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Publié: juin 30, 2007, 8:35am CEST
While the masses swarmed Fifth Ave, the iPhone's true success will be decided by the rest of America. Whether in rural Virginia, central Pennsylvania, or small-town Indiana, crowds turned out to be the first to own Apple's new device.
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Publié: juin 30, 2007, 8:07am CEST
The big iPhone clock counted down, and the chants of "iPhone iPhone!" inside the store were beginning to be heard outside in the mall. Potential customers who were in the front of the line had mouths half-agape, and the gate slowly raised.
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Publié: juin 30, 2007, 7:53am CEST
In retrospect, Apple should have made a disclaimer before the iPhone went on sale Friday at 6pm: If you want an iPhone, don't go to an AT&T store. Hoping to avoid massive crowds, many iPhone buyers ventured to smaller AT&T stores, like the one in Asburn, Virginia. But it turns out the real stock was located at Apple's own stores, and standing in line was not a requirement.
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Publié: juin 30, 2007, 7:12am CEST
For over 75 people lined up at the AT&T store in Ashburn, Virginia -- a major technology center and nearby to companies such as AOL -- excitement quickly turned to anger as dozens who waited over five hours were left without an iPhone due to the store's paltry stock of just 14 phones.
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Publié: juin 30, 2007, 4:48am CEST
A few dozen people waited in line since early afternoon outside an AT&T store in Columbus, Indiana. At a few minutes past six o'clock, twelve were let in at a time, and in only a half hour's time, everyone in line plus at least ten others walked out with an iPhone and accessories. There were no hitches, and plenty of smiling faces. So why isn't it like this everywhere else in the country?
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 11:05pm CEST
A state appeals court this week in California upheld a ruling against a man who broke into the apartment of a woman he met through an online dating service, which may result in a life sentence due to their "three strikes" law.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 10:28pm CEST
For all the buzz surrounding the iPhone, the reception here in Reading, a town about 65 miles northwest of Philadelphia has been somewhat muted.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 9:24pm CEST
A meeting of ECMA International Technical Committee 46 will be convened next month in Cambridge, to begin the drafting process for an independent specification for "XML Paper" or XPS - the typeset document standard created by Microsoft as an alternative to Adobe's PDF format.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 9:01pm CEST
Last week, as we reported, Qualcomm's request for a stay of injunction against the sale of certain of its chips in the US was denied, and that denial was upheld by the International Trade Commission. This after the company was found to have infringed upon three Broadcom patents. At that time, Broadcom said it was open to seeking a negotiated settlement with Broadcom.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 7:04pm CEST
Although its more commonly known for its floor-cleaning robots, iRobot also contracts out to law enforcement and the Pentagon. A new robot could soon be armed to assist soldiers and law enforcement.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 7:00pm CEST
There were at least a handful of folks outside the Apple Store at Keystone at the Crossing Mall in Indianapolis as early as 4 a.m. this morning, before a security crew politely told them to return at 7. They did as told, and were met by another handful of reporters from early morning local TV news. Perhaps it was the bright spotlights and the microwave truck that helped it sink in for them: They were present for history...or at least as much history as you could find at the crack of dawn in a mall parking lot.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 5:54pm CEST
Toshiba continued to press forward with its HD DVD format, saying Friday that it had added functionality that allows set-top player owners to access exclusive web content.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 5:46pm CEST
According to Web statistics firm Netcraft, about 2,600 Web sites are already using Windows Server 2008 with Internet Information Server 7.0, including Microsoft's main site.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 5:31pm CEST
Apple released an update for iTunes on Friday in preparation for the iPhone. Version 7.3 allows the user to activate their iPhone service through the application.
