Amazon.com, FedEx, Coca-Cola Among U.S. Companies Helping Tsunami Victims
Dec 29 Bloomberg Amazoncom Inc CocaCola Co FedEx Corp and Pfizer Inc are among companies that have taken steps to provide aid to the survivors of the earthquake and tsunamis that struck South Asia on Dec 26
Amazoncom the worlds largest Internet retailer had collected 329 million as of pm New York Time through a link on its home page that lets customers make donations to the American Red Cross CocaCola the worlds largest softdrink distributor said it is providing bottled water and other emergency supplies in Indonesia India and Thailand...
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Project to Boost Open Source Efficiency
Although open source software may be gaining in popularity more projects mean a steady rise in complex managerial challenges With efficiency as its driving goal a consortium of European research institutions and open source software companies have paired up to manage the complexity of large scale modular projects by establishing a program called
Sells Slate to Washington Post
The Washington Post will acquire the online opinion magazine Slate officials at the paper announced Tuesday...
Flaw Found in Google Desktop Search
A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious
security
flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by
Google
The glitch which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet is what computer scientists call a composition flaw a security weakness that emerges when separate components interact...
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Citing that consumers and business partners inaccurately see InterActiveCorp as a travel company and not a Web commerce company Barry Diller told shareholders Tuesday that and Expedia will be split into two companies Microsoft sold its controlling stake in Expedia to in following antitrust concerns over
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498 Laptop Coming to WalMart
WalMart introduced a 498 notebook computer Monday the first factorynew laptop to break the sub500 price barrier The company approached Linspire earlier this year to build a lowprice laptop that would be competitive yet inexpensive...
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Next week the technology industry will descend on Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Showwhich with the decline of tradeshows such as Comdex and Expo is the undisputed champ of based exhibitions about the world of personal technology Those
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