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  • Microsoft says it freed millions of computers worldwide from criminal botnet

    said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than US$500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant ...

  • Vodafone raises Kabel Deutschland offer after rival bid report

    The logo of Germany's biggest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland, is written on a door bell at the Kabel Deutschland playout center in Frankfurt February 25, ...

  • Dish steps down from Sprint merger to clear way for Clearwire

    After a months-long battle between Dish and SoftBank over Sprint, the satellite company abandons its $25.5 billion bid for the wireless carrier to focus on "completing the Clearwire tender ...

  • Candy Crush Saga creator appears sweet on an IPO

    The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Anonymous sources told the Journal that King, through its holding company Midasplayer International Holding Co., has talked to several banks including J.P. Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse Group AG, and Bank of America to carry out its initial public offering, or IPO, in the U.S. This means King wants to sell shares of its company to public investors. While ...

  • The necessity of regular use of the purge command in OS X

    When using your Mac, active programs, documents, and system resources will be loaded into memory (RAM), where they can be accessed quickly to run and perform computations. While active memory contents are maintained in memory, the system also keeps some recently used but inactive processes and data there in order to quickly revive them, if needed. These memory allotments should be managed ...


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Hellboy

Hellboy

Hes certainly not an above-the-title movie star, but theres no one else working in Hollywood who could have pulled off the eponymous role in Hellboy other than Ron Perlman. A consummate supporting actor with dozens of movies under his belt, Perlman is one of those actors you always recogni ... ...

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  • Dell special committee slams new Icahn plan as incomplete

    Committee says activist investor's latest proposal lacks adequate financing and a remedy for the company and its shareholders if his proposal were to ...

  • Video shows what looks like iOS 7 running on an iPad

    iOS 7 , but photos, videos, and reports are popping up left and right about what the new operating system will look like on the tablet. A new iPad iOS ...

  • UPDATE 1-Dish abandons Sprint bid for now to focus on Clearwire

    Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:48pm EDT NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp said it would not make a new offer to buy No. 3 U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel in time for a Tuesday deadline and will instead focus on its tender offer for Clearwire Corp . The decision may be good news for Japan's SoftBank Corp , which is also trying to buy Sprint. Satellite TV provider Dish said in a ...

  • Icahn changes tack seeks $16B Dell stock buyback

    NEW YORK - Activist investor Carl Icahn on Tuesday proposed a $16 billion share buyback in his latest effort to thwart Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell's effort to take the struggling computer maker private.Icahn, now the company's second-largest shareholder after buying 72 million shares from fellow activist investor Southeastern Asset Management Inc., wants the company to buy back up ...

  • Bits Blog Tech Moves to the Background as Design Becomes Foremost

    In the last few decades, the computing industry has passed through several different eras. In the ’90s, the big tech companies were in a race for faster and more powerful computers. Then in the 2000s, the industry moved to mobile in a quest for slimmer phones with brighter screens.Now, the industry is entering the era of design.As I noted in my column this ...

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