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Yahoo Search Security Beta Draws Complaints
Thu, 15 May 2008 20:27:58 -0400
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SEC to Propose XBRL Mandate
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Thu, 15 May 2008 20:00:16 -0400
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Icahn Pledges Proxy Fight for Yahoo-Microsoft Merger
Thu, 15 May 2008 20:00:02 -0400
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HP Fixing XP SP3 Problems
Thu, 15 May 2008 19:09:57 -0400
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Microsoft Windows finds a place on One Laptop Per Child machines
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:38:27 -0700
Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child organization say the nonprofit's green-and-white "XO" computers now can run Windows in addition to their homegrown interface, which is built on the open Linux operating system.
Nordstrom profit sinks 24%, but better than analysts forecast
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:16:53 -0700
Luxury retailer Nordstrom said its profit fell 24 percent in the first quarter as recession rumblings in the U.S. crimped even wealthier consumers'...
SEC launches formal investigation of CellCyte
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:30:30 -0700
CellCyte, a Bothell-based biotechnology company, said Thursday the Securities and Exchange Commission has upgraded its probe of the company to a formal investigation.

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Yahoo’s Chairman Disputes Icahn’s Accusations
Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:30 -0000
Yahoo’s chairman rejected accusations from the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn that the company’s board had acted irrationally in rejecting a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft.
CBS in Deal to Buy CNet to Increase Online Ads
Fri, 16 May 2008 03:35:00 -0000
At $1.8 billion, Thursday’s deal for CNet by CBS is the biggest by far in its recent Internet expansion, making the network bigger players in online media.
Microsoft Is Joining Low-Cost Laptop Project
Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:30 -0000
After years of conflict, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child, have reached an agreement that will put Windows on the organization’s computers.

CNN.com - Technology

Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube
Thu, 15 May 2008 14:59:58 -0400
The video is hard to turn away from. A sobbing 16-year-old sits in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, says she has been raped. The teen is among dozens of young people who are turning to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to talk about sexual assault.
Mom indicted in deadly MySpace hoax
Thu, 15 May 2008 15:29:02 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
Robotic suit amplifies human strength
Thu, 15 May 2008 14:38:00 -0400
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NPR Topics: Technology

Investor Icahn Urges Yahoo-Microsoft Merger
Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 -0400
After Microsoft withdrew its bid for Yahoo, it's been reported that billionaire Carl Icahn bought 50 million shares of Yahoo. Apparently, he wants to see the two companies merge, and he has even launched a proxy contest to get rid of Yahoo's entire board of directors.
Gaming Your Way to Fitness
Thu, 15 May 2008 01:36:00 -0400
Video games designed to provide a workout are becoming big business. But do these games — such as the Wii Fit, which hits stores Monday — deliver on their fitness promises?
Study: Number of Wireless-Only U.S. Homes Grows
Wed, 14 May 2008 11:45:00 -0400
More Americans are cancelling their landlines and using only wireless phones, according to a new study from the National Center for Health Statistics. In the last half of 2007, the number of homes without landlines — 16 percent — had more than doubled from the same period in 2004.

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition

'$100 laptop' embraces Windows XP
Thu, 15 May 2008 23:07:16 -0000
Microsoft joins forces with the makers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows XP available on the low-cost computers.
Investor launches Yahoo challenge
Thu, 15 May 2008 14:09:22 -0000
A billionaire investor announces he will fight to oust the present board of directors at Yahoo.
US 'cyber-bully' mother indicted
Fri, 16 May 2008 02:15:25 -0000
A US woman who allegedly bullied a girl on MySpace who later committed suicide is indicted by a Grand Jury.

Reuters Video: Technology

Swiss man soars with jet wings
Thu, 15 May 2008 12:01:44 -0400
May 15 - A Swiss man stuns onlookers by flying a jet propelled wing for nearly ten minutes at a peak speed of 300 km/h (186 mph).
New NATO cyber defence centre
Thu, 15 May 2008 10:36:00 -0400
May 15 - Seven NATO nations back new measures against cyber war some see as an emerging security risk.
Reuters Quickcut: Flying man
Thu, 15 May 2008 07:27:24 -0400
May 14 - Known as 'Fusion Man', a former pilot has stunned crowds by flying a jet-propelled wing for nearly ten minutes at a peak speed of 300 km/h (186 mph).

