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Facebook gets a facelift to help users share
(AP:NEW YORK) The popular online hangout Facebook is sporting a new look to reflect changes in how its members communicate with each other and how they share photos and updates about their lives.
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Quark Acquires Assets of In.vision Research Corporation
Quark Inc., provider of desktop publishing software, announced that it has acquired the assets of In.vision Research Corporation, a software company that developed the add-in to Microsoft Word for XML authoring.
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Speed, choice the watchwords for WBS Connect
BY ANDREW SIMONS SPECIAL TO THE BUSINESS JOURNAL Give a customer a choice and they’ll likely be happy. Give a customer speed on top of that, and they’ll likely be ecstatic. Denver-based WBS Connect, which provides Internet, data and networking consulting services and products to corporate clients, is betting on that.
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft has tried to radically change the design philosophy behind its office suites from 2003 to office 12. The difference between the interface of Office 12 and Office 11 (2003) is nothing short of staggering . The attempt has been to enhance the user's ability to actually get to the function he wants to use quickly and without getting lost in the labyrinth of toolbars and menus."
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Digging a hole in China
China's forced deployment of the TD-SCDMA standard is a face-saving effort that will extend the wireless dark ages for its populace, and may, in the end, go down as one of the greatest wastes of engineering capital and resources in the history of wireless.
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New iPhone music to users' ears
DENVER (Billboard) - When it was unveiled in June, Apple's new iPhone didn't appear to offer anything new for music fans.
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VCs back Bradford for network control
Systems for computer system access and network monitoring are the specialties of Concord company that makes sure servers are efficient and serving the proper clientele.
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iLike Offers Free Full Track Streaming and Announces New Ad Platform
iLike , the music discovery service with a number of popular applications across social networks, has announced that it will now offer full track streaming through a partnership with Rhapsody. That means that users of iLike’s applications on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and hi5 will now be able to listen to complete tracks, as opposed to the 30 second samples offered previously. Users can listen ...
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Minted Launches with Threadless-like Approach to Stationary Design
After working as an executive at The Body Shop and becoming an Internet entrepreneur in her own right as the co-founder of Eve.com, Mariam Naficy is a web veteran known for her experience in the retail market. Her latest project, Minted.com , launches today as both an online retail site and a community, targeting nearly every aspect of the stationary market. Minted is angel-funded with more ...
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Sun to make health care play through identity
If you're at home accessing a health care site and need authentication to reach a patient portal it's transparent to you as a patient. It's the infrastructure for their authentication and authorization by Dana Blankenhorn
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Bedford's buying: Laptops and picture frames
LAST WEEK the Bedford Town Council voted to buy each of its members a new laptop computer and redecorate the council's meeting room. And we thought Jesse Jackson was politically tone deaf.
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New iPhone music to users' ears
DENVER (Billboard) - When it was unveiled in June, Apple's new iPhone didn't appear to offer anything new for music fans.
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Age may be a factor in McCain's ties to Internet
If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help.
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Oxford rolls controllers for home storage boxes
: Oxford Semiconductor is rolling out four new controllers for consumer storage systems in its effort to expand into a growing field beyond its core competency in more mature 1394 and USB silicon with controllers that aim to raise performance while keeping costs low for digital home storage devices.
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Corporate philanthropy is good for business
Tony used to be a homeless vet. Now he owns an online importing business. That’s good for Tony. But it’s also good for the Boston business community, which can now count him as a consumer.
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Brussels Throws Another Punch at Intel
In response to consumer allegations of anticompetitive practices, the EC's antitrust unit announced it is expanding its scrutiny of Intel
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OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites
OpenDNS, a San Francisco based startup founded by Minor Ventures and David Ulevitch, first launched in mid-2006 as a free tool to speed up web surfing and protect users from phishing and other malware sites. OpenDNS isn’t exactly a sexy service. Users have to do some basic configuration of their computer to get it going, [...]
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Digital River tries again on 'real' goods
Digital River Inc.’s bid to profit from online sales of cheese, bowling balls and snowmobile helmets fell flat in the late 1990s. Now, the company is banking it will do better with wireless mice, printers and digital cameras.
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Microsoft software partnership paying off for Qortex
By Stephanie Thompson Special to the Business Journal A refined focus and redefined specialization in customized Microsoft software has propelled Qortex’s growth. The company generated $1.6 million in revenue last year, up 216 percent from $506,000 in 2005.
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Angry Youth
On the morning of April 15th, a short video entitled “2008 China Stand Up!” appeared on Sina, a Chinese Web site. The video’s origin was a mystery: unlike the usual YouTube-style clips, it had no host, no narrator, and no signature except the initials “CTGZ.” It was a homespun . . .
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Me.dium seeks to catch web surfers' preferences
By Greg Avery Denver Business Journal Try it, you’ll like it.
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Government Computer News
Architecture created by the National Security Agency and expanded with help from the open-source community will save the Defense Department and intelligence agencies millions in hardware costs.
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A doctor trades medicine for Apple rumors
Arnold Kim's Web site, MacRumors.com, has become such a popular technology site, he has stopped practicing medicine to blog full time.
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New minicomputers for $300
A new generation of small, low-powered computers called netbooks, introduced by companies from Taiwan, is challenging the industry giants.
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DemandTec TradePoint Network(TM) Seals 1.5 Million Deals
DemandTec, Inc. , a leading provider of on-demand merchandising and marketing software services for retailers and consumer products manufacturers, today announced that 1.5 million trade promotion deals have now been negotiated on the DemandTec TradePoint Network since its inception.
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