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Users OK with ads in streaming TV, not on YouTube uploads
Commercials in streaming TV and movies may be considered reasonable by a large majority of Internet users in the US, but the same doesn't apply to user-generated content. According to new data from Ipsos MediaCT, sites like YouTube will have to "carefully consider" ad-subsidized models since the general audience isn't used to seeing ads in stuff they created and uploaded themselves. Read ...
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Bikers, pedestrians seeking better Web maps
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - With the old gas-guzzler in the garage, you've got your bicycle ready and your sneakers laced up. Now all you need is a map of the quickest, safest routes for riding around town. But, not so fast.
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Embarq Provides More Details on Web-Tracking Test
Embarq Corp. has revealed more details about its exploration of a program that tracked Internet subscribers' Web-surfing habits for advertising purposes, telling Congress that it performed the test on 26,000 customers in a Kansas town. Building on an earlier response to Rep. John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Embarq CEO Thomas Gerke wrote in a letter late ...
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Embarq pressured by House politicians over NebuAd
Three House members who have questioned the concept of Web monitoring to display relevant advertisements are questioning DSL provider Embarq. Their concern: Why not require customers to opt in?
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Alive and clicking
Heath Bunting, the first internet artist, showed me his piece A Visitors Guide to London at an underground arts event in the early 1990s. By clicking on a dustbin or a bit of waste ground, you could take a magical mystery tour of the metropolis.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Industry Moves: Rusty Coats To Head Scripps Newspapers' Digital Head
Rusty Coats, an online vet in the newspaper industry and a good friend of ours, has been named VP of interactive for the newspaper division of The E. W. Scripps (NYSE: SSP) Company. Coats, 42, will lead the newspaper division's Internet strategy, working closely with the division's publishers. EWS is the newspaper part of the company which just split off from the cable/interactive part called ...
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European regulators clear HP purchase of EDS
Associated Press - July 25, 2008 12:45 PM ET BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - European Union antitrust regulators have approved Hewlett-Packard Co.'s proposed $13.2 billion purchase of technology...
KXXV Waco |
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Viral Smears
VIRAL SMEARS....The world obviously moves too fast for me: today, Gregory Stroud emails to tell me that the "TF Wasatch" rumor has been debunked. The what? Who/what is TF Wasatch? Turns out some officer from Task Force Wasatch in Afghanistan...
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Microsoft defends search investments to analysts
Microsoft's CEO defended the software maker's decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed minimal light Thursday on specific steps it will take to challenge Google in the wake of the failed bid to buy Yahoo.
KBCI Boise |
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INTERNET EXCLUSIVE: Arkansas plays host to 56 soccer clubs, national championships
The US Youth Soccer National Championships begin today in Little Rock, Ark., but Tuesday was a time for the athletes to rest, relax and break bread with their teammates and soon-to-be competitors.
Allen American Star |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Sep 2006 17:57 UTC
The Ubuntu team has released the first beta of Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. It includes GNOME 2.16, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 RC2, Xorg 7.1, Linux kernel 2.6.17, and a new init system . Download locations are listed in the release announcement . Update: Kubuntu 6.10 beta 1 has been released as well.
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INTERNET EXCLUSIVE: Mountain lion sightings on the increase
I have spent a lifetime in the outdoors but have never actually sighted a wild mountain lion. I’ve come close, very close, on several occasions but can truly say I don’t remember ever actually sighting a lion in the wild.
Allen American Star |
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 24th Jul 2008 18:01 UTC, submitted by Ward D
Mac Antivirus developer Intego might have stumbled across an OS X specific virus being offered for auction that targets a previously unknown ZIP archive vulnerability.
New Mobile Computing |
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Technology upgrades begin in Bluffs school district
A half-million-dollar Iowa West Foundation grant and a million-dollar Microsoft lawsuit settlement will be used to update the computer technology in the Council Bluffs Community School District.
Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil |
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Google Upgraded by Soleil as Italian Litigation Looms
Google (GOOG: sentiment, chart, options) shares have added about 3% following an upgrade from "hold" to "buy" from Soleil Securities...( Read More )
Schaeffers Research |
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Recent Original Stories
OSNews.com informs you about the latest news on a vast range of operating systems, from the well-known mainstream OSes, down to small embedded (but also very interesting technically) ones.
New Mobile Computing |
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Revenue and Income Rise, But AT&T Falls Behind Verizon for Wireless Net Additions in Q2
AT&T has reported its results for the second quarter of 2008, with the usual story of strong growth in the mobile segment while fixed-line voice pulled back growth in data and video services. Consolidated revenues of US$30.9 billion were up 4.7% on the previous year or 3.6% on a pro-forma basis. Operating income rose by 34.7%,...
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Officials: Denver won’t hide homeless during DNC
Denver is trying to help, not hide, the homeless during the Democratic National Convention, leaders of agencies dealing with homelessness said Friday in an effort to blunt what they called “misinformation” on the Internet and elsewhere about the city’s plans.
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Orange U.K. Bundles Laptop with Mobile Broadband Packages
Orange UK has stepped up its mobile broadband battle, offering customers laptops to sign up to its mobile broadband packages. For its "Connected Laptop" packages, Orange is offering residential customers the Asus Eee PC 900 laptop, bundled with its USB dongle for £25 (US$49.9) per month. Business customers will get ...
CommunicationsDirect |
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Internet Exclusive: Texans'92 have one goal in more ways than one
Though the Dallas Texans Red ‘92 club has not scored a barrage of goals so far in the US Youth Soccer National Championships, they are still in prime position to advance to the finals.
Allen American Star |
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by axilmar (1.48) on Tue 18th Jul 2006 08:27 UTC
AI has not happened yet because the brain does not work like a CPU. The brain does not execute instructions. What the brain does is pattern matching on experiences (sight, sound, smell, touch etc).
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Internet Exclusive: Sting '92 is winless, but not hopeless
Despite not picking up a victory in its first two games at the 2008 US Youth Soccer National Championships, Sting ’92 still has an opportunity at the finals with a familiar foe waiting in the wings.
Allen American Star |
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Internet Exclusive: Texans '91 excelling in the big games
Plano West senior Becka Rivera and Plano East senior Marissa Holden make it very difficult for defenses to contain the Dallas Texans Red ’91 club team.
Allen American Star |
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Microsoft defends search investments to analysts
Microsoft's CEO defended the software maker's decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed minimal light Thursday on specific steps it will take to challenge Google in the wake of the failed bid to buy Yahoo.
KATU Portland |
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Internet Exclusive: Sting '90 cruises to the final
Sting ’90 is in a unique position at the 2008 US Youth Soccer National Championships as the squad still has one more pool play game left, but has already clinched a spot in the U18 finals.
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