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Gannett makes minority investment in Mogulus
(AP:NEW YORK) News media company Gannett Co. said Monday it made a minority investment in Mogulus, a New York-based Internet video platform. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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JuiceCaster Adds Tata to List
SINGAPORE -- Tata Teleservices, has launched JuiceCaster – a mobile blogging application, which enables subscribers to share images, videos and text on the Internet from their mobile phones.
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Friday's remote solar eclipse may be seen in northeast Canada or 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 difficult and expensive for people to see it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Sep 2005 11:08 UTC
" Another interesting announcement here at PDC is that Microsoft is creating a subset of their cool, fancy pants UI layer (formerly code-named Avalon, now WPF) on other platforms, including the Mac! In fact, one of the demos involved showing vector graphics rendered in Safari using a Microsoft plug-in."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 19th Jun 2007 22:05 UTC
Pocket Informant is one of the most successful PDA applications ever. However, it has not been immune to software piracy. The CEO of WebIS posted an open letter explaining how software piracy is hurting the industry, but also the consumer too and especially small software houses like his.
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Gartner Predicts $100 Notebook Will Take Years To Achieve
The research firm says the industry needs to also answer questions on power availability and the cost and availability of Internet connections.
InformationWeek |
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Microsoft Feathers Apache's Nest
In a somewhat surprising move from a company that rattled sabers with what seemed like the entire open source software world last year, Microsoft has become a sponsor of the open source Apache Software Foundation and has opened up some of its protocols for use by OSS developers. Microsoft's Sam Ramji, director of the company's Open Source Software Lab, made the announcement at OSCON.
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Recycling fanatic advocates sustainable living
POTTSTOWN, Pa.—Jim Crater is a man who recycles fishing line. He's got his household trash down to eight pounds. A year.
Lebanon Daily News |
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Yahoo to Offer Refunds for Ex-Yahoo Music Customers
Yahoo will offer refunds to people who purchased individual tracks from Yahoo Music and who stand to lose access to that music when Yahoo Music is folded into Rhapsody in September.
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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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Georgia Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday Begins Thursday
According to a release from Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue's office, Georgia shoppers will be able to purchase certain clothing items, schools supplies, computers and computer accessories without paying state and local sales tax during the state's seventh annual tax-free holiday, which begins at 12:01 a.m. July 31 and continues until midnight August 3.
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Police link US man's computer to India bomb e-mail
Police raided the home of an American citizen in Mumbai, India's financial capital, and seized a computer from which an e-mail claiming responsibility for bombings that killed 45 people in western India was believed to have been sent, officials said Monday.
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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.
InformationWeek |
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Yahoo Music Does the Right Thing: Issues Refunds to Customers
Last Thursday, we reported that Yahoo Music was going to shut down its store and DRM licensing servers on September 30, which was basically going to leave anybody who ever bought music from the Yahoo Music Store without a license to play their music. Now, however, Yahoo has announced that it will issue a refund to its customers for the full value of their purchases. According to a report on ...
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Caught in the Net? The onus is yours
Can security agencies arrest you if an e-mail sent from your computer implicates you in a case of cyber-terrorism? Currently, the answer appears to be “yes” despite the fact that e-mail IDs can be spoofed (faked) and IP addresses (your computer's identity when surfing) manipulated with ease.
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Verizon profit rises, but wireline disappoints
Verizon Communications Inc posted a higher quarterly profit on strong wireless sales, but its shares fell on worries about its declining landlines and weaker-than-expected growth in its FiOS Internet and video service.
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SISD site to promote new leadership
The Sweetwater Independent School District will have a new look on the World Wide Web beginning Monday, Aug. 4. The school district's new Web site, www.sweetwaterisd.net, will launch at 8 a.m. on Aug. 4 to help promote the new leadership.
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Microsoft's Answer To Google's PageRank Algorithm: Less Privacy?
BrowseRank, Microsoft claims, can deliver better search results by measuring user behavior, including where users go and the amount of time they remain at those pages.
InformationWeek |
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Mathew Ingram: Randy Pausch and the Power of Digital Media
Could something like Randy Pausch's last lecture ever have become as widespread a phenomenon without YouTube and the Internet? I can't see how.
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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.
InformationWeek |
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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.
InformationWeek |
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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.
InformationWeek |
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Battlestations: Midway demo goes online
Though having released the full game last month, Feral has just today published a free demo version of Battlestations: Midway, its World War II action game. Players fight a variety of battles in the Pacific theater of the war, switching between warships, aircraft and submarines as the ebb of fighting dictates. The full game is said to have over 6...
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Government Computer News
Ooh la la, LaCie! The company’s d2 Quadra external hard disk holds a terabyte of data in a speedy, elegantly designed, feature-packed drive. Its flexibility, because it works with both Macintosh and PC platforms, is merveilleux , as we say à Paris.
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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.
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