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	Welcome to Gossip Junction's Computing News. Here you will find a collection of the latest computing and computer entertainment news stories from around the world. To read the full news articles simply click on the 'Read More..' link contained within the story. This will open the site containing the news story in another browser window.

Alarm at Google Yahoo partnering

Posted on 10 May 2008 at 1:10 am
US advocacy groups urge regulators to block any deal Google and Yahoo might strike after a two-week experiment.
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Burma's emergency telecoms delay

Posted on 9 May 2008 at 5:54 pm
Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms are prevented from going into Burma.
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Microsoft contests $1.4bn EU fine

Posted on 9 May 2008 at 5:33 pm
Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.
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Facebook agrees child safety plan

Posted on 8 May 2008 at 8:39 pm
Facebook agrees a deal to protect children on the site from sexual predators and cyber bullies.
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MySpace lets users share data

Posted on 9 May 2008 at 1:20 am
MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing.
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Google keen on better Yahoo ties

Posted on 9 May 2008 at 7:16 am
Google expresses interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo.
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Fake media file snares PC users

Posted on 8 May 2008 at 11:11 am
A booby-trapped media file is catching out tens of thousands of file-sharers, says a security firm.
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Nasa set to join petaflop elite

Posted on 8 May 2008 at 2:19 pm
Nasa has unveiled a plan to boost its supercomputer power to help plan and model future missions.
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Serious playtime

Posted on 9 May 2008 at 2:16 pm
Virtual worlds for children are booming. Will they all survive?
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Google denies staff 'brain drain'

Posted on 8 May 2008 at 10:34 am
Google executive Elliot Schrage leaves for Facebook, prompting concern of a talent exodus.
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Hippies reclaim summer of code

Posted on 12 May 2008 at 6:02 am
Overthrow the soft-o-crats! Google, the internet's number-one search and advertising engine, is a 19,000-person multinational that coins ...
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UK.gov torpedoes personal carbon credit plans

Posted on 11 May 2008 at 9:02 am
'Not a universally desirable outcome' - no, really? The British government has come out firmly against plans for personal carbon trading,...
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Extreme porn, hard drives and election strain

Posted on 10 May 2008 at 12:02 pm
Phwoar, pass us some lethal skunk Comments Windows XP Service Pack 3 dropped this week, later than expected but finally here. This trigge...
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Web fan-owned football club heads to Wembley final

Posted on 10 May 2008 at 8:02 am
A grand day out for the minnows Ebbsfleet United, the English semi-professional team owned by fans who bought their shares on the Net, is...
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Shareholder sees golf as AMD cure all

Posted on 10 May 2008 at 2:10 am
Better than a kick in the tail Cash-strapped AMD didn't bother to tell investors how it plans to reorganize manufacturing operations and ...
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Texas realizes Amazon is in Texas

Posted on 10 May 2008 at 1:25 am
Online Tax Squabble Part Deux Texas may soon follow in the footsteps of those clever New Yorkers, asking Amazon for some serious sales ta...
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Sick of JavaOne? - You will be

Posted on 10 May 2008 at 1:19 am
Suspected Norovirus stalks halls With Sun Microsystems banging on about Web 2.0 and mashups for days, anyone would be excused for feeling...
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Gordon Brown claims a Brit invented the iPod

Posted on 10 May 2008 at 12:37 am
Grosse Pointe, Surrey? Bad news for Tony Fadell, a Michiganite and inventor of the iPod. In an interview yesterday, Gordon Brown claimed ...
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Circuit City runs up the white flag

Posted on 9 May 2008 at 11:48 pm
Of course you can look at our books, Mr. Corporate Raider, sir Circuit City's days as an independent are numbered. The ailing US electron...
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Part II: How a pair of American spies created the Soviet Silicon Valley

Posted on 9 May 2008 at 11:07 pm
Affairs, social security checks and the mini-fab Radio Reg Based on the rather insane number of messages I've received over the last coup...
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Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia

Posted on 12 May 2008 at 5:25 am
Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset is launching a public beta of its semantically rich Wikipedia...
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RIM BlackBerry Bold/BlackBerry 9000 makes official debut

Posted on 12 May 2008 at 5:01 am
Research in Motion introduces the RIM BlackBerry Bold (aka BlackBerry 9000) smartphone, the company's first HSDPA device, with availabili...
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Virtual worlds for pre-schoolers? They're here

Posted on 12 May 2008 at 5:00 am
Knowledge Adventure, the maker of kids' educational game software JumpStart, plans Monday to begin selling virtual world software for 3- ...
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HelioVolt claims CIGS solar efficiency mark

Posted on 12 May 2008 at 5:00 am
There's a race to produce solar cells from CIGS that approach silicon's efficiency. HelioVolt says it's getting there--and fast.
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Facebook CTO to leave company

Posted on 12 May 2008 at 3:33 am
Chief Technology Officer Adam D'Angelo, 23, is reportedly leaving the company to take time off.
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Nvidia CEO denies buyout of Via

Posted on 11 May 2008 at 9:40 pm
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says he has no interest in buying out or participating financially in Via Technologies.
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Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspects

Posted on 11 May 2008 at 9:30 pm
A remote desktop access feature found in some Macintoshes is being credited with leading police to two suspects in the burglary of an apa...
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Flaw turns Gmail into spamming machine

Posted on 11 May 2008 at 6:35 pm
A "serious security flaw" in Gmail allows spammers to send thousands of bulk e-mails through Google's SMTP service, according to a recent...
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Facebook borrows $100 million

Posted on 11 May 2008 at 5:55 pm
Social-networking site Facebook has reportedly borrowed $100 million to finance the expansion of its server farms.
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Nationalize Twitter? Hmm, not so fast

Posted on 11 May 2008 at 5:00 pm
A lot of chatter recently that Twitter has become vital to our daily lives--with some suggesting it to a question of national security.
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