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Yahoo! News: Technology News Fri, 16 May 2008 09:27:16 GMT
  • '$100 laptop' nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft (AP)  

    A One Laptop Per Child 'XO' machine is seen in this Sept. 20, 2007 file photo.  Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project on Thursday, May 15, 2008 announced that the nonprofit's green-and-white 'XO' computers now can run Windows in addition to their homegrown interface, which is built on the open Linux operating system. That had been anticipated for months, but it amounts to a major shift. (AP Photo/William B. Plowman, file)AP - The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.


  • Icahn to Yahoo board: Sell to Microsoft or leave (AP)  

    In this Oct. 11, 2007 file photo, private equity investor Carl Icahn speaks at the World Business Forum in New York.  Icahn on Thursday, May 15, 2008 officially launched a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo Inc.'s board, writing in a letter to Chairman Roy Bostock 'the board of directors of Yahoo has acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders' and Microsoft Corp. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn.


  • Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case (AP)  

    A woman looks at the MySpace website. A US judge has ordered a pair of accused spammers to pay MySpace about 230 million dollars in what was being billed Wednesday as a record-setting punishment for such Internet abuses.(AFP/File/Nicolas Kamm)AP - A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.


  • Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era (AP)  

    Software engineer Rex Jameson, wearing a robotic soldier suit being made for the U.S. Army by Raytheon, poses next to a mockup statue of a future soldier on Monday, April 14, 2008, in Salt Lake City. The suit can multiply its wearer's strength and endurance as many as 20 times, with relatively little loss of agility, by sensing and almost instantly amplifying every movement the wearer makes. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds ? that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.


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