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Publié: mai 24, 2008, 12:52am CEST
To give itself more time to prepare for a fight against Carl Icahn and his "dream team" of alternate board directors, Yahoo has apparently indefinitely delayed its shareholders meeting. One director, however, is preparing for something else.
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Publié: mai 24, 2008, 12:15am CEST
The Web 2.0 concept has impacted the creative sector yet again with Crowdspring, a marketplace for graphic design, illustration, and art professionals.
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Publié: mai 24, 2008, 12:05am CEST
After first turning heads at CES with gizmos like InstaForecast and Professional Weather Center, Oregon Scientific is heating up fast with devices ranging from the Multi-Room Climate Monitor to the Talking Wireless BBQ/Oven Thermometer.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 11:58pm CEST
The man behind an online fraud and identity theft prevention service is being sued in multiple states over his stance that customers' identities will not be stolen.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 11:28pm CEST
Whether it's Twitter's apparent affinity for being down more than it's up, or "twitterers" claiming the site's not enforcing its terms of service, the site is getting an awful lot of flak lately.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 10:48pm CEST
Apple iPhone owners now have the ability to make low cost international phone calls using an existing Web-based "Virtual Mobile Network," whose proprietors hope there's a market out there for iPhone users on a budget.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 10:10pm CEST
At a holiday CE show in NYC yesterday, BetaNews learned TomTom is readying a mid-range GPS device called the XL 330 that will offer most of the features of its high-end GO 930, at a much lower list price of $299.95.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 10:04pm CEST
A member of Internet piracy group Apocalypse Production Crew (APC) under the handle Dextro (nee Barry Gitarts) has been found guilty of piracy, and now faces criminal charges of up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and more.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 9:57pm CEST
Faced with competition, and more likely lack of traffic, Microsoft has stopped scanning books and will shutter its public Live Search Books site next week.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 9:13pm CEST
Given the fact that the next changes to Microsoft Office will enable consumers to choose which native format it uses, the European Commission may find itself with no alternative but to reconsider its investigation into unfair competition allegations.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 8:19pm CEST
Now-defunct movie sharing sites Cinematube.net and Showstash.com were ordered by Los Angeles judges to pay $1.375 million and $2.7 million, respectively, to the MPAA for linking to movie downloads.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 8:16pm CEST
This summer, Sony and JBL are both slated to ship new iPod-compatible HD Radio devices, joining a growing list of other consumer electronics device makers that are starting to combine HD Radio with Apple's iTunes tagging.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 7:26pm CEST
Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten says Microsoft is spending time on building out the infrastructure for the service and will skip over its regular bi-annual update.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 7:00pm CEST
What began as paid Wiki hosting service JotSpot, was bought by Google in 2006 and re-launched a year and a half later as Google Sites. Finally, this service is open to the public, not just subscribers.
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Publié: mai 23, 2008, 6:37pm CEST
Despite the rumors, AT&T's CFO said Thursday that no pricing has been set for the upcoming 3G iPhone, which is expected to be announced next month at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.
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Publié: mai 16, 2008, 12:27am CEST
The Mayor of Philadelphia has indicated that he will not use city funds to keep the Earthlink wireless network running in the city.
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Publié: mai 16, 2008, 12:21am CEST
In 2006, Texas game controller company Anascape filed patent infringement suits against both Nintendo and Microsoft. On Wednesday, Nintendo was ordered to pay $21 million to the company.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 11:50pm CEST
Beta testing firm Centercode is seeking testers to try out a new wireless headset designed for office environments that promises unparalleled range and audio quality. Individuals must work in actual offices in the United States or Europe.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 11:34pm CEST
UPDATED In a blog post today, Facebook developer Charlie Cheever said Facebook will be blocking Google's Friend Connect, citing a revelation about how it distributes users' private information.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 11:18pm CEST
Garmin announced a new lifetime offer to Research in Motion BlackBerry smartphone owners: its complete turn-by-turn, voice direction service for a one-time fee of $99.99, for the life of their BlackBerrys.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 11:00pm CEST
To help Dish Network customers seeking to store even more television content when they are unable to watch it live, Western Digital today introduced the My DVR Expander USB Edition 500 GB HDD designed specifically for DVRs.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 10:42pm CEST
It's already official, according to the Open Mobile Video Coalition: DTV stations in the US have already tried a combined approach to mobile broadcasting suggested by Samsung and LG, and the early results appear positive.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 10:18pm CEST
While Microsoft is tooting its own horn over having the first console to sell 10 million units in the US market, Nintendo's own isn't far behind and is still gaining on the Xbox.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 10:13pm CEST
Google's all-seeing eye may bother US citizens, but the search company faces repeated difficulty even getting its technology adopted by other nations. This time, the European Union is skeptical about Street View.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 9:54pm CEST
In a move that could signal a break from Google's dependence on HTML-structured pages with JavaScript code, the company today unveiled its first working API for embedding functionality inside an Adobe Flash-based application.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 9:14pm CEST
It's another sign of the impending update to Apple's mobile phone: AT&T, the device's US carrier, has informed its retail staff to limit sales of the iPhone to customers.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 9:06pm CEST
A developer preview release of Mozilla's next version of the Thunderbird e-mail client has been made available to the developer and tester community.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 8:52pm CEST
In what was a surprise even to its own staff writers, it appears, CNET said Thursday that it had entered into an agreement with CBS Corporation to be acquired in an $11.50 per share deal.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 8:38pm CEST
A US Air Force staff judge advocate has published a treatise suggesting the US government should build a botnet of thousands of virus-infected personal computers it can control to counter-attack foreign-based computer networks.
