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Microsoft's Unangst On The PC, Xbox 360 Multiplayer Cost Divide
Microsoft recently moved its Games for Windows Live online framework to a free service, and has stressed enhancing its similarities, both for developers and consumers, to the Xbox 360's Live environment. But now there's one major difference: the PC service is now free; Xbox 360 multiplayer gaming and some (but not all) elements of Xbox Live is not. An Unavoidable Necessity Microsoft's Games ...
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Intelligent Beauty Takes $43M
El Segundo-based Intelligent Beauty, which is developing Internet marketing and e-commerce services focused on the beauty industry, has raised $43M in a venture round, the firm announced Wednesday. The funding came from Technology Crossover Ventures. According to the firm, the funding will go to assist with the company's rapid growth. Intelligent Beauty now has 185 employees, up significantly ...
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Prosecutors Take Down Alleged Online Scam
Ad Surf Daily billed itself as an online advertising service relying on Web video to spread the word. Feds call it a Ponzi scheme
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Punters fed up with having to take their laptops out of their bags for airport security checks might be relieved to know that change might be in the air.
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Facebook designs program to let employees cash in
Facebook, operator of the most popular social-networking site, will allow employees to cash in on their ownership stakes in the company.
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CyberLink BD Advisor 2 Tests PCs for Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 (BD-Live) Readiness
TAIPEI, Taiwan, BUSINESS WIRE -- CyberLink Corp. (TSE:5203), innovative solution provider for the connected digital lifestyle, today announced its release of CyberLink BD Advisor 2, the self-diagnostic tool that helps users identify if their system is able to play advanced Blu-ray Disc content such as interactive BD-Live features and Picture-in-Picture (PiP) movie commentary.
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Google starts service pointing Chinese users to music
Google is working with a Chinese music service to point users to free music downloads, aiming to add customers in the fastest-growing major economy.
San Jose Mercury News |
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'Funny or Die': Paris Hilton for president
Paris Hilton has a campaign video on the comedy Web site "Funny or Die," a response the John McCain ad that compared Barack Obama's celebrity status to that of Hilton and Britney Spears.
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CCTV Selects SafeNet to Secure Online Broadcast of the 2008 Summer Olympics
BALTIMORE, BUSINESS WIRE -- SafeNet, Inc. a global leader in information security, today announced that CCTV, the national television network of the People's Republic of China, has selected SafeNet's Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution to provide copyright protection for live and on-demand online video footage of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
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New applications halted for airport 'fast pass'
A misplaced laptop at San Francisco International Airport containing more than 33,000 names of new applicants to the government's "fast pass" airport security lanes program has caused the Transportation Security Administration to halt applications nationwide pending an investigation.
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Local Shopping Coming To A Mobile Phone Near You
For some time I've tried to argue that product search is part of "local search," because 90 percent or more of all products searched for online are purchased in physical stores. This is a neglected part of the local search story, which has heretofore largely been about "plumbers and pizza." But the internet is fundamentally a research tool that drives offline transactions. E-commerce is, ...
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Airwide Solutions Appoints Chris Lennartz as Vice President of Product Marketing
Airwide® Solutions, the leading provider of next-generation mobile messaging and mobile internet infrastructure, applications and solutions, today announced that Chris Lennartz has joined the company as Vice President of Product Marketing, bringing extensive experience in mobile internet and mobile messaging strategy, along with market and product development to Airwide's global marketing team.
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Google offers music search service in China
Google has launched a free music search service in China in partnership with a website backed by investors who include basketball star Yao Ming.
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Encyclopedia versus laptop
Education now is quite different than it was during my school days. Of course, according to my son, I graduated from Neanderthal High with Fred Flintstone and my diploma was a chiseled slab of granite.
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Commission on Presidential Debates Announces Internet Educational Partnership With MySpace
Paul G. Kirk, Jr. and Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chairmen of the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) today announced an Internet educational partnership with MySpace for the 2008 general election debates. The project is the result of a ten-month collaboration between the CPD and BBH New York, an advertising and media agency working with the CPD as new media advisor and ...
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UBS says Microsoft aims for $20 billion buyback: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will buy back as much as $20 billion of its stock to boost its flagging share price, Bloomberg News quoted a top-rated software analyst as saying.
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NASA Orion Parachute Test Vehicle Fails Drop Test
All but one of the 18 parachutes inflated. The parachute responsible for getting the mockup to the correct test conditions - called a programmer chute - did not inflate during the test. As a result, the test failed.
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BCE 2Q Net Excl Items Falls; Wireless Operations Strong
Montreal's BCE posted second-quarter earnings before items that were slightly below year-earlier levels, though results from its wireless business were strong.
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Nigeria: Centre for ICT Excellence Endorses Cyber Security Conference
The India-Ghana Koffi Annan Centre for ICT Excellence in Accra, Ghana, has officially endorsed the scheduled National Conference on CyberCrime and Cyber Security holding mid-August in Abuja, Nigeria. Earlier on, the Federal Ministry of Justice and NITDA had taken the lead as National Champions.
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Bright House offers coverage of Olympics
Bright House Networks will offer broadcast and Internet coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Orlando Business Journal |
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New Google box for offices can search 10 million files
Google said it is an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its sells to companies and government organizations for Google-style Web search of office documents. SAN FRANCISCO--Google said on Tuesday it is an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its sells to companies and government...
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Revised count of Yahoo shareholder vote reveals more disdain for Yang, chairman
More than a third of Yahoo's shareholders signaled their opposition to Jerry Yang's re-election to the board of directors, the company said Tuesday, far higher than originally reported and a stinging rebuke to his leadership of the Internet giant.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Nigeria: For Glo Gateway, a Time to Build Capacity for Country And Continent
APART from poverty which ruins the life of the ordinary African, Bandwith is one essential commodity the continent lacks. It is accountable for most of the woes with communications which only very few countries have been able to address partially.
AllAfrica.com |
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Role of big donors rising for Obama
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Probable Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama is relying on traditional big-money donors as well as small gifts from Internet users, records show.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Jan 2006 23:44 UTC, submitted by Derek Newhall
After 2 years of examination the U.S Patent and Trademark Office has reversed its two earlier unofficial decisions and decided that Microsoft's File Allocation Table file system constitutes a "novel and non-obvious" system enabling it to be patented.
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