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Publié: juin 29, 2007, 12:21am CEST
Lawmakers debating whether Congress should stop the imposition of dramatically higher royalties on Internet streaming music providers heard testimony this morning from people involved in small businesses throughout the independent music economy.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 11:20pm CEST
With a minimum of fanfare, the licensing body for the developers of a supplemental copy protection technology exclusively for Blu-ray Disc announced its initial specification for BD+ - which supporters had hoped would be available early last year - is finally ready for licensing to developers.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 9:22pm CEST
A group of Windows enthusiasts that wanted to attempt to bring back features cut out of Vista through a modified version of Longhorn code circa 2004 found out Microsoft didn't take too kindly to it.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 9:21pm CEST
After having waited for a jury's verdict last month to withstand judicial review, the International Trade Commission this morning upheld a decision to ban the import of certain goods containing Qualcomm chipsets into the US. The banned devices are mobile handsets whose use of EV-DO and W-CDMA technology was found to have infringed upon three of Broadcom's patents.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 8:38pm CEST
iTunes' dominance in the music industry continues to grow, data from the NPD Group showed Friday. Apple surpassed Amazon as the third largest retailer for music sales in the first quarter of the year, with 9.8 percent of the overall market.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 8:27pm CEST
Apple on Friday provided the most in-depth look at the iPhone, one week before the device debuts at AT&T and Apple stores across the United States. A 20-minute tour posted to the company's Web site showcases the various features of the iPhone and explains how to use the touch screen.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 6:51pm CEST
A status report released yesterday by the director of Microsoft's Security Technology Unit contends that, over the first six months of its shelf life, Windows Vista was proven more secure than its competitors during their first six months, and more secure than Windows XP after its debut, by virtue of the sole fact that fewer Vista vulnerabilities were entered into the National Vulnerability Database.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 6:49pm CEST
Cablevision stepped up the battle to attract high-definition customers on Friday, saying it would have the capability to carry more than 500 channels of HD programming by the end of this year.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 6:37pm CEST
eBay said Friday that it planned to re-enter the Chinese market this summer, just seven months after it announced its plans to close its own site and hand the reigns over to Beijing-based Tom Online.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 6:29pm CEST
Responding to customer requests for less preinstalled software on its machines, Dell will now offer its customers an option to select "no software preinstalled" when purchasing Inspiron notebooks or Dimension desktops.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 6:20pm CEST
Mandriva has become the latest Linux vendor to publicly refute speculation that it will join Novell, Xandros and Linspire in signing a patent covenant with Microsoft, in which the Redmond company agrees not to sue for potential intellectual property infringement.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 6:09pm CEST
The future of Take-Two's Manhunt 2 came into some doubt Thursday after the game developer decided to hold off on releasing the game. Originally scheduled for July 10, it is now unclear when the game will be released.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 5:58pm CEST
Nuance Communications has agreed to purchase Tegic Communications from AOL for $265 million, the companies reported Friday. Tegic, a little-known subsidiary of AOL, makes the T9 text input software common on mobile phones, as well as a touch input solution.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 5:30pm CEST
Fon said Friday it had begun offering 'La Fontenna,' a directional antenna that could be attached to the routers the company offers along with its service. A coverage gain of about 3 to 5 times the typical range of the router is realized.
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Publié: juin 22, 2007, 12:45am CEST
When Jerry Yang stepped into the Yahoo CEO seat vacated earlier this week by Terry Semel, analysts said his goal may very well be to move Yahoo away from its all-things-media evolutionary path, and return it to its roots in search. If that's the case, then Yahoo has its work cut out for it, if today's numbers from Nielsen/NetRatings are to be taken seriously.
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Publié: juin 21, 2007, 11:44pm CEST
Hoping to one-up Apple with its recent move away from digital rights management, high-quality music site MusicGiants began offering DRM-free music recently with the release of Paul McCartney's newest album, Memory Almost Full.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 10:58pm CEST
After what may have been the weakest show of support for the company's executive team in last week's shareholders' meeting, Terry Semel has resigned the post of CEO of Yahoo this afternoon, as has accepted the post of non-executive chairman of the company's board of directors. The company's co-founder and "co-chief Yahoo," Jerry Yang, will take Semel's place.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 10:25pm CEST
This morning, chipset Alereon announced its own attempt at a brute-force solution to dilemma of the lack of a global standard for wireless device connectivity. It will produce a UWB chipset that supports all 14 of the world's known frequency bands simultaneously.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 10:03pm CEST
Don't expect a patent deal between Microsoft and Ubuntu Linux distributor Canonical anytime soon. CEO Mark Shuttleworth says he won't pay for something he thinks has no legal merit.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 8:58pm CEST
Apple said Monday that the estimated battery life of the iPhone will be about two hours longer than initially anticipated, along with its plastic face being upgraded to optical-quality glass.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 7:09pm CEST
Microsoft's recent successes in the IPTV field have thus far failed to guarantee its seat in that market, especially in Europe where digital video is far more widely deployed. So this morning's announcement of Microsoft's new "Mediaroom" brand for IPTV services is undoubtedly being dissected in Europe, with every sentence being re-examined to glean any hint of the company's long-term plans.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 6:58pm CEST
Sprint on Monday introduced the Mogul, the company's first Windows Mobile 6 device that will support its enhanced EV-DO Revision A network. However, the capability will require a software upgrade.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 6:20pm CEST
Microsoft launched its redesigned mobile portal on Monday, which adds some new functionality in an effort to get ahead of its competitors in a growing market.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 5:35pm CEST
Yahoo's Japanese arm said Monday that it had entered into an agreement with Apple to direct searchers for music at the search company's Japanese portal to tracks on iTunes Japan.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 5:25pm CEST
Sony has decided to give up on the music and video download business, choosing to focus on its struggling PlayStation group instead. The closing of Connect would also mean the loss of at least 20 jobs, paidcontent.org reported over the weekend.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 5:21pm CEST
This morning, US movie rental giant Blockbuster announced that 18% of its retail outlets will expand their offerings to include Blu-ray titles only, at least for now. With retail shelf space a premium commodity in today's market, it's a big gamble for Blockbuster, but the very fact that it's willing to take that gamble may have just tipped the scales in the high-def battle.
