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Video Chatter TokBox Raises $10 Million Second Round
TokBox, the provider of a simple video chatting service, has raised a $10 million second round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from past backer Sequoia. The company was actually incubated out of Sequoia, which led the firm's initial $4 million round last year. The SF-based firm allows users to embed video communications in various environments, including Facebook, blogs and a ...
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Vonage is first Legacy Partner of Izod Center
EAST RUTHERFORD – Vonage Holdings Corp., the Holmdel-based Internet phone company, has become the first Legacy Partner of the Izod Center at the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
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AT&T Fuels Football Fantasies On TV
AT&T launched an interactive fantasy football application with Yahoo that lets U-verse TV customers receive updates on National Football League players and stats on their televisions.
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SQL Server 2008 Available For Free Public Trial
Users looking to try out Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 can download a fully functional copy free of charge and run it for up to 180 days.
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Conn. regs reject CL&P request after billing error
State regulators have rejected Connecticut Light & Power's request to recoup losses it incurred from a computer-related billing mistake.
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Law students reveal identity of AutoAdmit defendant in new complaint
Two female Yale Law School students who were smeared on the Web forum AutoAdmit in 2005 finally know whom they’re suing for defamation — more than a year after they first filed. An amended complaint filed by the two women Tuesday named one defendant, Matthew C. Ryan, a senior math major at the University of Texas, Austin. The other 38 commenters being sued retained their pseudonyms. Several more ...
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Total Beauty Media Hires VP
Santa Monica-based Total Beauty Media, an online operator of TotalBeauty.com, an online web site focused on creating content for the beauty market, has hired on a new Vice President, the firm told socalTECH today. Total Beauty said that it has hired on Judy Hsieh as Vice President of Online Business Development. Hsieh was most recently at Yahoo's Media Division, and has also previously served at ...
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Customer Service
TOKYO - Police investigations of marijuana use have surged this year in Japan, and authorities say it's partly the result of the easy availability of seeds on the Internet for home cultivation.
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Gotuit and Move Networks Announce Integration Enabling Advanced Advertising and Monetization Capabilities
WOBURN, Mass. and AMERICAN FORK, Utah, BUSINESS WIRE -- Gotuit, the leading provider of video metadata management solutions, and Move Networks, a leading provider of Internet television services, today announced an integration partnership and their first joint customer.
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Microsoft, NBC Collaborate to Make Olympics History
Olympic athletes won't be the only ones sweating in Beijing this week. Microsoft Corp. is also in the spotlight and under pressure to prove itself as the games begin.
HispanicBusiness.com |
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Whom Do We Fear Or Trust?
Princeton psychology researchers have developed a computer program that allows scientists to analyze better than ever before what it is about certain human faces that makes them look either trustworthy or fearsome. In doing so, they have also found that the program allows them to construct computer-generated faces that display the most trustworthy or dominant faces possible.
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Onstream Media Awarded Three New Public Sector Contracts
Onstream Media Corporation , an online service provider of live and on-demand Internet video, today announced that it has been awarded three new multi-year public sector webcasting services contracts.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Next-generation Computer Antivirus System Developed
Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection.
Science Daily |
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Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. It's funny because it's true . Present company excluded, of course. (Via Sarah) Speaking of internet truths, we're sure you already know that for every incredibly odd and unlikely pass-time you can imagine, there is a website for it. Case in point: Hats of Meat , which celebrates making and wearing hats made out of raw ...
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Quantum Computers Are One Step Closer
Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster because of new research. The reality of a workable quantum computer is one step closer. Researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible to make these computers in silicon rather than a vacuum, which has been the focus of previous research.
Science Daily |
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English 'Lord' puts life up for sale on eBay
An eccentric British millionaire has put his entire life up for sale on the Internet -- including his title of Lord of the Manor of Warleigh — in the hope of converting his assets into cash.
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Intellectual Property
In a long-awaited ruling, the Second Circuit held on Monday that unauthorized reproductions of data, such as digital movie files, in computer buffers are not infringing copies because they are not fixed "for a period of more than transitory duration."
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If Nextel sells, does Sprint go to Google?
Following Sprint's disclosure that Nextel might still be up for sale, analysts and others are speculating that Sprint itself might get sold later. One opens up speculation again that Google might purchase Sprint post Nextel.
The Kansas City Star |
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Internet flaw a boon to hackers
Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an Internet flaw that lets hackers hijack traffic on the World Wide Web.
Canada.com |
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Southwest Airlines Holds Online Casting Call for Ultimate Blog-o-spondent
America holds auditions for hot new models, undiscovered singers, and dancers who want to make it big.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Popular business directory searches
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Google Gives Marketers More Ways to Suss Out Search Terms
Google has unveiled Insights for Search, a new tool designed for marketers. One result could be a more attractive and narrowly targeted proposition for online advertisers using Google's AdWords program. Users of Insights for Search can type in a search term to see search volume patterns over time -- in much the same way they can with Google Trends -- along with the top related and "rising" ...
E-Commerce Times |
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Rural high-speed broadband internet proposal for county
Wellington County, in partnership with Wellington Water loo Community Futures is preparing a proposal to receive funding from a $30-million broadband initiative to bring high-speed internet to rural communities. The need for rural high-speed internet is great.
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Voice-to-text '3x faster than typing'
Clive Akass, Personal Computer World , Thursday 7 August 2008 at 17:01:00 Latest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking also makes correction easier, says Nuance A new release of market-leading voice recognition software Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) can transcribe your dictation three times faster than most people can type, says publisher Nuance....
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SMCI stock up after 4Q earnings beat expectations
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of Super Micro Computer Inc. rallied Thursday, a day after the maker of servers reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that beat expectations.
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