AMD Divides Operations to Conquer Intel (TechNewsWorld.com)
Advanced Micro Devices is splitting into two companies with the help of a massive cash infusion by investors in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi. AMD will continue designing semiconductor chips for computers and servers. The spinoff, called "The Foundry Company," will focus on manufacturing semiconductor chips.
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5 High-Paying Stocks (The Motley Fool)
High-yielding stocks look great in times like these. But be careful.
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Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China (Phayul)
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
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To encrypt or not? That is the question (CNET)
Encryption hasn't become the privacy panacea it was promised to be in the 1990s for e-mail, but it's making headway on hard drives. Here's a look at why communications encryption isn't mainstream, yet.
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Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China (The Hendersonville Times-News)
A Canadian human rights group has uncovered a system that tracks politically charged text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture of which eBays Skype is a partner.
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ChaCha Receives Telephony(R) Magazine's Prestigious Most Innovative Mobile Service Award for 2008 (Centre Daily Times)
Adding to its impressive list of recognitions this year, ChaCha was honored yesterday by Penton Media's Telephony(R) Magazine as the Most Innovative Mobile Service for 2008. The Telephony(R) Innovation Awards recognize service providers who have developed unique or first-to-market offerings that utilize technology or address customer needs in a new way.
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ChaCha Receives Telephony(R) Magazine's Prestigious Most Innovative Mobile Service Award for 2008 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
INDIANAPOLIS----Adding to its impressive list of recognitions this year, ChaCha was honored yesterday by Penton Media's Telephony® Magazine as the Most Innovative Mobile Service for 2008.
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Papers press ahead (Peoria Journal Star)
The nation’s first journalism school marks its 100th anniversary and looks to the future as the industry tries to reinvent itself.
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IBM Nixes Standards Shenanigans; Plus: Flying Lipstick-Wearing Pigs! (TechNewsWorld.com)
IBM has had enough of the silliness that goes on at some of the standards bodies it belongs to. So Big Blue now has a new policy: No shenanigans. Setting standards for hardware, software, communications protocols, document formats -- is a job that's way too important to be done in the dark, says IBM.
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1. The Web As Platform (OK Nation News Blogs)
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.
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