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Publié: juin 18, 2007, 5:09pm CEST
Apple's next moves may be into the on-board automobile computer segment, German magazine Focus reported on Sunday.
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Publié: juin 16, 2007, 1:17am CEST
Certainly no one likes spyware so since mid-May, a trio of bills have been introduced before Congress. All three will face the Senate next week, including two competing versions passed by the House, and an entirely new Senate bill whose ink isn't even dry enough for its prototype language to enter the Congressional Record.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 10:23pm CEST
Saying the functionality within the application is now available through other programs and within Windows Vista, Microsoft has decided to discontinue its Digital Image Suite Product, a notice on its Web site reads.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 9:43pm CEST
Microsoft fired back at Google's attempts to have antitrust regulators take a second look at Vista's search capabilities, calling the search giant's claims "baseless."
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 9:21pm CEST
In an interview with BetaNews earlier this week, Microsoft General Manager for Interoperability and Standards Tom Robertson told us in response to a question about who truly determines standards, that Microsoft believes people make the final decision - not companies, not countries, and perhaps not really agencies.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 9:12pm CEST
It did not take very long for data released by MySpace on sex offenders to be used in the apprehension of those who are using the site in violation of their parole or probation rules.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 6:42pm CEST
Sony CEO Howard Stringer admitted in an interview that the price of the PlayStation 3 needs to come down, but provided no estimate as to how much of a price drop consumers can expect.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 6:28pm CEST
Expedia subsidiary TripAdvisor rolled out social networking functionality on its site Friday that allows users to filter out reviews from people they may not know, giving reviews from friends priority.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 6:09pm CEST
In a policy document specifically timed for release this afternoon, Microsoft's general managers for interoperability, Tom Robertson and Jean Paoli, make a play for ownership of the standards issue facing users of competing document formats, by saying the company would support ratification of its own Open XML format along with OpenDocument Format (ODF) as ISO standards, if and only if doing so would promote choice among the world's consumers.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 5:28pm CEST
Despite security concerns and Microsoft pundits like Paul Thurrott wondering "who would ever use" it, Safari 3 Beta for Windows was downloaded over 1 million times in the first 48 hours, Apple announced. The company continues to tout the speed and standards support of its browser, which was previously Mac-only.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 4:47pm CEST
The first day of an important Linux developers' conference was launched yesterday on the campus of Google headquarters in Mountain View. That conference made major headlines yesterday - though for reasons that reality shows us may not have been legitimate.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 4:30pm CEST
The FTC plans to look into Microsoft and Yahoo's recent buys of Web advertising companies in a comprehensive review to check for possible antitrust concerns, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 4:00pm CEST
European customers can now download an unlimited amount of music to their phones thanks to a new service called MusicStation. The service debuted in Sweden on Thursday, and will launch in markets across the rest of Europe, Asia, and Africa over the next several months.
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 12:45am CEST
If anything's been lacking in US government agencies' ongoing fight against malicious Internet use, it's a good, old-fashioned public awareness campaign. Yesterday, in an effort to turn up the volume and give local TV news writers a more tangible vocabulary for malicious users, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced interim results of its ongoing efforts to track down and arrest suspected "bot-herders."
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Publié: juin 15, 2007, 12:06am CEST
The Bush administration is none too happy with legislation that is making its way through Congress which could shield many news gatherers from revealing their confidential sources, calling it a security risk.
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Publié: juin 14, 2007, 10:19pm CEST
This morning, Kodak confirmed the readiness of a technology with multiple patents apparently attached, that will add a panchromatic element to the single image sensors mass-produced for digital cameras. Such an element could conceivably increase cameras' sensitivity to light by two to four times. But BetaNews also discovered evidence of Kodak's plans to cash in on this and other technologies.
