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News : Google offer of help to Yahoo
2008-02-08 16:26:00
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News : Microsoft, Google, Yahoo gain seats on OpenID Foundation board
2008-02-08 16:20:00
What Yahoo 's massive conversion to OpenID last month lacked is a way for Web sites to securely authenticate the users who have signed in. As it turns out, OpenID's directing body may want Microsoft to provide that partAlmost exactly one year ago, Microsoft made a bold announcement at an RSA security conference, saying it would be working with the OpenID Foundation to craft a solution to the problem of spoofing authentication. As was hidden from precisely no one, that method would involve Microsoft's CardSpace technology.This morning, as part of an upgrade in membership status that also involves Google , Yahoo, and certificate provider VeriSign, Microsoft will be joining the other three as the Foundation's newest corporate board members. This means the four companies will now be represented on the board, rather than cooperating in ventures with the board.Yahoo's upgrade in status is both important and deserved, as last month, it became the largest resource of OpenID identities in...
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News : Yahoo board to meet on Microsoft offer: report
2008-02-08 16:13:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board of directors is to meet on Friday to discuss Microsoft Corp's $44.6 billion buyout offer, the TechCrunch blog said, citing unnamed sources.Yahoo officials could not immediately be reached.According to the report, Yahoo's outside advisers are in favor of a deal, despite the interest of some executives to seek an alternative tie-up with Web search leader Google Inc.Analysts have said Microsoft could be persuaded to raise its $31 per share unsolicited bid, above a 62 percent premium when the offer was first made public last week, to make it easier for Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang and his board to accept.Yahoo investor Capital Research and Management met with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday to see whether he would be willing to raise the bid, the New York Post reported, citing a source familiar with the meeting.Yahoo shares were down 12 cents at $28.92 on the Nasdaq.(Report ing by Michele Gershberg)More information cont...
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News : Microsoft makes colossal bid for Yahoo in wake of chairman's departu
2008-02-01 16:11:00
Confirming that his company had indeed been in discussions with Yahoo 's senior management about a possible takeover throughout the last 18 months, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed this morning he has personally placed an offer to Yahoo's board of directors, proposing a takeover whose value it estimates at $44.6 billion."We've been engaged in conversations with Yahoo management off and on for the last 18 months," Ballmer told reporters early this morning. He confirmed that he had a personal conversation with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang yesterday, to discuss his formal offer to the board."Our companies really do share a vision for services and online advertising," he added. The offer appears to express an interest in keeping as many of Yahoo's engineers and technical staff as possible, though it is not as clear which parts, if any, of Yahoo's technical infrastructure and advertising platform would survive. Microsoft executives this morning appear to be focusing on Yahoo's market sh...
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News : U.S. tops new tech usage ranking
2008-01-30 16:20:00
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The United States, Sweden and Japan topped a new ranking that measures how well countries use telecommunications technologies -- networks, cell phones and computers -- to boost their social and economic prosperity.Connectivity Scorecard, created by London Business School professor Leonard Waverman, and published on Wednesday, measured countries on around 30 indicators including usage of communications technology."All the other rankings mainly measure only how much have you invested in ICT (information and communication technologies)," said Professor Ilkka Lakaniemi.Lakaniemi, the head of global political dialogue at telecom network gear maker Nokia Siemens Networks, which commissioned the study, said South Korea's rank in the middle of the table shows clearly the different approach of the study to other rankings.South Korea is usually on top spots at similar lists, but Lakaniemi said this is mostly due to heavy public investment, while it falls behind in the us...
