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Users may help to vet Android apps
Google may use a user-driven rating system to help keep bad or harmful Android applications off mobile phones.
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MOVERS
AMAZON.COM INC. (AMZN) rose 16 percent to $81.48. The world's largest Internet retailer reported second-quarter profit that rose more than analysts estimated as customers bought flat-panel TVs and jewelry and the dollar's decline boosted overseas sales.
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Vonage strikes deal to help pay debt
Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. is closer to getting the $215 million it needs to pay off $253 million in debt and avoid the possibility of bankruptcy.
Asbury Park Press |
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Sample-mad album seeks an online refuge
Conflicts over copyrights are commonplace on the Internet. But can the Web also be a sanctuary from the law?
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China's Web users top 250m on back of disasters, Olympics
China's online population, already the world's largest, has swelled to 253 million, an official report said, driven by news events such as natural disasters and the Beijing Olympics.
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Brulant, online marketing firm, purchased by Rosetta
Brulant Inc., an online marketing company in Beachwood that became one of Northeast Ohio's Internet-age success stories, has been sold to a New Jersey marketing firm called Rosetta.
The Plain Dealer |
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Japanese Internet mogul found guilty in appeal
(AP) -- A Japanese appeals court upheld the conviction of flamboyant former Internet mogul Takafumi Horie on Friday in an ongoing case that has come to symbolize this nation's effort to deal with white collar crime at emerging dot-coms.
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Healing plans
HP's nanotech vision of how to save a sick planet
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 26th Aug 2007 22:12 UTC
Today, 26th August 2007, OSNews has turned exactly ten years old. For a decade now, OSNews has been giving you the latest news on operating systems, its major applications, and a whole lot of other technology related things.
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Google wants users to vet Android apps
Keep the crud off our platform. Google may use a user-driven rating system to help keep bad or harmful Android applications off mobile phones.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Mar 2006 22:00 UTC
Microsoft has delayed a special slimmed-down version of Windows XP for legacy PCs, which is based on the Windows Embedded code base. The Redmond company had expected to make the operating system available to Software Assurance customers this month, but now says Windows Fundamentals will ship 'in late 2006.' Windows Fundamentals can run on older machines that do not support XP while providing the ...
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Microsoft plots Lotus Notes annihilation
Not that we're boasting or anything... Microsoft is looking to persuadi five million Lotus Notes customers to make the switch to Microsoft's collaboration tools next year, according to Kevin Turner, COO for the software giant.
TechWorld |
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F5 adds chip grunt to Big-IP boxes
Bigger everything. F5 Networks is making its two Big-IP web-application optimisation boxes even bigger so they have more throughput, and is upgrading the software that runs on Big IP devices to boost security.
TechWorld |
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Microsoft polishes SQL server with DATAllegro buy
Plans to rip out Ingres. Microsoft continues its shopping spree to bolster its SQL Server database for large-scale enterprise deployments, announcing plans to buy data-warehouse appliances company, DATAllegro.
TechWorld |
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Augmented Reality Coming to Your Desktop Soon
A Tokyo-based start-up has taken the wraps off new software that brings to the desktop the world of augmented reality.
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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Green Paper discusses Malta's future IT infrastructure
IT Minister Austin Gatt this morning launched a Green Paper on “Next Generation Access Infrastructure”. He explained that the document is a collection of ideas on where the country should be heading with regard to connectivity.
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Yahoo’s truce with Icahn earns board endorsement from advisory group
An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.’s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the Internet company’s directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft Corp.’s $47.5 billion takeover bid during the spring.
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Video-game console sales help push Amazon.com to biggest gain in a year
Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, rose the most in a year in Nasdaq trading after second-quarter profit exceeded analysts’ estimates because consumers bought video-game consoles online and the dollar’s decline boosted international sales.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Internet predator sentenced to 20 months
MONTREAL -- Internet predator Vincent Duval of Belgium was sentenced Thursday to 20 months in a Canadian jail by Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin of Quebec Court. Duval had met a 13-year-old girl from Montreal over the Internet last year and flew to Montreal in early June with plans for the two to run away and settle down together. The 31-year-old had pleaded guilty June 20 to six sex-related charges -- ...
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SC on Twitter: State revamps official Web site
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina has revamped the official state Web site. The site at http://www.sc.gov now includes video and audio clips helping users to navigate the site and answering questions such as where to find tax forms or get officials copies of birth certificates.
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JAMES COATES: Windows tool lets you type in other tongues
Q. In my old age, I am studying Italian. I would like to find a simple way to create accented characters (such as e) on my Windows XP computer. The only way I have found to do it now is to copy the characters from the Character Map. Do you have any suggestions or solutions? Mille grazie.
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Meetic Plunges to Record After First-Half Sales Miss Estimates
July 25 (Bloomberg) -- Meetic , Europe's biggest publicly traded Internet dating service, fell to a record in Paris trading after first-half sales missed analysts' estimates.
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CyberCrime Unit opens office in Milton
Florida's attorney general has completed a planned expansion of his CyberCrime Unit by opening an office in the state's Panhandle.
Miami Herald |
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The Web Week in Review
Given my posts on Viacom's $1bn Google/YouTube lawsuit, it's no surprise that I was in a legal state of mind this week and that the news that caught my attention typically had some legal aspect to it.
e-Consultancy |
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Taliban go hi-tech in propaganda war
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicize their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday.
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