Tim Said What?

O.k. my buddy didn’t win. But at least one of the good guys did, and that is all that I find important in the game of poker. The Heads-Up Match which you can find on NBCSPORTS, is really neat.
These are the final rounds of the poker matches that I watched last week.

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Printer maker Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday a new line of environmentally-friendly printers as part of its HP Eco Highlights labeling program. The printers are made from recycled plastic.
The D2545 Deskjet, with 83 percent of its plastic recycled, will be sold at Wal-Mart and online for $49. Three LaserJet printers (P4015x, P4515x and P4515xm) are also part […]

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Internet search giant Google again lengthened its lead over Yahoo, Microsoft and others. Google’s share of the search market in April was 61.6 percent, up from 59.8 percent in March, said researcher comScore.
Google completed 6.51 billion searches during the month.
By comparison, Yahoo’s market share fell to 20.4 percent and Microsoft’s piece of the search pie […]

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Hewlett-Packard, already the top seller of PCs, has taken the lead in servers, a spot previously held by IBM, a new market survey finds.HP’s server sales accounted for 29.6 percent of the market, or $4 billion during the first quarter, according to Gartner. IBM earned $3.9 billion during the same period, accounting for 28.9 percent […]

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Google co-founder Larry Page Thursday wrapped up talks with lawmakers and the FCC, urging the government to permit “white space” bandwidth available after television stations switch to digital signals be used for long-range wireless services.
Page said groups such as the National Association of Broadcasters are misleading people.
The FCC is currently testing white space devices from […]

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Videogame retailer GameStop will discontinue sales of the Microsoft Zune. The company said Microsoft’s alternative to Apple’s iTunes just wasn’t selling enough.
GameStop decided to drop the media player a month ago, confirming its decision during an earnings call Thursday. The retailer has already stop selling Zune software but will offer the Zune online until supplies […]

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As a tradition, good old Jim (you remember, from the Andy Griffith show) has been singing ‘Back Home Again in Indiana’ for years, and it was great to have him back again this year.
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A new study finds Cox Communications may have joined the ranks of ISPs, such as Comcast, that block some Internet traffic. The study found 62 percent of participating Comcast subscribers and 54 percent of participating Cox customers had their file-sharing activities hindered.
The study by the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems surveyed 8,175 Internet users. […]

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More Internet users are turning to cable modems instead of DSL to go online, a new study said last Thursday. The findings appear to reverse momentum that had telephone companies gaining on cable providers in the number of Internet subscribers.
The study, conducted by Leichtman Research Group, said U.S. cable providers added 1.19 million Internet subscribers […]

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Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce later this year the “Thunder,” a touch screen handset directed at users of Apple’s iPhone.
The phone will be available in the third quarter exclusively through Verizon Wireless, rival to AT&T which is the exclusive carrier for the iPhone, reports the Wall Street Journal. The […]

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Lori Drew of Missouri was charged Thursday by Los Angeles federal prosecutors with cyber bullying. The case stemmed from a fake MySpace account Drew allegedly created to make it appear she was Josh Evans, a 16-year old boy, who befriended online teen neighbor Megan Meier.
Meier, 13, committed suicide after her fake online boyfriend rejected her […]

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Software giant Microsoft Corp. is embarking on a pioneering five-year alliance with the European Environment Agency (EEA) to deliver real-time information about local air and water pollution levels to more than 500 million Europeans.
Access to the information will be through mobile and Web portals. Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, executive director of the EEA, and Jan Muehlfeit, […]

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Microsoft Windows is now an option for inexpensive computers sold by the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ organization. Students using the laptop will be able to choose running Windows or the group’s own Linux-based operating system.
Offering Windows will boost the price of the $100 laptop by between $18 and $20 to pay for the addition of […]

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Facebook and almost 50 states have agreed of measures to protect young Internet users from bullying or harassment. The social-networking site said it will among other steps, ban convicted sexual offenders, limit the ability to search for underage users and continue studying how to improve ID and age verification.
“The agreement marks another watershed step toward […]

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Leaders of Internet giant Google told reporters Thursday they were happy Microsoft’s plans to acquire Yahoo fell apart. Yahoo was “under a hostile attack and we wanted to make sure they had as many options as possible,” Google co-founder Sergey Brin said.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters prior to the Internet company’s annual shareholders’ meeting […]

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