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Publié: mai 15, 2008, 7:21pm CEST
Sony plans to boost sales of of Blu-ray drives to 7 million units in the year ahead, from 2 million over the past fiscal year, while also selling another 10 million PS3 game machines without "drastic" price cuts.
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Publié: mai 10, 2008, 1:12am CEST
While Google and Microsoft are pressing the FCC to give further consideration to "white space" networking devices that transmit in unused portions of the TV spectrum, a microphone company -- no less -- is trying to tip the balance.
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Publié: mai 10, 2008, 12:24am CEST
Obsolescence comes in many forms, one being the natural kind, the other planned. Then there's the suddenly, unexpectedly enforced kind, which is rarer but which reared its ugly head today with one of Google's more innovative, but old, ideas.
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Publié: mai 10, 2008, 12:19am CEST
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday that he still sees Microsoft as a potent competitor, even though its concerted and often acrimonious campaign to buy Yahoo now looks like it will pass into history.
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Publié: mai 10, 2008, 12:15am CEST
When a query is entered on Yahoo's Glue Pages, search results -- whether text, image, or video -- all turn up on an organized single page. It's an idea that's turning heads, and it's showing up first on Yahoo's Indian domain.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 11:38pm CEST
A patent filed in 2006 and published this week indicates that Apple is developing a game controller that would allow for control much like Nintendo's popular console.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 11:23pm CEST
Retailer Circuit City has secured Goldman Sachs to advise it on its future moves and confirmed it had received information on how a buyout by Blockbuster would be financed.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 11:06pm CEST
The company responsible for the .mobi mobile phone Internet domain, dotMobi, has bought out a mobile browsing company that was on the verge of death just one month ago. DotMobi will immediately integrate Mowser's directory, search, and listings into the find.mobi service.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 10:15pm CEST
A bipartisan bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives Wednesday aimed at forcing stores to card minors attempting to purchase video games rated "Adults Only" or "Mature." It's not the first time such legislation has been tried.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 7:48pm CEST
AT&T "officially" posted information about free Wi-Fi hotspot access for its iPhone customers on Thursday, and summarily removed it.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 6:52pm CEST
At Nokia's annual meeting yesterday, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo vowed to change the business model of the world's leading mobile phone maker, to make it, in his words, "more like an Internet company."
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 6:50pm CEST
It's been almost one year since social music network Last.fm was acquired by CBS, and the site has opened "Last.fm/presents," offering original video content from prominent artists.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 6:48pm CEST
A Microsoft executive has thrown cold water on hopes that the company would try again with Yahoo, and sources indicate the company has released its proxy slate of would-be Yahoo directors.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 6:38pm CEST
Five months after the first service pack for Office 2007 was made generally available to customers, the company has determined it will be safe to provide it over its automatic update service.
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 6:13pm CEST
Should the FCC be the final authority deciding just what constitutes "net neutrality," and how ISPs should be punished if they fail to provide it? Or would you rather the matter be resolved in the federal court system?
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Publié: mai 9, 2008, 6:06pm CEST
The latest update to Microsoft's Xbox 360 not only gives the console a 65 nm CPU, but a similarly-profiled GPU, enabling the whole unit to consume less power, and therefore run cooler and more quietly.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 7:01pm CEST
The CDMA version of Samsung's F700 that has been seen in Europe since last year, the Glyde is a GPS-enabled 2.8" touchscreen and QWERTY slider that will be made available to Verizon customers tomorrow both online and at company stores.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 6:56pm CEST
A National Security Letter was issued last year to the Internet Archive, seeking information about what it called a "subscriber" in conjunction with an anti-terrorism investigation. The IA challenged the letter, and as we learned yesterday, it won.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 6:56pm CEST
A New York Times article purporting that Microsoft is working with NBC Universal to create a "copyright cop" -- or anti-piracy filter -- for the Zune that will prevent playback of unauthorized videos, was refuted by Microsoft today.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 6:06pm CEST
The latest beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0, is now available, and is the first to support Mac OS X without the need for X11.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 5:49pm CEST
It seems to be getting harder to find the iPhone in Europe these days, a possible sign that the 3G version is close to release.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 5:40pm CEST
About 17,000 users of Vietnamese-language Firefox may have been wondering why their systems keep pulling up these video game cheat Web sites at random, for the past two months. But Mozilla didn't know what was up until last Tuesday.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 5:22pm CEST
A Los Angeles federal judge has delivered a default judgement against the BitTorrent site finding it guilty of copyright infringement and forcing it to compensate studios.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 4:39pm CEST
An update to Adobe's online-only Photoshop Express beta was expected to be pushed out yesterday, but was removed just before launch due to a last-minute bug that was discovered.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 12:45am CEST
Dell has touted the concept of personalized PCs ever since it began business as "PCs Limited." But now, it's experimenting with taking that philosophy to new levels, offering a peek at new laptops with custom artwork on their cases.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 12:29am CEST
Recently, Opera's developers have been touting it as the most compliant browser with Web standards. Now they're using that as leverage to help introduce Dragonfly, a tool they hope will promote Opera as a kind of standards watchdog.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 12:29am CEST
Universal Music Group has confirmed that it has agreed on terms with file-sharing site Qtrax to make its catalog available at no charge to the site's users.