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News : Second Life gets real
2008-01-30 16:17:00
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News : Yahoo Warns on 2008 Outlook; Shares Fall
2008-01-30 00:08:00
By CNBC.com with WiresYahoo topped expectations despite a 23 percent earnings decline, but shares of the company fell as its sales guidance was light and Chief Executive Jerry Yang warned of 2008 "headwinds."Yahoo's headquarters building in Sunnyvale, Calif.Investors were disappointed with Yahoo's revenue forecasts for the first quarter and full year, even though Wall Street had already lowered expectations."I would classify the results as mediocre and the guidance as cautious,'' said Ryan Jacob, a fund manager at Jacob Internet Fund in Los Angeles. "I think Yahoo is telegraphing the fact that they will be spending more in 2008 to try and regain their competitive position against Google.''The online advertising and search firm reported a fourth-quarter profit of $205.7 million, or 15 cents a share, excluding traffic acquisition costs. Revenue reached $1.403 billion.A consensus estimate compiled by Thomson Financial put Yahoo's earnings at 11 cents a share on a topline of $1.4...
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News : Reuters Technology Week
2008-01-28 16:43:00
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News : What's Next for Microsoft? - CNBC
2008-01-28 16:28:00
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News : Free on demand music from last.fm
2008-01-25 04:31:00
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News : Microsoft profit rises 79 pct
2008-01-25 04:17:00
By Daisuke WakabayashiSEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) signaled confidence to a rattled stock market by raising its full-year earnings outlook above Wall Street targets and reporting a 79 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday.Analysts took the results as a good sign for technology companies in the face of a slowing economy, and Microsoft shares rose 4.5 percent in after-hours trade. That followed a 4 percent gain in regular trade, representing a gain of more than $26 billion in its market value for the day.The results and raised forecasts from the world's largest software maker come on the heels of disappointing outlooks from tech bellwethers Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research), which sent shivers through a U.S. stock market that shed about 10 percent to start the year, before bouncing.Microsoft reported bumper quarterly sales of its Windows Vista operating system and Office software o...
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News : EU leaders clash with Google over the meaning of 'personal data'
2008-01-23 16:03:00
With the EU crafting new laws governing how data collectors such as Google protect users' personal data, lawmakers there are clashing with US business leaders over how far that protection can and should extend.A document currently being drafted by a group called the Article 29 Working Party (Art. 29) may extend the formal definition of "personal data" with regard to legal protections granted by the European Union government to its member states' citizens. Specifically, despite arguments by its own authors to the contrary, the document would extend the definition to include any kind of data that can be traced back to an individual.The draft definition was the principal topic of a meeting yesterday of the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, made up of lawmakers from the states' respective governments. In attendance yesterday was Google's chief global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer. Last May, Fleischer received a letter from Art. 29 Chairman...
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News : Google-funded firm launches DNA test in Europe
2008-01-22 17:30:00
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - A private firm funded by Google Inc launched its Web-based DNA test in Europe on Tuesday, hoping to build on a successful start in the United States, where the $999 service went on sale in November.Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, co-founders of 23andMe, will showcase their service at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, which starts on January 23.Subscribers to 23andMe mail a saliva sample and, four to six weeks later, get the results online, allowing them to learn about inherited traits, their ancestry and -- probably with the help of a professional -- some of their personal disease risks."We are receiving overwhelming interest in our services outside the U.S. and are pleased to now offer them in Canada and Europe," Avey said. "We hope to continue to expand our global footprint to additional locations in the future."The Web site, which takes its name from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up each person's genome, says it will di...
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News : Yahoo plans to cut hundreds of jobs - Source
2008-01-22 16:23:00
By Eric AuchardSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo is planning to announce cutbacks later this month that will likely lead to hundreds of job losses at the nearly 14,000 employee company, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday.Yahoo spokeswoman Diana Wong declined to comment on a report published on the Silicon Alley Insider blog, which on Saturday said Yahoo has created a list of "1,500-2,500 jobs that may be eliminated in the next two weeks."The source said the report significantly exaggerated the scale of the potential layoffs, the exact number of which is still being settled, but which will be announced around the time the company reports year-end results on January 29."There will be some reductions in the workforce," the source told Reuters. "It would likely be in the hundreds."Yahoo's workforce stood at close to 14,000 at end-2007, up around 2,600, or 23 percent, from the 11,600 employed a year earlier, according to company filings. The company's headcount had grown 16 p...
