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Publié: mars 26, 2008, 1:54pm CET
Friendfeed, a service that turns updates to sites such as YouTube, Yelp, Flickr, and Twitter into one single feed, announced that its blog headlines will now feature Disqus' comments from users' friends.
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Publié: mars 26, 2008, 1:52pm CET
Fully 41 percent of TV owners in the US now possess a high definition TV, yet only 56 percent of those same consumers subscribe to an HD programming package, according to a new survey by ABI Research.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 11:15pm CET
It's the language that Microsoft's opponents in Europe claim the company is using as a possible proprietary bypass of HTML. But now, that opposition will have to face the fact that nearly every scintilla of detail about XAML is in the public record.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 10:21pm CET
Social networking sites are a dime a dozen these days, compelling developers to implement new methods to garner interest. To that end, the IndieMV Group today announced a slew of new changes to its social network for the indie music community.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 9:59pm CET
Although an Australian WiMAX operator publicly branded his experience a "disaster" at a WiMAX conference in Thailand, its hardware partner, Airspan, is blaming the WiMAX problems on the operator's unwillingness to invest enough money or to bring in outside expertise.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 9:52pm CET
It's a tool for creating "mashups," which are Web meta-services built upon existing frameworks. Today, Yahoo's Pipes received the Badges feature, which converts Pipes from an RSS feed into a shareable, embeddable widget.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 8:19pm CET
Western Digital today introduced its latest portable hard drives: the thin and attractive My Passport Elite series, available now at 250 GB and 320 GB in a small form factor.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 7:00pm CET
On the same day Microsoft casts its net to draw Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo, and two others into a contacts-sharing system, Yahoo joins Google's similar collective which already snared MySpace and just poached imeem. The battle lines are starting to be drawn.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 6:45pm CET
For those who want to prepare for the US' digital TV transition prior to next February, or whose stations are already broadcasting in DTV, a series of Web services are available for applying for and redeeming government coupons toward the purchase of new equipment.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 5:59pm CET
Peerflix offered a service similar to Netflix, except that it was geared toward members trading their own discs rather than renting them. According to its Web site, its demise is attributable to escalating operational costs.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 5:58pm CET
One way to make yourself accessible to others is by offering a valuable service that they can't easily turn down. Microsoft hopes it's doing that today by offering users of LinkedIn, Facebook, and three other platforms a way to consolidate their contacts...through Windows Live.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 5:09pm CET
Specializing in networking the creative sector -- including artists, musicians, filmmakers, photographers -- imeem opened its API today, allowing developers to take advantage of the site's media library, with OpenSocial support soon to be added.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 4:54pm CET
While the official ISO vote on Microsoft's response to thousands of technical comments on OOXML is being tallied, the man who made a personal U-turn that helped rally the US delegation now says the question of interoperability hinges on adoption.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 4:54pm CET
The Netflix Web site was down for 12 hours on Monday, and the company says the problem took out both its logistics and delivery systems.
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Publié: mars 25, 2008, 4:34pm CET
Sony is developing a music service that will be compatible with most music players, and provide unlimited access to the label's catalog.
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Publié: mars 8, 2008, 12:51am CET
After announcing a reorg of its laboratories today, Hewlett-Packard met with its 600-strong R&D staff to tell them they'll be distributed across 23 different teams, with names like 'Face Bubble,' 'Cloud Print,' and 'Cloud View.'
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Publié: mars 8, 2008, 12:45am CET
A Microsoft technical evangelist and member of the INCITS V1 technical committee reports that after deliberating the many comments raised on Office Open XML's viability, the US contingent has voted to maintain its "Approve" recommendation.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 11:58pm CET
MySpace, streaming encoder provider Kulabyte, and network systems provider Akamai will pool their resources for "Operation MySpace," a new initiative that will offer streaming webcasts of concerts in high-definition live from Kuwait.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 11:43pm CET
Inevitably, the other leading game consoles will need a high-resolution video disc option, and with the format war now over, there's only one option to be had. So it seems like now's as good a time as any for the two sides to talk shop.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 11:21pm CET
Researchers from ABI seem to believe that municipal Wi-Fi may still have a future, and that by 2012, if all current issues are resolved, its global service area will extend to around 30,000 square miles, a 60x increase.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 10:57pm CET
Much beleaguered Sprint Nextel might get bought out by Deutsche Telekom, the owner of major wireless competitor T-Mobile, according to an analyst report.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 10:37pm CET
Intel may not be as good at code-naming its enthusiast platforms as its OEMs are at naming its PCs. Today, enthusiast system builder Vigor announced its Colossus system, and "Vigor Colossus" has a more enticing ring to it than "Skulltrail," the Intel platform on which it's based.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 9:34pm CET
At a big medical conference last week, Microsoft dove deeper into an maelstrom of industry health care solutions aimed at meeting the demands of government regulators, hospitals, insurance firms, and consumers. Can the team from Redmond swim the distance against competitors including IBM and Google?