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Publié: mai 8, 2008, 12:21am CEST
Broadband Reports posted information yesterday provided by an "insider" claiming that Comcast is in the early development stages of a 250 GB-per-month bandwidth cap that will charge users a fee when passed.
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Publié: mai 7, 2008, 11:45pm CEST
Last year, Microsoft reaffirmed its support for DAISY, the "talking book" standard developed for the visually impaired. Today, the ability for Word to save files in the enabling format has been unveiled.
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Publié: mai 7, 2008, 11:24pm CEST
McAfee is warning file-sharers that they may be at risk due to a Trojan horse posing as an MP3 or MPEG file.
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Publié: mai 7, 2008, 10:49pm CEST
Sony is touting European sales figures which have surpassed those of Microsoft, even though the Xbox 360 was released some 16 months before the PS3.
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Publié: mai 6, 2008, 4:30pm CEST
Like Fiat and Ford automobiles, South Korean Hyndai and Kia vehicles will receive their own version of Microsoft's hands-free media player and mobile phone interface by November, the companies said.
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Publié: mai 6, 2008, 2:44pm CEST
In a world already populated by the Green Grid Alliance and other industry groups oriented to energy efficiency, IBM has just rolled out a data center alliance with some similar interests.
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Publié: mai 6, 2008, 1:28am CEST
There's a saying here in Indianapolis when someone starts falling behind: We say he's "lost the lead lap." Last weekend, Microsoft may have faced a critical moment in its race for online leadership. Does it realize how far behind it is?
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Publié: mai 6, 2008, 1:25am CEST
To help add a social networking feel for Microsoft Outlook e-mail users, San Francisco startup Xobni has launched a beta service aimed at helping organize their e-mail inboxes by business and personal relationships.
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Publié: mai 6, 2008, 1:15am CEST
OpenSolaris -- Sun's open source version of the Solaris kernel first announced in 2005 -- has been made available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) distributed computing service.
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Publié: mai 6, 2008, 12:50am CEST
Plans to bring wireless Internet to Boulder, Colorado and the surrounding metropolitan areas are being put on hold over funding issues.
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 10:25pm CEST
The embattled former CEO David Dobson will now hand over the reins of the Canadian-based software company to veteran IT executive Kris Hagerman, who joins Corel as interim chief from Symantec.
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 10:22pm CEST
T-Mobile USA's UMTS/HSDPA network rollout last week in New York will now be followed by buildouts in 20 more markets, according to plan. Spokespersons say this upgrade will cover both voice and data traffic, contrary to prior reports.
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 9:39pm CEST
Amazon, the world's largest online retailer sued the state of New York, claiming its new law requiring out of state retailers to collect New York sales tax was unconstitutional.
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 9:37pm CEST
Wi-Fi provider Boingo will offer Apple iPhone and iPod Touch owners the opportunity to enjoy 15 minutes of free Wi-Fi service at 28 airports located in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 8:08pm CEST
To put a lid on bloggers' speculation about police getting "backdoors" to Windows security, Microsoft is starting to hush up on the subject. In an e-mail to BetaNews on Friday, a spokesperson described COFEE as a "customizable framework."
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 7:13pm CEST
NBC News' educational arm NBC Learn has launched iCue: part social network, part news source for students age 13 and up, built upon NBC's vast video news archive.
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 6:52pm CEST
Sources have told the Wall Street Journal that Deutsche Telekom is looking into either a merger or buyout of the third-largest US wireless provider.
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 5:59pm CEST
It is perhaps the biggest "no-go" in the history of the Internet industry. So in the absence of any Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Redmond, did Microsoft manage to move the needle in its direction in its fight to avoid becoming the #4 player?
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Publié: mai 5, 2008, 5:39pm CEST
Once the premier video game conference, E3 is now losing major publishers with Activision saying it will take a pass.
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Publié: mai 4, 2008, 6:09am CEST
Late Saturday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a detailed letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang regarding his decision to drop his company's bid to acquire Yahoo.
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Publié: mai 4, 2008, 5:37am CEST
In a statement issued late Saturday, Microsoft announced it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo. Speculation surrounding the status of the $50 billion deal has escalated since Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell's deadline of last weekend passed.