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News : Microsoft's new virtualization strategy could include graphics
2008-01-22 16:19:00
Press sources were not able to keep a tight lid on impending news from Microsoft tomorrow regarding a new acquisition in the virtualization space, and a change to its licensing policy regarding virtual desktops.Leave it to The Wall Street Journal to let the news slip a day earlier than planned: At a press event scheduled for tomorrow morning Pacific Time, Microsoft will announce its intent to purchase virtualization tools provider Calista Technologies, the WSJ reported this morning.Should that report pan out tomorrow, the acquisition would give Microsoft one major new tool in its virtualization arsenal that it has not had up to this point, and has apparently been unable to develop in-house: a full-featured virtual GPU driver capable of rendering 3D scenes with the quality one would expect from a respectable graphics card. Today, Virtual PC 2005 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 are relegated to using virtualized equivalents of low-grade graphics cards, with the result being that Windows Vi...
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News : HTC Touch sales half that of Apple's iPhone
2008-01-22 16:16:00
Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC has reported its sales for 2007, and it looks like the touch-screen smart phone market is more balanced than it is often portrayed to be.The HTC Touch and Touch Dual run Windows Mobile 6 and utilize a gestural touch interface much like Apple's iPhone, the lineup's chief competition.Steve Jobs said last week at Macworld that Apple had sold 4 million iPhones worldwide since its launch. HTC today reported a surprisingly aggressive 2 million Touch phones had been sold. In total, the company reported sales of 11.8 million handsets, 12% more than it had sold in 2006, garnering 12% more revenue as a result.LG, producer of another popular touch-screen phone, the Voyager, is scheduled to release its Q4 reports on Thursday. That company had a guidance of 22.5 million total handsets sold for the fourth quarter of 2007.With the impending release of a Nokia handset that was shown to run on the Symbian S60 platform providing tactile feedback, and a Sony Ericss...
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News : Reuters Technology
2008-01-20 17:22:00
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News : Steve Jobs criticizes Microsoft on Zune, says Blu-ray won
2008-01-19 04:05:00
The Apple CEO was blunt that he believes the Zune is a failure, and that Blu-ray may have won the format war, but has probably lost the HD content battle.His comments came as part of an interview with CNBC's Jim Goldman on Tuesday. While Jobs is not necessarily known for his subtlety, his statements are about the most direct on either topic so far.When Goldman told Jobs about Microsoft executive Robbie Bach's comments that he thought the new Zune was a worthy alternative to Apple's iPod, Jobs all but called Bach crazy."Was he inebriated? Do you even know anyone who owns a Zune?" he said of the device.As to Blu-ray, he said that the format had won the war over HD DVD. Yet in the end, he continued, its likely not going to matter with the advent of HD downloads. Jobs' opinion is not all that far-fetched: many analysts have said that the only thing the battle may have yielded is enough time for streaming HD to become a viable option.Other highlights of the interview.On China Mobile:...
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News : Bobby Fischer Chess Champion - Video
2008-01-18 16:20:00
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News : Why are Windows products moving to Apple's Mac OS?
2008-01-18 00:38:00
Although you can run Windows applications on Apple's Leopard anyway, many vendors at Macworld are debuting Mac OS editions of products originally designed for Windows.This, in spite of the vaunted Windows/Mac cross-platform capabilities of Apple's new Leopard operating system. And regardless of Mac fans' claims of relative security versus Windows, some of the new products for Mac OS are geared toward virus protection and Web filtering. Some vendors well known in the Windows space, ranging from security giant McAfee to network attached storage (NAS) specialist NetGear, are exhibiting at Macworld this year for the first time ever.At the same time, Blue Coat Systems is releasing the beta edition of K9 Web Protection, a Mac OS edition of its security-oriented Web filtering software for Windows-based home PCs. Blue Coat also produces enterprise Web filtering software for government agencies and large businesses.Meanwhile, label and business card printing maven Avery is using this year...
