Rachel Konrad
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/ 29 August 2007

Yahoo! spruces up its email offering

Yahoo! has introduced new features for its popular web-based email program, including software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them directly to someone’s cellphone. The enhancements make it easier to send email, instant messages or SMSs from a single website.

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/ 2 April 2007

Dark Porcelain: New Google service makes a splash

Presiding over a company with a market value of -billion apparently gives Silicon Valley’s most famous billionaires a good sense of humour. Google launched their annual April Fools’ Day prank on Sunday, posting a link on the company’s home page to a site offering consumers free high-speed wireless internet through their home plumbing systems.

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/ 8 January 2007

What’s waiting behind Apple’s curtain?

Technophiles are eagerly waiting to learn whether the king of digital music can colonise an entirely new category of consumer electronics. Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computer, is expected to launch at least one revolutionary product on Tuesday at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

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/ 1 September 2006

Silicon Valley ranked last in tech-hub survey

Silicon Valley ranks dead last in an annual ranking of 12 United States technology hubs because of the region’s notoriously high housing costs, traffic congestion, high unemployment rate and other quality-of-life problems. The valley is one of the few global tech hubs that dominate both the technology and life-sciences industries.

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/ 20 January 2005

eBay profit jumps 44%

Strong holiday sales caused eBay’s profit to surge 44% from the same period last year, and optimistic executives raised their outlook for the rest of 2005. But the online auction giant failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations by a penny per share and its shares fell.