling plasma TV’s, just that they will no longer be making their own plasma panels to go in them.
Pioneer already has a deal with Panasonic to provide them with 42-inch plasma [...]
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