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The operator Verizon Wireless reached an agreement on the acquisition of American telecommunications company Alltel.
As reported in the press release, Verizon Wireless will pay for mobile operator Alltel 5,9 billion dollars. In addition, Verizon Wireless will assume the debt Alltel, which to date amount to 22.2 billion dollars. […]
June 5th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Developer Mozilla announced the release of the second release candidate of Firefox 3.
Major changes in Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 in comparison with the first release candidate associated with reliability. The developers have removed bugs found and increased stability of the browser. In addition, the issuance of a […]
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Agency NASA and California Institute of Technology released a snapshot of the enormous size of our Galaxy, made infrared space telescope Spitzer. Mosaic, Husqvarna online at this address, composed of 800 thousand individual images from the infrared array camera (infrared array camera) and multi-photometer (multiband imaging photometer), which is equipped with a […]
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From 7 to 15 June Tushino airfield in the territory will be the largest annual autoshow in Russia "Arena Drive". Visitors are waiting for high-speed race car exhibit, musical performances, contests with the automotive theme and even the world's first kaskadersky spectacle.
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Among other entertainment company, […]
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The team of researchers under the leadership of Peter Chen Space Flight Center of NASA has developed a special composition of which is planned to manufacture large telescopes, designed for deployment on the Moon. In a hypothetical future, astronomers dream place on the far side of a natural satellite of automatic lunar […]
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On Wednesday, billionaire Carl Ikan sent a letter to Yahoo, which once again accused the company that it had rejected a proposal to purchase from the corporation Microsoft. Microsoft offered for each share Yahoo dollar 31 and then increased the price to 33 dollars. The total transaction could reach 47.5 billion […]
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Google has announced the expansion of cooperation with the American aerospace agency (NASA). Under the terms of the signed contract, Google-owned leases at NASA Ames Research Center 17 hectares of unused land for the construction of high-tech complex.
It is anticipated that the creation of the new complex will take […]
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Failure at the orbital Machinery Mars Odyssey again difficult relationship with the probe "Phoenix", resulting in soil drilling operation, scheduled for Wednesday, had to be postponed. Last week a similar problem on the orbital vehicle Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - but it went down only VHF transmitter, which commands transmitted from Earth "Phoenix". […]
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Fair Trade Commission of South Korea imposed a fine on the Intel Corporation for breach of competition law and the use of unfair methods of competition.
As reported by PC World, in the course of investigation by competition authorities found that Intel offered rebates to producers of personal computers in exchange […]
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Agency NASA and California Institute of Technology released a snapshot of the enormous size of our Galaxy, made infrared space telescope Spitzer. Mosaic, Husqvarna online at this address, composed of 800 thousand individual images from the infrared array camera (infrared array camera) and multi-photometer (multiband imaging photometer), which is equipped with a […]
June 4th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The company Wikia changed work rules from its search engine Wikia Search, located at the stage of testing
Wikia Search Tools earned earlier this year. The service combines software algorithms for sorting results and the work of volunteer moderators. Interested parties can contribute to improving the accuracy of results, […]
June 4th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The company Yahoo, as reported by CNET News, called the new date for the annual shareholders meeting.
Initially meeting of holders of securities Yahoo was scheduled for July 3. However, about two weeks ago the company decided to move the event to a later date. According to observers, this […]
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As it became known this week, Microsoft Corporation has made an informal proposal on the purchase of Yahoo back in January 2007. This information, reported Agency France Presse, surfaced during the consideration of collective action, is against the leadership of Yahoo in connection with the abandonment of the merger with Microsoft.
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In Tuesday, June 3 in Orlando (Florida, USA) opened an annual conference of Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008, targeting software developers and technicians.
He opened Tech-Ed conference founder of Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates. During the speech Gates stressed that over the past 30 years the corporation has done tremendous work, and like […]
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As reported by The Register, group human rights organizations, including the World Privacy Forum, Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American Union for Civil Liberties, sent an open letter headed Google Eric Schmidt.
The message notes that the home page search engine does not meet the requirements of California Law on […]
June 4th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments