Schools Hope to Erase IBM Debt: Four State Lawmakers Ask Tech Company to Forgive $5 Million Bill for West Contra Costa District Computers From '80s, '90s
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By Kimberly S. Wetzel, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 16--Four prominent state legislators threw their support behind West Contra Costa schools this week by pleading with IBM to release the district from a $5 million debt.
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roundup Plus: Appeals court to rehear e-mail snoop case...Macromedia giving away Flex...T-Mobile adds security measure to hot spots.
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roundup Plus: T-Mobile sells Sidekick II...Spyware bill moves to Senate...Supercomputer center gets new No. 2.
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Five Sequoia electronic voting machines sold at on online auction? $82. A chance for a researcher to dissect the embedded software that the company refused to make public? Priceless. By Kim Zetter.
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roundup Plus: CA adds utility-like mainframe pricing, expects...Salesforce.com reports subscriber surge...RealNetworks signs up Red Flag Linux.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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Technology problems arise as Sprint and Nextel merge. Also: Symantec buys Veritas.... Illinois' governor bans violent video games for minors & hellip;.  and more.
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roundup Plus: HP rakes in .Net dough...Escend raises $3 million...Hitachi cuts 10 percent of U.S. work force...Evite goes local with invitations.
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By Scott Marshall, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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roundup Plus: Cray signs two supercomputing customers...MSN Messenger beta leaks onto Web...Level 3 to buy Sprint's dial-up business...Cisco CEO's salary shoots up from $1...SanDisk ups capacity on flash memory cards.
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roundup Plus: Siebel moves toward self-repairing software...Monster says it could enter Japan by mid-2005...Novell to release Open Enterprise Server.
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roundup Plus:  Samsung to put hard drives in phones...IDC says external disk storage up...Lawmakers to vote on spyware, piracy bills.
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2007 top science developments, tech flops, and vaporware...Szulik's parting words as Red Hat CEO...Sony Alpha A700 review...copyright tidbits...Toshiba 32nm deal with IBM
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By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 8--Nicholas Negroponte took some time recently for an e-mail interview with Mercury News Columnist Dean Takahashi about his low-cost laptop project.
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Environmentalists crash Macworld and chide Apple for its lackluster recycling efforts. Also: Notes on how to stop cyberbullying are here & hellip;.  Motorola loses its number two, who wanted to be number one & hellip;. and more.
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roundup Plus: IBM gives grants to universities...Sun expands pay-as-you go supercomputing...SGI works on Linux performance software.
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Plus: AT&#38;T posts $7.1 billion loss...Lucent sees first profitable year since 2000...EMC issues sunny report...IBM net income inches higher, despite legal bill.