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		<title><![CDATA[ProposalSmartz 4.2 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1196079]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ProposalSmartz Desktop appears as an add-on to the Word tool bar. The software is easy to use with a tabbed interface. Rather than starting from scratch and taking hours to flesh out your proposal you can now access our bank of ready content and edit as per your need. Select...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mozilla execs raise objections to Microsoft's browser-ballot proposal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3759]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of July, Microsoft officials shared publicly the company's browser-ballot proposal made to the European Commission antitrust regulators. On August 17, execs with Microsoft rival Mozilla weighed in with new and more detailed objections to Microsoft's proposal. by Mary Jo Foley]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:09:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Proposal Pack Wizard 4.5 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1012141]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Proposal Pack Wizard is a software add-in for Microsoft Word for Windows which manages your business proposals, grants, contracts, quotes, bids and other complex business documents. It provides mail merge, management of multiple proposals, assembly of many types of proposals (general business, grants, business plan funding, quotes, book publishing, technical,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Emulex to Broadcom's merger overture: No thanks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17430]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Emulex on Monday said its board has rejected Broadcom's unsolicited takeover offer at $9.25 a share.Â     In a statement, Paul Folino, chairman of Emulex's board, said the Broadcom offer was an "opportunistic attempt" to get the company on the cheap. Emulex argued that Broadcom knew that the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 11:02:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EZ Contract Proposal 2.4 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=934791]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[EZ Contract Proposal allows the end user to quickly create itemized contract proposals for their clients with professional appearance. Document can be formatted to resemble other in house letterheads including logo and font. Features include spellcheck, automatic completion of words and phrases, automatic calculation of all totals including sub-total, sales...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Geoengineering may be tech's answer to global warming]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1290]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There's already money going into developing geoengineering plans to combat rising temps on this planet.  Shell Oil has stepped forward as an early supporter.  There are a myriad suggestions on how to use mega-engineering projects to combat global warming.  Sulphurous gases sprayed into the upper atmosphere. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:30:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8843]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal."    That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest.    In its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:53:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concerns]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1317]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[That didn't take long. Two days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a three-week acquisition ultimatum to Yahoo's board, Yahoo answered with its own letter.    Signed by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman of Yahoo Board Roy Bostock, the Yahoo letter reiterated that Yahoo feels Microsoft's $44 billion...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:11:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8396]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo on Monday responded to Microsoft's weekend "negotiate or we're launching a proxy war or pulling our offer" love letter. The gist: Increase your offer or get lost.    Give credit to Yahoo for sheer moxie (or maybe it's stupidity). But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can't be happy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:49:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Walker's four point health reform plan]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=693]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[David Walker, the nation's Comptroller General right offered a four-point plan for our health care system in recent Senate testimony.    Walker is one of the few government officials you might consider bias-free, because the Comptroller General serves a single 15-year term.    In other words,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:55:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to employees: We're looking at other options; Don't get distracted]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7877]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang told employees in an email that the company has made "absolutely no decisions" about Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited bid. He added that the board is also looking at other strategic alternatives.    He also urged employees to forge ahead and not let "any of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:31:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft makes bid for Yahoo; May change the search game; Bid could rise]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7848]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft said Friday that it is making an unsolicited offer of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, to buy Yahoo in a move that would give the software giant more market share and become a significant threat to Google.    In a statement, Microsoft would allow Yahoo shareholders...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:03:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=518]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft just announced a $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the half-cash, half-stock offer in a brutal carrot-and-stick open letter to Yahoo!'s board of directors.    The Redmond giant appears to laying the groundwork for a hostile takeover if it comes to that. Ballmer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:46:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brief: 4]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1058]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief.    From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals    2.1 Processes and ground rules    Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:15:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Watch these FTC privacy principles and expect a skirmish]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7423]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Along with its approval of Google's DoubleClick acquisition Thursday the Federal Trade Commission outlined some core privacy principles that may have a bigger impact than the merger over time.    While Google's acquisition of DoubleClick is getting all of the attention (Techmeme, blog post and news story) these...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:47:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pipes, is that the answer to save life as we know it?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=315]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  There's a proposal being put forth to stop the earth from over-heating.  It comes from James Lovelock and Chris Rapley, two British scientists.  It's just appeared as a letter to Nature.  And I'm not the first blogger to take note.    The proposal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:20:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dealing With Short TCP Flows: A Survey of Mice in Elephant Shoes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=330820]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Short web transfers that dominate the Internet suffer from TCP's inadequate provisioning for short flows. This paper surveys ten proposals that attempt to solve one or more of the problems of short flows, and suggests general criteria to evaluate them. The proposals range from T/TCP in 1992 to RIO-PS in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FaithBase Pro 4.1 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=438833]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Using FaithBase Pro you can create winning donor-specific proposals that get grants every time.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pursuit Proposal Writing System 4.5 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=416793]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Pursuit integrates contact management and proposal writing into one simple to use system. Generate professional proposals in minutes including inventory lookup, recurring charges, markup overrides and more. Salesrep performance analysis reports. Interfaces with our Service Express billing and service management software for one-step proposal to invoice generation."]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Office System Webcast: Create Winning Business Proposals With Help From Work Essentials (Level 100)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=257981]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this webcast, the presenter shares his four-step plan for managing the business proposal process, from the first client meeting to proposal acceptance. Whether the listener works as a consultant or as a sales and marketing professional, this webcast shows how the person can use proposals to build client relationships,...]]></description>
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