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Yahoo! reported Monday night that Jerry Yang, its CEO, would resign from his post and the company would begin searching for a new CEO effective immediately.
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Criticisms of PHP include those general criticisms associated with other scripting programming languages and dynamically typed languages. Some the problems will be fixed but many of them are built into the architecture of the language and will remain there.
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Microsoft is putting competitive pressure on Adobe Systems with it's Silverlight technology. Adobe updating its Flash platform with new tools for building user interfaces for Web and enterprise applications. But will there be a free edition of the software?
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If you are a developer and you want to set yourself up to make a lot of cash then start developing for mobile applications. Yes it was rumored to happen years ago but Apple has proved that it works. Now everyone else wants a piece of the pie including telecommunications operators. Are mobile applications the next big thing?
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It's been a few months since the Yahoo! board changes and total silence has fallen. While blogs like this are talking it up about the problems Yahoo is having the executive board seems to have run out of steam and ideas. The only solution that has come is the laying off of more workers. But the lay offs are not fix for a much more deep seated problem.
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Yahoo now may feel more pressure to renew talks with Microsoft and ultimately sell for a price well below the $33 per share that Microsoft offered in May. Yahoo shares traded Wednesday morning at just $13.67 and may sell for $19.
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There is lots of talk about the building of bridges and highways as a way to stimulate the U.S. economy. The problem with this is that it only directly stimulates the economics of American people and does nothing to help out those other countries that have suffered in the wake of the financial crisis started by the U.S.
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The 2008 U.S. presidential election is showing just how important broadband service is to the world. It is the most open communication point for anyone in the world and the one place where information flows freely 24 hours a day. But the internet is also starting to suffer from bottlenecks and slow downs due to the advent of video and other media that require greater amounts of bandwidth.
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If you don't know what Codeweavers is then you are probably not a Linux user. This is the software that allows many windows only programs to run under Linux or Mac OS X. You can now get Codeweavers for free due to the financial crisis and a CEO who is good at keeping his promises. So what is good crisis management in a financial crisis? I am not sure but giving away the product would have been last on any list of things to do. But this is exactly what Jeremy White, president and CEO of CodeWeavers is doing.
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