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Grand Theft Auto IV steals sales records

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Facebook Agrees to Protect Young Customers

Following MySpace out of the penalty box of 50 state attorneys general, the social network Facebook is agreeing to a broad set of principles to protect young users from predators and inappropriate material.

Movers: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, Disney, Cisco Systems, ON Semiconductor

Sprint Nextel (S) and Clearwire (CLWR) agree to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company. Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG), Comcast (CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Bright House Networks collectively agree to invest $3.2 billion in new company

MySpace Turns Social Network Sharing the Right Direction

Amid all the initiatives in which Internet companies are supposed to make friends with each other—such as Facebook’s Platform and Google’s rival OpenSocial initiative—the announcement today by MySpace may well be the most useful to ordinary people and thus the most important.

MySpace lets users share data

The world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: My OS is the best OS because...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Best Buy invests $2.1 billion in Carphone Warehouse

Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics retailer in the U.S., is getting into the European cell phone market by taking a stake in retailer Carphone Warehouse.

Nasa set to join petaflop elite

Nasa is making a bid to join the elite group using supercomputers whose power is measured in petaflops.

Fake media file snares PC users

The fake file poses as a music track, short video or movie and has been widely seeded on file-sharing networks to snare victims.

TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110m

File-sharing site TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay $110m (£56m) in damages to the Motion Picture Association of America for copyright infringement.

AMD: Can it execute?

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Management, Manufacturing, Processors, Semiconductors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

The New Hacker Economics

To make money, you have to move up the economic food chain into higher-value, more profitable work and markets. That economic fact of life applies to nations, companies and individuals.

Movers: Fannie Mae, Cisco Systems, Disney, Yahoo, Anadarko Petroleum

Fannie Mae (FNM) closes up 2.52 to 30.81 after its first quarter conference call seems to calm investors. Its CEO reportedly says balance sheet is strong. Earlier, Fannie Mae posted $2.57 first quarter loss, vs. $0.85 EPS a year ago; results were hurt by increases in mortgage delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures, home price declines. Has substantially increased loss reserves to reflect credit losses that it believes have been incurred. Says combined loss reserves were $5.2 billion as of Mar. 31, vs. $930 million a year ago. It plans to cut its dividend and raise $6 billion in new capital through public securities offerings.

Walt Disney, Cisco Systems among big market movers

Stocks that are moving substantially or trading heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:

On the Watch: Cisco and Disney report quarterly results

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. may see heavy trading Wednesday after the networking equipment maker posted a larger-than-expected profit in its fiscal third quarter.

Fixing Windows Vista: Top troubleshooting tools

Tags: Performance, PC, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, CPU, Tool, Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance Management, Microsoft Windows

Unicaresoft loses MSNLock case against Microsoft

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Unlocked and pricey, iPhone is coveted in Israel

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GTA makes record first week sales

In its first week Grand Theft Auto IV has continued the record breaking run begun on its first few days on sale.

Gates: Microsoft going 'independent' way

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn't pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its US$47.5 billion (euro30.7 billion) takeover bid for Yahoo.

AP sources give inside look at Microsoft's raised Yahoo bid

Just how serious was Microsoft Corp. about raising its bid to $47.5 billion for slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.?

Walking away could turn out best for Yahoo and Microsoft

Sure, things look rough for Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. after they couldn't agree on a deal. Yahoo's stock has cratered, and its would-be suitor has to figure out another way to catch up in the online ad market, a flaw so big Microsoft was willing to pay $47.5 billion to fix it.

Cisco profit beats subdued expectations

Cisco Systems Inc.'s profit fell 5 percent in its fiscal third quarter but beat Wall Street's expectations, a sign the turbulent U.S. economy didn't rattle the world's largest networking equipment maker as hard as expected.

Yahoo shares fall 15 pct after Microsoft withdraws bid

Yahoo shares fell 15 percent Monday as hopes for the once-dominant Internet icon dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid.

Intel wants to own the weather prediction business

Nail down your security priorities. Ask the experts and your peers at The Register Security Debate, April 17, 2008


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