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 9:03pm CET
Yahoo announced on Thursday that its Maps site had improved its amount of content, adding new information for 300 North American cities and 12,000 specific neighborhoods.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 7:13pm CET
This morning, BetaNews FileForum received word that Beta 4 of Mozilla Firefox was posted for testers to download...and for a short time, that's how it genuinely appeared.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 6:09pm CET
Once again, a string of characters that purports to be secret intellectual property turned up in the clear, and its public dissemination has triggered more efforts by its owner's legal team than, evidently, by its security team.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 6:03pm CET
Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas mistakenly allowed a Google Maps street view vehicle perform a drive-through, photographing the army base in 360 degree-viewable detail.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 5:00am CET
FROM MIX 08 For Internet Explorer platform architect Chris Wilson, IE8 is more than just a new version. It's the realization of an effort that began with IE7 to build the best Web browser for both developers and consumers.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 1:40am CET
Though there have been rare exceptions, TiVo generally does not turn a profit. However, that is not to say the DVR company cannot exceed expectations.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 12:24am CET
As Adobe and Microsoft come out with new releases of their respective multimedia platforms, the debate rages on among developers over which is the most viable. And Flash's proponents are using Linux as their trump card.
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Publié: mars 7, 2008, 12:01am CET
FROM MIX 08 In his Thursday afternoon keynote at MIX, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down for a one-on-one chat with former Apple employee and Alltop co-founder Guy Kawasaki. We've condensed the discussion down to the key points.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 11:43pm CET
Fire Eagle is Yahoo's location-aware middleware, which ultimately lets users share their locations with online services, so those sites and applications can deliver results relevant to where they are.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 11:39pm CET
Vudu pushed an update to its platform this week which would allow for users to free up hard drive space by "storing" purchased movies on the company's own servers.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 11:35pm CET
Today, Dell division Alienware announced its Area-51 ALX CrossFireX gaming desktop, a pricey quad GPU gaming PC that utilizes so many bleeding edge hardware features that it actually requires Windows Vista.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 10:22pm CET
Microsoft wants to show that it's working really, really hard on adopting the principle of interoperability in its key software. To keep the rhythm flowing in its direction, it's building new alliances with software vendors.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 10:17pm CET
UPDATED Ask.com told BetaNews in a response to Wednesday's story that dispite media reports, the company is not giving up on search, and is rather refocusing its strategy to continue growth.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 9:39pm CET
Two of the Apple iPhone's biggest negatives were addressed on Thursday, as the Cupertino company announced both native third-party application and Exchange support.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 9:29pm CET
Saying it wants to take care of its customers, Circuit City announced Thursday that it would extend its standard 30-day return policy to 90 days for buyers of HD DVD players.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 8:53pm CET
A settlement has been reached with a Chinese company accused of providing cybercafes with copies of movies by MPA member studios.
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Publié: mars 6, 2008, 8:09pm CET
Establishing deals with practically every hardware manufacturer, Gemstar's program guides have already found their way onto millions of screens. Today's announcement just keeps up the pace.
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Publié: mars 4, 2008, 1:37am CET
Without the format war going on in the background, Blu-ray consoles may no longer be able to justify artificial price premiums. So tech provider Broadcom may be stepping in to drive the adoption of cheaper components.
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Publié: mars 4, 2008, 1:09am CET
Last Wednesday in Los Angeles, developers and admins expecting Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer were treated to Tom Brokaw, a developer of a different kind with a message that changed the tone of the day, and maybe of Microsoft as well.
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Publié: mars 4, 2008, 12:36am CET
At the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference on Monday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled plans to provide a software-as-a-service offering not just to the large enterprises already eligible for such a service from Microsoft, but to companies of all sizes.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 11:39pm CET
Sprint Nextel's Boost Mobile brand this morning added the MOTOKRZR handset and two other phone models available to its Unlimited by Boost customers.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 11:25pm CET
Worldwide server shipments showed "modest growth" during the last quarter of 2007, according to the latest numbers from analyst group IDC. Yet clearly, much of the growth happened at the lower end of the market, in x86-based Windows and Linux PC servers.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 11:14pm CET
For over a decade, database developers have been begging for a kind of bridge that enables procedural language programs to access relational databases relationally. Now that bridge is coming. But are developers ready for LINQ? We asked Microsoft's Visual Studio general manager, Jason Zander.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 10:14pm CET
Just ahead of a hearing set to begin next Monday on Visto's claims of patent infringement against the Redmond company, the two sides have settled.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 10:10pm CET
Imagine if your cell phone represented your bank account. Rather than a "smart card," you could wave your smart phone in front of a payment kiosk. Today, the standard to bring that about worldwide took a huge leap forward.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 9:43pm CET
Sprint Nextel last Friday announced two unlimited calling plans in response to the price war launched by Verizon Wireless, two weeks ago, and followed up by AT&T, T-Mobile and US Cellular.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 8:43pm CET
The translation project that was only announced at the beginning of the year for Facebook has already made massive progress with only the help of volunteers.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 8:23pm CET
JupiterResearch analysts are pointing to the music industry's need to revolutionize its business model even further, as social networking sites, Internet radio stations, and legit P2P services are taking command of the market.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 8:01pm CET
Asus will be showing off the new design of its upcoming UMPC, and instead of being modeled after a laptop like the Eee PC, it's a keyboard-less tablet design.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 7:03pm CET
Once again, talk of bringing the iPhone to China is at the forefront, with China Mobile saying it was interested in offering the device to its customers.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 6:55pm CET
When you make smaller transistors, you can make much smaller processors, and the immediate payoff is that you use less power. The trick is to make the consumer want the smaller processor, and that may not be as easy as having invented the thing.
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Publié: mars 3, 2008, 5:59pm CET
The iPhone Hacker core has developed a new application that will allow users to download torrents directly to the device over EDGE.