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News : Google Earth Highlights Destruction
2007-03-13 01:37:00
While Google Earth has primarily been touted for its uncanny ability to take users on a tour of the world's most beautiful sights right from their desktop, a new feature added Monday highlights the immense destruction human beings leave in their wake.Environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices has joined to Google to deliver a special interactive layer for Google Earth that tells the stories of over 470 mountains that have been destroyed from coal mining, and its impact on nearby ecosystems. Separately, the World Wildlife Fund has added the ability to visit its 150 project sites using Google Earth.More information contact us (WebDesigner): http://www.webdesigner.europieles.com/Con tacto.htm
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News : MySpace News Service Appearing Imminent
2007-03-13 01:31:00
Almost a year to the day following the acquisition by Fox Interactive Media of startup social news aggregation service Newroo, the company appears to be gearing up to integrate it with a certain service it acquired since that time. After a blog post last week in which celebrated former local TV news director Terry Heaton cited industry insiders as revealing FIM's intention to preparing to launch a MySpace news portal around Newroo technology in the second quarter, FIM officials this morning - very clearly and ostentatiously - declined comment.This as the parent company's careers site today actively advertises for positions such as a software engineer for its Newroo Labs project, describing it in the same paragraph with MySpace as providing "social interaction and communication around user's personal interests relating to news."When Newroo was acquired last year, it was serving as an online news aggregation service similar in principle to Google News , except that members were capa...
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News : EU Consumer Protection Targets iTunes
2007-03-13 01:25:00
On the eve of the announcement of a new Europe-wide consumer protection program, whose stated aim is to ensure consumers' ability to return products purchased online for refunds if they're not satisfied - regardless of what country they were purchased from - the lead architect of that program, EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, hinted to the German newsweekly Focus that Apple's iTunes service could be directly impacted.One possible cause for consumer dissatisfaction may be the realization that music tracks purchased from iTunes are not portable across all digital devices or CD players. Last January, officials in Norway (not an EU member) declared iTunes illegal in that country for a multitude of reasons, the alleged non-interoperability of the underlying system being just one of them. Another was the fact that Apple does not give iTunes customers any redress - a way to "return" downloaded material with which they're dissatisfied, for a refund. Consumer s could become dissatisfied af...
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News : VMware ACE Beta to Ease Management
2007-03-05 20:13:00
VMware has launched a beta of product that allows IT administrators to centrally manage and control virtual machines installed on PCs on their network.Called VMware ACE, the application would allow the administrator to create a PC environment, package it into a virtual machine, and then deploy it to any managed or unmanaged endpoint. "IT administrators need tighter desktop control and management because they are tasked with supporting increasing numbers of workers who use equipment over which they have no control," enterprise desktop platforms chief Jerry Chen said in a statement."It's like handing out a secure, controlled laptop without the cost and hassle of provisioning new hardware."In addition to the remote deployment feature, ACE also includes a feature called Pocket ACE, which allows users to place a virtual machine on just about any storage device, plug it into a PC with the software, and access the saved virtual machine from anywhere with a network connection.The VMware AC...
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News : AOL Updates 'Cayman' WebMail Beta
2007-03-05 20:11:00
AOL pushed an update Monday to the beta site for its WebMail product, code-named "Cayman." Changes in this refresh focused on enhancements to the overall look and feel of the application, as well as performance improvements. A more streamlined interface has been introduced that will allow for quicker navigation as well as the option to either read messages inline or pop-out as they currently do.In addition, updates were made to the Side Panel feature, allowing the user to easily e-mail and IM contacts with just one click, as well as view upcoming events and to-do items. AOL said it planned to add more functionality as the beta progresses. The new version is available for testing from the AOL Beta site.More information contact us (WebDesigner): http://www.webdesigner.europieles.com/Con tacto.htm
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News : Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
2007-03-05 20:08:00
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.The unit will be priced at $49.99 USD, and comes preloaded with the Xbox Live Arcade game "Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved" for a limited time. The original 64MB version will drop in price to $29.99 USD. Using the memory card, Xbox 360 users would be able to download exclusive content from the 45,000 retail kiosks Microsoft has, and utilize eight times the space to store gaming content.The increased size limit for Xbox Live Arcade games is aimed at allowing developers to continue to create newer and more intensive games for Microsoft's console."Our focus is on continuing to provide developers with an environment that allows for the creation of cost-efficient games and that nurtures an artistic and creative approach to game development," Xbox Live head Chris ...
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News : Verizon Brings CBS, ESPN, Fox Mobile, MTV and NBC to Mobile TV
2007-03-02 21:14:00
After ditching Apple’s iPhone two years ago and after bringing YouTube content on mobile phones, Verizon announced the debut of a new service that will bring TV shows on a phone near your ear.Two years ago, Verizon said no to Apple when the Cuppertino-based company got a little too greedy. Apple reportedly wanted a percentage of the monthly cell phone fees, decision making power over how and where iPhones could be sold, and control of the relationship with iPhone customers.In a somewhat compensatory initiative, Verizon later brought YouTube’s content on the mobile phones of Verizon Wireless’ V CAST subscribers in the United States.Now the same subscribers will also get TV content, with channels like CBS Mobile , Comedy Central, ESPN, Fox Mobile, MTV, NBC 2Go, NBC News 2Go and Nickelodeon available at launch, and others to follow soon.Verizon will offer V CAST Mobile TV for the moment to only 20 Midwestern and Western markets, charging between $15 and $25 a month for the initial...
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News : YouTube to Add Three BBC-Branded Channels
2007-03-02 20:47:00
The BBC has beaten ITV to the goal line in signing a content deal - the terms and length of which have not been disclosed - with YouTube , the streaming video division of Google. Starting today, YouTube has begun offering three new BBC-branded channels containing sharable clips from BBC programmes (spelled here using the Queen's English), though it appears this morning that these clips will be mostly promotional.The main BBC channel will be classified as a "public service" - which is an important distinction, because the BBC is not a private corporation. It receives its funding from license fees collected by the British government from citizens, so any BBC enterprise that would overtly feature commercial advertising might come under scrutiny by subscribers, and under fire in Parliament. So this main channel will walk a fine line, showing brief "making of" and "behind the scenes" videos, interviewing stars from BBC shows, and presenting more perennial feature reports from BBC News co...
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News : Verizon Wireless V CAST TV Goes Live
2007-03-02 20:46:00
Thursday marked the beginning of Verizon Wireless ' V CAST mobile TV service in twenty US markets, utilizing Qualcomm's MediaFLO mobile TV network. With the aim of giving potential competitors such as DVB-H and mobile IPTV a run for their money, this extension to Verizon's existing V CAST service will be capable of broadcasting standard TV-quality programming to specific handsets, namely the Samsung SCH-U260 and soon the LG VX9400.The 20 initial markets on Verizon's list are as follows: Norfolk/Richmond, Virginia; Jacksonville, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Wichita, Kansas; Omaha/Lincoln, Nebraska; Colorado Springs and Denver, Colorado; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tucson, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; Palm Springs, California; Portland, Oregon; Seattle and Spokane, Washington. More major markets are purported to be added before the end of the first quarter. V C...
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