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Amazon Video on Demand Launches Today
According to the NYTimes, Amazon will today launch Video on Demand - a new online video store, containing movies and TV shows. What’s the big difference between this video store and most other online video stores? Streaming. When you order a show on Amazon’s new service, you can start watching immediately, just how it works on IPTV. Amazon’s own Unbox or Apple’s iTunes can’t do that, ...
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Listening, But Little Interest, as AOL Is Shopped Again
Amid all the maneuvering over the fate of Yahoo , Time Warner is again exploring whether it can persuade either Microsoft or Yahoo to buy its AOL unit.
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Yahoo calls Microsoft actions 'stupefying'
Yahoo Inc. on Thursday sent a letter to shareholders, calling Microsoft Corp.'s actions in its dance to acquire all or part of the company "stupefying."
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eBay Releases Earnings on Wednesday, Google, Yahoo to Follow
eBay will release second-quarter 2008 earnings on July 16, 2008, and will host an earnings call with investors at 2:00 pm PT. The year has been turbulent for eBay, with a new CEO, the introduction of radical changes to feedback and policies, and boycotts by sellers and buyers. eBay's decision to make special deals with large retailers such as Buy.com led one analyst to predict, "Over the next ...
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Legislation Targets eFencing on Sites Like eBay
US Representative Brad Ellsworth of Indiana introduced legislation on Tuesday that would make organized retail crime a federal offense and would make marketplaces like eBay more accountable for stolen goods listed on their sites. The National Retail Federation (NRF) issued a press release applauding legislation and said this week's ruling in the Tiffany-eBay counterfeiting case, which eBay won, ...
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Pair charged over Holy Island YouTube footage
TWO men are to face magistrates after police studied a clip of driving lunacy at Northumberland’s Holy Island causeway on the internet.
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Infopia Expands Ecommerce Web Services
Infopia expanded its Web Services component of the new Infopia Transact eCommerce platform. The expansion provides new capabilities that allow Infopia customers to further customize and streamline their business processes, while leveraging the power of the Infopia Transact eCommerce platform.
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Pope praises Australia for apology to Aborigines
Pope Benedict XVI has used a speech to hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholic pilgrims gathered in the Australian city of Sydney to urge the world to take more care of its natural resources. The pope also condemned television and the internet for exalting violence and sexual exploitation.
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RP university, US firm in partnership to address IT skills gap
MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine university and the local unit of a US technology company forged an alliance allowing the school to offer computer science subjects relevant to industry needs.
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Worker faked sick lines and sneaked in to steal from ERI
A HOSPITAL worker faked sick lines then sneaked into his work to steal laptops while he was meant to be ill in bed.
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TiVo's YouTube Pact Aimed At Setting DVRs Apart From Cable
TiVo, in its continuing quest to differentiate its namesake digital video recorders from cable and satellite services, announced Thursday that its subscribers will soon be able to watch any of the millions of videos hosted by Google's YouTube on their TVs.
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Mochila and BarelyPolitical Team Up to Drive Awareness of Online Political Coverage Among Generation Y Web Users
AUSTIN, TX and NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/17/08 -- Mochila , the only global online media marketplace for text, video and photo content, announced that it is joining forces with Senator Barack Obama's biggest fan, Amber Lee Ettinger, aka Obama Girl, at Netroots Nation 2008 in Austin, TX -- July 17-20, 2008 -- to promote online political coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign among ...
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Centrino 2 laptops with WiMax will be limited this year
When Intel ships its Echo Peak wireless module later this year, the company will meet its stated goal of adding WiMax as an option to its Centrino 2 laptop chip platform in 2008. But shipments of Centrino 2 laptops equipped with WiMax support will be very small this year, likely constrained to just three U.S. cities. Intel has long said shipments of Centrino laptops equipped with WiMax ...
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Yahoo Lays Out The Case For Its Board All Over Again
If you're a Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) shareholder, but you don't obsessively follow the twists and turns of the Yahoo-Microsoft-Icahn drama the way some of us do, then Yahoo has put out a letter just for you. Basically it's: here's our argument, one more time, for why you should elect the existing board. Real quickly now, here's a summary:
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iPO Ted Landau's User Friendly View - The iPhone's App Store won't fill in all the gaps
The new iPhone 2.0 software and 3G hardware up the ante on what was already a spectacularly successful product. A million iPhones flew out the door just on the opening weekend (or, maybe it was only about 425,000 ; either way, it was a lot).
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MonArc Corp (MONA) Management Update
MonArc Corporation 7:30 AM EST, www.monacorporation.com . PP365 is pleased to name Liu Jun as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr Jun is a MS Computer Software Engineering and obtained his education at the National University of Defense Technology in Beijing.
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CDC Software Files to Formally Withdraw Its Planned Initial Public Offering
HONG KONG & ATLANTA----CDC Corporation , a leading global enterprise software and new media company, today announced that, given the current market environment, CDC Software has filed to formally withdraw its registration statement on Form F-1 previously submitted to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the planned initial public offering of CDC Software common ...
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Intel Classmate PC lands in UK for £239
Eee bandwagon rolls on Intel's kid-friendly cut-price computer concept has come to the UK courtesy of local supplier Actronix.…
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Television - Lifestyle
Statistics show in the last three years children's internet use has doubled and online users are getting younger and younger.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft has had to create a new build of Windows XP Professional for computer makers because the six-year-old operating system's continued popularity has nearly exhausted the supply of product activation keys.
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Existing 360 themes work with new dash News by
Microsoft has told us our existing Xbox 360 themes will work with the redesigned dashboard. The ugly grey background can be decorated with your giant Masterchief poster or your Marcus Fenix pumping iron pictures, and the Microsoft artists have cobbled together some mock-ups to illustrate how.
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Recent Original Stories
Just weeks after releasing Windows Vista Beta 1, Microsoft has shifted our paradigms again, unveiling a preview of beta 2 at the TechEd 2005 developer conference.
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Recent Original Stories
"While the press brouhaha happily follows Apple about and co-conspirator Intel looks on, smugly hoping its tie-up with the much-loved computer maker will bring it some added kudos in its assault on the consumer electronics market, IBM, the giant ousted from the party, is getting on with business.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Dec 2006 22:28 UTC
Apple Computer gave Chief Executive Steve Jobs 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without the required authorization of the company's board , the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Apr 2006 02:09 UTC
"[...] This database stuff is clearly the next frontier . If we are ever going to have natural speech interfaces and virtual assistants that collect and display our information in more useful ways, the computer is going to need to know much more about how our files relate to each other and remember what we've done to them and who's done it.
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