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Linux may soon have a stronger open-source competitor on the desktop if FreeBSD's plans come to fruition. FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux . "Lots of work is going on to make FreeBSD more friendly on the desktop," Long said.
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Former Google Employee Anna Patterson Launches Competing ‘Cool’ Search
A former Google employee has launched a new search engine to compete against the massive Internet presence of her former employer. Anna Patterson and her husband, Tom Costello , developed the Cuil search engine (pronounced ‘cool’) with the intention of indexing more websites than Google and providing more accurate results for search users.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2006 17:59 UTC
"With Opera recently releasing their web browser completely free of Ads, it is a good time to let the truth be told. Not only is Opera faster then Firefox in all performance areas, it is much more secure and more compliant."
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Norton Safe Web Searches Sites for Malware
Symantec on Monday opened public beta testing of a new site-reputation plug-in called Norton Safe Web.
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Voodoo’s Envy 133 really is more beautiful than the MacBook Air
Voodoo, the boutique end of HP, has been designing crazy computers for a while, and HP’s almost unlimited resources have now allowed it to make an even crazier laptop. We first wrote about the ultra-portable Envy 133 back on June 10th and now take a closer look at Voodoo’s MacBook Air-killer.
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Wireless Leads Verizon to Q2 Profit Gain
Verizon Communications beat Wall Street expectations on Monday, thanks to a strong showing by its wireless business. Second-quarter revenue grew to $24.1 billion, a 3.7 percent increase compared with the same period a year ago. Second-quarter earnings grew to $1.88 billion, up from $1.68 billion during the same period a year ago.
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China Has More Internet Users Than U.S.
Chinese consulting firm BDA also says that China has the world's largest number of mobile phone users, with about 560 million subscribers.
InformationWeek |
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Verizon Quarterly Profit Gains, Led By Wireless
Verizon Communications Monday said quarterly profit rose on strong wireless sales, shrugging off the impact of a weaker economy and offsetting a fall in landline users.
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Yahoo Music to offer refunds, what about MSN?
Yahoo is setting a new standard for music services that stop issuing authorization keys for songs sold that are laced with copyright protection software.
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Former Googleers Unveil Search Engine Called Cuil
A startup led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.
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BrowseRank The Next PageRank, Says Microsoft
It shouldn’t be the links that come in, but the time spent browsing a relevant page, that should help determine where a page ranks for a given query. read more
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Need for speed behind Comcast’s latest plan
Cable and broadband provider Comcast today said it has doubled download speeds of its fastest tier of Internet service.
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Watch this week's hard-to-see solar eclipse on Internet
Friday's total solar eclipse can only be seen in mostly remote places, including the tip of Greenland and the Gobi desert. For those who can't be there, it will be shown live on the Internet.
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Friday's remote solar eclipse will be on Internet
A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth's skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and expensive for people to see it. The total blotting out of the sun, which occurs when the moon's dark inner shadow falls on parts of the Earth, can only be seen in mostly remote places: the northeastern edge of Canada, the tip of ...
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Yahoo To Reimburse Customers Of DRM-Protected Music
The company said its digital rights management servers would be taken down, severely limiting the use of the files.
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Microsoft Becomes Official Apache Sponsor
Microsoft said it's putting a wide range of protocols that were formerly in the Communications Protocol Program under the Open Specification Promise.
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Left Coast Productions Launches 'Your Indies Are Showing' - First-of-its Kind Website For Online Independent ...
With more than 85 million people worldwide watching independent movies online each month, a Danville, California company has launched what it hopes will one day be the Internet equivalent of "Siskel & Ebert" or TV Guide -- "Your Indies are Showing" .
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Friday's remote solar eclipse will be on Internet
A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth's skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and expensive for people to see it. The total blotting out of the sun, which occurs when the moon's...
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Senators Threaten Ban On 'Net Data Disclosures To Foreign Governments
Sens. Dick Durbin and Tom Coburn ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, and Google chief Eric Schmidt not to help censor or repress Internet users.
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Microsoft 'Done' With Yahoo, Ballmer Says
The Microsoft CEO dismissed Yahoo as a major player in the Internet business, despite previously offering more than $40 billion for the company.
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After Hours: Amgen, EDS, Mosaic slated to release quarterly results
Biotech firm Amgen Inc. and computer services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp. are among the companies set to release financial results during the after-hours trading session.
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Google Wants You To Be Your Own ISP
Vint Cerf slams the telecoms, which aren't happy that bits have been commoditized and would like to shape industry regulations to help them to get back in the services game.
InformationWeek |
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Microsoft Says Chances Of Yahoo Takeover Negligible
The company's CFO described its rival as "a declining asset" and all but ruled out a complete takeover of the Internet company.
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Next MacBooks to tout glass trackpads?
The next generation of MacBooks will mark a radical change to the company's trackpad design, says a new rumor. Both the regular MacBook and the MacBook Pro will allegedly switch to glass-surfaced trackpads that allow multi-touch gestures. It's unspecified as to whether the change will also add new gestures beyond the simpler pinch, rotate, and sw...
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Digital Revolution Could Be Olympics' Salvation
The Olympic Games will be played out on Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr, one Web-based video marketing executive asserts.
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