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News : Monkey brain operates machine - Robot
2008-01-18 00:22:00
Scientists have used the brain signals from a monkey to drive a robotic arm.As the animal stuck out its hand to pick up some food off a tray, an artificial neural system linked into the animal's head mimicked the activity in the mechanical limb."It was an amazing sight to see the robot in my lab move, knowing that it was being driven by signals from a monkey brain"Mandayam Srinivasan, MITThe system was even used to remotely control another robot arm 950 kilometres (600 miles) away in a different lab.This is not the first time that a device has been operated by "brain power" alone, but the experiment marks a significant step forward in sophistication.It holds out the prospect that, one day, paralysed patients might be able to command the movement of prosthetic limbs that have been "wired" into their brains.Commenting on the research, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, of the Northwestern University Medical School, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Illinois, US, said: "The idea of drivi...
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News : Office 2008 for Mac hits store shelves
2008-01-16 23:35:00
After four years of waiting, Mac users are finally able to get their hands on a new version of Microsoft's productivity suite for the platform.The suite is a major step forward for those who prefer to use the Redmond company's applications for the Mac platform. Since its last update in 2004, much has changed on the Windows side: this effectively brings Apple customers up to speed.While the software borrows some from the recently released Windows version of Office , Microsoft also kept in mind the unique needs and features of Mac OS X. It also supports the company's Office OpenXML platform natively."We developed Office 2008 for Mac as a comprehensive productivity suite that also helps people simplify their work," Mac BU head Craig Eisler said. "At the core, we focused on delivering reliable compatibility so that users can confidently share documents across platforms."Office 2008 will improve the cross-compatibility between Windows and Mac. Microsoft says documents will look the sam...
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News : Apple unveils World's thinnest notebook
2008-01-16 23:27:00
Capping off his Macworld 2008 keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs put the rumors to rest by announcing the "world's thinnest notebook" called the MacBook Air.Jobs began by noting the specs of Sony's Vaio TZ, which weighs 3 pounds and has an 11- or 12-inch screen with smaller keyboard and what he called a "slower processor." The Vaio is also 0.8 to 1.2 inches thick.In comparison, the 3-pound MacBook Air is 0.16 to 0.76 inches thick with a tapered design. The thickest part of the Air is smaller than the thinnest part of the Vaio. It has a full-size keyboard and 13.3-inch 1280x800 widescreen display. It utilizes a magnetic latch for closing and has an iSight camera like Apple's existing notebooks.The screen is LED backlit like the MacBook Pro, along with a keyboard with light sensor. "This is the best notebook keyboard we've ever shipped," said Jobs. "And it's full-sized. And it's backlit."New in the Air is what Apple calls a "multi-touch" trackpad, that works much like the touch inter...
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News : Silicon Insider: 2008 Tech Predictions
2008-01-11 16:48:00
Michael Malone Says: Recession, Apple Stumbles and Google TumblesI can't help thinking that 2008 is going to be a strange year, filled with far too few wonders and a whole lot of the unpleasant and unexpected. And nowhere will that be more true than in Silicon Valley and high technology.Here are my predictions for the coming year in Tech :Recession — Early last year, I predicted it for late 2007. And I think we'll look back this year and see that, at least in high technology, it did indeed arrive about last September, if not even earlier. This downturn in tech is hardly unexpected: It typically comes every four years or so, and though unwelcome, usually has the beneficial effect of killing off the old and feeble companies as well as the uncompetitive new start-ups. This frees talent and money to go elsewhere — usually into the creation of the next generation of hot new companies.I've been smelling recession in the air here in the Valley for months now. People are tired, the mo...
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News : Google Must Make or Break GAPE in 2008
2008-01-11 16:44:00
The search giant is looking for a breakout year for its enterprise Google Apps suite.This may be the year Google makes or breaks GAPE, the enterprise version of Google Apps that lets businesses license hosted e-mail, instant documents, spreadsheets and other applications for $50 per user per year.The numbers sound great on paper: 2,000 new businesses per day signing up for Google Apps. Then there are hearty testimonials from customers now freed from Microsoft Office or Lotus Notes.The problem is that neither Microsoft nor IBM will wait for Google to come and take market share. Microsoft has Office Live Workspace, and its likely IBM will answer with an SAAS (software as a service) version of Lotus Symphony.Though analysts were skeptical about Googles ability to offer a portfolio in the SAAS cloud that observed regulations regarding records management, Google answered the call in July by buying security vendor Postini for $625 million.The deal seemingly cleared the path for large ente...
