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ERICA: "OH MY GAAAAAWWWWDDDD!"

Yes, I was screaming at the top of my lungs, but "Oh My God," was all I could get out as I sat there staring at my computer screen blankly. My email program crashed. It had a heart-attack, followed by a stroke and then capped it off with an aneurism resulting in five years of saved emails, all in carefully notated folders, disappearing forever. Gone. Done.  read more »

Please, please, please, spare me your lectures on "backing things up." I get it. I was dumb not to have saved everything somewhere, but excuse the hell out of me. I think it's a little dumber that Microsoft freakin' Outlook, without warning, becomes corrupted and dies when the storage limit goes above 2 gigs. No little pleasing tone comes up with a message reading: "please free up some space in your folders or your storage limit will be met" --just full on deadness. I called Apple, I called every computer expert friend I have (and shout outs to anyone else out there who this has happened to, because I know there are a lot of you!), but I'm just undeniably screwed.

Other than a possible hiccup in the volume of telephone sex, did the revelation that the National Se  read more »

"The possibility of a deal by Microsoft and AOL was first reported by The New York Post."

(Microsoft Said to Be in Talks on Forming Link to AOL, by Saul Hansell, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2005.)  read more »

To spare readers the sorrow, the Times held off on saying it till the eighteenth paragraph.

—Matt Haber

Despite all the bubble-talk, diving into real estate might not be the best move for would-be brokers,according to Slate. While New York Magazine warned a few weeks ago about broker glut, The Times reported this weekend about the phenomenon on Long Island where you can get certified in only a week (and without too strenuous requirements). "I don't understand what the teacher says," Ms. Franco said of the English-speaking real estate course instructor. "Nothing, nothing, nothing." Good news: she passed.

Today, The Times David Dunlap reports on the Ground Zero memorial that, like the forgotten middle child, has been neglected with heated debates over the Drawing Center and International Freedom Center.

Billionaire Ron Perelman might have a massive new neighbor, a 60-foot-wide mansion, combined from two buildings, according to Page Six. The price: $40 million.

With sleek Apple stores popping up all over, Microsoft wants to get in on the retail game. According to The Post, the are eyeing space on Times Square.  read more »

-Michael Calderone

Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft , by Fredric Alan Maxwell.  read more »

Another Bush in the White House, another flagging stock market, another stumbling economy.  read more »

Did you get your invitation?  read more »

Last Sunday, on the fifth hole of the final round of the Memorial Tournament, Tiger Woods hit a shot  read more »

By nature, I am not anti-technology. As a child, my favoritetoy was a screwdriver.  read more »

Against a black background, a silver Star of Bethlehem formed on my TV screen, grew bigger and close  read more »

The rumor spread like a computer virus: After months of being battered in the courts, Microsoft had  read more »

In an era of spin and fabricated authenticity, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is demonstrating that old-fash  read more »

(BLOOMBERG NEWS)-The Internet boom has transformed the idea of the company.  read more »

After being tossed out of their magazines, ex-editors in chief Michael Hirschorn and Kurt Andersen a  read more »

The Plot to Get Bill Gates: An Irreverent Investigation of the World's Richest Man … and the Peopl  read more »

Judging by the turnout for his 46th-birthday party, Bertelsmann A.G.'s chief executive, Thomas Midde  read more »

Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Sullivan & Cromwell are the city's elite law firms, the Yale and the Har  read more »