Loading ...Even if a judge and jury lock up Robert Alan Soloway for the rest of his natural born life, your Inbox will still be inundated with tons of offers for HGH, porn, and penny stocks.
Government prosecutors are surely chomping at the chance to present evidence against Soloway. The so-called Spam King (perhaps we should call [...]
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Hillary Rodham Clinton wooed Silicon Valley campaign donors and voters Thursday with a plan to create more high-paying jobs and maintain U.S. dominance in technology.
The New York senator and Democratic presidential hopeful said she’s trying to increase the number of so-called H1B visas aimed at highly educated workers. Silicon Valley companies use H1Bs to sponsor [...]
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Computer retailer CDW Corp. became the latest company to be swallowed up by a private equity firm, announcing on Tuesday it had agreed to be bought by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC for $7.3 billion.
CDW shares, which have already climbed about 39 percent since early March, had risen on Tuesday morning to $84.90, their highest Nasdaq [...]
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In an attempt to find cross-console success, many companies are seeing fit to port their existing games over to the Wii and throw in a handful of Wii-centric features that naturally center around the Wii’s unique control options.
None of those games have managed to bring any spectacular new dimensions to the table, excepting the stunning [...]
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Microsoft says it is on track to sell its millionth Zune music player, the software company’s would-be challenger to Apple’s enormously popular iPod.
Microsoft expects the player to hit the sales milestone by the end of its fiscal year in June, almost eight months after the product made its debut. Apple, which launched its iPod music [...]
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While everyone’s crying been out for a PS3 price drop since the console launched in March, the Bank of America’s Michael L. Savner has said he doesn’t think it would be enough to stimulate sales of the console significantly.
“Despite growing anticipation that a $100 price cut for the PS3 is imminent this summer or early [...]
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Nissan North America has a warning for customers: Placing your electronic key too close to your cellphone could leave you stranded.
The automaker is asking customers driving new models of two of its flagship sedans to keep their car keys and cellphones at least an inch apart to avoid disabling the “intelligent keys.”
Cellphones kept near Nissan’s [...]
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Dell, the world’s No 2 computer maker, unveiled Thursday its first three models preloaded with Ubuntu Linux: the Insprion E1505n, a 15-inch notebook; the XPS 410n, a desktop that starts out with virtually identical specs to the Dimesion, and the Dimension E520n, a middle of the line desktop.
The new models give buyers a third choice [...]
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Far and away the most popular ‘next-gen’ games console in terms of the speed of units sold, the Wii has catapulted Nintendo back into the limelight as genuine innovators that understand gamers, games and people.
According to a Bloomberg news report, Nintendo of America Inc.’s marketing chief George Harrison predicts they’ll have sold 35 million Wii’s [...]
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