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News : Analyst: Blu-ray Macs will premiere at Macworld
2008-01-04 04:00:00
AppleInsider has posted predictions from American Technology Research analyst Shawn Wu that point to new Macs with Blu-ray drives premiering at Macworld on January 15.Since Apple has held a seat on the Blu-ray consortium for years already, and CEO Steve Jobs is on the board of directors at Blu-ray supporter Disney, it seems that if Apple was to align with a next-gen format, Blu-ray would be favored.Wu said, however, that there's also an off chance of Apple releasing a combo HD-DVD and Blu-ray drive instead.An overhauled Mac Pro workstation, which is expected in the first quarter of 2008, has been rumored to be one of the first systems by the company with a Blu-ray compatible drive.But such predictions are still only rumors, as excitement and speculation about new Apple products intensifies with Macworld drawing closer.Reports of a lighter, NAND flash memory-based Mac sub-notebook continue on many sites. Rumors --which sound much like educated guesses based on Apple's naming trends...
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News : The rush to render the iPhone obsolete
2008-01-03 16:32:00
No list of trends would be complete without a mention of Apple's iPhone, a device that many handset manufacturers will be looking to beat in 2008 in order to attract a consumer that is ever more interested in advanced wireless services. Many of those devices will debut at CES next week.Since its launch in June of last year, iPhone sales have nearly topped 2 million. While the closed nature of Apple's business model has kept the device out of the hands of many consumers, the iPhone no doubt has sparked a revolution in the entire mobile phone industry.Manufacturers have been quick to jump on the bandwagon and add devices to their portfolios that mimic the most sought-after features of the iPhone. Even software developers have seized opportunities that the phone's release have created.This rush of competition will keep Apple on its toes in 2008, in a race to stay one step ahead of the industry which is hungry for a piece of the iPhone pie. It is this high-stakes game of cat-and-mous...
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News : The end of an era as AOL officially retires Netscape
2008-01-03 16:26:00
AOL is also saying goodbye to memories: the company has finally killed off the Netscape Web browser - or what was left of it, anyway.March 31, 2008 will mark 10 years since the Netscape development team opened up the source code to the browser that ushered in the Internet era. With its acquisition of Netscape in 1999, AOL continued that effort and helped launch the Mozilla Foundation into an organization that has taken on Microsoft and shaped the Web as we know it today.But Netscape's time has long since passed due to the arrival of Firefox and AOL's struggles to stay relevant in an increasingly broadband-connected decade. Netscape 6, the first browser based upon the Mozilla source code, debuted in 2000 and was succeeded two years later by Netscape 7, also a rebranded version of Mozilla.Meanwhile, Internet Explorer quickly took over Windows desktops and Netscape's market share dwindled to single digits.The demise of Netscape wasn't a big surprise to most. When the Internet bubbl...
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News : Merry Christmas Tale - Free Ebook - Peru
2007-12-22 04:14:00
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News : Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0 Beta 2, new features premiere
2007-12-20 22:34:00
The next version of the world's most popular alternative Web browser is taking shape, with a more stable Beta 2 released yesterday. Added to the feature set are some new conveniences you may wonder how you managed to do without.Until recently, test versions for the next edition of Firefox -- codenamed "Gran Paradiso" -- have been interesting but not altogether stable, which isn't surprising for builds that were clearly labeled "alpha." But yesterday, Mozilla sprung the trap on the Beta 2 release of Firefox 3.0, and early on, BetaNews noticed the improvements the organization had long been promising now appear to be working more solidly.Unlike Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, which shuffled the locations of features and buttons around faster than Bud Abbott playing the old shell game with Lou Costello, Firefox 3.0 looks pretty much the same as it did before. So the changes are subtle, then when you find them, they become profound.One simple change that we'll certainly come to app...
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