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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 11:46pm CEST
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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 11:14pm CEST
A report in Broadcasting & Cable yesterday quoted Bob Zitter, Chief Technology Officer for HBO, speaking at a cable broadcaster's conference in Las Vegas last Tuesday, as suggesting that customers might accept the concept of digital rights management if it were named something else.
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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 10:50pm CEST
For the month of March, Apple was the fourth largest seller of notebook computers, grabbing nearly 10 percent of the market behind Gateway, Toshiba and HP. The retail numbers, consolidated by NPD Group, do not include Dell, which only sells directly.
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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 9:42pm CEST
On the same day Google rejected an anti-censorship petition from shareholders that could have prevented the company from operating in China, the search giant's YouTube property agreed to take down video clips deemed offensive to Thailand's king Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 9:24pm CEST
A Google shareholders' resolution put forth by representatives of New York City pension funds, which would have mandated the company would not store personal data on servers housed in countries where Internet management may be monitored by the state, was apparently rejected yesterday during the company's annual stockholder's meeting, based on the recommendations of its board of directors.
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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 8:16pm CEST
A bill that would require all polling places for federal elections to produce paper ballots for voters' inspection prior to casting their vote, passed a critical test in the House Administration Committee on Tuesday. From here, the bill proceeds to a vote of the full House, which could come as soon as next week.
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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 6:13pm CEST
After Bill Gates had proclaimed WinFS in 2005 to be the game-changing component for his future vision of Windows Vista, developers were curious to find out how something that monumental would manage to move mountains as part of a database manager rather than an operating system. How much of Gates' vision survived the exodus? The answer may be surprising.
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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 6:08pm CEST
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Thursday that new top-level domain names for general use could be live by summer of 2008, and invited public comment on procedures for creating the new domains - the first since 2000.
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Publié: mai 11, 2007, 5:44pm CEST
During its quarterly earnings call Thursday, Vonage chief executive Jeffrey Citron acknowledged that the company's patent fight against Verizon has hurt profit margins, but says it has developed workarounds for two of the three patents in question.