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    A fresh look at Yahoo's search results on Thursday by Hitwise Intelligence raises the question of whether Yahoo could survive just fine without its search engine.

  • Judge slams SCO's lack of evidence against IBM

    A judge in the United States issued a damning indictment of SCO's case against IBM, citing the 'complete lack' of evidence, but did not grant a summary judgement in IBM's favour.

  • Teen gets 18 months in prison for worm

    A federal judge on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old Minnesota man to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm.

  • Ban on DVD-cracking tool overturned

    A California appeals court on Friday reversed a 4-year-old order barring the publication of a DVD-cracking tool on the Internet, finding the injunction violated the defendant's free speech rights.

  • Symantec wins US$3 million in counterfeit-ware suit

    Security software maker Symantec won a US$3 million judgment against one of America's more famous spammers after a court ruled that Maryland Internet Marketing was selling counterfeit Symantec applications.

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    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.

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    India reports success, while Venezuela fears fraud. What can the world learn?

  • Palming off payroll

    Upsetting employees by botching their payroll is bad for morale, staff relations, and unprofessional. Would outsourcing this function be detrimental to your business?

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    Laser chips made from silicon and sapphire could speed up computing a hundredfold, claim scientists.

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  • Chipset could give sight to the blind

    A long-held hope could be approaching reality, as researchers in the United States get closer to an eye implant designed to restore sight to the blind.

  • RIP: The Map

    Maps have been helping people find their way at least since 2300 B.C., when Babylonians sketched the lay of the land on clay tablets. Today's paper maps might be more portable, but they're far less necessary, thanks to Global Positioning System technology and the Web.

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