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Second-quarter profit at Xerox skidded 19 percent on reorganization charges, but the company matched Wall Street’s forecast.

The F.C.C was set to approve a merger between XM and Sirius and end a nearly 18-month review of a deal that would essentially create a monopoly in satellite radio.

Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed flaw in the Domain Name System software used to route messages between computers on the Internet.

Four of Japan’s biggest comic book or “manga” publishers are coming together to bring digital versions of their magazines to Nintendo’s Wii console.

It failed in its pursuit of Yahoo. It is paying people to use its search engine. Now Microsoft thinks it has found a source of users for its foundering search service: Facebook.

Some customers like the company’s responses to online criticism; others see an eerie version of “Big Brother.”

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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday issued a company-wide memo outlining his battle plan for the new fiscal year in which he singled out the Apple experience as a benchmark for future success.

The Windows version of Pwnage, the iPhone 2.0 jailbreak and unlock software for iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch, is out now!!

The best systems administrators are set apart by their efficiency. And if an efficient systems administrator can do a task in 10 minutes that would take another mortal two hours to complete, then the efficient systems administrator should be rewarded (paid more) because the company is saving time, and time is money, right?

RadioShack reported higher-than-expected profit on a surprise increase in sales, but the electronics retailer said the economic environment continues to be challenging.

Q: "What languages have you used since you started programming?" A: "I guess that depends on what you mean by 'used'. I've written substantial lines of code in C/C++, PHP, Python, Perl, ASM, BASIC, TI-BASIC, JavaScript and BASH. I've also done quite a bit of work in COBOL and MFC."

Jay mentions Digg's developing "sub-Diggs". Kevin outdrinks Jay in chugging contest. Meet the Kevin Rose-lookalike who confused people all night long. Plus a look at the Chicago Tribune's Digg strategy. The best photos, news and links from last night's Town Hall meeting in Chicago.

Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that "Mojave" was actually Vista

The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, tell them it will be closing for good—and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September 30, 2008.

Steve Ballmer said the company was “done,” for now, with pursuing Yahoo. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced that it will provide Web search and search advertising on Facebook pages.

Hasbro, the owner of Scrabble, has sued the creators of Scrabulous, the popular Scrabble-like game on Facebook.

The Color Blind Web Page Filter, which was used in this post to demonstrate the different types of colorblindness, allows you to view what you site looks like to people with each type of color blindness.