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News Yahoo News: Top Stories This where you will find top news stories from Yahoo. In addition to stories from Associated Press, this site also contains links to stories from Reuters, The Washington Post, USAToday, Los Angeles Times, and others. MSNBC This site contains top stories from MSNBC. Also available from this site are video news stories from MSNBC TV, Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and Meet The Press. BigCharts This free site is a service provided by MarketWatch. It provides charts and analysis on stocks and index data for securities traded on a number of exchanges. Comics Dilbert This, of course, is the home of the funny and often all-too-true cartoon strip by Scott Adams. Search Engines / Directories Google This is the home of the Google search engine. It is one of the most popular sites for fast, relevant results. Many other services are available here as well. Yahoo! The Yahoo! site also offers many services in addition to searching the web. These services include shopping, travel, and communication to name only a few. AltaVista A leading provider of search services and technology, AltaVista remains a popular place to search the web. The company continues to innovate new ways to find information quickly and efficiently. SiteFetcher This site contains a directory of a number of popular internet sites. Job Search Monster.com This site helps employees and employers to find each other. It includes helpful services, such as tips on writing a job-winning resume. Dice This is a job board focused on technology. Their database contains permanent, consulting, and contract job postings. Reference Merriam-Webster Online This is the home of the on-line version of this popular dictionary. The site also contains paid versions with many more word definitions. Other reference works are available here as well. Roget's Thesaurus This Thesaurus is made available by the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL). The web site is hosted by the University of Chicago. Encarta This is a popular reference library from Microsoft. Britannica This web site offers partial article content in the main encyclopedia and summary content in the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia for non-subscribers. Full content is unlocked with a paid subscription. Encyclopedia.com Here you will find content from the Columbia Encyclopedia. Articles are enhanced by including links to newspaper and magazine articles and pictures and maps. Webopedia This site contains an online dictionary and search engine for computer and internet technology definitions. Cornell University This web site contains a free service provided by Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute. The site contains legal information in areas ranging from the U.S. Constitution to the Uniform Commercial Code. World Time This site contains time zone information for major cities around the world. Other Reference Links Here are some additional reference links, including many not listed here. Find People, Businesses, Places SmartPages Yellow pages and white pages listings can be found here, as well as maps, directions, and city guides. MapQuest This is the place to go to find street maps, driving directions, and to locate places nearby. Expedia This web site helps you book flights, hotels, cars, cruises, and more. Public Record Finder Search Public Records using this site. Zip+4 Find the correct zip + 4 zip code for an address. This site is a service of the United States Postal Service. Area Codes This site provides you with information related to telephone area codes, and city and country codes. Shop Yahoo Shopping Shop here to compare prices from a number of different vendors. Amazon.com Purchase books, clothes, electronics, jewelry, shoes, gourmet food, and much more. CompUSA Shop here to purchase computers, software, digital cameras, computer games, and more. CNET Shopper This site lets you compare products and prices side-by-side from many different vendors. Office Depot This is the on-line home of the popular office equipment / supply store. Shop on-line or locate a store near you. Staples This is the on-line shopping site for Staples. Find office supplies, equipment, or a neighborhood store. FedEx Ship online using this FedEx web site. Other Shopping Links This site contains some additional links to online shopping for general items, office, computers, electronics, and more. Entertainment TV Guide This site contains searchable TV listings, movie guides, sports guides, entertainment news, and more. Yahoo Movies Get showtimes and tickets. View trailers & clips, read entertainment news and movie reviews. Blockbuster Search for movies, find a store near you, or have DVDs delivered by mail. Screen It! This site offers detailed reviews of movies and videos. It also has links to movie trailers and clips. Software, Internet Microsoft This is the home of Microsoft Corporation. Obtain product information, updates, support, and more. Network Solutions This domain name registrar also provides services such as web hosting, web site design, e-mail, and more. Technology News items from Yahoo! News: Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP (AP) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:30:44 GMT AP - Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc. Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown (AP) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:00:06 GMT AP - India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype. AP Interview: UN telecoms chief urges data sharing (AP) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:40:32 GMT AP - BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. telecommunications chief said, adding that governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored. Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation? (Ben Patterson) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:19:43 GMT Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out. Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says (Ben Patterson) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:58:20 GMT Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research. Samsung to challenge Apple's iPad with own tablet (Reuters) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:59:51 GMT Reuters - Samsung Electronics' first tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, will go on sale in two weeks, it said on Thursday, turning up the heat on Apple Inc's iPad. New AOL search deal with Google includes mobile (AP) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:08:00 GMT AP - Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week. Summary Box: Google, Skype targeted by India (AP) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:02:02 GMT AP - WIDER NET: After pressuring BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. for data on users' traffic, India is now cracking down on other companies that provide encrypted communications. Burger King agrees to $3.3 billion sale to 3G Capital (Reuters) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:57:03 GMT Reuters - Burger King Holdings Inc agreed to sell itself to investment firm 3G Capital for $3.26 billion, giving the No. 2 U.S. fast-food chain breathing room to fix its business and close the gap with leader McDonald's Corp. Twitter launches iPad application (AFP) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:24:13 GMT AFP - Hot microblogging service Twitter launched an application for the Apple iPad on Thursday to rave reviews from technology blogs. Music labels eager for Google-Apple battle (Reuters) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:50:13 GMT Reuters - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter. Ambitious Online Banking Alternative Scores $2.9 Million in Series A (Mashable) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:53:18 GMT Mashable - Banksimple has just raised $2.9 million in a Series A round to fund their ambitious alternative online banking startup for full-service, fee-free banking. The round includes investments from First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures, a collection of industry veterans with extensive startup portfolios. Ping's scheme is to sell more tunes (Appolicious) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:28:00 GMT Appolicious - Do we really need another social network? That depends on how you view the purpose of social networks. The biggest, Facebook, is great for monitoring, from a safe distance, what your old high school buddies are doing. But don't put Apple's new Ping service into the same category. Windows Phone 7 Goes To Mobile Device Makers (NewsFactor) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:37:09 GMT NewsFactor - Finishing touches complete, Microsoft sent its latest Windows Phone 7 operating system to equipment manufacturers Wednesday, paving the way for a round of Windows-based mobile devices to debut in time for the holiday season. Onapsis to Release ERP Vulnerability Testing Suite (PC World) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:10:12 GMT PC World - An information security company will soon release a tool that will allow companies to test their ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for security threats. Botnet Takedown May Yield Valuable Data (PC World) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:40:09 GMT PC World - Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam. Oracle's Suit Against Android Could Split Open Source (NewsFactor) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:00:06 GMT NewsFactor - Oracle's suit against Google for the use of Java in its Android portable operating system continues to reverberate through the open-source movement. In the newest development, Google has declined to participate in the upcoming JavaOne conference, an event formerly hosted by Java creator Sun Microsystems and now run by Sun's new owner, Oracle. Chrome update marks Web browser's second birthday (AFP) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:59:46 GMT AFP - Google released an improved version of Chrome on Thursday as the Internet titan's Web browser turned two years old.