AP Top Technology News At 11:26 p.m. EDT

Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case
By LINDA DEUTSCH Fri, 16 May 2008 03:26:23 -0000
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide....
Icahn to Yahoo board: Sell to Microsoft or leave
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Thu, 15 May 2008 23:32:49 -0000
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn....
Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era
By MARK JEWELL Thu, 15 May 2008 17:44:33 -0000
Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds - that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times....

CNET News.com

End of Intel, AMD duopoly near? Via readies Isaiah chip
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:15:00 -0700
Via Technologies is getting set to its higher-performance Isaiah processor that is targeted at mainstream computers.
RIAA defendant Jammie Thomas may get new trial
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:41:00 -0700
Federal judge who presided over first RIAA peer-to-peer trial says he may grant new trial because of possibly flawed jury instruction.
Google Translate speaks 10 new languages
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:17:00 -0700
The translation service adds Swedish, Hindi, Danish, seven other languages, and the ability to guess the language that text needs to be translated from.

 

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Avoka Technologies - Software and services for benchmarking and load testing of web sites, especially eCommerce. Site includes white papers and links.
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Benchmarks For PCs - Pre-compiled benchmarks for PCs, covering CPU, RAM, HDD graphics.
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Bonnie - Benchmarks that measure the performance of Unix file system operations, concerned mainly with identifying bottlenecks.

Chris' Lightwave Benchmarks - A constantly growing database of computer systems benchmarked using NewTek's LightWave 3D.
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404 E2 Systems Limited - Offering testing and health check services for multi-user applications, a risk management seminar, and general information about challenges faced by service providers introducing multi-user IT solutions.
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EEMBC - EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmarking Consortium is a non-profit consortium that develops benchmark suites that target key embedded system applications.

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Haveland-Robinson Associates - PoVBench - Benchmark database, serving as a guide to the relative maths performance of various computers, processors and compilers.
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IT Transition - Offering benchmark services in the UK.
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LMBench - Tools for performance analysis, latency bandwidth measurement of hardware and the operating system. [for Unix]

Load Testing of any technology - Consulting practice focused on load testing with the Mercury Interactive tool.
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NT vs. Linux Server Benchmark Data - Links and summaries of results of benchmarks comparing Windows NT and Linux network performance.

Open Source FTP Benchmark - Home page for the dkftpbench FTP benchmark. Measuring how many simultaneous dialup users can be down loading from an FTP site at the same time.

Open Source Passive TCP Application Response Time Monitor for Linux - Uses packet sniffer technology to monitor IP applications, such as HTTP, SMTP and POP3. It measures response times, through put and congestion. In beta release as of 7 May 2002.

PerfSuite - A collection of tools to help analyze and improve software performance on Intel (x86 and ia64) and AMD (x86 and x86-64) systems running Linux, including tools for measuring hardware performance (CPU/cache/memory), message passing, compiler optimization, and I/O activity.

Radifed - Sample benchmarks and links to benchmarking programs

Software, System and network testing - Benchmark testing operating systems with Microsoft funded Windows NT verses Linux tests.

Spec's - GPC Home Page - News and performance numbers from the Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Group

Specbench CPU95 Results - This is the HTML FORM's interface to more than one thousand benchmark results published by SPEC.
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Standards Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) - A standards body for performance benchmarks. SPEC is an umbrella organization encompassing the efforts of the Open Systems Group.

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STREAM - Sustainable memory bandwidth discussion, with results on a wide variety of computer systems. From Macs and PCs to the most current and recent workstations, right up to Cray supercomputers. From the Department of Computer Science at Virginia.
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SysOpt.com - System optimization site provides PC users with information to get the most out of their systems. Includes over-clocking guides, benchmark score surveys, evaluations of over 360 Internet PC hardware mail order retailers and performance tweaking advice.
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The Benchmark Gateway - TOP performers in all of the major public benchmarks, TPC, SPEC, Oracle, SAP, and Intel.
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The Performance Database Server - SPEC information provided courtesy of SPEC and the University of Tennessee.

TPC - Transaction Processing Performance Council, a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.
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Webserver Stress Tool - Test application for webservers, which simulates the traffic and usage generated by a large number of simultaneous web users.