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A virtual desktop aimed at users who access the web via cybercafes is attracting interest from organisations set up to bridge the digital divide Offered by Paris start-up Jooce, it is being billed as a way of personalising any computer.
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Pakistan has rejected claims that it was responsible for blocking global access to the YouTube video clip site.
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Apple, Research In Motion and ZTE Corp joined the ranks of the world’s 10 largest mobile phone makers in 2007, underlining how technology advances and emerging markets are producing a new cast of winners and losers in the industry.
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European regulators on Wednesday fined Microsoft a record $1.4bn (€899m) for failure to comply with demands to end allegedly anti-competitive business practices.
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O2 suffered embarrassment on Wednesday when regulators threatened sanctions against the UK’s largest mobile phone operator if it failed to make its 3G network available to more people.
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Google today plans to introduce a service for creating Web sites that help colleagues share information with each other or people outside their organisations, in a further move into Microsoft’s core turf.
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Article discussing the re-launched BBC website which offers users more personalisation options.
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Sony and Sharp have forged an alliance to help them meet the growing demand for liquid crystal display televisions.
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Google shares fell 4.6 per cent on Tuesday as investors took fright from signs that growth is stalling at the leading internet company.
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Yahoo’s Asia holdings could be a key factor in the valuation of Microsoft’s stock-and-cash bid and in determining whether the software company answers calls from investors to raise it.
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Take-Two is drawing scrutiny for giving a major compensation increase to ZelnickMedia, the investment firm that runs the videogame company, shortly after EA had privately made a takeover bid.
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Siemens plans to slash 3,800 jobs from its struggling telecom-equipment unit as the German engineering conglomerate continues to seek a partner for the business or sell it outright.
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Apple is rumoured to have delayed the launch of the software tools that will help third party developers produce independent applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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A Microsoft executive told MPs today that forcing software companies to install internet content filtering technology with high-security settings as standard to all computers would send the UK back to the “dark ages”.
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Yahoo is planning to launch a service it claims will simplify the way advertisers run digital campaigns that incorporate display, video, search and mobile ads.
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3BILL has announced that it has acquired a UK Social Network Profile Heaven for an undisclosed sum. Profile Heaven is a fairly standard social network aimed at teen – student demographics (15-24 years old); it was brought in the spotlight in 2006 when it
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The European Union is spending 14m euros (£10.5m) to create a standard way to send TV via the net. It will be based on the BitTorrent technology many people already use to share movies and music.
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Microsoft has decided to stop making the HD DVD add-on for its Xbox 360 games console after Toshiba abandoned the high definition DVD format.
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Electronic Arts on Monday warned rival video game publisher Take-Two that “time was of the essence” and there was no certainty any other buyer would emerge to top its $2bn takeover offer for the owner of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.
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British business has been urged to “hold its marketing nerve,” and budgets, amid growing concern that advertising spending will be cut in an economic downturn. The call came on Monday from Superbrands, a brand analysis organisation, as it disclosed th
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Soon real buildings will be monitored and taken care of remotely through replicas in virtual worlds.
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The Financial Times is entering social networking with an exclusive, membership-only service costing up to £2,000 a year.
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The so-called landrush for the latest domain name suffix – .asia – has begun. DotAsia, the organisation overseeing the registration, is expecting huge demand for the first domain name extension for the Asia Pacific region. But some in the industry are con
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Microsoft has hired a firm that specialises in proxy battles in a move which suggests it could try to oust the current board of Yahoo directors.
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Hobbyist game developers will be able to share their “home brew” titles over Microsoft’s Xbox Live online service.
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China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone operator, is weighing up an expansion in Europe. The group, which opens its European, Middle Eastern and African headquarters in London on Thursday, aims to sell to Chinese users overseas and is considering
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Google will today launch a new advertising technology that will allow publishers to incorporate text ads into online videos in a move long awaited by the industry.
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MySpace is trying to tie up deals with a number of record labels to produce its own digital music service to compete with Apple’s iTunes.
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Article discussing how the government’s threat to force ISPs to police illegal sharing of copyright material is a victory for the music industry but a worry for everyone else.
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Toshiba has said it will stop making its high definition DVDs, ending a battle with rival format Blu-ray over which would be the industry standard.
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Heavy mobile phone use may be linked to an increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland, a study suggests.
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Motorola and Research In Motion are suing each other after an attempt to renew an existing licensing arrangement between the two companies broke down.
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The hit film Transformers will be available to rent via the games console Xbox 360 this week as Paramount became the second Hollywood film studio to sign a distribution deal. At least 20 Paramount films, including Primal Fear and Naked Gun 33 & 1/3, were
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Shares in Toshiba have gained more than 5% as speculation intensified that the electronics giant was set to pull the plug on its high definition DVD format.