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Publié: juin 12, 2007, 12:15am CEST
Adobe took the wraps off of AIR on Monday, its cross-operating system platform formerly known as "Apollo" that allows developers to use Web-centric programming languages and environments to create desktop applications.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 11:40pm CEST
Finally emerging from beta after Microsoft told an already anxious customer base in May of last year it would eventually be available early in first quarter 2007, Service Pack 1 of Virtual Server 2005 R2 has at last emerged from beta. But some customers looking for a feature that Microsoft brochures said it has may be disappointed today to learn they really should have said it's a feature that SP1 supports (big difference): Volume Shadow Services.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 10:09pm CEST
Last week, the US Patent and Trademark Office announced its official support of a Web site whose purpose will be to encourage citizens to assess the validity of patent applications for themselves, and issue challenges where necessary. The notice gives the go-ahead to a New York Law School project to build an open-source-like patent review community.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 9:59pm CEST
The HD DVD Promotions Group said Monday that its strategy of price cuts seems to be paying off - sales have skyrocketed, it claims.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 8:21pm CEST
WWDC 2007 - Responding to feedback from developers, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Monday that the company would open up the iPhone platform for third party application. The initial concern with such a capability was security, but Jobs says Apple came up with "a very sweet solution."
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 8:13pm CEST
WWDC 2007 - In a surprise "One more thing..." announcement at its Worldwide Developer Conference Monday, Apple says it will release version 3 of its Safari Web browser with Leopard in October, as well as a version for Windows XP and Vista.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 7:57pm CEST
WWDC 2007 - At its annual Worldwide Developer Conference Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs provided the final look at Mac OS X 10.5, code-named "Leopard," before the new operating system ships in October. He demoed 10 out of what he says are 300 new features.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 7:56pm CEST
With its upgrade to Cayman complete, AOL is focusing on adding features to its web e-mail client that will help it to catch up and surpass its competitors in features.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 7:27pm CEST
WWDC 2007 - For many, the biggest complaint about the Mac is it's lack of games. Apple wants to change that. The company said Monday that EA Games would return to the platform in addition to several other game developers.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 7:21pm CEST
Video codec company DivX is seeking individuals to help beta test some "secret stuff" the company is concocting in its labs. Although it's not saying what software (or hardware) products it plans to test, DivX has built a streaming media set-top box code-named GejBox, after DivX's creator.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 6:53pm CEST
Microsoft quietly hired a former senior Linux engineer last week who will be tasked with running the company's joint research lab with partner Novell.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 6:25pm CEST
The New York Times revealed Saturday that Google was the unidentified party mentioned in a US Dept. of Justice status report last March as having lodged a "middleware-related complaint" against Microsoft. In addition, a memo by a key antitrust enforcement official that the Times also turned up, rejecting Google's arguments and advising states' prosecutors to reject them as well.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 6:22pm CEST
Google is being taken to task by a UK-based privacy group over its apparent lack of a commitment to the privacy of its users. However, the company is doing what it can do discredit the report.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 5:45pm CEST
Yahoo criticized the Chinese government on Monday, saying it shouldn't curtail its citizens' rights to free speech, just one day after it was sued by the mother of a jailed journalist.
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Publié: juin 11, 2007, 5:32pm CEST
The legal battle between Nokia and Qualcomm further heated up on Monday as Nokia sued over patent infringement in the chipmaker's MediaFLO and BREW technologies.
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Publié: juin 2, 2007, 1:16am CEST
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver. Will they be willing to make changes in their development strategies? We may find out next week at TechEd 2007 in Orlando.
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Publié: juin 1, 2007, 7:58pm CEST
Saying current standards for cellular E911 are not enough, the Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to push for better accuracy in pinpointing a cellular user's location.
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Publié: juin 1, 2007, 6:48pm CEST
Calling the imposition of tremendously increased royalty fees on music webcasters "arbitrary and capricious," a group of organizations and companies with streaming radio interests, including the Digital Music Association, AccuRadio, and National Public Radio, filed a petition for an emergency stay before the US Court of Appeals in D.C., of the order imposing new performance royalty fees on online streaming music providers.
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Publié: juin 1, 2007, 6:36pm CEST
LiveJournal has decided to restore access to some of the 500 Web logs it had suspended as part of an effort to crack down on pedophilia and to "protect children," following a revolt by its users.
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Publié: juin 1, 2007, 6:03pm CEST
After the publication yesterday of what the Free Software Foundation terms as a "last call draft" - a final version for comments and revisions by the public - of the next version of the General Public License, Novell stated on its corporate blog that it's pleased to discover that draft language it believed would threaten its Linux business has apparently been removed.
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Publié: juin 1, 2007, 5:55pm CEST
ChoicePoint has settled with 44 states over its loss of data on 145,000 consumers. The company is also to pay about $500,000 in fines. As part of the agreement, ChoicePoint will put in place better security to protect consumer data.