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RSS towelYahoo! pulls the plug on AdSense rival
News has thrown in the towel in Europe for Content Match, an advertising partnership programme that lets people put Yahoo! Yahoo! selected ads on their websites. Yahoo! said in a statement Wednesday: "Yahoo! [15 Jan 2009]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo Above, Charlie Kemp, director of the Healthcare Robotics Center at Georgia Tech and Emory, accepts a towel from El-E. You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers... [10 Apr 2008]
Future mobiles will cost consumers $150bn
News If I buy a towel from Debenhams, they don't tell me I can use it once a month. With the average handset becoming ever more high-end, there will be more cash sunk into content and services by consumers - up to $150bn by... [31 Jan 2007]
Yahoo! faces antitrust probe in Taiwan
News The move comes one month after archrival eBay threw in the towel in a losing battle against Yahoo! Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating Yahoo! for possible antitrust violation after users complained... [31 Jul 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.05.06
Round-Up The late, great science-fiction writer Douglas Adams famously stated that the most essential item in the backpack of any pan-galactic hitchhiker was a towel. Fans of the great man on Microsoft campuses worldwide were... [26 May 2006]
Microsoft brings back the towels
News The company also revealed "the towels are back", referring to the popular towel laundering service for sweaty staff washing at work after exercising or cycling in to campus, which was axed in a benefits cull in 2004. [22 May 2006]
Supplier ditched from £6bn NHS IT programme
News She continued: "If BT and IDX are pushing ahead with the task of developing and deploying Carecast in London, does it make sense for Fujitsu to throw in the towel and start again with a new partner, especially since... [02 Jun 2005]
Intel to unveil latest Itanium processor
News But for all the difficulties, Intel isn't throwing in the towel. Intel will on Tuesday offer a further glimpse into the future of its Itanium processor family, shining the spotlight on a new model code-named Poulson,... [01 Mar 2005]
Lycos kills off its anti-spam zombies
News After a week of heavy criticism of the company's plan to launch denial-of-service-like attacks on spammers, Lycos has thrown in the towel, lashing out at the media and internet monitoring company NetCraft. [07 Dec 2004]
IBM lines up big daddies of Unix servers
News But neither rival is throwing in the towel. IBM plans to announce two new top-end Unix servers, sources familiar with its plans said, opening major new challenges to Sun and HP. The new servers are the biggest iron in... [15 Oct 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Concorde and conferencing, that IPR retreat and Xbox lessons
Comment Last month saw the final flight of Concorde as declining bookings made its operation economical and British Airways finally threw in the towel. Often important trends go unremarked until their implications are brought... [10 Nov 2003]
Munich pulls the curtains on Windows
News Microsoft isn't throwing in the towel, however. The local government in Munich, Germany, has voted to move 14,000 computers from Microsoft's Windows to the rival Linux operating system, despite efforts by the software... [29 May 2003]
Can IT save us from Big Brother?
News However, most of those gathered here have no intention of throwing in the towel. Although modern technology created many of society's most pressing threats to privacy, a group of researchers is out to prove that it is... [11 Apr 2003]
DoJ admits Microsoft case wasn't strong enough
News Despite throwing in the towel, the DoJ's Beck claimed the case has been a "major victory and accomplishment". The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has admitted that it settled its antitrust case with Microsoft in part... [07 Mar 2002]
Novices, politicians and the page 3 'stunner'...
Comment After she'd slapped him playfully on the backside with a bar towel, she said, coquettishly: "I'm Jordan, and you're coming to a party with me. A PC novice arrived for her first day at work and had a spot of techno-bother. [08 Jun 2001]