The firm said it had made no decisions but admitted that it had started a review of its HD DVD
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3 Internet Providers in Deal for Tailored Ads * Sign In to E-Mail or Save This * Print * Reprints * Share o Del.icio.us o Digg o Facebook o Newsvine o Permalink By ERIC PFANNER Published: February 18, 2008 LONDON — For years, Internet service providers
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Rules covering broadband firms could soon be scrapped in some UK regions. The European Commission has given permission for the regulations to lapse following a review of competition among broadband wholesalers in the UK.
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Mobile-phone operator Vodafone Group named one of Microsoft’s top executives to head up its newly created Internet-services division. Pieter Knook will join Vodafone in March as director of Internet services.
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Article looking at the practicalities of a News Corp and Yahoo merger.
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Ofcom has been accused by union leaders of “betraying the nation” over the sell-off of the airwaves. The regulator is currently working on plans to auction off the spectrum freed up by the digital switchover process. The auction starts in 2009 and lobbyin
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Microsoft today plans to announce the replacement of the head of its mobile-phone group as part of a broader executive reshuffling, people familiar with the matter said.
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The odds of Microsoft winning its $42.1 billion bid for Yahoo appear to be improving, but Yahoo hasn’t abandoned hope of finding a way to keep the software giant at bay.Its best chance may be a deal under discussion with News Corp, in which the media cong
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In its first significant study of how people consume online video, Nielsen Online has found that women tend to favor network television on the Web, while men are drawn to user-created content.
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Play.com yesterday beat Amazon to become the first big online entertainment retailer in Britain to offer unrestricted digital music downloads.
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If all goes to plan, by the end of the year your commute to work may be shared with dozens of gamers, a mobile phone in one hand and a curious plastic object in the other. On closer inspection, the object could turn out to be the Zeemote JS1, a Bluetooth
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links for 2008-02-13
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A modular mobile phone that can add features and change its design could spell the end of costly upgrades. Israeli firm Modu has launched what it bills the world’s smallest and lightest mobile phone.
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Yahoo’s chances of escaping a takeover by Microsoft suffered a setback on Tuesday when one of its biggest shareholders endorsed the idea of a deal but at a higher price than the one on offer. The comments by Bill Miller were the first indication that so
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Competition regulators on Tuesday raided the offices of Intel and top European electrical goods retailers, in a sign that the antitrust probe against the world’s largest chipmaker is expanding.
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Alcatel-Lucent said it is setting up a joint venture with NEC to pool research-and-development resources to develop an advanced mobile-broadband technology known as long-term evolution, or LTE.
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links for 2008-02-12
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Safer Internet Day is being marked around Europe with events to educate children and parents about net dangers.
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The first mobile phones to be loaded with Google’s Android software for mobile phones have gone on show. About a dozen companies such as ARM, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm showed off prototype handsets at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Microsoft has agreed to buy software firm Danger Inc, maker of T-Mobile’s SideKick web phone.
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People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering. A draft consultation Green Paper suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over
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The backers of the Blu-ray high definition DVD system have received a twin boost in their ongoing format war with HD DVD, Best Buy – the US’s largest consumer electronics chain – has announced it is to recommend that its customers choose Sony’s Blu-ray fo
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LG and Omnifone will attempt to upstage Nokia’s flagship music strategy by unveiling a rival handset and music package, which is set to beat the Finnish handset maker to market.
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The cost of sending text messages and using mobile internet while abroad is poised to fall for millions of Europeans after Brussels on Monday threatened to push for mandatory price caps.
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Sony Ericsson’s new chief executive, Hideki Komiyama, says he is stepping up the company’s efforts to boost its small U.S. presence but said he wouldn’t be interested in Motorola’s handset business.
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Millions of people who have invested in new digital radios were yesterday wondering whether they would be left with little more than expensive ornaments after Britain’s biggest commercial radio group all but abandoned the medium.
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Holy Moly started life as the website that brought you the celebrity gossip the tabloids would not. But now it has started self-censoring the pictures it uses in the wake of concern over the paparazzi’s treatment of celebrities such as Britney Spears and
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The UK’s five biggest mobile operators have struck a ground-breaking deal to develop a common system for mobile advertising, which aims to make it as easy for advertisers to run campaigns on mobiles as it is across other media such as TV and press.
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T-Mobile and Orange will today announce a partnership to run a commercial trial in west London of a new mobile TV technology which could allow handset users to tune in to up to 100 channels
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