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BillionDollar Baby DotComs UhOh Not Again
Some are pointing to the recent deal for Facebook an online service popular with the college set as proof that inflation is back in the venture world
Intel Sharply Rebuts s Antitrust Suit
The Intel Corporation denied any wrongdoing and characterized Advanced Micro Devices its rival and accuser as a victim of its own mistakes
Judge Dismisses Disclosure Suit Brought by Against Siebel
The lawsuit was part of the s effort to eliminate the selective disclosure of financial information by public companies...
Clarksburg Exponent Telegram Online
Google Incs fortunes have risen on its ability to entice digital consumers gauging their desires based on their online travels
Its latest products Google Desktop and Google Talk continue in that vein by attempting with minimal user input required to satisfy Internet user cravings for information and personal contact
Desktop wants to become our conduit for information from email to Web pages to news and weather even reminder notes we write to ourselves Talk is Googles first foray into Internet messaging and telephony...
REVIEW: Google Tools Cater to Info Tastes
Google the first of the major search engines to release a product that searches inside computer files continues to distinguish itself as a cut above rivals Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc with version 2 of Desktop renamed from Desktop Search
Most impressive in Desktop is its Sidebar feature a 2inchwide tower of inforich panels that sits on the side of your screen
The email panel atop the tower alerts you to messages as they come in and lets you read them right there on the screen The tool supports any accounts you can configure with Outlook Thunderbird or Netscape Mail as well as Googles own Webbased email service Gmail...
ACM News Service
The California Senate voted unanimously on Aug 29 to pass a bill requiring evoting systems to include a paper trail which was conceived by computer scientists as a safeguard against election fraud or voting errors People need and deserve to know their votes have been counted accurately and the best way to ensure that is to make sure theres a paper printout of every electronic ballot declared bill author Sen Debra Bowen arina Del Rey Her legislation would accord electronic ballots the status of a legal record but depend on the paper trail for the states mandatory hand count of ballots in 1 of districts...
Tight-lipped Google starts chatting
Despite earlier denials Google has launched into the chat market with an instant messaging application for Windows
Google Talk allows users to send instant messages and make voice calls over the Internet Its use of the popular standard used by the Jabber project allows it to interoperate with chat clients like Apples iChat Trillian and the open source Gnome
For voice calls the Google developers behind the application plan to support Session Initiation Protocol the burgeoning standard for Internet telephony A number of voice compression algorithms are supported...